Sentences with phrase «of engineers studies»

In Texas, there's a «too little, too late» feel to the steps that have gotten under way — including a variety of United States Army Corps of Engineers studies of flood risk.

The Army Corps of Engineers studied a breakwater in 1991 and concluded it would be effective for wave heights anticipated at the time.

Contractor crews for the Oneida County Sewer District will be testing sewer lines in the Town of Whitestown this week as part of the engineering study for the District's Sanitary Sewer Overflow Abatement Project.

Scrutinized litigation documents, conducted due diligence, provided analytical support and detailed analysis of engineering studies.

DISADVANTAGES INCLUDE THE COST OF THE engineering study, the triggering of depreciation recapture and understatement penalties for taxpayers that use cost segregation too aggressively.

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Sarah is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she studied systems engineering and entrepreneurship.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

He was a member of the first high school team to enter the International Aerial Robotics Competition, the longest - running event of its kind, and he continued on the circuit while studying engineering at the University of Waterloo.

While studying systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo, Baker noticed something peculiar about the dot - com boom then underway.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

Still another dilemma: «You have teachers, lawyers, doctors and engineers who have studied at Cuban universities, but many of them don't necessarily have practical expertise, because the engineer hasn't actually built a bridge, or the architect hasn't built a building,» Periu says.

A great example of this is the Mexico - based Solben, founded by Daniel Gomez in 2009 while studying chemical engineering at the University Technologico de Monterrey.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

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.

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

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.

A mechanical engineer by training, Burns, who proved herself a quick study and an outspoken colleague, blew through the ranks — taking on product development, business planning and a series of managerial roles that in 2000 put her at the center of Xerox's restructuring efforts.

The company's studies, the FDA said, showed that even if any of the engineered proteins were transmitted to people «there was no convincing evidence» it would be toxic or trigger an allergic reaction.

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.

In another study of Kohn's, currently under review for publication, he gave engineering students blueprints of a simple vehicle that moved from point A to point B.

Then, when Vogt was an undergrad studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, a friend found an abandoned safe in the basement of a campus building, and Vogt persuaded that friend to collaborate with him in making a one - armed bot programmed to turn the dial repeatedly, to crack its combination.

Though Iran initially had no idea it was attacked by a cyber weapon, believing its scientists and engineers were incompetent due to the failures, eventually the code escaped and worldwide infections led computer researchers to study it, and the idea of leaving «no trace» of the attacker was gone.

«I was pretty depressed about the state of the global economy,» says Lubin, who studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton.

«We the public should feel safe,» said Wesley Cook, a structural engineer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology who authored the 2014 bridge failure study.

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

The Carleton University PhD student has spent his entire adult life studying mechanical engineering: he is a builder of things, he knows how they work.

How to qualify: Most begin with a few years of undergraduate engineering study before picking a specialty.

In his remembrance of Cernan, Bolden recalled, «In my last conversation with him, he spoke of his lingering desire to inspire the youth of our nation to undertake the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) studies, and to dare to dream and explore.»

In February, Robert Fodosejevs and Ying Tsui, electrical engineering professors at the University of Alberta, received $ 430,650 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to study ways to speed up fusion ignition in collaboration with the National Ignition Facility in California.

Google engineers studied balloon science from NASA, the Defence Department and the Jet Propulsion Lab to design their own airships made of plastic films similar to grocery bags.

The report found that 75 of the world's richest 100 people have a degree, and out of these 75, 22 studied engineering.

In previous editions of this guide, we spent a huge amount of time and resources testing cables: We looked at nearly 40 popular and highly rated cables for the prior edition, including sending a selection of those to a former NASA engineer to tear them down and study their physical construction.

A large scientific study from 2013 found no «significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineered crops.»

Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have put online an article presenting their study of the self - censorship behavior collected from 5 million English - speaking Facebook users.

David studied industrial engineering at the University of Toronto and has an international MBA from the Rotman School of Management.

GRES has teams of highly experienced technical and engineering professionals and broad experience in the compilation of feasibility studies.

Stephen Salter, an emeritus professor of engineering design at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, has studied how to harness wave energy since the 1970s, and in 2003 began looking into using this energy to cool the seas.

And with an eye to the potential to save lives and avoid billions of dollars in damage, some engineers and entrepreneurs, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, are studying ways to dial back destruction from a hurricane.

Bezos had an early love of computers and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.

But perhaps the classic entrepreneurial company is a pure technology play: Tonbo Imaging, a Bangalore - based company launched by Arvind Lakshmikumar, an engineer who studied at India's Birla Institute of Technology and at Carnegie Mellon.

I really like that D has shifted its portfolio in recent years to reduce its exposure to commodity prices and that 90 % of the company's sales are from regulated operations, Also, I'm a high believer in natural gass (partly because that's what I studied in engineering so probably biased), but Management is investing heavily in natural gas, including massive projects such as the Cove Point LNG export terminal and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.

A study conducted by the Economic Development Committee of Florida's Space Coast found that 61.9 % of all aeronautical engineers in Brevard County (home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center) are 45 years or older.

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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.

Gordon T. Long is a graduate Engineer, University of Waterloo (Canada) with graduate business studies at the prestigious Ivy Business School, University of Western Ontario (Canada) on a Northern & Central Gas Corporation Scholarship.

He has worked at the state - owned defense company since 1977, when he completed his engineering studies at the University of Ben Gurion in the Negev.

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

A leading mind in creating functional, beautiful, and simple wearable technology, and a visionary for the future of human - computer interaction, Matthew studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo and robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).

Later in life, when he had the ability to study engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Ategeka knew that he had to find a solution to a problem that faces so many rural Ugandans: a lack of mobility.

It took years of therapy, prayer, and spiritual counsel for the healing to totally manifest.26 years after she began her journey, she was able to take a huge leap forward and on her 50th birthday she enrolled in college to study software engineering....