Sentences with phrase «engineering effort on»

The fate of the phone is unclear, but it's possible Samsung instead decided to focus engineering effort on its next real flagship phone, the Galaxy S6.
It's easy to shrug off the importance of emoji, but they're an important part of communication for millions of people, and Google is doing the right thing by focusing engineering effort on them, both in Android and Play Services.
To me, this SVT truck makes a lot more sense, because it focuses engineering effort on trucky stuff, instead of trying to make a sports car out of a truck.
He will oversee engineering efforts on Zoosk's mobile and desktop platforms, as the company brings in new technologies.

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A mechanical engineer by training, Burns, who proved herself a quick study and an outspoken colleague, blew through the ranks — taking on product development, business planning and a series of managerial roles that in 2000 put her at the center of Xerox's restructuring efforts.
In the auto - parts unit, efforts have been focused on the former, mostly by engineering plastic components to serve as lightweight substitutes for components made of heavier materials.
The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.
Other opportunities will take an incredible amount of time and effort like collaborating with your engineering department on creating an interactive site widget that can be used for link building purposes.
Design Engineer at Intel where she worked on car infotainment products, low power microprocessor design and led efforts for Maker Movement inside Intel.
Prior to Citi, he helped drive sales at Zappedy and was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where he helped build out the India investment effort as well as develop the local commerce and fin tech investment areas in the US.Ramneek started his professional career as a design engineer at PMC Sierra and worked on the hardware design team at TiVo.
In a motion filed today, Apple argued that it «would require significant resources and effort» to develop the software, requiring at least six and as many as 10 software engineers working on the project full - time for at least two weeks and as long as four weeks.
Learn how you can support this effort, along with lessons learned from California's Prop 37 and what's happening on a national level to require labeling of genetically engineered foods, from a panel of speakers and industry leaders deeply involved in these efforts.
Cuomo pointed at a program in San Diego called CONNECT; a private effort started almost three decades ago to bring together engineers and scientists on college campuses with startup companies — or turn those researchers into entrepreneurs themselves.
Since the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) took over the management of Arik, The Guardian learnt that efforts are on to tackle the challenge of «too expensive pilots and engineers» where there are cheaper equivalents in the Nigerian workforce.
Stop the presses: Gov. Cuomo and Rep. Chris Collins agree on something, namely the effort to fight flooding in western New York with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The second part of the AAAS effort, which is the focus of this report, was to design and pre-test a survey that would produce generalizable results about the views of scientists and engineers on their social responsibilities.
That insight prompted engineers like Malkin to set up a mosaic of efforts centered on three tactics: repair the old equipment; train local technicians to perform fixes; and design low cost, high reliability, easy - to - maintain equipment specifically for the developing world.
Janeen Romie, the LIGO engineering group leader, coordinates the efforts of her colleagues as they calibrate instruments and attempt to lock the laser on the target mirrors.
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.
You can lend your support to our efforts on behalf of scientists, engineers, educators, and students everywhere by becoming a member.
After the passage of the American's With Disabilities Act in 1990, the Project on Science, Technology and Disability turned their efforts to encouraging science education among handicapped students and the publication of the Resource Directory of Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities.
When Douglas MacMartin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena approached the National Science Foundation for support on a modeling effort on [albedo modification], officials told him the work was too theoretical for the engineering division and too applied for the atmospheric science program.
The ETE comprised different research programs relating to the environment carried out at the NUS faculties of engineering, medicine, and science with research efforts focused on the following six areas: biotreatment technology, membrane technology, adsorption and regeneration, environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis and air pollution control, and air quality management.
Martinson and her colleague Susan Smandych, chair of the CCPE Women in Engineering (WIE) committee, reported to ICWES12 participants on CCPE?s latest efforts to raise the profile of women in the engineering profession.
In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.
Also at the NUS, the Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering focuses on research efforts in biomedical engineering between and among the various centres and groups from the engineering, medicine, dentistry, and science faculties.
The Curiosity rover's descent on Mars was a success, thanks in part to the engineering efforts of Miguel de San Martín.
«We haven't applied the same level of effort to engineering lightweight trucks — they're excessively heavy and the on - road fleet doesn't look much different than it did a few decades ago,» she said.
On April 27, as the U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP engineers to guide remote control submarines nearly a mile underwater in a futile effort to close a shut - off valve, BP told investors that its quarterly earnings were up more than 100 percent over the last year, beating expectations by a large margin.
Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.
Badylak's debut paper on ECM went to press right around the time scientists first coined the term «tissue engineering» to describe what was then considered a small but burgeoning field — the far - out - there efforts to coax cells into tissue to restore, maintain, or improve tissue function or whole organs.
It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.
The plot centers on efforts of a visionary structural engineer in the 22nd century, Dr Vannevar Morgan, to construct a space elevator connecting the surface of the earth with a satellite in geostationary orbit, almost a kind -LSB-...]
Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.
A group of mechanical engineering students are working on a project that will fly drones into the middle of tornadoes in an effort to learn more about the inner workings of these destructive storms.
U.S. science and engineering research depends increasingly on the efforts of postdoctoral scholars.
Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rights.
«So much effort in this field of neural engineering has focused on decoding information from the brain.
Led by reproductive biologist Alex Travis, the engineering effort focuses on a chain of enzymes that metabolize glucose molecules into the biological fuel ATP (a process known as glycolysis), which enables sperm locomotion.
Drawing on the similarities between Pac - Man and an amoeba and efforts to model the human brain, this absorbing read shows that biologists and engineers have a lot to learn from working together.
«Today, many efforts to make science and engineering more inclusive are focusing attention on the multiplicity of «pathways» by which persons from underrepresented groups can enter and progress through science careers.
In an effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip) culture device in which cells from a human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated by a porous matrix - coated membrane from human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.
Administration officials hope that shining a light on the numerous private - sector efforts already underway to improve STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education will enhance existing federal programs.
The lead author on today's study, Séralini, is head of its scientific board, and it pledges to «make every effort towards the removal of the status of secrecy prevailing in genetic engineering experiments and concerning genetically modified crops (GMOs), both being likely to have an impact on the environment and / or on health».
Following the success of the first national Postdoc Network meeting and the National Academies» COSEPUP Convocation on Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers, Opportunities for Collaboration promises to build and sustain momentum for efforts aimed at improving the postdoctoral experience.
The study is «a useful step in this effort to develop fully functional tissues with blood vessels,» says chemical engineer Abraham Stroock of Cornell University, who also works on engineering blood vessels in tissue using different techniques.
The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.
Previous honorees have gone on to drive on - the - ground efforts against infectious diseases like Zika and Ebola, discover new exoplanets and observe gravitational waves, and be recognized with other high honors including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Breakthrough Prize.
Regenerative medicine R&D efforts are focused largely on developing stem cell and tissue engineering therapies as a means to regenerate, replace or repair damaged tissues and organs.
Clark leads research efforts focused on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials — including DOE's Energy Frontier Research Center on Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM).
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