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How can engineering address human rights issues?

Futurum

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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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale?

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

Futurum

Importantly, the applications for the intended outcomes of this project extend to fields as diverse as aerospace, healthcare, infrastructure and transport. Zi-Qiang suggests students take as many maths courses as possible, as well as one or two other science subjects, such as physics, chemistry or biology. •

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There was also a sense that regardless of its foundations, the Second Law was successfully used in practice.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

The energy of the particles is indicated here by the size of the “token dots”: Continuing this a few more steps we get: At the beginning we started with all particles having equal energies.