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.
Dionne Aleman, engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has modelled pandemic spread.
And still other engineers and engineering students at higher education institutions across Canada and around the world are rallying to answer the urgent calls from medical professionals for more ventilators, masks, shields, and other protective equipment.
Full article at: Engineers Canada
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