"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.

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Moreover, the vehicle showcases our innovative German powertrain engineering and the bandwidth of the new MQB architecture.

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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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The bottom line is that the next generation of computing is about solving hard engineering and architecture problems.

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Our ambition is to host an exceptional conference by mobilising also policy makers from different EU countries, institutions (European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Europe, UNESCO, ICOMOS, CIPA, ISPRS, ICCROM, etc) and professionals as well as participants from all over the world and from different scientific areas of Cultural Heritage (Architecture, Civil Engineering, ICT, etc).

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Mr. Tata received a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture with Structural Engineering from Cornell University in 1962 and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.

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Some of the robots dreamed up by Fudd (who, not entirely coincidentally, is studying mechanical engineering and architecture at MIT) are anything but kiddie projects.

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