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Paying Tribute to Former IEEE President Richard Gowen

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He was accepted, and the academy sponsored his postgraduate studies at Iowa State University , in Ames. It gave the research team "the ability to evaluate the movement of fluids on the cardiovascular system," Gowen wrote in an article about the research on the Engineering Technology and History Wiki. in biomedical engineering in 1962.

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New aluminum-cerium alloys could boost rare earth production; improved energy efficiency of engines

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ORNL scientists Zach Sims, Michael McGuire and Orlando Rios, along with colleagues from Eck, LLNL and Ames Laboratory in Iowa, discuss the technical and economic possibilities for aluminum–cerium alloys in an article in JOM , a publication of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Yet, as noted in a Clean Air Task Force report , “To date … there has been hardly any conversation among policy analysts, let alone high-level policymakers, about how such a massive [energy] infrastructure initiative should be undertaken.” For example, Iowa is one of the best states for wind power farms.

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