
Engineering a snowboard
PhD student Liza Brooks uses computer software modelling to produce a better snowboard. She explains how she gathers data on the slopes and has written her own computer software to model how a snowboard behaves. She builds prototypes, varying the composite construction and taking the most promising out to the slopes to test them. She has set up a company, is already selling her snowboards and hopes they will be winning medals in the 2014 winter Olympics.
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