Sentences with phrase «thing about engineering»

educated as an engineer and find much of this statistics talk eye rolling boring... funny thing about engineering... not much use for statistics... a bridge that is safe to 95 % confidence is not a bridge but a death trap... It all comes down to data... and you don't have any... what you have is 3rd hand massaged nonsense... even your new paper will just be putting lipstick on a pig...

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«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

Bill Gates knows a thing or two about some of engineering's most complex concepts, but the Microsoft co-founder recently learned an important lesson from an elementary school teacher.

But, Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to focus on the one thing he cared about most, and the one thing that drove him: his engineering.

There's a great children's book called «Rosie Revere, Engineer,» about this little girl named Rosie who likes to build things.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

Some people who know more than we do about things like math and engineering science have crunched the numbers on the Tesla Semi's battery potentials.

· B.C. Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger expressed his support for the plant by saying «I know that various people are saying very emotional things about it, but we trust scientists and engineers when we get on airplanes.

What is confusing about gerald's arguments and those of catholic engineer is that they're advocating precisely the same thing as what China has done with its one - child policy.

It's great to see teams trying to exploit every area of the regulations (the engineering challenge is one of the many things fans love about the sport), but even so, it's hard to disagree with the T - wings being a little bit of an eyesore.

This guys sounds like your typical douchebag narcissistic musician who cares more about his rep than about doing the right thing for others wellbeing... Could be why I wised up and married an engineer instead;).

Another nice thing about the seats is the way they were engineered.

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.

There are plenty of things to think about when having a baby, and if you're planning to nurse, then finding the right nursing bras, ones that fit well and don't require an engineering degree to open, are essential.

«The great thing about winning the IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year award was that it made me realise that the work I do promoting engineering gives me the opportunity to be a role model.

One thing about which there can be little controversy: a need to encourage ever more K - 12 students to embrace science and engineering.

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.

«Preconceived views about risks and benefits of agricultural genetic engineering — and perceptions about the fairness and legitimacy of the decision - making process — these things matter most,» McComas said.

Rummel thinks that may be overdue, even though it adds heat resistance to the list of things engineers have to worry about.

«It's one of those obvious, basic things you don't think about until you actually start building the thing,» says Ted Hartka, the mission's lead mechanical engineer, who supervised assembly of the probe at the Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

«In order to spread nuclear technologies, you have to have the people who have the expertise in nuclear engineering, who know about nuclear materials and chain reactions and things like that — the same expertise for nuclear bombs.

Sick of a Member of Parliament or senator who's always saying crazy things about genetic engineering because they just saw Mission Impossible 2?

The amazing bridges and scaffolds that ants build using their own bodies can teach us a thing or two about robotics, engineering and cooperation

How genetic engineering might be applied to humans is «one of these things where people keep talking about it,» Church says.

«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.

«Within engineering there's a lexicon, a way of talking about things, and within medical fields you speak a language, too.

«The biggest thing that people become concerned about [for batteries in cars] is the ability to be able to tolerate abuse,» said Joe Redfield, principal engineer at the Southwest Research Institute, a nonprofit engineering research and development group.

Steve Mirsky: One of the really interesting things about the Scientific American cruise is the passenger backgrounds and for example, we have a woman here who's in the Army Corps of Engineers.

He still was not a neural engineer, but he was getting closer, because as it turns out, there is another really important thing to know about glia — they protect the brain from foreign intruders.

«One of the great things about Seattle is its emphasis on commercialization of technology — with several start - up incubators in the area plus renown institutions like the UW, this is really the place to be when it comes to being entrepreneurial in the neural engineering space,» said Dr. Scott Ransom, director of industry and innovation at the CSNE.

Though I was always particular about how I presented myself but following trends was the last thing on my mind during my engineering days.

«i'm studying engineering, lifeguard, ex-athlete, easy going guy, i like talking about all the things you're not supposed to discuss in polite company.»

I'm Australian / Egyptian by nationalities, I'm a mechanical engineer and soccer referee, I'm crazy about soccer (football) and play it regularly, I'm that kind of men who you can rely on him in all kind of times, have a clear vision for things, supportive kind and know how to treat a woman as she...

An Electrical Engineer and a Front - End Web Developer and Designer, passionate about learning new things, cultures and food.

Zaragoza, Spain About Blog Libelium designs and manufactures wireless sensor network devices so that system integrators, engineering, and consultancy companies can deliver reliable Internet of Things (IoT), M2M and Smart Cities solutions with minimum time to market.

About Blog SparkFun employees exist in the same group as their customers - they are curious students, engineers, prototypers and hobbyists who love to create and they all have one thing in common that is they all love electronics.

Until about this point Soldier is vaguely interesting, but things take a sharp downward turn from there on: on the planet he is taken in by a group of refugees who becomes the target of the new genetically engineered troops who are out on a practice run.

The key things to tell anyone asking about a possible career in engineering are: Study maths and physics to keep your options open; Engineers design, create and innovate to improve lives; There are loads of different types of engineering roles; Engineers can work anywhere in the world; Engineers are generally well paid; and you can get into engineering via a degree or an apprenticeship.

For example, you could ask a local engineering company to send you an engineer to tell the young people you work with about the amazing things they do every day.

They learn about engineers» problem - solving process of design, test, and redesign, and learn that there is no such thing as failure, only opportunities to keep learning.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

They learned about a number of things including DNA and heredity, forensics, states of matter and aerodynamic engineering.

«Of course, it's a dream for every engineer to do such a thing, we are always dreaming about something like that,» he admitted.

Try talking about the possible rebirth of the two - stroke engine with an engineer from a car company and it'd be a short - run thing.

The nice thing about having the factory do the hotrodding is that the engineers consider safety as well as performance.

Another particularly interesting thing about the first race of the Aston Martin Rapide will be that it will be driven by a team of engineers from the company's Warwickshire headquarters and will feature leadership from Ulrich Bez, CEO of Aston Martin.

The first thing you need to know about the Pathfinder Armada is that it borrows its engineering from the Titan and only its name from the smaller SUV.

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.

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.

It allows the engineers to validate a number of things about the two Smart cars, including all of the car's functions in the extreme temperatures.