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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. She is leading a team of engineers from a range of disciplines who are designing smart façades for buildings.

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Career Exploration: Engineering

PCS Edventures

Civil Engineer. A Civil Engineer is an engineer who designs and oversees the construction of large infrastructure projects such as bridges, roads, dams and water and sewage systems. However, Civil Engineering is much more than just design and construction. Architecture and Engineering Occupations.

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Seven Different Types of Bridges and Why We Build Them

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This bridge is one of the most photographed bridges globally and was voted one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World” by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The wires are spread far apart so that the weight on the deck, load, is spread out equally. Tell students that they are civil engineers.

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Living in a material world: the importance of materials science and engineering

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This covers anything you make things out of and is true across a huge range of scales, from the atomic level through to civil engineering structures.”. A material’s chemical properties are equally important. I chose MSE through a process of elimination – I knew I wanted to study engineering but wasn’t sure which type.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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The ability to travel to reach educational or employment opportunities is essential for ensuring social equality. Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado, an engineer at the University of Connecticut, hopes to address these issues in his home country of Peru. FIELDS OF RESEARCH : Engineering for Human Rights, Transportation Engineering.

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Controlling and engineering systems for the benefit of all

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“This produces a powerful computer-aided design tool that uses data from only a limited number of prototype tests to produce an optimal design for complicated engineering systems including, for example, mechanical and civil engineering structures and complex dynamics materials.”.