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 Learn Materials With Augmented Reality Tools 		Having taken a "Journey through a jet engine", you are ready to design one for yourself. This Jet-Engine Designer tool allows you to optimise the engine performance by selecting the most appropriate materials.

Will your engine fly or fail? Is it expensive or cheap/efficient or inefficient? See if you can become the 'Best Engine Designer of the Day'.

What's in the jet-engine design tool ?
This jet-engine design tool includes:

Requirements for each of the main engine components
 Requirements for each part.
Choose the best materials.
Use of Materials Card to explain why materials is used

Choose different size & by-pass ratio of engine
 Choose the right design.
Flight test.
Connect to server to test your engine design

Sucessful Engine with summary
 Summary of successful flying engine.
Explanation of failure engine (To be implemented in next version).

League Table to show the successful fly-off engine
 League Table for those succesful engine.

The best performance in terms of km flown for a given fuel allowance was recorded to produce a league table in later stage.


How is this tool linked to the schools curricula in UK ?
More detailed analysis of the appropriate materials, based on a range of criteria including density, melting temperature, strength, cost, environmental impact, etc selected from the Materials Masters cards.

The pupils will then be able to see how powerful their engine is, how far it would travel and what the environmental impact would be. It will directly support the 21st Century GCSE Science syllabus as well as providing material for Advancing Physics A-Level.


Start Your Design Here
At this stage, you will have to download & install the software on your PC before attempting the challenge.
(We are in the progress to enhance the tool to allow you to perform the engine design challenge on our website.)


How Do I Have My Own League Table For My School ?
If you are school teacher and would like to have a school competitions among your pupils, we can arrange to have league table to be viewed for your schools during your competition.


 University of Manchester
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EPSRC
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Royal Academy of Engineering
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Museum of Science & Industry
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UK Centre for Materials Education
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Rolls-Royce
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counter visits since Apr-2008                              This website is part of "So You Think You Can Design A Jet-Engine?!", an EPSRC-funded project.