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#15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris
Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military
revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous
pot holes in Uganda, the professional life of civil engineer Brittany Harris
has been more eventful since she graduated in 2015 than many engineers’
experience throughout their entire working careers. Her efforts to bring
sustainable water and sanitation to developing countries, and to encourage
other engineers to do the same, led the Institution of Civil Engineers to name
Brittany as an engineering superhero: Water Woman.
“I didn’t think elephants were an engineering problem, but
apparently they are and so we had to go and understand this. We went out to
Kenya and we asked the guys to walk us along the pipe route……What was happening
was that the elephants in the dry season can smell the water underground and
they go along and dig up the pipe where it was shallowest”
Find out more in this episode of Engineering Matters.
GUEST
Brittany Harris, CEO, Qualis Flow
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Engineers Without Borders
Engineers
Without Borders UK leads a movement to promote a globally responsible mindset
in the engineering community. So how do they do this?
They
work to change how engineering is perceived, to attract and inspire a diverse
cohort of future engineering talent into the industry.
They
embed the principles of global responsibility into engineering education in
schools and universities around the world so that future engineers can deliver
engineering for good.
They
provide pro bono engineering support for communities delivering projects to
improve access to water, sanitation and clean energy and innovations for the
built environment.
If,
like Brittany Harris, you want to get involved in this amazing organisation you
can find out more from their website www.ewb-uk.org. Where you sign up to their newsletter and keep up
to date with all the activities and opportunities that are currently happening.
You can also join the discussion on their twitter @ewbuk.
Institution of Civil
Engineers
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Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military
revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous
pot holes in Uganda, the professional life of civil engineer Brittany Harris
has been more eventful since she graduated in 2015 than many engineers’
experience throughout their entire working careers. Her efforts to bring
sustainable water and sanitation to developing countries, and to encourage
other engineers to do the same, led the Institution of Civil Engineers to name
Brittany as an engineering superhero: Water Woman.
“I didn’t think elephants were an engineering problem, but
apparently they are and so we had to go and understand this. We went out to
Kenya and we asked the guys to walk us along the pipe route……What was happening
was that the elephants in the dry season can smell the water underground and
they go along and dig up the pipe where it was shallowest”
Find out more in this episode of Engineering Matters.
GUEST
Brittany Harris, CEO, Qualis Flow
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Engineers Without Borders
Engineers
Without Borders UK leads a movement to promote a globally responsible mindset
in the engineering community. So how do they do this?
They
work to change how engineering is perceived, to attract and inspire a diverse
cohort of future engineering talent into the industry.
They
embed the principles of global responsibility into engineering education in
schools and universities around the world so that future engineers can deliver
engineering for good.
They
provide pro bono engineering support for communities delivering projects to
improve access to water, sanitation and clean energy and innovations for the
built environment.
If,
like Brittany Harris, you want to get involved in this amazing organisation you
can find out more from their website www.ewb-uk.org. Where you sign up to their newsletter and keep up
to date with all the activities and opportunities that are currently happening.
You can also join the discussion on their twitter @ewbuk.
Institution of Civil
Engineers
The post #15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris first appeared on Engineering Matters.
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