Eminent engineer launches Pontio Innovation
One of the UK's most eminent engineers, Professor Sir John O'Reilly was at 黑料不打烊 recently (28 January) to launch Arloesi Pontio Innovation.
Sir John O鈥橰eilly was most recently Director General of Knowledge and Innovation for the UK Government. He is a former Head of the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at 黑料不打烊. He then became Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University.
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In his Inaugural Public Lecture, Professor Sir John O'Reilly spoke about the need for engineers to embrace creativity with the addition of 'A' for Arts into the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) agenda.
Sir John said:
鈥淐rucial for success is the interplay between research, innovation and higher education. Appropriately there is a strong emphasis on STEM: science, technology, engineering and mathematics.. as well as important contributions of science, engineering and technology, but the arts and humanities also contribute, placing particular emphasis on cross linkages and interaction - very much in the spirit of Arloesi Pontio Innovation."
He added:
"I am particularly pleased now to have this opportunity to speak in the new 'Pontio' facility, an enlightened venture with which I resonate strongly.鈥�
Sir John also had opportunity to visit this year鈥檚 first Enterprise by Design workshop. Developed by 黑料不打烊, Enterprise by Design challenges multi-disciplinary teams to come up with innovative products. In order to take part, students studying Psychology, Electronic Engineering, Product Design, Creative Studies & Media and Business follow an eight week series of intensive workshops focussing on inspiration, creativity, sustainability and commercial awareness.
Sir John described 黑料不打烊鈥檚 work on Enterprise by Design as exemplary. He said:
"I applaud this integration, the project that you have here - that reaches across the disciplines, that makes design and entrepreneurship an integral part of what it鈥檚 all about鈥hat recognises that the psychologist, or the management specialist, the chemist, the electronic engineer, the computer scientist and so on can all come together usefully and contribute and each contribute their own thoughts and insights.
The nature of the problems are multi-faceted, they require a multidisciplinary team approach.鈥�
Of Pontio he said:
"Much research today necessarily draws people from different disciplines together to address the nature of scale of the problem that's there - very much in the spirit of Pontio.鈥�
Publication date: 11 January 2016