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Fontaine Modification offers refrigerated trailer electrification through new strategic alliance with eNow

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The company’s expert technicians will install the systems at its facilities in Charlotte and Statesville, North Carolina; Springfield, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Dublin, Virginia; and Mineral Wells, West Virginia.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. At press time, the results were unofficial until the IEEE Board of Directors accepts the IEEE Teller's Committee report in November.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Virginia Tech. IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Finally, we must make the public more aware of the contributions of engineering to society. Saifur Rahman. Life Fellow Saifur Rahman. Nominated by Petition. Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 I drove that $84,940 CT5-V at the Virginia International Raceway for hour after hour on a scorching summer day, where its all-day stamina and capability were thrown into stark relief. Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Mission to Earth–Moon Lagrange Point by a 6U CubeSat: EQUULEUS ," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. Veysset et al. Funase, et al.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. “The “It’s a little hard to do language research and compiler research without having a machine,” said Mitchell.

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