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Williams’ expertise in simulation originates in Formula One where the Williams Formula One teams’ drivers have been using sophisticated simulators since 2002. Williams’ simulator technology will also help test public acceptance to driverless vehicles.
increase is the largest one-year increase since 2002, when expenditures increased 14.5% Between FY 2002 and 2009, FFRDC expenditures increased an average of 5% each year, with the exception of a brief stall in FY 2006. Federal funding accounted for 97.3% ($16.4 billion) of the FFRDC’s total expenditures in FY 2010.
Zipcar has introduced a 2014 Honda Fit battery electric vehicle (EV) at The University of California, Davis’ (UC Davis) West Village , the largest planned zero net energy community in the United States. In the course of a year, the community is designed to generate as much energy as it consumes.
At the same time, fuel cell durability has doubled, expensive platinum content has been reduced by a factor of five, and the cost of fuel cells has already fallen 80% since 2002. Eaton Corporation, Kettering University, Ballard Power Systems, and Electricore, Inc., 3M Company, up to $3.1 Eaton Corporation, up to $2.1
The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to control systems technology, was awarded to the development team of engineers: David Germann, Dejan Kihas, Daniel Pachner, Jaroslav Pekar, Greg Stewart, and Francesco Borrelli, who is now an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California-Berkeley.
Since 2002, Bloom has been awarded 19 patents for its solid oxide electrolyzer technology. —Jack Brouwer, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC) at the University of California, Irvine. million hydrogen cars by 2040. —Jason Ahn.
Rural vehicle miles traveled (VMT) increased from 884 billion miles in 1991 to 1,127 billion miles in 2002, an increase of 27%. The average daily number of vehicles per lane on rural roads increased from 378 in 1991 to 491 in 2002, for an increase of 30%. Distance traveled. Traffic volume.
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Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. Earlier post.).
Using advanced computational fluid dynamics software developed by the University of Wisconsin, BRP crafted the entire engine around the moment of combustion and developed the first outboard engine block designed specifically for direct-injection technology.
The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 The seven awards bring the total number of GCEP-supported research programs to 117 since the project’s launch in 2002. The new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe.
BMW’s software development department was established in 2002 and is now located in Mountain View (USA), Lisbon and Porto (Portugal), Munich and Ulm (Germany), Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing (China), with more than 8,000 software specialists worldwide.
The newly appointed Industry Advisory Board members include: Dr. Walter Bryzik, DeVlieg chairman and professor of mechanical engineering at Wayne State University, retired chief scientist of TARDEC—responsible for all aspects of ground vehicle technology—and the 2004 winner of the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award. Earlier post.).
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“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.
Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and Mayor of New York City, 2002-2013. The agreement includes: In partnership with Ford, developing a universal data standard for real-time curb demand and availability.With this tool, cities will be able to responsibly price and manage curb space in real-time, for the first time.
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutants, especially O 3 (ozone), is significantly associated with increasing emphysema, according to a new study led by the University of Washington, Columbia University and the University at Buffalo. This work in the MESA Air study was led at the University of Washington.
GKN Automotive has pioneered advanced eDrive technologies since 2002.GKN GKN Automotive is also collaborating with Drive System Design and the University of Nottingham on an £8-million (US$10-million) project to design and develop the world’s lightest and most efficient electric vehicle powertrain suitable for the volume market.
The University of California, Davis announced the appointment of Professor Nicole Woolsey Biggart of the university’s Graduate School of Management to the Chevron Chair in Energy Efficiency. and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management in 2002. She served as dean of the management school from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2009.
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A new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan compared regulated and unregulated emissions from both light-duty passenger car (1.7 L/2002 calibration and 6.4 For the study, they used a GM 2002 1.7 Panels show (a) PM 2.5 , (b) elemental carbon (EC), (c) NO x , (d) CO, (e) formaldehyde, and (f) sum of target VOCs.
The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley, announced that the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) is merging with the California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH). ITS is the organized research unit that houses both research centers.
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million worth of taxes for every day since he became a US citizen in 2002 or about $1 million worth of taxes per day since he started studying business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania way back in 1992. . Musk effectively became a US citizen in 2002, or about 20 years ago.
a fuel economy penalty), according to a new report by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). On a related note, the average adult in the US in 2002 was about 24 pounds heavier than in 1960, resulting in a reduction in fuel economy of up to about 0.5%.). loading). (On
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to installation in the Aqua satellite, launched in 2002. & M University at last week’s American Geophysical Union conference in. NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument prior. Source: NASA. Click to enlarge. The findings were presented by climatologist Andrew Dessler of Texas A. San Francisco.
After his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, Peter Mertens studied production technology at Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Between 1985 and 1990, he was head of the technology transfer department at the University of Kaiserslautern, where he gained a doctorate in engineering.
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The team, which includes researchers from Denmark’s Technical Institute’s National Space Institute in Copenhagen and University of Colorado at Boulder, combined the uplift measured by GRACE over United Kingdom-sized chunks of Greenland, while the GPS receivers monitored crustal uplift on scales of just tens of miles. “ millimeters (0.02
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Speaking to the Canadian Parliament, David Barber, Research Chair in Arctic System Science at the University of Manitoba, reported on a recent icebreaker expedition in the Beaufort Sea which found almost no multiyear ice in the area. At one point, the expedition found a 16-kilometer (10-mile) wide, 6 to 8 meter thick multiyear ice floe.
Frank Figge of Queen’s University Belfast and Dr. Tobias Hahn of Euromed Management School Marseille. The research project was undertaken by researchers working at Euromed Management School Marseille, Queen’s University Belfast and IZT—Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin.
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