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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Challenges and Solutions in Mathematics College professors frequently adopt a lecture-based approach, emphasizing theory over practice. Professions That Rely Heavily on Mathematics Engineering: The Backbone of Innovation Engineering is perhaps the most obvious field where mathematics plays a starring role.

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Using adsorbents to help society

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The identification of new adsorbents is critical to technological advancements in healthcare, climate change and water scarcity,” explains Yamil. These engineers work on anything from how to develop green energy and move away from fossil fuels, to finding new technologies to probe our brains and understand how diseases affect our bodies.

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How machine learning is revolutionising materials science

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Professor Dane Morgan and Dr Ryan Jacobs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US are investigating the opportunities and challenges this advancement poses. A part of artificial intelligence, ML looks for patterns in existing datasets and uses the patterns it finds to make its own decisions or predictions.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

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Professor Jeffrey Catchmark and his team at Pennsylvania State University in the US believe they have one such solution, using common plant-based materials to create sustainable food packaging. The materials also cost less than plastic, require no new equipment, and use existing production technologies.”

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How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture?

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As irrigation can double or even triple crop yields, technologies such as these laid the foundations for much of modern agriculture. Development of the TCC technology continues as Rubicon Water expands into new markets. Some universities will then offer postgraduate degrees specifically in control engineering. Meet the team.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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As such, research software engineering has the potential to become one of the most important scientific disciplines in the coming years. As new computational technologies are developed, imaging systems and simulation techniques are likely to become even more complex than they are now. Chemical engineering with Professor Sven Schroeder.