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Career interview: Cost engineer | plus.maths.org - 0 views

  • Submitted by Rachel on April 13, 2011 in careers with mathematics engineering mathematics and art project finance Back to the Constructing our lives packageHeather MacKinlay's work as an engineer has taken her from the civility of Surrey to the wild west of Australian mining towns and multibillion pound projects in the Algerian desert. And along the way she has also become a successful painter. Heather tells Plus that engineering and painting are just different ways of looking at the world, and how her work as a cost engineer is all about understanding the big pict
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    "Heather MacKinlay's work as an engineer has taken her from the civility of Surrey to the wild west of Australian mining towns and multibillion pound projects in the Algerian desert. And along the way she has also become a successful painter. Heather tells Plus that engineering and painting are just different ways of looking at the world, and how her work as a cost engineer is all about understanding the big picture."
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Get The Math - 0 views

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    Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. See how professionals working in fashion, videogame design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.
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Deciphering hidden code reveals brain activity - 0 views

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    "ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) - By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn neurologist has developed a new approach for studying the inner workings of the brain. A hidden pattern is encoded in the seemingly random order of things presented to a human subject, which the brain reveals when observed with fMRI. The research is published in the journal NeuroImage."
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Keep a weather eye - 0 views

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    "The weather is one of the biggest external influences on human society, as well as providing the English with an inexhaustible topic of conversation. However, it's also extremely complicated"
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