The World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development takes place each year on March 4th. This day is celebrated worldwide to highlight engineering as a science, the achievement attained by engineers, and improve society’s general knowledge of engineering.

Consumer behavior and society have changed over time. While we can attribute this transformation to many factors inherent to society’s progress and lifestyle changes, we must also consider the evolution of all the industries that make up the global economy. An industry’s transformation generates changes in everyone’s behavior and lifestyle -not only because of the creation of new products and services- but also due to changes in its processes.

For example, in the energy and petroleum sector, we can see how engineering and the working model affect our lifestyles from the standpoint of What energy type we use? What level of activity allows us to produce X amount of energy? How much pollution does the energy industry generates? not only by industry but by society in general?

Taking all this into account, what role do engineers have in this process? Digital transformation and the arrival of new technologies have disrupted the way traditional energy companies operate. The speed of standardized internal and external changes in these companies indicates that they must take advantage of these new technological competencies, especially in research, when developing products and services.

I firmly believe that we must do several things to create a safer and  greener oil sector:

  • Develop new research lines to identify opportunities to optimize existing energy processes and reduce their environmental impact.
  • Research and develop new energy lines or models to enhance the green economy.
  • Design circular economy procedures that allow taking advantage of all our waste to become more sustainable.

This philosophy guides us at Nakasawa, and this is how the Super Matroid technology came about with these three lines of work embodied in the product. However, we still aspire to improve, so we keep on exploring four critical research lines, which are the following:

Beyond the work of engineers and engineering, our societies need to be able to combat climate change and develop new infrastructures capable of dealing with environmental phenomena, such as floods and cyclones, especially in Africa and less developed countries.

Never before has the work of engineers been so critical to our current and future generations. Therefore, we must raise awareness regarding the engineering role in transforming industries for achieving sustainable development.

by info@nakasawaresources.com