WURC, as the representative of World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) to the UN Scientific and Technological Communities Major Group, is committed to the journey to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals through true transdisciplinary approach to our professional work and collaboration with other UN Major Groups, which taken together represent global society. Engineering is a key to translate the Goals into effective policies and functional realities. WFEO works globally across all of the engineering disciplines and proposes to contribute on the Post-2015 collaborative...
Jeffery Long, professor of chemistry and chemical and bimolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues have devised a space-efficient natural-gas tank that can store the same amount of gas as bulky conventional tanks at a much lower pressure.
Metabolic Engineering relies on the Design-Build-Test cycle. This cycle includes technologies like mathematical modeling of metabolism, genome editing and advanced tools for phenotypic...