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STEM Calendar for the Month of May for Educators Everywhere

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Astronaut Day: Astronaut Day celebrates the bravery and achievements of those who venture beyond Earth’s atmosphere to explore the cosmos. Maritime Day: Maritime Day commemorates the importance of the maritime industry and its contributions to global trade, transportation, and exploration.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. He is investigating the connection between poor transport links and social inequality, and bringing sanitation to a remote community in the Andes. HOW DOES PUBLIC TRANSPORT AFFECT INEQUALITY?

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Using adsorbents to help society

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About chemical and biomolecular engineering If you enjoy chemistry, physics, biology and mathematics and are interested in learning how things work on a small scale, then you should consider a career in chemical and biomolecular engineering. What other achievements are you particularly proud of?

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Most are about five minutes (some longer, some shorter) and cover topics like chemistry, physics, calculus, geometry, biology, Algebra, trigonometry, grammar, ACT prep, and SAT prep. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal. They are professionally recorded and presented by expert teachers with a class screen or whiteboard.

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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Healthy places are complex phenomena entailing both healthy bodies and healthy minds – achieving one doesn’t always coincide with achieving the other, but, when it does, it can lead to radical improvements on all dimensions,” explains Richard. WHAT HAVE BEEN YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS? MAKING PLACES HEALTHIER AND SMARTER.

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

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Achieving this implies that the well-established field of system science can be applied to address many challenges that cannot be solved by conventional engineering system design approaches.”. Key findings and successes. Pathway from school to automatic control and systems engineering. •

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Can we use mud to understand climate change?

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Oceans are a key part of the Earth’s climate system, responsible for transporting heat and storing carbon from the atmosphere, and several large ocean current systems contribute to this. This is partly responsible for Europe having a warm climate, as the AMOC transports up to 25% of the Northern Hemisphere’s atmospheric and oceanic heat.