Sentences with phrase «engineering research takes»

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If you're intrigued by the idea of working on applications that millions of people could potentially use, then you'll want to take a look at the growing group of software engineers who are researching, designing, evaluating, integrating and maintaining software applications, technical environments, operating systems (you can thank these guys for all those Apple iOS updates), embedded software, information warehouses and telecommunications software in both the private and public sectors.
In this process, the younger Dyson, who had been a Non-Executive Director at Dyson since 2013, now took on more responsibilities at the company by becoming its Research and Development Director, as well as its Chief Lighting Engineer.
A still image taken from a video rendering shows a nanocraft which could be used on Breakthrough Starshot, a $ 100 million research and engineering program aiming to demonstrate proof of concept for light - propelled spacecrafts.
As a rule of thumb, plant breeders in both public research institutes and private companies use genetic engineering only in the following situations: 1) the gene of interest is not found within the crop gene pool, 2) if found in the gene pool, transfer will be difficult due to incompatibility and other breeding problems or 3) the transfer of the gene will take a long time as in the case of perennial crops like coconut.
Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it into more pure research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.
When Daley asked him to take over the park in 1998, Uhlir was just out the door of the Chicago Park District, retired from 25 years of service, including time spent in such positions as chief architect, director of architecture, engineering and planning, and, finally, director of research and planning.
The workshop — which will take place at Bear Creek Mountain Resort in Macungie, PA from June 11 - 13, 2018 — will bring together scientists from allied disciplines in the basic and social sciences and engineering to address many issues involved in multi-sensory data science as applied to problems in materials research.
The International Linear Collider (ILC) took another small step forward yesterday when Japan's High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) released a plan for getting the country ready to host the $ 10 billion project by tripling its relevant science and engineering workforce over the next 4 years.
Electrical engineers reviewing grid research proposals questioned the trio's stripped - down, low - resolution power model and took a dim view of their interdisciplinary efforts.
I left Tucson anyway and took a research associate position in the department of engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Another disadvantage to biomedical engineering research is that it may take longer for work to come to fruition than in other, simpler fields.
The research has yielded «an interesting way of taking a long - standing technical problem, creating a new type of technology using existing hardware, and applying it in ways that can help in emergencies,» says electrical engineer Jeff Frolik of the University of Vermont, Burlington.
Fedder, whose complex engineered systems institute is an outgrowth of an NSF engineering research center that closed 15 years ago, acknowledges that CMU and other universities are taking a calculated risk that their faculty members will find sufficient intellectual challenges in tackling problems to advance the technologies that underpin additive manufacturing.
In order to compete with imaginative industrial research in, for example, large Japanese companies, the best thing for Foresight to do is take careful stock of the basic skills and talents of Britain's scientific and engineering communities.
Provides up to $ 20,000 in matching funds to regular faculty — untenured or tenure - track — at selected institutions in the fields of mathematics, science, engineering, or technology faced with urgent family responsibilities so that they can take a leave with salary or, after a leave, resume research.
The UAB research team, led by J. David Sweatt, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Neurobiology and director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, removed H2A.Z in mouse models by means of a genetically engineered virus so that the subunit exchange could not take place.
Her question earned her the transfer she wanted, to engineering, where she began the sonic boom research that would take her to the upper levels of NASA management.
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research Council announced yesterday that they are assembling an expert committee of academic and industry engineers to take a technical look into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and oil spill.
Indeed, including the necessary neutral particles was very computationally expensive, and the final model took roughly a year to run on the Pleiades supercomputer located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and which supports hundreds of science and engineering projects for NASA missions.
But Sturm, senior scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, had not done two things in his notable career: taken an outlandish trek to explore the human history of the North or written a narrative book.
Because of these limitations, most pancreatic cancer research relies on genetically engineered mouse models of the disease, which can take up to one year to generate.
«Without shared experimental infrastructure, researchers have to spend lots of money developing their own experimental infrastructure which takes away from their core research,» said Laura Tinnel, a senior research engineer at SRI International and one of the study's authors.
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Along with some 2500 Korean students who received advanced degrees last year in science and engineering, she was seeking her first research job just as the country's economy took a nose dive and thousands of workers were being laid off.
«Thin film will be able to take the cost of electricity down to better compete with existing utility prices,» says Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and a Columbia University professor of environmental engineering.
Dean Kamen's new television program takes viewers on a behind - the - scenes look at cutting - edge research in hopes of inspiring a new generation of scientists, engineers and inventors
McFarlin and her engineering colleague, William O'Brien Jr., a research professor at the Urbana - Champaign campus, are taking ultrasonic detection of cervical changes to a microscopic level.
The report takes an in - depth look at past research on and future potential of the often controversial application of genetic engineering to U.S. crops.
Taking a chance with a shoestring budget compared to other researchers doing similar projects, he added stem - cell engineering to his research program.
The eighth edition of the summer school «ELyT School» took place from August 29th to September 6th, 2016 in Sendai (Japan) in the framework of the CNRS International Associated Laboratory (LIA) «ELyT lab» (Engineering Lyon Tohoku lab), composed of engineering research laboratories from Tohoku University in Sendai and from Université de Lyon (mainly INSA Lyon and ECL).
There will also be lectures by top physicists and engineers that will offer a more in - depth look at the magnetic fusion research taking place at PPPL and some of the related projects.
In August, engineers at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., sent out a call for ideas on how they could use the two reaction wheels and Kepler's thrusters together — rather like using a cane to help the spacecraft as it hobbles around on two wheels — and what resources it would take to get the spacecraft on its feet, however shakily.
He admits that this will take many years of basic biology research along with more translational studies into tissue engineering.
In this Journal, Dr. Lise Johnson, CSNE university education manager and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, explores the concepts behind sensorimotor neural engineering and takes a closer look at CSNE research.
Nicolas» early career took him to the Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates as a researcher for a short period before becoming a research engineer for Solvay and l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
«That's what I've gotten out of [the CSNE neural engineering class] the most, that high - level idea of what it takes to build some of these things, things we can do to make them better and where I could explore further in terms of research
Her research projects have included studies of engagement in rigorous, project - based high school courses and how it might be supported; creating inclusive, engaging environments in university engineering programs; and of how and why teachers take up new practices, including assessment practices.
Institute engineers analyze this information and assign the rating, just as they would if the test had taken place in the Institute's own Vehicle Research Center.
Bioprocess engineering: In this, previous developments and recent researches are also taken into consideration to produce various useful products in agriculture, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, etc., which are biologically useful and environmentally sustainable.
For those who are unaware, Resident Evil Zero saw gamers take to a zombie infested train, in which players were imbued with several new weapons and in game abilities, in an attempt to eliminate their Umbrella engineered foes, and escape the remnants of an abandoned Umbrella research facility.
Dr. Holdren's support for research on geo - engineering aligns him with Ralph Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, who told The Times in 2006, «We should treat these ideas like any other research and get into the mind - set of taking them seriously.»
Having been a research chemist for 35 + years, having been married to an engineer for decades, and having taught at an «engineering» school, I can tell you with certainty that the difference between scientists and engineers is not only the courses they take, but it is how they think and approach problem solving.
I'm an engineer, but I worked in a NOAA research vessel (needed money for college), took three Oceanography courses, have experience running large scale gridded dynamic models, have been involved in research to establish paramerization parameters for our models, and worked for several years in the Arctic together with a team of climatologists and «ice experts».
With an engineering background, it probably took me over a 1,000 hours research to get a firm grasp on what was going with the CAWG issue.
In other words, you will use engineering design principles to create your model — recognizing that its purpose is to support research activities, and therefore its design will ebb and flow significantly depending upon where the results of your research activities take it.
Research takes priority, too, with faculty working on more than 450 projects — including wildlife disease prevention, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering — around the world.
Bill Hammack, the guy behind Engineer Guy Video, takes a moment to explain how research in the early days of the telephone industry applies to the queuing systems used in modern stores.
Also part of its research efforts, HUAWEI assessed various facets of consumer needs and desires, allowing the brand to take the uni-body design concept to the next level In addition to creating a smartphone that is entirely rose gold in colour — from its antenna to the exterior case and even its camera — HUAWEI's designers and engineers also applied used sandblasting technology to create a unique finish for product, which has an exceptionally great feel.
Star Wars might take place a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away — but for one NASA research engineer, it's also a sign of things to come.
Their role includes assisting engineers, taking phone calls, handling correspondence, creating presentations, performing research, and writing procedure manuals.
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