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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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He has coauthored five books and more than 250 papers. A member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (IEEE MTT-S), Schindler served as its president in 2003. Benedetto has been active in digital communications for more than 40 years. His publications have received more than 20,000 citations.

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Junkyard Find: 1986 Subaru BRAT GL

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US-market Subaru Leone-based car models in 1986 were just called "The Subaru" and so their trim levels became de facto model names here. This made them cars in the eyes of federal law. There's air conditioning, which the 1986 Edmund's Foreign Car Prices book claims was standard equipment in the 1986 BRAT GL (I'm skeptical).

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BMW Brilliance Automotive opens battery factory in Shenyang; 3rd battery factory in BMW Group production network

Green Car Congress

First, in a highly-automated process, supplied lithium-ion cells, which are about the size of a paperback book, are checked and then combined into a larger unit, the battery module. With nine electrified cars currently available, the BMW Group is one of the leading suppliers worldwide. Battery cells packaged in a module.

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Editorial: Growing old U.S. fleet complicates emissions objectives

Baua Electric

Unsurprisingly, a key driving force of the rise used to be the provision constraints lingering from the COVID-19 pandemic, which curtailed manufacturing and helped book customers of their current automobiles or despatched would-be new-vehicle patrons into the used-vehicle marketplace, S&P mentioned. reached a file 12.5

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Davidson, are the subjects of Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation by Rayvon Fouché (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Fouché says the most interesting discovery he made during the five years he spent researching the book was “how shrewd, and careful, and savvy these black inventors were.

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The Portrait Artist

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Nick Holonyak , MOH recipient in 2003 for the development of the red LED, actually changed the way Perry thinks about her ethnic roots. “My He recommended a few books, I followed up on those, and my somewhat confusing family history fell into place.” And sometimes she gets a memorable meal out of the deal.

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Latimer literally wrote the book on electric lighting at Edison’s urging: Incandescent Electric Lighting: A Practical Description of the Edison System was published in 1890 by the Van Nostrand Company, a leading publisher of trade, technical, and scientific books in the 19th century.

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