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Brandnew UAW management: ‘While to get our fair proportion’

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Marick Masters, a industry coach at Wayne Environment College in Detroit who focuses on exertions problems, mentioned the union’s intentions are sunlit. “The companies know what our members deserve, and they can afford to give it to us. .” “It makes the threat of a strike much more viable.”

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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The program, offered virtually and in person, combines theory and hands-on training on topics such as community outreach and engagement, health care, the environment, and sustainability. She acknowledges she would not have been able to afford to attend Regis without help from IEEE. It teaches leadership and other soft skills.

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Portable sensors enable monitoring of pollution on smart phones; inferring pollution maps with greater granularity

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These results suggest that the cumulative impact of many individuals using personal sensing devices may have an important role to play in the future of environmental measurement for public health. Computer scientists presented findings from these field tests at the Wireless Health 2012 conference in San Diego earlier this year.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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Under some fairly specific constraints, autonomous robots are starting to find a few valuable niches in semistructured environments, like offices and hospitals and warehouses. It’s still an achievement for autonomous robots to merely survive in the real world, which is a long way from any kind of useful generalized autonomy.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). In many cities, driving a personal vehicle from home to work is not feasible. It runs through November.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

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Nissan is about to drink GM’s milkshake with a breakthrough, affordable, next generation electric car that will be beat the Chevy Volt to market, cost half as much and work twice as well. When’s your affordable EV that gets 1oo mile range on a quick charge Ford? Plus it looks ten times cooler. Really Ford?

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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His lab is best known for developing extremely agile drones that can autonomously navigate through complex environments at very high speeds. They might have some context from a clue that came up earlier in the case or something about the environment or something about the weather.