Renewability and Sustainability Society
The Renewable Engineering Society at UoS. RESUS is a student manufacturing, engineering, and education initiative that centers its activities around renewable and sustainable technologies. We have four technical divisions from a variety of disciplines you can choose from. Our regular workshop sessions run during term time every Thursday at 6pm - 8pm at the Level 3 Workstations in Zepler Labs.

Current Projects
EkkoRacing
We are making our flagship Solar Challenger for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge! Join our Electrical, Mechanical and Aerodynamics teams in Designing, Testing and Manufacturing our race vehicle. Be it testing designs in the RJ Mitchell wind tunnel, liaising with the Solar Division, fabricating an electrical powertrain or one of our many other projects, there are plenty of opportunities to get stuck in. Whether you're here to learn or to lead, we accept all levels of experience!
- Email: EkkoRacing@soton.ac.uk
- Lead: Lauren Field (lf4g23)
Solar Division
Currently building the Mini Array, a proof of concept build to solder and encapsulate solar cells in-house. We aim to innovate within these to achieve cost reduction. We also assist other teams in our society with their solar panel designs. We aim to build products that can be integrated into the university landscape and more.
- Email: resus+solar@soton.ac.uk
- Lead: Daniel Adeyemi ORC PGR (da3g19)
Turbine Division
Mini Turbine Alpha is the first wind turbine that will be in our journey to build a full-scale wind turbine. We are building all of our components, even the generator, from the ground up. Currently, MTA is in its manufacturing phase while its generator is being revamped. Eventually, we want to collaborate with Strathclyde Turbine Team to donate our builds to international communities that are not receiving constant power.
- Email: resus+turbine@soton.ac.uk
- Lead: Aaron Campbell (ac7g23)
Solar Aircraft Team
Currently building Project Sylph, a fully solar-powered UAV for surveying and monitoring missions that we intend to make available to the university community for their research. For this reason, we are aiming to create a modular and flexible platform that can carry powerful sensors meanwhile still have a competitive flight time for missions. We plan to initiate another project and iterate on the SolarUAV concept to achieve a pseudo-satellite, a platform that can indefinitely remain airborne. Our ultimate aim is to achieve a benchmark in electrical aviation and design/manufacture a single-seater electric aircraft which is also supported by solar power.
- Email: resus+aircraft@soton.ac.uk
- Leads: Geethaartha Vagga (gv2g21) and Elle Radford (eir1n21)
Community
Fairness and communication are important themes in our community. We always want to attribute everyone's contribution and work as transparently and clearly as possible. Whether you are casually interested in green technology or a renewables expert, there is a lot of fulfilling work to do and have fun together! We also run regular socials :)
We have regular general workshop sessions where all the society comes together and focused team workshops which are determined by the division leaders. Please join our social media channels and email list via membership to keep up with all the details!
Feel free to contact us via resus@soton.ac.uk and please check our Linktree for our Whatsapp (discussion) and Website.
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The Committee
All clubs and societies within the Students' Union are run entirely by students. The student committee for Renewability and Sustainability Society this year are:
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Communications Secretary
President
Social Secretary
Treasurer
Vice President
Vice President Engagement
Vice President Operations
Welfare Secretary
Workshop Manager
Membership Information
Products
Available products to purchase for Renewability and Sustainability Society
Constitution
All SUSU clubs & societies must have a Constitution which governs how they run
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All clubs & societies are required to risk assess their activity to ensure it is carried out in a safe manner for members. Current risk assessments for Renewability and Sustainability Society are available to view below
Upcoming Events
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