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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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DOE received more than 160 applications for 2019 TCF funding, with project teams engaging more than 90 different partners across multiple diverse disciplines. High-fidelity ignition models to boost engine thermal efficiency, $720,000 Convergent Science Inc., Madison, Wis. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. IsoTherm Inc.,

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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He participated in the university's USAF ROTC program before earning a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering in 1987. So he returned to Dayton and got an engineering job at the AFRL's Air Vehicles Directorate working on air acoustics and designing exhaust systems for military airplanes. in aerospace engineering from Notre Dame.

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What is Tesla’s Mystery Magnet?

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And then, out of nowhere, came an absolute bombshell: “We have designed our next drive unit, which uses a permanent-magnet motor, to not use any rare-earth elements at all,” declared Colin Campbell , Tesla’s director of power train engineering. It was a stunning disclosure, which left most experts in permanent magnetism wary and perplexed.

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

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The autonomous-vehicle company is testing the technology in its fleet of Toyota Sienna AutonoMaaS (Autonomous Mobility as a Service) ( earlier post ) minivans at its headquarters in Michigan and will soon begin testing in public AV deployments in Arlington, Texas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, with additional deployments coming in late 2022.

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