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Meagan Mauter: How freshwater supply is becoming more circular
An expert in freshwater systems says the world’s pending water crisis is only just beginning, but it’s not too late to make the course correction necessary to right the ship.
April 22, 2021
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Ram Rajagopal: How the grid is becoming more human-centric
An expert in the future of electrical power says that today’s big “dumb” grid is becoming a thing of the past and what’s replacing it is something much smarter and more personal.
April 22, 2021
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Catherine Gorle: How cityscapes catch the wind
A civil and environmental engineer describes how engineering is designing better built environments that shape rather than bend to the will of the wind.
April 15, 2021
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Anthony Kinslow: How to close the clean-energy divide
An engineer and clean-energy entrepreneur discusses the troubling socio-economic gap in access to sustainable energy and the things we can do now to narrow and, perhaps, close it.
April 07, 2021
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September 05, 2020
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April 10, 2020
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Nick Ouellette: What flocks of birds can tell us about engineering
A civil engineer explains how new insights gleaned from the flight of birds may one day be applied to fields as far-ranging as autonomous cars and crowd control.
March 06, 2020
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Lynn Hildemann: What’s lurking inside our homes and offices?
An expert on air quality talks about the hidden dangers of indoor pollutants and offers tips to reduce our exposure.
September 27, 2019
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Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster
Wind, water and quakes can destroy years of valuable development in an instant, but there are ways to build more resilient cities.
November 27, 2018
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Sarah Billington: How we shape our buildings — and how they shape us
A professor of civil and environmental engineering discusses the relationship between built spaces and human well-being.
August 28, 2018
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Craig Criddle: Redefining waste treatment
An environmental engineer looks at our aging waste-treatment infrastructure and explores how engineers are taking a different tack to the future of managing waste.
April 23, 2018
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Ask an Architect: John Barton
In a special academy edition of #askanarchitect, AIAS Executive Director Nick Serfass sits down with John Barton of Stanfrd University during the ACSA Administrators Conference.
February 10, 2017
