Only about 6% of U.S. undergraduates major in engineering today--the second-lowest figure among developed countries.
Both students hope to major in Biomedical Engineering in college.
An education major in architecture of engineering earns a full million less than the engineering major, even when pursuing the same career.
According to Dajani, more than four in ten Jordanian women who go to a university major in science, engineering or medicine.
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Kim, an engineering major in college, knows the U.S. well, having grown up in California and received his M.
"Hopewell misjudged the speed of major civil engineering construction in China, the complexities of land acquisition and budgeting, " says Michael Green of Nomura Research Institute.
Graduating in 1979 with a double major in electrical and electronics engineering, Hukku spurned offers from brand-name companies, preferring to cut his teeth with software services pioneer Tata Consultancy Services.
"The work I've done here captures both of my majors, and it's so cool when they overlap, " says Jennifer Blundo, a 21-year-old double major in finance and mechanical engineering who is working on a running shoe for New Balance.
She graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a double major in neuroscience and media studies, and a double minor in civil engineering and management science from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Warm weather in April saw visitors arrive in Redcar in their thousands, as major engineering works on the promenade gathered pace.
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Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.
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Today Dana operates 96 major facilities in 27 countries and develops technology in 15 regional engineering centers around the world.
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In Knoxville he roomed with another outgoing engineering major who, like Mr. Saied, came from a highly educated Indian family.
D. in automotive engineering, to make their region a major center of technological innovation for the industry.
One of the major obstacles to genetic engineering has been the cost and labor involved in changing even a small number of genes in an organism.
Kutcher, who was a biochemical engineering major at Iowa before dropping out, was an investor in Skype (the second time around when it was spun out of eBay), getting recruited by Marc Andreessen.
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Without the Empire to fund major engineering projects and large scale infrastructure, many of the skills and techniques involved in monumental buildings and complex technologies were forgotten and lost.
Each of the department heads is an expert in one of the major ship departmental functions: Ship Operations, Intelligence, Propulsion, Engineering, Combat Systems, Supply, Air Operations, Aircraft Maintenance, Safety, Training, Navigation, Religious Ministries and Medical.
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NASA's traditional approach has been to invest heavily in detailed systems engineering, computer simulations and extensive analysis through the early stages of major projects.
At least 73% of the 151 agency executives surveyed are concerned about security in the cloud, and 45% said their mission-critical applications would require major re-engineering to modernize for the cloud.
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Mr Gates himself is portrayed as an autocrat short-fused and increasingly out of touch who has little interest in the engineering problems caused by his constant tactical manoeuvrings and only a shaky grasp of major technological trends.
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