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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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in 1990, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of biomedical engineering. It consists of a shoe box that houses a 900-gram reusable water bottle, which is connected to a pump that sends air through the bottle and into the baby’s airways. After earning her Ph.D. The experience changed her life, she says.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Remote sensing technologies to tackle earth science problems In 1980 Crawford joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at Austin, staying for 25 years.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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4, 1921 Birthplace Baku, Azerbaijan Height 178 cm Family Wife, Fay; children, Stella and Norman Education BSEE, University of Tehran, 1942; MSEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1946; PhD, Columbia University, 1949 First job Design and analysis of defense systems, International Electronics Corp., Austin, Texas.

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Mattershift scales up CNT membranes; potential for zero-carbon fuels for less than fossil

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Water flow through the membranes was 1000 times higher than predicted by Hagen-Poiseuille flow, in agreement with previous CNT membrane studies. Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. The CNTs used in the membranes were arc discharge nanotubes with inner diameters of 0.67 Source: Mattershift. Click to enlarge.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. University of Texas at Austin. a standard for high performance green buildings that in 2018 will become the basis for the International Green Construction Code. Eugene Water & Electric Board.

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Is Elon Musk Back In “Production Hell” With Tesla’s 4680 Battery?

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Internal crash testing of our structural pack architecture with a single-piece front casting has been successful. Any whisper of production bottlenecks at Tesla inevitably recalls the Model 3's troubled launch in 2017 and 2018 , the one that had Musk sleeping in his office.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. — CGC 22. Average ICE efficiency might be around 20%. The furthest might be fossil fuels (a long ago byproduct of the sun).

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