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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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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. Rao authored more than 14 books and 400 journal articles during his career. air defense system.

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

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—co-corresponding author Zhongwei Chen, a professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The team comprised scientists from the CFN and Sustainable Energy Technologies Department at Brookhaven Lab, APS at Argonne National Lab, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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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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Mn-Pt Nanocubes as Promising Fuel Cell Electrode Catalysts

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have synthesized manganese-platinum (Mn-Pt) nanocubes that how better electrocatalytic properties than their spherical counterparts. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja100705j. —Kang and Murray. Yijin Kang and Christopher B.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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Alcorn had majored in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, but had never played a video game before. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. Pong to the top of the pantheon of video games. Pong is an inherently social game.

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Wireless Worries Overshadow Triumphs of RF Research

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For a good review of 5G bio-effects studies, see [Ken] Karipidis’s article that found ‘no confirmed evidence that low-level RF fields above 6 GHz such as those used by the 5G network are hazardous to human health.’” —Kenneth Foster, University of Pennsylvania In your opinion, is exposure assessment a solved problem?