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Tag: Public Engagement

Guest blog: Reporting on the stories that matter

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Today’s guest blog comes from IChemE’s very own Adam Duckett, who is edits our magazine, The Chemical Engineer.

Name: Adam Duckett
Job: Editor, The Chemical Engineer
Joined IChemE: 2005

 

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“You edit a magazine about chemical engineering?” repeated the man fixing my washing machine, “Blimey, that sounds really boring!”

It’s refreshing to meet someone so willing to wear their heart on their sleeve, and of course all the more pleasing to have spent the next half hour proving him completely wrong. The truth is that chemical engineering touches almost every aspect of our lives, it’s just that so few of us realise it.

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Posted on 12/05/2016Author IChemE Blog ElfCategories Careers, Industry, Public, ResearchTags Adam Duckett, ChemEng blog, chemical engineering, chemical engineering matters, day in the life, editor, engagement, guest blog, IChemE, IChemE staff, Institution of Chemical Engineers, PARN, Public Engagement, tce, The Chemical EngineerLeave a comment on Guest blog: Reporting on the stories that matter
Guest Blog: ‘Stand Up and Speak Out’ for chemical engineering

Guest Blog: ‘Stand Up and Speak Out’ for chemical engineering

Two weeks ago, on 22 February 2016, IChemE invited chemical engineers to Stand Up and Speak Out for Chemical Engineering. Over 60 chemical engineers crowded in the basement room of The Albany pub on Great Portland Street, London, to discuss advocacy for the profession, how to get chemical engineering stories in the media, and Stand Up and Speak Out Logo RGBdiscuss the challenges and opportunities that face us when doing so.

The event welcomed a plethora of talent to its expert panel – and saw Jonathan Webb, BBC, Jason Palmer, The Economist, Colin Smith, Imperial College London, Ellie Chambers, British Science Association and Yasmin Ali, E-ON. As well as giving a traditional panel discussion, answering questions from the floor, the experts also got on their soapboxes (literally) and were given four minutes to give their own experiences of engineering and the media.

The evening ended with attendees pledging to ‘Stand Up and Speak Out’. All who pledged will become involved with the IChemE Media Envoy programme, which helps members to tell their stories through the media and give expert comment on current issues.

Quite a turn-out!
Quite a turn-out!

Today, Yasmin Ali – one of the evening’s expert panelists – gives her feedback on the event, and looks forward to the next steps for chemical engineering and public engagement.

Quote startIt took me four years of studying chemical engineering, then a few years of work, to realise the magnitude of our reliance on engineers. They beaver away quietly, meeting our daily living expectations and demands. Despite this, we moan and groan on the odd occasion that our train is late, if the internet connection slows down, or when the water from the washing machine in the apartment above decides to pour through the ceiling into the kitchen.

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Posted on 07/03/201622/03/2016Author IChemE Blog ElfCategories Careers, Industry, PublicTags Andrew Furlong, BBC, British Science Association, Colin Smith, discussion panel, Ellie Chambers, event, expert, guest blog, IChemE, IChemE London and South East Member Group, Imperial College london, Industry, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Jason Palmer, Jonathan Webb, media, media envoy, media outreach, press, Public Engagement, research, Stand Up and Speak Out, story-telling, The Albany, The Economist, Yasmin Ali1 Comment on Guest Blog: ‘Stand Up and Speak Out’ for chemical engineering
Using green energy to power Green Man (Day 248)

Using green energy to power Green Man (Day 248)

I am always impressed by the ingenuity of our chemical engineering community to find ways to communicate about our work, so when I was contact by Erik Engebretsen a member of a team of PhD students, lecturers and industrial partners based at UCL (University College London) about their public engagement work I was immediately interested.

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The team, cleverly called UCell, are based in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab (EIL), in the UCL Department of Chemical Engineering and are working on ways to produce electricity from hydrogen.

In 2011 the idea to start the initiative came from a suggestion by Ralph Clague and Ellen Dowell (the curator of Einstein’s Garden at the Green Man Festival) that it could be possible to power a small tent of electronics at Green Man using just green energy.

Ralph then began searching for UCL students interested in taking on the idea as a summer project, aiming to find a way to build a hydrogen cell system that could provide emission free power for Einstein’s garden.

With support from the EIL, Imperial College London and BOC the team succeeded in providing power at Green Man.

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Posted on 30/01/201522/01/2015Author Geoff MaitlandCategories Energy, Public, ResearchTags Chemeng365, chemical engineering, Erik Engebretsen, Geoff Maitland, Green Man Festival, Hydrogen fuel cell, IChemE, Public Engagement, Ralph Clague, UCell, UCL1 Comment on Using green energy to power Green Man (Day 248)
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