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Engineering Students Persist
Through Pandemic Article /
Maaz Hasan
If nothing more, engineering is a field of study that revolves around hands-on problem solving and face to face cooperation. The COVID-19 outbreak and the closing of campus in the spring semester has made these core pillars of engineering near impossible. For ongoing design team projects, both in the Ware Lab and elsewhere, work went from running smoothly before spring break to running face-first into a brick wall shortly after. All physical work on projects was immediately stopped, and with the labs closing along with campus, there was no way to continue adding to ongoing projects. Furthermore, with most everyone having been sent home, communication became limited to scheduled online meetings. However, despite the numerous challenges the pandemic brought, the design teams were able to do what they do best — engineer their way through as many issues as they could.
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