Learning Engineering Practice

Preface

This book is being published as nations around the world struggle to recover from the consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic. Governments have imposed movement restrictions to slow the spread of infections so that hospitals have enough capacity to provide care for the significant minority of infected people who develop acute breathing difficulties. As a result, many industries such as commercial aviation, hotels, retail stores, manufacturing, and entertainment have been forced to close or drastically restrict their operations. Governments with sufficient economic capacity have provided payments and subsidies for affected workers. In low-income countries, tens or hundreds of millions of low-paid and migrant workers lost their incomes ...