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Creative Engineering with Shrouk El-Attar

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Welcome, Shrouk El-Attar!

  • After her own experiences as a refugee, Shrouk did a campaign for equal access to education for asylum seekers in the UK. There are now over 75 participating institutions.
  • Shrouk asked how The Amp Hour started, it was from a post on reddit!
  • University days and trying to do hands-on tinkering without much budget
  • Apprenticeship schemes
  • Shrouk interned at Intel and Fujitsu
  • She also worked on a device that helped train eye surgeons
  • Consumer class 2 Medical Devices
  • Elvie pump
  • Reading the docs is critical when doing certification for medical
  • Design for Test
  • Doing engineering every day, but not always design
  • Shrouk refers to the products at Elvie as "FemTech"
  • Chris has experience with Willow and Spectra breast pumps
  • The Elvie pump is piezoelectric
  • The Elvie Trainer is a pelvic floor trainer to help with incontinence, which 80M+ people suffer from.
  • Shrouk worked in conjunciton with the app team, who communicated with the trainer over bluetooth and developed games
  • FPGAs for industrial robotics
  • Shrouk's new series for RS Grassroots will help engineers understand how to outfit their bench and will be called "Trickytronics"
  • Chris always recommends the Analog Discovery 2 as a starting device. Former president of Digilent Clint Cole was on the show.
  • Shrouk is also an artist!
    • She's a belly dancer! She does performances as a drag king and posts about it on Instagram as @dancingqueerofficial
    • She can neither confirm nor deny she's working on a belly dancing robot.
    • Engineering in the art world
    • Shrouk is working on solo show
    • Shrouk also does podcasts!
      • An RS Grassroots series called Badass Engineers
      • A video series called El Kanaba, which focuses on LGBT+ issues and is presented in Arabic
      • The importance of representation and seeing different people working in engineering. Chris remembers the #BlackInSTEM hashtag highlighting Black scientists and engineers in different industries.
      • Consulting
      • The Shrouk El Attar trust (SEAT) helps support the LGBT+ community in Egypt and other surrounding nations.
      • At Helpful Engineering, Shrouk worked on the OpenVent project, which was done in KiCad and used Gowin FPGAs
      • They used an FPGA because they needed high throughput for sensors. They were also able to utlize the internal comparators.
      • Organizing volunteers for large projects
      • MHRA is the UK equivalent of the FDA (in the US)
      • Follow Shrouk online!
        • Website: shro.uk
        • Instagram: @DancingQueerOfficial
        • LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/shroukel-attar
        • Twitter: @ShroukELA
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