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.
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' uncovers the stories behind iconic structures and her children's book 'How Was That Built?: The Stories Behind Awesome Structures' is available from September 2021. Roma's love of concrete influenced writer CM Taylor's story 'The Nightbuilder' featuring a mysterious Banksy-like character and colossal concrete structures that appear in the middle of the night.
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