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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

How John Bardeen got his music box In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes to show off the new transistors. The box’s design was a simple LC circuit, consisting of a capacitor and an inductor. Bardeen brought his box to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, when he joined the faculty in 1951.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This FOA, issued in August 2017, is a $50-million funding opportunity for projects supporting cost-shared research and development to design, construct, and operate two large-scale pilots to demonstrate transformational coal technologies. University of Illinois. DOE funding: $741,194 Non-DOE: $188,333 Total: $929,527.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

The team will then deploy these genes using tools of the emerging field of synthetic biology to accelerate development of elite energy sorghum varieties for production under marginal environments. This project aims to deliver stress-tolerant sorghum lines, addressing DOE’s mission in the generation of renewable energy resources.

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JULY 24, 2018

—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. Lithium-oxygen batteries have been tantalizing to battery researchers for years because of their potential high energy density.

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JUNE 4, 2018

MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors. To attain these goals, new, innovative, enabling technologies for advanced reactor designs are needed. HolosGen, LLC: Transportable Modular Reactor by Balance of Plant Elimination – $2,278,200.

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JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Addressing partial discharge related reliability issues that arise from low air pressure environments in aviation. Illinois Institute of Technology. Illinois Institute of Technology will develop a 10 kV/150A superconducting momentary circuit interrupter (SMCI) to provide fault protection with ultralow power loss (.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment.

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JUNE 7, 2012

Research projects will also develop new processes and computational design methods to develop these materials, improve efficiency and reduce the costs of cleaner power generation systems. Texas Engineering Experiment Station. The Energy Department’s $2.7 million in total projects. DOE Share: $293,519). Brown University.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The other two projects are tackling monitoring and mitigating noise pollution in cities and quickly identifying and overcoming problems in manufacturing environments. The award was part of a total of $13 million NSF awarded to three five-year “Frontier” projects to advance cyber-physical systems (CPS). Overview of the VeHICal process.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

A multi-institutional research team led by materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has designed a highly active and durable catalyst that doesn’t rely on costly platinum group metals (PGM) to spur the necessary chemical reaction. The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon.

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MAY 5, 2011

Through the new International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I 2 CNER) and the Research, Engineering, and Applications Center for Hydrogen (REACH), Sandia hopes to expand its hydrogen research activities and engage the global hydrogen research community even more ambitiously than it has in the past.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Advanced Manufacturing Awards.

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JULY 27, 2022

Department of Energy science and engineering research center. For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. I’ve prospered in that environment. a nearby U.S.

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MAY 30, 2023

The methods include knowing when to till the soil, plant, fertilize, spray for insects, and harvest in a way that protects the environment and makes the best use of renewable resources. One of the leaders in farm machine technology is John Deere & Company , based in Moline, Illinois.

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DECEMBER 23, 2009

TJ Lambrecht, headquartered in Joliet, Illinois, is one of the most recognized heavy, civil, and earthmoving contractors in the country, with one of the largest and most current fleets of Caterpillar equipment. Our customers are being challenged to do their work more efficiently with less impact on the environment. Caterpillar Inc.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Using detailed land analysis, University of Illinois researchers have found that biofuel crops cultivated on available land could produce between 26-55% of the world’s current fuel consumption without affecting the use of land with regular productivity for conventional crops and without affecting the current pasture land. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Overall, the USDA and DOE projects are designed to improve special crops to be grown for biofuels—including selected trees and grasses—by increasing their yield, quality and ability to adapt to extreme environments. Plant growth and development, including biomass accumulation, are affected by the light environment.

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO) - Novel Engineered Osmosis Technology: A Comprehensive Approach to the Treatment and Reuse of Produced Water and Drilling Wastewater. Current methods such as microseismic monitoring are valuable, but they can be expensive and are not applicable in some environments.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

Awards are in three areas: Reprocessing and Conditioning of Coal/Biomass Mixtures for Simultaneous Co-Feeding Systems; Reactive Properties of Coal/Biomass Mixed Fuels; and Design Concepts for Co-Production of Power, Fuels and Chemicals. and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D.,

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MAY 31, 2016

The traditional design paradigm for Li-ion battery cathodes has been to create compounds in which the amount of extractable Li + is well balanced with an oxidizable transition metal (TM) species (such as Mn, Fe, Co or Ni) to provide the charge-compensating electrons, all contained in an oxide or sulfide host. —Gerbrand Ceder.

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MAY 14, 2010

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. Research partners Clemson University and Purdue University will extend their study of GB segregation and embrittlement in tungsten for the mechanistic design of alloys to be used in coal-fired power plants. Computational Energy Sciences. DOE award: $298,191). DOE award: $299,950).

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JUNE 26, 2021

Hot Shot Coanda-Stabilized Free Stream Gas Atomization (Hot CoSA) of Powders of Refractory Multi-Principle Element Alloys (RMPEA) for Extreme Environments, $250,000. Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois).

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JUNE 24, 2013

The goal of this new center is to create a collaborative environment and concentration of technical capability to accelerate materials discovery and development, provide opportunities to transition new breakthroughs in advanced materials to industry, and offer training opportunities for young scientists and engineers.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Chicago Transit Authority, Illinois: $1,500,000.

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JUNE 27, 2022

Utrecht, a largely bicycle-propelled city of 350,000 just south of Amsterdam, has become a proving ground for the bidirectional-charging techniques that have the rapt interest of automakers, engineers, city managers, and power utilities the world over. In the UK, experiments are. These pilot programs have remained just that, though—pilots.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Lignin’s protective characteristics persist during biofuel processing, where it becomes a major hindrance, surviving expensive pretreatments designed to remove it and blocking enzymes from breaking down cellulose into simple sugars for fermentation into bioethanol. That impedes the mechanism the enzyme has to anchor to cellulose.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Successful technologies will significantly increase the confidence that CO 2 placed in geologic formations is being accurately tracked and remains permanently stored, thus protecting human health and the environment. The approach is designed to be applicable to other CO 2 injection sites. Columbia University , New York, N.Y.

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JUNE 19, 2015

ARPA-E’s TERRA program uniquely integrates agriculture, information technology and engineering to address major global challenges in developing crops that are sustainable, affordable and yield abundant plant feedstocks for bioenergy. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Previously code-named “Cascade,” the Cray XC30 supercomputer combines the new Aries interconnect, Intel Xeon processors, Cray’s fully-integrated software environment, and innovative power and cooling technologies to create a production supercomputer that is designed to scale high performance computing (HPC) workloads of more than 100 petaflops.

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JULY 30, 2021

Engineers that design electronics face significant thermal management challenges, and the number of applications that require thermal management continues to grow. To keep up with the increasing demand of technology users today, engineers must increase the power of critical electronic components. Senior Engineer.

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MARCH 29, 2011

By attempting to transfer parts from algae and bacteria into plants, the researchers hope to make the environment in the plants’ cells around RuBisCO richer in carbon dioxide which will allow photosynthesis to produce sugars more efficiently. Some blue-green algae have protein structures, called carboxysomes, that reduce such losses.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Elements of these solution sets were introduced by SMART in a 2006 article entitled “ New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation ,” in the Bridge Magazine of the National Academy of Engineers. The five themes are: Systems integration. The accessibility paradigm. The socio-cultural context. —Susan Zelinski.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. s PDP-11 minicomputer.

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