6 MOMENTUM • VIRGINIA TECH MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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Amrinder Nain (top,
center) conducts a
“Formal Friday”
Zoom session, a
tradition that the
lab group started
before COVID-19
restrictions and
continued remotely.
The flexibility required by the on
COVID-19 has taken many forms
and education have stubbornly con
during these unprecedented times
whose work falls in the area of hig
education have found themselves s
ly needing to teach online. If fact,
social distancing requirements, the
has been no other choice.
Mechanical engineering has bee
exception to this national moveme
impact of the novel coronavirus be
more obvious during Virginia Tech
break, originally scheduled from M
7-15. As students started their wee
break in a variety of locations, the
of cases rose nationally. On the firs