Meet inspiring and diverse engineers whose ground-breaking work is making a difference and inspiring writers who create compelling fiction.
Engineering is at the heart of being human: for thousands of years we’ve been inventing things, from stone tools through to modern smartphones, We’ve created technology that have made our lives better and have also radically changed society. And yet as a subject Engineering is strangely hidden in plain sight. Inventive explores new ways of telling Engineering's story by mixing fact and fiction. Through this, we inspire our listeners about the contribution engineering makes.
Host: Professor Trevor Cox, Acoustical Engineer
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler
Publicity: Gill Davies
Visuals and animations: Annabeth Robinson
Curriculum materials associated with this podcast will appear on the Nustem website at Northumbria University.
Overtone Productions for University of Salford, UK
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Meet inspiring and diverse engineers whose ground-breaking work is making a difference and inspiring writers who create compelling fiction.
Engineering is at the heart of being human: for thousands of years we’ve been inventing things, from stone tools through to modern smartphones, We’ve created technology that have made our lives better and have also radically changed society. And yet as a subject Engineering is strangely hidden in plain sight. Inventive explores new ways of telling Engineering's story by mixing fact and fiction. Through this, we inspire our listeners about the contribution engineering makes.
Host: Professor Trevor Cox, Acoustical Engineer
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown and Adam Fowler
Publicity: Gill Davies
Visuals and animations: Annabeth Robinson
Curriculum materials associated with this podcast will appear on the Nustem website at Northumbria University.
Overtone Productions for University of Salford, UK
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chemical engineer Askwar Hilonga wants to be a billionaire - by saving a billion lives. Growing up in rural Tanzania, life was hard. His mother and father didn't go to school and he suffered from water-borne diseases throughout his childhood from drinking contaminated water. Askwar wanted to use his education to help his community and, using his expertise in nanotechnology, he has developed a water filtration system and a network of water purification stations around Africa. He tells his story to Trevor Cox in the fourth episode of Inventive Podcast. Novelist Sarah Franklin, who runs the ‘Short Stories Aloud’ events and is also a judge on the Costa Short Story Award, has written a moving short story based on Askwar's life and work.
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