Engineers can use data to change the world for the better.
With high-quality data, engineers are better equipped to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change and biodiversity loss. But collecting and analysing this data is difficult, often isolating work. This is especially true in the Global South, where professional networks and community support can be limited.
The Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) project is working to change this.
FeME is an EPSRC-funded Network Plus project working to build an inclusive, resilient, and adaptable engineering community that is better prepared to confront climate change and biodiversity loss; a community that acknowledges the disproportionate impacts these crises have on women, children, and other under-represented groups.
FeME believes data practitioners working to addressing the challenges of the climate and biodiversity crises should be celebrated. Which is why we are delighted to announce FeME’s sponsorship of a new CeeD Award: “Data for Change,” which will celebrate the work of an outstanding individual or small group who is using data to address these global challenges.
The Centre for Engineering Education & Development (CeeD) brings together engineering and manufacturing companies and academia into a peer-learning community. It works to support collaboration, share best practice, and strengthen engineering capability across Scotland. CeeD’s commitment to building communities and fostering collaboration makes it an ideal partner for FeME in championing the people behind data-driven solutions.
The new Data for Change award will highlight and recognise innovative approaches to using data to address climate change and biodiversity loss. We are particularly seeking to highlight work from under-represented communities and the Global South, where the impact of climate change is often most severe, yet the voices of data practitioners receive less recognition.
Know someone who is working in this area? Nominate them, yourself, or your team: https://ceedawards.ceed-scotland.com/AwardCategories.aspx