"Many top managers believed that adding management training to those who majored in engineering was the best combination in education in terms of value creation," Dr. Lee said.
Wade Colburn, a college junior from California majoring in biomedical engineering, wasn't one of them, but he joined this Semester at Sea program mainly because of Unreasonable.
Mr. Haider, a junior majoring in electrical engineering, was a neighbor of Hussein al-Attas and Mukkaram Ali, two former University of Oklahoma students who are in custody for questioning in the investigation into the World Trade Center attacks.
A major engineering feat was the completion (1977) of the New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville; the single-arch steel span, 876 feet (267 metres) above the river, drastically reduced travel time there, as motorists formerly had to make a long detour over mountain roads.
The major engineering companies are having a field day, says Gordon Chesterman, the director of The University of Cambridge Careers Service: "They are getting applications from very bright engineers who in other times might be looking at investment banking rather than using their degrees.
A subject of major engineering relevance is porosity because of durability issues.
As the field of adoptive transfer technology matures, the major engineering challenge is the development of automated cell culture systems, so that the approach can extend beyond specialized academic centers and become widely available.
One of the major challenges in tissue engineering is to engineer biomaterial scaffolds with desirable gradients for the regeneration of composite tissues.
A second major source for systems engineering is operations research, which originated in a recognizable form in Britain during World War II and initially was concerned with the best employment of military equipment.
The major challenge in usability engineering is related to usability evaluation methods (UEM).
