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Building a resilient future
Meet Divya and find out more about how engineers are helping to future proof our cities and towns.
Meet Divya and find out more about how engineers are helping to future proof our cities and towns.
Meet Elaine! Elaine works for Steer, analysing how to make the most out of electric vehicles and the infrastructure needed to power them.
Meet Leon, an apprentice helping to connect communities with his work on the HS2 trainline
Ian Rawlings has to use all his engineering experience to keep trains moving on the London Underground as well as updating the trains, tracks and signalling systems at the same time - a difficult, important and rewarding job!
Chris Gosling joined McLaren's graduate programme four years ago and now has a big input on the engineering of super-fast cars like the one in this video!
Cars and road vehicles are responsible for almost a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK in 2012 and Steve Large hopes to make a dent in this figure working as an engineer to create electric car charging points.
10 million car journeys, half a million cycle rides and 6 million bus trips every day - Kamlah Kew tells us about the challenges of traffic control engineering for London!
Kimberley is a graduate at vehicle engineering, test and development company MIRA, keeping drivers safe on the roads through crash barrier testing and more.
Jennie's watching you... to help keep you safe on the roads! She's an apprentice traffic maintenance engineer at Transport for London watching over London's traffic lights, signposts and junctions to keep everyone safe as they drive to work!
There were 1.65 billion train journeys made over the last year - that's a lot of passengers! And they all need to arrive safely and on-time, which needs a lot of engineering work behind-the-scenes.
Nazia Ali is a graduate working in the Body Engineering department at Jaguar Land Rover. She's part of the team behind the distinctive shape of their vehicles, as well as the less obvious, but equally important things that go on inside the cars!
How my first eleven years in engineering helped me see the world and contribute to helping it.
"It’s only when people start asking me about my role that they appreciate how interesting and challenging my job is" says Network Rail engineer Louise Bungay
Let’s get one thing straight, I am passionate about engineering – like really passionate, to the point that family members have been worried about how excited I get looking at the underside of a bridge
Stephanie Alexander talks about how she is encouraging diversity in engineering and why it is so important.
Lead Signalling Power Engineer on the UK Rail network, Abdul Rehman, tells us about his varied working day and how his Electronic Engineer mother was a career inspiration.
Maria Ferreira is a Civil Engineer at DP World London Gateway, a brand new port facility. She tells us how negotiation is a useful skill to keep things running!
Imogen is an apprentice working on roads and rails, making sure the materials they are built of are still up to scratch.
About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and engineers like Martin Chan help to create ways of travelling across it. From transporting products to different countries, to protecting the seas and helping get energy from under the sea-bed, Martin helps Rolls-Royce create the propellers, boats or products their customers need.
Rollercoasters are an adrenaline rush, but did you know that it's engineers putting the thrills and chills into your favourite rides?