But that linguistic diversity also has a darker side for engineering teams, which must work with multiple languages just to launch their product, let alone maintain it.
Yet many still draw a deep, dark line separating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) from, well, everything else.
"I had this weird and uneasy feeling this morning leaving my wife and two young daughters home alone in the dark," Nick Caputo, 44, an engineering supervisor at the United Nations, said as he boarded a 6 a.m. bus in Aberdeen to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
sphaeroides offer a number of advantages as an experimental system for the development of biosensors, not the least of which is the fact that they are expressed at high levels during chemoautotrophic growth in the dark, facilitating extensive protein engineering without compromising the viability of the organism (Jones, 2009).
The walls are raw concrete, still bearing traces of the industrial past in dark stains and hastily scribbled engineering measurements.
Overall, our work demonstrates the importance of considering the effects of diel light:dark cycles in the metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria.
Knowing that a dark yield issue exists enables an engineering team to put in a test to catch those issues in the factory.
"Honestly, that email was a complete shot in the dark," said Benefiel, a sophomore chemical engineering student.
Combine mechanical engineering, experimental theater, and an old dark church, and you're bound to get some interesting results — a new navigation device, for instance.
Baltimore proposed exploring immune-system engineering; an astronomer suggested investigating the dark-matter universe; a paleogeneticist made a case for mapping the human genome's evolution through time.
