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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

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Electronics engineering Increasing our production of renewable energy will help to reduce our carbon emissions, yet up to 10% of all renewable energy generated is wasted before it even reaches your phone, laptop or lightbulbs. Electrical engineering The transport industry is a significant contributor to carbon dioxide emissions.

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Using adsorbents to help society

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“Adsorption is a common process in our everyday lives,” says Dr Yamil Colón, based at the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. Chemical and biomolecular engineers solve some of the world’s most urgent problems by applying techniques from engineering, biochemistry, cell biology and organic chemistry at the molecular level.

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List of 75+ STEM Careers, Jobs & Occupations

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Chemical Engineer The Role: Chemical Engineers use principles of physics, mathematics, and even economics to solve practical problems, from designing equipment to refining and producing various types of chemicals and products. Average Annual Salary: $71,800 10. Average Annual Salary: $116,200 11.

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How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture?

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. • If you are interested in the biomedical applications of control engineering, it will be useful to study chemistry and biology. • At university, control engineering is taught within general undergraduate engineering degrees, such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace and chemical engineering.

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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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This technique enables Joanna to study samples from the millimetre to the atomic scale, meaning that she can consider the chemical states of materials in much finer detail. Chemical engineering with Professor Sven Schroeder. Biology with Professor Michelle Peckham and Dr Alistair Curd. Scientific imaging in physics.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

A paper I wrote in September 1983 talks about the idea that in a sufficiently large class 4 cellular automaton one would eventually get self-reproducing structures, which would end up “taking over everything”: The idea that one might be able to see “biology-like” self-reproduction in cellular automata has a long history.

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