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• ENGINEERING/COMPUTER SCIENCE

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    Aerospace Engineering

    Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is broken into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering.
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    Biomedical Engineering

    Biomedical engineering uses engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It applies the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to improve diagnosis of healthcare and treatment of diseases.
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    Chemical Engineering

    Chemical engineering is a branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science and life sciences with mathematics to process or convert raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms.
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    Civil Engineering

    Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.
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    Electrical Engineering

    Electrical engineering, sometimes referred to as electrical and electronic engineering, is a field of engineering that deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism.
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    Mechanical Engineering

    Mechanical engineering is an engineering discipline that was developed from the application of principles from physics and materials science.
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    Molecular Engineering

    Molecular engineering is any means of manufacturing molecules. It may be used to create, on an extremely small scale, most typically one at a time, new molecules which may not exist in nature, or be stable beyond a very narrow range of conditions.
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    Genetics Engineering

    Human genetic engineering is the modification of an individual's genotype with the aim of choosing the phenotype of a newborn or changing the existing phenotype of a child or adult. It holds the promise of curing genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis
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    Industrial Engineering

    Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, material and process.
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    All other engineering disciplines

    Open to all other major Engineering disciplines

• SCIENCE/SOCIETY

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    The World!

    We live in this world; We depend on the many things in this world. What have you done to make the world a better place today?
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    Energy

    In physics, energy (from the Greek ἐνέργεια - energeia, "activity, operation", from ἐνεργός - energos, "active, working" is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of work that can be performed by a force, an attribute of

• TECHNOLOGY

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    Technology

    Technology deals with human as well as other animal species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its natural environment.

• MEDICINE

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    Health Care

    Health care is the treatment and management of illnesses of the population, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences, nursing, and allied heal
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    Aging

    Health care is the treatment and management of illnesses of the population, and the preservation of health through services offered by the medical, dental, complementary and alternative medicine, pharmaceutical, clinical sciences, nursing, and allied heal
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    Public Health (General)

    Public health is the science and art of preventing diseases, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

• SOCIAL SCIENCES

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    Anthropology

    Anthropology is the study of humanity. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences. The term was first used by François Péron when discussing his encounters with Tasmanian Aborigines.
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    Sociology

    Sociology is the study of human societies. It is a social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge and theory about human social activity.
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    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied discipline which involves the scientific study of human or animal mental functions and behaviors. In the field of psychology, a professional researcher or practitioner is called a psychologist.

• PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE

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    Pharmacology

    Pharmacology is the study of drug action. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur between a living organism and exogenous chemicals that alter normal biochemical function.
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    Biochemical Pharmacology

    The study of the effects of chemicals on biochemical reactions in living systems and the effects of these systems on the chemicals, that is, their metabolism.
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    Drugs Adverse Reactions and Interactions

    An adverse drug reaction (ADR) is an expression that describes harm associated with the use of given medications at a normal dose.
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    Molecular Pharmacology

    Molecular pharmacology is a branch of the field of pharmacology which is concerned with the study of pharmacology on a molecular basis. Molecular pharmacologists study the molecular study of pharmaceuticals and natural compounds used in the treatment of d
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    Neoplastic Pharmacology

    It is also known as cancer pharmacology.

• LIFE SCIENCES

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    Anatomy/Physiology

    Anatomy is a branch of biology and medicine that is the consideration of the structure of living things. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy (zootomy) and plant anatomy (phytotomy).
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    Computational Biology

    Computational biology is an interdisciplinary field that applies the techniques of computer science, applied mathematics and statistics to address biological problems.
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    Genomics

    Genomics is the study of the genomes of organisms. The field includes intensive efforts to determine the entire DNA sequence of organisms and fine-scale genetic mapping efforts.

• CHEMISTRY

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    Organic Chemistry

    Organic Chemistry is a discipline within chemistry that involves the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of hydrocarbons and their derivatives.
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    Biochemistry

    Biochemistry is the study of the chemical processes in living organisms. It deals with the structure and function of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules.
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    Materials Sciences

    Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering.
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    Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

    Theoretical chemistry involves the use of physics to explain or predict chemical phenomena. In recent years, it has consisted primarily of quantum chemistry, i.e., the application of quantum mechanics to problems in chemistry.
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    Inorganic Chemistry

    Inorganic chemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the properties and behavior of inorganic compounds. This field covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds (compounds containing C-H bonds)
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    Analytical Chemistry

    Analytical chemistry is the study of the chemical composition of natural and artificial materials. Properties studied in analytical chemistry include geometric features such as molecular morphologies and distributions of species,
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    Physical Chemistry

    Physical chemistry is the explanation of macroscopic, microscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical concepts.

• SENSORS

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    Biosensors

    A biosensor is a device for the detection of an analyte that combines a biological component with a physicochemical detector component.