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JULY 11, 2011

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected eight new projects to further advanced coal research under the University Coal Research Program. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. DOE Share: $300,000).

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MAY 1, 2024

In 1912, Oskar von Miller , an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum , had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? Eventually, they agreed, and under the guidance of lead engineer Walther Bauersfeld , Zeiss created something amazing.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

University chapters are the lifeblood of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu , the organization’s honor society. There are 269 chapters at universities worldwide. Support provided by universities to chapters varies widely, however—which can limit activities. A strong chapter helps ensure that members have a fulfilling experience.

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JANUARY 2, 2022

I live in Seattle and I’ve traveled to Florida and the water has always been crystal clear,” said Sutandar, who arrived in the U.S with a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “In Jing, Sutandar, and Fa (holding company mascot) at Purdue University. Seattle came up on top.”

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JULY 31, 2019

A team at the University of Delaware has demonstrated a direct ammonia fuel cell (DAFC) prototype with a peak power density of 135 mW cm -2 at 80 ?C. The DAFC employs an ammonia-tolerant precious-metal-free cathode catalyst (Acta 4020) and a high-temperature-stable hydroxide exchange membrane (HEM).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Seattle, Washington-based EnerG2 ( earlier post ) recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new manufacturing facility for electric vehicle battery components in Albany, Oregon. Supported in part by $21.3 Supported in part by $21.3

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JUNE 6, 2015

Virginia Tech and the University of Waterloo took second and third place respectively. As part of the EcoCAR 3 Competition, each university team chose a different innovation that they will incorporate into their competition vehicle. Yatsko, OSU Engineering Manager. —Al Oppenheiser, Chevrolet Camaro Vehicle Chief Engineer.

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MARCH 27, 2010

Sustainable Oils, a producer of renewable, low carbon and domestically produced camelina-based fuels, provided the hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel used to create the 50-50 HRJ8-JP8 blend used in an all-engine biofuel flight test in a US Air Force A-10C Thunderbolt II. Earlier post.). B-roll of the test flight.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2011

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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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The institute builds on a history of successful partnerships between the UW and the PNNL, including joint faculty appointments and past collaborations such as the Materials Synthesis and Simulations Across Scales Initiative, the PNNL-led Battery 500 consortium and a new UW-based Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC) Center.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It premiered at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival and won Best Documentary Short at the 2016 U.N. The Institute spoke with Kleiman, who teaches Internet technology and governance for lawyers at American University , in Washington, D.C., It delves into the women’s lives and the pioneering work they did.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

will design and develop a new more-efficient engine and advanced drivetrain and vehicle technologies. will design and develop a vehicle and powertrain with electrified engine components that can enable higher engine efficiency and a significantly more aerodynamically reengineered cab. Ohio State University. Navistar, Inc.

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

Researchers at Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities have developed a catalytic process to convert corn stover lignin into hydrocarbons (C 7 –C 18 )—primarily C 12 –C 18 cyclic structure hydrocarbons in the jet fuel range. The work is featured on. the cover of the December issue of the RSC journal Green Chemistry. Tucker, John R.

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MAY 27, 2010

Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) have developed a computer model for finding and projecting in time sunken oil masses on the bottom of bays after a spill. —James Englehardt, UM professor of environmental engineering in the College of Engineering and team leader for the project.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Seattle-based. University of Washington. Before the company’s founding, the university team had collaborated with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers. Matt Moynihan , a former nuclear engineer for the Navy and a fusion consultant. But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. They won a series of U.S.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Seattle, Washington-based EnerG2 , a seven-year-old company focused on introducing advanced nano-structured materials for next-generation energy storage, broke ground on its first facility dedicated to the commercial-scale production of synthetic high-performance carbon electrode material for use in ultracapacitor energy storage devices.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Two geoscience faculty members at The University of Montana (UM) have started a partnership with Blue Marble Biomaterials to produce commercial products from algal biomass. Stephens says UM’s favorable attitude toward industry partnerships was one factor in the decision to move the company from Seattle to Missoula in 2010.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Grab will open an R&D center in Jakarta and target hiring 150 engineers over the next two years. To equip Indonesian engineers with globally competitive skills, Grab will provide training opportunities at its R&D centers in Singapore, Beijing and Seattle. million commuters in greater Jakarta.

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MARCH 22, 2022

Albert Cheng , a professor of computer science and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston , is developing a smartphone app to help them do that. He is currently piloting the app in Houston and Seattle. Albert Cheng The app was supported with a grant from Cheng’s university.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

Vard Group is part of NuProShip , a consortium of the Norwegian maritime authority, universities, shipbuilders, and shipping companies that aims to develop a Generation IV reactor for marine vessels. Seen here near the port of Seattle, in 1962, the NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship.

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MAY 27, 2016

—NIST systems engineer Kevin Lyons, who chaired the ASTM committee that developed the manufacturing sustainability standard.

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JUNE 2, 2014

The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) contracted with the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions at West Virginia University to conduct in-use testing of three light-duty diesel vehicles (two 2.0L On-road emissions testing was performed with the engine and after-treatment in warmed-up condition (i.e.

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JULY 20, 2021

Consumers are simply paying to be test engineers for developing technology without adequate safety protection,” he said. . Missy Cummings, an automation expert who is director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, noted that FSD Beta V9 still has fundamental problems. . Nothing special.

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MARCH 11, 2023

In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. AC Propulsion’s president, Tom Gage, explains the company’s vehicle-to-grid technology at a 2001 conference in Seattle. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2010

An updated life cycle analysis of the carbon footprint of camelina-based biojet fuel found that the renewable fuel reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 75% compared to traditional petroleum-based jet fuel, according to a study by researchers from Michigan Tech University (MTU), Targeted Growth and UOP LLC, a Honeywell company.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Reducing emissions from diesel engines and domestic wood and coal fires is a no-brainer, as there are tandem health and climate benefits. —co-author Professor Piers Forster from the University of Leeds’s School of Earth and Environment in the United Kingdom. Bond et al.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

His research at Toronto’s University Health Network has made major breakthroughs in understanding the absorption and use of oxygen by the body. In 2004, together with other physicians and engineers, he created a company to develop solutions based on his innovations. Joe Fisher is devoted to the light side of human ingenuity, medicine.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

TGI), Inventure Chemical (Inventure) and Washington State University (WSU), will benefit from $2 million in funding through WSU as part of the 2010 Senate Energy and Water Development appropriations bill. Washington State University is a leader in fostering the development of biofuels. Earlier post.)

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JUNE 3, 2012

The research was undertaken by an international team of scientists from the Earth System Science and Climate Change Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre; The Netherlands, The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute of Energy and Climate Research–System (..)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Overall challenges include 20+ ship classes; 107 diesel engine models; 7 gas turbine models; 3 boiler models; and operational issues. Sustainable Oils leverages biotechnology resources from its Seattle-based agricultural biotech parent company Targeted Growth. Navy Energy Perspectives (June 2009).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Now, a study conducted by the University of California Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC) concludes that car2go’s carsharing model can complement existing mass transit options; reduces the overall number of vehicles on the road; and ultimately improves mobility in densely-populated urban areas.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Binghamton University (State University of New York). Binghamton University (State University of New York). City of Seattle.

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AUGUST 15, 2015

A team at the University of Washington (Seattle) led by Dr. Venkat Subramanian has developed an approach that helps solve battery models without knowing the exact initial conditions and without having to use a Newton Raphson iteration (a method for finding successively better approximations of a real-valued function) or a nonlinear solver.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

He eventually discovered biomedical engineering and was inspired to focus his career on developing assistive technology. These days, Cooper and his team at the University of Pittsburgh ’s Human Engineering Research Laboratories are working to develop advancements including a wheelchair that can travel on rough terrain.

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JUNE 2, 2022

candidate at Stony Brook University conducting research with the Electrochemical Energy Storage group at Brookhaven Lab, was originally studying how an additive, lithium difluorophosphate (LiPO 2 F 2 ), could be used to improve low-temperature performance of batteries. Sha Tan, a co-first author and Ph.D. Shadike, Z.,

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AUGUST 4, 2021

"We are set up to rapidly enter a disaster zone and very quickly collect the data before it's cleaned up as part of rescue and recovery," says RAPID director Joe Wartman , a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, where RAPID is based. "In

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JUNE 26, 2021

Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado).

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