IN this high-tech age of bioengineering, supercomputers, space shuttles and globalized financial markets, the men and women with hands and muscles are still there, laying bricks, sweeping cafeteria floors, making hotel beds.
After retiring from the lab, he was chairman of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which does research in areas ranging from space to bioengineering.
With plans to test how hemp plants react in the low-gravity setting of space orbit, scientists at bioengineering company Space Tango — specializing in research and manufacturing of microgravity environments — are eager to test the cannabis plant's response to novel environs like spaceflight.
"Bioengineering was also a place where some schools differed.
Crespuscular Dawn expands Virilio's vision of the implosion of physical time and space, onto the micro-level of bioengineering and biotechnology.
Initiatives in bioengineering and robotics also require much more space, she said, and "we have to make the case to our alumni, parents, and friends" to support expanded facilities and faculty.
BIOME is a student organization dedicated to providing open space for anyone interested in pursuing bioengineering and biology inspired projects.
This is precisely the skill set that has led to some of our most dynamic innovations in consumer technology, Internet capabilities, space exploration, medical technology, green technology and bioengineering, to name just a few.
To drum up enthusiasm for the idea, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and NCI Director Richard Klausner brought together two dozen molecular biologists, geneticists, pharmacologists, and chemists to discuss how nanotechnology and bioengineering can revolutionize health care on Earth and in space.
We eagerly anticipate the fall opening of Skirkanich Hall, a state-of-the-art bioengineering facility (designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien) that will dramatically boost engineering classroom, office, and laboratory space.
