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Inventive Podcast
by Trevor Cox
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 <a href="https://nustem.uk/" re
Episodes
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Episode 12: Trevor Cox
Ruth Amos visits the Acoustic Laboratories at the University of Salford. She gets to experience the test chambers with their extreme acoustics, from the oppressive silence of the anechoic chamber, to the booming reverberation chamber. So this is an Inventive episode with a twist, as previous…
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Episode 11: Jack Haworth
Put your headphones on and take some time out to listen to this episode. Your ears are in for a treat! Thanks to Adam at Overtone Productions, we're bringing you outstanding sound design in the final episode of this series. Inventive Podcast is all about mixing fact and fiction - featuring...
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Episode 10: Larissa Suzuki
A fascinating insight into how AI will influence how cities operate in the future and the ethics of collecting big data. Larissa Suzuki is a polymath – she's a computer scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, writer, inventor, and philanthropist. She was awarded the Engineer of the Year at the...
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Episode 9: Enass Abo-Hamed and Manjot Chana
How can we create carbon-free energy? The future is hydrogen. As Glasgow hosts the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference, engineer and activist Enass Abo-Hamed and systems integration engineer Manjot Chana from renewable energy company H2GO chat to Trevor Cox about their groundbreaking plans to help...
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Episode 8: Josh Macabuag
This episode of Inventive Podcast is an exciting insight into a profession we only get a glimpse of in news reports, through the eyes of an engineer who wants to make a positive impact on the world. Disaster Risk Engineer Josh Macabuag been at the scene of major natural disasters around the…
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Episode 7: Sian Cleaver
Join us for a brand new series of Inventive Podcast. We're launching in World Space Week - this year, it's all about celebrating Women in Space - so who better to launch our new series than Spacecraft Engineer Sian Cleaver! Sian chats to Trevor Cox about her work on the Orion European Service...
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Episode 6: Ruth Amos
Inventor and Engineer Ruth Amos has a fantastic job! She runs Youtube Channel ‘Kids Invent Stuff’ where children get the chance to have their invention ideas built by Ruth and her friend Shawn. They’ve built some amazing stuff! A bike that feeds you cake, a three-storey bath, an electric dog car…
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Episode 5: Greg Bowie
Manufacturing engineer Greg Bowie uses science to make stuff that heals broken bones. The material he works with has something in common with the network of pipes at the bottom of the ocean that carries the internet around the world and Greg himself has something in common with former US…
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Episode 4: Askwar Hilonga
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...
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Episode 3: Sophie Robinson
Trevor meets aerospace engineer Sophie Robinson, who's working on groundbreaking eVTOL, electric vertical take-off and landing, aircraft that will change the way we travel in the future. Writer Tony White's inspirational story 'The Hotwells Cold Water Swimming Club’ captures perfectly what Sophie...
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Episode 2: Roma Agrawal
In the second episode of Inventive Podcast, Trevor meets award-winning structural engineer Roma Agrawal MBE - Mega Badass Engineer – that's what Roma says! She designed the foundations of London's iconic skyscraper The Shard and everything from train stations to footbridges. Roma's book 'Built'...
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Episode 1: Shrouk El-Attar
In the first episode of the brand-new Inventive Podcast series, Professor Trevor Cox meets Electronics Engineer Shrouk El-Attar, refugee and campaigner for LGBT rights, recently awarded the Institution of Engineering and Technology's Young Woman Engineer of 2021 for her work in femtech,...
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Introducing The Inventive Podcast
Welcome to Inventive, which is launching in June 2021. On Inventive you'll meet inspirational and diverse engineers whose ground-breaking work is making a difference. Inspired by the engineers and their engineering, you'll also hear tales by award-winning fiction writers. Hosted on Acast. See...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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 <a href="https://nustem.uk/" re
HOSTED BY
Trevor Cox
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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...
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Inventive Podcast is created and hosted by Trevor Cox.
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