By Nyasha Mutena.
Harare Zimbabwe (News of The South) – Eng. Martin Manuhwa has won the World Federation of Engineering Organizations and Service to Engineering award at the just ended World Engineering Convention held in Melbourne.
Eng. Martin Manuhwa is President of the Federations of Africa Engineering Organisations (FAEO), former President of SADC Engineering Organizations, past President of ZIE and former Chairman of the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe.
The World Engineering Convention is the Engineering Olympics that takes place every 4 years. The last two editions were held in Japan and Switzerland respectively!
Also called the ‘Olympics of Engineering’ this international convention is held every four years and this year attracted 1300+ global participants from over 70 countries.
The overarching theme for WEC 2019 was “Engineering a Sustainable World: The Next 100 Years”.
The focus was not only on engineering innovation, but how this can have a positive impact on lives by creating sustainable engineering solutions.
Sustainability is used in the broadest sense – encompassing the management of precious natural resources such as water, renewable energy technologies, frugal innovation, management of natural resources etc., and incorporates values of ethics and social responsibility.
This was a unique opportunity to take an integrated approach to solve many of the problems that the world is facing – all of them requiring engineering. With Engineers Australia celebrating its Centenary in 2019, this convention highlighted Australian engineering on a global scale and exploration of the distinctive and sustaining mindset of our profession; the notion that ‘anything is possible’.
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