"I was always interested in practical problems and their connections to engineering," he says.
They also suggested connections to engineering that could be added to the biology curriculum.
And Jan Voorman used common Lego blocks to rebuilt war-torn walls in Berlin; once again, this is clever and visually powerful, but the connection to structural engineering might not be so strong.
The built in connection to technical and engineering terms enables a simple switching between biological concepts and concepts from engineering, electronics and synthetic biology.
All the reviewers agree that the description of what is meant by "shear" is confusing at present in the manuscript, and could benefit from making more connections to the engineering literature.
It would begin construction of a Long Island Rail Road connection to Grand Central Terminal, and conduct the engineering work to prepare for building a full-length Second Avenue subway line and a subway connection to La Guardia Airport.
Despite the importance of Poisson's ratio in materials science and engineering, its connection to molecular dynamics and relaxation processes in glass-forming systems remains unclear.
This hopefully highlights the practical, creative nature of engineering, with a clear connection to judgments and choices about solutions that achieve a balance between potentially conflicting outcomes in terms of their aesthetic, economic, environmental, technical and other criteria.
For example, all participants completed the engineering design challenge but with little connection to STEM concepts or concept development.
Similarly, recent attempts to enhance the training of engineers have led faculty to realize that closer integration of math, science, and engineering would be valuable (Froyd and Ohland, 2005) and that biology should be integrated into engineering training, not just for biomedical engineers, but for many other engineering disciplines that might profit from a closer connection to biology.
