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Dyson collaborates with Bath Rugby on education programme

Bath Rugby wing, Will Muir, visited the Dyson campus in Malmesbury, to meet with Dyson Institute Undergraduate Engineers

Bath Rugby wing Will Muir at Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology(Image: Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology)

The Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology students applied their knowledge to Bath Rugby through a partnership day.

Undergraduates from the Wiltshire-based campus met with Bath Rugby wing Will Muir to educate him on gaining an engineering edge on the pitch. Mr Muir studied engineering before pursuing a career in rugby.

Dyson has partnered with Bath Rugby since 2014 and continues to show a long-term commitment to the club, "sharing a joint focus on resilience, discipline, learning from failure and a determination to be the best while nurturing young talent".

In collaboration with a group of Undergraduate Engineers, Dyson Institute Lecturer Javad Taghipour devised a special day diving into the mechanical engineering principles that can be applied to rugby. This included designing miniature wind turbines and using them to investigate key principles such as aerodynamics and fluid dynamics, with Mr Muir adding his on-the-pitch experience to bring these theories to life.

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Following this, a student presented their own summaries in relation to various existing research papers. This included the mechanical forces at play during a rugby tackle, predicting who would win a tackle, and how the design of a rugby ball balances aerodynamic shape with ensuring good grip for the players. Mr Muir then shared his on the pitch experiences.

With over 150 undergraduates enrolled in a four-year programme, Mr Muir’s visit gave the students at the Malmesbury campus an opportunity to apply their engineering knowledge outside of the set curriculum to topics such as elite sports.

The Bath Rugby wing said: “I think the Dyson Institute is such a unique opportunity for people to come and do the theory and lectures, and then transfer that into working with Dyson. I'd definitely have applied, whether I'd have got in or not is a different matter!