Banquet at Brown's of Covent Garden

Congratulations to our 2023 class of the Engineering in London (EIL) study abroad program! Photos from the banquet dinner at Brown's of Covent Garden on Friday, July 7 are provided below. Click here for the final slideshow of the program edited by Emma Elise Ferber.

Special thanks to our corporate and alumni sponsors of the EIL 2023 program: Tickle College of Engineering, Cisco, International Paper, Jewelry Television, MilleniTek, Cyber & Information Security Consortium, Rebecca Collins, Denise Gosnell, and the Larry and Yosiko Shell Global Initiative.

 

Bletchley Park

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 5, the EIL students along with Profs. Berry and Dickerson and Peter O'Malley from IES visited Bletchley Park (north of London). Bletchley Park is where Alan Turing and his colleagues in Hut 8 broke the (naval) Enigma code during World War II. The students witnessed demonstrations of working Enigma, Bombe, Tunny, and Colossus machines. The Colossus was the world's first electric digital computer that was programmable. The Colossus computers were developed to help in the cryptanalysis of the Hitler's Lorenz cipher.  Our NMC guide for the afternoon, Robert Dowell, did a fantastic job explaining both the history and design of all the early cypher and computing machines.  Prior to exhibits within Bletchley Park, the students were given a short break to burn off some energy on the jungle gym equipment, play outdoor chess, or just relax on one of the many lawns near the Bletchley Park Mansion.

Brunel Museum (Rotherhithe, London Borough of Southwark)

On Monday afternoon  (July 3), the EIL students joined Profs. Berry and Dickerson for a visit to the Brunel Museum at Rotherhithe on the bank of the Thames River.  In the original shaft of the tunnel (under the Thames River) that Marc and Isambard (Kingdom) Brunel designed and built, our guide (Mike Thatcher) gave an excellent historical timeline for this great nineteenth century engineering achievement.  Completed in 1834, this was the world's first underwater tunnel.  Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc Brunel, were considered by many to be the greatest engineers of Victorian England.