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GE Aviation completes initial design of supersonic engine for Aerion AS2

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GE Aviation has completed the initial design of the first supersonic engine purpose-built for business jets. This new engine class, revealed as GE’s Affinity turbofan, is optimized with proven GE technology for supersonic flight and timed to meet the Aerion AS2 launch ( earlier post ).

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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To this day, Bush’s article—titled “As We May Think”—and his subsequent elaborations of networked information appliances are credited with shaping what would become the personal computer and the World Wide Web. The Atlantic Monthly And yet, if you watched this year’s Oscar-winning Oppenheimer , Bush is only a minor character.

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How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program

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Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate engineering degree —but without creating an engineering department. IEEE Spectrum spoke with Seth Fraden, one of the new program’s interim cochairs, about getting a new engineering program up and running.

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Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

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Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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ETAutoTech Summit 2024 kick-starts today, themed ‘Engineering Sustainable Transition’ – ET Auto

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New Delhi: As the automotive industry navigates through a highly disruptive phase it becomes all the more important to engineer or design sustainable transition. R A Mashelkar, a renowned scientist and technocrat, and the former Director General of CSIR and Chairman of the National Innovation Foundation.In

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International automotive researchers emphasize the importance of continued development of the internal combustion engine

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Thirty-seven globally prominent scientists representing the International Journal of Engine Research have published an open-access editorial addressing the future of the Internal Combustion Engine, and stressing the importance for continued development of more efficient and even lower-emitting technologies. —Reitz et al.

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Toyota showcases compact engines adaptable to different fuels – ET Auto

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litre engine will achieve volume and weight reduction of 10% of versus its existing 1.5 litre engines, which it uses in cars such as its Yaris compact. litre engines with significantly reduced volume and height versus current engines. litre engine will achieve volume and weight reduction of 10% of versus its existing 1.5

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