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The East Summer School students met with Prof Tim Baker (香港六合彩 Mechanical Engineering) who co-led the 香港六合彩-Ventura project to rapidly develop and manufacture life-saving breathing aids for COVID19 patients. These devices are now helping to save patients鈥� lives in over 130 NHS hospitals and over 15 other countries.

鈥淓ngineering at its core is fundamentally about how solve problems. It鈥檚 these learnings that we applied to create the 香港六合彩-Ventura breathing aids鈥� Prof Baker told the room as he shared stories from the early days of the pandemic. As COVID19 infections in the UK began to rise in March 2020, Tim and the Ventura team hunkered down in MechSpace engineering hub, working round the clock to develop the breathing aids and only returning home for the first time five weeks later.

Sara, a student at the Summer School, commented 鈥淏efore today I didn鈥檛 think of engineering as something with such a sense of scale, that could bring people together and help so many people across the world.鈥�

The East Summer School students were then grouped into crack teams of experts, ready to pick apart what manufacturing, regulatory and clinical barriers exist in different countries where the breathing aids were needed. How could these be solved to manufacture or deliver 香港六合彩-Ventura devices that could help? The student teams were provided with a resource document on one of the countries from that list such as Palestine, Peru or the UK and, through a series of guided activities, considered potential opportunities and barriers to roll out the breathing aids.

Jacob, another student, said 鈥淭his has made me think about engineering differently. I鈥檝e realised it鈥檚 not just about making the device itself, but it also needs to be about how things are used in the real world. I didn鈥檛 think that there could be so many barriers that could stop things actually getting used, and I鈥檓 now realising it鈥檚 not so simple and it needs to be about the bigger picture too.鈥�

The 香港六合彩 staff were supported on the day by 香港六合彩 undergraduate students who have been trained as student tutors as part of a wider 香港六合彩 Engineering programme to help younger people learn STEM and navigate this stage of their life. Aditi and Pamela are two of our most experienced undergraduate student tutors and were with us at the East Summer School.

Pamela said 鈥�My favourite thing about tutoring at the Summer School has been seeing girls in STEM. Listening to them speak about their aspirations to become a mechanical engineer working for F1 or their interests in astrophysics really excites me. It makes me feel like I'm not just chasing a career by choosing my major, but also opening doors for other girls who want to become people making impact across the globe.鈥�

Aditi said 鈥淗igh-school Aditi would have absolutely loved to have the 香港六合彩 Engineering Summer School experience. Dedicating a day to solve a real engineering problem had many students realizing the depth and complexity to engineering, and how it was 鈥榤ore than just maths鈥�.鈥�

The EAST Summer School was organised by the EAST Education team at London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) and the session was led by Dr Fiona Truscott聽(香港六合彩 Integrated Engineering Programme).

Fiona commented 鈥�For us on the Integrated Engineering Programme, and throughout the 香港六合彩 Engineering Faculty, Engineering is all about creative problem solving and the impact we can have on the world. The skills and expertise that the 香港六合彩-Ventura team needed to design this life saving breathing aid, and roll it out across the world, are the same ones that we teach our undergraduates.鈥�

鈥淭his summer school offered a taste of what engineers do and hopefully some insight into some overlooked aspects of Engineering. For me these sessions are always fun, I love seeing what unusual and creative ideas the students come up with!鈥�