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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

Futurum

Dr Punsara Navaratna and Dr Alessandro Pontillo are using wind tunnels and computer models to explore the potential of making aircraft wings longer, thinner and more flexible. Chemical engineering Dr Yamil Colón is studying the chemical process of adsorption and developing new adsorbent materials.

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Plant polymers as plastic alternatives

Futurum

With these lessons learnt, the team is now setting up a company which will have the resources and flexibility to work with other companies on short timescales. The team will be investigating how to manufacture the plant-based packaging using fewer resources and chemicals, less energy, and with an eye on any other socio-ecological impacts.

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Utilizing Online Resources to Find the Right STEM Job

Career in STEM

Chemical engineers and computer science majors are two examples of high paying entry level jobs. Those with STEM degrees often have more flexibility. Those with a degree in biological sciences can work for a pharmaceutical company, study in a research lab or teach biology at the high school or college level.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

It’s taken developing a whole tower of underlying algorithmic capabilities such as our more-flexible-and-integrated-than-ever-before industrial-strength computational geometry and finite element methods. A typical workflow for systems engineering begins with the setting up of a model. on the behavior of a system.

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