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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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The US $10,000 scholarship is administered by IEEE Educational Activities and is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia.

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Researchers propose reason for capacity loss in metal-oxide battery materials

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The fade in battery capacity is due to the formation and thickening of internal and surface passivation layers during charge and discharge cycles. We call this barrier an internal passivation layer. —co-corresponding author Zhongwei Chen, a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. For his discoveries, Rao received the 2023 International Prize in Statistics.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He left in 1985 to join the Rand Afrikaans University, now part of the University of Johannesburg.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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The survey, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , looks at the last 75 years of research into RF exposure assessment and dosimetry. When you and your co-authors wrote your IJERPH article, was your goal to point out the success of exposure assessment research and the challenges of dosimetry?

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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The Beijing 2022 Organising Committee aims to make the games carbon neutral, or as close as possible—a benchmark for the International Olympic Committee’s mission to make the Olympics carbon positive by 2024. This article appears in the January 2022 print issue as “China’s Green Winter Olympics.”. will shuttle spectators around.

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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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The total proposed program effort includes development of a coating system consisting of a novel oxidation resistant bond coat compatible with the new Nb-based alloy and a thermal barrier coating for improved durability that can operate at 1700 °C (3092 °F) and a scalable manufacturing process for producing internally cooled gas turbine blades.