Helping employers change the world – students showcase their skills

Final-year students shared their work at the annual School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics showcase

Students gather around electronics project smiling at SECaM showcase 2026

Helping employers change the world – students showcase their skills

Final-year students shared their work at the annual School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics showcase

21 May 2026

From armour to androids and renewable energy to electronics, students from the University of Plymouth showcased a huge variety of projects at the annual School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Showcase.

Set up to enable students to network with industry professionals while exhibiting their final-year projects, the event covered inventions and developments that highlighted students’ ingenuity, problem-solving skills and industry-readiness.

It also allows the students to demonstrate that they’re comfortable with the practical as well as the theoretical aspects of their studies, which is one reason why they’re so attractive to employers.

Ingenuity and imagination

Electrical and Electronic Engineering student Milya Mohd Asyraf shared her project on a glasses-worn attachment that translates spoken words into subtitles in real-time.

She said:

“My project addresses the issue of needing to communicate in different languages by creating a wearable attachment that allows a more natural and immediate interaction. Apart from ensuring that it works, I was really keen to make it an inexpensively as I could. In a world that’s becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it should be accessible to everyone.”

Milya Mohd Asyraf at SECaM showcase 2026

Matt Daniels SECaM showcase 2026

Mechanical Engineering with Composites student Matt Daniels shared his project, which he undertook in collaboration with the Formula Student team at the University.

He said:

“It’s been the highlight of my degree working on this project, supporting the Formula Student team to test the effectiveness of their car’s aerodynamic package, and understanding whether it makes a difference to the car’s performance. We tested the model in the Babbage Building wind tunnel, and it’s been great to be really hands on. The composites pathway of the degree has also been a really big interest of mine, manufacturing and testing scale model of Formula 1 wishbone components.”

Civil and Coastal Engineering student Matt Zielinski highlighted his project on coastal defences, and the value of his award-winning placement year in 2024/25. He said:

“I’ve been working on a project about coastal defences around the UK. The problem is a lot were built using historical methods, not with modern technology, so they erode and break down, and we need to work out how they fail in order to preserve or replace them. I’m a very hands-on person and I wanted to get out into fieldwork and do things in real-life, outdoors, so this was a perfect project for me. It was also helped by doing a placement year last year, where you get to network, learn from the professionals already in the career without any fear. My university experience overall has been great, and I’d recommend it 100%.”

CECA

I’m extremely proud of the student members of the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics here at the University, and the Project Showcase gave our final-year undergraduates the chance to show how talented they are and how brilliantly they can put what they’ve learned with us into practice.

Thanks to everyone who took part, from the students themselves, the academic and technical staff who have supported them so well throughout their studies, and the representatives from business and industry who joined us to see all this excellent project work and, in several cases, to meet with their new recruits.

Thanks in particular to those who serve on our Industrial Advisory Committees, which help to ensure that SECaM graduates have the skills and knowledge that employers need.

Professor Alex Belton
Head of School and substantive Professor of Mathematics

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