This year’s lecture was delivered by Professor Danielle George from Manchester University. The Lecture was titled “Engineered in Your Imagination” and was a development of her 2014 Royal Institution Lecture which she delivered on BBC4 over three nights in December 2014.Danielle delivered her lecture to enthralled audiences in the Great Hall in Manchester University’s Sackville St building, and also at Loreto Sixth Form College, Her exciting demonstrations involved glassless Light bulbs immersed in Liquid Nitrogen, 3D video images utilising Raspberry Pi computers showing leaping audience volunteers suspended in the air, and audience volunteers undertaking Visual Reality Big Dipper rides whilst carrying trays of Champagne glasses .
All of these demonstrations were used by Danielle to encourage her audience to use their imagination to develop their own future Engineering projects utilising the new technology now readily available to everyone.
Prior to The Evening Lecture the Manchester Network made an award of its Student Excellence prize to an outstanding student from a local College.This year’s winner of the prize was Tadiwa Munyoro from the Manchester College who achieved excellent results during his BTech National Diploma in Engineering Course.
The overall attendance at the three events was in excess of 350 despite the poor weather which occurred on the day.