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Latest GHG Inventory shows California remains below 2020 emissions target; much steeper rate of GHG reductions required

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The California Air Resources Board released GHG emissions data for 2018 showing that emissions remain below 1990 levels but are effectively flat compared to 2017, while the economy grew by 4.3%. Total statewide 2018 GHG emissions were 425.3 million metric tons between 2017 and 2018, the first such decline since 2013.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

Cars That Think

The IEEE Life Fellow is credited with working out how best to isolate parts of the power grid to prevent the entire grid from going down. Vijay Vittal receives the 2018 Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award from then president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, Saifur Rahman. He continues to work with both bodies.

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Union College Partners with EV Connect to Provide EV Charging for Faculty, Staff, and Students

EV Connect

As electric vehicle adoption soars and students across the country return to in-person learning, Union College, seeks to have their nine new (mid-2019) dual port EV charging stations around campus continue to be utilized by faculty, staff and student EV drivers.

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Getting More Students to Develop Tech That Benefits Society

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The professor is the recipient of this year’s IEEE John von Neumann Medal for “leadership in mobile and wireless sensing systems technologies and applications, including personal health management.” She left USC in 2000 to join UCLA and founded the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. The award is sponsored by IBM.

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Going with the talent flow

Electric Auto Association

Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association members take part in a Fourth of July parade in Eugene, Oregon. Resiliency in advocacy When the pandemic started and EVEVA in-person events were curtailed, “I was concerned about how we would keep our community outreach advocacy going,” Baum remarked. Everyone was looking for human contact.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

Cars That Think

That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. But the industry had yet to mass-produce its own chips beyond basic integrated circuits such as CMOS watch chips, in large part due to a lack of semiconductor specialists. Their view of what it means to be an engineer changed profoundly and permanently.

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Human Horizons aims to be more than just an EV startup in China

China EV

We met in the early 2000’s when he was design director at the Pan-Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC), the SAIC-GM joint venture design and engineering center in Shanghai. Human Horizons has three parts, Shyr says: The smart car, the smart road, and the smart city. It was publicly introduced on October 22, 2018 in Shanghai.

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