{"id":1164,"date":"2019-03-21T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:53:11","slug":"women-like-me-engineer-takes-part-in-im-an-engineer-get-me-out-of-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me-engineer-takes-part-in-im-an-engineer-get-me-out-of-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Like Me engineer takes part in I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me\">Women Like Me<\/a> participant and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atkinsglobal.com\/en-gb\">Atkins<\/a> engineer Charlene Chung took part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/imanengineer.org.uk\/\">I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here<\/a> competition earlier this month, answering children&#8217;s questions about engineering in the &#8216;Milligram Zone&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imanengineer.org.uk\/\">I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here<\/a> is an online event where school students connect with engineers. It\u2019s an <strong>X Factor-style competition<\/strong>\u00a0between engineers, where the students are the judges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students challenge the engineers over fast-paced online live\u00a0<strong>CHAT<\/strong>s. They\u00a0<strong>ASK<\/strong>\u00a0the engineers anything they want, and\u00a0<strong>VOTE<\/strong>\u00a0for their favourite engineer to win a prize of \u00a3500 to communicate their work with the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/milligramm19.imanengineer.org.uk\/\">Milligram Zone<\/a> was a general engineering zone, where children could meet six engineers working in different areas. In her <a href=\"https:\/\/milligramm19.imanengineer.org.uk\/profile\/charlenechung\/\">profile<\/a>, Charlene described her work as a hydraulic modeller:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I construct and investigate hydraulic models of sewer systems. Ever thought about what happens to the dirty water flushed from toilets, down from the kitchen, bathroom and utility rooms? Well I deal with that! I use computer and mapping software to investigate flood risk and flood mechanisms, ensuring that the sewer systems are fit for purpose and suitable for future growth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She reached hundreds of children and answered many questions about engineering &#8211; well done Charlene!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Women Like Me participant and Atkins engineer Charlene Chung took part in the I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here competition earlier this month, answering children&#8217;s questions about engineering in the &#8216;Milligram Zone&#8217;. I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here is an online event where school students connect with engineers. It\u2019s an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me-engineer-takes-part-in-im-an-engineer-get-me-out-of-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women Like Me engineer takes part in I&#8217;m an Engineer, Get me out of here&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,24,18,22],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-outreach","category-schools","category-women-like-me","tag-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}