Question

1. COVID-19 is a global pandemic and as a result requires a global response. What aspects of engineers’ response to this global crisis inspire you to persevere through your engineering classes? What big questions does is pandemic bring forth for you as engineering continue to respond to this pandemic

Answer 1

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads around the world, it is straining medical systems and supplies, and changing daily life as people practice social distancing, schools close, and organizations tell their employees to work from home.

Medical professionals are on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19 as they care for patients and work to create a vaccine. When I think about the profession every one is doing their best and engineers across the world doing the best they can which and their posts on international journals are inspiring young engineers across the world. engineering community across world has a role to play during this pandemic—from manufacturing supplies for frontline medical workers, to ensuring that essential services continue to serve the world. Some of them are listed below:-

1.Producing face shields and ventilators

With the wide range of engineering disciplines, examples abound of how engineers’ research can help during a pandemic. For example, Andrew Trivett from Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI, along with his colleagues, is conducting conducting research to adapt a hand-held, portable technology to detect whether someone carries the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

And still other engineers and engineering students at higher education institutions around the world are rallying to answer the urgent calls from medical professionals for more ventilators, masks, shields, and other protective equipment.Many online community has quickly popped up to share ideas and designs that can be turned into prototypes anywhere in the world where there is a demand. University and college labs, Makerspaces, and workshops across the world are quickly finding ways they can use these open source designs to produce what is needed.

2.Enabling work from home and maintaining essential services

  For example, computer, software, electrical, and other engineers are working to ensure that networks are able to accommodate the massive increase in people working from home over the past few weeks.

Communications infrastructure engineers are similarly likely working to add capacity nationwide, he says.

“That keeps the economy going. Imagine if people went home and didn’t work? It’s a lifeline to keep people going.”

3.Protecting the public

Sterling is sure that engineers will have a role to play in longer-term considerations as well, once the COVID-19 pandemic is over. Engineers and others will look at the lessons learned during this pandemic and reflect on how we can be better prepared should another pandemic occur.

The biggest question that this pandemic bring forth me aa engineering continue to respond this pandemic are:-

1.How do you build a social community that is still social and yet  is still able to manage itself through a pandemic like this?

2.How can we set up society to have greater prevention of these pandemics?

3.Are there other considerations in design that engineers need to be thinking about from this pandemic so that they can be protecting the public welfare?

4. Are the engineering supply cahins are strong enough to act robust before the pandemic like covid-19. Since whole engineering main stram is greatest downfall at this pandemic.

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