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FTA selects 7 projects to receive $22.5M in grants for battery-electric and fuel cell buses, infrastructure

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These vehicles will be deployed on bus routes in South Philadelphia, and an associated workforce development program will further contribute to the project's economic impact. Interested parties currently have the opportunity to apply for $55 million in FY2016 Low-No funding, for which the application period closes in May 2016.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Williams was granted 27 U.S. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He was granted 15 patents. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959. He also guided the development of thin-film disk drives, according to his biography on the Engineering and Tech History Wiki.

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