Swanson School of Engineering

I think the aerospace solutions at Eaton are most applicable to global engineering challenges, especially after learning how strict and the global requirements that are agreed on restrict airplane innovations. I’ve always been a bit confused on why there are so many innovations on electronics like iPhones and computers, but not so many large scale recent innovations in America on things like trains and airplanes. This now makes more sense having the context that there is the large engineering challenge of innovating while staying within global standards, for example fueling restrictions on airplanes going throughout different countries limiting sustainable ideas like changing the type of fuel being used based on trying to harm the environment less. Hearing the speaker at Eaton elaborate on how this global engineering challenge changes how they innovate based on the need to stay compatible with global standards that have been agreed upon and take very long to change and even get an innovation that fits the standards to be approved.