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University Of Minnesota & MIT Teams Win American Solar Challenge

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Earlier this month, we ran an article about the Formula Sun Grand Prix, a track race that also serves as the qualifier for the American Solar Challenge, an overland race for college solar car teams. One of the cool things about this year’s race is that they added classes for slightly more practical cars to […].

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New Resource for University Educators

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The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to close classrooms and shift to remote learning, prompting instructors to adapt their curricula and teaching style. The IEEE Teaching Excellence Hub is meant to help all university staff access resources and tools they can use in the ever-adapting world of education."

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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. She had not been exposed to engineering before MIT, but she took a class and discovered her passion.

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UH, Toyota researchers develop new cathode and electrolyte for high-power Mg battery rivaling Li-ion

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Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical.

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New Class of Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts Offers Enhanced Activity and Stability

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A team from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised a new class of core-shell electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells, consisting of a platinum (Pt) monolayer shell and ordered intermetallic compound cores. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja905850c. DiSalvo and Radoslav R.

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Micron, IIT Roorkee ink partnership to foster innovation and develop skilled workforce – ET Auto

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The IIT Roorkee class of 1996 has pledged to sponsor the ‘Rahul Aggarwal- 96 Chair’ at the institute. As a part of our University Research Alliance, Micron (URAM) outreach, this initiative aligns well with the thrust areas of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM). Aggarwal is an alumnus of the 1996 batch.

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. Si definición.

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