Sentences with phrase «fundamental engineering research»

The goal of the Energy for Sustainability program is to support fundamental engineering research that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and fuels, and for energy... Read more →

We found that too much effort in the department is devoted to research on technologies that are multiple generations away from practical use at the expense of analyses, modeling and simulation, or other highly relevant fundamental engineering research activities that could influence the private sector in the nearer term.

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Medela concentrates on two business units: «Breastfeeding», with fundamental research that is recognised globally and leading in the development and manufacture of breastfeeding products, and «Healthcare», engineering and manufacturing highly innovative medical vacuum technology solutions.

AAAS Board of Directors Chairman Gilbert Omenn submitted comments on NSF's draft strategic plan, commending the agency for its commitment to «strengthen fundamental research across the full spectrum of science and engineering.»

«Look at all the issues — climate change, stem cell research, general environmental issues, health care, energy — that all have a fundamental scientific or engineering basis.

Durrant already leads a successful research lab at Imperial, but his joint appointment now allows him to connect fundamental science expertise at Imperial with engineering and manufacturing expertise at Swansea.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

As Hockfield moves into her role as AAAS president, she often makes the point that the challenges facing the world as the population grows to more than 9 billion by 2050 — including the need for improved access to sufficient food, clean water, sustainable energy and health care — can only be met through fundamental scientific and engineering research, accompanied by the translation of that research into market - ready applications.

If you are a biomedical engineer developing scaffolds to grow cartilage for regenerative medicine, you are unlikely to publish in top biology journals because your research is not viewed as fundamental, Viceconti says.

But he feels that correcting the problem may require a more fundamental overhaul of the current system, in which the government agrees to finance campus research in exchange for having universities train the nation's future scientists and engineers.

It is equally important that research engineers should be able to contribute in a fundamental and unfettered way.

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.

«At this new building you will have fundamental research conducted by scientists working shoulder - to - shoulder with engineers to translate the science to new technologies,» Frei said.

Prof. Chen Li's research group in the Mechanical Engineering Department is using high pressure as a tool to (1) understand the physics of fundamental excitations in the materials; (2) tune the properties of existing energy materials; and (3) engineer innovative multi-functional materials through high pressure synthesis or other indirect approaches.

His research has advanced our understanding of fundamental questions in plastid biochemistry and achieved important biotechnological and synthetic biology breakthroughs, including engineered insect resistance and the transfer of the entire metabolic pathway for artemisinic acid from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop.

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.

«Appealing as it may sound, collaborative efforts between engineers and scientists are rare in Sweden and much is to be gained by closing the loop between technology development and fundamental research.»

Research in his Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering (LSCB) is at the interface of stem cell biology and biomolecular engineering to gain fundamental insight into how protein components of niches control the fate of adult stem cells.

It's easy to appreciate how science and fundamental research advance engineering.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

This nanotechnology signature initiative coordinates the nanoscale science, engineering, and technology communities around the fundamental, interconnected elements of collaborative modeling, a cyber-toolbox, and data infrastructure to capitalize on American strengths in innovation, shorten the time from research to new product development, and maintain U.S. leadership in sustainable design of engineered nanoscale materials.

The mission of the Wyss Institute is to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things; to pursue the high - risk research that is fundamental to advance this effort; and to harness these insights to create biologically - inspired materials and devices to advance human health and improve the environment — thereby revolutionizing clinical medicine and creating a more sustainable world.

It provides a broad coverage of both fundamental and applied research, including aspects of chemistry, physics and biology as well as materials science and engineering.

As a member of the engineering staff, her research work encompassed a multidisciplinary approach to the development and testing of analytical instruments for planetary exploration missions with the focus on transitioning fundamental scientific research and early technological demonstrations toward breadboard and brassboard instrumentation development.

In a significant new report compiled and edited for the Computing Research Association (CRA), Dede shows that — just as science and engineering have used technology - enriched, data - intensive research to probe fundamental questions — education is primed to grapple with its own driving quResearch Association (CRA), Dede shows that — just as science and engineering have used technology - enriched, data - intensive research to probe fundamental questions — education is primed to grapple with its own driving quresearch to probe fundamental questions — education is primed to grapple with its own driving questions.

Dorman is active in the international content generation research community and has put into play applied - research techniques developed for linguistics and computer science including formal transformational grammar, language engineering, design pattern research, and model - driven engineering, into the fundamental game design.

All School of Engineering departments maintain a focus on project - based learning and opportunities for extension through undergraduate research, in addition to training students in the science and mathematics fundamental to engineering practice.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

«If we can directly store solar energy as a chemical fuel, like what nature does with photosynthesis, we could solve a fundamental challenge of renewable energy,» says Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan who led the research while at McGill University.

To achieve career advancement as an Associate's holder and to go above performing supervised routine tests, it is advisable to opt for a Bachelor's degree, which teaches the fundamentals of chemistry and prepares one for a career in chemical, research, engineering, education, and even in business and management field.