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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. Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado is using a human rights-based approach to engineering to solve these problems.

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Career Exploration: Engineering

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Engineers in this field play an important role in the development, design and construction of a variety of mechanical tools, machines, engines and devices. Some of the most common job functions of a Mechanical Engineer include: product design, research and development, systems management and manufacturing.

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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.”. And, as research advances, we are making new materials that might not fall into these traditional categories, such as graphene.”. APPLICATIONS AND ADVANCES.

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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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“Achieving this implies that the well-established field of system science can be applied to address many challenges that cannot be solved by conventional engineering system design approaches.”. Questions and research methods. Field of research: Automatic Control and Systems Engineering.