Sentences with phrase «more engineering studies»

The problem of open fires and primitive stoves for cooking — which WHO estimates cause 1.5 million deaths annually — requires more engineering studies to come up with clean, cheap alternatives.

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SS: I went to the University of Toronto to study civil engineering with the idea that I wanted to be an architect, but as I talked to more and more architects, they all warned me I shouldn't go into the field — there was no money in it.

Mr Robinson is a qualified engineer and highly experienced feasibility study and project manager, with more than 35 years of industry experience.

As we enter the Asian Century, more and more students from a variety of backgrounds — whether it be in engineering, arts, business, or science — are looking to China as a study abroad destination.

This model is more akin to anthropology and other cultural studies (as the other is closer to engineering and sociology).

The events aim to encourage more young people to study science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and consider exciting and rewarding careers in STEM that utilise creativity, innovation and problem - solving skills.

«Through these challenge days and the entire Faraday programme we aim to encourage more young people to study STEM subjects and consider engineering as a possible career path.

§ The events aim to encourage more young people to study and consider exciting and rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) by encouraging creativity, innovation and problem solving skills.

In a recent study, we found that use of this engineered sugarcane could yield more than 2,500 liters of bio-jet fuel per acre of land.

It covers math, social studies, English, engineering and tech, arts and music, health, and more!

She latched onto the SCARB1 gene, inspired by a 2002 study in which MIT molecular biologist Monty Krieger found that mice engineered to lack that gene were more prone to heart attacks.

Early research opportunities are critical, many science educators believe: A 2007 study found that undergraduates who participate in laboratory research are significantly more likely to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering than those who don't get hands - on research experience.

Other studies have found that men working in typically male occupations such as engineering have more boys.

Tissue engineering provides a more practical means for researchers to study cell behavior, such as cancer cell resistance to therapy, and test new drugs or combinations of drugs to treat many diseases.

in mechatronics is by far the most popular program in engineering at the FH Ravensburg - Weingarten: More than 140 students from all over the world compete for one of 15 study places each year.

A brand new science for studying this networked phenomenon, and in effect it's kind of a reverse engineering the World Wide Web that we know and the kinds of networks that we see on that to try to figure out how they took shape and maybe from that we can learn what principles involve and how networks do grow and you might be able to use that sort of thing to be able to develop a better system s for example being able to create more efficient networks and that could be very valuable in industry, there may be a lot of practical applications, involving protecting privacy, for example, and stopping people from stealing identities; and you should, you know, should be of just an interesting phenomenon.

Finding funding was probably even more difficult for me as a female who wanted to study chemical engineering.

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.

«One of the broader goals of our research is to make regenerative treatments more accessible and clinically relevant by developing easy, efficient and cost - effective ways to engineer human cells and tissues,» said Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and senior author of the study.

They then isolated the active compounds, studied their chemical structures and engineered more potent derivatives.

More recently, more than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Society of Civil EngineMore recently, more than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Society of Civil Enginemore than one in four U.S. bridges were found to be either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a 2009 study by the U.S. Society of Civil Engineers.

A new study shows that goat's milk engineered to be more similar to human breast milk reduces the amount of harmful bacteria in piglet guts.

Engineers might even be able to develop more powerful and maneuverable versions of the study's robot car that could be driven by silkworms genetically modified to detect a wide variety of smells to help with sniffing tasks traditionally done by trained animals.

The new research, which studied the immortalization process using genome - engineered cells in culture and also tracked skin cells as they progressed from a mole into a malignant melanoma, suggests that telomerase plays a more complex role in cancer.

A 2014 study by Nilanjana Dasgupta, a social psychologist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, found that undergraduate women in engineering participate more and show less anxiety in solving problems in a group if they comprise a majority in their study group.

Most animal studies of the disease are conducted with laboratory mice that have been genetically engineered and bred to model ALS, but for this research, investigators used rats with ALS because they more accurately portray the disease's variable course in humans.

Sutherland and Pozzi suggest that there should be a more objective review of the maths which engineering students study at university.

In this work, we present a new kind of light source that is more efficient than what's available today in terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the study.

A new study finds that gender parity in small group settings helps young women engineers feel more confident as they pursue a challenge.

This study is specific to women who have already chosen engineering, she notes, so the participants probably place more importance on a sense of belonging.

For more than a decade, Pfeifer has been studying how to engineer E. coli to generate new varieties of erythromycin, a popular antibiotic.

Then in 2011, Goddard engineer Donald Dichmann, who at the time worked for Applied Defense Solutions in Columbia, Md., and his co-authors began work on a paper reviewing the trade studies NASA made when it decided to move its Interstellar Boundary Explorer from its original orbit to a more stable position at another lunar - resonant orbit — P / 3 — where it's mapping the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

«The next step is to scale up with much larger and more diverse datasets,» said Johannes Soons, a NIST mechanical engineer and co-author of the study.

Kaplan, whose specialty is biopolymer engineering, has studied the unique properties and applications of silk for more than 20 years.

«These structures work more or less like little rockets,» says chemical engineer Giuseppe Battaglia, also of University College London, and the study's senior author.

With that in mind, I pursued a master's degree and later a PhD in biomedical engineering, forgoing industry in favour of a new area of study that I felt more passionate about.

To find a better solution, a team of zoologists and engineers studied video recordings of more than 300,000 hens living on free - range farms in the United Kingdom.

Working under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, the team spent two years evaluating more than 100 studies that addressed the various implications of climate engineering and their anticipated effects on greenhouse gases.

In a new study, biomedical engineers found that by attaching microscopic beads to receptors on the cell's surface, they can produce the technique's cell - stretching, calcium - releasing effects much more safely.

After some investigation I found out that the European School for Advanced Studies in Reduction of Seismic Risk (ROSE School) at the University of Pavia, in northern Italy, had the status of a Marie Curie Training Site in civil engineering, more specifically in the field of structural - earthquake engineering.

While the study findings are significant, much more research is needed to refine the genetic engineering strategy, said Egan.

In a recent study, engineering researchers at Waterloo found that small wetlands have a more significant role to play than larger ones in preventing excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer from reaching waterbodies such as the Great Lakes.

Although more American - born students are pursuing undergraduate degrees in science and engineering than ever before, many are not going on to graduate study, says Eleanor Babco, executive director of the Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology.

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?

In its first year, PBG membership included more than 100 students and postdocs campus wide, including students from the schools of biomedical graduate studies, medicine, law, business, and engineering.

«I must have tried more than 100 times to get this just right,» said Xiangfan Chen, a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering and lead author on the study.

«The mechanical shuffling that occurs as dislocations pop up and over those atomic bumps creates a domino effect of more dislocations,» said study co-author Daryl Chrzan, a professor of materials science and engineering who led the theoretical effort in the project.

Now, a study of nearly 1 million engineering paper co-authorships puts hard numbers on the problem in this male - dominated scientific field, and finds a paradoxical trend: Female engineers are publishing in slightly more prestigious journals on average than their male colleagues, but their work is getting less attention.

A recent study of the east coast of England by Sir William Halcrow & Partners, a firm of engineering consultants, found around 200 kilometres where the low - water mark is advancing inland by a metre or more each year, including most of the Holderness and Lincolnshire coastlines, substantial parts of north Norfolk and long stretches of the Essex marshes.

A recent US study of more than 5500 women with engineering degrees found that of those who had started work in the sector and then left it, a fifth did so because they didn't like the workplace climate or their boss.