{"id":1995,"date":"2020-07-02T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T09:10:07","slug":"inspired-into-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/inspired-into-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired into Engineering!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UWE engineering students, alumni and staff have recorded home-videos to inspire children into engineering. We&#8217;ll be sharing some of these videos in the next couple of weeks, and first up are two Aerospace Engineering students &#8211; Hannah and Timothy &#8211; who share their enthusiasm for the profession as well as what first sparked their interest in engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hannah Gray<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Engineering Career Stories \u2013 UWE Student Hannah Gray\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vAic6TnXDKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Hannah just graduated (2020) with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering from UWE Bristol and<\/em> <em>explains for a young audience what engineering is and how she got into it. She gives insight into how creativity lends itself to designing solutions to problems \u2013 the essence of engineering! Listen to find out why Hannah thinks anyone can be an engineer<\/em> <em>and how she thinks engineers can help tackle the climate crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Timothy Hampl<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Engineering Career Stories - UWE Student Timothy Hampl\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUh_wiCc558?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Inspired&nbsp;by space flight as a child, Tim shares how he considered becoming a pilot but decided that being an engineer gave him scope to do something even cooler \u2013 contribute to the evolution of flight technology! He explains how he\u2019s using computers to design and test out aircraft components and advises kids to pursue what they love.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are you a UWE engineering student, alumni or staff and have a <strong>story you&#8217;d like to share<\/strong>? Please get in touch with me at louisa.cockbill@uwe.ac.uk to get your own home-video featured and shared to inspire the next generation of engineers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UWE engineering students, alumni and staff have recorded home-videos to inspire children into engineering. We&#8217;ll be sharing some of these videos in the next couple of weeks, and first up are two Aerospace Engineering students &#8211; Hannah and Timothy &#8211; who share their enthusiasm for the profession as well as what first sparked their interest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/inspired-into-engineering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inspired into Engineering!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach","category-schools","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","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=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}