Engenius

Jade from the EWB Bristol committee chairs a panel event as part of the Inspiring Women in Industry talk series. Our panelists are Amanda Heslop, Chief Design Engineer at Rolls-Royce, Prof. Deborah Greaves OBE FREng, a Royal Academy of Engineering fellow and world authority in renewable energy, and Junshi Wace, a graduate engineer at global consultancy Mott MacDonald.

To learn about careers at Rolls-Royce and Mott MacDonald, head to https://careers.rolls-royce.com/united-kingdom and https://www.mottmac.com/careers. You can also read more about Deborah and her research at https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/deborah-greaves.

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Gabriel, Beth and Seren speak with Nav Sawhney, the founder of The Washing Machine Project and elected trustee of Engineers Without Borders UK. The Washing Machine Project aims to limit the burden of hand washing clothes for people all over the world by creating a single, standalone, off-grid washing solution. In partnership with Oxfam, Nav and his team delivered 50 prototypes in Iraq in 2019, and that was just the beginning.

In this episode, Nav speaks of the inspiration behind his project, the prototype development process, and the importance of globally responsible engineering.

To find out more about The Washing Machine Project, head to https://thewashingmachineproject.org/.

You can also find Nav's recommended podcast, Sheros Club, at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1131440, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Sheros-Club-105866024514078/.

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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,

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Tom and Harshinee speak with Ilham Said, an aerospace engineering graduate and founder and CEO of Engineer 2 Engineer.

E2E is an online platform for engineering students and academics, which enables flexible collaboration and problem solving. The platform has already seen rapid and enthusiastic uptake at the University of Bristol, and as we learn, Ilham has much grander plans for her business in future...

To find out more about E2E, head to https://eng2eng.net/.

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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,

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Intro/outro music kindly provided by @yemzo.

Beth, Seren and Harshinee speak with Tom Bewley, a PhD student in explainable artificial intelligence at the University of Bristol, and one of the co-founders of this podcast.

We learned about Tom's journey from wanting to become an inventor at a young age to studying cutting-edge machine learning as part of his research. Tom talked about how leading the Engenius podcast helped shape his university experience and shared his view on the role of explainability in delivering socially-responsible AI.

To find out more about Tom's research and read his latest publications, head to https://tombewley.com/.

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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,

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Beth, Seren, Gabriel, Harshinee and Tom welcome you back to the third season of Engenius, a podcast brought to you by Engineers Without Borders at the University of Bristol.

At Engenius, we explore the future, by talking with the pioneering engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators of today. Stay tuned for more exciting conversations through 2020-21!

All our past and future episodes can be found all major podcast platforms including SoundCloud, iTunes and Spotify, as well as on our website: https://engeniuspod.org/.

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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,

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Phoebe and Gabriel speak with Maria Hansen, the founder of Bristol-based startup GM Scientific. The company designs and manufactures cutting-edge radiation sensor technology.

Our conversation ranges from Maria's motivations and experiences in the first years of her entrepreneurial journey, the conflict between science and pseudoscience in the world of business, and the importance of building a healthy work-life balance.

GM Scientific was launched inside the Unit DX 'deep tech' startup incubator. To find out more about Unit DX, head to www.unitdx.com.

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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,

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Phoebe and Jade speak with Professor Rich Pancost, a geochemist, head of Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, and former Director of the interdisciplinary Cabot Institute for the Environment, which explores how we depend on and shape our planet.

We talk about the Cabot's value for bringing diverse experts together, some of the key science and statistics of environmental change, and how we should think of the climate issue as a social and ethical one, demanding profound adaptation beyond what can be captured in simple targets.

[Note: we unfortunately get some rather dodgy audio in the last 10 minutes of the episode. Please bear with us as there's some great content in there!]

To find out more about the Cabot Institute, head to http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/.

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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,

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Gabriel speaks with Tech Against Terrorism research manager Jacob Berntsson about the work the NGO does. Jacob tells us about the UNCTED project to combat terrorism whilst respecting human rights. He also explains how offline factors manifest themselves in the online world, and how smaller tech platforms can struggle to deal with these issues.

To find out more about Tech Against Terrorism, head to https://www.techagainstterrorism.org/. Their team also runs a podcast, which you can find by searching for "The Tech Against Terrorism podcast".

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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,

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Seren and Tom speak with Dr Sabine Hauert, an Assistant Professor in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol. We discuss her work to design and build swarms across scales, from nanobots for cancer treatment to flocks of autonomous drones.

We also talk about her outreach work as founder of Robohub.org, and her thoughts on the future of robotics.

To find out more about the ongoing research at Sabine's lab, head to hauertlab.com.

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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,

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Seren and Tom speak with Dr Sam Williamson, a lecturer in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol, whose research aims to develop renewable energy microgrids using technologies for autonomous energy management and peer-to-peer electricity trading.

We discuss the major social and technical challenges of Sam's work, his ideas about the future of energy grids in the UK and abroad, and how he finds motivation in both the UN Sustainable Development Goals and his personal human experiences of working in Nepal.

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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.