2014 Open Days - Harper Adams University

2014 Open Days
Welcome to our world
Harper Adams University, the UK’s
leading university for the agri-food
chain and rural sector.
Founded in 1901, we have a long
reputation for excellence and
innovation, offering state-of-the-art
facilities and rewarding courses in
agriculture, agri-business, animals,
engineering, food, rural and
land-based studies.
On arrival
There will be directions to car parking from
the main entrance, just follow the signs to
designated parking areas on campus.
Signing In
Please sign in on arrival. We can also register
visitors who have not already done so online.
Follow the signs for Signing in & Registration.
Please ask one of our student ambassadors
(wearing blue hoodies) if you need any help!
Download
our FREE
Open Day App
Available for iPhone and Android
smartphones, the Go: Harper Adams app
gives you access to useful info to make your
day even easier.
Sample
Programme
Sample programme for Agriculture courses
11.30 Arrive and sign in, grab a tea or coffee
12.00 Take a tractor trailer tour
12.45 Welcome from the Vice Chancellor
Plan your day
here...
Food and drink
QMH Dining Hall (map ref 22)
Graze Café (map ref 21)
– Free tea and coffee on arrival and
throughout the day
– Jacket potatoes, sandwiches, salads
and snacks
– Hot meals served 12-2pm
– Hot and cold drinks
– Sandwiches, salads and snacks
– Hot and cold drinks
Kaldi Café (map ref 20)
Features:
13.00 Student life talk
– Sandwiches and snacks
– Programme of open day events –
making sure you don’t miss out
on anything!
13.20 Visit student finance room
– Hot and cold drinks
– Interactive campus maps
– Pocket guide – including all course
information and entry requirements,
student life and travel information
– News and events
Scan the QR code on your phone or search
for Harper Adams in your phone’s app store.
13.45 Agriculture course talk
14.05Lunch
14.35 Visit course stands in sports hall and
take a campus tour
Engineering courses
09.15: Arrive and sign in, grab a tea or coffee
09.45: Welcome from the Vice Chancellor
10.00: Visit student finance room
10.20: Student life
10.45: Visit course stands in Sports Hall
11.45: Engineering course talk
12.05: Tour of Engineering facilities
13.15: Lunch, campus tour
Cash and cards are accepted at all outlets
(minimum purchase applies).
Cash machine located in the Welly Inn
(map ref 35). Please note there is a charge to
withdraw cash.
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AEIC
Car Park
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Campus map
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Weston
Car Park
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Princess Royal
Harris
Ward
Gloucester
Bradford
Boughey
Darwin, Darby, Jebb
and Silcock
Flatt Road Houses
Main Buildings and
Teaching Facilities
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Main Building (Reception)
Aspire Centre
(Short Course and
Conferences Reception)
North West Building
Regional Food Academy
Weston Building
(Teaching Block)
Postgraduate and
Professional
Development Centre
Jubilee Adams
Agricultural Engineering
Innovation Centre
Applied Engineering
Facilities
Princess Margaret Building Science Laboratories
Foulkes Crowther Building
(TG/ TF/Lecture Theatre)
Bamford Library and
Engineering Design
Centre
Faccenda
(Student Centre)
Queen Mother Hall
(QMH)
Veterinary Services Centre
Entomology Building
Companion Animal
House
A-Block Teaching Rooms
B-Block Teaching Rooms
Farm Education Centre
and Frontier Crops Centre
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Bamford
Car Park
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Sports and Leisure
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Staff/Visitors
Car Park
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Halls of Residence
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Soil Hall
Car Park
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QMH
Car Park
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Shrewsbury
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Shrewsbury Road
B5062
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Harris
Car Park
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Arriva Bus 519
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Farm
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Flatt Road
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Newport
Farm Seminar Room
Pig Unit
Beef and Sheep Unit
Farm Records and
Information
Dairy Unit
Commercial Poultry
Other Facilities
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All-weather Sports Pitch
Main Rugby Pitch
Rugby/Gaelic
Football Pitch
2nd Team Rugby/
Training Pitch
Harris Football Pitch
Barnyard Football
Pitch
Main Bar and
Welly Inn
Sports Hall
Multi-gym
Squash Courts
Outdoor Swimming
Pool
Tennis Courts
Cricket Pitch
Bowling Green
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Poultry Research
C-Block
(Linden Hall GP Surgery)
Crop and Environment
Research Centre (CERC)
Anaerobic Digester
Estates Department
Laundry Building
Porters’ Lodge
Pyroformer CHP Unit
Off-Road
Demonstration Track
Programme
Each talk will last approximately
20 minutes – details will be posted
on the door of the room it takes
place in.
Each morning talk will be repeated
in the afternoon.
Morning talks for larger course
areas can get very busy, so we
recommend attending talks in the
afternoon where possible.
AMPM Talk
timetime
Location
09.45 12.45 Welcome – Vice Chancellor
QMH
10.0013.00Student life
QMH
Course Talks
10.45 13.45 Agriculture
Weston Lecture Theatre
Food Studies
Foulkes Crowther Lecture Theatre
REALM
AEIC Lecture Theatre
11.15 14.15 Animals & Bio-veterinary Science
Weston Lecture Theatre
Countryside
Foulkes Crowther Lecture Theatre
EFDP
AEIC Lecture Theatre
11.45 14.45 Veterinary Nursing
Weston Lecture Theatre
Business Foulkes Crowther Lecture Theatre
Engineering
AEIC Lecture Theatre
12.15 15.15 Veterinary Physiotherapy
Weston Lecture Theatre
15.30
Sports Hall closes
Coloured flags (see above) will be placed outside buildings used for talks. Please use the quick
reference map on the back page to find the location of your talk.
Please note: Student finance information will be available throughout the day in the Faccenda
Centre, follow the signs on the day.
If you miss any of these talks or need to know more about the courses, please visit the subject
stands in the Sports Hall (map ref 36).
Moving around campus
Staff and student ambassadors will be on hand
to help you find your way around and answer
any questions, the map included in the centre
of this booklet (page 6 and 7) can also be
referred to.
Campus Tours
Depart from outside Faccenda (map ref 21).
– Guided tour of campus led by student
ambassador
– Tours depart regularly
– Includes accommodation and main
facilities/buildings
– Please ask if you have any questions during
the tour!
Halls of Residence
– 12 halls of residence on campus, home to
700+ students
– Wired or wireless internet access
(dependent on hall)
– Daily cleaning
– Laundry service
Halls of residence will be visited on a campus
tour. See the Student Services stand in the
Sports Hall for more information on
accommodation.
Bamford Library (map ref 20)
Tour of Engineering Facilities
This modern, eco-friendly library represents a
significant investment in the future of all our
students. The library offers access to more than
42,000 books and 3000 print and electronic
journals. It also provides a number of study
rooms and high quality computer access.
The Agricultural Engineering Innovation Centre
(AEIC), home to the National Centre for
Precision Farming, is a new £2.93m building
which opened in October 2013 and provides
‘clean’ engineering facilities including:
Faccenda student centre (map ref 21)
A ‘one-stop shop’ for students, including a
student hub, student services, careers,
placement and advisory services, the Students’
Union and Graze café. This is also where you
will register when you arrive at the open day.
Weston Building (map ref 13)
Located at the heart of the campus next to
the Regional Food Academy, the Weston
Building provides a new state of the art 250 seat
lecture theatre, IT classrooms, self-accessible
computers and a range of seminar rooms.
Tour of Science Laboratories and
Molecular Biology Laboratory
(map ref 18)
Science underpins much of our research and
teaching. The laboratory complex includes six
well equipped teaching laboratories. There are
a number of interactive exhibits here which will
be of interest to all visitors, not just those who
plan to study science based courses. There will
also be staffed tours of the Princess Margaret
Laboratories at the following times: 11.05, 11.35,
12.05, 14.05, 14.35 and 15.05.
– Electronics/mechatronics lab
– Hydraulic lab
– Research lab for tractors and machines
– Accommodation for staff
– Rooms for continuing professional
development
– A state-of-the-art lecture theatre with
space for a tractor
Another of our specialist engineering facilities is
the JCB-sponsored Engineering Design Centre,
located in the Bamford Library. It delivers
the latest rapid prototyping technology and
computer-aided design (CAD).
Various displays include:
– Student projects
– Equipment exhibition
– Computer-aided design (CAD) in the
Design Centre (map ref 20)
Staffed tours of the Engineering facilities will
take place at 12.10 and 15.10. Please meet in
the AEIC Foyer (map ref 16).
Minibus trips to the Companion Animal Regional Food Academy
House and Veterinary Services Centre
– Depart from Queen Mother Hall car park, (map ref 22) from 10.30, at regular intervals
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Walkable distance – please follow map and
signs from the front of the Main Building
(please note this route is not wheelchair
accessible – please use minibus)
– The Companion Animal House includes a
variety of animals such as chinchillas, degus,
snakes, lizards, guinea pigs and rabbits
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The Veterinary Services Centre is a new
purpose built facility available for teaching
and research, with an additional
commercial component in some areas.
The facility will consist of a reception area
and office, eight consulting rooms, a store,
and hydrotherapy suite (a state-of-the-art
room with the benefit of both a pool and a
canine underwater treadmill), to be used by
Veterinary Nursing, Veterinary Physiotherapy
and Animal Behaviour students
Minibus trips to the Dairy Unit
– Depart from Queen Mother Hall car park,
(map ref 22) at 10.30, 11.00, 11.30, 12.00,
12.30, 13.00, 14.00, 14.30, 15.00 and 15.30
– Leading-edge dairy unit serves 380 cows
– Innovative 40-point internal rotary milking
parlours
– Tours of the dairy will be given by staff
Provides Food students with access to many
facilities, including:
– Food processing facilities onsite – including
cheese, beer, baked goods and more
– Product Development kitchen
– Sensory Evaluation room
– Food grade lecture theatre
There will be tours of the Regional Food
Academy (RFA), which can be signed up for
at the end of the Food course talk.
Tractor and Trailer Tours
Depart from outside Queen Mother Hall
(map ref 20) from 10.00 onwards.
– See the farm and the estate from the
comfort of a trailer
– Trip lasts for about 30-40 minutes and
includes full commentary
– Look out for the pink flag outside Queen
Mother Hall
– Much busier after the larger course talks
(such as Agriculture and Animals), so
queueing times will be longer
Quick reference map
Halls of Residence
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Ward
Gloucester
Bradford
Boughey
Darwin, Darby, Jebb and Silcock
Sports and Leisure Facilities
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Main Buildings and Teaching Facilities
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Main Building (Reception)
Aspire Centre (Short Course and
Conferences Reception)
North West Building
Regional Food Academy
Weston Building (Teaching Block)
Postgraduate and Professional
Development Centre
Jubilee Adams
Agricultural Engineering Innovation
Centre
Applied Engineering Facilities
Princess Margaret Building –
Science Laboratories
Foulkes Crowther Building
(TG/TF/Lecture Theatre)
Bamford Library and Engineering
Design Centre
Faccenda (Student Centre)
Queen Mother Hall (QMH)
Harper Adams University
Newport, Shropshire, TF10 8NB
Tel: 01952 820280
harper.ac.uk
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All-weather Sports Pitch
Main Rugby Pitch
Rugby/Gaelic Football Pitch
Main Bar and Welly Inn
Sports Hall
Multi-gym
Squash Courts
Outdoor Swimming Pool
Tennis Courts
Cricket Pitch
Bowling Green
Farm
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Farm Seminar Room
Pig Unit
Beef and Sheep Unit
Other Facilities
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Laundry Building
Porters’ Lodge

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