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JULY 19, 2011

General Motors will invest €20 million (US$28 million) in the company’s Powertrain Engineering Center in Torino throughout the next four years. This amount comes on top of the initial investment of €30 million (US$43 million) when the center was founded in 2005. The Engineering Center now employees more than 460 people.

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MAY 28, 2024

Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. Kroemer taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado , Boulder, from 1968 to 1976 before joining UCSB , where he led the university’s semiconductor research program.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

Naval architecture and marine engineering company Foreship will lend its expertise to EDP CNET’s in depth knowledge of electrical markets to ensure the Current Direct platform targets optimal vessels and locations maximizing reductions in emissions. Contact CurrentDirect@spearps.com to learn more.

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JUNE 28, 2012

Six research teams from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won a share of $1.16 Engineering the right fuel for sustainable transportation. Principal investigators: Margaret Wooldridge, U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering; He Lin, SJTU Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. This is an important step in the reduction of the airline’s carbon emissions towards the industry targets of carbon neutral growth from 2020 and a 50% reduction by 2050 from 2005 levels.

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JULY 14, 2016

The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. In other words, while the use of GDI engines can reduce CO 2 , it also can increase BC—contributing to further warming.

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MAY 12, 2023

He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Three years later, while working at the IAF, he was named an honorary professor in the University of Freiburg physics department. He coauthored the seminal 2005 textbook Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. The teams also designed a reliable process to mix and control hydrogen and biogas, and use together as an efficient energy source.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

holds a part of a stoplight that utilizes a newer LED designed by his students. a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93. He retired from the university in 2013. Pioneering research at the University of Illinois. Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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JUNE 5, 2014

Mats Johansson at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology says the work is about improving the mechanical properties of batteries so that it not only stores energy but is part of the design. Emile Greenhalgh, project coordinator, at Imperial College London, was demonstrated by researchers at the US Army Research Lab in 2005.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

He was instrumental in increasing the school's involvement in silicon integrated circuit design. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. She taught the first VLSI system design course at the school.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

Based in Palo Alto, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA, Aurora designs and builds self-driving technology, partnering with automakers to integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms into vehicles. Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Global-mean temperature change caused by car exhaust emitted from gasoline and diesel engines specified in the previous and upcoming European vehicle emission standards (EURO 3, 4, 5, and 6). After the UK had begun taxing vehicles according to CO 2 emissions, the share of registered new diesel cars increased from 26% in 2002 to 38% in 2005.

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JUNE 24, 2013

liter Isuzu diesel engine, demonstrates a 35% fuel efficiency improvement over traditional vehicles in the FedEx Express fleet. This conversion not only reduces fuel consumption and emissions, but will also extend the engine life in fleet vehicles by supplementing the necessary power with their hybrid-electric drive train.

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JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. She is the company’s CEO.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Jobs designed it to be a curved structure without a straight piece of glass. Jobs was not an engineer, an IT professional, or even a college graduate. Engineers, IT professionals, and business executives can learn valuable lessons by studying his career. Focus on design. Good design is the hallmark of most Apple products.

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JUNE 4, 2009

RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are investigating mechanisms for extending the efficiency of combustion engines closer to their theoretical potential.

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APRIL 17, 2022

Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., Engineering wasn’t Madni’s first choice of profession.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility. Almost every airliner designed and built since the advent of jet travel in the 1950s has been equipped with an APU, which is located in the tapered tail cone section of the rear fuselage.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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JULY 8, 2018

In addition, through their joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation, Daimler and Tsinghua University since 2012 have supported research projects related to sustainable transportation in a China-specific road environment. Daimler’s local R&D efforts in China began in 2005 with the first localized Mercedes-Benz E?Class.

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MARCH 16, 2011

This is RPSEA’s fourth ultra-deepwater RFP release under the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Research and Development Program that was established by the Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Appraisal and development geosciences and reservoir engineering.

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JUNE 6, 2017

Both DOE and NIFA have been given statutory authorities to support the development of a biomass-based industry in the United States, under the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The BRDI program is designed to support near-term commercial systems.

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MARCH 7, 2013

The “H2USA” name was used before by DOE in a program that began in 2005 to develop hydrogen technology learning centers at universities within the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) hydrogen project area.). Composite Technology Development, Inc. Nextgen Aeronautics, Inc.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Alamy A century and a half after von Kempelen’s charade, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo debuted El Ajedrecista (The Chessplayer), a true chess-playing automaton. Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Its Definition.

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MAY 16, 2012

more fuel efficient through FY2011 than it was in 2005. Acceleration of its efforts in fuel conservation through the purchase of vehicles with right-sized engines such as the Sprinter vans manufactured by Mercedes-Benz. FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp., announced that its vehicle fleet was 16.6% pick-up and delivery fleet.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

OXIS Energy is the lead partner in a collaboration with Lotus Engineering, Imperial College London and Cranfield University to develop a Lithium-sulfur vehicle battery and Energy System Controller (ESC). OXIS Energy was founded in 2005. During its first phase, the company invested heavily in design and development.

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JUNE 30, 2023

As a child, Alberto Moreira discovered his passion for electronics from the kits for exploring science, technology, engineering, and mathematics that his father bought him every month. in engineering at the Technical University of Munich. Having students and engineers work together on large-scale projects is a dream come true.”

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APRIL 9, 2015

Since FY 2005, the hydrogen storage effort has been conducted under the framework of the National Hydrogen Storage Project. A new effort starting in FY 2009 is the 5-year Hydrogen Storage Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) that will provide a coordinated approach to the engineering R&D of on-board materials-based systems.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Katsumata joined Toyota in 1987 after graduating with a degree in hydrodynamics from Tokyo University. He started his career as a chassis engineer before making the shift to product planning in 1993 and product management in 2000. In 2007, an additional 35,000 m 2 were added to house the expanded design and engineering functions.

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JULY 8, 2018

In addition, through their joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation, Daimler and Tsinghua University since 2012 have supported research projects related to sustainable transportation in a China-specific road environment. Daimler’s local R&D efforts in China began in 2005 with the first localized Mercedes-Benz E?Class.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. In April 1999, the Israeli company M-Systems filed a patent application titled “Architecture for a Universal Serial Bus-based PC flash disk.”

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APRIL 30, 2023

his best friend, Steve Crocker , wrangled permission for the two to occasionally use a Bendix G-15 computer at the University of California, Los Angeles. They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I and University College London. “It was weird, but I was mesmerized.”

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JULY 10, 2019

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Argonne National Laboratory. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc.,

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