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Tesla Gigafactory Texas earns “Manufacturing Project of the Year” award

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Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas has been named as the “Manufacturing Project of the Year” by Area Development Magazine. Apart from Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas, Area Development Magazine also mentioned some high-profile projects in Texas. It was not just Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas facility that earned high praise.

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

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Simpson, Dallas, TX A shift away from fossil fuels is necessary if we are to mitigate climate change, but a serious electrician shortage in the U.S. See more at E Magazine. Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels? is proving to be one of the biggest barriers to reaching this goal.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. Then in 1971, when GE dropped out of the IC business, it was issued to Sprague Electric Corp., as well as to Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. To probe further.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas, de Geus joined General Electric in Research Triangle Park, N.C. In the early 1980s, while pursuing a Ph.D.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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The materials-delivery system, designed with the help of engineers recruited from Texas Instruments in Dallas, Texas, divided small and large parts between receiving doors at the materials distribution center. Other television advertisements, as well as magazine and billboard ads, depicted the Macintosh as being easy to learn to use.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Computer graphics artist Norm Cox, now of Cox & Hall, Dallas, Texas, was finally hired to redesign the icons. 12, 1989, PC Magazine contains six articles on graphical user interfaces for personal computers and workstations. covering development of the Star. Designing the Star User Interface,’’ [PDF] by David C. Smith et al.,

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

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— Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25. Editor After a year as an editor at large for National Geographic magazine, Tom returned to The New York Times in July 2008 to help expand the papers coverage of sustainable energy development and green business. They are all large ships not easily turned. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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