In addition, he noted, engineers elsewhere are working on supercomputers using designs from low-power cellphone chips.
Opponents of genetically engineered crops have spent much of the last decade stoking consumer distrust of this precise and safe technology, even though, as the research council's previous reports noted, engineered crops have harmed neither human health nor the environment.
He's written a slew of books about what happens when engineering goes to hell and what it means, but there's one particular book worth noting: Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America.
Greathead arrived in 1859 in England, where he studied with the noted civil engineer Peter W. Barlow between 1864 and 1867.
Frazer noted that engineers, who typically started out studying science in school and feel brethren to scientists, are increasingly concerned that the U.S. government under the Trump administration would cut budgets for agencies like NASA and NOAA.
It'll also be watched closely because, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted Friday, engineers detected a "very small" leak in the rocket's upper stage late in the day.
In his remarks to the US Conference of Mayors (recounted here last year), Obama noted that engineers in China were developing a 300-mph train.
But as Mr. Coleman, the Mazda engineer, noted, a naturally aspirated engine, being less costly to produce, makes a better partner for a hybrid drive system than a turbocharged engine, so a hybrid is at least a possibility.
The only option is using gravity, notes petroleum engineer Paul Bommer of the University of Texas, Austin.
At real-world fracking sites, however, the radon may escape from the wastewater as it emerges from the wellhead, sits in collecting ponds, or is transferred between containers, notes environmental engineer Radisav Vidic of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who was not involved in the study.
