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TJW ENGINEERING, INC.
6 Venture
Suite 225
Irvine, CA 92618
Contact:
(949) 878-3509
(949) 232-7913
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www.tjwengineering.com
Internship opportunities
TJW ENGINEERING, INC.
6 Venture
Suite 225
Irvine, CA 92618
Contact:
(949) 878-3509
(949) 232-7913
Thomas@tjwengineering.com
www.tjwengineering.com
Internship opportunities
Squid, also known as calamari, are geniuses of camouflage. But how do they do it? University of California, Irvine scientist Alon Gorodetsky knows. His lab studies materials inspired by the skin cells of squid.
To understand how this exoskeleton works, the researchers first determined how much stress it could take. The answer? Quite a lot. The beetle can withstand a load of around 39,000 times its own body weight. … The Guardian explained. "We were impressed.
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Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), an independent news outlet of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has unveiled its annual “Talented 12” list. ... Below is the list of 2022’s Talented 12 class. Adeyemi Adeleye, Ph.D., [assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at the] University of California, Irvine. This environmental chemist develops nanomaterials to save contaminated soil and water. Read More
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The team, led by David Kisailus, used microscopy, spectroscopy, and mechanical testing to identify what is hidden beneath this unique exoskeleton. And researchers' plan was to find out if the exoskeleton had the potential to be mixed with different materials, such as plastics and metal. They produced joints out of metal and composites based on the ones they observed in the beetle.
Brett Sanders, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Irvine who specializes in creating flood assessments, said rainfall in San Francisco over New Year’s Eve was “an extreme event that probably approaches a 50-to-100 year event or more.” … “The combined effects of a really wet storm with aging infrastructure and with changing land use — collectively, all those three factors led to intense flooding across the region,” Sanders said.
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