The UK is in need of 1.25 million science,engineering and technology professionals and technicians by 2020;but will not hit this target the Royal Academy of Engineering has warned. Research from the Academy estimates 830,000 ...
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A 40 year retired industrial art teacher's project by Robert Sanchez Rivera is creating quite the commotion in Puerto Rico.Mr.Sanchez's flying saucer home actually does not have anything to do with anticipated encounters with aliens.Just ...
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Newly announced GE Lighting commitments to Cleveland community exceed one quarter of a million dollars GE's investment includes $200,000 in ecomagination LED lights to illuminate the West Side Market and Public Square GE Lighting and Case ...
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SINGAPORE -- The International Furniture Fair Singapore has named Ernie Koh as its chairman. Koh, who replaces outgoing chairman Andrew Ng, is executive director of bedroom, dining room and occasional manufacturer Koda Ltd. His year-long ...
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Glass is strong enough for so much: Windshields, buildings and many other things that need to handle high stress without breaking. But scientists who look at the structure of glass strictly by the numbers believe some of the latest methods ...
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World-renowed London department store Liberty has snapped up a fabric design by a recent graduate of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). Angela Johnston, who graduated from BA (Hons) Textiles for Fashion & Interiors at UCA Farnham ...
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Lighting Industry Association,Student Lighting Design Finalist Simon Locke-Wheaton,joins tp24 as a graduate trainee designer. Sponsored by Anglepoise,OSRAM,and The Lighting Industry Association.The Student Lighting Design Awards allow ...
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WOODWORKING is a tricky skill to master. Students learn to measure carefully before they reach for a saw, and to cut as true to the design as hand and eye allow. But, even so, precise cutting is a painstaking job, full of pitfalls and ...
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PPR announces the appointment of Marie-Claire Daveu as Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of international institutional affairs of PPR,and member of the PPR executive committee.Reporting to François-Henri Pinault,PPR CEO and ...
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Stage for Young Professionals will lead to contacts between graduates and employers The way turbines work in tidal power stations is examined in one of the theses presented by young academics(up-and-coming engineers)at the tenth Pump ...
UK-At PLASA 2012,Shure Distribution UK(SDUK)announced a partnership with RADA,the London-based Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. SDUK has always striven to work closely with educational establishments that encourage talented young ...
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The Dow Chemical Company and the Saline Water Conversion Corporation(SWCC)have signed a commercial agreement for research collaboration. Dow and SWCC's first action after this agreement will be to launch a pilot project to test the ...
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Researchers at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have proposed a new metric to help architects and builders more easily take advantage of the benefits of daylighting,from significant energy savings to the ...
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MIT researchers have found a way to observe how electrons move in the class of materials known as topological insulators. Topological insulators are exotic materials,discovered just a few years ago,in which the electrons demonstrate ...
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While in New York, we visited the Mondo Collection showroom, a company that is dedicated to bringing modern global design to the US, as well as collecting exceptional designs from up-and-coming designers. We got an exclusive tour of the ...