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Left-brain or Right-brain Dominant? Explore the Ideal Subjects to Nurture your Strengths

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With a strong foundation in statistics, you can pursue a career as a data analyst, market researcher or actuary. The Sciences The sciences, including physics, chemistry and biology, are perfect for left-brain dominant individuals. You can pursue a career as a scientist, researcher or science educator.

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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

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Civil engineering Dr Alice Alipour is a civil engineer, working in the branch of engineering that focuses on the design and construction of infrastructure, such as buildings, roads and bridges. Electrical engineer Professor Rukmi Dutta (right) is improving the efficiency of electric motors © M.

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Engineering Exploration Week – Feb 20th – Feb 24th 2024

Northeastern University

As engineers, they then learned about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN Goals) so they can identify its connection to the activities throughout the week. After building this foundation, they then they set off to explore Professor Rifat Sipahi’s Research Lab where they learned about control systems and mechatronics.

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Building Bridges – Spring 2022

Northeastern University

Natasha Zaarour (Behavioral Neuroscience), Zandria Hughes (Industrial Engineering), and Franklin Ollivierre (Civil Engineering) from the Center for STEM Education gave an informal college and STEM panel. Students asked questions about the college process, life as a student at Northeastern University, and engineering in college.

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Inspirational women in STEM

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The research she conducted during her PhD in molecular and cell biology formed the basis of LambdaVision’s work, and she is now developing artificial retinas in microgravity on the International Space Station, for which she won a Women in Aerospace outstanding achievement award. Women role models in STEM research. Sources: 1.

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all. Published: Professor Zi-Qiang Lang is an automatic control and systems engineer based at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Three of his former PhD students, a former PhD supervisor and Zi-Qiang share what it means to be an automatic control and systems engineer.

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How are control engineers improving the sustainability of irrigated agriculture?

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At the University of Melbourne, Professor Michael Cantoni and Professor Erik Weyer are collaborating with engineers at Rubicon Water, including Professor Iven Mareels, Dr Adair Lang and Dr Yuping Li, to improve the efficiency of gravity-fed irrigation networks. Field of research : Control Engineering.