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S5E11 Season 5 Episode 11: Improving the World Through Expert Engagement - A Review of the IMechE's Year of Events & What's in Store for 2025.
One of the many ways members benefit from being part of the IMechE is through its events and webinar programme. Conferences, lectures and webinars (often generated by the divisions and groups) help…
S5E50 Season 5 Episode 10: Augmenting Our Workplace - How Virtual Engineering & Immersive Simulation is Revolutionising Our Industry
Virtual engineering is a process by which engineers can combine the world around them with a digitally-generated environment, allowing them to visualize an object or location from a totally new…
S5E9 Season 5 Special Episode: 9% Is Not Enough - Exploring the Intersectionality of Race & Careers in Engineering during BHM
This episode features a conversation that explores the intersectionality of race, careers in engineering and joy. These are big topics on their own and become highly amplified and sometimes harmful,…
S5E8 Season 5 Episode 8: Cobots - How Service Robotics is Providing a Helping Hand
The idea of service robots is no longer science fiction, indeed if the launch of the Optimus bot on the 14th October is anything to go by, for a cool $20,000 you will soon be able to have a…
S5E7 Season 5 Episode 7: Mechanics of the Microscopic - Engineering in Quantum Technologies
The world of quantum technology is not some science fiction flight of fantasy, it is an exciting field of science which is turning into a rapidly growing engineering sector. You might not know it but…
S5E6 Season 5 Episode 6: Keeping Your Cool - How Engineering is Preparing Athletes for a Hot Olympics
As the Olympics gets underway, summertime temperatures will only continue to get hotter, giving athletes additional challenges as they seek to bring home medals. With Paris 2024 taking place in the…
S5E5 Season 5 Episode 5: Enhanced by Engineering - Celebrating 105 Years of Pioneering Women Engineers
Sunday – 23rd June – marks the 11th annual International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), and as always we are celebrating the amazing contribution women engineers make, not just to the profession…
S5E4 Season 5 Episode 4: Future-proofing the Profession - Talent Retention & Attraction in the Engineering Industry
In 2023 EngineeringUK commissioned a report focusing on the demand for engineers and the skills they would need in the coming decade. The report identified there were approximately 6.1 million…
S5E3 Season 5 Episode 3: Digitising Transport - The Rise of Mobility as a Service
With the recent acceleration of technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, and big data – people and services have become more connected than ever. In response to this increasing availability of data…
S5E2 Season 5 Episode 2: Potential Energy - Management & Infrastructure of Clean Energy Sources
This week (6th and 7th March) sees the IMechE host its fourth hydrogen economy conference in London. The international event will focus on infrastructure challenges as well as the storage and…
S5E1 Season 5 Episode 1: Going Beyond - The World of Metamaterials & How Their Extraordinary Properties are Set to Change Engineering
The ever-present challenges of climate change, over-reliance on limited resources and a global demand for new technologies, is pushing the engineering community to find more innovative ways to design…
S4E9 Season 4 Episode 9: Rising Demand - Addressing the Energy Needs of Africa, Asia & the Middle East
The implementation of net zero initiatives across the globe is at the forefront of most governments and leadership authorities' strategic policies, none-more-so than China and India; two of the…
S4E8 Season 4 Episode 8: Adapting to Heat - Preparing Industry for Climate Extremes
“Adapting industries to, and preparing them for, a warmer world will be essential for the future successful functioning of societies of all nations.” Said Dr Tim Fox, co author of the IMechE’s latest…
S4E7 Season 4 Episode 7: Paying It Forward - Leading the Institution Through Member Volunteering
During the first week of September the Institution hosted Volunteer Week. A back-to-back week of committee meetings and networking, enabling members from all over the world to take part in a wide…
S4E6 Season 4 Live Episode - Formula Student 2023
Impulse to Innovation was back at Formula Student this year to celebrate the competition's 25th Anniversary. The episode went out live on the 20th July and this podcast is an edited version of that…
S4E5 Season 4 Episode 5: Levelling Up - What to Expect from the Introduction of T-Levels
The T-level was initially mooted back in 2017 by the British government as a new, unified technical qualification which would replace the BTEC and simplify vocational education routes. After several…
S4E4 Season 4 Episode 4: Leading from the Front - Equipping Young Engineers with Essential Management Skills
Leading and managing people, projects, or teams, requires more than a high degree of technical knowledge. Experience and education provide the foundation for success in an engineering manager's role,…
S4E31 Season 4 Special Episode: Augmenting Human Cognition – The Growth of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
The idea of 'a machine that thinks' dates back to ancient Greece times, but since the advent of electronic computing and the overwhelming amount of data generated by the human race in the last 50…
S4E3 Season 4 Episode 3:The Hydrogen Economy - A New Fuel for a Net Zero Future
The UK’s first-ever Hydrogen Strategy was released in 2021 and was revised last year, as part of the Government’s commitment to a green industrial revolution. The strategy lays the foundation for…
S4E2 Season 4 Episode 2: Manufacturing a New Future - Resilience in the Face of Unprecedented Challenges
Its safe to say that the engineering community has been under a great deal of strain over the last few years, with socio-economic and political upheaval across the global. None-more-so than the…
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