SPACE MAKERS

摘要

A mechanical engineer in the space sector designing a heart pump seems incongruous. Especially as the recipient of the heart pump isn't heading into space and space technology hasn't been used in creating the device. So what is the link? Problem solving, according to the engineer in question, Piyal Samara-Ratna, who works out of Leicester University's Space Research Centre (SRC). "Our key task at the SRC is to take the ideas that our scientists come up with and make them a reality. As most of these ideas are for things that have never been made before, and with space being such a challenging environment, it makes us very good at problem solving," he explains.