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Volkswagen and Faurecia delivering PPE to New York City Javits Center and area hospitals

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Volkswagen of America and Faurecia are collaborating to manufacture Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) items needed on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis response.

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AI Tool for COVID Monitoring Offers Solution for Urban Congestion

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. By exploring these different trends, we were trying to better understand if there are new patterns during and after the lockdown.” Historically, researchers might need to actually go to the site and measure the distance.

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NYU review study suggests potential for gauging health risks of air pollution on individual level

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The level of practical use of these personal monitoring methods has not yet been developed to the point of directly impacting policy (e.g., There are challenges in enabling policies that limit personal exposures, but the likely improvements in health and welfare are potentially massive. —Caplin et al. billion a year.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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Woods was endowed with intellectual gifts that allowed him, despite no formal engineering study, to become one of the most prolific U.S. inventors in electrical and mechanical engineering during the late 19th century. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. Who was Granville T.

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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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Laker worked with the IEEE Board of Directors in the early 1990s to purchase personal computers for the organization’s leaders to make it easier to conduct IEEE business via the Internet. Later, he led the creation of the IEEE Virtual Museum (now the Engineering and Technology History Wiki ), an online repository of educational content.

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Attendance at IEEE’s STEM Summer Camp Breaks Records

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First offered in 2018, the summer camp program gives teens an opportunity to explore a variety of engineering disciplines through hands-on design challenges, field trips, industry speakers, and more. The first of two sessions held at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the new camp locations, sold out well before the enrollment deadline.

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Virtual Reality Helps Students Improve Their Math Literacy

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She also served in executive positions in Boston public schools , New York City public schools , and Success Academy charter schools, also in New York City. Traveling and having a personal connection to Prisms VR customers,” she says, “has been really valuable in designing and updating the modules.”