Civil Engineering alumnus Kal Turnbull has recently attracted media attention for his idea to improve the quality of online conversations. Kal is co-founder and CEO of online platform ChangeAView.com, a startup which aims to promote thoughtful debate on online platforms. The company started with an idea which came to Kal when he was a 17-year-old teenager living in the Highlands. Feeling that he might “grown up in a bit of a small-town bubble”, Kal started a new group on the online discussion form Reddit, called Change My View.
Our Edinburgh University Formula Student were recently crowned winners of the Formula Student Artificial Intelligence Competition at Silverstone racetrack on 17 - 21 July 2019.
School technicians are developing a new safety initiative to enable them to recover staff and students in the event of hazardous gas release during experimental lab work.
It is with great sadness that the School of Engineering announces the recent passing of our Senior Lecturer Dr Enrico Mastropaolo, who died in hospital on 15 July 2019.
The School’s Dr Martin Sweatman has decoded a system of Pictish symbols and revealed its link with other symbol systems used by ancient civilisations across the world. Dr Sweatman, who is a Reader in Chemical Engineering in the School, had previously used his scientific training to decode an early zodiacal system found across western Eurasia, from European Palaeolithic caves to sites in Turkey, Egypt and Mesopotamia. He has now gone one step further by linking Pictish symbols to this system.
