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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future?

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How are engineers contributing to a sustainable future? 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.

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How can engineering address human rights issues?

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How can engineering address human rights issues? Across Peru, thousands of people do not have access to clean water or efficient transport links. Dr Davis Chacon-Hurtado , a Peruvian engineer at the University of Connecticut in the US, is using a human rights-based approach to engineering to solve these problems.

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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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Career Exploration: Engineering

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Engineering is one of the cornerstones of STEM and STEAM education and those working within this field understand how diverse and complex this discipline can be. Intertwined with Science, Technology, Arts and Mathematics engineers utilize their understanding of each discipline to design and build works of art. What is Engineering?

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The ABCs of Kindergarten STEM

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The focus of this bundle is to introduce Stage 1 STEM activities for each letter of the alphabet along with a taste of engineering design, perfect for your young learners! Within the product, they are incorporating engineering by building a shovel that can be used for the planting process and learning math through sorting.

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5 Fun Science Experiments Kids Do at Home

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Be it blowing soap bubbles or building towers of spaghetti, they are second only to seasoned engineers and CEOs at getting results. The water traveled through the egg’s membrane in such a way that the concentration of water on both sides of the membrane becomes equal. Well, don’t let that deter you. This “flow” is called osmosis.

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What the Critical Race Theory Debate Could Mean for STEM Education

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However, change is slow, and though we have made strides in providing equal opportunity in education, there is still a long way to go. No one would have been considering problems related to access and transportation. Another example is found in the work engineers do. I have addressed many of these issues in past blogs.

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