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#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

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#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

February 13, 2025

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#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet

February 6, 2025

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#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back

January 30, 2025

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#313 Introducing: Mapping Italy’s Seagrass for Biodiversity Gain, from Planet Beyond

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Seeing below the waves

Imagine an offshore wind farm, with scores of turbines lined up in uniform across a stretch of horizon. Erecting just one of those turbines in the hostile offshore environment is undoubtedly a great feat of

Engineering Matters announces 2025 Awards shortlist

The Engineering Matters Awards celebrate the impact engineers have on the world. The awards are produced with the support of the IMechE and Engineers Without Borders UK. This summer, the Engineering Matters team has interviewed

On the road to net zero

If you were asked to name developments that are helping to make road travel more environmentally-friendly, you might think of the increasing popularity of electric vehicles, or regulations such as ultra-low emission zones, and the

Reby Media welcomes new partners for 2025 Engineering Matters Awards

Reby Media has welcomed two new partners for the 2025 Engineering Matters Awards. Engineers Without Borders UK and the Institution of Mechanical Engineering. The partners have helped shape the judging criteria for the awards, and

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AI is evolving so fast it eludes definition. The potential impact of the field is barely understood, even by those working in it. ‘Move-fast-and-break-things’ practitioners are deploying AI systems in autonomous vehicles, in courts, in medical diagnosis, and now even at the heart of the US federal government.

Few of the constraints that govern individual and corporate behaviour are being applied to the field. Large corporations are shaping the sector faster than governments can act. In a society where few have a useful understanding of the technology, neither market signals or social norms can steer how good AI systems are produced, and harms prevented. But experts and institutions are proposing systems that might professionalise the sector, establishing best practices and avoiding harms.

In this episode, Fordham Law School’s Chinmayi Sharma shares her proposal for a ‘Hippocratic Oath for AI’, that could bring the same professional duties to AI developers as are followed by surgeons. Peter Bannister, whose business Romilly Life Sciences supports the development of cutting edge medical devices, explains how his institution, the IET, is already shaping a professional approach to this technology. And Humboldt Prize-winning pharmacologist David Colquhoun shares a story from early in his career that illustrates the importance of ongoing monitoring of adverse effects of innovative products.

Guests

Chinmayi Sharma, Associate Professor, Fordham School of Law

Peter Bannister, MD, Romilly Life Sciences

David Colquhoun, Fellow of the Royal Society, Honorary Fellow, UCL

References

AI’s Hippocratic Oath, Chinmayi Sharma

Code, Lawrence Lessig

We Need a Building Code for Building Code, Carl Landwehr

Digital Empires, Anu Bradford

The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Functional Safety, The IET

Responsible Handover of AI, Sense about Science

DC’s Improbable Science, David Colquhoun

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#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

February 13, 2025

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Guests

Chinmayi Sharma, Associate Professor, Fordham School of Law

Peter Bannister, MD, Romilly Life Sciences

David Colquhoun, Fellow of the Royal Society, Honorary Fellow, UCL

References

AI’s Hippocratic Oath, Chinmayi Sharma

Code, Lawrence Lessig

We Need a Building Code for Building Code, Carl Landwehr

Digital Empires, Anu Bradford

The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Functional Safety, The IET

Responsible Handover of AI, Sense about Science

DC’s Improbable Science, David Colquhoun

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#316 What Can AI Engineers Learn From Medical Professionals?

February 13, 2025

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#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet

February 6, 2025

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#314 Remote Operations, To the Moon and Back

January 30, 2025

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#313 Introducing: Mapping Italy’s Seagrass for Biodiversity Gain, from Planet Beyond

January 23, 2025

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Seeing below the waves

Engineering Matters announces 2025 Awards shortlist

On the road to net zero

Reby Media welcomes new partners for 2025 Engineering Matters Awards

Embracing Social Value

The construction industry, historically driven by metrics such as efficiency, speed, and financial performance, is undergoing a significant transformation. Increasingly, the focus is shifting towards the social value that projects can bring to communities, emphasising

AI and humanity

Darren Martin, chief digital officer of AtkinsRéalis, has spent his career focusing on how big data can solve real human problems. His entry to the field came not from a computer science background, or engineering,

The Future of Time

The first recorded system of timekeeping dates back to the Yaraldi, who have been in South Australia since 8,000 BCE. They divided the day into seven parts based on the sun’s position in the sky.

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How can you build a career with impact? Dan Smith has a simple rule: ‘Follow your interests—when you look back, it will look like you had a plan’. Dan’s first interest was in cooking, and he started his career as a chef. But when he realised that he would not reach the Michelin-starred heights of that highly competitive field, he turned to a new interest: engineering.

He wanted to have a practical impact, so after his undergraduate degree, started by volunteering with Engineers Without Borders in Africa. In his work in Ghana and Uganda, he sought to support local engineers as they brought their skills to their own communities.

He looked for more ways he could use his skills impactfully. Qualifying for a masters scholarship, on the basis of his volunteer experience, he turned to the private sector. With Royal HaskoningDHV, and then with Fugro, he developed a career using data to monitor and improve biodiversity around offshore wind farms.

Dan sees three main ways to have an impact. One can take a hands-on approach, fixing practical problems—but the scope of this work is often limited to a particular community. Or one can take a role setting impactful policy or corporate strategy—but this work can feel alienated from its outcomes. Dan proposes a middle way that has worked for him: developing specialist skills that can be impactful across projects, as part of a collaborative team. In this episode, he shares how following our interests can help us develop those skills.

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Jon Baston-Pitt

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Dan Smith, Offshore Wind Biodiversity Solution Owner, Fugro

Short: Dan Smith – A Career with Impact

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Short: TreVaughn Ellis, Lampreys, and Black in Marine Science

September 12, 2024

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HS2’s Learning Legacy Podcast is a five-part series exploring the Learning Legacy programme.

HS2 is one of the most complex and challenging railway scheme the UK has ever undertaken. As such, it has been generating vast amounts of data across the board. Every geological survey, every design, every site, every environmental survey, all generating more and more data.

So with all this data, what do you do with it?

The final episode of the Learning Legacy Podcast looks at how HS2 has been using their data to build more detailed models, advance approaches to work and better equipment that can provide greater insights into the world of construction engineering.

Featuring:

Roberto Alberola – TYPSA, Head of BIM and Digital
Peter Ruff – SCS, Head of BIM
Jonny Neville – Mott Macdonald, Engineering Geologist and Information Manager
Idarousse Mouhtar – BBV, Senior Materials Engineer
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE – Social Entrepreneur and Computer Scientist

Roberto and Peter dive into the creation of a digital version of the project using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and ensuring there is a single point of truth so all designers and contractors along the length of the project are on the same page.

Jonny and Idarousse talk through the process of earthworks excavation by using a new 3D GeoBIM model which allows for more advanced ground investigation surveys. Further pushing the importance of the planning process before putting a spade in the ground.

Dr Anne-Marie closes out the series with an extract from her speech given at HS2’s Learning Legacy Live event. Highlighting having a growing mindset, experimenting along with learning from our actions and asking “how” we do things.

Find out more about HS2’s Learning Legacy Programme at: https://learninglegacy.hs2.org.uk/