Live podcast recording: The Design & Technology Association by the London Design Festival
Published 2nd September 2022
LIVE 'Designed for Life' Podcast recording: The Design & Technology Association, with Yewande Akinola, Engineer Designer & Innovator
DURING - London Design Festival
AT - The Victoria and Albert Museum
ON - 21 September 2022 FREE using this code GDF22Speaker when you register for the event
Book FREE live tickets for you and your year 12 and 13s to watch a conversation with Yewande Akinola, Engineer Designer & Innovator about her journey as a chartered engineer, love for design and creativity and her thoughts on:
- Becoming a global citizen to solve world problems?
- Sustainability and solving problems for the benefit of future generations
- Being a woman in the Engineering industry and the lack of gender balance
YEWANDE'S BIO
Engineering Designer & Innovator.
Yewande is a chartered engineer, innovator and speaker. Her engineering experience includes the design and construction, innovation and manufacture of buildings and systems in the built environment. She has worked on projects in the UK, Africa, the Middle East and East Asia and has been named the UK Young Woman Engineer of the Year by the Institution of Engineering & Technology. She has also been awarded the Exceptional Achiever Award from the Association for BAME Engineers and the Association of Consultancy and Engineering, U.K. (ACE). She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster. She is passionate about STEM communication and has presented Engineering programmes for Television. In the 2020 New Year Honours list, Yewande was awarded an MBE for services to engineering innovation and diversity in STEM.
She has recently been appointed the UK's Innovation agency (Innovate UK) Ambassador for Clean Growth and Infrastructure.
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