Growing up in Nigeria, adults would quite often pose the question “What do you want to be when you grow up” to young children to get us thinking about our future careers. Common answers were medicine, law, teaching, accounting, engineering and banking. As we got older, Nigerian and international TV shows and movies gave usContinue reading “Engineering and the Media – A discussion on the Black Panther movie.”
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Inspiring young people into STEM careers
The challenges we face in the world today such as climate change, food security and sustainability have intensified the need to inspire the next generation of young people into the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The solutions to these challenges will be realised over decades of research and execution. The awareness and interestContinue reading “Inspiring young people into STEM careers”
Guidelines for preparing engineering reports
The main focus of our work as engineers is developing designs and executing them to solve the world’s greatest challenges. However, the reach of our engineering designs is highly dependent on our method of communication to the relevant audience. Whilst studying engineering, we may have been used to writing reports solely for lecturers and courseContinue reading “Guidelines for preparing engineering reports”