Zhang Tongli, head of the Henan province section of the project, says it's the largest water engineering project in the world, with a price tag of many billions of dollars.
The company said it would be the biggest subsea engineering project it had undertaken in the UK, and the first ever with so many seabed crossings.
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 next project engineering phase is worth about 90m euros.
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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And what we're hoping to do is at least some of the decision-making based a little bit more on what are the engineering plans that determine this is the best project to go forward.
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The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (AKA the RoMeLa Project) at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech has designed and built a prototype robotic hand that is controlled and operated by compressed air.
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Prof Constantin Coussios of the Department of Engineering Science has been working on the project for 15 years in partnership with Prof Peter Friend, of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.
The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project, or SPICE, is a British academic consortium that seeks to mimic the actions of volcanoes like Pinatubo by pumping particles of sulfur dioxide, or similar reflective chemicals, into the stratosphere through a twelve-mile-long pipe held aloft by a balloon at one end and tethered, at the other, to a boat anchored at sea.
The award will recognise the project that has made a singular engineering achievement in restoration.
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The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.
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.
Andy Rubin, Android's founder, is leading the project's engineering team.
The Regional Engineering Counsel said there were at least one project on the 16th floor of the 20 floor tower that was being conducted without a building permit.
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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It was also the UK's largest industrial engineering project last year.
Released last week, Man 2.0: Engineering the Alpha is the passion project of John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein and the first of two books in a seven-figure publishing deal.
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Mr Noble is involving schools in the project to encourage interest in engineering as a career.
The project, a collaboration between engineering firm Siemens and Associated British Ports (ABP), was given planning permission in May.
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On December 8th, says Rory McGowan of Arup, a British engineering firm in charge of the project, the towers were permanently joined by seven steel beams.
"There are many occasions in which anonymity is a perfectly acceptable and, in fact, morally responsible form of behavior, and the protection of anonymity is a moral requirement, " said Rachelle Hollander, director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology Program, which funded the project.
Working with the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University, England, the Fitzwilliam Museum undertook an ambitious restoration project to repair and reshape the Egyptian relic, and get it back on display.
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Johansen testified on Thursday that he announced the successful reverse engineering of a DVD on the mailing list of the Linux Video and DVD Project (LiViD), a user resource center for video- and DVD-related work for Linux.
So sloppy was this project that by the 1980s, engineering errors had crept into some designs.
The EOWDC project is a joint venture with engineering firm Technip and the Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group (Areg).
The engineering group was working on the Sakhalin 2 project in eastern Russia, which Marathon had landed in the early 1990s.
On a finer scale, self-organising maps can show how particular individuals use a given file of data, such as an engineering drawing, during the course of a project.
Not to mention the stiff price tag that comes with such an immense engineering project.
Engineering software developer Autodesk, which collaborated on the project, is looking even further into the future.
BrightSource can point to its SEGS experience and the fact that the engineering firm Bechtel is helping design and build its Ivanpah project.
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