Episode #44
Reframing engineering in society with Kelsie Clarke
Reframing engineering in society with Kelsie Clarke
Welcome to Podcast #Ep44
“I didn’t really know what engineering was though, I didn’t have any engineers in my family”
“my experience growing up was I didn’t know what engineering was”
“the growth that I experienced over the three weeks in Antarctica was just incredible”
“at the heart of engineering we exist to better the lives of people, but that often is diluted in what we do.”
“these people were pioneering methods of building and other things and they were celebrated within the community.”
“…why aren’t they thinking of it in terms of ‘I can save lives with this, I can better society, I can make a good contribution to the world’.”
“I think we can be more effective as a profession if we do connect to that purpose, that end goal, the people that we’re serving”
“When I was in Antarctica on Homeward Bound, something that we learned about leadership was you can’t lead others until you lead yourself, and you know yourself.”
“I think in the future, engineers will need to play a critical role in designing for the unknown or for adaptive situations. And I think understanding that end user, understanding the purpose will be critical in, in doing that.”
“engineering is a way that you can change the lives of people and really make a positive difference to the world”
An engineering item for discussion… Kelsie struggled to identify a single item. “So much of it is cool”. When in Europe, she realised that every bridge was designed slightly differently. “I think that’s something in engineering that impresses me, with the same mass, the same calculations and everything, you can design so many different things”
An engineer to admire… Emily Warren Reobling was such an incredible and inspiring person. Her husband was a civil engineer who built the Brooklyn Bridge, and when he became very ill so stepped up and ran the project in his stead.
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