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Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Engineering are launching an initiative, led by Emmanuel Giannelis, to form cross-disciplinary partnerships.

Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has said for elections and governance to advance in the country, engineering innovation should be involved.

Ghana and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), have proposed the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence in Engineering Innovations, Manufacturing and Technology Transfer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, who announced this on Tuesday…

Misery, were going to need a whole lot of things. were going to need grassroots movements, huge political changes and a whole variety of massive engineering innovations in about a dozen sectors that totally and completely transform our industrial system and how it is powered. this is the frontier of that. we desperately need american capitalism to stop spending its time and resources and ingenuity and human capital figuring out how to make money with glorified bets in the wall street casino, or ...

Because sometimes what powers a car doesnt have a gallon of anything. its electric. so this new metric we did with consumers report allows us to compare electric against hybrid against gasoline or ethanol, whatever it might be. were rethinking power train, the materials that are in it, and really, just the entire approach of how cars are designed. >> one of the really interesting things is that there is this sort of multiplicity of approaches. i was reading one story about one team that is actua...

Equivalent of 100 miles a gallon? >> what we did was created a new metric for measuring how a car goes. and we call it mpge. miles per gallon equivalent. sometimes the power of the car doesnt have a gallon of anything. it is electric. this new metric we did with consumers report allows to us compare electric against hybrid against gasoline or ethanol or whatever it might be. thats the first you know this to do. and then were rethinking the arrow die animal igs, were rethinking the power systems ...

All right. christine romans joining me now, very interesting. you know, were talking about this oil rig that exploded and then it sank. and its a reminder, christine, that when we do fill up our cars and we heat our homes, theres someone out there who is getting this for us and we are very, very dependent on when we talked about it with coal of few weeks ago and with oil. >> absolutely. and people are literally working in harms way to feed a voracious appetite for the american consumers and econ...