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YSP 2024 – Open for Applications

Northeastern University

This 6 week summer research program will run from June 24 to August 1 and will involve research in various fields of STEM such as chemistry, biology, pharmaceutical sciences, computer engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering with faculty and graduate student mentors.

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Are you looking for a high-paid career in STEM?

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Our reliance on fossil fuels will not vanish overnight, however, so we also still need engineers to extract oil and gas and to maintain existing power stations. Chemical engineer. Chemical engineers manufacture products from raw materials. Read: Building a smart energy system for the people of Peterborough.

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Concrete change: the innovative chemistry of sustainable cement

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In line with global climate commitments, governments are investing in ways to reduce CO 2 emissions, and the cement industry is a prime area of interest. We incorporate knowledge from chemistry, physics, mathematics and biology with chemical engineering to help address society’s most pressing challenges. “I Prospects.ac.uk

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List of 75+ STEM Careers, Jobs & Occupations

STEM Sport

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. They may work in academia, government, or industry.

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Prostheses for people: matching the person and their new limb

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In Uganda, one of the least developed countries in the world, his team found that the absence of government support meant that the orthopaedic workshops in government-run hospitals were typically under-supplied with the equipment and materials they needed. HOW DID LAURENCE BECOME A MECHANICAL ENGINEER?

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Quantum Computing

STEMe

Using these computers inappropriately could result in governments or large organizations being compromised. Security systems that store important data rely on complex mathematics that would take classical computers years to break, but using quantum computers, they can be broken quickly.

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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. These skills help them to transition into RSEs.