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JANUARY 12, 2024

Fran Graley Photography IEEE Fellow Mary Ellen Randall Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Randall founded Ascot Technologies in 2000 in Cary, N.C. In 2001 he founded the computational engineering science program at the University of California, Berkeley, and he served as its chair until 2010. He received a Ph.D.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. SNDi for streets added years 2000 to 2014.

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JUNE 7, 2017

A study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) has significantly associated exposure to particulate air pollution after being diagnosed with liver cancer with an increased risk of premature death. The study appears in the International Journal of Cancer. —Deng et al.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

BioSolar’s cathode technology, which has been the primary focus of its university-led research and development efforts, is a novel conductive polymer material that leverages fast redox-reaction properties rather than conventional lithium-ion intercalation chemistry to enable rapid charge and discharge. (The Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Total transportation fuel use in California broken down by subsector and fuel type for each scenario: business-as-usual (BAU); plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs); and combined PEVs and fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Source: Yang et al. Click to enlarge. PHEVs sold in 2050 are primarily large-battery PHEVs (i.e. —Yang et al.

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JULY 24, 2014

According to the US Bureau of Reclamation, the federal water management agency, the basin has been suffering from prolonged, severe drought since 2000 and has experienced the driest 14-year period in the last hundred years. The research was funded by NASA and the University of California.

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MAY 25, 2016

Participant-specific pollutant concentrations averaged over the years 2000–10 ranged from 9.2–22.6 In an accompanying editorial in The Lancet , Dr. Bert Brunekreef, a professor at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, and Dr. Barbara Hoffmann, a professor of the University of Düsseldorf in Germany, described the study as “ exemplary.”

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ozone levels across much of North America and Europe dropped significantly between 2000 and 2014. Source: University of Leicester. Source: University of Leicester. Fleming, National Centre for Atmospheric Science at University of Leicester. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Owen Cooper.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The team, based at the University of California, Irvine, coated gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and encased the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel. Identical capacitors operating in the absence of PMMA exhibited significantly reduced cycle stabilities ranging from 2000 to 8000 cycles. Thai et al.

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MAY 12, 2017

Steel’s strength has multiplied by almost 10 times over the past 20 years, from 270 to 2000 MPa tensile strength. Dr. Roland Geyer developed the University of California Santa Barbara Automotive Materials GHG Comparison Model ( UCSB Model ). Since then, steel has evolved significantly.

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MARCH 11, 2023

It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. ACP looked at other ways of marketing its technology and saw an opportunity in the California electricity crisis then unfolding.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My The first step was a 20-MW experimental fast breeder reactor near Beijing, which was begun in 2000 but took many years to complete and connect to the grid.

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AUGUST 29, 2013

2000 (90% CI: 0–4,000) early deaths from ozone, according to the study. In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking.

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MAY 4, 2016

A study by researchers from the University of Denver and the University of Puget Sound indicates that high-mileage light-duty fleets contribute higher emissions and emissions share than expected based on their actual numbers in the fleet. of the registered vehicles (2000/325000). In their study, Bishop et al.

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JULY 7, 2015

The lead inventors of the technology are UCSB professor Dr. Alan Heeger, the recipient of a Nobel Prize in 2000 for the discovery and development of conductive polymers, and Dr. David Vonlanthen, a project scientist and expert in energy storage at UCSB. Startup BioSolar, Inc. Startup BioSolar, Inc. Both are scientific advisors to BioSolar.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Results from a new study by researchers at the University of California Irvine support a growing body of scientific literature indicating that sensitive populations, including children, certain ethnic groups and people of lower socioeconomic status, are more vulnerable to the effects of high exposures to traffic-related air pollution.

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JULY 20, 2010

Sheehan has spent nearly two decades working on biofuels, including coordinating biofuel research at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment and consulting to clients in biotechnology and renewable energy under the auspices of SheehanBoyce, LLC. San Marino, California-based Viral Genetics discovers drug therapies.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

Current performance data from the company shows demonstrated specific capacity of 900 – 2000 mAh/g, with a 1 st cycle efficiency of 80+ %. XG Sciences’ technologies were developed in large part at the Composite Materials and Structures Center in the Michigan State University College of Engineering.

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APRIL 5, 2023

From researcher to entrepreneur Moore received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1950 from the University of California, Berkeley. also in chemistry, in 1954 from Caltech , he began his career as a researcher in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. After earning his Ph.D.,

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C).

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MARCH 24, 2022

Gerald Estrin led the development of the WEIZAC , the first digital electronic computer made in the Middle East, and he helped found the computer science department at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1985 she joined the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles, as a computer science professor.

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JULY 30, 2021

University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Grosz was also an adjunct engineering professor at Tulane University , also in New Orleans, for two years. PES University , which offers courses, tutorials, and webinars to members. Rahman has received several IEEE awards including the 2000.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

He was also the owner of the California Poppy Porsche 914. Eventually moving to Alameda, California, the manufacturer was later renamed REVO Powertrains. He was pontificating on an all-electric composite Hypercar using rechargeable batteries back in 2000. He’s also a guest scientist at Livermore Labs ” in Livermore, California.

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APRIL 4, 2011

Although Nigeria has reduced flare gas emissions by 28% from 2000 levels, the country’s oil industry still wastes 15bcm of natural gas every year. —David Victor, director of the Laboratory on International Law & Regulation at the University of California San Diego.

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JUNE 23, 2012

Projected sea-level rise off California, Oregon, and Washington for 2030 (blue), 2050 (green), and 2100 (pink), relative to 2000, as a function of latitude. Sea levels off Washington, Oregon, and northern California will likely rise less, about 60 centimeters over the same period of time.

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MAY 18, 2009

Jacobson first showed in 2000 that black carbon was the second-leading cause of global warming after carbon dioxide in terms of radiative forcing and, in 2002, that its control was the most effective method of slowing warming. Earlier post.). C increased Arctic warming from 1890 to 2007. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Genomatica was founded in 2000 by research scientists from the University of California at San Diego. The company is now developing the process engineering plans for a demonstration plant to bio-manufacture BDO; Genomatica expects to initiate construction of the plant later this year.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

In partnership with a consortium of local research institutions, this project deploy smart grid systems at partners’ university campus properties and technology transfer laboratories. 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. (DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). 25,000,000. 16,080,554.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in mathematical engineering and instrumentation physics from the University of Tokyo in 1968, 1970, and 1978, respectively. Department of Defense that leverages the research and expertise of faculty, staff, and student researchers from more than 20 collaborating universities.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. About Rory Cooper Employer Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February also saw the publication of a Los Angeles Times interview with US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu ( earlier post ), in which he voiced concern that the effects of climate change could decimate California’s agriculture as well as its urban water supplies. ” California is currently in its third year of serious drought.

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JANUARY 24, 2006

Nothing has to be invented to produce a plug-in hybrid vehicle,” says Dr. Andrew Frank, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of California at Davis and Director of the UCD Hybrid Electric Research Center. consumers purchased more than 200,000 hybrid vehicles, which have grown from two models in 2000 to 11 models today.

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APRIL 23, 2022

from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. from the University of Utah , joined the center in 1978, he immediately began work on a new printer protocol. Thereupon the typical PARC engineer would simplify the image. But when Warnock, a computer scientist with a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. s PDP-11 minicomputer. New versions landed on best-seller charts.

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OCTOBER 11, 2014

The permissible limit for NO x emissions from diesel cars declined from 500 milligrams per kilometer (mg/km) under Euro 3 (effective January 2000) to 80 mg/ km under Euro 6 (effective September 2014). This means that NO x emissions from new diesel cars in the EU should be about 85% lower than 15 years ago.

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APRIL 21, 2009

California Air Resources Board studies show that battery electric vehicles emit at least 67% lower greenhouse gases than gasoline cars -- even more assuming renewables. Cost increments for a plug-in hybrid compact vehicle will be 10-20% more than a regular hybrid: $2000-3000 extra for a sedan; $5000 for an SUV. The GREET 1.6

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Availability begins in Spring 2014 at several Southern California Hyundai dealers. The first four Hyundai dealers to offer the Tucson Fuel Cell to Southern California customers are Hardin Hyundai in Anaheim; Win Hyundai in Carson; Keyes Hyundai in Van Nuys; and Tustin Hyundai, with additional Hyundai dealers to follow.

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