Sentences with phrase «major engineering studies»

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In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

According to GirlsWhoCode, 74 percent of middle - school girls express interest in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, yet only 0.4 percent of high - school girls plan to study computer science as a major in college.

Students majoring in engineering, computer sciences, and from many other fields of study are signing up too.

He later moved to Texas with another of his sisters to study engineering at a community college and then transferred to the University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin), where he majored in chemical engineering.

Verma majored in electrical engineering in India and came to the United States to study artificial intelligence.

Alexandra Witze introduced her readers to the seismologists who work around the clock to pinpoint major earthquakes around the globe; to a brother and sister who have spent their lives studying Pluto; and to scientists and engineers involved in the removal of two dams on the Elwha River in Washington's Olympic Penninsula and the restoration of the environment behind the dams.

The report, «U.S. Academic Scientific Publishing,» published November 19, follows a July 2007 NSF study which found that the absolute number of science and engineering (S&E) articles published by U.S. - based authors in the world's major peer - reviewed journals plateaued in the early 1990s even as funding and personnel increased.

The team of multidisciplinary researchers studied a group of MSU Honors College graduates from 1990 to 1995 who majored in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, or STEM.

Prof Inzé (VIB - Ghent University): «This study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

The study provided major insights into how plants cope with water - limiting conditions, which can direct advanced breeding and genome engineering efforts to create high - performing, drought - tolerant crop plants.

At the time of the study, Wolz was majoring in biology and civil and environmental engineering.

Dust is a major cause of failure in fan coolers, and company engineers are studying its impact in the ionic environment.

Using a combination of human or specially engineered mouse cells in vitro and in vivo animal models, study senior investigator Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD; study lead investigator Farokh Dotiwala, PhD, with a team lead by the Brazilian parasitologist Ricardo Gazzinelli, DSc, DVM, found that when an immune killer cell, such as a T - cell or natural killer (NK) cell, encounters a cell infected with any of three intracellular parasites (Trypanosoma cruzi, Toxoplasma gondii or Leishmania major), it releases three proteins that together kill both the parasite and the infected cell:

About a quarter of high performing students who began pursuing a bachelor's degree between 2003 and 2009 declared a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) major; however, nearly a third of these students had transferred out of STEM fields by spring 2009, according to a study by RTI International.

New studies raise questions about the conventional wisdom on how U.S. college students decide to major in science and engineering and the significance of high attrition rates.

«We may have discovered a major step toward developing a «dream tool» for remotely controlling neural circuits, by manipulating specific cells using engineered gene products that respond to magnets,» said Ali Deniz Güler, a UVA biology professor who led the study in his neuroscience lab.

NAOJ and the Department of Astronomical Science of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) hold annual summer student programs every August for sophomore and junior students who major in science and engineering.

Im a chill chick originally from NY but currently in LA I played varsity Bball and softball my 4 yrs in high school homie also currently studying music in SAE Institute majoring in music production and engineering im down to earth hella humble and just an overall sweetheart:)

Its major finding was that most parents actually want pretty much the same things from their schools: a solid core curriculum in reading and math, an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Some believe that the difficulty in getting a job after graduation is due to an enrollment decrease in technical majors like sciences, math and engineering — called STEM — while enrollment in more «soft» majors such as Gender Studies, Fine Arts, Literature, and other humanities are rising.

While 11 % of S&P 500 CEOs majored in business administration, 33 % opted to study engineering instead.

A major problem with the idea of making VR32 wearable, according to Makino, was that Nintendo engineers were concerned about placing a chip with high radio emissions near a user's head, since the safety of EMF radiation on the brain had yet to be thoroughly studied.

The exception is that Cooper Union undergraduates or alumni with an engineering degree in a major other than electrical engineering, including the Bachelor of Science of Engineering degree, would be considered for admission into the Master of Engineering program in electrical engineering if they have taken a substantial number of ECE courses and are prepared for advanced studies in the field.

After finishing high school Travis went on to study engineering at the the University of Curaçao before changing his major and going on to follow his true passion of studying visual arts.

Young graduates who majored in education and teaching or engineering were most likely to find a job requiring a college degree, while area studies majors — those who majored in Latin American studies, for example — and humanities majors were least likely to do so.

I studied physics at Princeton University before switching my major to mechanical engineering, where I specialized in control theory and feedback loops, a topic that will be important when we get into the details of climate change modeling.

«Canada has already contributed to developing a significant body of work to study oil spill behaviour and recovery technologies, through extensive research conducted in the public domain by some 50 scientists, technologists, chemists and engineers in four major programs, and peer reviewed domestically and internationally.»

If, even with this latest study, you aspire to leave law in favor of a less - depressing occupation, the professionals who report the fewest incidents of major depression are engineers, architects and surveyors.

A major source of funding for postgraduate studies in engineering is the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Except for a few majors, like engineering, the course of study does not matter.

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For the purpose of data collection, the university was divided into four major schools of study namely (i) science, (ii) social science and humanities, (iii) management and commerce, and (iv) engineering and technology.

That work was accomplished by six staff members, with another three to perform the due diligence — ordering appraisals, environmental studies, engineering reports and reading the major leases.