The Centre in Advanced Fluid Engineering for Digital Manufacturing (CAFE4DM)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Chem Eng and Analytical Science
Abstract
This 5 year project aims to address the challenges in understanding, creating and scaling up manufacturing processes for formulated products with particular reference to those in fast moving consumer goods (home/personal care and food products). The main objective is to develop a new modelling approach which will be combined with experimental measurements of the liquid properties to describe these complex fluids and enable a significant reduction in the conventional physical experimentation required to develop new formulations. The methodologies developed will provide a detailed understanding of the behaviour of these liquids under process conditions which will facilitate the decision making process and accelerate the introduction of new, innovative products to the market optimised to deliver benefits to consumers, e.g. shiny hair or mouthfeel for ice cream. The project brings together a multi-disciplinary team from the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge and Unilever who are a global leader in the research, process design and manufacture of formulated products. The project is also supported by Process Systems Enterprise Ltd.. A major outcome of the project will be a demonstrator of the Industry 4.0 concept which will enable smart factories to be realised in the process sector and thus allow the UK to remain at the forefront of manufacturing in this field.
Planned Impact
The main areas of impact for CAFE4DM are in the following:
Society and Environment through a contribution towards environmental sustainability through reduced waste and increased energy efficiency.
Economic through increases in R&D productivity and factory capacity.
People through the delivery and training of highly skilled researchers and the retraining of the existing workforce within the project partners, in particular Unilever.
Outreach and Engagement by contributing to disseminating the methodologies developed to other formulated product industries and to contribute to increased public awareness and understanding of science, engineering, economic and societal issues.
This impact will be realised through dissemination activities to a wide range of stakeholders (industry, government, academics, general public). CAFE4DM will promote an understanding of the environmental and energy benefits of the implementation of Industry 4.0 within the process sector through outreach events for both the public and industrialists. In addition, the economic impact of this change will be realised through the development of an exploitation plan in consultation with the external advisory board and dissemination of the methods developed to a wider industrial, regulatory and academic audience through stakeholder meetings, workshops and conferences. The development of the next generation of scientists, engineers and managers will be achieved through training and the strong interactions within the project between industry, academia and ISIS. All the researchers will have exposure to these areas providing them with a versatile skill set which will benefit society and the UK economic prosperity through the knowledge economy. This pipeline of talent will ensure that the strong relationship between the partners allows the development of the methodology to higher TRLs and will enable the UK to remain a leader in the rapid development of products into the market place. Regular outreach activities will enable CAFE4DM to have a strong impact on the relevant stakeholders and also develop the communication skills of the researchers within the project. The impact activities will be managed by an academic with CAFE4DM with time allocated within the project specifically for this task. In addition, the RAs and PhDs within the project will spend 5% of their time on the organisation and delivery of outreach events. The impact workpackage leader will be on the management group of the project to ensure that the impact delivery plan is achieved and remains aligned to the core research activities.
Society and Environment through a contribution towards environmental sustainability through reduced waste and increased energy efficiency.
Economic through increases in R&D productivity and factory capacity.
People through the delivery and training of highly skilled researchers and the retraining of the existing workforce within the project partners, in particular Unilever.
Outreach and Engagement by contributing to disseminating the methodologies developed to other formulated product industries and to contribute to increased public awareness and understanding of science, engineering, economic and societal issues.
This impact will be realised through dissemination activities to a wide range of stakeholders (industry, government, academics, general public). CAFE4DM will promote an understanding of the environmental and energy benefits of the implementation of Industry 4.0 within the process sector through outreach events for both the public and industrialists. In addition, the economic impact of this change will be realised through the development of an exploitation plan in consultation with the external advisory board and dissemination of the methods developed to a wider industrial, regulatory and academic audience through stakeholder meetings, workshops and conferences. The development of the next generation of scientists, engineers and managers will be achieved through training and the strong interactions within the project between industry, academia and ISIS. All the researchers will have exposure to these areas providing them with a versatile skill set which will benefit society and the UK economic prosperity through the knowledge economy. This pipeline of talent will ensure that the strong relationship between the partners allows the development of the methodology to higher TRLs and will enable the UK to remain a leader in the rapid development of products into the market place. Regular outreach activities will enable CAFE4DM to have a strong impact on the relevant stakeholders and also develop the communication skills of the researchers within the project. The impact activities will be managed by an academic with CAFE4DM with time allocated within the project specifically for this task. In addition, the RAs and PhDs within the project will spend 5% of their time on the organisation and delivery of outreach events. The impact workpackage leader will be on the management group of the project to ensure that the impact delivery plan is achieved and remains aligned to the core research activities.
Organisations
- University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- University of Cambridge (Collaboration)
- University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Process Systems Enterprise Limited (PSE) (Collaboration)
- Unilever R&D Vlaardingen B.V., Netherlands (Collaboration)
- Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) (Collaboration)
- Sofia University (Collaboration)
- Infineon Technologies (Collaboration)
- Unilever Corporate Research, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Process Systems Enterprises Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
Publications

Bagkeris I
(2021)
Application of a drop breakage model using the full energy spectrum and a specific realisation of turbulence anisotropy
in Chemical Engineering Science

Bagkeris I
(2020)
Large-eddy simulation in a Sonolator high-pressure homogeniser
in Chemical Engineering Science

Bagkeris I
(2021)
Modeling drop breakage using the full energy spectrum and a specific realization of turbulence anisotropy
in AIChE Journal

Barton M
(2022)
Model stacking to improve prediction and variable importance robustness for soft sensor development
in Digital Chemical Engineering

Barton M
(2021)
Multivariate batch to batch optimisation of fermentation processes to improve productivity
in Journal of Process Control

Cunliffe S
(2020)
Near infrared absorption spectroscopy for the quantification of unsulfated alcohol in sodium lauryl ether sulfate
in Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Fedorowicz K
(2022)
On the flow of liquid crystals through 90° bends
in Physics of Fluids

Fedorowicz K
(2022)
Flow of transversely isotropic fluid in curved pipes
in Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Haroon K
(2020)
Comparison of Individual and Integrated Inline Raman, Near-Infrared, and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Models to Predict the Viscosity of Micellar Liquids.
in Applied spectroscopy
Description | - Development of links between the different studies being carried out within the individual WPs, as well as between WPs is converging to the ultimate objectives of the project. - Understanding the underlying physics to explain data-driven models and the development of links between fundamental and applied models has been achieved. - Development of inline measurements and viscosity models and the transfer of methods/tools/techniques between individual projects and applications. - Sound collaboration between partners with both industrial and academic challenges being addressed which has led to the development of realistic predictive models. - Significant effort has also been made in the past year to use these models to identify the dominant physical phenomena and to further the research to provide explanations of the underlying science. - Models, methods and tools developed in the project are already starting to be implemented in the company. |
Exploitation Route | The results from this work have formed the preparation of further grant applications to Unliever, EU and EPSRC. In addition the results will hopefully be used by industry to to inform process model development and formulation of new products and processes |
Sectors | Chemicals,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology |
Description | EPSRC Prosperity Partnership |
Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R00482X/1 |
Organisation | Unilever |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2021 |
Description | Understanding the structure of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in water |
Amount | £87,020 (GBP) |
Funding ID | RB1910473 |
Organisation | ISIS Neutron Source Facility |
Sector | Learned Society |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2019 |
Description | Unilever - Freezer Project 2020 |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Unilever |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
Description | WP4.4 Knowledge Transfer DMP technology roll-out case study interviews at Unilever's China & US R&D centres. 2020 |
Amount | £4,480 (GBP) |
Organisation | Unilever |
Sector | Private |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
Description | Areas of mutual interest for potential future collaboration |
Organisation | Infineon Technologies |
Department | Infineon Technologies UK |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | University, through its Centre in Advanced Fluid Engineering for Digital Manufacturing ("CAFE4DM") has expertise in the development of modelling approaches, measurements and processes to enable a significant reduction in conventional physical experimentation of complex fluids; |
Collaborator Contribution | A. Infineum has developed and/or acquired certain confidential information relating to lubricating oils, fuels and other functional fluids, chemical additives for lubricating oils, fuels and other functional fluids, and precursors to these additives; |
Impact | None to date. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | CPI - Collaboration on opportunities in developing a critical mass of projects and expertise |
Organisation | Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Sharing information in relation to process analytics |
Collaborator Contribution | Capacity for partners for overcoming challenges i.e. standards / simulation and data / personalisation / stability |
Impact | None to date |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | PSE |
Organisation | Process Systems Enterprise Limited (PSE) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | NA - too early |
Collaborator Contribution | PSE has provided us with 5 gPROMS licences which will provides us with a suitable solver for different mathematical models and allows certain optimisation to be done. |
Impact | NA - too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | STFC |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Industrial systems to examine and correlation of structure with phyisico-chemical properties and modelling studies. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to ISIS beamline, modelling and synthetic expertise. |
Impact | No outputs to date. This is multidisciplinary research involving maths, physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Sofia University - Surfactant Theory |
Organisation | Sofia University |
Country | Bulgaria |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Discussed out ideas on further development of the theory. |
Collaborator Contribution | Established collaboration with Prof. Krassimir Danov et al. Learnt about the research and experimental work being done in Sofia University. |
Impact | None to date. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Unilever |
Organisation | Unilever |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Technology transfer - ideas about how we will determine the structure of the complex fluids and model that structure. |
Collaborator Contribution | Technology transfer - which are the important parameters we need to look at, the components of these mixtures and concentration. They have also provided some materials. |
Impact | NA - too early |
Start Year | 2006 |
Description | University of Cambridge |
Organisation | University of Cambridge |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Experimental validation of the modelling and simulation undertaken and incorporation of the models into a broader modelling framework. |
Collaborator Contribution | Equations of state with which to link the molecular scale modelling to the longer scale modelling to enable the prediction of properties for new formulation products. |
Impact | No outputs as yet. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving maths, chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | University of Liverpool - MIF |
Organisation | University of Liverpool |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Provided the samples for experiments at the Materials Innovation Factory |
Collaborator Contribution | Provided use of HTR, FTIR and NIR at Materials Innovation Factory |
Impact | No outputs as yet. This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration involving maths, chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering and chemical engineering. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | University of Manchester |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have increased the University's strategic partnership with Unilever via the Prosperity grant and this will lead to ongoing projects across the University. |
Collaborator Contribution | The University of Manchester provides 50% of the funding for our Project Manager. The University of Manchester is committed to provide funding (fees and stipend) for eight of the project's seventeen studentships; five of which have now started. The University has also provided half of the funding needed to purchase an NMR probe which is currently being installed. |
Impact | NA - too early |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | 12th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Vipin Michael delivered a presentation at 12th International ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modelling and Measurements, 26-28/9/18, Mountpellier, France |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.ercoftac.org/events/new_etmm12 |
Description | A population balance model for the non-linear rheology of well entangled wormlike micelles; Joseph D. Peterson, L. Gary Leal; Durham Physics Seminar Series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | tbc |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | British Science Week 2018 outreach event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The University of Manchester held an open event across 13th - 16th March 2018 in association with British Science Week to allow local Schoolchildren to visit and be encouraged to engage and study the STEM subjects. CAFE4DM worked with the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science during this event and provided support/time through the involved of CAFE4DM PDRAs. The experiment focused upon "Ooblek", a non-Newtonian fluid which is directly linked to the CAFE4DM project. No known impacts are known but we would hope it has sparked an interest in related subject areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.britishscienceweek.org/ |
Description | CCP5 (Computational Collaboration Project No.5) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Charlie Wand presented a poster at computational chemistry conference, It sparked conversation and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ccp5.ac.uk/ |
Description | Chao Li R&D Management Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The paper presented by Chao Li on "The Adoption of Digitalisation in R&D: Organisation & Behavioural Issues" was presented at the conference to an international audience. The presentation was followed by an intensive discussion on the topic and continued conversation with researchers in a similar field. Constructive feedback and insights were obtained at the conference. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.rnd2018.polimi.it |
Description | Chao Li/WP4 attendance at "Internet of Things for Industry" event, 7/6/18, Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The workshop provided insights from various participants from different backgrounds, incl. what is IIoT, why IIoT, what are the implications and barriers? The workshop revealed the urgent demand but lack of systemic understanding and limited knowledge on industrial application of IIoTs and digitalization in firms. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/iiot-june/ |
Description | Charlie Wand - Using DPD for rheological properties - Trainsition Path Sampling Simulations via PyRetis Workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | PyRETIS Workshop |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2019/1106/poster.pdf |
Description | Charlie Wand attends Edward's Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Charlie Wand presented a poster and elevator pitch at the symposium. This generated discussion between participants from both an industrial and academic background. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/event/tgmw56 |
Description | Charlie Wand, Poala Carbone, Andrew Masters - British Liquid Crystal Society AGM, Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation : Calculating the scission free energy of wormlike micelles using dissipative particle dynamics simulations' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://10times.com/formula-x |
Description | Community Festival 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This event which took place o 15th June 2019 is hosted by the University of Manchester to engage with the local communities in the surrounding allowing our local neighbours to discover the variety of things we do here at the University of Manchester.The event is a unique opportunity for the University, allowing CAFE4D to showcase our work and interact with people who would not typically seek out science and engineering activities. The Oobleck experiment was very popular with over 2000 people (mainly families) engaging. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | http://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/strategic-priorities/engaging-our-communities/publi... |
Description | Community Festival June 2018 - outreach event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The University of Manchester held an open day event on 16th June 2018 with the aim of engaging local communities across Manchester with the work and research taking place at the University. CAFE4DM participated at this event which involved almost 2000 members of the general public in mostly family groups (over 80%). CAFE4DM ran a table-top interactive experiment focusing on "Ooblek", a non-Newtonian fluid which is directly linked to the CAFE4DM project. No direct impacts are known but we would hope it has sparked an interest from children into related subject areas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.socialresponsibility.manchester.ac.uk/strategic-priorities/engaging-our-communities/publi... |
Description | Flow Induced Scission does not explain shear banding in wormlike micelles; Joseph D. Peterson, L. Gary Leal; AICHE 2020 and ICR 2020. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | The talks prompted some discussion about the capabilities and limitations of the modeling tools that we are developing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | ISIS Large scale structures user meeting 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The ISIS Large scale structures (LSS) user meeting 2018 was a gathering of around 150 academics, postdocs, postgraduate students, and members of industry who are users of the large scale structures group instruments at ISIS. Presentations from users were given over 2 days along with updates from LSS staff. Discussions of the CAFE4DM project with other members of the meeting were had during breaks and evenings of the meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/ISIS-Large-Scale-Structures-User-Meeting.aspx |
Description | It's a very big change in how people work": Digitalisation in the lab and its relationship to the professional identity of scientists by Nekkache, Abderrahim; James, Andrew at EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The audience was very interested in my presentation and paper. They asked a lot of questions and gave me both verbal and detailed written feedback on how my paper could be improved. The paper was published internally on the conference website so all participants who took part in the conference theme were able to access it and read it |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Junju Mu - Poster Presenation - 4th Edwards Sympoisum - Emerging Trends in Soft matter 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The conference took place at The Centre for Mathematical Sciences Cambridge. The audience are people primarily from academia who are involved to researches on soft matter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Junju Mu Poster Presentation / Charlie Wand Oral Presentation - Formula X 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Showcasing latest research to the audiences in the conference. showcased the lasted correlative model for the shear viscosity of complex fluid we developed. The audience involves people from both the academia and industry who are interested in the latest development related to the Formulation science and engineering. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.rsc.org/events/detail/36931/formula-x |
Description | Philip Martin attending ACEForm 4.0 workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Philip Martin attending the meeting AceForm 4.0: Positioning Formulation in future EU Framework Programmes hosted by Centre for Process Innovation, 14/3/18. This was a workshop with ~30 participants but the results are to be circulated to an EU audience of between 100 - 500. No impacts from this activity are known yet but it is part of a report in to the Formulated products industry EU wide with a road map for digitisation. The importance of lobbying for the next H2020 calls was emphasised. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.uk-cpi.com/events/aceform-4-0-workshop |
Description | Philip Martin presenting at Industry 4.0 summit 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Philip Martin attended Industry 4.0 summit, 28th February - 1st March 2018 and contributed a talk. The talk received some good feedback and invites to give further talks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.industry40summit.com/ |
Description | RSc Formulation 4.0 Meeting 13th Dec 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Professor Philip Martin (UoM) and Dr Jo Cook (Unilever) delivered a joint invited presentation about how the CAFE4DM project is pioneering the development and application of digital manufacturing techniques in formulated products from both the academic and industrial side. As a result of this activity a possible new collaboration for the future is in discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/36096/formulation-4-0 |
Description | Research Student Event of the Fluid Mixing Processes Special Interest Group of the IChemE |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The annual Research Student Event of the Fluid Mixing Processes Special Interest Group of the IChemE, FMP-SIG was hosted by Dr Thomas Rodgers at University of Manchester, sponsored and supported by the CAFE4DM project. This annual event aims to bring together UK based research students to present their findings in the field of fluid mixing processes to their peers and professionals from industry and academia. The winning PGR student with the best presentation has received a special presentation slot at Mixing16 (September 2018) to present their work - this is one of the leading international conferences in the field. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.icheme.org/communities/special-interest-groups/fluid%20mixing%20processes/events/2018/res... |
Description | Science X 2018 - outreach event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The University of Manchester held an outreach event called "Science X" at the Trafford Centre, Manchester on 14th & 15th April 2018. The purpose of the event is for the general public to experience what it is like to work in Science at the University and consequently encourage engagement with STEM subjects. CAFE4DM and the School of CEAS jointly held a stand at the event on 15th April 2018 with an experiment focusing upon "Ooblek", a non-Newtonian fluid and non-Newtonian fluids are very relevant to the CAFE4DM project. No known impacts are known but we would hope it has sparked an interest in related subject areas. Around 600-700 children of varying ages attended the stand over the course of the day along with their parents. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Science X 2019 - Outreach Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The University of Manchester held an outreach event called "Science X" at the Trafford Centre, Manchester on 10th March 2019. The purpose of the event is for the general public to experience what it is like to work in Science at the University and consequently encourage engagement with STEM subjects. CAFE4DM and the School of CEAS jointly held a stand at the event on 15th April 2018 with an experiment focusing upon "Ooblek", a non-Newtonian fluid and non-Newtonian fluids are very relevant to the CAFE4DM project. No known impacts are known but we would hope it has sparked an interest in related subject areas. Around 1000 children of varying ages attended the stand over the course of the day along with their parents. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk/sciencex/ |
Description | Teen Tech - UoM |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Almost 300 young people aged 12-13 from 26 different schools arrived in groups of five, accompanied by their Business Ambassador or a teacher and visited stands for around 15 minutes at a time. As an exhibitor in the Insight zone we demonstrated Oobleck and were be asked questions about our work, the career routes and the qualifications needed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.teentech.com/ |
Description | UoM Science Spectacular 2019 outreach event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The University of Manchester held "Science Spectacular" on 20th Oct 2018, an annual family science fun day which is part of the Manchester Science Festival. CAFE4DM participated at this event which involved over 1000 members of the general public. CAFE4DM ran a table-top interactive experiment focusing on "Ooblek" which is a non-Newtonian fluid and a visual table-top experiment focusing on "Boger fluid" which is an elastic fluid with constant viscosity. No direct impacts are known but we would hope it has sparked an interest from children into STEM subjects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.manchestersciencefestival.com |
Description | gPROMS training by PSE |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As part of their in-kind commitment the CAFE4DM project hosted a gPROMS training event with Process Systems Enterprise (PSE) visiting the University of Manchester and delivering a training over two days. Members of the project attended the training but also other staff and students not directly associated with CAFE4DM. It has been expressed that having the training in the software has provided attendees with insight into its capabilities which will be beneficial for future projects. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |