It's the raw talent pool that has American industry leaders and politicians bemoaning a new "engineering gap".
"But we spend a ridiculous amount of time understanding raw materials, engineering methods, ergonomics.
I reminisced about the amazing intersection of raw intelligence, engineering savvy, and the quest for an understanding of the basic truths of the universe that I had witnessed over the past few days.
The Kinect is an incredible piece of raw machinery and engineering, but it's not implemented well into games, nor does its voice control provide a truly fast, seamless way to navigate the operating system.
The resources of power engineering raw materials of the Earth, such as coal, oil or gas are limited.
"We launched it early, when it still was in a pretty raw state," Lars Rasmussen, the engineering director of the project, acknowledged in a recent interview.
Soils are important raw materials for civil engineering work.
"The time to generation of a virus by de novo engineering from raw sequence data is probably longer than the age-old method of virus passage in mammals/mammalian cells".
The vast majority of the costs of producing a vehicle and transporting it to a dealership and preparing it for sale - including design, engineering, marketing, raw materials, executive compensation and other costs - are not related to direct or indirect manufacturing labor.
Considerable research has been done to improve sugar yields from biomass feedstocks by chemically modifying raw materials using genetic engineering techniques [ 1, 2], developing novel pretreatment methods and reactor designs [ 3– 5], and designing reactors for saccharification of high consistency solids [ 6].
