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Ford Invests $155M in Engine Plant to Support New 3.7L V-6 for Mustang

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Ford Motor Company is investing $155 million at its Cleveland operations to build a new more fuel-efficient V-6 engine for the 2011 Mustang. Opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio, the facility has produced more than 35 million engines. The all-aluminum dual-overhead cam (DOHC), 3.7-liter

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Ford Begins Manufacture of EcoBoost Engines at Cleveland Plant

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1, which becomes the first manufacturing site to build Ford’s new fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines. 1 to build the EcoBoost engine. Approximately 250 employees will form the shift to build the engine. 1 opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio. The plant, idled since 2007, is ramping up pre-production of 3.5-liter

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Ford Begins EcoBoost Engine Production

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Approximately 250 employees are returning to the plant to build the new engines. 1 opened in 1951 as Ford’s first engine plant in Ohio. In 2004, Ford invested $350 million into the plant for redesign and installation of an all-new assembly line as well as block, crankshaft and cylinder head machining lines. Click to enlarge.

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Former Berkeley Dean of Engineering David A. Hodges Dies at 85

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In the six years he worked in the position, he established a team to better manage external relations and completed fundraising for the engineering department’s Soda Hall , a classroom building. The next year he chaired the 2004 European Magnetic Sensors and Actuators Conference. He retired as professor emeritus in 1998.

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

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C (4 °F) since 1991, which most scientists attribute to a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. A 2006 study by Wahr and Velicogna using the GRACE satellite indicated that Greenland lost roughly 684 cubic kilometers (164 cubic miles) of ice from April 2004 to April 2006—more than the volume of water in Lake Erie.

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FAA Awards Contracts for $125M to 5 Companies to Accelerate More Environmentally Friendly Aviation Technology; Renewable Fuels, Engines, Wings and Flight Management

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This flight-test program builds on the success of Boeing’s Quiet Technology Demonstrators, which successfully highlighted a variety of noise reduction technologies during test flights aboard Boeing 777 aircraft from 2001 to 2005. The new core will offer up to 16% better fuel efficiency than GE’s best engines in service today.

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