#549 – Creative Engineering with Shrouk El-Attar

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Welcome, Shrouk El-Attar!

• After her own experiences as a refugee, Shrouk did a campaign for equal access to education for asylum seekers in the UK. There are now over 75 participating institutions.
• Shrouk asked how The Amp Hour started, it was from a post on reddit!
• University days and trying to do hands-on tinkering without much budget
• Apprenticeship schemes
• Shrouk interned at Intel and Fujitsu
• She also worked on a device that helped train eye surgeons
• Consumer class 2 Medical Devices
• Elvie pump
• Reading the docs is critical when doing certification for medical
• Design for Test
• Doing engineering every day, but not always design
• Shrouk refers to the products at Elvie as “FemTech”
• Chris has experience with Willow and Spectra breast pumps
• The Elvie pump is piezoelectric
• The Elvie Trainer is a pelvic floor trainer to help with incontinence, which 80M+ people suffer from.
• Shrouk worked in conjunciton with the app team, who communicated with the trainer over bluetooth and developed games
• FPGAs for industrial robotics
• Shrouk’s new series for RS Grassroots will help engineers understand how to outfit their bench and will be called “Trickytronics”
• Chris always recommends the Analog Discovery 2 as a starting device. Former president of Digilent Clint Cole was on the show.
• Shrouk is also an artist!
  • She’s a belly dancer! She does performances as a drag king and posts about it on Instagram as @dancingqueerofficial
  • She can neither confirm nor deny she’s working on a belly dancing robot.
  • Engineering in the art world
  • Shrouk is working on solo show
• Shrouk also does podcasts!
  • An RS Grassroots series called Badass Engineers
  • A video series called El Kanaba, which focuses on LGBT+ issues and is presented in Arabic
• The importance of representation and seeing different people working in engineering. Chris remembers the #BlackInSTEM hashtag highlighting Black scientists and engineers in different industries.
• Consulting
• The Shrouk El Attar trust (SEAT) helps support the LGBT+ community in Egypt and other surrounding nations.
• At Helpful Engineering, Shrouk worked on the OpenVent project, which was done in KiCad and used Gowin FPGAs
• They used an FPGA because they needed high throughput for sensors. They were also able to utlize the internal comparators.
• Organizing volunteers for large projects
• MHRA is the UK equivalent of the FDA (in the US)
• Follow Shrouk online!
  • Website: shro.uk
  • Instagram: @DancingQueerOfficial
  • LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/shroukel-attar
  • Twitter: @ShroukELA