SWE - Spring 2008 - (Page 54) ENGINEERING WORLD pattern of industrial pollution across the United States. Visitors can also search for facilities by name, location, corporate owner, industry, and emissions level. sociology professor with the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, they should feel healthier and have fewer physical problems than people in more routine jobs standing at assembly lines, for instance. “Creative activity is non-routine, enjoyable, and provides opportunity for learning and for solving problems. People who do that kind of work, whether paid or not, feel healthier and have fewer physical problems,” said Dr. Mirowsky, commenting on a new study from The University of Texas at Austin published in the December Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The study concludes that employees who have more control over their daily activities and do challenging work they enjoy are likely to be in better health. “Jobs that are high-status with managerial authority or that require complex work with data, generally provide more access to creative work,” he explained. Although people who work do give up some control over their daily activities, the study found that being employed leads to better health generally, regardless of the amount of creativity required in the work. The survey addressed general health and physical functioning, as well as how people spent their daily time and whether their work, even if unpaid, gave them a chance to learn new things or do things they enjoyed. Want to Be Healthy? Solve Problems It’s said that engineers are problem solvers. If that is so, then according to John Mirowsky, Ph.D., The Best Source for Technological Innovation is a Diversity of Ideas From concept to prototype, applying innovative solutions to problems of national significance in Space, Defense, Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Geospatial Solutions and Energy. The Library of Congress in Your Wrist Watch? Every advance in memory storage devices presents a new marvel of just how much memory can squeeze into very small spaces. Considering the potential of nanolasers being developed in Sakhrat Khizroev, Ph.D.’s lab at the University of California, Riverside, things are about to get a lot smaller. As reported in the Dec. 12, 2007, issue of Technology Review, Dr. Khizroev leads a team exploring lasers so tiny that they point to a future where a 10-terabit hard drive is only 1inch square. That is 50 times the data density of today’s magnetic storage technology, a technology that has nearly Sakhrat Khizroev reached its limit for continued miniaturization. In response, researchers look for a new leap forward by combining light and magnetism to focus bits of data on much smaller areas on the disk. The $60 billion a year hard-disk- Apply online today! http://www.draper.com. Qualified applicants must be U.S. Citizens. EEO/AA employer Innovations in Engineering 54 SWE SPRING 2008 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE • • • • • • Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems Program Management Real Time Embedded Software Electronics Design and Fabrication Information Design & Exploitation Systems Biomedical Engineering http://www.draper.com http://www.draper.com
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