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Industrial Light & Magic Engineer Wins a Technical Oscar

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Winning an Academy Award is probably not something most engineers ever expect to do. 2023 Sci-Tech Awards: Mark Hills and Jim Vanns | FQ Render Farm Management System www.youtube.com Inspired by the Lord of the Rings Vanns grew up in Tonbridge, England, and played guitar for several bands as a teenager.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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Many of today’s engineering students want to work on technologies that address public-interest challenges, IEEE Fellow Deborah Estrin says. Estrin, a computer science professor at Cornell Tech , in New York City, founded the school’s Public Interest Tech Initiative to give students that opportunity.

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This Engineer Promotes Innovation-Based Projects in Uganda

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When he understood the impact his work had, he was inspired to pursue engineering as a career. “I The nonprofit, which was launched in 2001, works to foster technological development in Uganda. Both IEEE programs collaborated with Neopenda , a health tech startup founded in 2015 that designs and manufactures wearables.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid.

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Video Friday: Grav Enhanced

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Flexiv ] A team of engineers has devised a modular system to produce efficient, scalable aquabots. ElliQ ] Tech Panel: The progression of robotics since Shakey the robot has been remarkable. DARPA ] Tech Panel: In 2004, DARPA launched interest in self-driving vehicles with a Grand Challenge. It was July 2001. CMU RI ]

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2nd Audi Autonomous Driving Cup

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Our engineers at Audi likewise use the ADTF development environment. ADTF has been developed by Audi Electronics Venture GmbH since 2001 in collaboration with various specialist departments at Audi. The students will be building on the findings and functions of the previous year’s competition.

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Bloom Energy Debuts SOFC Fuel Cell System for Distributed Generation

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This high temperature gives them high electrical efficiencies and fuel flexibility, both of which contribute to better economics, but it also creates engineering challenges. Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. SOFCs operate at high temperature (typically above 800 °C).

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