Engineering

Engineering workers accept pay deal

Financial Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A two-year pay and conditions deal agreed after months of walk-outs potentially brings peace to an industry set to build at least 10 nuclear reactors by 2030

CORRECTING and REPLACING KBR Selected for Security Worldwide Environmental Restoration and Construction 2009 Contract by U.S. Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

HOUSTON - Third graph, first sentence, Bill Bodie's title is President (sted Senior Vice President). The corrected release reads: KBR SELECTED FOR SECURITY WORLDWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND CONSTRUCTION 2009 CONTRACT BY U.S. AIR FORCE CENTER FO

CORRECTING and REPLACING KBR Selected for Security Worldwide Environmental Restoration and Construction 2009 Contract by U.S. Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Third graph, first sentence, Bill Bodie's title is President (sted Senior Vice President). The corrected release reads: KBR SELECTED FOR SECURITY WORLDWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND CONSTRUCTION 2009 CONTRACT BY U.S. AIR FORCE CENTER FOR ENGINEERING AND THE ENVIRONMENT KBR (NYSE:KBR) today announced it has been awarded a basic contract by the U.S. Air Force Center for...

Top 10 Civil Engineering Board Exam November 2009

PRC Board Exam Results (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places in the Civil Engineer Licensure Examination November 2009 are the following: RANK NAME SCHOOL RATING(%) 1 KRISTINA TING SHAN UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS 97.55 2 MARK JAYSON LAURENTE MAMBIL UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS 96.85 3 ROMYR ZAMORA IWAYAN UNIVERSITY

Kumho selects buyers for Daewoo Engineering

Financial Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

A consortium led by an Abu Dhabi investment fund and a group led by a US builder are preferred bidders for a controlling stake in South Korea's Daewoo Engineering and Construction

• Daewoo construction unit up for sale - The Earth Times Online Newspaper

Engineering our nation’s youth

BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

BoardBuzz recently wrote about whether engineering should have a place in the school curriculum. And, of course, we think it should. But as the National Academy of Engineering says, engineering is often the missing letter in STEM education. So BoardBuzz was pleasantly surprised to learn that Derby Public Schools in Kansas will begin a pilot program [...]

S Korea's state bank withdraws from Daewoo Engineering sale

People Daily (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

South Korea's state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said Tuesday it will withdraw from its role as a main arranger for the sale of Daewoo Engineering & Construction Co. and consider providing financial support to its buyer. "Considering various conditions including a controversy over interest conflicts, we decided to drop our role as a main arranger for the sale of Daewoo Engineering after...

Changing Medicine Through Engineering

Thomas Net (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Some of the most important health-related breakthroughs over the next century will likely come from advances in biomedical engineering, from medical devices and diagnostics to drug-delivery and records-cataloging systems.

Tetra Tech Awarded $63 Million USAID Engineering Support Program in Afghanistan

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has been awarded a $63 million task order to provide architect/engineering (A/E) services for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in support of sustainable infrastructure development programs in Afghanistan. This five-year program is Tetra Tech’s first major award under the USAID global...

New Art Gallery Opens inside Engineering School

The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

"Amaryllis," by Katelyn Sack I work in the engineering school here at U.Va. My office faces a lobby-type area just outside the main computer lab for undergrads. That space has blank walls. We recently commandeered it and opened up an art gallery. The painting above is one of four currently hanging in this first installment. I make note of the exhibit here, at The World's Fair, because it...

Chinese State Engineering Firm Wins NYC Subway Deal

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago

We'll be a little surprised if this doesn't cause some controversy. Xinua : China State Construction Engineering Corp., the largest contractor in China, has bagged a subway ventilation project worth about 100 million U.S. dollars in New York's Manhattan area, China Daily reported Tuesday. The deal marked the construction giant's third order in the United States' infrastructure space this year, the...

Project Planner - Civil Engineering: United Kingdom, London

Jobs in USA | Jobs in Bangalore, Canada, UK,... (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago

Description:- This project planner role is operating predominantly with in the rail sector but this isnt essential as knowledge of heavy civil engineering projects is whats required. Projects are all with in the rail infrastructure sector which means you could be on any thing from Track, Overhead line, Signalling, Stations or various civil engineering related projects. This role is based in Londo

Kerio Technologies, Inc.: Update: Kerio Appoints Industry Veteran Pavel Suk as Vice President of Engineering

Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

SAN JOSE, CA (MARKET WIRE) Kerio Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of Internet security and messaging solutions, today announced that Pavel Suk has joined the company's executive management team as vice president of Engineering. Bringing more than twenty years of engineering expertise, Suk is responsible for driving the product strategy and leading the engineering efforts of Kerio's security and...

• Kerio Appoints Industry Veteran Pavel Suk as Vice President of Engineering - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Kerio Technologies, Inc.: Kerio Appoints Industry Veteran Pavel Suk as Vice President of Engineering - Market Wire

Bioreactor For Bone Tissue Engineering Wins Professor Venture Fair

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday

John Fisher, associate professor in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering, won the Best Inventor Pitch at the 2009 Bioscience Research and Technology Review Day with a tissue engineering bioreactor system that grows bone and other types of tissue for implantation. Fisher's technology was one of six innovations presented in an eight minute pitch by faculty members and graduate students at the Professor...

TechNet Applauds Administration's New Program to Encourage U.S. Students to Pursue Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday

"Since our founding roughly 10 years ago, TechNet has worked to support smart improvements in America's education system in order to better prepare our young people for the high skilled jobs of tomorrow," said Jim Hawley, Acting CEO of TechNet. "This important initiative is strongly supported by the innovation industry because better preparing our students in the STEM areas is our highest...

• TechNet Applauds Administration's New Program to Encourage U.S. Students to Pursue Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - PR News Wire

"the Art Of Recycling" The College Of Engineering Of Barcelona

Josep Puigmarti | 29/03/2008

After the great success of the exhibition "The Art of Recycling", which took place a few months ago in the Barcelona airport, the sample moves now to the College of Engineering of Barcelona. Loyal to his premise that "any object can be turned into art in the hands of an artist," Josep Puigmarti is proposing a tour through the world of recycling, with his sculptures created entirely out of scrap materials...