Transforming biology into an engineering practice, decoupling design from fabrication and speeding the biological design, build, test cycle is how DARPA proposes to tackle this problem.

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In 1997, he was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Award for Chemical Engineering Practice, and in 1992 was named Black Engineer of the Year.

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The bulk of jobs growth here will be in low to medium-skilled jobs, Sissons says, putting the technologies gleaned from high-skilled engineering into practice.

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The second practice is engineering .

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What is different from other sporting events is that here the kids are playing with technology and learning to appreciate science, engineering and mathematics by putting it into practice.

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"In the next five years we're going to see more and more exoskeletons out there in practice, " says Sugar, associate professor at the Department of Engineering, Arizona State University.

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