I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
In our firm’s earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.
Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I’d declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There’s a truly dangerous influence on our children.
You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it’s a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room ‘who said that’, or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
You may not know it now, if you studied communications or engineering, law or medicine, business or classics: you’re a storyteller, too.
I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences – large scale engineering, neuroscience.
I think a craft becomes an art form when the space of possible solutions becomes so huge that engineering can’t carry you through.
Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.
Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.
I would say that engineering has been a very positive experience overall, but usually coming into the situation it would be one of being underestimated. People would actually have low expectations. But I would take advantage of it quite honestly, because I would take my time to underestimate the situation.
Shiv Nadar University was established in 2011, and our first batch graduated in 2015. The first batch mostly had engineering courses and a B.Sc. programme in Mathematics.
As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we’re trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won’t need physical containment anymore.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.
When people have their own money at stake, it’s a lot easier to find and settle on practical, no-nonsense solutions to engineering problems than is ever the case in the complex and endless deliberations of a government bureaucracy.
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That’s a noble cause, and that’s where we should be heading. But once we get past that – once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with – when we start thinking about the future, there’s an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick – the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.
Engineering talent is the most precious resource for any technology company – Palantir and Addepar are successful first and foremost because of their top tech cultures, and the same is true for our best portfolio companies at 8VC.
During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
Using the power of protein engineering and evolution, we can convince enzymes to take what they do poorly and do it really well.
Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.
When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.
Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.
On ‘MythBusters,’ a lot of what we do does not fall into any category of things we have ever done before. There’s a lot of problem solving to figure out how to even approach a given problem. A background in science or engineering helps a lot.
The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It’s been far more deliberate than that.
Science, engineering, and technology have transformed the infrastructure of the modern world and have a vital role to play at the heart of policy making.
You meet with a CEO or founder. You talk about sales, engineering, product management and give some ideas or suggestions. And the founder quickly understands that you really can help them both operationally and from a strategic standpoint.
There’s a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight vehicles and granular soils of varying composition, it’s a very complex modeling process.
I think one problem we’ve had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
Shoes are by far the most complicated thing to bring to market. It’s not just design. You need engineering.
With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don’t know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don’t have those for engineering or making beats. I don’t know how to use a sampler well. I don’t know how to use any of these things.
The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason – these are very important.
I heard ‘More Than A Feeling’ for the first time when somebody came running into my office in the engineering department and said, ‘Your song’s on the radio in the drafting department!’
Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.
I have a science YouTube channel where I will sometimes use my engineering skills to build things such as the world’s largest Super Soaker or the Guinness World Record world’s largest Nerf gun.
While pursuing engineering, my passion for theatre grew. So, I told dad I wanted to pursue acting – ‘Do you really want to be an actor or are you drawn to the glamour?’ he asked. I convinced him of my passion and applied to film schools.
At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering – so opposed that if she couldn’t talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.
I don’t know technology and engineering. I don’t know accounting.
If you’re not excited about the field of engineering that you have, you can’t be a good engineer.
We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
I do quite like Gehry’s Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it’s seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it’s seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
When Welwyn Garden City was planned, the workers homes were placed in the east, downwind from the factories in the middle, whilst the bosses got the larger westside homes in Handside. This sort of social engineering, including the absence of a pub, would not be acceptable today.
