There are numerous challenges that our world is facing. Poverty, global warming, and pandemic to name a few. Various international forums aim to resolve these challenges and find solutions which are effective on a large scale. However, individual focus towards damaging effects of these challenges is

Our focus has been on engineering education; awareness and interest in engineering should be encouraged early in a young person’s education. We need to demonstrate the breadth and impact of engineering as a solution for the future, to those who may miss opportunities otherwise. Only 1/5th of A-level

Inspired by our diverse academic interests, experiences, and contexts, we are certain that the engineering curriculum lacks interdisciplinary group projects. This denies engineering students an opportunity to collaborate with students from different fields of study to develop inclusive, user-driven,

Engineering education has always been vague and inconsistent. Especially today, engineering practice, benefits and especially consequences are rarely discussed in educational institutions worldwide. The lack of reliable and factual information sources that are open for debate for young people are ra

A creative Engineer? Sounds like a crazy oxymoron… no longer Engineering is in the top ten courses in terms of drop out rates. Why is this? Well statistics show that many engineers haven’t been given the creative opportunities to tackle and deal with real life problems and applications in engineeri

Our idea is combatting the issue of sexism in STEM subjects. Being females going into this industry we have all experienced first-hand the demotivating discrimination that occurs day to day in our field. We aim to target the existing issue of products often being tailored towards the male demographi

Our proposal revolves around the idea of creating a better situation for the energy aspect of both the producer and the user. We plan to reduce the overall energy usage by the customers, therefore also reducing energy usage and peak loads on the utility companies’ generators. The first step is crea

Hope you are all beginning to explore the brief and framing of the Designathon. How are you getting on? Why not check on Netflix's documentaries to ease you into analysing the context? There is a good one 'Brave New World' that is about the water crisis, and highlights the role of engineering techn

Throughout history, the ethics in engineering practice have been tested with the same mistakes resurfacing. Leadership roles taking over the decisions of qualified engineers. These engineers then have the burden of lives lost on their shoulders, and the families affected get no closure nor justice.

In the design brief, we shared examples of a platforms that amplify existing ideas to improve engineering. Here are some more. 1. Infrachallenge 2020, here is the winners from their 2020 call out. https://infrachallenge.gihub.org/infrachallenge-2020/ (scroll to the bottom) 2. Another interesting

The notion of social responsibility is critical to the future of engineering. For this reason, we are developing a project aiming to make the next generation of engineers understand the importance of community. Our aim is to partner university engineers with local charities in order to develop desig

Engineering undergraduates do not receive enough content on sustainability in engineering, and it is usually treated as an afterthought rather than an integral part. Furthermore, sustainable engineering education is often aimed at civil engineering students, so students from other disciplines neglec

Our design brief attempts to tackle the gender bias in engineering. We feel that through having more gender diversity in the engineering workforce, more products might be produced or designed that help tackle the issues faced by women all over the world, such as period poverty, for example. Through

D21-07 Inspired by the societal shift towards digital learning and the positive evidence for educational, game-like apps, our pitch is for a mobile-game that makes engineering engaging, accessible, and part of the daily routine of people from all backgrounds - particularly during their crucial schoo

One of the biggest problems that engineers face is how to make their products successful and sustainable. Ethical engineering entrepreneurs lack the opportunities to grow, while engineering in practice requires multidisciplinary change. Entrepreneurship We propose a new start-up incubator, to amplif

The ethics of an engineering company and how it is run is very important, however, this is not always in the managements’ best interest. It is more likely that an employee will notice any issues with the inner workings of the company, for example, the way in which things are managed, rather than the

Problem A lack of empathy is leading towards a money focused society where engineers design and construct with the end goal of being wealthy and successful without focusing on the communities and our planet (5). This mindset has created enormous divides within our society and is negatively influenc

We came up with a couple of ideas to incentivize companies to work for people and our planet. - having a international standard for putting the CO2 footprint on all products (like calories on food) - Auditing companies for sustainability, almost like an award system (think TEF but for companies), it