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GE Aviation completes initial design of supersonic engine for Aerion AS2

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GE Aviation has completed the initial design of the first supersonic engine purpose-built for business jets. This new engine class, revealed as GE’s Affinity turbofan, is optimized with proven GE technology for supersonic flight and timed to meet the Aerion AS2 launch ( earlier post ).

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. The author of 52 articles with an h-index of 25, and four books/book chapters, Dr. Bai has seven patents pending and one granted patent. He is the author of 56 articles with an h-index of 42 and holds three patents. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. As an engineer, normally we tend to be very technical. That was how I got into engineering,” she says, adding that she also was inspired by her brother, an engineer. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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U of Illinois researchers develop new capabilities for genome-wide engineering of yeast

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The goal of the work was really to develop a genome-scale engineering tool for yeast … traditional metabolic engineering focused on just a few genes and the few existing genome-scale engineering tools are only applicable to bacteria, not eukaryotic organisms like yeast. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

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How Engineers Can Help Protect Earth From Worsening Climate Change

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Engineers and technologists can and should play major roles in creating a greener planet, creating tools that address environmental degradation. In response, the circulation of the atmosphere could change—which would alter weather patterns around the world, the article says. About 95 percent of food production relies on topsoil.

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How Tesla’s Model 3 Is Melting ICE Markets

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Tesla’s Model 3 triggered the Osborne effect in the auto industry and is causing the internal combustion engine (ICE) market to melt, The Driven shared and explained just how this happened. In the article, the author takes us back to 2017 where the global new car sales began their downturn, and that increased in 2020 […].

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages. In 2017, Yannis Tsividis wrote a feature article for Spectrum describing his research at Columbia University into the possibilities of digital-analog hybrid computer chips.

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