In this new series, Dr Lucy Rogers, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Creativity and Communication, is once again on a mission to discover how everyday technology can be used in extraordinary ways to create an engineering edge. She travels the globe – virtually – to track down how inventors, engineers and an astronaut are using technology to help keep bees buzzing, give humans a sixth sense, and transform the future of space exploration. Across 12 episodes, Dr Lucy interviews guest experts, including entomology specialist Professor Christina Grozinger, award-winning technologist Jude Pullen, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. She also recreates some of the technology in her home lab.
Mike Bray, Group Lead – Innovation, R&D and DesignSpark at RS, said: “Lucy’s podcast shows how engineers continue to innovate and create amazing new products and concepts using everyday technology. DesignSpark members have a passion for creativity, which this podcast series helps us celebrate.”
Series 2 of The Engineering Edge is published weekly in 12 episodes and is available on all major podcast platforms. Six main episodes explore a new way everyday technology is being used, while in six bonus episodes Lucy gives listeners a behind-the-scenes look at her ‘makes’ and talks to other guest experts.
Professor Rogers said: “It was so exciting to hear and share the stories of incredible people doing amazing things with components available to everyone.”
Series 1 of The Engineering Edge took the number one spot for iTunes’ new technology shows and was rated 9/10 by Hackspace magazine. Both series are available at https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/podcasts.
This is the fifth podcast series commissioned by DesignSpark and hosted by Dr Lucy Rogers. It follows on from Series 3 of the highly rated, light-hearted show The DesignSpark Podcast, which features comedians Bec Hill and Harriet Braine alongside Professor Rogers and was a pick of the week in The Guardian newspaper in 2020.