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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. All five fingers on the lightweight prosthesis flex and extend. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is the fastest bionic hand on the market and the only one with touch feedback.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. I accepted the award on behalf of all of us.”

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The Unsung Inventor Who Chased the LED Rainbow

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the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. He had invested several years in that research when Holonyak, a pioneer in visible lasers and light-emitting diodes, left his position at General Electric Co.

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How the First Transistor Worked

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The underlying principle of such a device would be something called the field effect—the ability of electric fields to modulate the electrical conductivity of semiconductor materials. It was an ungainly looking assemblage of germanium, plastic, and gold foil, all topped by a squiggly spring. A year after Bardeen’s lecture, R.

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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It’s all happening excruciatingly too slowly of course, and at the pace we’re currently on we are quite simply as doomed as doomed can be – but in the meantime it IS starting to happen and the first signs of momentum are now starting to show. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 The goal of this project is to combine all of these genes. conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. University of Illinois. contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor.

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