Structural damage observed inside the building by firefighters and consultations with a structural engineer led to fears that the damaged floors might collapse.
For the pamphlet, feedback from the human factors engineer led to the following changes: separating information for infants (< 12 months) and children (> 12 months), ordering interventions according to timing prior to vaccine injection (i.e., providing a timeline for each intervention), and removing and revising some of the images and text.
Her pursuit of a missing software engineer leads to revelations about the nuclear arms race during World War II in Critical Mass (2013).
In the period which precedes the appearance of computers, needs in calculation of the scientists and engineers led to an important development of graphic methods of integration.
My last column, "Advice For Laid-off Engineers," led to a "Webinar" in which 130 first-time/aspiring entrepreneurs asked me questions about making the transition to entrepreneurship and turning adversity to opportunity.
Birdi et al. (2012) indicates that participation in TRIZ training for engineers led to short-term improvements in both the creative problem-solving skills and motivation, and these are associated with longer term improvements in their idea suggestion in the workplace.
Silicon Valley, and the tech industry as a whole, is fundamentally based on the precept that an accumulation of good, excellent, and exceptional engineers leads to an outcome wildly beyond the cost of the sum of its parts.
Working with a panel of US cities, Peri et al. (2013) show that an increase in immigrant scientists and engineers leads to increased wages for US college-educated workers (inside and outside STEM sectors), which they interpret as the result of migrant-led productivity shifts.
Within a year, the UK had beaten the US to an entrepreneur-friendly Startup Visa (March 2011), Google had opened Campus London, the first in the world, in London, (April 2012) and Amazon and Facebook began moves to bring engineer led labs to the area (July , 2012.
His attempts, aided by an engineer, Erik Wallenberg, led to a Tetra Pak, a carton made of paper, plastic and aluminum, that eliminated the need for refrigerating milk.
As we shall see, this particular framing of dual use concerns resonated with the central promise of synthetic biology to "make biology easier to engineer", and led to the entanglement of these two areas.
