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AUGUST 22, 2016

The move is part of an expansion of an innovative program designed to drive the future of mobility, announced the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the U-M Mobility Transformation Center. Several students continued work over the summer as Zendrive interns. Earlier this year, Zendrive secured $13.5

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MAY 9, 2017

Toyota established the annual program in 2000 in commemoration of Toyota’s receipt of the Global 500 Award in 1999 from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); this year marks the program’s 18 th year. 2016 Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program Recipients. BirdLife International Tokyo. Grant Category.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environmental signals such as cellular and Wi-Fi, rather than the Global Positioning System (GPS). Kassas (2016) “ Signals of Opportunity Aided Inertial Navigation ”. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The study was independently reviewed by expert representatives from Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Argonne National Lab, and thinkstep to establish conformance with International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the globally recognized benchmark for standard setting. Based on EPA’s GHG equivalencies calculator and 6.2

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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JULY 15, 2019

A 2016 study by Professor Maher and colleagues found abundant magnetite nanoparticles in brain tissue; magnetite is toxic and has been implicated in the production of reactive oxygen species (free radicals) in the human brain, which are associated with neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.

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JUNE 23, 2016

The learning center represents Toyota’s commitment to the environment as it adds a greater learning element to the Toyota Biotope, a habitat of living organisms spanning over 96,000 square meters. Toyota has launched the Toyota Biodiversity and Sustainability Learning Center “Cheewa Panavet” at the Toyota Ban Pho Plant in Thailand.

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JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment.

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APRIL 18, 2016

A new study by a team from the University of Edinburgh and independent engineering company INNAS BV has found that, when factoring in the additional weight and non-exhaust PM factors, total PM 10 emissions from electric vehicles (EVs) are equal to those of modern internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). Timmers and Achten (2016).

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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JUNE 7, 2016

An international team led by researchers at the University of Melbourne has developed a new catalyst system for the efficient removal of CO 2 from formic acid (HO 2 CH), resulting in the production of CO 2 and H 2 at a low temperature of 70 °C. Zavras et al. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

The research, presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), found that despite efforts to limit future emissions, the number of premature deaths linked to air pollution will climb over the next two decades unless more aggressive targets are set. million deaths in 2013.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Other voice-based technologies have had similar success, says Frank Rudzicz , an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Winterlight Labs , which makes a similar product to Canary Speech. We validate our model and train it in that system, in that environment, for performance,” he says.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Experts contributed from ten institutions across Africa, Europe and America, including the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the World Bank and Imperial College London in the UK. —Dr Glaucia Souza, University of São Paulo. —Jeremy Woods.

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JUNE 6, 2016

To accomplish this, engineers and scientists have worked hard to ensure that in extremely cold temperature environments, the engine oil does not become too viscous and that there are sufficient high volatility components in the fuel so that vaporization and ignition within the engine are possible on an almost instantaneous basis.

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MAY 2, 2016

The traffic/exhaust component consisted predominantly of externally mixed soot particles and soot internally mixed with secondary particles. In addition, silicates and Fe oxides/hydroxides internally mixed with chlorine and sulfur-containing particles were also assigned to the traffic/resuspension component. Hooftman et al. Gehring, R.,

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Major international and Chinese automotive and energy companies will also be invited to participate.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

Completion date for the consortium’s research work is early 2016. UR:BAN participants include: Adam Opel AG; AUDI AG; BMW AG; BMW Forschung und Technik GmbH; Robert Bosch GmbH; German Federal Institute for Road Transportation; Continental Automotive GmbH; Continental Safety Engineering International GmbH; Continental Teves AG & Co.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Researchers at Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a highly efficient homogeneous Ru-based catalyst system for the production of methanol (CH 3 OH) from CO 2 and H 2 in an ethereal solvent (initial turnover frequency = 70 h −1 at 145 °C). —G.K. Olah, and G.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Travis Herya and Sundaresan (2016).

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JULY 30, 2021

I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. PES University , which offers courses, tutorials, and webinars to members. He was granted two U.S.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. —Gawron et al.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

A new study by a team at the University of Surrey has found that particulate pollution levels inside cars are up to 40% higher when the vehicle is stuck in a traffic jam or stopped at a red traffic light compared to free-flowing traffic conditions. 34 μm at TIs. 2015.02.002.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

RoMeLa ] The New England Robotics Validation and Experimentation (NERVE) Center at the University of Massachusetts Lowell celebrates 10 years of breaking robots! We at CeTI want to push research even further to remain a leader in robotics for another 400 years.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. We thought it was a great idea.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at RWTH Aachen University , in Germany. A great example of that is the concerted effort the.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society started more than two decades ago to become a more welcoming and inclusive environment for women and members from outside the United States. Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems at RWTH Aachen University , in Germany. A great example of that is the concerted effort the.

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OCTOBER 9, 2015

New ideas create huge opportunities, and the Dearman Hubbard partnership is a chance to create a cost-effective, cleaner and more sustainable environment. Commercial trials of the system will begin in the UK later this year, with extended international trials to begin in 2016. million by 2025.

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JULY 15, 2016

Verizon will contribute technical expertise to the testing platforms, such as staff engineering assistance in the design and deployment of the testing platforms, and in fixed and mobile systems, indoor and outdoor environments, and residential and commercial buildings. The workshop will be held in October 2016.

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JUNE 20, 2018

The new Advanced Metal Processing Center (AMPC) has opened at Brunel University London. The AMPC’s 1,500 square meters of working space, in a bespoke building on Brunel’s campus in Uxbridge, is the second phase of BCAST’s scale-up facility, following on from 2016’s launch of the Advanced Metal Casting Center (AMCC).

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MARCH 31, 2022

It took place in a laboratory environment, and all of the participants specifically signed up to be part of a robot hugging study, for which they were compensated. “We Overall, the majority of the study participants felt that the experience was pretty great, and 40 percent of them said that they came to think of HuggieBot as their friend.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

That is, human-size, human-shaped robots with legs for mobility and arms for manipulation that can (or, may one day be able to) perform useful tasks in environments designed primarily for humans. As an internal-controls test bed, QDH has helped Apptronik to explore how it can switch to less complex parts and lower the total part count.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University. Benny Freeman is the Richard B.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Renault Innovation Lab – Le Square has been designed as an experimental laboratory, open to its business environment and close to the Renault and Renault-Nissan Alliance teams to make the proliferation of ideas easier. It looked towards the ecosystem of worldwide startups and the Californian universities of Stanford and Berkeley.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

New research led by The University of Manchester has developed a metal-organic framework (MOF) material that provides a selective, fully reversible and repeatable capability to capture nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ), a toxic air pollutant produced particularly by diesel and bio-fuel use. —Dr Sihai Yang, a lead author.

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APRIL 6, 2010

All-electric cars, like the upcoming Nissan Leaf, have a range of about 100 miles and are powered by electric motors instead of the gas-powered internal combustion engine found in most current cars. Robert Paaswell, director of the University Transportation Research Center, would probably agree. His main concern is mass transit.

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APRIL 15, 2023

Broadcasting a false distress signal over maritime radio is a violation of international code and, in the United States, a federal Class D felony. He was convinced that the mayday caller was his former sternman, the crew member who works in the back of the lobster boat: Nate Libby. The alarm was more than just a prank call.

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