Sentences with phrase «about engineering research»

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The Congressional Research Service and the Army Corps of Engineers have estimated that the fencing already in place cost the United States about $ 7 billion.

Brendan Frey, CEO of Deep Genomics and a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, says his research team trained its system to analyze individual cells to draw conclusions about the entire cellular system and, ultimately, make a diagnosis.

With one of the largest workforces in the world, its research showed that only about half of AT&T's 250,000 employees had the necessary science, technology, engineering and math skills the company required.

About one - fourth of the engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one key founder who was an immigrant, according to the Kauffman Foundation, a research group that advocates for entrepreneurial policy.

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

The company also plans to hire about 50 engineers next year and expand its research team to around 200 by 2020.

There are a lot of promises talked about by a lot of companies,» said Jim Keller, chief engineer for Honda Research and Development Americas, referring to the pervasive industry hype.

About five percent are used for teaching purposes, another five percent for diagnosis of disease, twenty percent for production of biological substances («biologicals») and for toxicity testing, thirty percent in development of drugs and their testing, and forty percent for other research activities such as the present work in genetic engineering to increase the size of sheep and pigs.

But Dr. Clarence Goluke, an engineer who researched composting at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered that bacteria and fungal spores occur naturally in the air and on just about any organic material, so adding soil to the pile to «innoculate» it is superfluous.

«We know a lot about green speed,» said the man with the computer, USGA research engineer Matt Pringle, «but we're trying to understand more about the bounciness of turf.»

My husband returned to college about four years ago after serving in the Oregon National Guard and working for the Oregon Military Dept.. He received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science this year and works as a Research and Development Engineer.

Alvarez, who spent a decade leading healthcare and clinical research teams, interviewed about 5,000 women about what their pumping experiences and worked with her husband, a mechanical engineer who specializes in medical devices, to create a prototype out of a surgical glove, washer, syringe and duct tape.

Since 1976, AAAS has published an annual report analyzing research and development in the proposed federal budget in order to make available to the scientific and engineering communities and to policymakers timely and objective information about the Administration's plans for the coming fiscal year.

2010 Lynford L. Goddard is honored as the first recipient of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for exemplifying an early career scientist eager to share his excitement about science and demonstrating excellence in reaching high school students with activities in electrical engineering, while simultaneously pursuing a competitive research career.

Since 1976, AAAS has published an annual report analyzing research and development (R&D) in the proposed federal budget in order to make available to the scientific and engineering communities and to policymakers timely and objective information about the Administration's plans for the coming fiscal year.

The European Commission and others are encouraging scientists and engineers to broaden their thinking about their research and to engage society

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

The Whitaker Foundation (Arlington, Va.), which awards grants for research and education in biomedical engineering at academic institutions in the United States and Canada, has a wealth of information about the field, including a list of programs that offer graduate degrees, on its Web site.

Speaking about the research, which enables scientists and engineers to quantify how transparent a 2D material is to an electrostatic field, Dr Elton Santos from the Atomistic Simulation Research Centre at Queen's, said: «In our paper we have developed a theoretical framework that predicts and quantifies the degree of «transparency» up to the limit of one - atom - thick, 2D materials, to an electrostatiresearch, which enables scientists and engineers to quantify how transparent a 2D material is to an electrostatic field, Dr Elton Santos from the Atomistic Simulation Research Centre at Queen's, said: «In our paper we have developed a theoretical framework that predicts and quantifies the degree of «transparency» up to the limit of one - atom - thick, 2D materials, to an electrostatiResearch Centre at Queen's, said: «In our paper we have developed a theoretical framework that predicts and quantifies the degree of «transparency» up to the limit of one - atom - thick, 2D materials, to an electrostatic field.

«I spent 10 to 20 % of my time at the company, mostly doing computational research, trying to think about the best way to engineer enzymes to complete those pathways,» Justin says.

«After March 2011, we experienced about 40 fires,» says Hiroshi Koseki, a fire safety engineer at the National Research Institute of Fire and Disaster in Chofu, Japan, and co-author of the new report published in the current issue of Fire and Materials.

As a tissue engineer panellist, Kevin Shakesheff, professor of advanced drug delivery at the University of Nottingham, is well - used to talking about controversial research.

The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dresearch assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dresearch engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid DResearch Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.

However, because the light coming into the sensor has to pass through several layers of metal before reaching the silicon, which is a weak light absorber, the sensor detects only about 25 percent of the light that makes up the image, says Sargent, who is also a professor of electrical and computer engineering and Canada research chair in Nanotechnology at the University of Toronto.

Although researchers have known for years about bismuth ferrite's piezoelectric properties, it could not be made to produce enough voltage to be considered as a replacement for lead, says Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a professor of physics and of materials science and engineering at U.C. Berkeley who contributed to the research led by Robert Zeches, one of Ramesh's graduate researchers at Berkeley's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.

The biomedical engineering students met with Salimpour to learn about the research he conducts in a clinical setting.

A team of engineers at Drexel University might have done just that, according to research recently published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics about using electric fields to direct the robots in a fluid environment.

The research on animals» collision warning systems is not only of interest to gain fundamental knowledge about animals, but also in areas such as the engineering of machines with automatic steering.

The Pentagon funds about one - half of basic electrical engineering research, for instance, and one - fifth of math and physics studies.

Imperial is planning to recruit about ten faculty, six postdoctoral researchers, and seven Ph.D. students to work on the project, with skills in process engineering, civil engineering systems, electricity distribution modelling, and resource flow analysis.And it is likely that similar research may be funded.

«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.

«I learned more about astronomy, how to conduct research and get some hands - on experience up at WIRO,» says Munari, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering.

Overall, DOD provides about one - half of the research funding in many engineering fields, one - third in computer science, and one - fifth in math and physics.

A lab at the center of a longstanding controversy about dangerous virus research has engineered heartier influenza viruses that could streamline vaccine production.

Recent psychological research suggests that girlifying science may not be the best way to get girls thinking about careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (also called «STEM»).

«It's really about engineering progress across the board,» explains John DeCicco, a research professor at the University of Michigan Energy Institute.

«When we started this research program there was a clear lack of tools and mathematical models to help the software engineers to program in an energy efficient way, and also to reason abstractly about the power and energy behavior of her software» says Philippas Tsigas, professor in Computer Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, and project leader of Excess.

«The biggest thing that people become concerned about [for batteries in cars] is the ability to be able to tolerate abuse,» said Joe Redfield, principal engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, a nonprofit engineering research and developmenResearch Institute, a nonprofit engineering research and developmenresearch and development group.

Specifically, structures should be able to withstand levels of shaking that would have about a 2 percent chance of being exceeded within 50 years, although the actual calculations are more complicated, said Nicolas Luco, a research structural engineer with the USGS in Golden, Colorado.

about PPPL honors Grierson and Greenough for distinguished research and engineering achievements

PHENOMIN offers an international and first class 4 - day session training to provide engineers (Master's degrees), PhDs and researchers with a wealth of information about the good practices regarding the use of mouse models in biomedical research.

About Southern Research Southern Research is a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) organization with more than 400 scientists and engineers working across four divisions: drug discovery, drug development, engineering, and energy and environment.

Channel 7 News about the QUT led breast cancer research using 3D printing technology for tissue engineering.

Merlin Bird ID is an outgrowth of the Visipedia research project, which engineers started about five years ago as a sort of «visual Wikipedia.»

As Griffith struggled with the technical limitations of her work, she thought more and more about the clinical issues her research was addressing — and her engineer's mind characteristically flipped the problem.

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.

To continue the conversation about neuroethics with current students who will continue to work with neural engineering technology or participate in research, Specker Sullivan taught a UW course called «Neuroethics» during spring 2017 that was offered under «Advanced Topics in Philosophy.»

CSNE Education Research Manager, Kristen Bergsman, added, «Through exposure to the field of neural engineering, students learn about opportunities they might not have heard about or considered before.

Students from the neuroethics team are part of the research groups in CSNE - affiliated labs, and they engage in regular conversation about neuroethics and the impact of neural engineering technology on end - users.