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BMW’s GM of battery cell technology joins Wildcat Discovery’s board

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Dr. Lamp received his MSc in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1989. After a short period as project leader for fuel cell systems at Webasto Thermo Systems International GmbH, he joined BMW AG in 2001 as a development engineer for fuel cell systems. In 1993, he obtained his PhD in general physics.

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Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

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Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He left Compaq in 2001 to join Google in Mountain View, Calif., as a software engineer.

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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In 2001, a team of engineers at a then-obscure R&D company called AC Propulsion quietly began a groundbreaking experiment. They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. For the utilities, it promised an economical way of meeting rising demand for electricity.

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Empa and partners exploring DME as fuel with new heavy-duty test engine

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An electrically driven compressor for precise exhaust gas recirculation is also used. The experimental engine runs stable in all engine load ranges, produces practically no soot particles and significantly lower NO x values than a diesel. In addition, the valves and valve seat inserts were converted to materials suitable for DME.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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He recently left Samsung to continue his work in the field at Korea University , in Seoul, leading the school’s speech and language processing laboratory. An end-to-end neural network would complete all the tasks and “greatly simplify speech-recognition systems,” he says. university because he felt it would give him more opportunities.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. It later became the chemistry of choice for early electric cars including the 2008 Tesla Roadster. Nobel Laureate John B. patent , shortly before his 100th birthday.

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The James Webb Space Telescope was a Career-Defining Project for Janet Barth

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She joined the center as a co-op student and retired in 2014 as chief of its electrical engineering division. Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her.

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