 Hello, everyone. Good evening. Good morning. Depending on where you're joining us. Welcome to engineer for change or E4C for short. Welcome to today's E4C Fellowship Virtual Information Session. My name is Marilyn Lynn Clover. I am program coordinator at E4C and at the EDD department at ASME. I am joined today by some of my E4C Fellowship Program management team, Karolina Rojas, Erin Piper and Jonathan Kemp. And we're also joined by some of our fellow alumni, Miracle Ndego, Nishant Agarwal and Sahar Shamsi. Thank you so much for joining us. Today's info session will be recorded and archived at E4C site and on our YouTube channel, both on the URLs listed on our slide. And with this info session, you are participating in today, you will learn more about the engineer for change fellowship, how to apply here about experiences and tips from our past fellows and also have the opportunity to ask questions. And before we go on to our main topic, we just want to invite you to our upcoming webinar on March 4 related to in celebration of World Engineering for Sustainable Development Day. So please join and register at our, in our webinars page listed here on the screen to listen to our webinar on engineering a circular economy in the built environment. Now, before let's take a moment to meet our audience. So please use the chat window, which is located at the bottom of the screen and type in where you are joining us from. Okay, Brooklyn, Columbia, Oregon, United States, Virginia, Philadelphia, India, welcome. Welcome, everybody. Toronto Ghana. Malawi. Welcome very welcome to everybody. And just a few tips during this info session please use the Q&A window like catered below the chat to type in your questions for our program management team for the fellowship and also for our fellow alumni. I invite these for today. If you don't see it, click the Q&A icon at the bottom of the screen in the middle of the slides. We will gather these questions to ask afterwards when we have our Q&A section after we have some presentations. And now I will pass it over to Carolina Rojas to tell us a little bit more about the fellowship program and how to apply. Thank you, Marily. Can you see my screen? Yes. Okay, so welcome, everyone. Before we talk about the fellowship program, let me talk a little bit about E4C. In E4Change is an organization that was founded by three of the minimum organizations, ASME, ACIPI, and EWB USA chapter. And it was founded out of the necessity to create bridges between the engineering and international development professions. Since then, E4Change has become an organization that allows people to connect to a global community of one million engineers, technologies, and development practitioners, learn about later developments, learn about businesses, opportunities, and expert perspectives, explore a growing database of one thousand essential technologies to our solutions by grid platform, access research studies, multidisciplinary networks, and field insights, and finally contribute your expertise, increase, and ideas. We at E4C are committed to the sustainable development goals and a living question for us is what is, what do we need to reach the SDEs by 2030? At E4C we recognize that there's a need for collaborative interdisciplinary research and action, prepare technical workforce everywhere, comprehensive systems understanding and closing the gaps on information silos and democratizing knowledge. At E4C is an mission to prepare, educate, and activate the international engineering workforce to improve the quality of life of others of communities around the world. And we do this by providing programs, resources, and platforms that accelerate the development of impactful solutions and ensure public health and safety around the world. And the flagship program is the fellowship program, the reason why all of us are here in this session. And this program has been going since 2014, and since then we've had 147 fellows, we are very proud that around 50% of them have been women and we've reached 47 nationalities. Okay, right now our applications are open until February 14th, as Marilyn mentioned, and our program is a completely virtual program. It's inception. So this fellowship program is a distinctive workforce development program focused mainly on social innovation, and it's saying to activate and empower early career engineers around the world to solve local and global challenges. And we do this by providing a unique platform to develop skills, connect with mentors and peers. We offer leadership development opportunities that program to reach their fullest potential so that they can deliver solutions to achieve the sustainable development program. A goal, sir. Our value proposition on the fellowship program is that we match workers with impactful and meaningful work. So we aim to answer critical research questions so we each year do targeted impact projects, allowing to the needs of our partners, and we connect this critical research program with diverse and exceptional technical talent to provide unique insights and essential infrastructure, providing them more interdisciplinary and visionary individuals and partners to deliver the ecosystem perspective needed to advance sustainable development. We answered these critical questions at the moment through three main types of projects. One of them is impact research and through impact research we investigate research questions at the intersection of engineering, sustainability and the end of global development. The second type of projects we have is are designed for good. And these are projects where we assist the product design development and implementation. Finally, our third type of project we offer our advancing work flows, which aims to improve organization system for those processes to achieve impact goals more efficiently. So let me tell you a little bit of a use case for each of these example of impact research research that we did on what are the three innovations in the Middle East. The fellow conducted landscape analysis and interview based study, which resulted in a comprehensive report of opportunities and challenge in the region. And it was in collaboration with the American University of Peru. An example of a design for the project we carried out so far is a project on an aerial release of seats to support ecosystem restoration. Through this project, the fellow developed a mechanical release system proceeds, which fed into a high level plan to implement drones for the restoration of different mangrove species. And this was in collaboration with robotics. An example for advancing work flows is the case of automating structural retrofits for low income households in Bogota, Colombia. Through this project, the fellow integrated building information modeling capabilities into the organization's workflow for retrofitting projects to include earthquakes in Colombia. And this was in collaboration with. What does being an ever see fellow offer. So there are different things one is that it connects those to a global network of experts and like minding technical professionals, we promote exclusive participation in if we see sponsored events and opportunities for those gain practical insight and experiences to become a change maker and leader. The advanced knowledge of sector through weekly synchronous learning modules, and fellows receive a stipend rating ranging from one point five K to five K, depending on the cost of living country of residents and other of expertise Hello. Who are we looking for for a program. So at if we see we recognize that the industry is seeking technical talent that can work effectively across cultural, ethnic and national boundaries to succeeding and increasingly interconnected growth. And also that currently we have complex level challenges that require multi disciplinary engineers equate to work effectively across sectors to create an implement holistic sustainable solutions. In the years or in scientists architects we needed a set of skills to be a professional but now the industry is meeting these army type. This is a Swiss knife where you are required to have knowledge from different sectors and holistic views to achieve sustainable development challenges. So for our program, our program has a set of requirements. One of the main requirements that we have is that applicants need to have a senior undergraduate graduate and first or postgraduate, and we are required to have a focus or interest in development. We decided that the applicants have the experience with implementation design or research of technology for social impact, and that applicants have a demonstrated ability to work with diverse international team. Since we, it's completely rewarding, we are an international team. Other program requirements are that fellows are expected to have excellent project management skills, including the ability to work remotely with minimal supervision. We look for proven ability to research and rapidly acquire knowledge and to communicate effectively and execute good judgment capability to be resourceful and meet deadlines and also excellent writing skills in English since our whole program is in English. And finally, since our program is virtual fellows are required to have good internet connectivity throughout the five months of fellowship, and that fellows are available to attend the kickoff sessions that include synchronous video conferencing that will be scheduled by the first weeks of May. How to apply, I'll tell you what the causes is to apply. The first thing you need to do is to be part of our application round one, which is the one we are at this moment, it's going to be extended on February 14. For these, we advise you to first review the our 2022 impact project descriptions in the link that will be posted in the chat. And once you review the projects we currently have, you can submit your application by filling out the type form where you'll be requested to indicate your top three project choices. You'll be requested to upload your CV or resume, and now one to two page later of interest. Since many of our projects are funded by our foundation, and will require out of the stability expertise, you will have to indicate your levels of out of the stability expertise for different out of this product. So these are application round one application round two will happen around the end of February, where selected candidates will be notified via email to submit additional information. This will advance in the recruiting process. So for the further information requested may include reference letters submitted to a reference form and optional reference letters. You have to submit 200 word writing sample and as applicable evidence of software proficiency, this may be a design portfolios project models simulations, etc. As applicable, we will also report request evidence of research proficiency like papers projects reports. After these will convince our interview round. So if you are selected to progress to the final round, these will involve online interviews with the EPC program management team, and that selection and on warning for the summer cohort will occur by the end of April of 2022. And to finish, I just want to give a few tips for the application one one be ready to submit your top three projects and have your covering letter and see me ready to share with us. Make sure your top pre shows is aligned with your technical expertise, expertise, career goals and interest to increase your chances of being selected by a, you can indicate you're interested in being considered for projects outside your top three. If you are selected for the summer cohort, you can choose to also be considered for the winter cohort, which is happening from November 22 to March 23. So this is what I had to share. I just want to open up a space for questions and answers. Thank you for everybody. We have a section of Q&A at the bottom of the screen. Please. We have any questions. You're welcome to post them there. I think we can pass Kato to our alumni fellows and then at the end we can tackle I think questions for everybody. Thank you. There are no any questions. Today, we're joined by an exceptional panelist past fellow alumni. Thank you, Miracle Sahari Nishanta here. They'll be sharing a little bit about their experience as a fellow and also about their backgrounds. And as our first panelist, we have Miracle Indego. She is currently district programs assistant at CAMPEC and she's based in Ghana. She was an university fellow 2021 and she's a master card foundation scholar at CAMPEC Ghana. She obtained the bachelors in biomedical union from the University of Ghana in 2020. She worked as a tech teaching and research assistant in the same institution, and she's currently on the master card foundation graduate internship program at CAMPEC Ghana, where she assists in implementing the foundation John Africa works program in equipping young woman secured dignified and fulfilling work. And as a 2021 university fellow miracle research better practices for medical device performance in Africa with emphasis on the total cost of obtaining these devices. So the report of the work can be found on the east of the website. Over to you, Miracle. Thank you so much. I'm glad to be here. And my name is Miracle and I'll be sharing a bit about my chain. So in 2019, as I'm a graduate student, I intend to go by health is an initiative program. And it was all about socially engaged designs for how to reach areas and that was how I fell in love with engineering with mobile development. And I did the same project as my undergraduate thesis. And in 2020, I worked at the University of Ghana as a teaching assistant. So in Ghana, we have this one year mandatory national service program that every graduate will have to go through. During that period I applied for the fellowship and I was glad to be part of it. And currently, I'm working with Massacre Foundation in Ghana with something. And I'll be sharing a bit about my project and what I did during. So I worked on improving medical device with comments in Africa. So I developed a decision making to form. Two thousand cost of ownership and those who want to procure medical devices in Africa. So this project was very important because over 70, 40% of medical equipment that are being procured from outside Ghana or Africa are not fit for the use of which they were procured because of indiscriminate procurement practices. And so it was important to develop a tool that will help them understand the total cost of procuring medical device before they actually go in for them. And so my research was mainly developing an assessment to guide them in making procurement decisions in the area of the total cost of ownership. And I also share a bit about my take a week from the fellowship what I learned from the fellowship and so during the fellowship I'll say it's a community of engineers who are very passionate about making change. And they bring all the expertise to doing something to solve problems that are around us and in this community I found myself I was motivated to even do more. And during the fellowship you'd have that I had that on common access to international stakeholders during my research because if I see it's widely connected so I had opportunity to interview global stakeholders relating to the project that I did. And also I was exposed to a lot of technologies to the engineering for chain solutions. So it's a catalog of various technologies in either healthcare, agriculture, energy and other sectors, but I worked mainly on the health sector. So I was introduced to various mind blowing technologies that are solving problems and in how to reach in years. And also during the fellowship, every fellow gets to be supervised by an expert and a previous fellow. So because of that expertise and mentorship, there was no strength in coming out the project. I will say it's a good mentorship program and the little advice I would say is that you should study applications on time and we just have a few more days before the end of application now. Start early and make recommendations, ask for recommendation letters on time. And also do not hesitate to write on anything that that you've done in the past relating to the projects that are going to be carried out this year. And also don't be afraid to apply. Just put in your application. You don't know. Maybe you are the person you are looking for and maybe you are scared to put your application. So just put it in and if you are the right person program, you'll be picked for it. And this is the time to ask any questions if you have any doubt about the question. Thank you. Thank you very much Miracle for sharing. And as a second panelist for today, we have Sahar Shamski. She's currently program coordinator at kind of ventures. She's based in Toronto, Canada. She was also at ECOSY fellow 2021 during the summer, but she is currently also fellow during the winter program. Sahar graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in mechanical engineering. She joined ECOSY as a fellow in 2021 and is currently at work in the winter 2021 cohort. Her project is for a division of the United States Department of Energy known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL. And her ongoing project supports entrepreneurs creating rate-powered desalination system for these to relate scenarios. As entries to NREL's 3.3 million dollar waves through water price competition. Sahar is currently, is also currently the program coordinator for climate ventures at the Centre for Social Innovation, Coordinated Sixth Accelerator, programs serving team tech entrepreneurs and around all 15 provinces and territories of Canada. So over to you Sahar. Thank you so much, Carolina. Wonderful introduction. So I'm going to talk a little bit just like Miracle about my journey and I'll preface it by saying a lot of my journey was impacted or accelerated by my time at ECOSY and through the fellowship, frankly. So I started at the University of Toronto, my undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering. And my first project in global development was a rainwater harvesting system that I designed for hands across the nations and NGO in Mali. And then I joined the E4C fellowship in summer of 2021. And I worked for the United States Department of Energy's division of NREL, so the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, conducting market analysis and engineering support for wave powered desalination systems for their 3.3 million dollar waves to water price. So that's an ongoing project so it started in summer 2021 and I'm still working on it in the winter cohort of 2021. I'm working on advancing sustainable development goals number six and seven so for clean energy and clean water. So also part of while at my time at E4C as a fellow, I was able to join ASME's iShow, which is an accelerator for hardware led social innovation. So I was able to facilitate a hardware prototyping and validation session, and I worked even further with entrepreneurs. So both through my work with NREL and as part of ASME's iShow, which I found very cool. And frankly, through this journey through E4C and the fellowship, I was able to learn that I really, really enjoyed working with entrepreneurs learning about new technologies and being able to directly talk with them about it. And that led me to join Climate Ventures at the Center for Social Innovation here in Toronto, Canada, where I lead six programs. They're all distinct accelerator programs, serving clean tech entrepreneurs across all 13 provinces and territories in Canada. So to this day, I'm able to work with entrepreneurs learning more about cutting edge technologies, which I find absolutely amazing. A little bit more about my time with NREL, that's currently ongoing. So this project addresses a global water issue. So the focus of this project is to create this wave powered desalination system, which allows fresh water to be found in areas that are resource constrained. It has various applications. So these modular systems can be used in disaster relief, for example, or in residential communities, coastal communities, places that are water stressed in general. And of course, from a renewable energy source, so these are not energy intensive and they're using the power of waves from the ocean. So it's a renewable energy source, which I thought was very cool. My work with NREL was primarily doing market analysis and understanding competitors and what their features are, what their technical designs look like, and how the entrepreneurs participating in this competition, how their technical designs compare to those that are on the market. We also looked at key organizations throughout the world and how they deploy and advance these technologies in order to pilot these technologies effectively. And my advice to fellows and my personal takeaways from this project was that Carolina, if I could have the next slide please. Thank you. So my personal takeaways from this fellowship was that, as Miracle mentioned, you work with a global network of fellows. So I work, for example, from a fellow with a fellow from Sri Lanka. It was absolutely amazing. You guys to cross collaborate with people of different backgrounds, different cultures, and you learn so much just from that experience. Also, I learned personally, as I mentioned that working with entrepreneurs on cutting edge, new technology is absolutely amazing. And that's something you might not be able to find in other places. That might be your niche, you might be able to find something that you enjoy. And more than anything I learned in through this program that there's a very diverse and unique set of opportunities that you can use to make impact in this sector. You could be in management roles design roles there's a wide variety and you foresee kind of shows you all the different paths you can take, which I think is really important. So my advice would be more general in general for people at this stage, kind of figure out what to do or to learn more about the sector is be a sponge. So that's more like absorb anything you can absorb like the sponge absorbs water, everything learn as much as you can about the sector do as much as you can learn from the program management team learn from your expert fellow through your work. You can always learn. And that might find you might find what you like to do just like I did. So that's my advice. Thank you. Thank you very much Sahara for sharing. Last but not least, our third hundred for today is Nishan Agarwal. He is founder and CEO at life and he is based in Delhi, India. He was an e-prosy fellow in 2019 and then that expert fellow in 2020. Nishan concluded his master's with a specialization in manufacturing sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, a camp core in 2018. He has been associated with ASME in Virginia since 2019. During the fellowship Nishan was a part of the research around engineering response to COVID-19, where the team created a reference based of resources to mitigate their deep health outcomes worldwide. He founded life in the in the year 2020 to develop cost-effective myoelectric opaline prosthesis considering the socioeconomic sphere of the amputees in the low research settings. And the startup was one of the top three winners at ASME iShow. So over to you, Nishan. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much, Carolina. Welcome all to the session. I am Nishan Agarwal. I'm based out of India and as a wonderful introduction it was. I was associated with ASME E4C since 2018 and starting with the health sector as a health fellow. And then I got opportunity to work on different projects and the editorials like the bamboo one, which I find really fascinating. Yes, we can talk about that during some of the Q&A. And after that I joined E4C as an expert fellow working with the few of the E4C communities and ideas that they were there. Then I was also associated and got introduced to a number of programs around STG. One of them was Unleashed Lab for STG, which is a program which is a 10 days lab where you work with 1000 plus innovators, ideas or engineer designers and whatnot who will be working on a similar solution or idea to develop and basically curate some ideas into a workable product or prototype or even a tangible product. So that was an experience that I would like to share on Unleashed. And then in 2020 I was doing my research and doing a corporate job as well. So I decided to quit my job and start life in them as a part of extension of my thesis. And that's how I ended up participating in ASME E4C after a year. And luckily, I was amongst the three winners of ASME I Show India. And that's how the journey of LifeLM is going on and I'm still working on validating the product as well as the design. Next slide please. My research in 2019 since that was the year where we saw a lot of boundaries in terms of moving the resources, supply chain issues and the response to COVID-19 pandemic. Engineers and designers and factory owners, even the people who are not associated with manufacturing the PPEs and other rapid testing kits, they were called upon to help in sustaining that era. And I guess you all remember that it has been almost three years now that this thing started and our E4C report was along the lines where we curated a list of resources and standards that have to be followed in making the PPEs ventilators and other medical aids. And that's how the report, which is a live document, which is available on the E4C website where all the resources are listed on. Next slide please. We worked on two, how can you go to next slide, yes. So we worked on two of the main, main pollution categories where one was on the medical devices and the PPEs and other was the testing solutions, the rapid test and the antigen test and other problems and 3D printing the swabs and the resources that are needed for the testing solution. We came up with a number of case studies where we wanted to observe how the engineers and designers are working together to make these devices available to the most massive as well as making them accessible in the area where there are restrictions on the movement and people have to work remotely. And at the same time we were also working on identifying the new technologies and new standards that are being made specifically for COVID-19 cases and tackling those and taking the visas against it. Next slide please. We worked on nine case studies out of many that we came across. We interviewed a number of key companies and research projects and some of them were really interesting and we saw a lot of collaborations between multinational companies like GE and FOD where they converted one of their factory units into a facility where they were making ventilators and PPEs and other things. Also, a lot of case studies were also there in terms of contact tracing and new solutions like app-enabled mapping of the active cases, even the smart city project in Korea as well as the only app that is functional during that time was Aragyosethu in India. And all of these case studies were very inspirational and as well as gave a lot of understanding on how standards and other things were defined during that specific period. Next slide please. My personal takeaways from this research and in general other editorials as well as the projects I have done with E4C is understanding the standards and other things that follow. So in particular in this case I was associated with many of the researchers and this project was a part of a bigger team. We collaborated with a number of organizations and even I guess Carolina was also there in the same project and we were five other fellows were there. And understanding the standards and the new regulatory compliances that were there is interesting and we got to know through this research only. There were new companies that were forming during that period, new startups were erupting on making sure that we get PPE kits, we get the contact tracing done. We also saw a lot of boom on making the ventilators in the country, specifically in India. There are a lot of people who are also doing it right now. And the case studies like G4D and Nukar Robotics, so they collaborated together to make something that they are not expertise, they don't have expertise in. So Ford is into automobile but they came together to make the healthcare solution. So all these things are very inspirational and these are my personal takeaways from this research, particularly the engineering response to COVID-19. For the advice on E4C application, I would say find out how your research area can be aligned towards any of the STGs that you are focusing on or if you don't know about the STGs in general, which I can share that I want to know about the STGs. Very later on when I started my research, which was on affordable or cost-effective processes. So you can start researching about this and align what your search areas are in terms of how it can be related to any of the STGs or sustainable development goals. And that would be really helpful in answering some of the questions during the fellowship application or the interviews. And second is on starting the application as well as from the beginning. So you can also talk about your research area and also on how the E4C aligns with your career as already mentioned by Saar and Miracle. You must think about the directions where E4C can help you in your career as well as your research or maybe your future work prospect. Making a false validation may be not something that E4C would be looking out for. As an E4C fellow, do a lot of research as well, although it is right now the format is changing, evolving year by year. But in my time, we were very much engaged in this research. We used to talk to a lot of innovators, founders and engineers. Also a lot of research goes into reading some of the white papers and attending some of the webinars. We got to learn about how we can put the right thing on anything that is published on the E4C website that may be useful for the innovators who is visiting or the person who is the founder who is visiting the pollution faculty. So while making these claims and other things available to the public, we make sure that we do wonderful desk research and also talk to a lot of founders and other engineers. So maybe you should also think about while applying that it would be interesting if you have a lot of experience and a lot of alignment towards doing the research as well. That would be my advice on the question. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, Mishan. And thank you everyone for sharing and just want to open up a little bit the space for a short panel with all of you. I have one main question, it's like, are there any unexpected benefits for being part of the fellowship that you would like to share with the applicants? Maybe we can start with you, Miracle. Okay, so unexpected benefits of the fellowship. Yeah, I'll say yes. So for me, I developed a lot of skills during the fellowship. I mean, working and doing everything online was a skill I developed. And I even learned how to work very comfortably with negotiation. Yeah, how to even manage the projects that I was working using Slack and Asana. There were a lot of benefits from the projects I didn't see coming. So I'll say, you don't even know what you expect, but even during the fellowship, like even outside the fellowship, I even got the opportunity to take a certification course with Utodex Foundation. That was given to us as a fellowship request. So yes, there are so many unexpected things that you might get even out of the fellowship. Thank you, Miracle. Anything you would like to add, Sahara, Mishan from this series? Yeah, I would kind of build upon what Miracle said and definitely the thing about opportunities like E4C and ASME is the kind of place where if there's any other opportunities available for you, they'll make sure you get it. And that you're able to participate or if you want to learn something, they'll support you in learning something new or if they have any resources available, they'll send that over. They're very supportive in that way. So I think that was something that I wasn't expecting to be getting other opportunities outside, like from the fellowship or to learn things that are outside of just the base work or the research project that I was doing, which I thought was really cool. I got to learn about ASME I show from the fellowship. So I guess that is also very much beneficial that my startup life and limb got recognized and got validated because a lot of interesting profiles were there who were the jury members who were there the analyst facilitators who saw the idea they believed in the product and the art approach. And that's the, that's we are as a startup founder you look for. So, ASME I show was definitely a turning point, and we got to introduce to this wonderful idea of, of, of I show innovation showcase through ASME E4C. Thank you all for for your answers. I have one last question and then I'll pass it on to the next one to answer the questions from the attendees. I want to know a little bit more on on the process that you all followed for your projects, your research project, and if you have any insights in the states that you took or how do you receive feedback along the way. And if you support me to see for your projects. I'll start with you, Nishant and then. Yes, on the project that I did with the E4C. I'll start with the one which was on bamboo thing. It was, we, we, I got to know about the benefits of bamboo how sustainability and what many products can be made out of this. And we did a editorial on that in 2018. And at the same time, although I was also experimenting with my career choices. So, I, I figured out a way to make bamboo bottles off of that and how engineering bamboo and other things can be employed to the habitat sector where wood can be or hardwood can be replaced with bamboo. So all these things are very fascinating and it was a new chapter to learn about how engineering and engineering and design can be included together to make sustainable solutions. That's one. Second, when we were researching on interneting response to COVID-19, I got to meet a lot of innovators and founders themselves who were making these wonderful solutions on E4C. Not E4C, but PPEs and ventilators. So one of the meeting I remember is with the Canadian Shield project where they were making PPE kits as well as the Shield. And they were just, they were, they were very excited in sharing their idea and their motivation while they were working in a complete lockdown. And they were talking through the camera from their factory shed where they were a close net team of 11 members or so. So this interaction and during the lockdown when we were also working remotely is quite overwhelming for us to understand that we are working on some of the projects and and there are people who are working on COVID-19 response as well. So these are some of the learning side that during my research at E4C. Thank you so much. Anything you would like to add as the hiring report? Yeah, so you mentioned Carol about support from the team from the E4C team, for example. I think they're, as I mentioned in my first answer as well, I think the management team is exceptional in what they do. Truly like every fellow that I've talked to in our cohort feels really supported. Like for me personally, my expert fellow was Erin, who's on the panel today, and she was absolutely amazing. We together have been through so many interviews with both entrepreneurs and experts in the field, which in and of themselves were very interesting, talking to people who've been working in the field for 20, 30, 40 years. And having that support from, for example, Erin and our team to be able to effectively have those interviews and then get feedback from my expert fellow that, hey, this went well and this is what we can do to improve. I feel like my skills in that sense have like developed so well because of that. And I'm really thankful to like the management team and to other fellows for helping each other out in that way and having that support. I think that really helps develop your skills. And that's one of the highlights of this fellowship. Exactly. So from what she just said, like the support is amazing. And there were always resources for whatever we wanted to do if it was research, there was a resource guide that you could check out to see how to go about things. So you don't have to worry, there's massive support on this issue. Thank you. And we have a question from the audience. Thank you for all of you. And so in one sentence, can you speak a bit more on the fundamental soft skills that you learned. Someone is asking if you can tell us a bit more about this sense of community. I know you already just touch a little bit of that. But the sense of community involved in being in a cohort of those we talked about the support from the team but what about the community. And where once do I start. We did it. I'm not sure I completely understand the question but I guess it is around the, how we leverage from the community of people and in general. Yeah. Yeah, the sense of community of being part of the part of the cohort of fellows. Yeah. So I guess during my research and while working on the project report as well, I found out we were in the groups for the fellows who want to be fellows of E4C. I just want to say that we were divided into groups and we were assigned an expert fellow who will be leading on some of the submission. So we were working on our product report and this research is quite interesting. So, when we were doing so we got to learn about different communities we used to have some informal calls where we discuss about ideas and hobbies and our research area, our personal career growth and as well as whatever we are doing in our personal life as which can be related to E4C course. And that's how we learn about different cultures as well during that journey and we take help on different subjects. For example, I remember Jonathan while working with Jonathan I know that a lot of organizing is required in terms of managing the solution library assignment, desk research editorial and he was quite, he was quite good at that and that is something I learned from Jonathan being organized in making sure that every submission is possible in time. Although we missed a few deadlines and for similar thing happened with other fellows as well. People working in food. So I remember one of the fellows who are working in an industry where they were 3D printing food. And this is something I learned from his experience and his journey. So all these experiences and talks and interactions were really wonderful and this is something which we learn as a part of the E4C fellowship. Thank you Nishan. And then I'll pass on the way to Sahar and then you're cool and that will be my last request for today for you. Yeah, for sure. I think the best testament to the sense of community that we have at E4C or ASME is kind of us right here like the panel is all made of past or present fellows we all once you're here you're kind of very interested in staying here and learning more and working together because it's such a great environment we all learn so much from each other like I can say that personally. And you kind of make friends across continents across different cities. I think that's really cool and we kind of lean on each other when we need things or we want to learn more about something we can ask each other, or if we want to know how something is on the other side of the world how things are going, or how it pertains to our projects, we have people to lean on. We kind of have your network expands globally. And I don't think you can get that at very many other places. So that's something that's really unique about this fellowship and I think very amazing. That's what I'll say about sense of community here. Thank you Sahar. And what about you, Miracle? I'll say even after the fellowship, I can say I have friends all over the world because the fellowship is made up of people from everywhere. So during the fellowship we did things together that fostered that kind of friendship, even doing things out of the fellowship like this day. They always like both of the fellows sometimes share opportunities from wherever they are with us and maybe you are here in Ghana and there's an opportunity somewhere you can apply for that opportunity and a boost of benefits. So it's a great community. Thank you and thank you again, Mirsha and Sahar and Miracle for being here. We appreciate your constant support. I'll pass on the word now to Jonathan. He'll be answering some of the questions from Yatsumi, so over to you. Thank you so much, Karolina, and thank you so much to all of our fellow alumni, Sahar, Miracle and Nishant for joining us and sharing your experiences today as well. I just want to highlight a few of the questions that we've received and the responses to them. I know we've responded in a written format in chat or through the Q&A system in Zoom, but for all of your benefit I'm going to share some of those answers verbally. So we received a question asking if you're interested in the winter cohort and not the summer cohort, should we still apply using the summer cohort application link? And our response is that we do recommend that you fill out the application form. In fact, you can flag that you're particularly interested in just the winter cohort by putting winter capital W-I-N-T-E-R as your referral code and also adding a note at the end of the application in the space for questions that you're interested in just the winter cohort. After applications closed, there will be an interest form that gets put out for anyone to express their interest, but by applying through the application form now, we'll have more information available about you and so can start to consider you for a potential winter cohort project earlier. One question was about what the total duration for the fellowship program is. The fellowship program is a five month program from May up until September of 2022. And the winter cohort runs from November up until March. And so again, it's five months. We thank you for those who've asked questions or who've expressed questions just saying that they've applied and are looking forward to being considered. We really appreciate that. Those who are concerned about expertise in Autodesk software knowledge. So different projects involve different levels of knowledge in software or other skills. A number of our projects this year and in the past year have involved a high degree of Autodesk software knowledge and that's because of a sponsorship that we've very generously received from the Autodesk Foundation, which involves us having projects working directly with some of their grantees. And those projects in some cases require Autodesk software knowledge. We ask that if you if you don't have the level of skills that have been expressed on the project as being required. So for example, if the project requests advanced skills or intermediate skills, we would not advise you to apply for that because in our in the application process we have to consider whether whether you have the skills that are required for that project. There may be some opportunities to gain specific skills within a program. If you are knowledgeable in that program already to the right degree, but just don't know that specific facet of it as part of the program and we do look to build up your skill set across a whole range of different skills. But we recommend that you have the required software skill set as requested before selecting projects of reference. Undergraduate students. So if you're not yet in the final year of your studies, or also not about to enter the final year of your studies in the time following the fellowship, you are still eligible for the program. As any early career engineer or technical professional is eligible. That would also include people in community colleges. However, we do recommend that you indicate your level of experience correctly and and your level of academic studies correctly. And that you apply particularly to projects where you have some additional skill that can set you apart or prior experience that can set you apart as that will help us to to select you for for a suitable project. An additional question. So if you don't formally have a specific required qualification, but you do meet most of all of the other desired or required qualifications. Yes, you can still apply for that project, particularly if you don't formally have something but do have very equivalent or similar skills that that would include being expert in a very compatible but different or software or or in the research skill set or data skill set. That's asked for for specific projects. I'd like to highlight that if you have applied already, but have found that attending this session or by looking at the website that there's different projects that you'd now be more interested in working on. We have the opportunity for you to change the project preferences that you've expressed in your application. I'm putting into chat now the link included with that with that question response. Okay apologies that was the wrong the wrong link. Can one of my colleagues please put the link into chat in response to that but that allows you to change your project preferences. If you've applied already. If a project involves physical hardware, typically that will be handled by the partner organization. And so you may be supporting them with design elements remotely. In some cases though they've requested in some degree of in person support, in which case that they'll have required that the applicant for that project be based in the same country where they're based. And then you as the fellow would have some measure of in person contact with the partner support on the physical hardware in addition to the to the remote aspect of the fellowship. So those projects where a specific regional country of interest is listed. We will consider people globally for for all positions where a region isn't required, but you will be given priority if you're in or from a regional country of interest. Some projects mentioned that they're continuing from previous years. So there was a question is it possible to contact fellows who've worked on these. In all of our past projects, the information about them can be found on the FC research page and the details of who worked on them, including links to people as LinkedIn for example can be found there. So you are welcome to contact the fellows who've worked on the project in previous years. We do ask since there's a large number of applicants for the program that you don't send too many requests if you're not receiving a response to that fellow but you instead contact us as the fellowship management team and we can get you a more specific response. There is no limit to the number of times that a person can be applied to apply to be part of the fellowship. We should only spit one application for each application cycle as as we can only consider the top three project preferences for you once for this cohort, but you're able to apply in successive years. Those who've been part of our program already are considered alumni. And so there's a slightly different route for them applying, but even if you've not been part of the program already we've had many people who applied once and either because their expertise wasn't correlated to the projects that were available. Or because of the space available in the fellowship just weren't able to be selected that year but then applied again and were able to become a fellow in a successive year. So we really do encourage you to apply and just tell us if you've applied before. Finally, if you don't make it to the fellowship program, are there any volunteering opportunities available? Well, we will encourage you if you don't make it to apply to the winter cohort and also to next year's fellowship and there will be the opportunity to express your interest in volunteering opportunities that may come up. However, we don't have any volunteering opportunities currently available. There are a large number of applicants and so unfortunately we, even if volunteering opportunities do become available, we cannot guarantee offering them to any individual applicants. Thank you so much and let me pass over to Marilyn to close. Thank you very much for everybody for attending this virtual info session. This is all we could manage to accommodate the time we had. Thank you so much for all your questions. I hope this has been very useful. And also, thank you so much to Sahar, Nishant and Miracle for joining us and sharing their amazing experiences and tips for everybody who is interested to applying for a fellowship program. We have provided you the links where to apply, information from a brochure, how to change your project preferences and if you have any questions, please remember to contact us at fellows at engineeringforchange.org. So thank you very much and we look forward to your applications. Thank you so much.