It is a demonstration of how far human engineering ingenuity has reached, to be mimicking natural systems.
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The Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) is a part of the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System and has created robotic arms, better wheelchairs, and other mobility devices.
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Lots has been studied and written about the socialization and human engineering that occurs early on in school for girls and its impact on their choices.
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Though the artificial Golgi Dr Linhardt and his team have designed is much bigger than a cell, it is still small by the standards of human engineering, being built on what is known as a digital-fluidics chip.
And of all the sciences brought to bear in modern automobiles, human-factors engineering seems to be evolving fastest.
The board will bring together eminent specialists from the natural sciences, the social and human sciences, and engineering, representing diverse backgrounds and regions.
As a result, the Secretary-General has now decided to set up a Scientific Advisory Board, bringing together eminent specialists from natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering, representing diverse backgrounds and regions.
As Tumblr approached 100 employees this year and brought on executives to lead operations in finance, engineering and human resources, Mr. Maloney's skills as a generalist manager became less relevant, people familiar with the situation said.
As a result of the advice provided to him, the Secretary-General decided to set up a Scientific Advisory Board, bringing together eminent specialists from natural sciences, social and human sciences, and engineering, and from diverse backgrounds and regions.
"The possibility of engineering a radiation tolerance in the human body would be very important because it's one of the limiting features of space travel, " he said.
And it is precisely the mix of disciplines from architecture and human ecology, to hotel schools and medical engineering, from nanotechnology to ornithology, that provides a hedge against guessing the future incorrectly.
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But policy proposals that fail to take into account advances in medicine and engineering are unlikely to take advantage of human creativity.
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They were a tiny group of civil servants, far more fascinated by the precise details (weights, measures, sizes, costs) of the engineering feat they were attempting than the human courage that the project required.
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In the AI optimist camp, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil also sees intelligent machines precipitating human extinction, of a sort, only in Kurzweil's telling, humanity is not exterminated but subsumed into a superintelligent machine.
Four professional bodies - the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society - say that while human enhancement technologies might improve our performance and aid society, their use raise serious ethical, philosophical, regulatory and economic issues.
The Roman Empire had made puny engineering, technological and artistic advances because it relied on copious use of human brawn, not brains.
The Report gives a new perspective on the importance of engineering to development and is intended as a platform for better understanding of engineering, an extraordinarily diverse and pervasive activity that has been central to human progress since the invention of the wheel.
"The human body is a lot more complex than silicon, " said a professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia University after Grove's speech.
In his series of five lectures - airing on Radio Four throughout April - Lord Broers, who is president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, explores the idea that technology holds the key to the future of the human race.
Think about it: How many people who graduate with a degree in engineering, mathematics, technology or scientific research, work in the nonprofit sector or seek opportunities in human resources, strategy or operational sustainability?
Science, engineering and technology (SET) drives sustainable social and economic Development and is vital in addressing basic human needs including poverty reduction, emergency and disaster prevention, response and reconstruction, bridging the knowledge divide and promoting intercultural cooperation.
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