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Fast Forward 50 - Nature inspired engineering

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Event
  • Session
  • Thursday, 06 October 2016
  • 14:6 - 14:6
  • Duration: 34 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Oct 2016
  • Location: NA, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of series Engfest and Part of event Engineering the Future Festival

About the session

Drawing lessons from nature to engineer innovative solutions to our grand challenges

What do we want our tomorrow to look like?

Fast Forward 50 will feature some of the world’s leading engineers and innovators who will discuss and explore how science and technology is predicted to develop over the next 50 years, how it will change our lives and the global challenges we face.

Join us on the 6 October to hear about the future of robotics and machine learning, future homes and cities, digital technology in the 21st Century, environmental sustainability, space, medicine, plus many more…

Keywords:
  • chemical energy
  • creativity
  • design
  • education
  • electrical energy
  • engineering
  • engineers
  • equilibrium
  • fuel cells
  • inclusive
  • innovation
  • interdisciplinary
  • nature
  • science
  • space

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    Marc-Olivier Coppens

    UCL, Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering

    Marc-Olivier Coppens is a Ramsay Memorial Professor and Head of Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL), where he also directs the ESPRC “Frontier Engineering” Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering, which includes researchers from chemical and biochemical engineering, materials, chemistry, computer science, architecture and beyond.Over the past 20 years, he has developed an approach called Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering (NICE) to seek solutions to engineering challenges. This approach seeks fundamental mechanisms underlying desirable properties in biological systems, like scalability, efficiency and robustness, and applies these to engineering design at all scales. Applications focus on resource efficiency (energy, water and materials), scalable manufacturing, novel functional materials and health.
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