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AUGUST 9, 2021

A team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has investigated the long-term adaptability and economic feasibility of non-flex-fuel vehicles—vehicles designed to use fuel blends containing 85% ethanol (E85) or less—to consume a 30% ethanol (E30) fuel blend.

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JULY 3, 2018

Chemical engineers at Rice University and Pennsylvania State University have shown that combining machine learning and quantum chemistry can save time and expense in designing new catalysts. There’s a certain concentration of gas-phase species that come out of the engine. Their study is published in the journal Nature Catalysis.

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DECEMBER 23, 2023

IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Co-Recipients: GRAEME CLARK University of Melbourne Australia BLAKE WILSON Duke University Durham, N.C. VAIDYANATHAN Caltech “For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.”

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.” ALAN BOVIK The University of Texas at Austin "For pioneering high-impact scientific and engineering contributions leading to the perceptually optimized global streaming and sharing of visual media.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

A new study quantifying emissions from a fleet of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines and port fuel injection (PFI) engines finds that the measured decrease in CO 2 emissions from GDIs is much greater than the potential climate forcing associated with higher black carbon emissions from GDI engines.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Applications should focus on innovative materials, manufacturing processes, and/or designs of bipolar plates. This topic seeks to demonstrate the successful production of > 200A, > 800V rated SiC devices that are designed for automotive qualification, and suitable for use in electric drive vehicle traction motor inverters.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

The US National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation ( 14-591 ) for up to $22 million in awards under its Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. The DMREF goal is to control material properties through design. Earlier post.) —NSF 14-591.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The current design optimization process is very time- and labor-intensive.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

IEEE MEDAL FOR INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY Sponsor: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society REBECCA RICHARDS-KORTUM Rice University Houston “For contributions to optical solutions for cancer detection and leadership in establishing the field of global health engineering.” IEEE JACK S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2012

Fisker Atlantic design prototype. Revealed as a design prototype, the Fisker Atlantic is a luxury four-door sporting sedan using the second generation EVer (Electric Vehicle with extended range) technology. The Atlantic design prototype’s glass roof shows off a ridged ‘spider’ structure. Click to enlarge. Atlantic glass roof.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Increasing complexity of vehicle design is driving the need for better simulation and more powerful computers. injector optimization at ORNL); and reduced models for design optimization and control strategies. Low emission, low temperature engine concepts of the future operate in regimes where combustion is poorly understood.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The tool—Transportation State Estimation Capability (TranSEC)—was developed to help urban traffic engineers get access to actionable information about traffic patterns in their cities. Traffic engineers generally have relied on isolated traffic counts, collision statistics and speed data to determine roadway conditions.

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MARCH 20, 2023

My one great advantage has been my access to students and to scientific instruments at the University of Adelaide, where I am a professor of electrical and electronic engineering. In 2009, I established a working group at the university’s Center for Biomedical Engineering. Engineers understand this concept well.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Transportation Statistics Analysis Report – US Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2018). Ciez was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center and Greene is a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2017

Co-Optima’s premise is that current fuels constrain engine design—and thus engine efficiency. Co-Optima’s premise is that current fuels constrain engine design—and thus engine efficiency. The teams are also evaluating the impact of discrete fuel properties on advanced SI engine performance.

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JUNE 14, 2023

SAFD (Speed Acceleration Probability Distribution) Speed Acceleration Frequency Distribution (SAFD) is a statistical concept used to analyze and describe the distribution of acceleration values within a given speed range. This is often achieved using statistical techniques such as probability density functions or kernel density estimation.

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MAY 4, 2011

Cyclone Power Technologies, developer of the external combustion Cyclone Engine, announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed the company a patent on its scalable waste energy recycling engine known as the WHE (Waste Heat Engine). Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 2, 2023

Our high-throughput, single-particle electrochemical platform further opens new frontiers for robust, statistical quantification of individual particles in electrochemical systems. Design and fabrication of multi-electrode arrays (a) Schematic illustration of high-throughput multi-electrode array. —Min et al.

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

Researchers at Caltech and JPL used statistical mechanics to design a polymeric fuel additive that can self-assemble into “megasupramolecules” (≥5000 kg/mol) at low concentration (≤0.3 These polymers interfered with engine operation, however, and their ultralong backbones degraded upon pumping. —Wei et al.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Since the announcement, however, some have also spotted that Tesla may have removed a front-seat airbag from the design, leaving some onlookers with questions. Interestingly, the manual also shows that the design has an additional airbag inside the driver’s seat, which appears to be the same one noticed in China-built Model Y units last year.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The IEEE senior member is an alum of its engineering program and has taught at the university since the mid-1990s. Most important, she says, is increasing the number of women enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs. I think artists are really good at ambiguity, and engineers typically aren’t.

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JULY 29, 2021

Topsoe and Yanchang have designed the plant and ordered long-lead-time equipment; startup is planned for the beginning of 2022. According to statistics from the China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association (CNFIA), in 2019, the installed capacity for methanol production in China reached 89.9

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JANUARY 11, 2010

The 2-cylinder engine is the first of a range that will expand to include 4- and 6-cylinder engines. Ricardo and Cooper Corporation of India launched of the first of a completely new range of Cooper engines at the Delhi Auto Expo. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Among the many topics listed are magnetocaloric materials development for hydrogen delivery; two hydrogen technology transfer opportunities (TTO); EV traction batteries and power electronics; new combustion engine technologies; and the co-utilization of CO 2 and methane in biogas to produce higher hydrocarbon fuels.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The Greenbrier Companies will design a new generation “Tank Car of the Future” for rail transport of hazardous freight, including flammable crude oil and ethanol, that can better withstand the additional demands associated with operating unit trains. —William Furman.

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JUNE 4, 2022

Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Colorful weather maps on TV news programs.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 12, 2021

Statistics on the reach of the Veloz Electric for All ‘40 Million Reasons to Go Electric’ campaign. Participants also mentioned a preference for gas engines, their inability to find the appropriate EV model, their dissatisfaction with EV design, and their unwillingness to make environmental issues a priority.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2020

Though their designs have changed considerably over the past two decades, late-model SUVs still appear to be more likely to kill pedestrians than cars, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found. The number of pedestrians killed by vehicles rose 53% from 2009 to 2018, the latest year for which statistics are available.

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JULY 11, 2011

New M270 gasoline direct injection engine. All transmissions and engines were developed in-house, with production taking place at the plants in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim and -Hedelfingen, Rastatt/Baden, Gaggenau/Baden and Kölleda/Thuringia. Gasoline engines. Click to enlarge. ” —Dr.

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APRIL 13, 2012

The first results of a comprehensive study of the health effects of exposure to new technology diesel engines has found no evidence of gene-damaging effects in the animals studied, and only a few mild effects on the lungs, according to a report issued today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). —Dan Greenbaum, President of HEI.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2012

The study claims mechanical damage and suggests degraded engine performance, emissions and durability on conventional vehicles from the use of E15 or E20 fuel. Three main engine wear mechanisms are impacted by ethanol fuels: abrasive wear, adhesive wear and corrosion. We believe the study is significantly flawed. The CRC test.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

A significant difference in safety that separates many eVTOL designs from traditional aircraft (namely, airplanes and helicopters) is that eVTOLs often don't have a good way of passively generating lift in the event of a power system failure. Some eVTOLs have wings, but those wings are not necessarily designed to facilitate landings.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

coli bacteria are engineered to break down lignin, the tough part of plant cell walls, so it can be fermented into fuel. One of the problems with engineering bacteria for biofuels is that most of the time the process just makes the bacteria sick. What we learned in this research could help us engineer them more intelligently.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That extraordinary feat bodes well for SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket, which is designed to propulsively land humans on the Earth, Moon, Mars, and beyond. Most landing burns are conducted with a single Merlin 1D engine. Any issue with that engine would likely result in a failed landing.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

As a case in point, consider a new wearable mesh health-monitor that does away with the “box and a strap” architecture that is still the industry’s de facto commercial design standard. Gutruf is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the university. Design boosts the wearable’s wearability, its chief advocate says.

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APRIL 2, 2015

The coupé-like design uses Jaguar’s aluminum-intensive (75% aluminum) architecture ( earlier post ) to enable weight savings of up to 190 kg (419 lbs)—making the 163PS diesel model 80 kg (176 lbs) lighter than the nearest competitor—plus an increase in torsional stiffness of up to 28%. Jaguar’s 3.0-liter Jaguar’s 3.0-liter

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MAY 26, 2024

Woebot is designed to have structured conversations through which it delivers evidence-based tools inspired by cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a technique that aims to change behaviors and feelings. These core beliefs strongly influenced both Woebot’s engineering architecture and its product-development process.

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