Sentences with phrase «as an engineering major»

As an engineering major in college I was privileged to learn a great deal about chemistry physics and the mathematics that describe those sciences.

He entered City College of New York in Manhattan as an engineering major and soon found a mentor, Robert Alfano, inventor of the ultrafast laser.

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In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

I found out about the subreddit from a van dweller who works as an engineer at a major tech company, and who says he made friends with other Bay Area - based, van - dwelling techies through the group.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Companies such as Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens, he says, hire engineers with postgraduate degrees to work on sales teams that go after major capital projects, such as high - speed trains or large airplane orders.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

When her high - school teacher suggested engineering as a major, she says «I pictured an old man driving a train.

But what's most interesting now, as we have talked about LIFE, is that major manufacturers in the power industry, architects and engineers who do large scale integration and the like have come to us and are working with us to try and think about how to put this together.

Debbie Sterling didn't know what engineering was when her high - school math teacher suggested it as her college major.

Emsi's article STEM Majors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) mMajors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majorsmajors.

A number of world - leading science and technology professionals, young scientists and engineers, and innovation teams should be trained, with major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and original innovations as their goal, Xi said.

SAN FRANCISCO — Former Google executive Amit Singhal is joining Uber as senior vice president of engineering, a major score for the ride - hailing company.

With early Romanticism gradually fading away into the petit - bourgeois aesthetic cocoon known as Biedermeier (c. 1815 — 1848), German culture increasingly acquiesces to Romanticism's most worrisome features: its strident nationalist undertow; its messianic aspirations, which mutated into delusions of racial superiority; its Rousseauian attempt at recovering authentic, immediate Life (Leben); the variously violent and sexualized mythology in which its major representatives (Friedrich Schlegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Novalis) ground their longing for human - engineered salvation.

To date, two of my childhood friends have become major market CFO's, another invented a new kind of roofing tape, and one was recognized at his college graduation as the highest paid initial graduate in the history of his engineering program.

They may not have the major marketing budgets that national chains have, but smaller full - service chains have found effective strategies to endear themselves to consumers in a big way.Sometimes it's as simple as pacing the progress, often it involves menu engineering, but always it demands agile and consistent execution.

Increasingly concerned at an apparent deadlock over engineering a transfer to either club, he is preparing to hand Roy Hodgson his first major test as Liverpool boss by asking for a move.

Denigrating them due to them being engineering majors is crap, and stigmatizes all other engineering majors and STEM students as nerds who can't get friends.

This is due to Liverpool Lime Street undergoing major engineering work in order to deliver substantial improvements from 2019 as part of the Great North Rail Project.

As a Principal Mechanical Engineer, you will own major portions of our products and pipeline.

As I wrote last week, consumer class action attorney Knoll Lowney sued the No on 522 and the Washington DC - based Grocery Manufactures Association (lobbyists for major food corporations) for not disclosing the donors behind GMA's $ 7 million - plus donation to stop I - 522, which would require genetically - engineered foods to be labeled.

Vanderbeek has a wealth of experience with respect to facilities and water supply planning, having successfully worked with major governmental agencies including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, as well as Rockland Countys towns and villages.

Unity Island in the Niagara River is going to look a little different, as the Army Corps of Engineers does major bottom dredging in the Buffalo River and the city Ship Canal.

Mertens, a professor of engineering at Trinity College, said the Independent Party should be truly independent, and not allow itself to be used as a tool to strengthen a major party candidate.

Usman in a statement disclosed that: «Those promoted include Brigadier General CM Abraham Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 2 Division, Brigadier General OU Obono, Acting Corps Corps Commander, Nigerian Army Artillery Corps, Brigadier General PJ Dauke Acting GOC 3 Division and Brigadier AA Nani Acting GOC 8 Task Force Division, as well Brigadier General JB Olawunmi, Acting Coordinator, Nigerian Army Aviation Corps, Brigadier General CC Okwonkwo, Commander 48 Task Force Division Engineers, Brigadier General MSA Aliyu and Brigadier General AM Jalingo, who were all promoted to the rank of Major General, amongst others.»

He sat down with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the major freight railroad in the West, as well as the union which represents its labor force, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.

Brian was an engineering major as an undergraduate and in the ROTC.

These major players have been plunking down money for large - scale efforts (often framed as challenges) that engineer solutions to specific problems: Diagnose HIV at the point of care; prevent fatal, maternal bleeding after birth; help amputees get around tough terrain, and so on.

Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by «harvesting» the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air conditioning has become a major goal in automotive engineering.

As a dual - degree engineering major in the AUC, my peers and I did not face «stereotype threat» and were able to grow and become confident in our abilities.

Clemmons entered the Ph.D. program at the University of California, San Diego, after completing undergraduate degrees in both physics and mechanical engineering at Spelman College and Georgia Tech, respectively, as an Atlanta University Center dual - degree engineering major.

«We have a mission and an obligation, given who we are and the benefits we enjoy as a result of our status as scientists, to address major science - based issues in society,» said Huybers, a professor of earth and planetary sciences and environmental science and engineering at Harvard University.

The school runs a mentoring effort aimed at reducing the traditionally high attrition rate among undergraduate engineering students, and Sebald views the 22 % women and 13 % underrepresented minorities among the school's 2600 majors as evidence of progress that the CSEM program can build upon.

We all gaped, enraptured — a room full of science majors, science grad students, science professors, and Romance Language majors who had started out as biomedical engineers.

The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing,» published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S. - based authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even as funding and personnel increased.

An electrical engineering — computer science major — or EECS, as it's known in the acronym - crammed world of MIT — Amanda bakes chocolate - chip cookies for the dorm once a week and now does her part to make sure freshmen eat, sleep, and shower.

The original COMPETES Act, passed in 2007, endorsed major budget increases for NSF, NIST, and research programs at the Department of Energy as well as bolstered federal efforts to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

Toward that end, Congress instructed NASA to spend $ 55 million, under the 2016 appropriations bill, on developing space habitats, with funding primarily going to major engineering partners such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK and Bigelow Aerospace.

This world, constructed by engineers, rarely appears in the curriculum until college, and even then, as little as 8 percent of incoming freshmen choose to pursue an engineering major, says Leigh Abts, a research associate at the University of Maryland's School of Engineering and College of Education.

Had the panel had time to do so, says MIT nuclear engineer Charles Forsberg, who served as executive director on the project, «I don't think it would have changed any of the major conclusions of our report.

The organization has recently been in the spotlight as a result of an ongoing trial in L'Aquila, in which seven scientists and engineers who served on Italy's «Great Risks Commission» — including longtime INGV President Enzo Boschi — face charges of manslaughter for allegedly downplaying the chances of a major earthquake before the lethal tremor that struck the city in April 2009.

In the consulting engineering firm Ramboll, water is seen as a major growth market.

And while female engineering majors grade just as well as men, they have a tendency to underrate their technical abilities, she said.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

To be fair, the same is often the case for humanities courses for science and engineering majors, but the big difference is that these students can not help but be bombarded by literature, music and art elsewhere as a part of the pop culture that permeates daily life.

Butte majored in computer science as an undergraduate and then attended medical school, later finishing a Ph.D. in medical engineering.

As their features get smaller and smaller, controlling the buildup of heat has become a major engineering issue; some new system use liquids to dissipate that heat.

As expected, the report shows that women are underrepresented in college majors, graduate school programs, and professional fields that are the most mathematically - intensive, such as geoscience, engineering, economics, mathematics / computer science, and the physical sciences (GEEMPAs expected, the report shows that women are underrepresented in college majors, graduate school programs, and professional fields that are the most mathematically - intensive, such as geoscience, engineering, economics, mathematics / computer science, and the physical sciences (GEEMPas geoscience, engineering, economics, mathematics / computer science, and the physical sciences (GEEMP).

I completed my PhD as a cell biology major in an engineering lab, where I established a new assay to answer questions very different from what the main part of the lab was working on.

Shu Chien is a professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) An eminent Chinese — American physiologist and engineer, Chien's pioneering work on the fluid dynamics of blood flow has had a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis.