Engineering Heroes

What value does engineering bring society? This is a question James Trevelyan has pondered throughout his career and he challenges other engineers to answer. Until such time engineers can truly understand their own value, they have no chance at communicating to society why human civilization will not survive without them.“”it's not a matter of fixing a reputation. It's a matter of fixing performance

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Dr Marlene Kanga is the current President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations and has dedicated her career to advancing engineering and engineers. She is the driving force behind World Engineering Day and shares with us her personal experience with diversity issues in engineering.

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Laurie Bowman is a risk engineer who takes a moment to explain where the value in engineering truly comes from. He chats about soft skills and human-centered design – what could be achieved when engineers put humans in the centre of their design.

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Welcome to WEC2019 Mini-Series, a mini-series introducing you to some of the speakers you will meet at the Convention in Nov 2019. Sarah Watson is our first guest and speaks to us about the importance of including engineers when discussing UN SDG14

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After a rough start, Don Moloney settled into a career of engineering very happily.""switched into engineering and it was like .... everything just clicked into place for meHe is using his sphere of influence to encourage innovation, actively ignore the dissenters and focus on fixing climate change ""...the outliers, sort of distract from the consensus, and I think they distract from action as well

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Lucy Griffith is a capable and experienced young engineer. However she experiences Imposter Syndrome and has times where she doubts her abilities.Imposter Syndrome is alive and well in engineering and a key solution is to talk about it.

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There are currently over 2100 satellites in space and this number is growing fast.The more satellites that enter space, the more space debris there is."a bigger problem is that sometimes satellites explode, and when they explode they create more debris and they create a bigger threat to other satellites, which is a terrible situation"William Crowe is an Aerospace Engineer from High Earth Orbit Robotics and is working to clean up space.

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Stories are all around us, but not all of them are told correctly. And some of them get completely forgotten as we move along the journey of building.Meg Panozzo is our guest this week and she strongly believes that the engineer’s story must be changed. It is lacking the connection to the why, the connection to the people, to society.Through telling stories on her own blog and coming onto our Podcast, Meg is encouraging engineers to remember their “why” in everything they create and to be brave in their universe and tell their stories from the people-perspective.

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Phil Wilkinson is a mechanical engineer who fell into the HVAC&R industry.“”I fell into the air conditioning refrigeration industry, which is just the story of everybody that's in itAfter reading Paul Hawken’s book Drawdown, Phil is now on a mission to change society, “”. Through the group “” Phil is on a mission to reverse global warming in one generation.one fridge at a timeHumans of HVAC&R 2.0

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Society needs to plug the Leaky Pipe within the Engineering industry. Prasha Sarwate is a mechanical engineer who chats to us about the need for society to adapt to the needs of its diverse population and provide the ultimate inclusion.

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