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  • Tuesday, 17 October 2017
  • 14:17 - 14:17
  • Duration: 30 mins
  • Publication date: 27 Oct 2017
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Engfest 2.0 2017

About the session

MARK MIODOWNIK, Author of the bestselling Stuff Matters and presenter of shows including Materials and Chef vs. Science.

Your chance to encounter the future of engineering. Which technologies will become important as we move through the 21st Century?

Join us for a one-day event that will shine a light on ideas that have the potential to disrupt and change the way we do things, through a series of innovative and insightful talks.

Keywords:
  • 3D printing asphalt
  • DNA
  • Engfest 2.0
  • asphalt
  • cells
  • cities
  • concrete
  • drone
  • engineer
  • engineering
  • engineers
  • future cities
  • robots
  • science
  • smart phone
  • tissue
  • transformative healthcare technologies

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    Mark Miodownik

    Author of the bestselling Stuff Matters and presenter of shows including Materials and Chef vs. ScienceProfessor of Materials and Society, UCLMark is a materials engineer and Professor of Materials and Society at UCL where he teaches and runs a research group.Mark received his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University, and has worked as a materials scientist in the USA, Ireland and the UK.For more than ten years he has championed materials research that links the arts and humanities to medicine, engineering and materials science.This culminated in the establishment of the UCL Institute of Making where he is Director and runs the research programme. His current research interests are animate materials, innovative manufacturing, and sensoaesthetic materials.
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