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ASU professor says engineers need to look at sustainability in different light
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!Engineers, trained to be object problem solvers, need to look at sustainability in a different way than they would approach other subjects in order to fully understand it, according to Arizona State University researcher Brad Allenby. Allenby, a professor in ASU's Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, is speaking on February 16 at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco.
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