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Los Angeles launches New Mobility Challenge 2018

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Winners will also be eligible to receive mentorship, skills development, and market entry assessment from LACI’s Executives-in-Residence in the days leading up the conference. Winners will also be eligible to be included in investment rounds of Fontinalis Partners, Trucks VC and Autotech.

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

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“The companies know what our members deserve, and they can afford to give it to us. “The members will have to prepare their wallets and their own personal budgets.” .” Mock closing age mentioned the union wasn’t fearful of the potential for a walkout, noting that the 2019 hit value GM $3 billion.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a prosthetic leg, so she used a tree branch as a crutch to help her walk. From that encounter, Akhtar decided that one day he would develop affordable artificial limbs. Akhtar is the CEO.

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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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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. IEEE PES is hosting its Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies, Latin America in San Juan from 6 to 9 November.

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Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium – ET Auto

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One of the people said Aramco was working on using new filtration technology that seeks to solve the issue of concentration, while another person said Adnoc was also addressing that. “They have done good work, they have done good extractions of sodium, magnesium, and traces of lithium.

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Volkswagen’s Pablo Di Si: Generation to get ‘again to fundamentals’

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Di Si believes it’s notable that VW’s North American area carve out its personal identification and construct its personal market-based selections. And clearly, I’m additionally studying about our personal group, as a result of each and every group is other. What did you listen from them?