Inside This Month
JULY 2016
Connecting Communities - Inspiring A New Generation
Inspiring the Future Generations of our Society
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n 17 June Dame Judith Hackitt DBE FREng FCGI spoke to a meeting of the City and Guilds on: Back to the Future – reinventing the UK’s manufacturing industry “I am a Board member of the High Value Manufacturing. I am a council member and trustee of City and Guilds and I am involved with a variety of Universities in an advisory capacity – all
associated with Engineering courses. I have spent the last 2 days here at Imperial College on the strategic advisory board in Chem Eng. I am excited by the prospect of inspiring a new generation of engineers and technicians to become 21st century manufacturers here in GB. We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. A new era that builds and extends the impact of digitisation in new and unanticipated ways. The challenge we face is to ensure that this revolution creates benefits for the many rather than the few.
The First Industrial Revolution occurred when we shifted from our reliance on animals, human effort and biomass as primary sources of energy to the use of fossil fuels and the mechanical power this enabled. The second industrial revolution occurred between the end of the 19th century and the first 2 decades of the 20th century and brought major breakthroughs in the form of electricity distribution, communications, synthetic chemical processes and new forms of power generation.
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