Abdullah AlManayes
Nothing here was written to prove a point. If there is one, I hope it becomes obvious on its own.
The Breadth of Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering crosses boundaries between water, infrastructure, biology, chemistry, and other fields. A departmental meeting showed me how that breadth can create very different paths toward addressing the same environmental problems.
Between the Buildings
Seeing a red-tailed hawk feeding on campus made me think about how wildlife continues to function within developed environments, and what responsibility we have when deciding how those environments are built.
Minecraft and the Cost of Starting Over
A Minecraft world built over time raises a broader question: when is replacing something with a better design actually better than adapting what already exists?
Designing for a Changing Environment
A visit to the Montauk Lighthouse reveals how looking across centuries can change the way we understand environmental change and the way engineers design for it.
From Understanding to Engineering
How iGEM changed my perspective from understanding environmental problems to engineering solutions, and showed me the difference between studying what biological systems can do and designing what they could do.