Jim Plummer, dean of Stanford's School of Engineering, says that's why his faculty is increasingly using e-books.
In 1996, he was elevated to dean of the School of Engineering.
School of Engineering and Science at Stevens, who is leading the effort.
But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science could finally help solve the problem.
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Paul Turnock, design director at Brunel's School of Engineering and Design, said the device had real potential to get children to be more active.
According to Dr David Hammond of Cranfield's School of Engineering, a large build up of ice can alter the shape and performance of vital aircraft components.
And Under Secretary of Energy, Dr. Kristina Johnson, is here, and she was the dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke for eight years.
Several institutions are partners in the Miftaah project, in particular the Mohammedia School of Engineering, Morocco, and the Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria.
He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz, and has collaborated with the Internet Archive.
Frederick Terman, an engineer who joined the faculty in 1925, became the dean of the School of Engineering after the Second World War and the provost in 1955.
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of almost 5, 000 students.
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As dean of the school of engineering from 1996 to 1999, he mentored many of the students who went on to build Internet firms, including Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo.
He serves as Chairman of the Princess Grace Foundation USA, a director of OpSail Foundation, a member of the Board of Overseers of the School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a trustee of LaSalle College High School.
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Donald Goldfarb, the interim dean of Columbia's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the latest project is aimed at helping the university's engineering school overcome its biggest hurdle in reaching the topmost echelon of the field: its relatively small size.
"The number of collapsed buildings this time is less, and most are old houses that were built long before, " added Wang Ruheng, dean of the school of civil engineering and architecture at Southwest University of Science and Technology in the city of Mianyang, in Sichuan province.
Within Korea University, the School of Electrical Engineering's Intelligent Signal Processing Lab (ISPL), headed by Professor Ko Hanseok, specializes in both image and speech processing.
"The recent earthquakes in Manchester and Italy have highlighted our need to better understand the movement of the Earth's crust in England, " said Dr Matt King of Newcastle University's School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.
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Organized in partnership with ISESCO, the Moroccan Ministry of Education, the engineering School of Mines Albi-Carmaux and the French Technological University of Compiegne, the workshop will be conducted in a form of action-training, and the participants will work on their own pedagogical materials with the objective to transpose them to the editorial chain.
If you walk through the halls of any graduate program, any engineering school, many of these kids are foreign-born.
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Stancell is Emeritus Professor and Turner Leadership Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
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The wearable motherboard, as it is called, was originally developed at Georgia Tech's School of Textile and Fiber Engineering for use in a war zone.
The team, from the university's School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering, now hopes to offer advice to the rail industry on how to protect passengers.
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Consider Seher Bhandari, all of 20, a Miss Monsoon contestant who dropped out of engineering school because her friends told her she was tall enough to model.
At Parkville Middle School outside of Baltimore, engineering is the most popular subject, thanks to outstanding teachers who are inspiring students to focus on their math and science skills.
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If you're looking for a big paycheck straight out of school, think about an engineering degree.
Ensuring that young people learn the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math while in school is crucial to maintaining our culture of innovation, but so is exposing youth to the types of career opportunities available in these and other high-growth fields.
Most of the young'uns are graduate-school educated and made their piles through financial engineering or mastering the art of Internet commerce.
"Right before finals, we have to study at work because we are running out of time, " says Sachin Wadhawan, a director of solutions engineering at Convio, about himself and his classmates in the McCombs School of Business E.
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Wadhwani grew up in India and earned his undergraduate degree from its famed engineering school, The Indian Institute of Technology.
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