Sentences with phrase «conversations about engineering»

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Born of a conversation among women engineers about how to grow their numbers, the toy went from Kickstarter crowdfunding project to the shelves of Toys «R» Us in less than nine months.

He referred to a «billion - dollar conversation» that Zuckerberg had had years ago with Facebook's engineers about the company's slow shift to mobile.

For example, monthly conference calls with plant engineering and environmental staff facilitate ongoing conversations about environmental programs and sustainability issues.

Science, engineering, health and human rights: Conversations with industry leaders The Coalition would like to publish a series of interviews with leaders in science, engineering industry in which they will be asked questions about the role of their company and their industry in respecting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights.

In the long term, the results of the survey are expected to influence ongoing global conversations about the roles and responsibilities of scientists and engineers in society, help clarify public expectations of scientists and engineers, lead to the development of materials for the education of scientists and engineers, and provide empirical data for consideration when developing specific recommendations on the nature and scope of the social responsibilities of scientists and engineers.

NPR Tell Me More Program with Michel Martin has been hosting an on - going conversation about the state of African - American participation in technology, as well as science and engineering field.

«We've been in conversation with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state [of Louisiana] about how to manage the river as a protection system,» Twilley says.

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.»

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.

December 31, 2013 • In this final interview in our series of conversations about the future, Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep talks to Danny Hillis, a scientist and engineer and the inventor of a clock designed to last 10,000 years.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

In advance of today's «Expanding Education Opportunity through School Choice» hearing, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Which brings us to a conversation I've always imaged must have happened in Japan, probably at Yamaha, probably about 1979, when the Yamaha marketing staff brought a Harley to show the designers and engineers, probably in Hamamatsu.

By bringing together these voices, Lico aims to provoke a larger conversation about the social engineering of inequity.

You can see hints of this in the title of Braden Allenby, a professor of engineering ethics at Arizona State University (with whom I recently had an onstage conversation about the path toward and beyond 9 billion people).

So what I'm going to be doing over the next several weeks, next several months, is having a conversation, a wide - ranging conversation with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what can — what more can we do to make short - term progress in reducing carbons, and then working through an education process that I think is necessary, a discussion, the conversation across the country about, you know, what realistically can we do long term to make sure that this is not something we're passing on to future generations that's going to be very expensive and very painful to deal with.

Hamilton's voice is an important one in the emerging conversation about climate engineering.

FCEA was constituted in 2013, out of a recognition that the conversation about climate engineering responses to climate change was growing rapidly in importance, yet was narrowly restricted in terms of the scope of actors and interests.

The conversation with «Carnegie Science» climate engineering disinformation representative Douglas MacMartin (AKA MacMynowski) began from an initial message sent to MacMartin from a very dedicated and credible anti-geoengineering activist, Maciej Kocialkowski, who expressed his very dire and justified concerns about climate engineering to Mr. MacMartin.

No matter the outcome, their involvement in the conversation about whether or not to conduct climate engineering research and about potential deployment will be instrumental in reaching well - informed, legitimate decisions.

This is how many early conversations about legal engineering and innovation begin.

We have about 80 engineers from teams across Windows who have been having conversations with Windows Insiders in the Windows Insider forums.

9to5Google, which has captured video and conversation with engineers about the software, reports that while the release is intended to work on Android O, there's no firm timeline for launch as of yet.