Yusuf Muhammad is a British inventor and engineer. He is the founding director of Plumis, a start-up which develops innovative systems to protect people from fires. He won the Red Dot Award in 2016. He has appeared on the BBC Two show Big Life Fix.
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Alma mater | Royal College of Art University of Nottingham |
Awards | Red Dot 2016 James Dyson Award 2009 |
Website | yusufm.com |
Early life and education
editMuhammad was born in Sidcup.[1] He studied Mechanical Design, Materials and Manufacture at the University of Nottingham, earning a Masters in 2006.[2] He completed the Industrial Design Engineering Masters at Imperial College London in 2008.[3] In his second year he won £25,000 from the New Business Challenge to develop a fire extinguishing system.[4]
Career
editPlumis was established whilst Muhammad was the Royal College of Art.[5] Working with Paul Thomas and Jeung Woo Choi, he designed a series of solutions to suppress fire.[6][7] He joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, redesigning the modern ambulance.[8] He won the transport award in Designs of the Year.[9]
In 2009 the Automist, a fire extinguishing system, won the James Dyson Award.[10] Automist uses mist to control fires and can be more effective than sprinklers for chip pan fires.[10] The Automist was selected as one of the British Library's Top 15 Inventions of the last decade.[11] He appeared on the BBC Two show You Too Can Be an Absolute Genius’.[12] Automist went on to win Innovation of the Year.[13] He went on to design the Automist Smartscan, which won the 2016 Red Dot and a Silver award from the Industrial Designers Society of America.[14] He is a popular public speaking, discussing design and fire safety.[15][16]
Big Life Fix
editMuhammad has appeared on the BBC Two show Big Life Fix.[1][17][18] In Series one he made a boy with Möbius syndrome a bicycle that he could ride without needing his hands or feet.[19] He also worked on a device to allow a 56-year-old man with locked-in syndrome communicate with his family.[20] In Series Two he developed a snowboard that allowed a man with Post Anoxic Myoclonus to snowboard.[21]
Muhammad enjoys playing basketball.[22]
Awards
edit2009 James Dyson Award for the Automist fire extinguisher[23][24]
2012 Design Museum's Designs of the Year for the Redesign for the Emergency Ambulance[25]
References
edit- ^ a b "Series 1, The Big Life Fix - Yusuf Muhammad - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Yusuf Muhammad". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Why come to IDE". ide.rca.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Student entrepreneurs win £25,000 to develop their innovative idea | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ yusufm.com, okler.net and. "The history behind Plumis and Automist fire protection". plumis.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ yusufm.com, okler.net and. "Traditional sprinklers impractical? Approvers trust Automist". www.plumis.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ yusufm.com, okler.net and. "The team behind Automist - innovative home fire safety device". plumis.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Redesigning the Ambulance - Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design". www.hhc.rca.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "21st century ambulance wins design award | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ a b Hickey, Shane (2015-04-26). "The innovators: mist system offers a safer way to control fires". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "Inventors your country needs you". The British Library. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "BBC Bitesize - KS2 Science - Testing inventions". BBC Bitesize. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "Plumis". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "Automist Smartscan". Industrial Designers Society of America - IDSA. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "YUSUF MUHAMMAD - InsureTech Connect". insuretechconnect.com. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "Anniversary 2018". iwma.net. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ Rees, Jasper (2016-12-14). "Big Life Fix with Simon Reeve - a rare example of TV making itself useful, review". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Series 1, The Big Life Fix - The Fixers - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Yusuf Muhammads revolutionary technology helps teenager with no hands or feet ride a bike for the first time". Born to Engineer. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Episode 2, Series 1, The Big Life Fix - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
- ^ "Meet the disabled man who dreamt of snowboarding again- and the inventor who made it possible". Radio Times. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ Born to Engineer (2015-03-10), Born to Engineer - Yusuf Muhammad, retrieved 2018-08-01
- ^ Tyler, Richard (2010-05-17). "Sir James Dyson backs kitchen taps to save lives and launches 2010 competition". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "The Automist Wins 2009 James Dyson Award". Fast Company. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Redesigning the Ambulance with NHS London". www.yusufm.com. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "RCA Alumni Fire Protection System Automist Awarded Prestigious Red Dot". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
- ^ "Automist wins Red Dot - Best of the Best | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-08-01.