如果实施地球工程改变地球的气候——例如，将硫酸盐注入到高层大气中——不失为一种选择，谁将做这种决定并保证实施？
And if geoengineering to alter earth's climate - for example, injecting sulfates into the high atmosphere - is to be an option, who would make the decision and undertake the operation?
我们需要改变教授工程学的方式，让它成为学生们一次愉快的经历。
We need to change the way we teach engineering to make it an enjoyable experience for students.
长期以来，科学家和工程师们都相信电池能够改变世界。
Scientists and engineers have long believed in the promise of batteries to change the world.
麻省理工学院的工程师们更进一步地改变了植物的实际成分，以使它们发挥不同寻常的功能。
The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have taken it a step further changing the actual composition of plants in order to get them to perform diverse, even unusual functions.
德克萨斯农工大学交通研究所的研究工程师凯文·鲍克说，虽然智能交通灯对一些城市特别有帮助，但有些城市太拥挤了，只有大幅减少道路上的汽车数量才能有效改变拥堵的局面。
Kevin Balke, a research engineer at the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute, says that while smart lights can be particularly beneficial for some cities, others are so jammed that only a sharp reduction in the number of cars on the road will make a meaningful difference.
事实上，在快乐工程的实施中，你唯一可以改变的就是你自己。
The fact is, with a happiness project, the only person you can change is yourself.
在工程阶段期间，我们试图避免通过改变控制程序加重用户的负担。
During the Engineering stage we try to avoid burdening the users with change control procedures.
根据交付合同，该公司将提供系统工程和集成服务，帮助改变美陆军的企业后勤服务。
Under the delivery order, Booz Allen will provide systems engineering and integration services to help transform the Army's enterprise logistics business.
在开始编码之前这个是很重要的。因为在工程进度的中间做改变，是非常具有破坏性的。
It's important to get this work done before we start coding, because it's very disruptive to change engineering processes mid-stream.
“我们为此制作了路线图，作为基因工程的第一个‘杀手程序’，它将对基因密码进行重大改变，使病毒无法预测和识别，”他说道。
"We have a road map for this as the first 'killer app' for genome engineering, which is to change the genetic code genome-wide to something that the viruses don't expect," he says.
然后，我们要决定是否需要改变计划，是否需要继续第二期和第三期工程。
Then we should decide whether we need changes, whether we should go ahead with the second and third stages.
推出一项工程的唯一理由是要改变什么东西，而我想知道你打算做什么和将会带来的影响。
The only reason to launch a project is to change something, and I want to know what you're going to do and what impact it's going to have.
采用SOA是一项大型工程，要求组织在沿用多年的不同数据集成解决方案的设计和实现方式方面做出重大改变。
Adopting a SOA is a large undertaking, and it demands significant change for organizations in terms of how they have designed and implemented different data integration solutions for many years.
随便你怎么叫，目标，计划，改变生活，工程——都是所谓新年计划，而已。
Call them what you will (goals, a plan, life changes, the program) - they're still just resolutions.
然而现在，我会考虑再三。 但现在除了我的工程估算能力有所改进，什么都没改变；另外层意思就是我会根据“我是否真的确定，我的承诺能代表整个团队？”
Now, nothing's changed as far as my engineering biased estimating abilities go; it is the added sense of "am I committing something on my team members' behalf that I am doubly sure of?"
环境问题：“球体工程”是指直接使用科学技术来对气候变化造成改变或影响。
Environment: "Geo-engineering" is the direct use of technology to counteract climate change. The idea is highly controversial.
为了改变这一状况，Irvine -Halliday博士，加拿大Calgary大学电气工程教授，建立了光明世界基金会。
Hoping to make a difference, Dr Irvine-Halliday, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Calgary in Canada, founded the Light Up the World Foundation.
但是，作为一名工程师，他决定做些事情改变这个情况。
Being an engineer, however, he decided to do something about it.
在改变气候时什么才是地球工程的理想角色呢？
What would be the ideal role for geoengineering in addressing climate change?
随着技术的进步，人类的梦想逐渐变成现实，越来越多的工程奇迹不仅在改变我们的世界也在改变着我们自己。
As technology evolves to meet the demands of our dreams, more and more wondrous feats of engineering will transform our world; and us with it.
如果您是一名项目的系统工程师，我猜想您的评估更多的是考虑到您的计划，而不是响应改变。
If you are working on a systems engineering project, I would think that you will value sticking to your plan as much as responding to change.
只是这次的讨论主题从基因工程换成了地球工程——没有随意性，而是有目的地改变地球环境。
This time the topic under discussion was not genetic engineering but geoengineering—deliberately rather than accidentally changing the world's environment.
飞机工程和控制系统的技术进步使情况发生了改变。
What has changed are technological advances in aircraft engineering and control systems.
如果一个工程师建议要改变设计，那不能被包括在电站设计内，直到委员会，全部的其他人，都评价并通过那个改变。
So if an engineer proposes a certain design change it cannot be included in the plant design until this committee, and a whole bunch of other people, review and approve it.
华盛顿大学的工程师乔舒亚·史密斯和匹斯堡大学的心脏外科医生普拉·莫德·邦德希望改变这一切。
Joshua Smith, an engineer at the University of Washington, and Pramod Bonde, a heart surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh, hope to change that.
软件工程领域通常提到，您应该在项目中尽可能早地多作设计，因为之后再改变关键决策时是一件很麻烦的事情。
Conventional software engineering wisdom says that you should do as much design as possible early on in a project, because it is difficult to reverse key decisions later.
生物工程学可以为我们新的思考空间做的一件事是改变我们的时间尺度。
One thing bioengineeringcould do for the space of our thinking is shift our time scale.
这项工程永远地改变了世界。
这项工程永远地改变了世界。
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