Motivational
The University of Arizona has spent nearly $13 million designing a new science center for Rio Nuevo — including notable expenses for travel, meals and architectural designs that have been discarded, according to an investigation by the Arizona Daily Star.
Pitched to voters in 1999 as a $30 million item, science-center costs ballooned to $350 million with the proposed addition of a Rainbow Bridge across Interstate 10 before settling back down to about $130 million in a joint development with the Arizona State Museum. |
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Monday 8 December, 2008 11:15 AM |
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I have just returned from a trip to Denmark with a stopover in Norway.
But on reflection on my return, I realise that you don’t have to be an ‘airport economist’ to see the influence that Denmark has on Australia. In fact, I can see it all a few metres from my office in Sydney.
Firstly, when I look out my office window in Sydney, I can see the Sydney Opera House, designed by the famous Danish architect Jorn Utzon.
We all know what an important icon it is for Australia and how much it has done for Sydney and Australia. The Sydney Opera House is truly a global architectural icon.
Secondly, when I walk just a few metres north of my office I can head up to Observatory Hill, and see a bust of the famous Danish children’s storyteller Hans Christian Anderson.
Observatory Hill was originally a fort and was set up to watch for a possible Russian invasion in the early part of the twentieth century, but the Russians never came and we now have Hans planted on this prime piece of real estate instead. |
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Tuesday 2 December, 2008 08:47 AM |
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Aworld-record attempt is being used to encourage more young people in Wales to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) subjects.
Swansea University is involved in a bid to build a British supercar which can travel at 1,000mph. The current land-speed record is 763mph.
The Bloodhound supersonic car will travel at five times the speed of a Formula One car.
It will be powered by a Eurojet fighter plane engine and will weigh 6.4 tonnes. It will be driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, who set the current record in 1997. |
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Thursday 13 November, 2008 03:01 PM |
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Blue Peter was / is a UK kids TV programme, where they could make anything out of double sides sticky tape and old coathangers and empty kitchen roll tubes.
"Blue Peter engineering" is the belief system that 100% of the population who are not engineers have about engineering, and it pisses engineers off just as much as telling your Bank Manager your overdraft is no problem, you will simply give him a cheque.
In my life as a freelance development engineer I encounter basically two types of "customer", the first type has actually paid me to do some actual work at some point in the past, and the second type has not paid me, just enquired about something.
The first type, that has paid me once, would, you'd think, have a clue. You'd think that having been through the process once, when they come back to you a second or third or fourth time, that they would come back with an idea that might actually work.
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Saturday 8 November, 2008 09:40 AM |
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A combination of innovation, economic and environmental benefits as well as commercial success led to the Shell Global Solutions OMEGA (Only MEG Advantage) Technology team winning the prestigious SELLAFIELD LTD AWARD FOR ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE at the IChemE awards ceremony in Birmingham, UK, last night.
The annual IChemE Awards recognise and promote organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to innovation and excellence in the fields of safety, the environment or sustainable development in process industries. |
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Saturday 1 November, 2008 09:32 AM |
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On a recent Monday morning, the eighth graders in Chris Malanga's technology class at Riverhead (N.Y.) Middle School were hard at work constructing Web pages . Scattered across computer screens in this classroom about 75 miles east of Manhattan were Web pages reflecting students' distinct personalities and interests. One blared rap music. Others boasted purple text over garish background images. These were no mere MySpace (NWS) profile pages, constructed with a few clicks of the mouse from a menu. These students built their pages from scratch, writing pure HTML in a text file. "They like that it's something they learned in school that they can take home and use to jazz up their MySpace [pages]," Malanga says. |
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Wednesday 29 October, 2008 07:30 AM |
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The secrets in the title of Brad Matsen's new book are those of greed and deceit — "Titanic's Last Secrets" concludes that owners and builders of the ocean liner Titanic made decisions that saved them huge amounts of money and sacrificed more than 1,500 lives.
"Titanic's Last Secrets: the Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler" (Twelve, 322 pp., $27.99) is a tribute to the passion and obsession of those Matsen calls "Titaniacs," who devote their lives to increasing the world's sum of knowledge about the sinking of the world's greatest luxury ship. |
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Saturday 11 October, 2008 07:07 AM |
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Sir James Dyson strides into the room with his trademark vacuum cleaner under his arm, but it’s the gadgets in his pockets that he really wants to talk about.
“I thought I would get stopped at reception, but I got through,” smiles the 61-year-old inventor, extracting two white cylindrical objects with wires sticking out at one end.
He plops the devices on the table enthusiastically. To my untrained eye, they don’t look very interesting; the sort of thing you might see in a drawer at an electrical shop, but seems terribly excited. “We’ve been doing a lot of work on electric motor development,” he announces. “We’re going for higher speeds.” |
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Sunday 5 October, 2008 09:22 AM |
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Faced with an aging workforce and a growing demand for skilled workers in emerging markets like China and India, companies in the West are grappling with a talent crunch of unprecedented scope. According to experts at Wharton and The Boston Consulting Group, firms are increasingly questioning their workforce requirements and quality, training and development, and wage levels. Responses include over-hiring to meet future needs, upgrading training in concert with universities and in-house corporate schools, and extracting greater productivity through innovation.
Jim Hemerling, senior partner and managing director at BCG in San Francisco, says two factors are combining to exacerbate the so-called "war" for talent: the "significant aging of the workforce in North America, Europe and Japan [which is] shrinking the supply of experienced people in developed markets," and the rise of "rapidly developing economies, or RDEs, driving up demand."
Western companies are trying to retain people with 20 or 30 years of experience and who are heading into retirement age, even though they are expensive and have limited growth prospects, Hemerling says. At the same time, they want to hire people by the "tens of thousands" in the RDEs to both exploit the market opportunities and to leverage lower-cost talent by shifting some of their workforce requirements to those countries, he adds. |
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