FACES: Diversifying Engineering and Science by R. Arnette, 20 May 2005 The Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Science (FACES) program is designed to significantly increase the number of African-American students receiving doctoral degrees in engineering and science fields.
Since World War II, India has also gradually diversified its engineering industries and now produces heavy capital goods (machines and tools used to manufacture other goods), various types of industrial machinery, prime movers (engines and other sources of motive power) and boilers, diesel engines, sewing machines, machine tools, agricultural machinery, and all types of electrical equipment.
Today the economy of the borough has diversified, and light engineering is important.
RELIANCE STEEL AND ALUMINUM CO., Los Angeles, a metals distributor, has agreed to buy the steel distribution business of Pitt-Des Moines Inc. of Woodlands, Tex., a diversified steel distribution, engineering and construction company, for an undisclosed price.
Until the 1970s, Mumbai owed its prosperity largely to textile mills and the seaport, but the local economy has since then diversified to include finance, engineering, diamond-polishing, healthcare and information technology.
$4.5 billion Germany Diversified electrical engineering giant Siemens was founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens and Johann Halske.
Great-grandson Harold (d.1990) diversified into packaging systems, engineering components, medical and computer supplies.
Despite decades of interest in diversifying science and engineering (S&E), the overwhelming majority of science and engineering faculty remain white males (see the Minority Scientists Network article, " Going Downhill").
Ecological engineering-based diversified farming systems contribute to the delivery of ecosystem services, which is critical for biological control of pests in agro-ecosystems.
Our 9-year data from Chongming Island of China indicated that there was an exponential decay each year in the numbers of adult pink stem borers and striped stem borers trapped in the lamp in ecological engineering-based diversified farming ecosystems.
