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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. I attended this year’s events, held on 4 and 5 May in Atlanta. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. UCN assists U.S.

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Automated Bus Consortium issues RFP to procure up to 70 full-size Level 4 automated buses

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Level 4” is a designation of highly automated vehicles as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). Level 4 buses operate in pre-determined environments and still have drivers, steering wheels, and pedals.

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Study finds in-car rush-hour exposure to some particulate pollution twice as high as previously thought

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A new study, part of the Atlanta Commuter Exposures (ACE) Study, has assessed on-roadway in-cabin particulate pollution (PM 2.5 ) collected from scripted rush hour commutes on highways and on non-highway side streets. —Michael Bergin, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke. Vreeland et al. Click to enlarge.

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Video Friday: Co-Expression

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Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

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Algae.Tec and Lufthansa sign MoU to evaluate potential of algae-oil based aviation biofuels

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The Algae.Tec system combines closed control of algae production within an engineered modular environment and efficient downstream biofuel processing. Algae.Tec was founded in 2008 with offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Perth, Western Australia. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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FTA awards almost $16.6M to coordinate fuel cell bus research

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million to the Center for Transportation and the Environment in Atlanta and $10.17 million to CALSTART in Pasadena, CA to coordinate research among fuel cell manufacturers, engineering firms and transit agencies throughout the country for fuel-cell powered buses. Partners: CTE, Atlanta, GA; Embedded Power Controls, Salem, VA.

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DOE awarding $7+ million to four hydrogen and fuel cell projects, including fuel cell delivery trucks

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These projects include: Center for Transportation and the Environment ($3 million DOE investment): Based in Atlanta, Ga., the Center for Transportation and the Environment will develop a fuel cell hybrid electric walk-in delivery van with a 150-mile (241 km) range per fueling. CommScope Inc., and ReliOn Inc.

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