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.
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.
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 guest Ruth Amos turns interviewer, and we hear about the acoustical engineering done by Inventive's normal host Professor Trevor Cox.
Inventive Podcast is all about mixing fact and fiction, as it features groundbreaking engineers and brilliant writers. This episode features a story exploring unusual hearing from science fiction writer Stephen Cox. And yes, Trevor and Stephen are related. Stephen's story The Magic Flute draws on Trevor's Cadenza project, which aims to improve how music sounds on hearing aids.
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