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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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The research project is co-financed by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (FOEN). The platform for these discussions is the “International DME Association” founded in 2001, which currently has 50 members from science and industry. The project still in the pre-competitive phase, Soltic said.

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Video-Game Engineer Sushama Chakraverty Answered the Call of Duty

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Back in 2001, she spotted a poster on her professor’s door advertising for an internship, and she applied without knowing the company she’d be working for. But as her degree program came to a close in 2001, Chakraverty was undecided about her next move. “I That’s a critical part of getting ahead.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

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While pursuing his bachelor’s degree, he worked part time as a technician at a university research lab that had a contract with the U.S. Gaynor says the best part about being an IEEE volunteer is the camaraderie. Gaynor says the best part about being an IEEE volunteer is the camaraderie. government.

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Opinion: Oil Market ShowdownCan Russia Outlast The Saudis?

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and China markets, while the Russian Finance Ministry recently backed away from a tax proposal which Russian crude producers said would reduce their output. The Finance Ministry sought a change in the mineral extraction tax formula to generate an additional 609 billion rubles in 2015 and 1.6

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The Real Story of Pixar

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Philips, partnering with GM to share the financing load, was interested in our rendering technology that yielded three-dimensional internal views of human beings from CAT scans. Lucasfilm did go for it, and Steve Jobs became the venture capitalist who financed Pixar. Ross Perot. Pixar Image Computer. Note that Jobs did not buy Pixar.

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Navigant Research forecasts new EV global sales of > 346,000 units in 2014; 10 predictions for the year

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Taking legal action over the ZEV mandates would be a repeat of the late 1990s: automakers filed a federal lawsuit that led California to water down its ZEV requirements beginning in 2001, thus effectively ending most automakers electric vehicle (EV) programs for more than a decade.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. The South Korean government had established the institute in 1971 with financing from the United States Agency for International Development and had invited. Frederick E. Therefore, one of the first lessons Kim taught his students was how to use their hands.