Chakaia Booker, Acid Rain, 2001, rubber tires and wood, overall: 120 x 240 x 36 inches; each armature (3 total): 80 x 48 x 1 inches; tire pallet (12 total): 22 x 48 x 40 inches. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Museum purchase: Members’ Acquisition Fund © Chakaia Booker. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.

Events

Applying Engineering Lessons to Pandemic Management

You can watch a recording of this webinar here.

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced challenges that are commonly dealt with in engineering in the United States. Policy responses to the pandemic could be improved with lessons from other types of infrastructure, and by investing in “efficient resilience” when it comes to medical infrastructure. Engineering professors Braden Allenby and Mikhail Chester take a close look at how engineered systems such as electric power, communications, and transportation infrastructures deal with peak load, disaster recovery, and partial failure to offer ideas for building greater resilience into systems that provide critical services during pandemics.

Register for this online event and be sure to read their new essay on this subject at Issues in Science and Technology.

This event is cohosted by Issues in Science and Technology and the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes.