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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

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Electrical engineer Professor Rukmi Dutta (right) is improving the efficiency of electric motors © M. Gao Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Mechanical engineering To reduce our dependence on fossils fuels, we need to increase energy production from sustainable sources.

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Engineering Exploration Week + Engineering for Everyone Expo

Northeastern University

Northeastern University’s Center for STEM Education hosted this year Engineering Exploration week from Tuesday, February 21st to Friday, February 24th. On Tuesday, February 21st, we kicked off the program with and introduction to the engineering design process and chemical engineering.

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Using adsorbents to help society

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For example, as our world is becoming more affected by climate change, chemical and biomolecular engineers are striving to find new ways to supply adequate fresh water to water-scarce communities and create novel methods of transport that do not harm the environment.

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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. Explore careers in control engineering. Meet the team.

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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. Michelle’s Research.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And that fall, as a way to focus my efforts, I taught a “Topics in Theoretical Physics” course at Caltech (supposedly for graduate students but actually almost as many professors came too) on what, for want of a better name, I called “non-equilibrium statistical mechanics”. SMP Version 1.0 was ready in mid-1981.

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