Penetrate design jargon, succeed as a hardware startup, solve the water crisis and understand the neuroscience of innovation. This is our roundup of everything useful and interesting in engineering for global development information according to the past two weeks on Twitter.
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“show me another industry when young, you can contribute to change world for the better” via @telegraph soa.li/ylwLl7g #engineers
— Lisa Hancox (@LisaMHancox) March 18, 2013
The particle physicist Brian Cox talked up the importance of engineering in the lead-up to the announcement of the winners of the £1m Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize. Announced March 18th, the winners are five pioneers of Internet technology, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who helped develop the World Wide Web, Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, who created data transmission protocols, Marc Andreessen, who invented Mosaic, the first main browser for the internet, and Louis Pouzin, who established how data should be labelled.
Expected some snark here, but it’s actually straightforward RT @elise215: A Good Design Glossary to Decode the Jargon bit.ly/YpMipT
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 21, 2013
A (surprisingly) straight-forward and useful guide to the jargon used in design fields.
Evidence of early prototyping. Pendulums & pieces of mechanisms are strewn around the office twitpic.com/cd70uw #E4CWebinars
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 21, 2013
This was one of the highlights that we tweeted during the E4C Webinar, The art of being a hardware startup, presented by Uncharted Play.
Embrace uncertainty & leave room for play – design advice from Hailey O’Connor / Uncharted Play #E4CWebinars
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 21, 2013
This webinar was full of design advice for startups and people just starting out.
Is there enough water worldwide? Yes, but a qualified yes, says Roberto Lenton, Director of Water for Food Institute dld.bz/crVTP
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 22, 2013
There are some targets for engineering solutions here.
Wow MT @iana_aranda: necessary #infographic from @watercollective on WASH failures in the past 20 yrs #WorldWaterDay ow.ly/jhND5
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 22, 2013
The failure infographic. Another of the gems that @Iana_Aranda has curated in her Twitter.
Wow RT @davidsteven: Striking to think a teenager today could live to see 5 degrees of global warming.
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 24, 2013
If anything elicits a “Wow,” from E4C’s Twitter, it is alarming facts like this one. And water project fails in infographic form (see above).
This is huge! @autodesk to donate their fully loaded software to design nonprofits. Email technologyimpact@autodesk.com #PIDWeek
— Krista Donaldson (@kmd_drev) March 23, 2013
This tower eats smog simply by existing. How? Its paint neutralizes what 8750 cars can pollute on a daily basis stnfd.biz/jy6Z1
— Social Innovation (@SocInnovators) March 28, 2013
An idea with potential to clean the air in polluted cities.
The neuroscience of #innovation RT @rockforlight: Why it’s important to never stop learning: lnkd.in/SGCwRM #Imagination
— Engineering 4 Change (@engineer4change) March 30, 2013
Here’s a glimpse of what goes on in your head when you’re having a good idea.
