Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

BioSafe Engineering Featured in San Francisco Gate for Leading the Way in Hydrolysis Body Disposal

BioSafe Engineering, a biohazardous decay processing systems aggregation amid in Brownsburg, Indiana, has been featured in the San Francisco Gate for accepting the arch aggregation accouterment the advantage of hydrolysis as an addition way of administration animal and abominable waste.

Brownsburg, IN -- Brad Crain, the admiral of BioSafe Engineering in Brownsburg, Indiana, was afresh featured in the San Francisco Gate as a arch able on the arguable affair of hydrolysis, which is accepting advised as an environmentally affable addition way to actuate animal and abominable decay instead of application burying or cremation.

Hydrolysis uses lye, 300 amount calefaction and 60 pounds of burden per aboveboard inch to abort bodies in big stainless animate cylinders that are agnate to burden cookers, and is advised environmentally affable because hydrolysis does not crop up as abundant amplitude in cemeteries as burial, and eases the affair about crematorium emissions, such as carbon dioxide and mercury from argent dental fillings.

BioSafe Engineering is the aggregation that makes the animate cylinders used, and aggregation admiral Brad Crain estimated that 40 to 50 facilities, such as veterinary schools, universities, biologic companies and the U.S. government, already use the cylinders on medical waste, abominable carcasses or both.

To apprehend the article on BioSafe Engineering, go to www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/08/national/a114608D06.DTL&feed=rss.news, and for added advice about BioSafe Engineering, go to www.biosafeengineering.com.

About BioSafe Engineering
BioSafe Engineering provides different non-incineration, environmentally amenable solutions for analysis and auctioning of medical and biologic (animal and animal tissues & carcasses) wastes and for decontamination of aqueous arising wastes from bio-containment facilities. BioSafe Engineering utilizes non-burn technology that decidedly reduces atmospheric pollution. With its acrid hydrolysis tissue assimilation action BioSafe hydrolyzes all biologic material, abbreviation all of the amoebic apparatus to a antiseptic band-aid that is acceptable for absolution to the germ-free avenue arrangement with no accident of infecting bodies or accident to the environment. This arising is aswell acceptable as fertilizer or as a augment in Biogas and Biodiesel decay recycling applications.

A Story of Exceptional Personal Courage and Persistence…

Completing a adventure that began 17 years ago, if he was a 13-year-old immigrant from Mexico, Ruben Salvador of Guadalupe, CA, will accept his Bachelor of Science amount at in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara this Saturday at 1:00.

Santa Barbara, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 11, 2009 -- Completing a adventure that began 17 years ago, if he was a 13-year-old immigrant from Mexico, Ruben Salvador of Guadalupe, CA, will accept his Bachelor of Science amount at in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara this Saturday at 1:00. That adventure was abounding with roadblocks and obstacles alien to his peers.

Ruben Salvador, Recipient of UCSB's Whitted Award

Salvador immigrated to the United States from Mexico City with two of his sisters, ages 15 and 17, to accumulate with their parents. Once here, he began alive in the fields as a laborer, acceptable one of the primary allowance earners in his household. In top school, he approved a affection for acquirements and began absent of a academy education. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, but because of his responsibilities to his family, he connected to plan full-time, accessory academy if he could. After eight years, he had becoming 5 assembly degrees: engineering, math, physics, chemistry, and advanced arts.

In 2005, the acutely motivated apprentice was accepted to UCSB's College of Engineering. Because he wasn't acceptable for banking aid of any kind, he connected alive in Santa Maria and commuted to UCSB. During his aboriginal quarter, he formed continued hours on the weekends and in the evenings. Often, he slept in his car achieve abreast campus so he could accomplish it to chic after the added commute. Eventually, however, the accent of this agenda took its toll, and he withdrew from the university.

Salvador after accomplished abiding address status, which accustomed him to administer for banking aid. In bounce 2006, he abdicate his job and alternate to campus, but afterwards two quarters, he afresh begin himself in bookish ache and was absolved from the university. Undeterred, he enrolled at Santa Barbara City College, area he auspiciously completed several communicable courses, and again enrolled in a summer affair at UCSB. He alternate to UCSB as a full-time apprentice in abatement 2007.

He began alive as a apprentice agent in the Mathematics, Engineering, and Sciences Achievement (MESA) program, area he helped alike bounded and bounded Science and Technology/MESA Days, and alternate on beat panels to underrepresented inferior top and top academy students. Empowered by his success in this endeavor, he approved out campus resources, connected to accomplish bookish success, and served as a algebraic and science babysitter to a baby accumulation of students.

Because of his brave abstinence in attaining his degree, Salvador has been accustomed with UCSB's Alyce Marita Whitted Memorial Award, which recognizes a non-traditional student's endurance, persistence, and adventuresomeness in the face of amazing challenges while advancing an bookish degree. The Whitted Award is one of the university's highest.

After graduation, Salvador's agenda will abide to be abounding and demanding: He'll be alive through the summer for the MESA program; confined as a coach to the Santa Barbara Team in Training for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; belief for the Fundamentals of Engineering assay (the aboriginal of two examinations appropriate for licensure as a Professional Engineer); and advancing a career in electrical engineering in the Santa Barbara area.

About the College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
The College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara is a all-around baton in bioengineering, actinic and computational engineering, abstracts science, nanotechnology and physics. UCSB boasts 5 Nobel Laureates (four in sciences and engineering) and one champ of the celebrated all-embracing Millennium Technology Prize. Our students, advisers and agents advance in a uniquely-successful interdisciplinary and ambitious culture. Our professors' analysis is a allotment of the a lot of cited by their peers, affirmation of the acceptation and appliance of their work.   

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KAUST Announces Inaugural Division Chair Positions for Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering and Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) announces Professor David E. Keyes and Professor Brian Moran as the countdown analysis chairs of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering, and of Earth and Environmental Sciences, respectively. KAUST is accepting complete in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level analysis university committed to alarming a new age of accurate accomplishment in the Kingdom, above the arena and about the globe. Both Professors Keyes and Moran accept award-winning histories as researchers, scientists, and appear authors. Their plan as antecedents of abounding notable projects accompanying with their adventures as apprentice admiral and advisers makes both of them a absolute fit for their corresponding positions

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia -- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) today appear Professor David E. Keyes as analysis armchair of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering and Professor Brian Moran as analysis armchair of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Professor Keyes assumes official duties in May 2009 and Professor Moran will activate September 1, 2008.

Professor Keyes and Professor Moran will be amenable for arch efforts to accommodate opportunities and accessories for researchers to abode important accurate issues pertaining to anniversary division. Both positions will address to KAUST's Provost Fawwaz T. Ulaby.

Commenting today, President-designate Shih said, "Each Division of KAUST will accept its own different opportunities and challenges. As such, anniversary armchair have to acquire the administration qualities that will drive success and action our acceptance the actual best analysis acquaintance they can accept absorbed in anniversary accurate across of focus. We are captivated that Professors Keyes and Moran will accompany KAUST and footfall into their roles to actualize apple chic departments that will allure the best and brightest acceptance and adroitness from above the globe."

"Both Professors Keyes and Moran accept award-winning histories as researchers, scientists, and appear authors. Their plan as antecedents of abounding notable projects accompanying with their adventures as apprentice admiral and advisers makes both of them a absolute fit for their corresponding positions," said Professor Ulaby.

With an all-encompassing accomplishments in engineering, activated mathematics, and computer science, Professor Keyes, 51, is currently the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, an accessory of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the carnality admiral of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). Professor Keyes works at the algebraic interface amid alongside accretion and the after appraisal of fractional cogwheel equations, above a spectrum of aerodynamic, geophysical, and chemically reacting flows.

Professor Keyes began his career at Yale University, area he accomplished for eight years, above-mentioned to abutting Old Dominion University and the Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering at the NASA Langley Research Center in 1993. Between 1999 and 2008, he served part-time as the administrator of the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

A avant-garde in the development of all-embracing simulation, he currently leads a algebraic cyberinfrastructure centermost for the U.S. DOE beneath the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing initiative, and has ahead led the Grand, National, and Multidisciplinary Challenges centermost of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as able-bodied as one of DOE's Accelerated Strategic Computing centers. Professor Keyes was accustomed with the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 2007 and an ACM Gordon Bell Prize in 1999, accustomed an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989, and has won teaching prizes from Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. Professor Keyes accelerating summa cum laude with a bachelors of science in engineering in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton, and becoming a doctorate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. He completed his post-doctoral studies in the Computer Science Department of Yale University.

A built-in of Limerick Ireland, Professor Moran, 49, joins KAUST afterward a acclaimed 20-year career at Northwestern University, area he served a lot of afresh as assistant and armchair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to his accepted position, he served as armchair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern. In the across of Mechanical Engineering he accustomed a analysis assurance in neural engineering in affiliation with Biomedical Engineering and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago area he led the administration through affairs analysis and accreditation. In Civil and Environmental Engineering, he chaired an Advisory Board in developing a affairs in Architectural Engineering and Design.

Professor Moran is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was adopted a affiliate of the axle of admiral of the Society of Engineering Science area he anon serves as secretary of the society. In addition, he co-chaired the Seventh World Congress on Computational Mechanics in Los Angeles in 2006. He was alert adopted by acceptance to the Northwestern Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching and he accustomed the W.M. Keck Foundation Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence. He has appear added than 100 abstruse articles.

Professor Moran becoming his bachelors of engineering in Civil Engineering and after his masters of engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He becoming a masters of science in Applied Mathematics and doctorate in Solid Mechanics from Brown University. He accustomed the National University of Ireland Bursary in Civil Engineering for abstraction abroad. Professor Moran spent a year as an IBM Research Fellow at Caltech afore abutting Northwestern in 1988.

About KAUST:
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is accepting complete in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level analysis university committed to alarming a new age of accurate accomplishment in the Kingdom, above the arena and about the globe. As an independent, merit-based institution, KAUST will accredit top advisers from about the apple and above all cultures to plan calm to break arduous accurate and abstruse problems. The KAUST all-around analysis and apprenticeship arrangement will abutment assorted talents both on its campus and at added arch universities and analysis institutions through collaborative analysis agreements, grants, and apprentice scholarship programs. The amount campus, amid on added than 36 actor aboveboard meters on the Red Sea at Thuwal, is set to accessible in September 2009. For added advice about KAUST, appointment http://www.kaust.edu.sa.