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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #15 Engineering Elephants: Brittany Harris
Description:
Providing water and sanitation after a destructive military
revolution in Peru; engineering with elephants in Kenya; and plunging into enormous
pot holes in Uganda, the professional life of civil engineer Brittany Harris
has been more eventful since she graduated in 2015 than many engineers’
experience throughout their entire working careers. Her efforts to bring
sustainable water and sanitation to developing countries, and to encourage
other engineers to do the same, led the Institution of Civil Engineers to name
Brittany as an engineering superhero: Water Woman.
“I didn’t think elephants were an engineering problem, but
apparently they are and so...