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Welcome to Week 2

Welcome to the second week of our course

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Welcome to Week 2 – we’re going to be thinking about several ways that engineers interact with or influence the environment.

Over to you

Share your initial ideas about:

Where engineers are working in today’s world on environmental projects
Examples of where engineers and industry are having (or have had) a negative impact on the environment.
What you think the world needs right now as engineering priorities.

As a starter you might like to look at the Engineering Grand Challenges that have been identified by the National Academy of Engineering.

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