The Biggest Problems We're Facing Today & The Future of Engineering: Crash Course Engineering #46

In our final episode of Crash Course Engineering we are going to take all the tools and ideas we’ve discussed throughout this series and try to imagine where we’re headed. We’re going to explore some of the biggest problems that today’s engineers are trying to solve and make some guesses about what the future of the field might look like.
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[@kevind814]

Thank you Dr. Somara, and all those responsible for a great Crash Course!

[@karlborell184]

This series inspired me to apply for Biotechnology Engineering :)

[@momohubo]

Outstanding! Best of luck! You can help us all!

[@karlborell184]

Thank you mate!

[@artsysquirtle8952]

hows that working out for ya?

[@jonathanblackwell42]

I'll miss this series. Thanks for it!

[@EStreaks]

Is it going to end 😥😥

[@jp9523]

Yeah. Im gonna miss this

[@titlespree]

*The knowledge of science and engineering is growing exponentially. It can be a good thing and save the planet for us as long as we humans are willing to learn from our mistakes!*

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Wow, Bolding your whole comment totally isn't Clickbaity and mean to make it so it stands out...

[@astronautbehera7621]

Dr Somara, thank you so much. This series really helped me with school and cleared my mind of the misconceptions about engineering.

[@XSpImmaLion]

Missing this awesome series already! Thanks for it! It's the type of content that I wish I have watched when I was younger, but still appreciate a lot seeing today! xD

[@lordomlette]

Thank you for the course, and best of luck in the future!

[@jp9523]

I'm so thankful to you Dr. Somara, it helps me very well to determine what I'll taking on college next year... But it breaks my heart when i was watching in this last video of this series 😔.

[@jakepattinson9188]

Somewhere in this video is my future career, thank you .

[@nateweinand4209]

This was a pretty great series! Well done Shini! One thing I’ve been wondering for a while in regards to most of the science Crash Course series: is that WALL-E in the background?

[@bytecompilations3313]

I’m starting a new engineering school soon! These courses helped me out a lot of understanding ir

[@obeytweety]

Thank you so much Dr. Somara. After 3 years, I have finally come back and was able to finish this course. I will never look at the world the same again!

[@zhubajie6940]

Thanks for your work Dr. I really hate to see the end of this Crash Course.

[@dhavalsatishvyas9160]

I thank you for all the hard work and knowledge provided by these lecture videos.Appreciate it deeply.

[@idndyzgaming]

Last episode. Nice to learn many things. Nice also to be notif squad today. Thank you. Now if you'll let me learn to be an engineer...

[@barbaramaj1919]

Who is stopping you? Are you a conservative? That would do it... Wink

[@Hambxne]

Great course! Thank you Dr. Somara!

[@Dan-gs2rv]

Very informative video about engineering. Great job crash course 👍

[@indianstudywithme8255]

I learn so much from this channel. Really the best. ❤❤

[@ItsMe-yb1zn]

great work, thank you so much for everything, and I wish that you will continue those series

[@wisperingiron3646]

Another high quality crash course :) Thank you for making this wonderful resource available for everyone.

[@khaledzezo392]

I hope this crush course will exceed 100 episodes. That will be a great news

[@lincolnpepper816]

this is the last episode

[@khaledzezo392]

@@lincolnpepper816 then I hope they will make another crush course. With new topics in engineering.

[@TheMemesofDestruction]

Thank you for all your hard work! ^.^

[@gael9796]

Thank you!!

[@shivampanchal3688]

Thank you Crashcourse!

[@niko-ni6ps]

Crashcourse: "we are trying to make cheaper phone" iPhone: *Lol NERDS*

[@hospitalityhero1698]

Great video, you should do a video on science and inventions that have been suppressed by powerful people, example: Stan Meyer and his water powered car.

[@justannpc1866]

After 2 weeks, I finally finished the series.

[@LadyAneh]

Excellent! I’m actually writing a sci-if novel who’s protagonist is an environmental engineer in an international effort to keep Earth livable. This video helps me keep the tech in the story within the range of possibility. :)

[@renaissancejuan]

A1 stuff man. Lmk when its done!!!

[@LadyAneh]

Juan Concepcion Sure! 😃

[@othmanierkan2406]

@@LadyAneh Anaïs Jalhoum

[@othmanierkan2406]

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[@LadyAneh]

Othmani Erkan Eh? 🤔

[@avi12]

9:23 I love the Spot Mini animation

[@middlegrounds109]

Love the video very insightful. Are you going to do a engineering blooper video ?

[@caoimhecahill3148]

Great Video! I am a secondary school student and i would love to work in engineering helping the environment in some way in the future but i am just not sure what kind of engineering course to do in college (e.g civil, mechanical etc).. Do you know what would be the best course to go with?

[@saksham9112]

love you crash course

[@menglongyouk167]

Thank you Dr. Somara and crash course teams for making me appreciate engineering more. As a physics student, I promise to only occasionally make fun of my engineering friends. :D

[@VitruvianSasquatch]

Increased automation is also likely to be a focus, even if it makes people uncomfortable...

[@williambarros666]

Crash Courses are FUN and Educative!! I am an Engineer I had FUN watching it! But are there so many sub-areas of Engineering not explored in those 46, 10 minutes shows that allow me to suggest more 4 Crash courses exploring more the 4 big areas. Thus we will have a total of around 200, 10 minutes programs!

[@nadialeonie7242]

Could you please do an episode more in detail of biomedical engineering?

[@thebloxxer22]

Probably in a Second season, as this was the end of the season.

[@batteryjuicy4231]

if we had a space elevator or something like that we could store Co2 and release it to space. could this thing work?

[@arthas640]

Yes, but it's impractical since you'd need to transport millions of tons of CO2 which takes many times that weight in containers. It's much easier to sequester the CO2 in rocks or minerals, a good example is carbon trapped in coral or in plant materials that get buried. One of the best examples is what happened with the Azolla Fern during the "Azolla Event".

[@parthaceo2090]

awesome

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Now maybe you can do a series on each topic. It there's an audience. My only complaint with this CrashCourse was that it didn't go into enough detail.

[@imsanni9351]

Thanks

[@TornadoADV]

Acting like air gapping vunerable networks is a earth shattering concept worries me as an IT professional. People need to start listening to us first.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

First rule of IT: FREAKING DO A HARD RESTART 2nd rule of IT: If that doesn't work, give up

[@TornadoADV]

@@thanosattorneyatlaw4062 Rule 3: Get something expensive af on the company dime.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

@@TornadoADV Rule 4: Get fired because you bought something on company money, get it taken and become a Hobo

[@sahinyasar9119]

What about resource based economy? Is it can be a part of future of engeneering?

[@thekaxmax]

Not as much as a lot of people seem to think. But we already do that a lot so we don't need to add it.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Why is there so many references to Spot (From Boston Dynamics), not that I'm complaining :P

[@karthiknaidu6005]

Please Prepare videos on transistors

[@naheenmohdkadir9984]

I can't decide which stream I should choose. I have interest in programming and electronics. Can anyone help me?

[@leiwang784]

i'll save this series for my future kids, lol

[@micahwright6008]

We need to use carbon filters and conduct a photosynthesis like process to turn it into oxygen.

[@DougOfTheAntarctic]

We need more Shini Somara. And less hand-waving superficiality.

[@jac001]

This is such a gift in the world of knowledge! Thank you everyone for taking the time to produce such high quality content. No doubt you are inspiring many people to follow their dreams!

[@Shain3333]

I feel like we lack a lot of ways to link micro and macro, be it in economics, in the brain, in climate science...

[@qazhr]

Two new ones must be around the corner and are science ones

[@thomas.02]

speaking of 70 years from flight to moonwalks, where's our orbital rings and oneil cylinders... :-(

[@SunriseFireberry]

Engineering = magic. Which CC is Shini gonna host next? I suggest more magic: the history of magic & the relationship of humans to it.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

Magic is just technology we don't understand yet, except zippers, those are actual magic

[@blazeharmon8585]

Remember the word “Sustainability”

[@asoge]

Thanks for this. It hasn't changed my understanding that all we are doing is putting on bandages on a planetary terminal cancer. But hey, we can prolong it anyway so why not?

[@hutlazzz]

Blockchain is already a solution for many topic such as tracking stuff with absolute transparency and immutability ,thanks for vids

[@TheKatuotasBatinas]

Symetra?

[@timoteogarcia1581]

Wow! I didn't know the guy delivering drugs to my neighborhood is an engineer.

[@whocares2087.1]

BECCS has been shown not to work due to the massive areas needed for forestation, which would actually increase the average temp by reflecting less sunlight. Anyone got any better ideas, or are we dead?

[@loganl3746]

Genetically modified algae? They can photosynthesize to remove the CO2 and convert it to O2 (GM to make it more efficient), and we use the multiplying algae in biofuel and algal batteries? Find ways to incorporate the algae into building design and use it as a power source? Hell, we can eat algae. Or even just finding a nonbiological chemical process that turns CO2 into O2 and pure carbon. Bury the carbon or use it to make things (diamond, carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes, filters)?

[@liluna6731]

She reminds me of Yorochi the cat from Bleach!

[@Marinealver]

I don't see FTL drives as one of the priorities.

[@PennyAfNorberg]

Burn less, fission more, some ccs may be needed.

[@mortuos557]

Noooo it's over😭

[@steve5nash]

How about financial engineering?

[@willyouwright]

Will ai convince us to party ourselves to death.. lol

[@whocares2087.1]

No, that's what we're doing now.

[@aodhanbreathnach386]

π=3

[@valorkaizen]

What about Aerospace Engineers?

[@arthas640]

Aerospace engineers are nerds, the cool kids become computer engineers

[@valorkaizen]

@@arthas640 oh come on Aerospace Engineering is the future of humanity. And programming will be a common thing in the future

[@lukasj.navarro9163]

@@valorkaizen it already is common place. Most elementary students already know Java or python.

[@kubakarwacki2424]

Sooo will I get a certificate now or what ? :p

[@rogermz]

So, what is the Biggest Problems We're Facing Today & The Future of Engineering?

[@Alexander_Kale]

Automation. On both accounts.

[@sebastian-nunez]

Nice

[@liam5978]

1st cool

[@joeseppe1398]

Nobody thinks about other. Who cares future ?

[@nativelatinosfooktrump5348]

🔭Me 01

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

this series is the E in STEM

[@tomdarco2223]

Cool

[@amozagang8900]

maddddd

[@jessybond]

yeah but the main word is moderation 'cos CRISPR\cas9 is a VERY powerful weapon if you ask me

[@bludove8847]

There's no problems only solutions - John Lennon We need to create fiber optic's infrastructure's that are connecting intranet's for our power grids so people from the internet are separated making it impossible to hack. Because the intranet & fiber optic's are separated from fiber optic's of the internet fiber optic's. If you haven't studied Nicholas Tesa's work I highly recommend to do so you'll find many solutions to today's problems. Thanks for what your doing 🕯✌

[@jamesporter628]

Where is the line between scientists and engineers? From my perspective in computer science this is really blurry and a lot of this video's topics I would class as science

[@davidgustavsson4000]

As an engineer doing a PhD, science is a lot more "typically engineer" than my education prepared me for.

[@danmar007]

The biggest problems facing the world today are socio-political and lack of education of the general populace.

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

And the fact that there are less empathetic people in the world than ever, that's why I say we snap half of the population. It solves everything!

[@jsmeswagner6104]

There's not en9ugh jobs to go around now if you send 1000000 people to college for engineering, but you only have 10000 jobs you have another generation with extreme debt and no jobs. Making people intelligent doesn't solve any problems. They just end up in the way

[@thanosattorneyatlaw4062]

@@jsmeswagner6104 Well, at least the house they'll never be able to affod will be underwater anyway!

[@barbaramaj1919]

The biggest problem in engineering is the lowering of standards and the acceptance of the mundane. Current hiring practice overlooks "qualified" candidates for a position, in lieu of their gender characteristics. I.e.: Women/females are highly sought whereas males are discounted to meet ridiculous hiring guidelines set by government agencies. Similar practice is done with racial and ethnic considerations (a practice that was previously unheard in viable competitive markets). The second biggest problem is the acceptance of hearsay over tried and PROVEN science. Institutes of "higher learning" no longer regard historical relevance or "truth" in an argument. Proof and methods of testing are subjective. Science as a whole, is open to emotional (and subjective) theories rather than cold hard facts (tried and proven consistent). Proof of this comes with the claim that the earth is warming due to human interaction with the "system". Neither the warming, the human element nor the possible results/effects have any proof that can't or hasn't been debunked. What we see is an argument of subjective points.

[@engibear6392]

*I work in an office with like 100 engineers. We have a decent number of women, and we have a few people of Asian, Middle-Eastern, or Latin descent, but I don't know of a single black guy.* *Meanwhile, people who actually know about the sciences tend to not use the word "proven" (especially IN ALL CAPS LIKE AN ANGRY GRANDPA) or ever write the word "system" with quotation marks like that.*

[@engibear6392]

​@Justin O'Brien Oh. Haha, so I am. Welp, it's official. I am no longer able to tell the difference between a chat bot and a dumb person.

[@JohnSmith-xk8rr]

Why does this video feel so forced with "green" nonsense? As an engineer in oil and gas *disclaimer*, it takes more resources and pollution to build and maintain solar or wind operations per kW than burning hydrocarbons. Furthermore any attempt to reduce pollution comes at an efficiency cost that hurts the bottom line, these future people are going to have to be a new kind of human. Now nuclear, currently modular reactors that we have seen similar to on military vessels are buried on every military base, we might be able to meet baseload power with nuclear technology. Currently there are efforts by corporations like Microsoft to get these modular reactors to power large data centers but if part of you has doubts about burying reactors all over the USA, you are not wrong. Currently, we are in the process of decommissioning nuclear plants. We have cooling ponds all over the USA where if just 1 were to explode it would be a exetencial event. It's a great cold war idea to ensure if the grid fails the world ends but we have made little to no progress with the way nuclear power is done since then. Everything is still theoretical and until mankind needs a way to produce power domestically and not produce plutonium or atleast use it for domestic power, we will forever be stuck in the cold war era for nuclear.

[@davidgustavsson4000]

The thing is, fossil fuel has no plan for the future. Sure, solar is barely feasible right now, but the switch will pay back in the long term.

[@JohnSmith-xk8rr]

@@davidgustavsson4000 You should do some of your own research on how many tons of coal it takes to produce solar panels and wind turbines. Then factor in the upfront cost comparison building and maintaining a coal plant verse a solar farm per kilowatt. It's all smoke and panels. Also baseload power demand cannot be met with today's wind/solar storage capacity. Even with a mountain of lithium batteries, when you factor in the environmental cost of lithium batteries and the lifespan of them, it's all diminishing returns. I love all the high minded ideas but practically speaking it's all nonsense.

[@davidgustavsson4000]

@@JohnSmith-xk8rr the key word is "currently". Sticking to coal because it's the most efficient in the short term is short sighted. It's necessary to direct R&D towards power sources that have a shot at becoming sustainable.

[@JohnSmith-xk8rr]

@@davidgustavsson4000 That is just coal, I have not touched oil, lubricants and distillates. Currently billions would starve without these products. It isnt until you start to think about all the transportation, equipment, and complex supply chains that require millions of barrels of oil to be turned into even just diesel you start to realize what kind of situation we are in. Everything from keeping the gears greased to fertilizer requires intense production of greenhouse gases and oil. To think 7+ billion people are going to live in closed systems comparable to those "earth ships" in California is a extremely privileged wet dream. If we don't end up nuking each other over food and oil, humans are going to have to reduce their individual existence to compensate for the billions of new people. If anything we would be preparing our kids to work for Lockheed Martin.

[@davidgustavsson4000]

@@JohnSmith-xk8rr of course, because there are other uses for oil than fuel, limiting oil consumption for fuel is stupid.

[@willyouwright]

I dont think people realise that once u have what u want. U will be extremely bored... and losse will to live

[@denisaene2308]

Well, that can be problematic, but I personally see it like this: once survival is ensured, one has to think about the secondary issue, which is how to live happily. And looking for its solution can be a worthy challenge.

[@willyouwright]

@@denisaene2308 happiness is easy. Enjoy what you have and be gratefull. Expand your awareness. The more you are aware of the more you have to be gratefull for. Its nit rocket science.. lol

[@grandmaster-grouch]

Errm.. I thought smart ai is supposed to fix this? Is that what we all agreed upon on my post doctrine party where we watch Big Bang tv show? 😩😫🙄😲😂✌️💕

[@DakuHonoo]

11. shouldn't concern engineers, the technology already exists, it's a politician's job to prevent that - there one less job to do

[@user-hb6vc9ye9k]

for a non native english speaker, it really is hard to understand what this female saying

[@whocares2087.1]

That East London verbiage is a bit thick. Use the subtitles.

[@rkpetry]

*_...'aaah'-the 'real problem' of Engineering is to connect-or-extrapolate, from Science, to Technology...just as Science must connect or extrapolate from fundamental to actual... The 'biggest problem' is that information is tied to moneymaking/money-blaming which corrupts rather than perceives the beneficially efficient path to the future present now..._*

[@funkysagancat3295]

Next should be international politics

[@funkysagancat3295]

Or maybe classical studies

[@konradgajewski8215]

Blablablablabla bla

[@cheeseburgermonkey7104]

hi

[@rkpetry]

*_...a lot of these suggestions are telescopic political contrivances, trickle-down theories, money-pocket-padding schemes, status-quo maintenance (as communist-minded as an Apportionment ratio set to a fraction of a voter), obsolete concepts to try again better or worse (cf PERT books, automatic-citationing Internet browsers, VR vs RV), brain-blame..._*

[@willyouwright]

Ai will be able to solve these issues. Its clear there are many solutions. But. Will we trust ai. Will it be beat for us or ai or other systems will we be convinced by ai of unwise or short term unsustainable solution. Will we be confined and bored inside the soltution. I.e. utopian boredom

[@prenticedarlington2720]

It's not a question you're supposed to ask but you're sitting in a way that suggests you'll need some time off in the near future. If so, I guess you're feeling a bit rough at the moment but good luck and hope you're back on our screens soon. Take care. If not, sit up properly, dammit!

[@Impactiveshop]

Engineers are looking for carbon capture devices while we have the best technology for capturing carbon, called a ducking TREE, i can plant 1000 trees for 100$ and remove carbon for YEARS

[@dantsai5216]

Electronin com and that’s some of the biggest bind spots of engineers who solely focuses on “technology”.

[@Impactiveshop]

Dan tsai i am making a products that plant trees with each sales, i hope this way we could show companies there are more thing than just sales

[@davidgustavsson4000]

For this to balance the burning of fossil fuels, we'd need to plant enormous volumes of trees, and dig them down safely and efficiently. The kinds of time and pressure that turned biomass to oil in the first place is just not something we can mimic at scale.

[@Impactiveshop]

@@davidgustavsson4000Gustavsson what do you mean? I think we can plant trees at scale reasonably easy

[@davidgustavsson4000]

@@Impactiveshop a simplistic calculation a user on earth science stack exchange indicated that an area the size of Europe, Asia and Africa combined would need to be planted with trees to counter the CO2 emissions of 2010. Note that those trees can't be burned for fuel, or they would be a net 0. Even if that calculation was exaggerated by a factor 1e6, that's still way more forests than we would be able to plant. I'm not saying trees are pointless, but it's not a long term solution to the emissions problem.

[@Happy_look]

На русском скинь

[@MrCooCoo4crack]

This woman is beautiful

[@engibear6392]

*I tried to be nice in the comments for the last episode, but then I ran into some climate change deniers, including one whose entire understanding of the world seemed to come from a 3rd-grade history textbook written in the U.S. during the Cold War.*

[@jsmeswagner6104]

You could plant trees and they would eat the carbon dioxide. No ok let's build. Thing that do what plants do. That way we can let the trees all be cut down.

[@grandmaster-grouch]

It’s not the millennials? Wtf is going on here? What year is it? Trump still the prez right? 🤘

[@user-vq9bj9jd7p]

Why do you stop Arabic translation so many of my friends can not watch the content because they do not speak English If you can translate it my friend will make an announcement for you in his channel

[@cirentXD]

Episode 46 and still not any courses. This should be renamed to 'Crash facts.' A lot is said, but nothing is really taught.

[@TacticusPrime]

I see you don't understand what a "crash course" is. It's a quick dense unfolding of necessary facts. This is a KZbin series, not a school. It's strictly informational and non-interactive. That is necessary for it to remain relevant for many years.