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Climate crisis? It’s time to make a difference!

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  • Duration: 19 mins
  • Publication date: 20 Jul 2021

Abstract

Join Ella Podmore, the IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year, to take a look at how engineers are helping to tackle some of the world’s biggest environmental challenges.  Developed for the Big Bang Digital 2021 this session aims to get young people thinking about how they can make a difference and contribute to saving our planet.  Help them get an insight into the exciting range of green careers in engineering and inspire them to find their own personal mission towards a more sustainable planet.  

Keywords:
  • Big Bang Digital 2021
  • IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year
  • ella podmore
  • ella podmore engineer
  • ella podmore mclaren
  • world’s biggest environmental challenges

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    Ella Podmore

    Ella Podmore is a Materials Engineer for luxury British supercar maker McLaren Automotive. She is responsible for all the material investigations in the business across all development phases of the company’s supercars; from concept drawings, all the way to customers in the field. Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further. As the leading STEM ambassador for McLaren, Ella helped launch the recent competition McLaren Automotive ran with BBC Blue Peter asking children to design their ‘supercar of the future’ and was one of Autocar’s Top 10 ‘Rising Star’ in 2019.
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