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LA Metro and Via Join partner to offer shared rides to select transit stations; $1.35M grant

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The project is funded in part by the largest federal grant of its kind—a $1.35-million million grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for advanced technology to help bridge the first/last mile gap. million rides per month, and is growing rapidly.

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Physics Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer Dies at 95

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During his career, Gelnovatch published 50 research papers and was granted eight U.S. He also wrote and edited three books on the fundamentals of optical fiber communications. He later returned to academia, lecturing at George Washington University and Ohio State Universit y. Gelnovatch retired in 1997 as director of the U.S.

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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

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In October, her second book on this work, The Social Impact Advantage , was published. In October, her second book on this work, The Social Impact Advantage , was published. Her assignment was to map out an expansion of Year Up from Boston to either Washington, D.C., “I don’t think everybody else sees it that way.”

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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He was also an entrepreneur, founding two Washington state–based companies: consulting firm Hesla and Associates, on Camano Island, and electrical engineering firm EngePower-USA, in Edmonds. It was the first of three books he would write on power and mechanical engineering. Stephen retired in 1994 as a director of engineering at BTH.

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MIT researchers conclude fundamental changes in the US energy-innovation system are needed to meet challenges of climate change and energy supply

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The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

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EPA Administrator broadly outlines Trump Administration thinking on fuel economy standards and California

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In a speech on Tuesday at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Washington, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined the Trump Administration’s thinking on national fuel economy standards and California.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard. That desire was nicely captured by electrical engineer Benjamin Lamme in a 1918 presentation to the Washington, D.C.,