TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Insight
INSPIRING FUTURE LEADERS AT THE BIG BANG
Later this month the Big Bang Fair, which promotes engineering careers, will open to visitors at the NEC in Birmingham. IHEEM is – as usual – playing its part, this year presenting a special award. Entries were characterised by considerable ingenuity and imagination, impressing the judging panel, and making choosing the finalists and winner a tough task.
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his month sees the culmination of months of planning and development from IHEEM members and the
Head Office team to engage with and support thousands of young people in their potential to embark on a career path in healthcare engineering and estates management. As part of EngineeringUK’s Big Bang
initiative, the Institute is set to present the award to the winner of the IHEEM Innovation in Wellbeing and Healthcare Engineering Special Award on day one of the mammoth three-day Big Bang Fair, taking place at NEC, Birmingham, from 17-19 June.
The Competition
A full day of interviews took place with the inspiring young finalists of the IHEEM Special Award last month, with candidates meeting with judges Simon Adamson (IHEEM President-Elect and Council
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Representative), James Chadwick (IHEEM East Midlands Branch Chair and Council Representative), Tania Davies (IHEEM Chief Operating Officer), and Steven Heape (IHEEM Sustainability Advisory Platform Representative).
The 10 finalists were selected in early April from a highly competitive list of project entries. Meeting with the judging panel remotely, each candidate gave detail and answered questions on their wellbeing and healthcare-related engineering solutions, which endeavoured to tackle a diverse set of health-related
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challenges. Strong presentations were given across the board, with ventilation and air quality, neonatal care, robotics and AI, and medication, being some of the themes represented over the course of the day. Tania Davies, representing IHEEM Head Office on the judging panel, said: ‘I’m sure I speak for all the judges on the IHEEM panel in saying we were hugely impressed with the quality and creativity of every single interviewee. The standard of presentations and level of detail given to the questions asked in each case was exceptional.” IHEEM President-Elect, Simon Adamson,
reflected on the importance of The Competition, saying: “It is vital that the Institute continues to engage with a diverse, younger audience, to showcase just what is possible within healthcare engineering, and the impact we can have on people’s lives. Today has affirmed that the capabilities and potential seen in our future leaders are abundant; it is up to us to celebrate that, and to inspire and support each young person, regardless of background, to utilise those skills by pursuing a career within our brilliant workforce.”
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The Institute and collaborating exhibitors are gearing up to showcase the latest innovations in healthcare engineering to thousands of young people at the inspiring Big Bang Fair next month. The IHEEM stand, titled ‘How Healthcare Engineering
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