Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast
By Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Create the Future celebrates engineering visionaries and inspires creative minds by exploring the wonderful world of skill, creativity, and innovation that is engineering – highlighting how engineers impact our lives each and every day. From nanotechnology and the Internet of Things to autonomous vehicles and healthcare – engineering is all around us.
The world’s leading award for engineers and engineering, the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (qeprize.org) champions bold, groundbreaking engineering innovation which is of global benefit to humanity.
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Latest episode
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Electrifying the Pickup Truck
Linda Zhang is the pioneering chief engineer behind Ford’s revolutionary new all-electric pickup truck—successfully making believers out of many truck-loving electric vehicle skeptics. For her pioneering leadership, she was named as one of USA TOD… -
Inventing the Steadicam: Garrett Brown
In the history of motion picture technology, few people have had a more profound effect on cinematography than today's guest, the Oscar® and Emmy®-winning Garrett Brown. Garrett invented an ingenious camera rig called the Steadicam—a stabilising s… -
The Senseable City
Smart cities are well-known for integrating technology with urban environments; sensable cities use that technology to put people at the heart of the city.A prolific inventor, educator, and engineer, Carlo Ratti, is the director of the … -
The World's Most Cited Engineer: Dr Robert Langer
Today’s guest is a renowned chemical engineer and 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Laureate, Dr Robert Langer. A pioneer in biotechnology, including large molecule controlled drug delivery and nanotechnology, Langer is also regarded as t… -
Hyperloop
Hyperloop is a revolutionary high-speed pod-based transportation concept that can take passengers from point “A” to point “B” quicker than the speed of sound.In this episode of the Create the Future podcast, we speak with Dr Siavash Sad… -
The Future of Brain Imaging
Clare Elwell is a professor of medical physics and director of the Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Group and Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory at University College London. Her current research combines physics and engineering to develop novel opti… -
Christine Bland: Lift-off
Christine Bland is an aerospace electrical engineer, artist, and photographer. For over 30 years she’s worked for Lockheed Martin, designing electronics for NASA spacecraft including the Spitzer telescope, Phoenix Mars lander, Mars rovers (Spirit … -
The Quantum Ballerina
Dr Merritt Moore is a STEM advocate, quantum physicist, and professional ballerina with a penchant for connecting technology and the arts. A robotics enthusiast who one day dreams of dancing in space, Merritt explores her dual interests by using A… -
How Do Engineers Think?
In this episode of the Create the Future podcast, we ask acclaimed biomedical engineer and policy adviser, Guru Madhavan, “how do engineers think?”Along the way, Guru tells us how he started down the path of investigating the engineerin… -
Systems Engineering: Towards Net Zero
Susan McDonald is an award-winning mechanical and electrical engineer with over 10 years’ experience in overseeing major programmes in the power, utilities and renewables sector. Having previously led on the coordination of 12 offshore wind projec…