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Programme
15:00-15:30 pm Welcome and intro: Davidson Inventors Challenge, Sustainable Development Goals and Chemical Engineering at Cambridge
- Welcome by our Head of Deparment, Professor Clemens Kaminski
- What is Chemical Engineering and what do Chemical Engineers do? (CEB Director of Teaching, Dr Andy Sederman)
- Davidson Inventors Challenge, SDGs, and relevance to Chemical Engineering (Dr Kamran Yunus Senior Teaching associate)
- Professor John Davidson and Chemical Engineering at Cambridge (Chemical Engineering Alumnus Peter Davidson)
15.30- 16.30 pm Presentation from the four shortlisted student teams
16.30-16.45 pm Alumna Dr Rachel Cooke on her exciting career journey in chemical engineering
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BREAK 4.45-5 pm Judging Panel deliberations
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17.00-17.30 pm Keynote speaker: MP Nadhim Zahawi, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
An exciting chemical engineering career and the success of the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in UK.
17.30- 17:45 The President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Professor Stephen Richardson
A note on Chemical Engineering of the future and announcement of DIC 2021 winners and runner-ups, and presentation of Award Certificates.
17:45 Closing remarks by DIC organising Team
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We would like to take this opprtunity to thank our partners, The Association of Science and Technology in Malaysia (ASTI) and The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), and all the participating schools and students. And to the prospective chemical engineers and biotechnologists of the future we say: 'the world is really your oyster…'