Sentences with phrase «less about engineering»

One of the things he's told me is that as he moves up the corporate ladder, it becomes more about politics and dealing with people and less about engineering.

I do think that we're involved in a process that is rather less about engineering and more about organic growth.

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The civil engineers and project managers who do the infrastructure building are less skeptical about the role of the public sector than privatization advocates.

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.

The innovative thing about OLEDs (for organic light - emitting diodes) is that lots of tiny OLEDs can be «printed» onto a single big sheet, allowing engineers to make a digital display that uses less power than a plasma screen and offers higher contrast, a wider range of viewing angles, and richer colors than an LCD screen.

Researchers and engineers have less information about how they will respond to sea - level rise, storm surge and other extreme events.

«At Northwest, our greenhouse gas emissions have gone down 25 percent since 2000 and about 5 percent less than 1990,» says Ken Hylander, Northwest's senior vice president of safety and engineering.

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.

Agency officials expect that the rover could be built for $ 1.5 billion, about $ 1 billion less than what Curiosity cost, in large part because engineers now know what works and what doesn't.

Many of these scientists and engineers, often using money out of their own pocket, have been less concerned about commercial opportunities but rather have focused on basic science: electrochemistry, metallurgy, calorimetry, mass spectrometry, and nuclear diagnostics.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

A second cluster of developed nations spends about a third less and has correspondingly fewer scientists and engineers: United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and Russia, among others.

Here's 20 seconds or less about me so start your phone timer - An engineer (cyber security one)- Not an employee n..

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The Wind Rises may be a historical biopic about an aeronautical engineer, but in the hands of animator Hayao Miyazaki, it's less about nuts and bolts than it is about the force of nature.

The originality of Lemann's argument lies less in what he says about the tests themselves than in his account of the vision of an engineered society that the founders and supporters of ETS (James Bryant Conant, Henry Chauncy, and Clark Kerr, to name some of the best known) had in mind.

In other analyses of national data (Ingersoll & Perda, 2010), we have found that, as one might expect, teaching has more annual turnover than some higher - status professions (such as lawyers, engineers, architects, professors, and pharmacists); about the same turnover as some occupations (such as police officers and corrections officers); and less turnover than some lower - status lines of work (such as child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals).

Audi's current engineering chief Michael Dick has confirmed that the next TT RS will be positioned above the current model, so it seems safe to expect a beefed up 2.5 - liter turbocharged motor good for 380 hp and 406 lb - ft of torque, which puts the high - end TT right between the 350 - hp 911 Carrera and the 400 - hp 911 Carrera S — for about 40 percent less money.

The engineer can play about with the material, the architecture, the angles of ply we are going to use, and the shape of the tyre — on the sidewalls it's round, but across the tread it's more or less flat.

There are no less than 20 available safety features that have been engineered to be impressively functional, not merely affordable, the Sync3 infotainment system has a graphic layout on the center screen that matches with the standardized look we're finally seeing from consumer electronics, and Siri has taught us all about the possibilities of voice activation.

It is nothing less than a showcase for everything that Kia knows about design, quality, engineering and technology.

Although Toyota engineers have made a myriad of improvements to the LS 400 since its debut about three years ago, they have more or less left alone the engine and the four - speed automatic transmission.

We, at first, scoffed at this perceived aspirational downgrade, but Kia's engineers tell us that when combined with the electric motor, the Atkinson cycle proved to be as efficient as the direct - injection setup, and was also less expensive for the consumer — and Kia's all about making things less expensive.

Newark, DE About Blog With enhanced capabilities to engineer fast - drying, extremely packable, and lightweight garment systems, GORE ® Military Fabrics improve operational effectiveness by allowing soldiers to focus more on their mission and less on the weather.

Note that this, just like with engineering, is less about establishing competence than it is about giving them something to lose.

In my under - graduate days, studying engineering some years ago (quite a few actually but the less said about that the better), one idea was drummed into us again and again.

Kahan: We examined whether people, in judging the validity of evidence on climate change, would be more or less open - minded based on whether they had just previously been exposed to information either about geo - engineering or carbon limits.

The alternative urban doofus hipster plan involves social and economic engineering to bring about less wealth and less consumption.

Perhaps said anonymous poster should be less concerned about the motivations of said brillant engineers and go out to said stations and help document them a little more.

Less seriously, what about combining geo - engineering with carbon sequestration and burial?

With the Note 4, you also get the electronic stylus which is superbly engineered and extremely useful in a variety of ways, which nobody else has been able to mimic properly (at best you get a low - tech pressure sensitive stylus) The price may come down to about 53 k but not less than that.

Whatever your feelings are about it and whether it's just an easier engineering shortcut, the small, black bar is there and, looking on the bright side, results in less bezel around the watch overall.

As soon as its event kicked off, following the obligatory Xbox One X reveal video, Xbox head Phil Spencer walked on stage, and along with Xbox engineer Kareem Choudhry, detailed everything that's amazing about the company's latest console in less than seven minutes.

Software engineers, on average, are paid about 10 % less than product managers in their first year as well as after six or more years of experience.

While several employers, typically engineering companies, sometimes require a civil engineering degree, other employers will be less specific about a required degree subject.

Newark, DE About Blog With enhanced capabilities to engineer fast - drying, extremely packable, and lightweight garment systems, GORE ® Military Fabrics improve operational effectiveness by allowing soldiers to focus more on their mission and less on the weather.