Sentences with phrase «lot about engineering»

Also, «I learnt a lot about engineering and the constraints and how difficult life is» in space.

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The Founding Partner of Incipient, Bryan Weinert, says this about EPD: «In the first year of our business, I managed a lot of the smaller development projects and only priced out proposals for the engineers and designers on the project.

Asked if Sony has given this potential challenge any thought, Turvey says, «I'd be concerned if we haven't thought about it, and there's a lot smarter people than myself — our engineers in Tokyo — that have solutions for all these opportunities.

Futurist (and current director of engineering at Google) Ray Kurzweil has made a lot of predictions about the future — and many of them have come true.

There are a lot of promises talked about by a lot of companies,» said Jim Keller, chief engineer for Honda Research and Development Americas, referring to the pervasive industry hype.

I travel to China pretty regularly — about 3 months of the year, and based on discussions with a few locals, a lot of new developments are unaffordable, even for highly skilled workers like factory managers or engineers.

When it became clear earlier bullish bets on oil post-OPEC were about to cost speculators a lot of money, traders and their machines took over and engineered bearish positions to mitigate losses.

«I think there is a lot of misinformation out there about genetically engineered foods and ingredients and there are a lot of consumers out there that don't know a lot about them,» Jaffe said.

«We know a lot about green speed,» said the man with the computer, USGA research engineer Matt Pringle, «but we're trying to understand more about the bounciness of turf.»

«I think that public understanding of engineering and science is incredibly important, both to continue getting support for these fields, but also to inform people as they make decisions about lots of issues that are confronting our world today,» he said.

I've read a lot of books, because I'm a geek and want to know what «the experts» recommend, then because I'm an engineer and a very logic person, analyse the whole thing and the different opinions to come to a conclusion, my conclusion about what to do.

«To drain a swamp, you need an Army Corps of Engineers, experts schooled in service and serious purpose, not do - nothing, say - anything, neophyte opportunists who know a lot about how to bully and bluster, but not so much about truth, justice and fairness.»

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.

«We could learn a lot about how to reverse - engineer biological systems by reverse - engineering synthetic systems,» Jonas says.

Four years ago, when Lawrence Summers suggested that the scarcity of prominent female scientists and engineers was in part because there are fewer women on the extremes of the range of innate math ability — fewer geniuses and fewer duds — he stirred up a lot of misguided arguments about gender differences in the brain.

The aforementioned engineer had this part covered; his CV contained a lot of information about how well he fit the job opening — but it was hidden back in the slums of his CV while my attention stayed mainly on the high - end, oceanfront condos on the front page (and on his cover letter).

«He was a clinician and knew quite a bit about a lot of things, and he was dealing with this engineer who thought differently and didn't see things the same way,» Fahmy says.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

The first organism in which scientists went in and inserted genes that did not belong to its species into that organism; and as I talk about it in the book, genetic engineering has caused a lot of anxiety in part because people feel that it's not natural.

If someone wants to build a new sensor, say, to understand how cells change their activity, they'll know to go talk to the people who do nanoscale engineering at Lawrence Berkeley's Molecular Foundry, who know a lot about that.

With many science and engineering project assignments spanning a number of weeks, or even most of a semester, there are lots and lots of details that a student needs to remember about her project.

About 175 PPPL staff members, including some family members, volunteered their time on a hot, sunny Saturday for the event, whether it was handing out snacks and water bottles, giving passersby directions or staffing the «Ask the Physicist,» and «Ask the Engineer» booth in the D Site parking lot.

I worked in an engineering environment for many years and know a lot of men many are decent but many and we are talking educated men not knuckle draggers are very judgemental about women who want casual sex.

writing a lot about knitting and a little about coping with autism in the family Little Sun is a project by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesenand with a mission to bring the sustainable energy to everyone.

We also hear a lot of Hollywood screenwriting mumbo jumbo about genetic engineering and upgrading and I'm left wondering where the stripped - down action and survivalist horror of the first movie went?

There is lots of talk about the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pipeline and all of its leaks.

They stem from the US because that's where a lot of the work is being done, but I look at for example the EGFI website, Engineers Australia have got some resources, there are plenty of resources that explain to teachers about the engineering activity, what the objectives are, the core content.

As an example, an aerospace engineer may know a lot about avionics and flight theory, but this alone does not make him an aircraft pilot.

My passenger was Sebastian Ruger, a thirty - one - year - old whiz - kid engineer who knows a lot about hybrids and almost everything about the 918.

We visit lots of aspiring manufacturers and you quickly get a sense of whether they're in it for the long haul; from very early on it was clear that the new Marcos team was very serious about producing desirable, reliable and meticulously engineered sports cars.

When the NSX was new, the Honda engineers were quite concerned about the car's straightline stability, as the combination of a 58 percent rearward weight distribution and a relatively short 99.6 - inch wheelbase (the 1997 Corvette C5 with its 104.5 - inch wheelbase had not yet made a long wheelbase respectable for sports cars) seemed to promise lots of excitement in the corners.

Cars tell you a whole lot about how well they're engineered and put together when they're skidding through corners, braking at threshold, and revving near redline for several laps.

Reading through the press release, there aren't a whole lot of details about the game itself but it does state that Turn 10 has worked with Audi engineers on the development of the 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI model that will be featured in the game.

That says a lot about engine refinement and engineering from Audi on the new A4.

designed and engineered entirely in Ohio, by American Honda employees who can count about 200 Odyssey owners in company parking lots.

Despite its sporting slant and a lot of talk from engineers about efforts to keep the center of gravity as low as possible, the Macan possess greater ground clearance than the Q5.

About the only thing that lets the Honda down is the lack of secured storage, the Japanese engineers instead favouring lots of open knick - knack space.

I think the «professionals» that do the test drives are so diluted with the massive range of cars trucks SUV's etc that they drive they loose the ability to fine tune what matters to the specific group of people into this type of car... Also there is a lot of room in the front seat - seems to have endless adjustment to it - I am a huge guy 6» 3 and 250 pounds and just to feel like the Santa fe I have to have the seat upwards, I will slowly adjust this back as I get used to the car... Also no one wants to discuss the arguments about the 19 inch wheels adding a little to the ground clearance - an engineer showed me this huge equation that in the end said it added 1.45 inches... who knows... But I am impressed with the power, I thought it was slightly bigger and more powerful that the CX - 5 and handled just as good maybe better off regular roads....

Greg Bernas, chief engineer in Toyota's Technical Centre, said the conversion would require a lot of thought about just how capable a more rough - and - ready RAV4 should be, but that the company is ready to do that work if consumers are interested.

Although I logged about 1,000 miles in the revamped 1996 Saturn sedan, it is that stretch of mountain road - which put a lot of stress on all the car's mechanical components - that really demonstrated for me the superb engineering and exceptional road manners of the 1996 version of Saturn's best - selling car.

«There is a lot of talk about it, but it's still at the «maybe / what if» stage,» dynamics engineer Peter Schmidt told me.

But beyond that and the requirement for premium fuel, there's not a lot to gripe about with this German - engineered hatch.

Students enrolled in the engineering courses often need to complete a lot of assignments along with a dissertation in the final semester which is a crucial factor in deciding about the cumulative grades.

I was a lowly engineer but everyone liked to gossip a lot about our end - of - the - year bonus (based on company revenue) and whether we would be winning any new programs or not.

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).

There is a lot to love about GE's FirstBuild program,» an online and physical community dedicated to designing, engineering, building, and selling the next generation of major home appliances.»

My point is I personally know a lot of engineers here in CA, a few in NY and I speak to others online and they have grave concerns about such widespread renewable energy being tenable.

It also includes a heck of a lot of engineers and scientists researching and developing in companies and taxpayer - funded organisations, and how about the military subsidy...?

The vehicle's chief engineer, Yasuhisa Arai, added they're open to «lots of ideas about how to use it, particularly from the younger generation.»

I am not a «certified climate scientist», I am an engineer who knows a lot about all that energy balance thingy stuff.