Discussion Questions for Video

EK 100 – Freshman Advising Seminar Learning Goals of the Community and Global Engagement Class: - Discuss the value of community and global engagement from an engineering perspective. - Examine how Societal Engineers will develop the skills necessary to tackle the grand challenges. - Students are beginning their training as Societal Engineers. How do they define their society? Where do they want their impact to be?

Watch Ted Talk: Bill Gates – The Next Outbreak: We’re Not Ready (March 2015) 8 minutes http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_the_next_disaster_we_re_not_ready?language=en

Discussion Questions for Video: Video Questions: a. Bill Gates uses the term “global failure” to refer to the Ebola outbreak. What does that term mean to you? How did we fail in the Ebola outbreak? b. Gates cites the heroic work of health workers as one of the reasons that the epidemic was contained. Where might engineers fit into the heroic work? c. Discuss each of the strategies needed to fight the next outbreak. What are the challenges in implementing these strategies? i. Strengthen Health Systems ii. Create a Medical Core iii. Pair Medical & Military iv. Run Germ Games v. Step up Research & Development d. How will Societal Engineers be involved in fighting the next outbreak? e. Discuss the importance of the grand challenge of advance health informatics. What are health informatics? Why would conquering this challenge change the world? f. How are engineers/health workers/professionals in our Boston University community working on advancing health informatics?