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💬“Inside my nails there is a computer chip which allows me to pay for things.” 💸 Eneni is improving lives with robotics. After completing a degree in engineering, a Master’s in data science, and working at Continental as a computer vision engineer, Eneni is now a freelance robotics engineer and Founder of the Techover Foundation. Her mission is to inspire the next generation into #STEM. #EngineerBetterLives #BacktoSchool #STEM #STEMResource 🤖 📽️Hear more from Eneni in this 30 sec film:
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Meet Professor Frances Arnold, mechanical and chemical engineer. ⚗️ Professor Frances Arnold won the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 2018 (the first American woman to do so) for her work in evolving enzymes in making fuels, chemicals and materials less harmful to the environment. The ‘new and improved' enzymes are used today to make a variety of products such as laundry detergents, biofuels, medicine and non-toxic alternatives to pesticides. ♻️ Find out more about Professor Frances Arnold and other real-life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #EngineeringHero #EngineeringBetterLives #ChemicalEngineering #Environment
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Meet Nanxi Liu, engineer and entrepreneur. 💭 By the age of 22 Nanxi co-founded Nanoly Bioscience, a venture-backed biotech company that developed technology that enables vaccines to be transported without refrigeration. 💉 One of Forbes’ 30 under 30, Nanxi Liu was also CEO and Co-Founder of Enplug, a leading digital signage company. She is now Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Blaze Technology, a platform that enables people to build software with no code. ⌨️ Find out more about Nanxi and other real-life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #EngineeringHero #EngineeringBetterLives #Technology
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Meet Dame Stephanie Shirley, a pioneering tech entrepreneur, philanthropist and icon for gender equality. 💻 After coming to the UK as a child refugee, escaping pre-World War Two Germany on the Kindertransport, Stephanie was driven to justify her survival. She founded an IT company in 1962 on her living room table, with just £6 in capital. Under her assumed name of ‘Steve’, she transformed this into a multi-billion pound company, while changing the perception of women in tech. 📈 She has given away most of her wealth to the autism charities she set up to support her late son Giles. She continues to share her expertise to transform the lives of others. Find out more about Dame Stephanie Shirley and other real-life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #EngineeringHero #EngineeringBetterLives #Technology
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Meet Professor Sue Black, Professor of computer science and technology. 💻 After dropping out of school due to family challenges, fleeing a violent home life and becoming a single mother of three, Sue defied the odds. Sue rose to the highest ranks in academia and founded multiple industry-leading initiatives to help women get into technology roles. ⌨️ She is now a Professor of Computer Science at Durham University, where the number of female engineering students has doubled. 🎓 Find out more about Professor Sue Black and other real-life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #EngineeringHero #EngineeringBetterLives #ComputerScience
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Today is the #InternationalDayofEducation, a great time to head over to our website to find your own path into a future career in engineering. 🖱️ There are lots of different educational routes available into a career in engineering, such as an apprenticeship, vocational courses, degree apprenticeships, T levels or degrees. 💭 Head over to the ‘Become an Engineer’ page on our website to find out which route into engineering would suit you best: #Unesco #EngineerBetterLives
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Meet Tim Peake, previously an astronaut at the European Space Agency. 🚀 After a year-long selection process, Tim was accepted from 9,000 applicants as one of six new astronauts to join the European Space Agency. This led Tim to go on a six-month space mission and become a spokesperson for astronauts worldwide. 🌍 During Tim’s mission, his education outreach programme reached over two million schoolchildren and continues to inspire students today. 🌟 Find out more about Tim and other real life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #EngineeringHero #Astronaut #Space
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Meet Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox and the first African American Woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company. 📈 ‘You could not run this world without engineers’. After joining Xerox as an engineering intern in 1980, Ursula worked her way up to becoming CEO in 2009. President Barack Obama asked her to lead the White House National STEM program, to improve student participation and performance. 📘 Ursula also founded Change the Equation, a not-for-profit programme aiming to boost STEM education for young people, and remains an active campaigner for diversity in boardrooms. 📢 Find out more about Ursula and other real life engineers to see what a career in engineering could look like for you. Visit our website: #Engineering #EngineeringBetterLives #Fortune500Company
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Meet Ellis, a software engineer and the founder and CEO of Neumind, an app that helps brain injury survivors. 📱 Ten years ago, Ellis’s identical twin brother, Luke, suffered a devastating brain injury. During his brother’s recovery, he saw firsthand how little support was available and how difficult the journey would be. This led Ellis to explore ways his engineering skills could help, resulting in a new app, Neumind, tailored to meet the needs of brain injury survivors. 🧠 After completing a master's degree, Ellis did a PhD at Oxford in Engineering. 🎓 Since his recovery, Luke is now training to become a Paralympic athlete.🏅 Find out more about engineering careers: #EngineerBetterLives #SoftwareEngineer
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Do you want to work on projects that will help people in the future? Consider a career in engineering! 💭 Meet Chris, mechanical engineer at Imperial College London. Chris develops robotic exoskeletons, combining his passion for cutting-edge technology with his desire to help people. 🤖 Chris completed a degree in mechanical engineering, and now his robotic prosthetic limbs help change the lives of amputees and people recovering from strokes. 🏥 🖱️ Find out more about what Chris does and what drew him to engineering by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #Robotics
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A career in healthcare can positively impact people's lives. Meet an engineer who is doing just that. George is the founder of Medisieve, a medical device used for filtering and cleaning blood by removing pathogens. It was developed to treat illnesses like malaria, sepsis and blood cancers.💉 🎓 George studied nanotechnology and biochemical engineering at UCL. Engineers like George are working to better people’s health by developing new medical equipment.🌎 💭 Discover more about his journey: #EngineerBetterLives
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Do you want to work with cars in the future? Consider a career in engineering! 🏎️ Meet Todd, automotive body engineer at Aston Martin. Todd works with some of the finest cars in the world, he ensures body panels on the Aston Martins are high quality. ✨ When Todd was younger, he didn’t realise he could turn his interest in cars into a career. It wasn’t until he was invited to work experience, after meeting someone from Aston Martin at a careers fair, that he realised his dream could become a reality. 💭 Todd completed an #apprenticeship with a BTEC level 3 in manufacturing engineering and an NVQ level 3 in engineering. ✍️ 🔗 Find out more about Todd’s career journey and what he does day to day. #Engineering #AutomotiveEngineering #AutomotiveBodyEngineer
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Meet Ala, a civil engineer working on infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, High Speed 2, and Tideway. 🚆 Ala was fascinated by transport, tunnels and large infrastructure from an early age. Now, she applies her creativity and passion for vast buildings and structures in her role as a civil engineer at Tideway. 🚇 Ala completed a Structural Engineering degree at university, followed by a Master’s degree in Transport Planning. Find out more about engineering and the type of projects you could work on as an engineer by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #Transport #CivilEngineer
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Meet Vinita, space operations engineer and project manager at Mission Control. 🛰️ Vinita designed a spacesuit and prepared a new type of robotic arm to help astronauts working on the International Space Station. 🚀 “One of my favourite space projects so far was working on a space suit design to protect astronauts from muscle and bone loss in space.” 🌌 Vinita completed a degree in mathematics and physics with astrophysics, followed by a master’s degree in space management through the Space Studies Programme at the International Space University. Find out more about Vinita and she became a space operations engineer by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #Space #Astronaut
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Meet Eneni, a robotics engineer. After completing a degree in engineering, a master’s in data science, and working at Continental as a computer vision engineer, Eneni is now a freelance robotics engineer and Founder of the Techover Foundation. 🤖 Eneni describes herself as both a technical and creative person, so engineering is the perfect career choice. “The most rewarding thing about being a robotics engineer is the fact it lets my creativity shine.” ✨ Eneni organises STEM outreach programmes to help encourage more girls into engineering. 🙋 Find out more about what inspired Eneni to become an engineer and what her day to day looks like by visiting our website. #Robotics #Tech #RoboticsEngineer
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The Christmas holidays are a great time to discover new films🎄 But did you know engineers play a role in filmmaking? Meet engineer Sonya, who manages a team of visual effects artists. She's worked on films such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Beauty and the Beast, and Avatar. 👀 Discover more about careers in engineering: #Engineering #Film #Gaming
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Meet Joshua, a structural engineer with Search and Rescue Aid. Joshua models the impact that natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and floods have on buildings. In his free time, Joshua trains as a volunteer search and rescue engineer and has been deployed to support in the aftermath of disasters around the globe. ⛑️ Joshua became an engineer by completing a master’s degree in engineering science at university. 🎓 Find out more about Joshua and how you can become an engineer by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #StructuralEngineer
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Meet Olivia, chemical engineer at Resource Futures. Olivia’s work reduces the impact we have on the environment by reducing waste and increasing recycling.♻️ Olivia became an engineer by completing a degree in chemical engineering. Olivia currently works out in the field collecting data around people habits around waste, this data is then used to reduce waste and increase recycling. Before this, Olivia had a role in the beauty sector sourcing and creating new fragrances with companies like Lush. ✨ If you are interested in reducing our impact on the environment, a career in engineering could be your calling! 🌍 Find out more about Olivia and how you could become an engineer by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #Environment
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Meet Harvey, a building services apprentice engineer. Harvey helps businesses reduce the amount of carbon they emit so they can hit their net zero targets. ♻️ During his #apprenticeship at Vital Energi, Harvey spent time in different departments to gain a good understanding of how projects are delivered. 💭 Find out more about why Harvey chose an apprenticeship and how he got into engineering by visiting our website. #EngineerBetterLives #Apprentice
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Meet Enass, chemical engineer. Enass co-founded an engineering company developing new ways to store clean energy. ⚡ Enass studied applied chemistry, then did a PhD at Cambridge University before setting up H2Go Power. Enass works on methods to safely store large amounts of hydrogen gas in a small space. The renewable energy created can help hospitals in developing countries keep the lights on. 💡 ♻️ Discover how you can become an engineer like Enass and find out what routes are available to you by visiting our website: #EngineerBetterLives #ChemicalEngineer
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Meet Tanda, a software engineer at ASOS. Tanda builds technology that helps people find the clothes they're searching for. 🛍️ Tanda completed a degree in Computer Science and Multimedia. She also did a Master's in Computing and Internet Systems. As part of her role, Tanda ensures webpages don’t crash during busy periods like Black Friday, with millions of customers accessing the website using their phones. 📱 Discover your path to becoming a software engineer, what a typical day looks like and the average starting salary on our website: #SoftwareEngineer
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