Sentences with phrase «engineering than university»

Corporate partners might be better for that sort of long - haul engineering than university engineers.

Not exact matches

Georgia Tech graduates more engineers than MIT and Carnegie Mellon combined, and more women and black engineers than any other university, according to Moddelmog.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

A professor of information engineering at the University of Cambridge, he's published more than 250 academic papers and in 2014 received a $ 750,000 Google Award for an artificial intelligence project.

Betaversity also operates Atlas, a job - matching tool for engineers, which is now being used by more than 25 universities and corporate clients.

Malehorn noted that engineering graduates from the University of Illinois often leave to work for companies on the East and West coasts, despite the fact that the school churns out more engineers each year than many other top programs combined.

Last spring, Andrew Eckford, an engineering professor at York University, expressed frustration at being included in Ontario's list of employees of publicly funded institutions who earned more than $ 100,000.

Most large metro areas have more than one research university, but not all claim highly ranked engineering or management schools.

DCVC brings to bear a unique model that unites a team of experienced venture capitalists with more than 50 technology executives and experts (CTOs, CIOs, Chief Scientists, Principal Engineers, Professors at Stanford, Berkeley, and major technical universities) with significant tenures at top 100 technology companies and research institutions worldwide.

Less than a year after spinning off from the University of Waterloo's faculty of engineering, IPT has been recognized by the Federal and Ontario governments for its breakthrough technology and efforts towards commercialization.

More than just a convenient solution, the BSc (Eng) / BComm combined program aims to train a new kind of leader by leveraging the strengths of the world - class business and engineering education offered at the University of Calgary.

Hey Dave, and those «so called scientist» that graduated from christain universities are more qualified than an engineer from Cornell?

Camping, a degreed engineer (not a pastor) who claims to have made the Bible his «university» for more than 50 years, has experience with failed prophecies.

As part of a wide - ranging review into vocational education, the engineering qualification developed by JCB, Rolls Royce, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Cambridge, will in future count as only one GCSE rather than five as is the case now in school performance league tables.

AAAS has provided more than 185 Communicating Science workshops for over 6,000 scientist and engineer attendees at universities, science society meetings, and government agency labs worldwide as of March 2018.

Genetically engineered tobacco plants, chosen to test the concept, managed the unusual feat of growing 14 to 20 percent more mass — meaning more crop yield — than untweaked plants, says Krishna Niyogi of the University of California...

Within the department of agricultural and biosystems engineering at McGill University, there is more diversity in scientific backgrounds than perhaps any other department I know of.

Letian Dou, a chemical engineer at Purdue University, and colleagues were only able to form these light - harvesting crystals in their solar cells by cranking the heat to 105 ° Celsius, much hotter than your average sun - blasted window.

China now has more than 100 research universities in all fields, many of them with an emphasis on science and engineering.

Christine Démoré, an engineering physicist at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and colleagues set out to reverse the direction of that radiation pressure, so that an object would get pulled rather than pushed.

And universities in Asia are now awarding more than half of all engineering degrees.

«The idea is to harness their combined capabilities to test something larger than could be dealt with in a single lab,» says Martin Williams, professor of engineering at the University of Oxford.

«This recombinant method has a good shot at making HSA more abundantly and more safely than human plasma, and it will at least have a shot at being as cost - effective,» says William Velander, an expert in genetically engineered therapeutics at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.

They're often older, more mature, and more committed to their education than students who enter the university right out of high school, says Derek Dunn - Rankin, faculty director for California's statewide CAMP program and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine.

«Order - of - magnitude calculations suggest that implementing a low - amperage backup service appears to be more cost effective than having each homeowner buy a portable generator and storing diesel or gasoline for fueling, especially if a region is expected to suffer more frequent and longer widespread outages,» says Sunhee Baik, lead author and doctoral student in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

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.

«The impact of OFS soaps will be greater than their detergent performance,» said University of Minnesota chemical engineering and materials science graduate student Kristeen Joseph.

Lander, head of the Harvard - MIT Broad Institute, teamed with physicist James Gates Jr. of the University of Maryland, College Park, to lead a 19 - member panel that spent more than a year examining ways to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in U.S. elementary and secondary schools.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

Andrew Dimarogonas, professor of mechanical engineering at Washington University in St Louis, says that his patented device should be safer and more accurate than X-rays.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

«It's the first conclusive evidence that so - called active learning courses, which science educators have promoted for decades as a better way to teach than lectures and cookbook labs, can lower the high attrition rates in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields at U.S. universities.»

The entertainment world has a particular fascination with bringing to life creatures both factual and fictional, and this involves more than just mechanical engineering as it's taught in university.

A team of scientists and engineers at The University of Texas at Austin has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery, delivering results in about 10 second s — more than 150 times as fast as existing technology.

In the Jan. 8 edition of Nature Communications, engineers from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (UNL) and Stanford University show how they created thin - film organic transistors that could operate more than five times faster than previous examples of this experimental technology.

Unlike transplanted beta cells — or other types of real cells genetically engineered to release insulin for diabetes treatment (SN: 1/15/11, p. 9)-- these artificial cells could be mass - produced and have a much longer shelf life than live cells, says study coauthor Zhen Gu, a biomedical engineer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A team of Rutgers University computer engineers has shown that even without a GPS device or other location - sensing technology, a driver could reveal where he or she traveled with no more information than a starting location and a steady stream of data that shows how fast the person was driving.

The first such map, from just 89 days of in - flight testing, is 10 times better than 3 decades of gravity data from all other sources combined, says aerospace engineer Byron Tapley of the University of Texas, Austin, leader of the U.S. GRACE team.

The model, built on more than three decades of research led by Vincent Chiang of the Forest Biotechnology Group at North Carolina State University, will speed the process of engineering trees for specific needs in timber, biofuel, pulp, paper and green chemistry applications.

Cortright and chemical engineer James Dumesic discovered in their university lab back in 2001 that by starting with water and various carbohydrates from plants — basically, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen compounds — and using catalysts, heat and pressure, they could start creating CO2 and hydrogen and then use that hydrogen to eliminate the oxygen as water (the process produces more water than it consumes).

«More and more, the supermarket is going to become a health care provider store, rather than just a place you buy your food,» declares Theodore P. Labuza, professor of food science and engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Earlier this year, a team at Emory University in Atlanta, Georiga, announced that a kidney from a genetically engineered pig had sustained a rhesus macaque monkey for more than 400 days before being rejected, breaking the record by more than 250 days.

«The very idea of using protons rather than electrons to move charge encounters intuitive resistance,» says John Roberts, an electrical engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K. «People know how to control electrons.

A new study by University of Illinois engineers found that in the transistor laser, a device for next - generation high - speed computing, the light and electrons spur one another on to faster switching speeds than any devices available.

«If you can cool the person rather than the building where they work or live, that will save energy,» said Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University and of photon science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the study's principal investigator.

How seriously do you want to take the advice of a much - hyped 2008 Boston University study declaring that weight lifting can burn more fat than cardio exercise, when the conclusions were based entirely on sedentary mice genetically engineered to have bizarrely large muscles?

«The idea is that in people with tinnitus there is an over-attention drawn to the auditory cortex, making it more active than in a healthy person,» said Matthew S. Sherwood, Ph.D., research engineer and adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio.

Paul Moller, a former engineering professor at the University of California at Davis, has spent all of his money and more than 40 years trying to build a flying car.