Six months into her Energy Engineering career, Spilger was frustrated.
One example of Germany's dysfunctional Iran policy is the energy and engineering giant Siemens.
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The failure to sell stakes in large public energy and engineering concerns suggests that Mr Berlusconi thinks that privatisation means raising cash without losing control.
CarlJochen Winter , professor of energy and engineering, University of Stuttgart.
On, an international energy and engineering group, any increase in its liabilities may well affect its credit rating and so the interest rate it has to pay when issuing new bonds.
As noted, however, many investors haven't stuck around while FuelCell Energy tinkers with engineering.
The Center for American Progress recently predicted that a constellation of emerging trends would converge around the concept of networked energy and, the process, create a fundamentally new engineering model for managing energy.
Rolls-Royce, for instance, had to put up with investors dismissing it as a fragile maker of jet engines while it was in fact transforming itself into a global engineering, energy and services group.
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Christopher Leonard, a reporter for the Associated Press, writes that even with high employment, employers are having a hard time finding qualified people to fill open jobs in fields like nursing, engineering and energy research.
More significant is that the list of companies involved in this work has been transformed from a collection of relatively small and little-known concerns, bravely struggling with the elements and unconvinced investors, to a roll-call of some of the biggest names in engineering and energy.
The zero emission taxis have been developed by a consortium, led by Intelligent Energy, which includes Lotus Engineering, London Taxis International and TRW Conekt with part-funding from the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board.
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GCL-Poly recently created a joint venture with New Jersey-based NRG Energy to provide solar power plant engineering and construction services.
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But there are still a number of hurdles to be cleared before energy supplier EDF and the nuclear engineering firm Areva can begin construction.
He then went to work for the Bechtel Group, an international engineering, construction and energy company, working in places like Texas, California and Russia.
The proposed new facility, which has the backing of economic development agency Scottish Enterprise, will be an extension of SSE's Glasgow-based Centre of Engineering Excellence for Renewable Energy.
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He went on to call for a greater focus on courses such as engineering for jobs in the energy sector, which he said struggled to recruit enough skilled staff.
The witnesses include experts from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the UK Energy Research Centre, and the Combined Heat and Power Association.
Saving energy used to require all sorts of dirty engineering and crawling into dark corners with an insulation blower or a caulk gun.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) project is a joint venture by utility company Vattenfall, engineering firm Technip and Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
So she put soccer on hold for about four years while she travelled to Rome, worked for 2 years at start-up, Oodle.com and put her Civil and Environmental Engineering degree to work as an Energy Engineer for Emcor.
Over the last two decades, engineering and chemical breakthroughs have produced significant energy gains in ethanol production.
The EOWDC project is a joint venture with engineering firm Technip and the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
Unfortunately, the majority of our colleges and universities lack degree programs focused on energy, and the U.S. power engineering education system is on the decline.
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The current environmental crisis poses new challenges to the building and construction industry, in areas where engineering can provide innovative alternatives such as energy-neutral housing and energy efficiency, construction materials and practices, recycling and reuse of materials.
The UCLA Engineering team created a new type of energy-harvesting polarizer for LCDs called a polarizing organic photovoltaic, which can potentially boost the function of an LCD by working simultaneously as a polarizer, a photovoltaic device and an ambient light or sunlight photovoltaic panel.
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With this in mind, the clean energy conversation should center on practical improvements to materials and engineering.
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The company's businesses include services for engineering, construction, technology, chemicals and energy industries.
He is currently Director of Engineering at Carbon Lighthouse, which helps companies reduce energy usage and carbon emissions.
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Others are engineering careers tied to research in renewable technologies like wind energy and ethanol production.
"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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