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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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People have expected great things from Alice Parker , who was raised in a family of distinguished scientists and engineers. And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. It is now available on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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To help find ways to address it through technology, EPICS in IEEE , in partnership with the United Engineering Foundation , launched the Environmental Competition last year. universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities.

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DOE announces EcoCAR 2; focus on electric drive technology

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At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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A Dab of Sunscreen Key To Solar Windows That Last Decades

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A new approach by the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor might dramatically extend the working life of solar windows. Yongxi Li , an assistant research scientist at University of Michigan and first author of the paper in Nature Communications. "If Kan Ding/University of Michigan Engineering.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Raleigh, N.C. Deploying Intra-hour Uncertainty Analysis Tools to ABB's GridView, $500,000 ABB Power Consulting, Raleigh, N.C. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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President Obama announces two new public-private manufacturing innovation institutes; new manufacturing innovation institute competition

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9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. Boeing; Caron Engineering Inc.;

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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But after talking over career options with his friends, he says, he was "pointed in the direction of a good career in Iran" and instead decided to become an electrical engineer. Today the IEEE Life Fellow is CTO of Pryon , a startup in Raleigh, N.C., for 33 years before he joined Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.,

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