Podcast | Role engineering has to play in bettering society
The latest episode of The Engineers Collective is out now.
Focusing on ethical engineering, The Engineers Collective welcomes Engineers Without Borders UK head of engineering Emma Crichton to the podcast.
Crichton explains how her experience of studying for an engineering degree led her to question the lack of importance given to the ethical side of engineering.
She explains how engineers can use their skills to benefit the whole of society and stresses how the importance of ethics in engineering needs to be better understood.
Crichton is a chartered civil engineer with six years’ experience in the Water industry in Scotland. She has worked on a variety of projects and has consistently believed in the importance of collaboration, impactful partnerships and the role engineering has to play in bettering our society.
Podcast | Making carbon net zero as common nature as health and safety
The latest episode of The Engineers Collective looks at the regional challenge of delivering carbon net zero at a regional level and how the mindset of engineers needs to change in order to meet government targets.
Joining NCE editor Claire Smith and reporter Catherine Kennedy special guest Waterman regional director for the Midlands Ruth Jeffs talks about what she has learned about carbon net zero through her day to day job, as well as her role as an Association of Consultancy and Engineering Board Director. Ruth has also been chair of the Association of Consultancy and Engineering Midlands group since 2017, which has given her real insight into the regional implications of carbon net zero and how what works for one region doesn’t always fit another.
Bringing in the new year, the first episode of 2021 explores the world of systems engineering after the recent ICE report on the topic.
NCE editor Claire Smith is joined by Amey principal engineering manager Matt Gibson and Bentley Systems senior director of progressive assurance systems Chris Rolison on the podcast.
The three explore questions such as: What is systems engineering? What benefits will it bring to civil engineering projects and the engineers working on them? And what are the challenges involved in adopting this kind of approach?
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According to Ilchi Lee’s vision, his ‘Earth Village’ in Kerikeri would serve as a hub to unite 100 million people or ‘Earth Citizens’, unshackled from any sense of nationality or geographic boundaries to bring about world peace.
On the first day of the festival, just before sundown on a late summer’s evening, the Earth Citizens stood together in a public park, holding wands to their belly buttons. It was 2017, and Kerikeri in the Far North had been chosen to hold the “First Annual Earth Citizens’ Peace Festival”. The stated aim of the festival: Triggering the greatest change in human history, ultimately bringing about world peace.
Juno Beach: Canada s Bloody Sacrifice on D-Day
It is well known that the deadliest of the five invasion beaches on D-Day was Omaha, where the Americans suffered heavy casualties. But what is not so well known is that the next deadliest beach was Juno.
Here s What You Need to Know: Casualties sustained on Juno beach alone totaled 1,204 Canadian and British soldiers.
Most students of World War II know that there were five invasion beaches included in Operation Overlord, the invasion of northwestern Europe, on June 6, 1944. There are numerous writings concerning Omaha Beach, where the 1st and 29th U.S. Infantry Divisions suffered heavily at the hands of the German defenders. The successful landings by the 4th U.S. Infantry Division at Utah Beach are also well covered. But far less has been written about the other North American beachhead that day, Juno Beach, which was assigned to the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and the 2nd Canadian Armored Brigade.