These engineering students just beat six aerospace firms at their own game

The trio, all studying at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), beat off opposition from industry teams and other universities to win the top prize at the North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA) Business University Challenge.

The team was one of eight from universities and aerospace and defence companies in north west England, including BAE Systems, that competed in a series of technical challenges to test their communication, negotiation, innovation, problem solving and presentation skills.

Andrew Bailey, a first year motor sports engineering student, Ashley Johnson, a first year mechanical engineering student, and Peter Sullivan, a second year robotics engineering student, scored one of the highest ever marks at the competition.

Andrew spared The Student Engineer a few minutes from his busy schedule to tell us a little about himself and what he gained from taking part in the challenge.

Was it daunting facing teams from industry?

Before we started the challenge we did not know much about the other teams other than that they were from businesses with one other team from a university.