Series 2 Episode 3: Combining Baking and Engineering with Andrew Smyth
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Not only is he an aerospace engineer for Rolls Royce, Andrew Smyth is also a bakineer – first of his kind! Bringing together his passions for both engineering and baking, Andrew coined the term, and is now on a mission to create cakes that are both delicious and fully functional. In this episode he explains how the two worlds are actually linked more closely than you’d realise, he tells us about the incredible creations that have come out of his Netflix series Baking Impossible, and he shares his experience baking a rotating cake for Prince William.
Andrew has given an online interviews as part of the “If you were an engineer what would you do?” Leaders Award competition so if you would also like to see some of the things she describes watch the interview below.
Francesca’s Unicorn Health Bot is the prototype star of this week. As the name suggests, it looks like a unicorn, but it also serves an important function in hospitals, monitoring the vital signals of young patients. We hear from Francesca, and from proto-type team member David Knapton from The University of Sunderland.
Thanks to the children from Homefield Prep and St Mary’s College in Derry, who shared their engineering ideas with us.
And if you have an answer to our problem send your thoughts to [email protected] or comment on Twitter.
This week it comes from Carl Starr, from Millennium Space Systems: “How can we make bread in space?”
If you’d like to get in touch, follow us on Twitter @Leadersaward, @primaryengineer and head over to our Primary Engineer You Tube Channel and be inspired!
We’d like to hear what you thought of the series so please help us and complete our survey.
Series 2 of the podcast is supported by The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust
The charity that promotes the Royal Air Force and inspires young people and RAF personnel to fulfil their potential in air, space and technology.
Not only is he an aerospace engineer for Rolls Royce, Andrew Smyth is also a bakineer – first of his kind! Bringing together his passions for both engineering and baking, Andrew coined the term, and is now on a mission to create cakes that are both delicious and fully functional. In this episode he explains how the two worlds are actually linked more closely than you’d realise, he tells us about the incredible creations that have come out of his Netflix series Baking Impossible, and he shares his experience baking a rotating cake for Prince William.
Andrew has given an online interviews as part of the If you were an engineer what would you do? Leaders Award competition so if you would also like to see some of the things she describes watch the interview below.
Francesca’s Unicorn Health Bot is the prototype star of this week. As the name suggests, it looks like a unicorn, but it also serves an important function in hospitals, monitoring the vital signals of young patients. We hear from Francesca, and from proto-type team member David Knapton from The University of Sunderland.
Thanks to the children from Homefield Prep and St Mary’s College in Derry, who shared their engineering ideas with us.
And if you have an answer to our problem send your thoughts to [email protected] or comment on Twitter.
This week it comes from Carl Starr, from Millennium Space Systems: “How can we make bread in space?”
If you’d like to get in touch, follow us on Twitter @Leadersaward, @primaryengineer and head over to our Primary Engineer You Tube Channel and be inspired!
We’d like to hear what you thought of the series so please help us and complete our survey.