Engineering education has always been vague and inconsistent. Especially today, engineering practice, benefits and especially consequences are rarely discussed in educational institutions worldwide. The lack of reliable and factual information sources that are open for debate for young people are rare.
Our solution is an interactive platform, available to everyone, including students. This platform includes aspects such as engineering and environment-related news sources and articles, games, panels, chat-rooms for debate and Q&As.
This platform will act as a safe space and will raise awareness for the problems man-kind causes to the environment. It provides information about companies & technologies which are working to reduce the damage caused by the engineering industry, discussing ideas and proposals based on articles to inspire future generations of engineers.
To increase engagement of younger users, there will be a game, based on the doughnut economic model, enabling you to impersonate an engineering figure, making choices about balancing the dynamic short and long-term consequences of their actions on the world. You can interact with other users to enable decisions to be made together, replicating the reality of engineering for the end-user.
It will provide up-to-date engineering news sources including recent inventions and sustainable design strategies, allowing students to interact, discuss and debate their favourite articles with their peers.
The platform will be monitored by a person/algorithm to flag potential abusive activity according to standard ethical practices, to keep users safe and encourage free speech. It could be distributed across multiple social media to pages.
Our aim is to raise aspirations and challenge stereotypical thinking, making career exploration exciting. Indirectly, underdeveloped countries can be helped as the information, once globally distributed, could be the spark that ignites a new project in an underdeveloped country. Moreover, it could be an outreach platform for NGO chapters worldwide, collaborating on projects.
References:
https://www.scu.edu/ethics-in-technology-practice/ethical-toolkit/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/the-new-economic-model-that-could-end-inequality-doughnut/
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That's great!! Thank you!
Hey hello yep, 3:30pm works for me. Are you guys free today? Email me at: BanoA@cardiff.ac.uk
Thank you!! Would you guys be up for a meeting with our group? (Saturday?). We are both working on making engineering more accessible and responsible, so I think if we could work togther or reinforce each others ideas that would be great!!
Hello guys, team D21-10 here! We are working on a similar think. Would you guys be interested in teaming with us?
Sure let us do it there is not much time remaining for you to update your proposal, do you want to send an invitation pls?
Hello Team 13, this is Nasser and I was asked to provide some feedback to your proposal. Sorry bit late in the week but I was assigned t this few hours ago. Interesting proposal and the simplicity is an advantage. Few things you may want to consider:
1- Clarify the main customer of your product. Whilst good to have it open for everyone, who is your main audience? if Engineering students then state it then how will such students apply what they learn.
2- Awareness is paramount but how will such knowledge translate into the design and construction of projects?
3- How will this forum be sustained on the long term, who will manage it and importantly arbitrate the level and type of information flowing through it?
4- Typical practicalities; how will it be funded; capital funds to establish and ongoing maintenance funds?
5- How will clients and end users be engaged or input into this? the client pays the bills and should be positively engaged in such forums. End users are the ones who are impacted the most and on long term so their views are valuable.
I am happy to chat with the team online via Zoom or some such if you wish, I believe the deadline is approaching fast so not much time left. Let me know, I also may add further comments as I think of them. Good luck.
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