ETH Global Lecture Series: Creating a Culture of Innovation
21 April 2022 - Online Event - What does it take to create a culture of excellence? Arwa Tizani from Relativity Space and Adrian Glauser from ETH Zurich discuss how to inspire people to create impact.
Free public online event
Moderated by Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 21 April 2022
17.30 - 18.30 Zurich (CEST)
In this Global Lecture, Chris Luebkeman speaks to two individuals both driven to achieve excellence, but with different motivations. Guest speaker Arwa Tizani and ETH Professor Adrian Glauser work on launching rockets and telescopes, and they both believe that engineering should go hand in hand with sound management practices. In this discussion, they will explore what it takes to cultivate a culture of excellence, and work with a team to turn what you do from a day job, into something where you aspire to change the world. What values do you instill in the people around you to inspire them to create impact? How do you do this when the goal is on a scale that goes beyond our lifetime and our solar system, and possibly our universe?
external pageArwa Tizani received her undergraduate degree in Civil and Structural Engineering and her Master’s Degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She was one of the first employees at Elon Musk’s Boring Company and was Lead Civil Engineer for several years - responsible for the alignment and profile designs of the tunnels, the navigation programming of the tunnel boring machine, the civil and grading design of the vehicle stations, and vehicle drive profiles. She started in the industry as the Chief Engineer of her University’s Hyperloop team and later became the Co-Director of the Hyperloop Competitions and then the Director of the Not-A-Boring Competition. Arwa is now the Infrastructure Project Manager at Relativity Space, a company whose mission is to design, build, and launch 3D printed rockets. She is part of the team responsible for managing the design and build of their new 1 million square foot rocket factory.
Arwa comes from a family of engineers, learned CAD at the age of 12, and designed her first commercial land development project at the age of 14. Having seen some of the best and worst parts of the world during times of war, she is passionate about contributing to a mission that creates a positive impact on society, utilizing her engineering skillset. Her goal is to continuously contribute to and drive innovation.
For the past two decades, external pageAdrian Glauser has been heavily involved in the design, development and calibration of infrared instruments for the word's largest telescopes, both on ground and in space. The fascination of astronomical instrumentation comes from the fundamental science questions that require dedicated measurements and therefore specific instruments. To do so, a very broad multi-disciplinary understanding is required that connects questions about the "stars" to solutions with the "screws". However, his main scientific interests are in the field of exoplanets and he likes to find an answer to the question "How unique is our Earth".