Canberra, Wednesday 8 May 2002

Young creator set to inspire designing students

The 2001 Young British Female Inventor of the Year and the brain behind the non-drip teapot, Damini Kumar, will impart her innovative ideas to Australian National University (ANU) first-year engineering students tomorrow.

Britain's twenty-four year old Damini Kumar who is responsible for designing one of the finest engineering accomplishments of our time, the non-drip teapot, will speak to the ANU students about the design, manufacturing and patenting process for design innovations.

Professor John Baird, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) believes that Damini's effervescent and practical achievements are testament to Engineering's fundamental place as a source of continuous improvement.

"Damini has linked technical engineering expertise with positive and fun outcomes.

"We receive many international guests in our Faculty and are thrilled that Damini has taken time out from her schedule to visit our Department of Engineering," Professor Baird said.

Damini boasts to have been designing solutions to problems she has encountered since the age of five.

"My formula for good design engineering is one-part ingenuity and invention, and one part creativity and imagination," Damini said.

Damini designed the teapot in 1998 as a part of her Masters course in Engineering Product Design and in 1999 she launched a range of funky D-pots (non-drip teapots) at the BBC's Tomorrow's World Exhibition.

Many awards have followed Damini's success including the GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award, 1999 and the Young British Female Inventor of the Year Award, 2001.

When: Thursday 9 May, 12 pm
Where: Chemistry T1 Building 33, ANU

For more information contact Lynne McAllister, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology on 02 6125 58870 or 0405 121 567 or Nichola Cox, Public Affairs on 02 6125 5001 or 0416 249 245.

No 56/2002

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