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Worcester Polytechnic Institute | July 29, 2020

A Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) chemical engineer has received four separate grants totaling more than $2 million to support his research into using yeast and fungi to take on significant genetic engineering challenges. Through his research in synthetic biology, Eric Young, the Leonard P. Kinnicutt Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at WPI, aims to engineer organisms to make it easier to develop numerous products, like medicines, biofuels, and plastics, and increase security by ...

ETF Trends | February 11, 2020

Engineering, in any sector, is already a complicated endeavor, but with the help of disruptive technology like artificial intelligence and machine learning, the tasks that engineers must undertake is getting less arduous. For humans, change is innately difficult. This becomes even more contentious when that change involves replacing human beings with machines, but in some instances, it’s not a matter of replacing current tasks, but enhancing them with the help of humans. In the case of eng...

PERSPECTIVES,ENGINEERING TECH,CONSTRUCTION

Wilson & Company Inc., Engineers & Architects | January 10, 2023

Employees of Phoenix-based Holistic Engineering and Land Management, Inc. (HELM) have been acquired by Wilson & Company, Inc., the company recently announced. HELM is a civil engineering consulting firm specializing in drainage, stormwater management, flood hazard mitigation and water conservation. HELM’s highly qualified technical professionals have expertise in 1- and 2-dimensional hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; erosion and scour analyses, sediment transport; Risk ...

CONSTRUCTION

Trex Commercial | June 28, 2022

Trex Commercial, a national leader in architectural railings for commercial applications, has been honored as “Trade Contractor of the Year” by the Cincinnati-Kentucky branch of Turner Construction Company. The commercial products division of Trex Company was nominated by Turner’s jobsite and office staff based on overall job performance, project management, engineering, quality of work, collaboration, pricing and field expertise demonstrated through its work on Cincinnati&rsqu...