Innovation in Global

Green Tech solutions:Where do we stand, what examples in which

applications in our daily lives?

25 may 2015

By Yvette RAMOS, President

Swiss Engineering Romandie

www.swissengineering.ch

www.swissengineering.ch

• A society of >15,000 engineers and architects in Switzerland, active in all domains

• 7 regions, 26 interprofessional groups, 25 chapters

• Since over 100 years

…The largest professional network of Engineers and

Architects in Switzerland

• For >100 years, Swiss Engineering represents Members

interests in the political, economic, in the field of training

and in society in general, and supports their professional

development through customized services.

• As spokesman of the Engineering and Architecture, Swiss

Engineering is committed to improve and enhance the

technical and scientific professions in the media and public.

• We encourage the new generation while working to

strengthen professional capacity building.

Regions averages 1st October 2014

• In 2010, the average in the EU-27, 15.5% of institutions in the

higher education sector were headed by women, and 10% of

universities had a female rector.

• Women = 36% of board members in 2010

• In science and engineering: they represent 38% of PhD

students, but only 23% of grade B and 11% of Grade A

• The proportion of women "full professor" is also the lowest in

engineering and technology, with 7.9%.

Glass ceiling:used to describe the unseen, yet

unbreachable barrier that keeps women (and minorities) from rising to the upper rungs of

the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements.

⇒ Egg freezing : is this a solution to optimize your career?

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SUGGESTIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT CAREER

Ada Lovelace and the the first

computer programmer

• Her father Lord Byron, and her scientist mother encouraged her from a young age to become a champion of mathematics.

• Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage at the University of London on his plans for an “analytic engine” (i.e. old-timey computer) to develop ways to program the machine with mathematical algorithms, essentially making her “the first computer programmer”.

The dishwasher was invented by Josephine Cochrane in 1887

• She marketed her invention to hotel owners,

scandalously going to meetings without a husband,

brother, or father to escort her, and eventually

opened her own factory.

The car heater, invented by Margaret A. Wilcox in 1893

• The first car heater, which

directed air from over the

engine to warm the chilly toes

of aristocratic XIXth-cent.

Motorists

!!! She also invented a combined clothes

and dish washer, which someone should

please build immediately ☺

1899, Letitia Geer invented a

medical syringe

• Oh, the wonders ofmodern medicine! ..The medical syringe that could be operated with only one hand!

• Remember her the next time your doctor injects you with only one hand.

Invented by Elizabeth Magie in 1904 under the

original name The Landlord’s Game: the Monopoly!

• Magie’s game was a critique of the injustices of unchecked capitalism, making it all the more ironic when her game was completely ripped off by … Charles Darrow 30 years later, who sold it to Parker Brothers.

• The firm eventually tracked down Magieand paid her $500 forher “troubles”.

Residential solar heating by Dr. Maria

Telkesa in 1947

• Physicist and solar-

power pioneer

teamed up with an

equally genious

lady, the architect

Eleanor Raymond,

to build the first

home entirely

heated by solar

power.

• Her system for closed-

circuit television

(CCTV) security, was

intended to help

people ensure their

own security, as police were

slow to respond to calls for

help in her NYC neighbourhood.

• Her invention forms the basis

for modern CCTV systems used

for home security and police

work today.

Marie Van Brittan Brown’s system for CCTV patented in 1969

More telecommunications

technology, by Dr Shirley Jackson

• The theoretical physicist was

the first black woman to

receive a Ph.D. from MIT, in 1973.

• While working at Bell Laboratories, she

conducted breakthrough basic scientific

research that enabled others to invent the

portable fax, touch tone telephone, solar cells,

fiber optic cables, and the technology behind

caller ID and call waiting.

A simple model though..showing different

perspectives:

HOW ?

SOCIALPROGRESS

ECONOMICAL

TECHNOLOGYTECHNICAL..

POLITICAL &DECISION MAKING

• Engineers have the capacity to carry out

concrete policies to address complex issues

of socio-economic, human, scientific and

technological, and competitive in a

changing international environment.

Engineers! Who are we?

The innovation concept?

Innovation

Urbanism Jobs, Employment

Social integration

Habitat

Social & cultural innovation

Medical

Bio-medicine

Biotechnologies

Food & agriculture

Chimie-bio

Pharmacy

Telecom

New technologies(Internet, E-business)

Software

Electronics

Technological innovation

Mecanics & Tools,

machines

Chemistry&

materials

Textile-habillement

Cosntruction

Metallurgie-fonderie

Measure control

� Strengthening links between Education and Employment Market

� Industrial and scientific innovation development

�Pension management

�Environment - Climate change!

�Equality and Diversity

�Contribution to the development of poor countries and regions - migration

�Economic globalization and new models..

Big challenges!

Vision of the world..

Utopia?

• Fair and complex management of territories (villages, towns, regions, countries, continents ..)

• Organization of a daily environment that is

livable for all

• Economically viable development providing

opportunities for progress in a world of

Justice!

Is this an issue of ..envisioning the future?

Or a reasonable and rational planning strategy ?

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Développer l’économie du savoir

Positionner le Territoireà l’échelle internationale

Contenu Infrastructure Accès Formation Industrie TIC Téléservices

Objectifs Stratégiques

Axes

Vision

Réduire la fracture numérique

Plans d’action et programmes

Un exemple : Développement d’une Stratégie e-Territoire

While always balancing in a changing environment..

Right balance!

Without forgetting a key element..

management!

And…

• They want to work in responsible companies

that:

�Engages them (=employees!) in the profit

�Is environmentally friendly

�Practices equality in all its forms, including

equal pay!

What do they want?

And above all…!

⇒Engineers represents key actors in the

overall innovation and patent system, and

are thus levers for supporting social and

sustainable development

My conclusion..

Thank you !Yvette Ramos

MSc. Eng. – MBA

Yvette.ramos@swissengineering-ge.ch