Engineering

Books

• Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air
• Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open
• The New Science of Strong Materials: Or Why You Don’t Fall Through the Floor
• Stuff Matters
• The Gecko’s Foot: How Scientists are Taking a Leaf from Nature’s Book
• Think Like an Engineer
• Coasters 101: An Engineer’s Guide to Roller Coaster Design
• Where Stuff Comes From
• Structures: Or Why Things Don’t Fall Down
• Cat’s Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People
• What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies in Aeronautical History
• Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings
• Websites

• Engineering

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Lectures

• Yale University – Series of Lectures on the Introduction to Literary Theory

• Yale University – Series of Lectures on American Novels Since 1945
• University of Oxford – Shakespeare Webinar Series
• University of Oxford – Sherlock Holmes and Dorian Gray: Truth, Art, and Immorality Taster Lecture
• University of Oxford – A Street Car Named Desire Taster Lecture
• Stephen Fry Lecture: Words, Words, Words – The Lure of Language

Competitions

• D E S I G N  A  W E A R A B L E

  Produce a 2-page PDF (If you have a bibliography, this can be a third page) with the sections detailing its purpose, target customer, aesthetics & design, functions & technologies. Your submission should demonstrate your quality of research, and clearly explain the need for the product and how your solution will deliver that need. There will be a winner and runners up chosen in the following award categories of our international engineering competition:

  • Best inventive idea

  • Most realistic idea

  • Most visual submission

   

   

  Every year, we invite students across the UK to tackle one of our academics’ ‘big’ questions. These are designed to challenge you beyond the school curriculum and get you thinking ‘big’ about your subject and what it might be like to study it at university. Simply record a video of 5 minutes or less presenting your arguments, research, evidence and opinions. 

  To enter you must: live in the UK, attend a state school, be in Year 11, 12, or 13. Winners will be invited to visit Oxford where they will have the opportunity to discuss their entries with subject tutors, take a tour of the college, and enjoy lunch in the dining hall.

  First Prize: £100   –   Second Prize: £50    –   Subject Awards: £35

  How to enter:

  • Send us a video of no more than 5 minutes in length.

  • There’s no need for any fancy equipment, you can film on your phone if you like – we will be judging entries based on your engagement with the question.

  • Your video doesn’t have to include your face – feel free to get creative! You could narrate a PowerPoint, record yourself drawing or even apply your TikTok-making skills…

  • Submit your video as an unlisted YouTube video or via WeTransfer.

  This was the question for 2025 – entries are now closed but visit the website to get updates for the next competition

  Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering – this is concerned primarily with developing aircraft and space craft Chemical Engineering – usually focuses on the operation and design of chemical plants – these usually take raw materials and make them into more profitable products.

  Civil Engineering – looks at the design, maintenance and construction of public works such as roads, bridges, railways, and other vitally important elements of a country’s infrastructure Electrical and Electronic Engineering – focuses on the design, construction and maintenance of structures that use electricity.

  Engineering Technology – typically use the general principles of engineering to design, create and implement solutions. Often found in product manufacturing or construction. Manufacturing Engineering – focus is on turning raw materials into a new product that is more economically profitable.

  Material Science and Engineering – An interdisciplinary course which uses the knowledge of the material structure to develop products and solutions to problems. Mechanical Engineering – Looking at the physical machinery and mechanisms that keep the world moving.

  Software Engineering – mixture of both engineering and computing to design and develop new software applications. Medical and Bioengineering – looking at engineering principles and applying these to medical practices and equipment to improve healthcare fields.