As we are seeing with extremely powerful, extremely dangerous hurricanes like Hurricane Harvey in Houston and Hurricane Irma approaching Florida, its easy to understand how the changes in the climate and in our environments have become Engineering Grand Challenges, locally and abroad. As we have discussed in class, sometimes the ideas do not need to be complex. For example, in the Himalayan mountains, engineers and monks have devised a way of building our own Artificial Ice Glaciers. Taking weeks to build but months to melt back into water, these glaciers are able to help relocate sources of water to rugged, mountainous areas where the lack of reliable water supplies limits food production or become impossible to provide people and animals with safe, drinkable water.
Usually going boating means having a truck or SUV to tow the boat to the lake, or rent space at a marina or a shore side home, but what if you could just drive your boat to the water? Iguana Yachts is a French Company specializing in building amphibious boats, high speed performance on the water, with retractable tracks to help you get it in and out of the water without anything else. What are some other fields that need engineering that know more than one single field or specialization?
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