Developing key skills through an authentic design-build project

This Engineering Subject Centre Case Study looks at the development of key skills using active learning. Each year a group of mechanical engineering students at Queen's University Belfast undertake to conceive design and manufacture a small single-seater racing car for the annual Formula Student competition. The endeavour is undertaken in a similar manner to running an engineering business with the students undertaking the full range of technical and managerial roles necessary to complete the project successfully.