Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering

Aerospace engineers develop new technologies for use in aviation, defense systems, and space exploration, often specializing in areas such as structural design, guidance, navigation and control, instrumentation and communication, or production methods. They also may specialize in a particular type of aerospace product, such as commercial aircraft, military fighter jets, helicopters, spacecraft, or missiles and rockets, and may become experts in aerodynamics, thermodynamics, celestial mechanics, propulsion, acoustics, or guidance and control systems.

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Automotive Engineers Working to Improve the Way We Drive and Live

Today’s automotive engineers are focusing their attention on improving the way we drive — and the way we live. Some automotive improvements make life easier to navigate, like GPS systems with visual and voice-guided turn-by-turn directions. Other innovations help protect vehicle occupants and save lives, such as “active safety” technologies, which warn drivers so they can take action to avoid an accident. Of course, yet another focus of automotive engineers, garnering much attention today, is improved fuel efficiency. Green vehicles are catching the attention of consumers rapidly. To meet this demand, nearly every automaker in the world is expanding with clean, fuel-efficient models in their lineup.

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The Cutting Edge Technology of the Next Generation

Challenges and issues in technology upgrading from the corporate perspective has always been predominant and will continue to exist for many years to come. The challenges pertain to the five Ms: markets, men, machines, materials, and methods. For markets, there are problems of size (or the lack of) and the increasingly shortened life cycles. For men, there is a need to raise skills level and competencies, have suitable trainers, provide budgets and resources, and be able to retain the workforce in the industry. For machines, there are issues such as the high cost of capital, expensive testing equipment, rapid technology changes, restrictions imposed on the export of high-tech machinery, and long procurement times. For materials, there are limitations on the supply of specialized materials, difficulty in obtaining supplies in small quantities, high cost, and uncertain quality. For methods, the challenges are in the use of forecasting techniques and scenario analysis to assess market demands, emerging technologies, and product trends, and the receptivity of the workforce and companies to technology transfer and certification.

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Building a Collaboration Bridge in Architecture, Engineering and Construction

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has experienced rapid increases in design sophistication, leaving firms to grapple with how to address traditional concerns of how to raise productivity in the face of heightened project complexity and compressed project schedules. Add to the mix a proliferation of alternative project delivery methods and a growing number of stakeholders, and maintaining, let alone improving, productivity can become a challenging goal. With a renewed focus on effective collaboration, however, companies are realizing that this goal can be attained.

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Civil Construction And Engineering

Civil engineering is a concept that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment. The act of civil construction and engineering includes bridges, roads, canals, airports, dams and buildings. These are merely just a few examples of what civil construction and engineering is about.

Civil engineering is one of the oldest engineering disciplines after military engineering. It has been an aspect of life since the beginning of human existence. Until modern times there was no clear distinction between civil engineering and architecture.

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Environmental Due Diligence By ESA

Doing Environmental Due Diligence is a win-win situation for our environment and for the property owner. That’s why in United States the government is highly recommending every site property to undergo ESA before anything else. It must be the responsibility of the property owner to do this. They need to remember that money isn’t everything and that they need to think of their site’s health and what would be its effect to the environment if they let it be contaminated. So what is ESA?

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Fouad Abou Nader

Personal data

Born in Baskinta, (Metn, Mount-Lebanon, Lebanon) on June 27, 1956. Christian Maronite. Son of Antoine Abou Nader & Claude Pierre Gemayel. Married to Sandra Ghosn. Four children: Anthony, Georges, Maria & Paul. Completely fluent in English, French & Arabic.

After attending school at Collge Notre-Dame de Jamhour and Collge Mont La Salle, he joined the American University of Beirut. Because of the war, he continued his medical studies at the Universit Saint-Joseph from which he graduated as a doctor in 1982.

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National Iranian Oil Company

History

Main articles: William Knox D’Arcy, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and 1953 Iranian coup d’tat

National Iranian Oil Company was established in 1951 under the leadership of then Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh when the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company was nationalized. Following the 1953 coup that overthrew Mossadegh it became a consortium of international oil companies: 40% owned by Anglo-Iranian holding, five American companies holding 40%, and the Royal Dutch/Shell and Compagnie Francaise de Petroles holding 10% each. The consortium shared profits 50-50 with Iran but did “not to open its books to Iranian auditors or to allow Iranians onto its board of directors.” According to the company’s Web site: The victory of the Islamic revolution annulled the Consortium Agreement of 1954 and all regulations pertaining to it. The taking of power by the Islamic Republic led to the withdrawal of foreign employees from Iran’s oil industry; domestic employees took full control of its affairs.

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Engineering news from the USA

On the other hand, you may already be stationed in America and want to have a quick overview of current news stories.  This article is only a snapshot of what you can see.  A bit of further research online will bring up more news stories and you can look for stories that are relevant to you.

 

Artificial lungs almost a reality.

Some talented engineering teams in the USA have been able to get a step closer to being able to develop laboratory engineered lung tissue.  This is great news for the future because it might be able to be used for people in desperate need of transplants.  Both Harvard and Yale Universities have conducted tests on this and have made major leaps forward.

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