Sentences with phrase «practical engineers do»

Steven, Practical engineers do it differently: «Edison had too much money invested into his DC system, and he tried his best to discredit Tesla by showing that AC was more dangerous than DC.

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Still another dilemma: «You have teachers, lawyers, doctors and engineers who have studied at Cuban universities, but many of them don't necessarily have practical expertise, because the engineer hasn't actually built a bridge, or the architect hasn't built a building,» Periu says.

After attaining a license from the province or territorial's association of professional engineers, spend three or four years doing supervised work, pass a practical exam, and you're golden.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

I enjoyed the resources industry because it really epitomizes the concepts of practical design: you end up engineering things on the run to be «fit for purpose», making do with potentially less equipment and materials than you'd prefer in some fairly remote and challenging environments.

It's something I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid, but I pursued my first degree in engineering because it seemed like the more practical choice.

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

He was the first president since John F. Kennedy to do that, and if you read that speech, which is still on the web I believe — both at the Academy web site and my friend Ralph Cicerone, president of the National Academy of Sciences, is in the front row — and it's also on the White House web site — what you will find is although the president was clear about the practical applications of science and technology to our great challenges as I've mentioned, he probably spent two thirds of that talk talking about the importance of basic science; the importance of fundamental research in science and technology to our national well - being; and the importance of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

But I think they need to do a far better job of thinking and talking about the real - world impact of their elegant stylings, or they're going to build an exquisitely engineered project that is at cross-purposes with the practical concerns of an array of policymakers, parents, and educators.

If you are the only person within your organization tasked with the creation of eLearning courses, and do not need to share your vision and ideas with colleagues / subject matter experts / software engineers, creating storyboards may not be practical.

It is, however, the measure of VW's twisted brilliance and deep engineering bent that it bothered to elaborately game the system rather than just fail to meet the standard straight up, as more practical creeps might have done.

I believe this has to do with the placement of the luggage rack in conjunction with the angle of the roof (poor engineering) That said its a «practical» vehicle and we have appreciated the all - wheel drive in the bad weather.

This not only makes the Amaze more practical of the two but also points to the clever engineering done by Honda to ensure more cabin and boot space, while keeping the length of the vehicle under the 4 - metre mark.

Scientists and engineers surely do love to think about this stuff, but they should remain thought experiments, until something practical and cost effective comes along.

However, it is practical (and has been done) to engineer a 100 % increase in the C14 CO2 variant.

Ocean fertilization does not seem to me suitable to be the basis for a reliable financial commodity, or a practical tool for geo - engineering climate.

Joule is doing it the only really practical way and that's genetically engineering a comparatively simple prokaryote to excrete fuel in usable form directly from conversion of sunlight, CO2, and water.

24 November, 2017 — Geo - engineering might be possible — but so far it doesn't look practical.

In sure that you list core engineer competencies such as being a practical problem solver, pragmatic thinker, and don't forget creativity.