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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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JULY 8, 2018

Daimler has already obtained automated driving test licenses in Germany and the US, and has continuously pushed forward automated driving development in China, working together with its local partners to adapt its technologies to China’s traffic environment for consistently improving the safety of all road users as its first concern.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The headquarters will be located in Silicon Valley near Stanford University, with a second facility to be located near MIT. The investment is in addition to the $50 million investment over the next five years with MIT and Stanford to establish joint fundamental artificial intelligence research centers at each university.

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JULY 7, 2022

Agrawal found solace in advocacy and support organizations in London after moving there in 2005. She went on to form her own groups and lead diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at the universities she worked for in London and Sydney. She joined City, University of London , as a research fellow working on computational photonics.

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Fuel cell durability has doubled and the amount of expensive platinum needed in fuel cells has fallen by 80% since 2005. These projects include: Center for Transportation and the Environment ($3 million DOE investment): Based in Atlanta, Ga.,

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JULY 8, 2018

Daimler has already obtained automated driving test licenses in Germany and the US, and has continuously pushed forward automated driving development in China, working together with its local partners to adapt its technologies to China’s traffic environment for consistently improving the safety of all road users as its first concern.

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MAY 15, 2023

She was promoted in 2005 to head the agency’s regulatory and market environment division , managing programs on regulatory reform, economics, and finance. Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development , where she served as executive director, advocating for universal, affordable broadband.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Quantitative use of this indicator ratio is subject to three major uncertainties: (1) the split between NO x -limited and NO x -saturated conditions may shift in space and time, (2) the ratio of the vertically integrated column may not represent the near-surface environment, and (3) satellite products contain errors. Click to enlarge.

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Jiang, who conducted much of the research during a postdoctoral fellowship at NCAR, is now with the University of Science and Technology of China. Nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide contribute to the formation of ground-level ozone, a pollutant that is harmful to human health and the environment. —Jiang et al.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Although China and India remain the world’s largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China’s sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75% since 2007, while India’s emissions increased by 50%. Illustration: Chris McLinden, Environment and Climate Change Canada. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009

A consortium comprising researchers from the University of Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with BioCee , a University of Minnesota start-up company as the commercialization partner, has been awarded $2.2 Earlier post.). The bioreactor will use biocatalytic coatings—bacteria embedded in a thin latex coating.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Ford, in conjunction with the University of Michigan and State Farm, unveiled a Ford Fusion Hybrid automated research vehicle that will be used to make progress on future autonomous driving and other advanced technologies. State Farm and the University of Michigan’s robotics and automation research team are critical to Ford research project.

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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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AUGUST 17, 2012

The 2005 amendment of Directive 1999/32/EC required that, as of January 2010, all ships at berth or at anchor in European harbors use fuels with a sulfur content of less. Raes (2012) Impact of a European directive on ship emissions on air quality in Mediterranean harbors, Atmospheric Environment doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.06.047.

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MARCH 27, 2010

Terry Yonkers, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment and Logistics. The company’s camelina breeding program began in 2005 and has steadily expanded to include more than 140 trials across North America from 2005-2009. The company also has several field trials in Washington State.

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JULY 10, 2019

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to promote promising energy technologies. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Advanced Flow Meter for Extreme Environments (AFMEE), $100,000 MicroNuclear LLC, Franklin, Tenn. Combustion Research & Flow Technology Inc., Pipersville, Pa. New York, N.Y. El Centro, Calif.

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Guardian is a high-level driver assist system, constantly monitoring the driving environment inside and outside the vehicle, ready to alert the driver of potential dangers and stepping in when needed to assist in crash avoidance. Basically, it is a smart vehicle designed to get smarter over time. The company secured its first U.S.

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JULY 1, 2014

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Hawaii have provided direct experimental evidence for the validity of a proposed mechanism for the first step in the process that transforms gas-phase molecules into solid particles such as soot and other carbon-based compounds.

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MARCH 8, 2010

The dashed blue line is 2005 emissions; the scale on the right shows the percent of 2005 level. Direct transportation (fuel) taxes generate the greatest reductions in CO 2 emission from transportation, achieving CO 2 emissions at 86% of 2005 levels by about 2025. Source: Morrow et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Apple built systems encompassing hardware and software, closely aligning the device and its operating environment to optimize system performance. His legacy extends beyond the technology and computing worlds into other businesses.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A new study from University of Michigan researchers challenges the assumption that crop-based biofuels such as corn ethanol and biodiesel are inherently carbon-neutral—i.e., that only production-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be tallied when comparing them to fossil fuels. —John DeCicco.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. Left: Evan Ackerman; Right: XPrize Foundation In addition to perceiving the remote environment, the operator had to efficiently and effectively control the robot.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) this week will demonstrate the CMU advanced Autonomous Cadillac SRX in Washington, DC. NSF has supported Rajkumar’s work on autonomous vehicles since 2005, but it is not the only project of this kind that NSF supports. 2014) Click to enlarge. BOSS at the Urban Challenge. Autonomous SRX.

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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., 1969, and M.S., 1969, and M.S., Asad Madni.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

A paper by researchers at the University of Minnesota, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology , projects GHG mitigation strategies for Minnesota, which has adopted a strategic goal of 80% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2050. Earlier version of study, earlier post.).

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The increase in global energy demands, diminution of fossil fuels , and its harmful effects on the environment have attracted the use of lignocellulosic biomass as an alternative sustainable source for chemicals, materials, and liquid fuels. Dr. Gogoi is also Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Nowgong College in Assam, India.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. trillion liters between 2005 and 2008, whereas US bioethanol production has increased only 133% from 15 to 34 billion liters during the same period. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Other findings show that from 2001 – 2005, the basin’s climate grew even hotter, increasing by an average of 0.71 °C. This hotter weather led to a spike in extreme climate events and flooding across the Yangtze basin, a trend that is expected to become increasingly dire over the next 50 years.

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JULY 17, 2011

A study by a team from the State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum found that fluid thermal processing of. In 2005, the company acquired some 261 square kilometers of exploration rights and expects to generate an estimated 150,000 tons of oil-sands derived crude oil annually from the site.

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MAY 30, 2011

Research from the Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California at Davis (ITS-Davis) suggests it will take more than a reasonable price and good information to get consumers to make more sustainable transportation choices, such as the purchase of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Will they save the environment?

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The last official UNFCCC meeting prior to the 15 th Congress ended 6 November in Barcelona, and environment ministers have been shuttling in and out of Copenhagen since then to conduct ad hoc negotiations prior to the summit. ” —British Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, summing up the historical significance of COP 15. ºF) increase.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

DeCicco, formerly on staff at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment. Note that even in 2005, 183–208 TgCO 2 e would have been missed under a cap set at the 2005 level.

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APRIL 30, 2023

arranged a visit to a Semi-Automatic Ground Environment computer center. 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. and University College London. universities. in Santa Monica, Calif., Cerf recalls asking.

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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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Transport models are uncertain ,” says Stephanie Ewing, lead author of the paper and an assistant professor of pedology and soil biogeochemistry at Montana State University. The scientists also applied this analysis to archived air samples taken from urban sites in central California between 2003 and 2005. Brown, Richard A. Technol. ,

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The onroad systems include three automobiles—(2005 Toyota Camry), SUV (2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer), and pickup (2005 Ford F-150) to represent the range in the US automobile fleet and critical performance—and two urban buses with off-peak and peak passenger loadings. Chester and Horvath (2009). Click to enlarge.

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