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Work Placements & Graduate Opportunities
Looking for answers: clean water
August 15, 2016 By Sue Casement/3M Storyteller When you turn on your faucet, you expect clear, drinkable water to come gushing out. For some, the water isn’t drinkable, or there isn’t even a faucet. That clean rush of water would be a great luxury to 780 million people who, according to the United Nations, don’t have access to clean water. In fact, if the entire world lived like the average European or North American, we would need to have 3.5 times the water on Earth...
Added: 3rd October 2016
John Alimi
Design Placement Student
Degree studied and university: I am studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bradford. Current Role at 3M: I am currently working as a design placement student in the Hardgoods Team. What attracted you to join 3M? I...
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Jack Williams
Software, Electronics, and Hard-goods Laboratory
What attracted you to 3M in the first place? I wasn’t sure which sort of company or industry I wanted to work in, and 3M has such a large mix it looked a good way to experience a real variety. Their R&D portfolio is also very...
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The E-Car Revolution Has Arrived
September 26, 2016 By Kevin Hoffman/3M Storyteller Analysts forecast that the number of electric vehicles on the road will surpass 10 million by the year 2020. That’s compared to 180,000 in 2012, according to the International Energy Agency. Both Europe and China are expected to be the fastest growing markets. The trend is driven in large part by a desire to cut down on pollution – globally, transportation accounts for about 15 percent of man-made carbon dioxide....
Added: 3rd October 2016
What you see before you look
August 22, 2016 By Kevin Hoffman/3M Storyteller It happens before you even notice. Your eye fixates on certain visual cues before your brain is even consciously aware of it. What your eye is drawn to is the product of evolution. For example, the eye is naturally drawn to faces, so the brain can then evaluate whether it’s friend or foe. For most of human history, pre-attentive processing has been a bit of a black box. Now we are able to peer inside thanks to Visual Attention...
Added: 3rd October 2016