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SUMMARY:EWB Panel Talks Series: Engineering in Emergencies and Challenging
  Environments - Professor David Alexander\, Mr Yu Jia\, Dr Kate Crawford\,
  Cambridge Development Initiative
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DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth (and last) installment in the EWB Panel
  Talks series for this term at 7pm on the 12th of March!\n\nhttps://www.fa
 cebook.com/events/136735926500472/\n\nAbout the speakers:\n\nProfessor Dav
 id Alexander \n\nProf David Alexander is currently the professor of Risk a
 nd Disaster Reduction at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
 . Prof Alexander teaches emergency planning and management and has researc
 h interests in this field\, as well as earthquake disaster analysis. His b
 ooks include "Natural Disasters"\, "Confronting Catastrophe" and "Principl
 es of Emergency Planning and Management". He is Editor-in-Chief of the Int
 ernational Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction\, Co-Editor of Disasters jou
 rnal\, and is a Founding Fellow of the Institute of Civil Protection and E
 mergency Management. He graduated in Geography from the London School of E
 conomics\, and obtained his PhD in Mediterranean geomorphology from UCL. I
 n the 1980s he devised the equivalent of the Mercalli scale for landslide 
 damage to buildings and settlements and published papers on the early hist
 ory of geomorphology and analyses of the work of Dante and Leonardo da Vin
 ci.\n\nMr Yu Jia\n\nYu Jia was born in China and grew up in Kuwait. He gra
 duated with a Masters in Electromechanical Engineering from the University
  of Southampton in 2010 with First Class Honours and is currently in the t
 hird year of his PhD here at Cambridge\, researching and developing next g
 eneration energy harvesters. The research focus is centred on vibrational 
 dynamics as well as MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) technology that
  could be used to facilitate Structural Health Monitoring systems that can
  help in the damage detection and characterisation strategy for engineerin
 g structures\, which can be especially useful in emergency situations. His
  PhD research so far has generated a patent application\, two conference p
 apers\, 1 journal paper and 1 invited journal as part of a special issue. 
 Cambridge Enterprise is currently commercialising the technology.\n\nDr Ka
 te Crawford\n\nKate is part of the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Res
 ilience at UCL after leaving the Quarry Battery Company\, a start-up worki
 ng to introduce a new generation of pumped hydro-electric storage into the
  UK energy market. Before that she worked for a variety of private and not
 -for-profit organisations\, including a spell with CARE UK as a Shelter Fi
 eld Advisor\, mainly in Haiti. She was at Newnham College and CUED from 19
 96-2000 after a gap year with the British Army in Germany.\n\nAlso\, an in
 troduction to the Cambridge Development Initiative\n\nA new and ambitious 
 student-led development effort that will pursue an engineering programme a
 s part of a wider strategy of enhancing entrepreneurship and civil society
  leadership in a community of the urban poor. The Initiative will deploy a
 n engineering scheme as one of six interconnected and interdependent progr
 ammes which also include advocacy\, microfinance\, management assistance\,
  health and school teaching.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Trinity College\, Trinity Street\, C
 ambridge\, CB2 1TQ
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