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1ISSUE NO.002 SOCIAL CHANGE ENGINEERING
WORLD’S FIRST ENGINEERING NEWS
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Social Change
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Engineering for KidsExclusive Interview with Play Well
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Social Innovation EngineeringTech & Gadgets that will Save Humanity
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With millions of engineers around the world,
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This month’s issue focuses on So-
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story features the founder of 5-Hour Energy
drink. Manoj Bhargava made it big selling
these energy drinks and is now a multi-bil-
lion dollar empire. Last year, he pledged to
donate 99% of his earnings to making this
world a better place and started a social en-
terprise called Stage 2. Hired an army of in-
novators and engineers to tackle the world’s
environmental and social challenges. Now
that’s the kind of person we want you to look
up to so go ahead, learn more about his sto-
ry and take inspiration from his selfless act.
Other stories include engineers and
engineering companies giving back to the
public, innovative products saving human-
ity from a life of despair and discomfort and
social enterprise in the engineering field. We
also have a special story on Play Well and how
it’s bringing engineering to kids in the cool-
est way ever. Lastly, we have prepared stories
that could guide you on how to make your en-
gineering career a blissful and fulfilling one
– that’s how we’ll play our part in our Social
Change Engineering campaign. We hope you’ll
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CONTENTS
Engineers and
Technology as
Catalysts in
Social Change
How Engineers Cope
with Jerk Bosses
Play-Well TEKnologies:
Teaching Kids Engineering
A Harbinger of
Social Change
Find Another Passion
Other than Engineering
Tech and Engineering
Billionaires who
Give Back
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COVER STORY
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Spherical Maglev
Tires for Self-Driving
Cars from Goodyear
A Renewable Energy
Revolution
15-year old Filipino
Genius invents
Biodegradable
Plastic Bags
Tissue Engineering
Scaling Up at Harvard
What to Wear to a
Job Interview
Celebrating Awesome
Female Engineers on
International
Women’s Day
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by Dion Greg Reyes
Photo by Airbnb
Engineers
and Technology
as Catalysts
in Social Change

Tech Talk at the OpenAir 2015 Con-
ference tells that engineers and the
technology we make have that shared
potential as catalysts in social change.
There is a whole lot more that the world
can get from engineers other than just
making technologies that will meet the
direct needs of the world. Engineers
and our technologies can also create
positive social change, driven by an in-
nate purpose to make that difference in
the community.
At the OpenAir 2015 confer-
ence, the panel discussion “How Tech
Can Reach Underserved Communi-
ties” focused on just that. Among the
panellists are Airbnb engineer Alanna
Scott, Watsi co-founder Grace Garey,
and Google.org software engineer Ra-
quel Romano. They are moderated by
Mario Lugay, who is an impact advisor
of Kapor Center for Social Impact.
Highlights of the conference
include projects to reach underserved
communities, how technology can
make a difference, and how engineers
can contribute to social change.
Project to reach
underserved
communities
Google.org has its share in
helping the underserved communities
through crisis response and reaching
people before, during, and after a nat-
ural disaster. Romano had established
ties with them in developing data feeds
that would provide warnings about im-
pending local floods or hurricanes in
relevant search results for Google us-
ers.
Airbnb, as Scott said, had
helped too by having a Disaster Re-
sponse Tool three years ago as a reac-
tion in the Hurricane Sandy. “We were
inspired by a host (in the area where
the storm hit) who started opening up
her home to people who had been dis-
placed. We wanted to build something
to support what she was doing and
enable the rest of our host communi-
ty to participate as well,” Scott shared.
The tool was built as a side project, but
now Airbnb can activate the tool with-
in minutes for a specific location hit by
a natural disaster. Hosts can list their
space for free with all fees waved and
create a way for displaced people in
that area to find a place to stay.
Watsi, on the other hand, is a
social impact organization that focuses
in healthcare. Garey said, “We let peo-
ple directly fund healthcare for people
all around the world, and 100 percent
of donations go to the patient. Technol-
ogy seemed to be the answer we needed
to focus on. We saw people using tech-
nology like Airbnb to bust open nar-
row channels to allow person-to-per-
son interaction and create new ways to
solve a problem. So we decided to do
the same thing to tackle healthcare in a
new way.”
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How engineers
contribute to
social change
Anyone could have their
own contribution to social change,
but engineers have it a lot more with
the technical knowledge and skills
inside of us. All it needs is to spark
some fire inside and be that catalyst
of social change through engineering.
This is what the panellists also be-
lieve.
Scott shared that they have
Airbnb users who are willing to do-
nate their earnings to projects and
local organizations. Her advice is to
look at how users are already helping
other people with the product, then
figure out how to scale it and open it
up to the whole community.
Romano, on the other
hand, emphasized on partnering up
passion for technology with social
issues you care about as that makes
“an amazing combination.” She said
that the combination is a lot stronger
when the passions are shared. “Talk
to people about what they’re working
on and tell them what you’re interest-
ed in,” she underscored.
“It’s really hard when you’re
trying to prioritize and focus to create
space and resources to work on [so-
cial impact projects]. What works is
when people just start doing things
[for social impact] without asking for
permission. You get other passionate
people together and come up with a
proof of concept and you can start
seeing how it could be better if you
had a product manager, user experi-
ence person, and multiple engineers
working on it,” Roman added.
Garey highlighted how
engineers can contribute to social
change by having that perspective of
doing two or more things at once.
“So don’t feel like you have to make a
choice between working at a compa-
ny with a product that’s creating val-
ue and making a lot of money versus
doing something that’s good for the
world. You can do well and do good
at the same time,” Garey added.
How technology can
make a difference
Aside from the projects that
have been and are being developed by
engineers from around the globe, an
initiative at Google.org, according to
Romano, is underway to help people
with disabilities to live more on their
own. Areas in recognizing and translat-
ing sign language, analyzing content in
video and providing natural language
description of it, and communicating
with the world by typing with the eyes
are now being studied to aid the differ-
ently-abled.
Meanwhile, Airbnb is now
opening its doors to venture in the
SMS messaging when natural disasters
inhibit the people for a reliable Inter-
net access and phone battery. Roma-
no shared in the conference that such
technical limitations will opt people
to use the conventional technology of
SMS messaging instead of using the
latest tech of Airbnb in booking or ac-
cepting reservations.

ith the fast-paced
society today,
we have to keep
up with the ad-
vancements and
knowledge of our
technology. One
essential way is through education and
educating the young minds of a nation
or a region creates a strong foundation
of continuous progress. This means to
keep on learning and passing it through
the next generation for sustainability.
Founded in 2013 by Hadi Par-
tovi, Code.org is a non-profit or-
ganization who shares the same
vision in reaching out students to
learn computer programming. They
are dedicated to expand access to
computer learning through pro-
grams, workshops and projects that
support and inspire young minds.
They also include diversity in
learning computer programming
such that a share of their support-
ed students were women and un-
derrepresented students of color.
Code.org started with a video pro-
moting computer science that attract-
ed volunteers to expand as a world-
wide event. They have done work in
by Farrel Pinto
Code.org:
Giving an Hour
of Code to
Teach Computer
Programming
A non-profit organization to teach comput-
er programming to the young and also the
underrepresented color.
designing their own courses to train
teachers, partner with schools and help
change policies to break stereotypes.
They have gained international part-
nerships and have been also helping
other countries with their projects.
With the Hour of Code project,
young minds are taught to program
using JAVA or Python courses that
they have also partnered to other IT
entities and schools. It can be a week
long tutorial and can still do year-long
computer science learning. So far, they
have served 223, 808, 890 students
comprising 49% female and also Afri-
can American or Hispanic races. Policy
changes were also achieved in 17 states
of America partnering with 100 school
district adding computer science in the
curriculum. They are also supported
by President Obama, Bill Gates, Mark
Zuckerberg, other corporations, ce-
lebrities and philanthropists believing
that every student should have the op-
portunity to learn computer science.
All Code.org courses are now avail-
able in 45+ languages that are used in
all 180 countries. For more informa-
tion on their projects visit. www.code.
org.
Photo by Hour of Code
W
Google will always be one of those companies we of-
ten brand as unconventional. With its plans to produce
self-driving cars and give us faster and more reliable
connections, this company is always pushing the edge to
create breakthroughs for all of humanity. So, it’s no lon-
ger a surprise if it also helps out on companies with little
monetary funding that aim to raise awareness, bring relief
to disaster-stricken areas, and protect the environment.
In case you didn’t know, Google cares!
Google loves helping non-profit organizations. With its
program, Google for Nonprofits, it provides free access to
the company’s services such as Gmail, Google Calendar,
Google Ad Grants and more. With lack (or little) mone-
tary funding, Google knows that nonprofit organizations
have the best intentions but needs support from external
sources to survive – then eventually thrive. So, as soon as
the company approves a nonprofit’s application, Google
can provide it with so many useful services such as the
following.
Google Grants
Nonprofits’
Wishes
As it tries to change the world, it
hasn’t forgotten to lend a hand to
different worthy nonprofits.
Free Google
Apps services
which reduces a company’s
IT costs and more efficient
work for everyone inside the
company
USD$10,000-worth
of Google Ad Grant
support
which gives nonprofits a
wider reach and help them
engage with their audiences
through online advertising
YouTube Nonprofit
program
which gives nonprofits the
chance to let their audiences
know their story easily
Google Analytics
which gives nonprofits to
analyze how their audiences
can connect to them on
their website
Google+
which allows you to connect
with thousands of other
nonprofit communities and
volunteers and share your
story as well
While some may
think that these prod-
ucts aren’t really big
deals, think again! We
all know that social me-
dia already plays a crit-
ical role in getting the
word out and reaching
people who could help
out. Through these fea-
tures, as simple as they
sound to be, they can
widen the network of
each nonprofit organi-
zation and find people
who can help each of
them achieve its visions.
See? Not all inter-
national companies are
evil. Not only is Google
giving us the answers
to our homework, pro-
viding us creative ideas
for our projects, it’s also
making a difference in
nonprofits. So, if you’re
part of one, how about
joining the program
now?
Photos by Google

Be Proactive
The best way to manage
a difficult boss is to not have on in
the first place. So whenever you have
plans to move into a new position or
role in the same company or prob-
ably move to another company, do
some research on the culture, the
leadership and management prac-
tices in the company. If your mov-
ing within your company, it may be
a good time to do some research on
the management that’s going to han-
dle you.
“Stay away from negative people”—
an advice given to people, with peer-
stress problems. But what if you
CAN’T stay away from them? What
if you have to force yourself to be
around them for 8 hours a day—or
more? Yep, you probably know who
I’m talking about—Your Boss.
Everybody wants to feel respected,
valued and trusted when doing their
jobs, and when we don’t get these,
we won’t be able to give our best and
perform well.
If you’re dealing with a
difficult manager/boss right now.
I know how you feel—believe me.
Working as an engineer, I’ve had
my share of ‘horrible bosses’ in my
past manufacturing engineering re-
lated jobs. However, according to
author and Forbes columnist Margie
Warrel, the secret is to “manage up”
without your bosses ever realizing it.
Imagine them as a difficult client in-
stead of a difficult boss. According to
her there are 5 ways to overcome an
unfair boss.
How Engineers cope
with Jerk Bosses
Get to know your boss.
Know their motivations
Try to put yourself in your
boss’ shoes and see how he/she sees
things. Try to understand what he
does, and more importantly ‘why’
he does what he does. Once you’ve
understood this, you can be able to
approach him in a tone you know he
will ‘understand’.
What does he care about?
What keeps him up at night? What
would he love more of and what
would he love less of on a daily ba-
sis? What frightens him? How much
importance does he place on im-
pressing others? How does he mea-
sure success and what does he think
about failure?
Support their success
and Work around their
weaknesses
Nothing right is going to
happen if you go around talking bad
about your boss. Instead, support
them in their successes. Take note
of the reasons
behind the
success, which
you can later
on point out
to your boss
if ever you
would have a
similar project.
Also, working
around their
weaknesses is
a good strate-
gy as well. For
example, your
boss is the
‘disorganized’
kind. Then,
be the per-
son who helps
him/her orga-
nize.
Take the high road
Don’t let your boss’ bad
behavior be an excuse for your
own. By experience, I have a lot of
colleagues who stopped perform-
ing well, slacking off, taking longer
breaks, and losing interest because
of bad management. Don’t be like
those people, continue working at
your best, doing your best. You can
rant all you want when you get home
or get out with friends, but always
remain professional in the work-
place.
It’s true, sometimes when
your boss is a bit TOO much, one
can lose motivation at work. But
don’t succumb to the temptation of
being a whiner or slacker just be-
cause of this. If your boss yells at
you, don’t yell back. No matter how
tempting it is.
Be the awesome man/
woman that you are and don’t stoop
down to their level.
Speak up and give
your boss a chance
to respond.
It was my second job as
an engineer in a company, and I
resigned because I felt overworked
and undervalued no matter how
much I worked hard. Upon my exit
interview, the HR asked me my rea-
sons for leaving. I explained to them
how poorly managed my team was. I
told them everything and explained
everything, doing my best to be as
impartial as I can. They called my
manager, and we had a long talk. It
so happened that, we had a lot of
misunderstandings and he never
thought I felt that way.
It was too late for me to
back-out from resigning, I already
had a lot of plans. I learned a valu-
able lesson. That sometimes it’s
important to speak up and explain
your side of the story to your boss. If
luck is on your side, then your boss
will understand and hopefully com-
promise. If not, then… let’s go to the
next strategy.
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All photos in this article
are grabbed from the film
“Office Space.”

Some days, you just
want to punch your boss
on THE face for being
such a jerk. Don’t.
You will regret it.

Play-Well TEKnologies:
Teaching Kids Engineering
Empowering Girl-Powered Engineering
and the Importance of STEM
by Czarina Cielo Santos
Play-Well TEKnologies is a company that has revolution-
ized the way kids are taught engineering. With the use of
LEGO and creative programs that are custom-designed
by the instructors, they are able to explain different en-
gineering concepts to children in a fun, fresh way. They
have been teaching over 100,000 students each year in
approximately 23 states, including France.
Maddy Gabor, Midwest and Northeast District
Manager for Play-Well TEKnologies, gave us a glimpse
on how she came to be a part of Play-Well and explained
the importance of STEM and women-inclusion in engi-
neering.
Being Part of the Play-Well Team
Maddy has been working at Play-Well for just
over two years, but she has been working with kids for as
long as she can remember.
“I first became interested in play as a learning
tool when I was in school at Northeastern University
in Boston and a part of an organization called
Peace through Play,” Maddy told GineersNow.
“That was the first time I realized
that play is an amazing me-
dium for learning. When
we give kids a chance to
find joy in what they are
studying, what we're ac-
tually doing is creating
lifelong learners,” she
added.

STEM and its Importance
STEM is an acronym for
Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math which has become popular
in the early 2000s. Although it part-
ly began as a call-to-action trying to
address the US's falling test scores in
Math and Science, it is also a statement
on early interdisciplinary learning, as
these fields are deeply intertwined in
both how students learn and how they
apply these learnings in real world ap-
plications.
“There are very few fields in
our society that don’t involve at least
some Science, Technology, Engineer-
ing or Math,” Maddy explained.
Girls in Engineering
Seeing an unsettling trend
in their company’s classrooms, where
there were almost no girls, Play-Well
started their Girl-Powered Engineer-
ing Programs. When they did more
research, they found that this issue
was not only found in their company
but in other parts of the US as well.
Only 18-20% of engineering students
are female, and once they graduate,
American women working in engi-
neering are 45% more likely than their
male peers to leave the industry with-
in the year.
“These numbers are stag-
gering when you put it in the context
of a nation that is over 50% female.
That being said, this isn’t just diversi-
ty for diversity’s sake. Recent studies
indicate that the presence of females
in problem solving groups are more
strongly correlative to the success of
that group than either the average or
maximum individual intelligence of
group members. In a world that faces
climate change, droughts, and global
food shortages, we need many diverse
minds working to solve these prob-
lems, not just some,” Maddy said.
Play-Well’s president, Tim
Bowen, has been heavily promoting
Girl-Powered Programs and they
plan to increase female participation
in their programs by 20% over a span
of 5-10 years. Their strategy is to con-
duct Girl-Powered classes, which ap-
parently have the same curriculum
as their core engineering courses, the
same projects and the same pieces.
The only difference is that there are
only girls in the classes and the in-
structors are women.
“Our belief is that girls will
find confidence, allies and role models
in our classes and that they will carry
that with them throughout their ed-
ucation. Everyone! It’s not just about
the impact in that individual girl’s
life, it’s about the potential impact of
a group of students that don’t feel lim-
ited by prejudices or stereotypes. We
want STEM to be accessible and em-
powering to all who pursue it.”
Being able to teach engineer-
ing and STEM subjects is one thing,
but being able to bring out the inner
engineer in a child through fun and
creativeness is an awesomely differ-
ent story. Through instilling fun and
creativeness in teaching engineering
concepts, children will definitely be
able to understand these concepts by
heart and bring out their engineering
prowess in the future.
All photos are supplied by
Play-Well TEKnologies

Six Engineers and
Scientists set to live
the Martian Life
The crew of 6 people is the fourth batch to participate in
a NASA-funded research project called HI-SEAS at the
University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
While the scientists at
NASA are busy experimenting some
new creative ideas to develop a new
product, a team of six engineers and
scientists have decided to go on a
mission test drive, a drone to Mars.
The crew that includes
a medical doctor, a soil scientist, a
flight engineer, a physicist, an as-
trobiologist and an architect is the
fourth crew to participate in a NA-
SA-funded research project called
HI-SEAS (short for Hawai’i Space
Exploration Analog and Simulation)
at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa.
The scientists have locked themselves
for the next year away from the rest
of humanity. The crew will try to sur-
vive living on Mars. It’s like living on
the side of a Hawaiian volcano! The
goals behind this idea are to figure
out what technologies work best and
under what conditions and to study
what happens when people are forced
to live in close quarters with little in-
teraction outside world.
There are NASA’s rovers al-
ready on Mars and are sending back
amazing images. The team, led by
Engineer Andrzej Stewart, has sent
a battery-powered DJI Phantom 2
drone on a mini-mission for the first
time but is too slow. The new team
truly crawls at a speed that they only
have limited time to explore Mars to
the ground level.
It has been quite some time
that one of the many Martian crews
has flown a drone. The idea was in-
spired by Stewart’s wife, who is also
an aspiring astronaut, but she chose
not to go in the dome with him.
The idea is a high-tech
charade, but the science involved is
real. The astrobiologist in the crew
is trying to figure out how to make
food and oxygen on Mars so we
could live off the land there. The crew
members, in the age group of 25 to
36, can interact with their families
only through email. However, there’s
a 20-minute delay in both directions.
Blogs and social media are their only
gateways to the world outside their
dome home.
Presently, NASA’s most
important work towards Mars is be-
ing executed here on Earth. The crew
of “Martians” would return to Earth
in August 20.
Photo by University of Hawaii News

Yup, you read that right. There is
a new technology that will definitely replace
Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) that we have now. With
speed a hundred times faster than WiFI, this
new technology called Light Fidelity (LiFi) is the
future of internet connection across the globe.
So what exactly is LiFi?
In a nutshell, Light Fidelity is a
technology that uses light-emitting diodes (LED)
to transmit data wirelessly. In other words, LiFi
is connecting via illumination, which is pretty
much like an optical version of WiFi.
Scientists who have tested this
technology in the laboratory have achieved
a speed of up to 224 GB per second, that is
equivalent to downloading 18 movies in just a
blink of an eye. Moreover, being tested in the real
world like in Tallin, Estonia, it only got 1GB per
second, still an overreaching speed as compared
to our traditional WiFi.
How it works
Like radio waves from that of WiFi,
visible light is part of the electromagnetic
spectrum. But they differ in quantity: viable light
has a spectrum 10,000 times larger than radio
waves. This makes a LiFi faster with the potential
for enormous capacity – LiFi can transmit
information using thousands of data streams
simultaneously.
It works by flashing LED light on and
off at incredibly fast speeds, almost never visible
to the naked eye. That system sends data to the
receiver in binary code. It’s pretty much like
turning your flashlight on and off to create morse
code at the most inhuman speed possible.
The trick relies on combining this
system with a microchip that has wireless data
transmission. This means that we can do this with
the LED bulbs that we already have, with only just
a few tweaks and a microchip – voila, we have
LiFi.
In the macro, LiFI is a reliable,
affordable, and more secure solution. With the
increasing congestion and demand for wireless
connections,thisistheanswertoourconnectivity
problems.
LiFi also gives opportunity to places
where WiFi is banned – some hospitals and
nuclear plants – as it has zero electromagnetic
interference. It wouldn’t disturb any equipment
that transmits electromagnetic waves.
Moreover, this is also a lot more
secure as light waves cannot pass through the
walls, making it impossible to hack any internal
systems in high-security buildings. You only have
connection where it hits the light.
Professor Harald Haas from the
University of Edinburgh in the UK is considered
to have given birth to this incredible idea. He is
the Chair of Mobile Communication at the said
university and co-founder of pureLifi.
A 100 Times Faster Internet
with Light Fidelity
Top photo by Actinnovation
Bottom photo by IBSEN Telecom

A Harbinger of
Social Change
There’s a steady drumbeat for providing the
world’s poorest people with better access to
energy to lift them out of poverty.
Curiously, it’s coming not from industrial
and political behemoths, but from a
nondescript cluster of brick buildings in
suburban Detroit.
he first Industrial Revolution was a
pivotal point in the modern history
of humanity. Spurred by the ability
to harness energy and to channel it
to enhance production and manufacturing,
the Industrial Revolution accelerated glob-
al industrial, economic and social progress.
Those that had the opportunity to capitalize
on energy as the new factor of production
were able to take off and accumulate wealth,
while those that were not as fortunate were
left behind. As succeeding economic and
Industrial Revolutions transpired, the for-
tune of the wealthy snowballed, while the
condition of the poor remained stagnant.
The economic discrepancy among the
world’s population can largely be ascribed to
the disparity of access to energy, among other
basic needs. As the Industrial Revolution has
proven, energy is a significant enabler, and
with access to cleaner, more dependable and
sustainable energy, the poor will have better
opportunities for health, education and live-
lihood, raising their standards of living and
gradually lifting them out of poverty.
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All photos used in this article
are supplied by Manoj Bhargava
and company.
C O V E R S T O R Y

A culture of
simplicity
and altruism
Manoj Bhargava, the multi-bil-
lion Dollar entrepreneur known for “ener-
gizing” the world with his 5-hour Energy
drinks, staunchly believes that providing
the poor with better access to useful en-
ergy will make a positive impact on their
lives. In this light, in 2011, he founded
Stage 2 Innovations, a $100 million pri-
vate equity fund dedicated to advances in
water and energy technology.
Stage 2 puts premium in mak-
ing its products as useful and as simple as
possible, to be more accessible to a wider
base of users that largely consists of the
poor. Its vision is a world in which every-
one has access to clean energy, pure water
and adequate healthcare. Its mission is to
develop and distribute technologies that
are viable solutions to the energy, water
and healthcare concerns of the ‘unlucky
half of the world’.
Stage 2 does not let itself be
distracted by the glare of profit. “I’m not
thinking about competitors,” says Bhar-
gava, “because this is not a business that
intends to make a profit. Its purpose is to
benefit humanity.” Though Stage 2 oper-
ates as a for-profit, Bhargava says that it
does not make money. “For these projects
that we’re working in to improve humani-
ty, our business model is neither non-prof-
it nor for-profit. Our model is zero-profit.
We run the business like a for-profit, but
we won’t make any money.”
Stage 2, however, led an odyssey
before assuming its avowed role. “I’ve had
umpteen failures,” says Bhargava, “I can’t
tell you how many times something has
looked great and then totally disintegrates.
I’ve had a practice at failure. I’ve probably
had 30-40 failures.” Bhargava recounts
that from his past failures, he has learned
to immediately move on and shake off the
dust. In one instance, Bhargava recounts,
a project in which he invested millions of
Dollars failed. His team wanted to redress
the errors, fix them and salvage the project
in some way, but he vehemently refused.
He wanted to dump everything related to
that project and immediately move on to
another that they can do next.
Bhargava believes that anyone dreaming
of making great things must be prepared
to face spectacular failures. “When years
of your work explodes in front of your
face, you just can’t take it personally.
Immediately you have to get up and say
‘Okay, what’s next?’”
The Dawn
of Change
Billions in Change, a global
impact movement that addresses vital is-
sues related to energy, water and health,
is guided by a simple principle: bridge the
basic needs of those who don’t have them,
so they can provide for themselves, their
families and their communities. Its focus
is on employing solutions that create a
positive social, environmental impact on
the lives of billions of people around the
world. With Bhargava at the helm, Billions
in Change serves as the vehicle of imple-
mentation and distribution of products
and technologies developed at Stage 2 In-
novations.
Its primary concern is to serve
what Bhargava calls the “unlucky half of
the world” – those that, by no fault of their
own, are born into poverty and circum-
stances that leave them with little oppor-
tunity to have sufficient livelihoods and
a decent quality of life. Bhargava firmly
believes in the vital role that sustainable
energy plays in improving their living con-
ditions. “Sustainable sources of energy,”
says Bhargava, “are of huge importance to
society, and will become increasingly im-
portant as global demands for energy in-
crease.” He says that a progressive shift to
renewable energy can avert serious health,
economic and environmental issues, relat-
ed to chronic air pollution and increased
atmospheric CO2.
Against this backdrop, Stage 2
has been working on small- and large-scale
renewable energy technologies that find a
wide range of applications. “To meet the
energy needs of rural households,” says
Bhargava, “we sought to create a product
that would allow people to generate their
own electricity, free of pollution, free of fuel
costs, free of utility bill and free of reliance
on weather.” The product, aptly called Free
Electric, is a stationary bicycle that charges
a 12V battery as the user pedals (for more
information, see side-bar ‘Free Electricity
Cometh’). “When you bring light to peo-
ple living mostly in darkness, when you
remove dirty fuel oils that cause indoor
air pollution, and when you eliminate the
need to be connected to the grid when you
can’t afford a utility bill, you open all kinds
of doors of opportunity for health, liveli-
hoods, education and entrepreneurship.”
Commenting on where they
plan to distribute Free Electric, Bhargava
says that his team will start in India and
then move to other parts of Asia, Africa
and beyond, depending on interest levels
and whether they can find the right on-
the-ground partners for distribution.
On a larger scale, Stage 2 is de-
veloping graphene cables that can conduct
heat from the Earth’s core to the surface
of the Earth to run turbines and generate
electricity.
Billions in Change has been
gaining ground, with its movie trailer
having reached 177 million people, and
website having attracted 65,000 people
in 175 countries to sign up as volunteers.
Even more people have signed up to re-
ceive its newsletter. “We hear daily from
people across the globe saying they want
Free Electric in their home or village,” says
Bhargava, adding that, just this month,
they have sent out the first shipment of
the bikes, which will be piloted with a cou-
ple dozen households, schools and small
businesses in rural India. “After a couple
of months of testing, we’ll make any nec-
essary improvements, and then will begin
mass production and distribution in India
this summer.”

Engineers,
make
something
useful but
simple
Manoj Bhargava believes that
engineers should be driven by the passion
to invent useful but simple things. “When
I hire new engineers, I don’t care about
how many degrees they have or where
they went to school. I ask them what’s in
their garage. If they say ‘my car’, then I
won’t hire them. Their garages should be
filled with so many projects and things
they’re inventing that there shouldn’t be
room for a car.”
Utility is Bhargava’s primary
criteria in considering an engineering
idea. “If someone in my company comes
to me with an idea, the first question I
ask them is ‘Is it useful?’ And if so, ‘How
is it useful?’” In case the idea fails at be-
ing useful, it better be entertaining. “If it’s
not useful and it’s not entertaining, then
there’s only one other option: it’s useless,”
frankly says Bhargava.
“My advice [to engineers] is to
not make something cool; instead make
something useful,” says Bhargava. “Stay
away from complexity; keep it as simple as
possible. If your grandmother can’t oper-
ate it, you’re not there yet.”
Opportunity
for all
The Industrial Revolution has
shown that energy is a great enabler. It
caused the exponential growth of the
world’s wealth, and has made possible
almost everything that we enjoy in our
time.
While energy is the enabler,
opportunity is the equalizer. The poor
will remain poor, says Bhargava, until
they’re given the opportunity to expe-
rience even the most elemental ben-
efits of the Industrial Revolution. He
believes that he who has the wealth has
the duty to help those who don’t. Stage
2 and Billions in Change, together with
their employees and volunteers, do not
endeavor to undo what has unraveled in
hundreds of years of history, but rath-
er spark social change. By creating and
implementing solutions to the most ba-
sic global problems – and making them
available and accessible to as many peo-
ple as possible – Stage 2 and Billion in
Change hopes to raise billions of people
out of poverty and improve the lives of
everyone, rich or poor.

Free
Electricity
Cometh
Free Electric is a stationary bicycle that,
when pedaled, charges a battery. An hour
of pedaling produces enough energy to
meet a rural household’s electricity needs
for 24 hours. Being made from regular bi-
cycle parts, Free Electric can be serviced
by any bike mechanic should anything go
wrong. It’s easy to operate, doesn’t require
costly fuel inputs, doesn’t produce pollu-
tion, and doesn’t rely on whether the sun
is shining or the wind is blowing.
Clean Water
On Demand
Have you heard of a small machine that
uses a distillation process to convert any
type of polluted water into clean water
suitable for drinking, agriculture, and in-
dustrial uses at a rate of 1,000 gallons per
hour? Presenting, Rain Maker. It does not
use membranes, so it won’t have prob-
lems with clogging. A single unit is small
enough to fit in the back of a pick-up truck
and could be used for small-scale water
needs—like for a village or in emergen-
cy-response situations. To provide water
to businesses, hotels, or municipalities,
hundreds or thousands of units could run
simultaneously.

Manoj Bhargava was born in Lucknow,
India and at 14 moved to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where his father attended
the Wharton School of Business to pursue
a doctoral degree. He is the founder and
CEO of Living Essentials (known for its
5-hour Energy product) and the founder
of Stage 2 Innovations, which was created
as an invention shop to develop and dis-
tribute products that could meet some of
the most pressing needs facing humanity
today in the areas of energy, water, and
healthcare. With an estimated net worth
of $4 Billion, Bhargava, in 2012, pledged
to give more than 90% of his wealth to
philanthropic causes.
Manoj Bhargava:
The Unconventional
Billionaire

Find Another Passion
Other than Engineering
Do something else that you can
tell to your grandchildren later on.
by Dion Greg Reyes
Art by Cathy Savage
Nikola Tesla had great
fascination with pigeons.
Henry Ford, automobile man-
ufacturer, was also devoted
to birds.
Wilbur, one-half of the Wright
brothers who revolutionized
aviation, was an editor in a
West Dayton weekly newspa-
per with his brother Orville as
the publisher.
It can be odd enough to say that one
must find another passion other than
engineering as if we have the luxury of
time to do such. The time we have in
and for engineering is not even fairly
enough; why not settle with engineering
alone?
While most think like that, en-
gineers, I believe, need to be multi-fac-
eted to be able to actually live. To engage
yourself in engineering from the mo-
ment you wake up until you fall asleep
is quite a toxic way of life. No one thinks
about engineering 100% of the time,
even the engineers that changed the
world.
Engineers can explore fields
that are entirely different from what the
John Monash, a civil engineer
and an Australian commander
of the First World War had an
odd collection of autographs
of prominent names in mod-
ern history.
profession offers. One can be an engi-
neer with a keen eye in photography,
with an exceptional skill in football,
with a promising gift in writing, with
a soaring creativity of a painter, with
brilliant wit in debates, or with extraor-
dinary talent and interest in music. The
list is endless. All you have to do is make
available of the resources you have, ex-
tract something out of it, and voila. Cu-
riosity doesn’t always kill the cat.
Getting interested in things
other than engineering doesn’t only give
you something to do with your leisure
time (yup, engineers actually have lei-
sure time), it also provides you a fresh
perspective that you can use when it’s
time to do your tasks as an engineer.
Being in a technical job, engineers deal
with problems that can be applied in
real life – we need all sorts of perspec-
tives to get the job done.
Some would say that finding
another passion would mean losing in-
terest in engineering. That isn’t always
true, as people can have two sides of
them and still be good at both. As long
as you have engineering at the core of
your heart, you can do a million other
things and still be an engineer.
Engaging in non-engineering
activities does us more good than harm.
It just comes to our subconscious that
affects us a whole, and we rarely notice
it. So get out there and find another pas-
sion other than engineering. It’s free!
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Photo by National Anzac Centre
Photo by Istoric Auto

What to Do When
You Don’t Get
that Dream
Engineering Job
by Dion Greg Reyes
Most people have target companies or
jobs to work with and they do whatever
it takes just to land that job. But some just
have no luck. There can only be four core
reasons why you are not hired despite
working hard for it: you are not qualified,
you may not be good enough, you simply
cannot control some things, or you have
great competition out there.
You are deemed to be not quali-
fied when there are some qualifications or
requirements you failed to meet. In this
case, you really need to comply them if
you really have the desire for the job.
You may not be good enough,
maybe with your skills or abilities, but
most likely with your resume or your in-
terview. You must have done something
during the admission process that dissat-
isfied the company. You can work on that
to improve yourself later on.
You simply cannot control some
things like the distance of that dream
company while in the hiring process. It
hurts that what seems a petty thing will
hinder from getting your dream job. Make
the necessary adjustments when you can.
You have great competition out
there. Everything seems to be perfect but
someone else is preferred to do the job.
Either of the three, you still end
up not getting job. And that hurts. What
exactly should you do?
Ask for feedback.
Especially when you didn’t know where
you got wrong, give it a shot for an e-mail
asking the result of the admission, or
which areas you need to improve on.
There is a chance that they won’t give
feedback, but it would be beneficial for
you if they do. As much as possible, do
not do this via phone call. It is a hassle to
the company you are applying for.
Photo by Stellar Leader
Ask yourself
what happened.
Best thing to do with this failure is get
something out of it by learning your
lesson. Reflect. Which areas do you need
to work on? Personality? Interview? Re-
sume? Analyze the critical mistakes.
Let it go.
Move on. Like everyone else that isn’t a
good fit, you have to focus on what’s next
for you. Find another company that can
appreciate you instead. Do not dwell on
that company and keep being disappoint-
ed every time you apply.
Step up your game.
This is the best exhibition to signify that
you have gotten over the job you want but
didn’t get. Show to the company that lost
you, although not explicitly to them, what
they missed out on. Later on when you
are successful enough in your field, they
will found out that you applied to their
company but they didn’t let you in. It will
be your sweet revenge.

Tech and
Engineering
Billionaires
who Give Back
They have all the money in the world
and what do they do with it? Give it
back to the community.
When you have all the mon-
ey in the world, you can buy what-
ever your heart desires. You can buy
the biggest yachts, easily rent out the
whole floor of the country’s most ex-
clusive buildings and pay the biggest
and most popular celebrities to per-
form at any family occasions.
Hey, you can even throw out
money just because.
Or you can use all the money
you’re earned to give back to the com-
munity – something these billionaires
from the tech, industrial and engi-
neering fields have done in the past.
When they have the money that can
support their expensive lifestyles and
feed the whole world, they might as
well put their Benjamins to good use.
These are some of the big-
gest philanthropists who have given
billions to different communities in
their attempt to make this world a
better place for them and for us:

While most of the billionaires included
in this list are not engineers, they have
made an impact in the technology and
engineering communities.
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore, together with her
wife Betty, founded Intel and gave
out millions to their foundation
to help build the most powerful
telescope in the world, the Thirty
Meter Telescope. So far, they have
donated 45% of their net worth
($2.8 Billion) to their philanthrop-
ic causes.
Bill Gates
Together with his wife, Melinda,
they have given 41% of their net
worth ($31.5 Billion) to help fight
different community problems
like polio, battling infectious dis-
eases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis
and malaria.
David Koch
After battling prostate cancer,
Koch, an engineering graduate,
has pledged to support the Memo-
rial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cen-
ter. He has donated 3% of his net
worth to $1.2 Billion to his philan-
thropic causes.
Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg has graduated with an
engineering degree and ever since,
he has made billions and constant-
ly made it to the top of the billion-
aires’ list. Throughout his life, he
has donated $3.7 Billion in an ef-
fort to boost fish populations and
deal with tobacco use, drowning
deaths and urban innovation.
Gates photo by Business Insider; Koch
photo by Z Facts; Bechtel photo by Getty;
Allen photo by Bloomberg; Hopp photo
by Getty; Bloomgberg photo by UPenn;
Moore photo by Intel; Zuckerberg photo
by AFP; Dell photo by Silicon Angle; Ma
photo by Bloomberg

Jack Ma
With no records on how much
Jack Ma has donated to the pub-
lic, Ma has involved his compa-
ny in promoting teaching people
how to make ‘sustainable’ money
so that they would be able to cope
with future economic downturns.
He has also raised an interest in
environmentalism in China when
he banned the sale of shark fins
on his company’s platforms. As of
2010, he has announced that 0.3%
of the company’s annual revenue
will be designated to environmen-
tal protection.
Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
With his family’s wealth coming
from engineering and construc-
tion, Bechtel focuses his philan-
thropic causes to support young
students to pursue science, tech-
nology, math and engineering.
He has donated 24% of net worth
which is around $688 Million.
Paul Allen
Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft
together with Bill Gates and do-
nated 9% of his net worth ($1.6
Billion) to different philanthropic
causes. One example is his Allen
Institute for Brain Science. This
institute focuses on studying brain
and neurological diseases. He do-
nated millions to fight Ebola in
West Africa as well.
Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg is synonymous to
Facebook already and together
with his wife, they have donated
4% of their net worth ($1.6 Bil-
lion) to different causes. He also
donated $25 Million to the CDC
Foundation to find solutions to
Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
They also support hospitals and
schools in the San Francisco area.
Michael Dell
With over $1.1 Billion worth of
donations through the years, Mi-
chael Dell has focused his phil-
anthropic attention to providing
resources and mentoring to help
low-income students finish col-
lege. His Dell Scholars Program
has already given more than $60
Million worth of scholarships and
services since 2004.
Dietmar Hopp
Together with colleagues from
IBM, Dietmar Hopp co-founded
SAP, the giant German software
company and created Dietmar
Hopp Foundation. His foundation
focuses on youth sports, cancer
research and healing diseases. His
total donations are over $1.25 Bil-
lion.

United Airlines Makes History
with Sustainable Biofuel
United to integrate sustainable aviation biofuels
into its ongoing operations at LAX hub
Graphic by Bidness ETC
United Airlines made history today by be-
coming the first U.S. airline to begin use of
commercial-scale volumes of sustainable
aviation biofuel for regularly scheduled
flights with the departure of United Flight
708 from Los Angeles International Air-
port. The launch marks a significant mile-
stone in the commercial aviation industry
by moving beyond demonstration flights
and test programs to the use of advanced
biofuels for United’s ongoing operations.
United has agreed to purchase up to 15
million gallons of sustainable biofuel from
AltAir Paramount over a three-year peri-
od. The airline has begun using the biofuel
in its daily operations at LAX, storing and
delivering it in the same way as traditional
fuel. To highlight this achievement, Unit-
ed will operate flights between Los Ange-
les and San Francisco with the dedicated
use of AltAir Paramount renewable fuel
for two weeks, while also integrating this
fuel into its regular operations at the air-
port.
“Today’s historic launch of regu-
larly scheduled service utilizing advanced
biofuels represents a major next step in
our ongoing commitment to operate
sustainably and responsibly,” said Angela
Foster-Rice, United’s managing director
of environmental affairs and sustainabili-
ty. “United is a leader in the advancement
of alternative fuels, and, along with our
partners at AltAir Paramount, we are tak-
ing action every day to minimize our im-
pact on the environment and explore new
ways to improve efficiency.”
“Los Angeles is a global leader
in sustainability, so it’s no wonder that the
first U.S. flights to use commercial-scale,
renewable jet fuel are taking off from our
airport,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti. “LAX and United Airlines have
broken new ground with fuel that reduces
carbon emissions by as much as 60 per-
cent when compared to standard jet fuel.
Today, we set a new standard for sustain-
ability in aviation — an example I hope
the rest of the industry will follow in the
coming years.”

AltAir Paramount’s
Renewable Fuel
Technology
United has collaborated
with AltAir since 2009 with a common
goal of bringing an ongoing source of
sustainable aviation biofuels to an air-
port. AltAir retrofitted portions of the
Paramount Petroleum Corporation – a
subsidiary of AlonUSA Energy – refinery
in Paramount, California, to create a 35
million gallon per year advanced renew-
able fuel unit, bringing new clean energy
jobs to the Los Angeles area.
The facility converts sustainably
sourced non-edible, natural oils and agri-
cultural wastes into jet fuel and is expect-
ed to provide a greater than 60 percent
reduction in lifecycle carbon emissions
when compared to fuel produced from
traditional petroleum. AltAir’s fuel meets
the same standard as traditional jet fuel,
ASTM D1655. In addition, AltAir is pur-
suing certification under the Roundtable
on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) - a
global sustainability standard and certifi-
cation system that recognizes biomass and
biofuel producers that adhere to stringent
social responsibility and environmental
criteria.
“AltAir Paramount and United
are working together to lead the indus-
try in the use of sustainable and home-
grown biofuel,” said Bryan Sherbacow, Al-
tAir’s president and chief operating officer.
“Today’s launch demonstrates our com-
mitment to helping United reduce its op-
erational impact on the environment and
advance the use of alternative fuels.”
United and Sustainable
Aviation Biofuels
In 2009, United became the first
U.S. carrier to perform a biofuel demon-
stration flight. In 2011, United became the
first U.S. carrier to operate a commercial
advanced biofuel flight. Last year, United
announced an historic $30 millionequity
investment in U.S.-based alternative fu-
els developer Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc., a
pioneer in the development and commer-
cialization of converting municipal solid
waste into low-cost sustainable aviation
biofuel. The Fulcrum investment rep-
resents the single largest investment by
a U.S. airline in alternative fuels and sets
United apart in the aviation industry in
the advancement of aviation biofuels.
United also recently received
the World Bio Markets (WBM) Award for
Excellence in Advanced Biofuels.
Can you imagine an aircraft flying
without fuel? Yup, you read it just right.
Aircrafts can now be powered by grav-
ity and fly even without fuel. It does
seem like a dream for the aviation in-
dustry and environmentalists alike but
it’s a dream turned into reality.
To the doubters, this new
concept may be unbelievable but it is
actually happening. It can even carry
heavy loads cargoes and passengers just
like fuel-powered aircrafts can.
We know that the sun do-
nates ample amount of energy to the
earth. This excessive amount of energy
saturates the earth in the form of grav-
ity. The difficult part here is capturing
the solar energy so that it can be used
for some purposes. So, an aviation
company based in Nevada is finding
out ways to use up the gravity as a
source of power. To do these they had
to amalgamate new powers with the
old ones.
The idea emerged from the brain of
Robert D. Hunt, a theoretical physicist
and an inventor who developed the
Hunt Aviation Corp who will pioneer
in this gravity-powered aircraft.
So, one may ask: how does
Gravity-Powered
AIRCRAFTS
the concept of these aircrafts oper-
ate? The concept actually operates on
the basic principles of buoyancy, lift,
aerodynamics, and gravity. The aircraft
makes use of the ascending and de-
scending to manage and keep up with
the lift and the speed of moving for-
ward and then mimics the behavior of
the bodies of the cold and the warm air
that constitute the weather.
To make the aircraft to rise
above the ground, it has gas bags in-
side a pair of tough, structures that are
like zeppelin filled with helium from
the storage tanks, which are inside the
vehicle. On the sides of the aircraft are
compressed air-jets that propel the
aircraft forward and reduce the total
weight of the aircraft because it releases
the stored air that performs as ballast.
It is the gravity that brings the craft to-
wards the ground.
By October 2003, Hunt Avia-
tion Corp already began the first phase
of prototype construction, assembling
a consortium of aviation manufactur-
ers and suppliers that wish to support
revolutionary aircraft technology.
What a promising future for
aviation and energy conservation.
Photo by Spy Drones

The Engineer’s Guide
to Avoiding these
Social Media Mistakes
by Alice Hernandez
Photo by
iStock
Social media has played a crucial role in
our lives today. With platforms such as
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, we can
easily express ourselves to everyone else.
Sometimes, when you have plenty of fol-
lowers, you can even make a career out of
being “famous”. So it’s understandable that
companies will look into your social me-
dia profiles and judge you based on your
posts.
A lot of employers would check
someone’s social media profiles to see if
the person would fit into the company’s
brand and if they can hire that person
to work with them. So if you’re the type
of person who likes to post meaningless
rants and a habit of breaking the law,
chances are employers wouldn’t consider
you for the job.
If they see that you’re fit to work
for them, they’d hire you. But that doesn’t
mean you can start posting whatever you
feel like posting. It means you have to be
more careful with what you post since
you are now representing a company or a
brand.
The best advice to young pro-
fessionals out there is to use your social
media accounts to your advantage. Social
media plays an important role to our ca-
reers. It makes or breaks one. To use it to
your advantage, avoid these mistakes.

Showing poor
communication
skills.
Nobody really wants to work
with someone who can’t con-
struct a proper sentence. If
you’re working for somebody
or for a company, you’re au-
tomatically representing the
brand, the person and the com-
pany. It would be embarrassing
for them to see you talk to po-
tential clients if you can’t deliv-
er the message properly.
Making fun of
your company
and clients.
That’s just really wrong. Prop-
er job etiquette requires you
to talk about your company
and your clients respectfully
and with dignity. So we ad-
vice you to keep your rants
and embarrassing stories
about them to yourself and
just keep quiet on social me-
dia. It would definitely save
you from getting fired.
Postingphotos
thatgoagainst
company’spolicies.
If you work for a beverage
company, it would be real-
ly wrong to praise the rival
company’s products. That’s
just common sense. That’s
how Britney Spears lost her
contract with Pepsi. She was
seen drinking coke – not ex-
actly related to social media
but you get our point.
Postingdiscriminatory
commentstowards
anyoneoranything.
Nobody wants to deal with
the backlash that comes af-
ter seeing someone you work
with post a very discriminato-
ry comment towards a certain
group, product or advocacy.
Remember that time Manny
Pacquiao made that comment
against the LGBT community?
Well, Nike had to “break-up”
with him because it didn’t want
to associate itself to people like
him. This could happen to you
if you’re not careful with your
comments.
Plagiarizing.
Getting sued because of steal-
ing intellectual property is an
employer’s nightmare so if you
want to keep your job, be care-
ful what you post online. Cite
the right references, give cred-
it always and never ever steal
somebody’s ideas.
Save your
careers.
Complainingabout
yourbossoreven
yourjob.
If you have common sense,
you know that it’s never right
to complain about your boss
and your job on social media.
If you see something wrong
about your boss and your job,
complain about it to the right
people in the company. Never
let the whole world know about
your company’s internal prob-
lems.
Think
before
you click.
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10 Qualities
Companies Look
For In An Engineer
No one is perfect – that is a
universal fact. We can never recruit that
one person who fits all of the qualities an
employer looks for without a flaw or two.
However, it still helps that we know what
kind of qualities we need to land the job of
our dreams and boost our careers.
No, you don’t have to pretend to
have these. You don’t have to fake anything
because employers know how to detect
someone who really has the qualities they
are looking for from someone who just
likes to pretend in a desperate attempt to
get the job.
So if you want to land the job of
your dreams and start paving your way
to a successful career life, here are the top
qualities your future employer may need
from you:
01
02
03
Youknowyourstrengthsandweaknesses.
Employers usually ask you what your strengths and weaknesses
are. So our advice is to be honest and tell them what you’re really good at.
Then, you can explain what your weaknesses are in a way that you can use it
to your advantage.
It’s pretty tricky but give this a lot of thought before you head to the
interview.
Youknowyoursuccessstories.
They would ask you for a success story.
Usually, employers would want to know what problems
you’ve faced in the past and how you were able to
overcome it. That’s how they’ll judge you on your ability
to handle stress.
Don’t give a dramatic effect to it. Keep it
professional and don’t shed a tear.
Youknowwhatkindof
pathyouwanttotakein
yourcareer.
If you want to work for big
engineering companies, recruiters would ask
you what kind of path you want to take once
you get the job. Would you like to eventually
be promoted to a managerial position? They
would surely ask you that. They’d want to
know if you’re the type who wants to stay in
the company for a long time.
Companies want loyalty from the
people they hire.

04
08
05
07
10
06
09
You can work under light supervision. No one needs a burden so they need to hire someone who
can easily understand the job description and knows how to do it.
Your supervisors would hate it if you keep bugging them
if you’re doing the job right or not. So as much as possible, avoid
annoying them.
Youarealwaysopento
learnnewthings. If you’re the type who hates change, then
that would be a disadvantage for you. Being part of
a company really requires you to learn new things
to improve your skills. Your future boss would
appreciate you even more if you show enthusiasm in
learning new things.
Share to these people that you like to read
a lot of things to widen your knowledge on a certain
topic. You can also tell them you’re very willing to
learn something new for the job.
Youareresponsible. Anybody wants to hang out with the
responsible ones inside the company so if you’re
that type, there’s a higher chance that your
employers would hire you for the job.
So if you’ve had experiences when
you’ve proven yourself responsible, go ahead and
tell everyone about it. But don’t sound arrogant
though.
Youliketosolveproblems.

Whentheyaskyouaboutachallenging
situation where your problem-solving skills are
tested, they’d want to see how you handle those
tasks and if you can fix the problem. We all
know that our jobs require us to solve problems
all the time, so expect that you’ll be asked these
kinds of questions all the time.
Hey, engineering school trained us
very well for this so this shouldn’t be a problem
anymore.
Youcanworkwell
withyourcolleagues. When they check your
resume, they would ask you what kind
of organizations you worked with
during college. They’d assess how well
you perform in group activities. That
would play a crucial part on how your
boss would assess you.
So if you’re the type who can
easily work well with other people, this
is no problem for you.
Youhaveanambition. Employers look for someone
who has the drive and determination
to succeed with their job. In short, they
want someone with ambition.
Youareactiveinyourwork. As soon as you get the task done for the
day, your employers would appreciate it if you
offer to help with other tasks. If you end up as the
perky employee who’s always game to get a lot of
job done, you’d be one of the most favorite people
in the company.
Don’t be too perky though. Some
employers might think you’re a goody two shoes.

work.Muchworsecanhappeniftherelation-
ship didn’t work and you had an office break-
up. That’s not what you and the company
want.
Of course the success rate of these
relationships cannot be discounted, as some
find their true love, although statistically low,
in the workplace. That may be true for them
as they have dealt with the office relationship
withutmostprecaution.Therelationshipmay
have even helped them forward their career
with the inspiration. You should do so, too.
Nonetheless, keeping a romantic relationship
at work is up to you and never up to Cupid.
Just stay away from getting issues at work out
of that forbidden or even approved relation-
ship. Engineers are known to be one of the
best lovers there are, and two engineers going
atitisnotsobadatall.Keepthatintegrityand
not mess it up.
Top photo by DC Clubbing
Bottom photo by Nirapad News
If you can’t fight the urge, at
least keep the relationship at
work to be professional.
Keeping Romantic
Relationships in the
Engineering Workplace
by Dion Greg Reyes
ore often than not, re-
lationships that rooted,
sprouted, and grew in
theworkplacereachesto
a point where “it’s com-
plicated.” While 37 per-
centofworkershavedatedacolleagueand33
percent of those office romances have led to
marriage,havingahook-uporromanticrela-
tionship at work can impose more problems
than fun if you let the urge out of control.
It is somehow a trap for some
engineers not to develop feelings with work-
matesconsideringtheregularinteractionthat
the work requires. Some even do it as a secret
while some are open about it, depending on
company policies. But either way, you and
your partner need to realize to keep it cool
and be professional at work. A little thrill, like
romance in the office pantry, is too risky that
you can both lose your jobs. Disagreements
within the relationship should never involve
your co-workers as well.
Those temporary flings and hook-
up episodes, the ones that are “no strings at-
tached,”that’sthekindofrelationshipthatcan
harm work. It may soon create an awkward
environment if you stop, and thus impede
M

‘2045 Initiative’:
The Technology to
Gain Eternal Life
D
mitry Itskov, a Russian media
mogul and multi-millionaire,
has one goal: to be able to
use technology to live forever.
To be able to do this, he is
currently heading a science-based project
called the ‘2045 initiative’ which aims to
“upload” human consciousness into an
online avatar that can live forever.
Itskov has given millions of
dollars into pioneering the research since
the initiative was launched. His team of
scientists, believe that the human brain
is very similar to a computer and will
eventually be able to be transferred to
upgradable “bodies”.
Itskov claims that he has upped
the urgency of his research. “If there is no
immortality technology, I’ll be dead in
the next 35 years,” he says in an upcoming
documentary, The Immortalist. “The
ultimate goal of my plan is to transfer
someone’spersonalityintothenewartificial
carrier. Different scientists call it uploading
or they call it mind transfer. I prefer to call
it personality transfer.”
Itskov photo by Bath Bulletin
Cyborg photo by Pinterest

Photo by Bigstock
Photo by Desun Hospital

The First Global
Robotic Surgery
Done in UAE
Doctors at a Government Hos-
pital at Sharjah performed a complex car-
diac surgery on a patient with his heart,
and other organs at the right side of his
body. This surgery is considered to be the
world’s first Robotic Surgery performed
on a heart found on the right side of a
body.
The surgery was performed at
the Al Qassimi Hospital, and was broad-
casted live via webcast to the 6th annual
India Live Cardiology Conference in New
Delhi. This interactive live surgery was
Doctors at a Government Hospital
at Sharjah performed a complex
cardiac surgery on a patient with
his heart, and other organs at the
right side of his body.
done to be able to train and educate new
physicians from around the globe.
Approximately, 4,000 surgeons
around the world intensely and carefully
watched the procedures and gave their
comments on each of the steps. According
to Dr Arif Al Nooryani, executive director
and consultant cardiologist, the procedure
was succesful and the fact that the heart of
the patient as well as his other organs were
on the right side was a challenge for them.
The surgery usually costs Dh20,000 but it
was conducted free for the patient.
Life-Saving Surgery
Done Live via
Webcast For
4000 Physicians
In this age, one doesn’t have to
be “physically” present in the operating
room to learn how to do a complex sur-
gery to save lives. At the Al Qasimi hos-
pital, an interactive live surgery was done
via webcast to educate future surgeons
how to do it right. This live surgery was
done on a patient whose heart and other
vital organs were on the right side of the
body. The operation proved to be a great
success.
The hospital’s executive director
and consultant cardiologist performed in
front of 4,000 surgeons around the world
at the Al Qasimi Hospital in Sharjah.
While performing the operation, his au-
dience was able to give feedback for each
step of the procedure.
In an interview, Dr. Al Noory-
ani said:
“The aim of the surgery is to allow us to
provide invaluable training to new physi-
cians and other health-care professionals
from around the globe, We are very pleased
Teaching how to do surgery no
longer requires being physically
present in the operating room.
to have this technology available at Al Qa-
simi Hospital to aid us in training and to
take part in global conferences. The con-
ference organisers came to us because they
trust our work and have seen the results.
Medicine is constantly evolving. We have
new equipment, new materials, new proce-
dures that we as cardiologists need to learn.
Through this live transmission, I was given
the opportunity to teach these cardiologists
how to do this by showing them that it can
easily be done and giving them encourage-
ment.”

The successful operation included a pro-
cess where a pump must be implanted
by robotic surgery. The whole procedure
lasted for 40 minutes and costs usually
Dh 20,000. Luckily for the patient, it was
conducted for free. It is considered as the
first ever robotic surgery for a heart locat-
ed on the right side in the world. Just goes
to prove that doctors in the Middle East
aren’t far behind in the progress of mod-
ern medicine.
First Uterus Transplant
in the U.S. Gives Hope
to Pregnancy
Last Wednesday, the first uterus trans-
plant was performed in Cleveland Clinic,
U.S. After succeeding to attach the uterus
in a 26-year-old recipient, the operation
was announced the following day where
in the patient was said to be in stable con-
dition already.
The operation aims to enable
women without uterus or who had theirs
removed to become pregnant and give
birth like any normal women. The patient
undergoing the transplant however must
wait for a year to heal and adjust with the
medications prescribed by the doctors be-
fore getting pregnant.
After which, in vitro fertiliza-
tion is needed to become pregnant. Before
the transplant, eggs from the woman and
sperm from his husband are to be re-
moved and frozen to fertilize. After which
the embryo will be also transferred into
her uterus.
The gist here is that the trans-
planted uterus will be removed after giv-
ing birth in order to stop taking anti-rejec-
tion drugs.
Cleveland Hospital was said to
be permitted to perform 10 procedures as
an experiment. After which, officials are to
decide whether to continue it as a standard
procedure. The lead of the surgical team is
Dr. Andreas G. Tzakis, who perform thou-
sands of organ transplants in the US and
has worked in Sweden. Nine women in
Sweden already had the operation and at
least four had babies.
According to his interview,
women without uterus can either adopt or
hire surrogates but many find these unac-
ceptable due to cultural and personal rea-
sons. This could be the solution for it that
could also let these women experience the
normal pregnancy.
The first uterus transplant in
Cleveland Clinic will surely boost
pregnancy confidence in women.

everal companies nowadays
are impressed with more than
just your engineering degrees.
They like employees with a
solid background in intern-
ships or on-the-job trainings
while being an undergrad-
uate. They are attracted to potential em-
ployees who have applied their engineering
knowledge in the field even before gradu-
ation.
The main purpose of internships is to
translate the abstract engineering theories
and learned examples inside the classroom
to apply them in real life. It also serves a
preparation towards working with real
co-workers later on – that only means
that you will be facing a slice of what the
real world of engineering is, including the
harsh realities it will offer.
When you do get an opportunity
to an internship, make the most out of it.
An internship without learning anything
from the experience is as good as having no
internship at all. Expose yourself in train-
ings and mingle with co-workers and man-
agers. Whatever you do, the endpoint is to
have accomplishments. Some companies
absorb their interns right after they grad-
Reasons Why
You Need that
Engineering Internship
uate, so do the best you can to show the
company that you are worthy of the regular
employee status later on.
There is no limit to how many internships
you should engage with. The more intern-
ships you can get, the better. The value of
these internships will be seen by employers
and managers as commitment to your field
of study. But do not expect to get paid every
time, because some internships aren’t paid
at all. You will give free service to a com-
pany that will give you relevant experience.
It’s a win-win, so don’t look at unpaid in-
ternships as a burden but an opportunity.
While some engineering curriculums re-
quire internships, others do not. For those
students who are not compelled to do these
internships, you must be willing to step up
your game by voluntarily signing up for
them. It will give you leverage to those who
choose not to. You have something to add
on in that bland resume which may propel
you to your dream job.
Think of an internship as an investment
that will help you with your dream engi-
neering job later on. If you really want to
compete with thousands of engineers out
there, internships are what will make the
difference.
S
by Dion Greg Reyes
Photo by Flickr

ENGINEERS,
ARE YOU WORKING
BUSILY OR
PRODUCTIVELY?
Most people interchange these things
when it comes to their work. Yes, we all admit
having a fair share of our busy days. But is this
good? Remember, you can be very busy without
accomplishing anything productive at the end of
the day. See the difference?
To be clearer, here are things that dis-
tinguish being productive from being busy. Truth
be told, there’s really a big difference between
these two and don’t let your potential and efforts
go to waste.
A busy person has many goals.
A productive person sets priorities.
There is a difference between just listing down all your tasks and focusing which
has to be done first. Having too many goals may end you up multitasking that
may compromise the quality of your work and accomplishments at the end of
the day. Shorten your to-do list with 3-5 vital tasks of the day. Start with doing
the important and larger tasks to accomplish more work.
A busy person quickly gives an answer.
A productive person does careful thinking.
Busy persons tend to give quick answers because they are “too busy” to think
about it. Well, let’s just say that if you carefully think of a decision there is a
bigger chance that a task would be accomplished. Hasty decisions may result to
mistakes, meaning, more work. And that will make you “busier”.
A busy person complains being busy.
A productive person lets results
speak for himself.
Work can be a mind game too. If you think you’re busy, then you will be “busy”.
Minding your work and focusing on accomplishing things will negate all the
busy vibes.
A busy person has no time. A productive
person dedicates time to important things.
Organized and productive people are productive because they carefully allot
time to each task they have to do whereas people with poor time management
ends up wasting a lot of time and efforts.
A busy person works for a boss.
A productive person works for their clients.
This is where you ask who you are working for. The clients pay your wages not
your employers. Also, people who works only for their boss misses out doing
additional work and other opportunities. Remember that satisfying your clients
first with your output will amaze your boss and that’s how you work productive-
ly. Hit two birds with one stone.

ogether with his wife,
he proves to everyone
that some billionaires
aren’t really after the
money.
We all know
that Bill Gates is the
richest man on Earth. While a lot of
people like to hate on guys like him,
we can’t help but admire him for his
efforts to make the world a better
place. Hey, if he has all the money in
the world, he had the option to just
enjoy life with his family and live a
life on the beach. Lucky for us, he
has the passion to help people and
pursue his advocacies to change the
world.
With more than $70 billion in
his bank account from his compa-
ny, Microsoft, good guy Bill focuses
on global health, education and de-
velopment issues together with his
wife, Melinda. After stepping down
from being the boss in his company
back in 2006, he decided to put “full-
time philanthropist” in his resume
next. With Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, they tackle on differ-
ent issues affecting everybody in the
world (especially those living in the
third world).
In a letter they addressed to the
public in the website, they wrote:
For each issue we work on, we
fund innovative ideas that could help
Source: BBC
Photo by Stephen Voss
BE
LIKE
GOOD
GUY
BILL
T

remove these barriers: new tech-
niques to help farmers in developing
countries grow more food and earn
more money; new tools to prevent
and treat deadly diseases; new meth-
ods to help students and teachers in
the classroom. Some of the projects
we fund will fail. We not only accept
that, we expect it—because we think
an essential role of philanthropy is
to make bets on promising solutions
that governments and businesses
can’t afford to make. As we learn
which bets pay off, we have to adjust
our strategies and share the results
so everyone can benefit.
But what exactly made Bill Gates
the way he is now? What made him
want to be a philanthropist? With
so many things to do and so much
money to spend, why did he decide
to donate around USD$28 billion of
his money to different causes he be-
lieves in?
In an interview with Charlie Rose,
Bill and Melinda Gates, each shared
a defining moment that made him
realize that he needed to try to save
the world:
Bill: Well, the idea that a computer
was relevant to the problems they
were dealing with, where getting
enough food, having decent health,
getting any electricity, a reasonable
place to live, it was pretty clear to me
that, hey, I love this computer, and I
thought it was neat and kids should
have access, but they had to rig up a
special generator so I could do this
one demo. And they borrowed this
generator. It wasn’t going to be there
when I left. So the idea that there was
a hierarchy of needs ... While still be-
lieving in digital empowerment, that
was not at the top of the list. That
was pretty eye opening for me.
Melinda: We often call each other
when we are the road. Almost every
day. But it was a different call. Bill
was really quite choked up on the
phone ... Because he’d seen firsthand
in a TB clinic hospital how awful it
is to have that disease ... He literally
said to me, ‘It’s a death sentence. To
go into that hospital is a death sen-
tence.
Whichever story is the real cause,
we are thankful that billionaires like
him have hearts and isn’t on it for
power and greed. So to the next bil-
lionaires reading this, may you find
it in your hearts to use your money
to raise awareness on certain issues
affecting a lot of people.
Or you could join him and War-
ren Buffet in their campaign, Giving
Pledge, which encourages filthy rich
people to donate their money to
philanthropic causes!
Photo sources from topmost to
bottommost: Speed Change;
Stoogles; MSN; Ventures Africa

Some feelings are
better left unsaid. This
is what you need to re-
member while in the
engineering workplace
because that may bring
out problems with your
workmates and even cost
you your job. Be careful
by Dion Greg Reyes
Things that Engineers
Should Never Say at Work
in uttering words that
will scar your reputa-
tion in the office or in the
field.
Here are those
potentially damaging
phrases and sentences
you should watch your
mouth for.
All photos in this spread
are grabbed from the
film “Office Space.”

When you’ve been given
a ton of workload to do
already and you’re being
given more, at least be po-
lite about it. Managers like
engineers who are open
to accepting workload to
their capacity and those
who know how to say no in
the most appropriate man-
ner. You can never show to
you’re full by running your
fingers through your hair of
letting a big sigh in front of
your co-workers.
Be careful what you say
about your workmates as
that will backfire to you
later on. This may become
your boss someday and you
wouldn’t mess with that
co-worker. The moral con-
struct is to be generally po-
lite and never air out state-
ments, may it be in front
of them or behind their
back, that will degrade your
co-workers no matter how
true those statements are.
They will no longer have
that same trust once you’re
too expressive.
You just heard the news?
Life is never fair. You may
see your workmate who en-
tered the same day as you
did being promoted and
you are stuck with that en-
try-level position. You may
have known your workmate
to get a raise and you didn’t.
It is only unfair because it
becomes better to the oth-
er person in the workplace
and not for you. Be happy
for them instead and work
your way to get that same
benefit.
In engineering
where one work has a dom-
ino effect to the other, it is
important to get the job
done with a time constraint.
You can never make im-
possible promises when it
comes to deadline as that
will affect the work others
with their expectations.
When you fail to deliver
with the supposed deadline,
be frank about it and say
you can’t make it on time.
But say it with a valid rea-
son. Do not comfort them
with the lie that you can
submit on time. It also ruins
your credibility.
Better quit the job. You get
the job many others want
and yet you remain unpro-
ductive. If someone from
the other desk who always
takes the overtime hears
this, he might strangle
you. Or maybe even your
boss will start wondering
why you still get paid for
a service that is centered
on boredom. You can’t be
bored at work as something
is always could be done with
your time at work. Take the
initiative to find something
to work on to ease the life of
everyone else in your work-
place. Stop being a slack
and stand up there.
I will submit this later
before I leave the
office (but actually
will not).
I have a lot of
work already.
I can’t do that
anymore.
I AM BORED.
THAT’S NOT
FAIR!
My workmate
is an idiot.

Photo by Philippine Star
FILIPINOSCIENTISTINVENTS
MECHANICAL
BUGREMOVERFORCROPS
For most Southeast
Asian Countries like the
Philippines, agriculture is one of
the major sources of their staple food
and income from exports. However,
farming needs large investments and
capital to fund the seeds, fertilizer,
insecticides and other equipment
used in the fields.
A young entrepreneur
fromtheUniversityofthePhilippines
– Los Baños, Josine Macaspac, 27,
also an entomologist, develops an
affordable mechanical pest remover
she called Mechanical Postharvest
Pest Removal System (MPreS). She
claims that it is more practical than
the currently used techniques.
For Filipino Farmers,
almost 50 percent of their harvest
are lost to these bugs and other pests.
The industrial standard control used
is a two-pronged method. First is
cooling with dry ice
to lessen infestation
and then fumigation to
eventually kill these bugs. And
these are expensive means.
But with the MPreS,
farmers will be able to prevent
infestation at an affordable cost.
This is a manually-operated
mechanical device to efficiently
remove them from post-harvest
and storage. Farmers only have to
load the feed and as the machine is
operated through pedal power, the
compartment with the feed vibrates
which effectively dislodge pests.
The collections will be immediately
stocked in the tray below. It can hold
up 50 kg of produce at a time or a
total of 600 kg of rice in 12 sacks. It
works well with grains, rice, wheat,
millet and sorghum.
To address the concern of
almost 50% harvest loss
to these pests, the woman
entomologist has come up
with a novel solution.

MIT Launches
10 Contests On
Climate Change
MIT’s Climate CoLab opens
contests addressing climate
change issues and solving them.
Photo by MIT
he Massachusetts In-
stitute of Technology
launched its set of
contests through the
Climate CoLab in or-
der to tackle and solve ma-
jor issues on climate change.
The contests mainly seek for
high-impact proposals on
how to solve climate change
challenges.
Entries can win
various prizes including a
$10,000 cash award and a
chance to present in MIT.
Climate CoLab is also said
to feed larger climate action
plans where the communi-
ty will build a platform this
year.
“The mission of the
Climate CoLab is to test
how crowds and experts
can work together to solve
large, complex problems
like climate change”, says
Professor Thomas Malone,
MIT Sloan School of Man-
T
agement and director of the
MIT Center for Collective
Intelligence and founder of
the Climate CoLab.
The plan has two
stages where the first in-
volves submitting proposals
while the second stage will
ask the participating pro-
posals to form national and
global climate strategies to
estimate GHG reductions
that would result from the
plans.
The 10 contests
focus on decarbonizing
energy supply, shifting
public attitudes and be-
havior, adapting to climate
change, buildings, trans-
portation, industry, waste
management, land use, ma-
terials, and information
communication technology
and cities.
The deadline of pro-
posals is on May 23, 2016 at
8:00 PM EST

New Driverless Platform
may be better
Drivers than Humans
Google’s chipmakers NVIDIA is
up for a promising new driverless
platform technology.
Top photo by Maximum PC
Bottom photo by NVIDIA
ontrary to what the lay-
man thinks, driverless
cars aren’t a hundred
per cent Google. Behind
the smart cars is chip-
maker NVIDIA, which
Tegra processors help
power some of Google’s
driverless car tech in recent years.
And now, NVIDIA is up for a bet-
ter driverless platform technology
Smart cars will soon
house NVIDIA’s new Drive PX
2, the world’s first in-car artifi-
cial intelligence computer. It has
a promise of being a better driver
than humans with its capacity to
process 24 trillion deep learning
operations in just a second.
It combines the functions
of sensors, cameras, lidar, and ra-
dar that gives the autonomous ve-
hicles that power to think in situ-
ations that even humans take for
granted. This is how this new tech-
nology may become better drivers
than humans.
Come to think of it, Drive
PX 2 can even be a superhuman
with its own capacity to think on
road situations. And considering
it is just software.
The future is indeed bright
for autonomous driverless cars.
C

Wireless Charging
Electric Buses
All photos by Plugless Power
e have moved
from using land-
lines to carrying
mobile phones,
from writing let-
ters to sending
emails and from
riding bicycles to mounting motor vehi-
cles. That said, these electric devices ar-
en’t perfect. They run on electricity and
some of them have batteries that require
charging almost every day of the week.
This proves to be a very tedious task as
you first need to find a charging point,
plug in the charger, then wait for some
time to get it charged.
However, things are very dif-
ferent with the latest electric buses. They
are amongst the very first vehicles to
use a revolutionary inductive charging
W
technology. With no need to plug-in
to charge, the batteries of these buses
charge wirelessly when the bus stops to
pick up the passengers. The technology
is definitely a breakthrough that should
speed up the widespread adoption of
electric vehicles (EV).
This technology is also cur-
rently available for mobile devices, and
is the basis of this advanced effort. The
wireless system works on the principle of
electromagnetic induction. When a mag-
netic field is generated by an alternating
current in a primary coil, it induces a
current in a nearby secondary coil. The
latest in the technology is that it allows
for an energy-transfer efficiency of 90
percent or higher.
The wireless charging system is
a big benefit for electric vehicles. It allows
drivers to charge their car’s batteries
simply by parking in the right spot.
It also reduces the risk of roadblocks
caused by empty fuel tanks. How-
ever, the technology is not so easily
available in the market right now but
it is hoped that the benefit of “park to
charge” will surely attract the mass-
es.
The future of hybrid cars
would value this innovation very
much. No more hassle of waiting in
line to get gas, heck, no more need
for gas money! You’ll not only save
cash, you’ll also save the planet. Hav-
ing such cars that run on electricity
means no more smoke emissions
from car mufflers, which will lead to
cleaner air for everybody.

Top photo by NDTV
Right photos by Goodyear
elf-driving cars seem to be
not enough for Goodyear
with their new technology
of revolutionizing car tires
into four spheres that works
and connects by magnetic
levitation.
Called the Goodyear
Eagle-360 concept tire, this will enable the
autonomous cars to navigate in all direc-
tions. It could even stop then drive side-
ways into a parking lot; thus no room for
excess tread wear. Sensors will continually
rotate the tire’s orientation.
Moreover, the tires would not
touch the car because of magnetic lev-
itation. The car’s suspension, steering
gear, and propulsion will depend on this
maglev feature. This holds a promise of
self-driving cars to be an electric vehicle
instead of using carbon fuels.
The Eagle-360 tires also change
the tread shape and act like a natural
sponge – soft in wet conditions and dry
when it’s not raining. The same behavior,
called biomimicry, is present in brain cor-
als.
Not only that, Goodyear also
presents IntelliGrip to sense road and
weather conditions. This feature can pro-
vide a map of roads through GPS and
telematics which can help in repairing
damaged roads the car has traversed.
S
Spherical MaglevTires
for Self-Driving Cars
from Goodyear

TRASHWALLA New Way to Use your Trash Efficiently
This wall, only costing a mere 10 cents
per square foot, could be the cheap
counterpart of those expensive energy
efficient systems.
Photos by Washington State University
In a collaborative effort between the architecture and
engineering students of Washington State University,
the team has designed a wall that effectively sustains
heat and is energy efficient at the same time. The team
is guided by Taiji Miyasaka, professor of architecture in
the School of Design and Construction, together with
Bob Richards, professor in the School of Mechanical
and Materials Engineering.
Richards said that energy efficient systems
nowadays only prove useful to those who can afford
it, but with this tech, people of a lower income range
could have a system which wouldn’t hurt their bud-
get. He even joked about a student who turned off her
shower heater to reduce her bill, but that only led to her
shower freezing.
This wall, only costing a mere 10 cents per
square foot, could be the cheap counterpart of those
expensive energy efficient systems.

Photos by NYUAD
NYU Abu Dhabi
Immersing
Engineering
Students
To Social Works
by Farrel Pinto
TheU.A.E.baseduniversitypromotes
socialawarenessandthroughtheir
EngineersForSocialImpactprogram.
Aside from science and technology pursuits of
our dear engineers, benefiting the mankind is
also a mandate of such important profession. The
NYU Abu Dhabi implements the Engineers for
Social Impact, a co-curricular program promot-
ing and complementing the mission and goals
of the Engineering Division through sustainable
projects, field works and immersions.
It serves as a platform for exploring
technology entrepreneurship models for the so-
ciety giving economical sustainability. Through
which is attain by immersing students in a culture
that promotes innovation, entrepreneurship and
experiential learning rooted in the global com-
munity. They have also created partnerships with
corporations, non-governmental organizations
and other agencies to give students the oppor-
tunity to experience future activities with social
impact. The aim is also to develop and share
knowledge in forming technological solutions in
improving the lives of the end users in the bot-
tom of the socio-economic groups pyramid. Stu-
dents learn to appreciate the societal approach in
solving engineering problems giving them a new
meaning and a perspective in their profession as
future engineers.
The Engineers for Social Impact has
implemented several projects already immersing
teams of students in less developed countries like
Sri Lanka and Ethiopia in building community
centers other amenities to help families from the
villages. With these projects, it give the students
the experience to apply their engineering knowl-
edge and theory in practical aspects to provide
sustainable and long-term solutions. It is indeed
a life-changing opportunity learning and helping
at the same time.
Source: NYUAD

July 2014
Zambia
October 2014
Tanzania
November 2014
Kenya
January 2015
Colombia
January 2015
Ghana with Airtel
10 February 2015
India with Reliance
Communications
18 March 2015
Philippines with
Smart Communications
31 March 2015
Guatemala
with Tigo
20 April 2015
Indonesia with Indosat
10 May 2015
Bangladesh
with Robi
13 May 2015
Malawi with
TNM and Airtel
28 May 2015
Pakistan with
Telenor Pakistan
5 June 2015
Senegal with Tigo
19 June 2015
Bolivia with VIVA
1 July 2015
South Africa with Cell C
18 October 2015
Egypt with Etisalat
16 December 2015
Iraq with
Korek Telecom
by Farrel Pinto
Internet.org:
Alliance and
Connectivity
for Less
Facebook and six other tech
giants joined hands to help
less developed countries gain
access in the internet through
this platform
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
emphasized, “Connectivity is
a human right.”
Photo by David Paul Morris via Bloomberg
As the world becomes more and more connected
through the advancements of technology, not all
parts of the globe have access to these, especially
that of the internet. The technology for connec-
tivity is not equally distributed and some parts
of the world don’t even have internet access. And
for the most part, everything comes at a cost that
some less developed countries cannot afford.
To address the challenges and to reach
out to other regions, Facebook and six other
network service companies consisting Samsung,
Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and
Qualcomm, joined hands in creating an open
platform that can provide free access to select-
ed internet services to less developed countries.
Thus, introducing the Internet.org.
It provides a set of basic websites and
services to introduce people to the value of the
internet and how it can shape their lives. Provid-
ers can offer these for free in an economic and
sustainable way and is available on Android app.
As of 2015, Facebook’s report, State of
Connectivity 2015: A Report on Global Internet
Access, showed that 3.2 billion people are con-
nected online due to more affordable data. In
September 2015, the Internet.org was renamed
FreeBasics.com as its existing website and can be
downloaded as Android app in smartphones. It
has now become a big network of affordable in-
ternet services available to the people around the
world.
Indeed, we are becoming a more con-
nected world, thanks to these people.
Launched in 2013, Internet.org has
reached a lot of regions in Africa, Asia
and Latin America providing internet
access and free services to millions of
people. Here is a timeline of launches
in different countries with participat-
ing mobile networks.

The pace of global warming
is accelerating and the scale
of the impact is devastating.
The time for action is limited -
we are approaching a tipping
point beyond which the
opportunity to reverse the
damage of CO2 emissions
will disappear.
Tony Blair
Background Photo by Breaking Energy

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