Engenius

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 workin...

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 blo...

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 abou...

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, an...

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...

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' s...

Hello! We are back with another episode of Degrees of Freedom. For our first ever proper episode we sit down for a chat with Jay Sahnan. Jay is only 23 and, whilst being an all round nice guy, has founded a software business and sent face masks round the world during the pandemic. Jay's business, Fabrio, is a software that is bringing STEM education into schools around the world allowing students...

Welcome to Degrees of Freedom, a new podcast from Engineers without Borders Bristol. Join Ellie and Alby each fortnight as they sit down for a wide-ranging chat with a new guest - someone with an engineering background and a passion for using their skills to benefit people and planet. This introduction episode will give you a taste of what there is to look forward to, as well as a chance to get to...

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-Gadê...

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 U...

Beth and Emma speak with Daniel Kenning, a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, Energy Engineer, and Chartered Environmentalist. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the Energy Institute and an Associate of the Institution of Environmental Management and Assessment. Daniel is also the co-founder and Chair of the Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE), foun...

Beth and Gabriel speak with Alastair Boswell, a Chartered Engineer with the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Associate Director for Intelligent Mobility Schemes for Arup. With over 20 years’ experience in the field, Alastair has worked on a wide range of projects, including a recent role supporting Highways England with their national roll-out of electric vehicle charge points. We...

Harshinee and Beth speak with Miles Franklin, a mechanical engineer with expertise in innovation and sustainable energy. Having previously worked at Dyson, and participated in numerous "appropriate technology" projects in developing countries, Miles' current role is as the Lead Engineer at an Edinburgh-based startup called Gravitricity. Gravitricity develops grid-scale mechanical energy storage te...

Emily, Tom and Harshinee speak with John Armstrong, a mechanical engineer by training, current Chief Operating Officer at the British Pipeline Agency, and author of a recent book entitled The Future of Energy. We discuss personal and professional development as an engineer, some major trends in the energy sector, and the energy transition more broadly. We also consider the societal impacts of majo...

Seren and Gabriel speak with Antoni Ros Martinez, Program Manager of Disaster Services at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, which supports global humanitarian action and community development through open map data. Toni has acquired extensive working knowledge of humanitarian action and disaster management in complex environments, while collaborating with many international NGOs. We talk about Toni...

Harshinee, Beth and Ellie speak to Patricia Darez, an Aerospace Engineering graduate from the University of Bristol who is now a successful engineer and leader in the renewable energy sector. After starting her career as a physics teacher, Patricia is now a director of the Chilean Association for Renewable Energies, and Managing Director and partner at 350renewables, a boutique renewable energy co...

Harshinee, Emily and Tom speak with Martin Bolton about his two roles as Head of Assembly at the Airbus Wing of Tomorrow project, and over the past year, assembly lead for VentilatorChallengeUK: one of the UK government's flagship programmes in the fight against COVID-19.  It was fascinating to hear about the ambitious goals of both of these efforts, the similarities and differences between p...

Harshinee, Beth and Seren speak with Ved Krishna, Strategy Head at Yash Pakka: an India-based paper manufacturing company, which uses agricultural sugar cane waste to create its products. In 2017, Ved launched CHUK, an offshoot of the Yash Pakka brand which specialises in creating 100% home compostable tableware and packaging solutions. With CHUK, Ved aims to provide alternatives to single-use pla...

Tom and Jade speak with Alan Champneys, a Professor of Applied Non-linear Mathematics at the University of Bristol's unique department of Engineering Mathematics. Alan's candid and engaging lecturing style is loved throughout the Engineering faculty, and we talk about this at length in this eclectic conversation. We also cover his technical research and the power of abstract mathematical problem s...

Seren and Tom speak with Sven Schmitz-Leuffen, an environmental engineer and information management expert at the United Nations Environment Programme. Sven has over 12 years of work experience in 10 different countries, tackling water, sanitation and resource management challenges using Geographic Information Systems. Sven shares stories of working in countries hugely impacted by natural disaster...

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 Rol...

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...

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 f...

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 universit...

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...