Manas, Saif and John speak with Dr. Flavia De Luca, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Bristol. Her expertise is within the field of structural and earthquake engineering, with a specific focus to Reinforced Concrete frame structures. She is part of the Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering Research Group.

In this episode, we focus on her experiences working in countries around the world and explore the impact of engineering research in developing countries. We also explore the details of how earthquake engineering is optimised to save as many lives as possible in disasters.

This episode was recorded in February 2023.

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels:

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Manas, Saif and Yassin speak with Dr. Becky Selwyn, a senior lecturer in thermodynamics and researcher in engineering education. Alongside her award winning teaching work, she undertakes pedagogic research investigating ways of improving student engagement in their learning. Read more about Becky's University of Bristol 2021 Teaching Award on the Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching blog https://bilt.online/becky-selwyn/ .

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels:

Instagram: ⁠@EWB_Bristol⁠ Facebook: ⁠fb.com/engineerswithoutbordersbristol

How’s this for a late Christmas present on the 12th day of Christmas? DOFPOD Thursdays are back!

Alby and Ellie sat down with Matt from Bristol City Council for our last recording of 2022 to talk behaviour change, heat pumps, community engagement, “sprinkling innovation” and much more. 

This is a great listen if you’re interested in how public sector innovation works or you love thinking about how we can engage more people in addressing the climate crisis. 

It’s not for you if you want to hear Alby talking about nuclear fusion for 5 minutes because Ellie insisted on cutting that out

Enjoy, tell a friend, get in touch, and keep an eye out for LOTS of exciting podcasts from Degrees of Freedom in 2023.

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by George Vessey.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels:

BONUS EPISODE!!  Join Ellie and Alby as we invite our fellow Engineering Design friends Phil, Aasav and Frank to talk about our experiences on our Years in Industry. We talk about the highs and lows of the application process, what it is like to be the youngest in a company and our most embarrassing moments.  We also celebrate the world cup with half time oranges, extended extra time, and some censoring of certain language - tune in to find out more! 

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected]. 

Intro/outro music kindly provided by George Vessey. 

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels: 

Instagram: @EWB_Bristol 

Facebook: fb.com/engineerswithoutbordersbristol

BUSES ARE COOL! Tap on and welcome aboard as we sit at the back of the bus and chat all things public transport with Liz Davidson. Liz tells us all about the power of public transport and the important effect that network optimisation can have on community mobility, economic growth and reducing inequality. Outside of the bus chat, we explore Liz’s career from teaching in Jamaica to working at her family sofa business to co-founding network optimisation companies Esoterix and QRoutes.  Like what you heard and want to learn more? Liz has kindly collated a selection of interesting podcast, blogs and articles to browse through… Just don’t forget to tap off first! Podcasts, blogs, and articles: Freewheeling Podcast (particularly James Freeman’s episode): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-freewheeling-podcast/id1549884606?i=1000512566642 The Beauty of Transport  https://thebeautyoftransport.com/ Racist history of America's interstate highway boom https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-11-11/the-racist-history-of-americas-interstate-highway-boom

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected]. Intro/outro music kindly provided by George Vessey. 

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels: Instagram: @EWB_Bristol Facebook: fb.com/engineerswithoutbordersbristol

Manas and Saif talk to James Norman and Dominika Malkowska, about the future of sustainable civil engineering. James is an award-winning engineer and teacher, he has designed landmark buildings and developed innovative teaching that combines practice with learning. He’s written several books for engineers and students making sustainable building a reality. Dominika is a PhD student, under James' supervision, researching the use of Bamboo as a sustainable building material.

We talk to James and Dominika about the role civil engineers play in solving the climate crisis, focussing on the materials that are used in sustainable building. They also share their experiences working in industry and the challenges they overcame progressing to academic research and teaching.

For more on regenerative design, James recommends the following book and podcast: https://www.flourish-book.com/

Dominika's papers on Bamboo connections are available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061822016415, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950061822030148

You can watch James's inaugural lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hXVVbMVR2k

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels:

Welcome to the new Meet Your Lecturer series. Over the next few weeks, we will be interviewing a number of lecturers at the University of Bristol, getting to know them better, learning about their research projects and asking them what motivates their ventures. 

Beth and John kick off our Meet Your Lecturer series by interviewing Dr Hermes Bloomfield-Gadêlha. Brazilian-born Dr Bloomfield-Gadêlha is a poly-disciplinary mathematician working at the fertile union of mathematical logic, physics, engineering and medicine. He employs creative mathematics not only to nature, but also the industry and the arts, focusing on novel questions and unexplained phenomena in a broad range of physical systems. Alongside his research work, Dr Bloomfield-Gadêlha lectures in the Engineering Mathematics Department at the University of Bristol. 

In this episode, we speak to Hermes about his fascinating research profile, explore his thoughts on synchroneity of creativity and design, and speaks about his beginnings as an academic.

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels:

Beth and Emma speak to Colin Palmer, a naval architect turned renewable energy engineer, who has been working in the sector since its inception. He has been active in renewable energy since the late 70s, working first on wave energy with Gifford and Partners near Southampton. In 1988 he founded Windcluster Ltd, a wind energy company that financed and built one of the first wind farms in the UK.

We heard about how he traversed through the sectors and how he crafted his extraordinary career path. Colin goes on to provide some useful advice for young engineers on how they can achieve their goals in projects they are passionate about. 

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Engenius is produced by a team of engineering students at the University of Bristol. To ask a question, submit an idea, or just say hi, email us at [email protected].

Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Engenius is brought to you by Engineers Without Borders Bristol. Find out more about our work on our social channels: