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Professional Network – Celebration of Engineering 2022

24 NOVEMBER 2022

6:30pm

St Paul's School - Dining Hall

The St Paul’s Professional Groups were first launched in 2016 in collaboration with the Old Pauline Club and Parents’ Group. Their aim is to connect those working in specific professional fields and to support current pupils and young Old Paulines in their career journey.

The Celebration of Engineering will be an event to celebrate and showcase the fantastic development of engineering at St Paul’s over the last four years.

Hear from Director of Engineering, Katie Douglass, as well as Old Pauline guest speakers, as we demonstrate some of the fantastic extracurricular activities and outreach projects that have brought the love of engineering to a much wider audience within the school. Of particular interest will be the variety of competitions on offer for Lower Second students all the way up to the Upper Eighth. From motorsports big and small, through to space robots, the Engineering department has a competition team for everyone.

George Worledge OP, 2014-2019

George is a 3rd year Mechanical Engineering student at Imperial College London, with experience in automotive & motorsports engineering. He was co-founder of Firefly Racing in 2015, designing, manufacturing, and racing 2 cars during his time with the team. After his 2nd year of university he undertook a 12 month placement with Williams Racing as a Vehicle Dynamics engineer, performing simulation studies to improve vehicle design and setup. He now returns to university as Technical Director of Imperial’s Formula Student team, aiming to lead the university’s first Class 1 entry in 10 years.

Toby Lane OP, 2010 – 2015

Toby is an engineering manager and sustainability lead at tech accessory brand, Mous. From St Paul’s he went to study engineering at Cambridge, where he specialised in Manufacturing Engineering and wrote his thesis on business model innovation at electric bike startup, Flit. After experimenting with civil, manufacturing and mechanical engineering work placements, Toby’s passion for consumer products and design took him to Mous. Three years on, he leads a team of engineers and designers creating and delivering innovative products to market.

Christopher Miles, Current Parent

Christopher is leading £2.1bn worth of transport infrastructure improvements as Head of Engineering for Significant Projects within Transport for London. A Chartered Civil Engineer with an MBA from Kingston University, Christopher has worked on major infrastructure developments in the private and public sectors throughout his career and joined Transport for London’s Corporate Finance office before taking up his current position. His Engineering portfolio includes London’s road tunnels, bridges, river piers and crossings, transport premises and the High Speed 2 project at Euston and Old Oak Common.

Jindong Liu, Current Parent

Dr Liu is the Director of R&D of Precision Robotics ltd, a spin-off company from Imperial College London. He is also an honorary research fellow at Imperial College London. He is interested in fields related to Biologically Inspired Robotics, including human-robot interaction, biomimetic robotic fish and robotics for healthcare & surgery.  He has a PhD from the University of Essex where he focused on autonomous robotic fish. He successfully built the first one in the world.

Between 2008 to 2010, he worked on the human auditory system and developed a computational mammalian auditory system applied to sound perception on mobile robotics at the University of Sunderland with the collaboration of the University of Newcastle. In 2010, he joined the Hamlyn Centre, Imperial College London and focused on pervasive sensing and healthcare mobile robots. In 2018, he joined Precision Robotics as a co-founder to develop a single-port surgical robot.

His articles have been published in Neurocomputing, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Journal of Neural Network World and International Journal of Automation and Computing. He is a senior member of IEEE and reviewer of conferences and journals of IEEE and Springer including IEEE Trans. of Neural Network, IROS and ICRA, etc. He published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed international conferences and journals with over 2000 citations.  In 2013, his paper was rewarded as the “Most cited Article in 2012” in J. of Bionic Eng.

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