The Millisecond Zone has been possible due to extra capacity from contributions from NCOP consortia. This was a general zone and featured six engineers:
- Sophie Rimmer is a PhD student researching how we can make machines waste less energy
- Pauline Issard is the director and CEO of Trackener; a company revolutionising horse care with technology
- Michelle Hands is a construction site engineer who shows those on site where and how to build things
- Henry Watts, the winner of this zone, turns cutting edge research into a set of physical products to be installed in submarines and ships
- Fidel Olaye is an electrical engineer working at Mott Macdonald, where he works on various road and highway design projects
- Chris Neale builds and designs virtual cloud storage spaces for customers of DXC.technology
Students in this zone were very interested in finding out what it is like to be an engineer, asking lots of questions about careers and education options for engineering jobs. They also wanted to know about the engineers’ hobbies and what they did with their spare time (sometimes being shocked to learn they have free time at all!).
