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Engineering in a pandemic
This resource explores the vital role engineers play in responding to a global pandemic. It is designed to provide practical and contextualised tasks that demonstrate the role that STEM-based learning plays in real-world engineering scenarios.
Challenges in this STEM resource include:
- building your own virus
- exploring what happens in an outbreak
- investigating lateral flow tests
- designing and developing social distancing tools
- testing and trialling different types of surgical masks
- investigating the technology that has helped manage outbreaks
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