• Question: Have you ever been part of a project that has changed my life without me knowing it?

    Asked by 378mgrq29 to Shruti, Mark, Faranak, Douglas, Charlene, Alistair on 8 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Mark Bentley

      Mark Bentley answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Good question!!!!

      About 3 years ago I made some mini flylabs for fast testing of drug research drugs for Parkinson disease, it helps them find better drugs to help counteract the condition.

      So in the future it might…..

    • Photo: Faranak Bahrami

      Faranak Bahrami answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      Many projects might not have a direct effect on our lives but they might become very useful for people around us, or at some point in our life we will benefit from them. I have worked on projects that involved writing a computer code that would look at the data that has been collected from patients brain activities, and would identify if they have a very dangerous brain condition (Hydrocephalus), i also designed a device that could help to measure people’s lung capacity very accurately and it was very affordable, so people with lung problems could monitor their conditions very accurately for a low cost. Right now my project can improve some aspect of the airplanes, cars and many more things that we use a lot.

    • Photo: Charlene Chung

      Charlene Chung answered on 10 Mar 2019:

      Depending on where you live, maybe!

      I’ve been involved in flooding prevention schemes, assessing new developments in towns and villages and general drainage investigations to increase sewer system and solve problems in the current sewers around the UK.

      So depending on where you live, I’ve been involved in making your sewers safe and stopping any blockages or flooding happening.

    • Photo: Shruti Turner

      Shruti Turner answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Hmm, probably not at this point. A lot of the project I have worked on will be of direct benefit to people around you. So because of the medical benefits to them, they may have changed your life in way they could not have without the projects I have worked on. Though, most of the projects I have worked on are in the early stages and whilst they are still in the research phases right now, there’s no telling how they’ll influence medicine and engineering going forward!

    • Photo: Alistair McConnell

      Alistair McConnell answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      I worked with a team at University who have been improving the voice recognition in the Amazon Alexas and so if you use one of them that would be a direct change. Most of my research so far has been for rehabilitation and so I hope you don’t ever need to use it.

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