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DECEMBER 15, 2021

So in 1982, IEEE Spectrum associate editor Paul Wallich and I set out to learn everything we could about the design of that popular game machine. IEEE Spectrum published that story as “Design Case History: the Atari Video Computer System” in March 1983. Just getting the technical details into print was a bit of an adventure.

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Researchers from the University of Turku in Finland, Imperial College London and University College London have devised a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing renewable propane from engineered E. Although we have only produced tiny amounts so far, the fuel we have produced is ready to be used in an engine straight away.

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APRIL 21, 2022

Engineers and technologists can and should play major roles in creating a greener planet, creating tools that address environmental degradation. Trees capture and store atmospheric carbon and help cool the globe’s temperature. The soil also helps to address the climate crisis, as it stores more carbon than the world’s plants combined.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other circumvents the difficulties by storing magnesium cation in its complex forms. This new class of redox chemistry bypasses the need of solid-state intercalation while solely storing magnesium, instead of its complex forms, creating a new paradigm in magnesium battery electrode design. Neither approach is practical.

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JULY 2, 2023

Raskin’s proposal did not impress anyone at Apple Computer enough to bring much money from the board of directors or much respect from Apple engineers. This article was first published as “Design case history: Apple’s Macintosh.” It appeared in the December 1984 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this month’s special report on the greening of transportation, we examine a moonshot idea for powering electric vehicles, the biggest change in aviation since the jet engine, and cargo ships with a battle-tested mode of generation. The engineers you’ll find in this issue don’t have time for despair.

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MARCH 27, 2024

The key technical distinction between the 5R and K5 is a seemingly minor design choice. But Quansheng stores the K5’s firmware in flash memory and made it possible to rewrite that memory with the same USB programming cable used to assign frequencies to preset channels. With Baofeng’s 5R, the firmware resides in read-only memory.

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APRIL 9, 2023

You will interface with design engineering, manufacturing engineering, compliance, system test, reliability, supply chain and operations to define and drive development of new product programs while also managing change on existing programs," the job description reads. For more articles, please visit CnEVPost.

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The project consists of two installations, each with a 500 MWh storage capacity, designed for two hours of storage in one cycle. Battery storage, or battery energy storage systems (BESS), are devices that enable energy from renewables, like solar and wind, to be stored and then released when the power is needed most.

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JULY 7, 2023

The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library. Learning outcomes from the design and development process Students from the IEEE CIS student chapter say they learned a great deal during the project’s design, development, and deployment. The assistive device works with or without Wi-Fi.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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APRIL 6, 2022

The company assigned the job to Sasson in 1974, when he joined Kodak as an electronics engineer working in the apparatus division’s research lab. Although the CCDs could capture an image, they couldn’t store it. He designed it so each tape would store 30 images. The image was then transferred to the cassette.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

That device, now known by a variety of names—including memory stick, USB stick, flash drive, as well as thumb drive—changed the way computer files are stored and transferred. Good-bye, floppy disk Before the invention of the thumb drive, computer users stored and transported their files using floppy disks. It was called the ThumbDrive.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

For utilities looking for ways to store power for later use, all those shiny new EVs might look like rolling batteries that they can not only charge but also draw power from when demand exceeds supply. And how will batteries with chemistries designed for the EV duty cycle perform in stationary power applications?

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MARCH 1, 2022

Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). So, what is an assistive technology (AT), and who designs it? A car lets you travel faster than walking; a computer lets you process data at an inhuman speed; and a search engine lets you easily find information. Your smartphone is getting smarter.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. As we share, communicate, and store an increasing amount of sensitive information online, the need to safeguard it from prying eyes and malicious actors becomes paramount.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

IEEE Spectrum article. Jobs designed it to be a curved structure without a straight piece of glass. Jobs was not an engineer, an IT professional, or even a college graduate. Engineers, IT professionals, and business executives can learn valuable lessons by studying his career. Focus on design.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Crucially, Atari engineers decided that they would use a microchip for the VCS instead of a custom chip. In other words, the designers reduced the barriers and the cost necessary for other players to develop VCS game cartridges. At the core of Henry Ford’s achievement was the design of an automobile that was made for mass production.

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JULY 8, 2022

Rather, the data and communication systems are designed to be incredibly, unquestionably dependable and reliable. As previous articles in this series have noted, JWST is parked at Lagrange point L2. He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I I knew where the risks were in this mission. The other is the 2.27

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. The gravity batteries described in this story lift giant weights in the air or up mine shafts to store excess electricity, releasing the weights later on to recover the stored energy.

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DECEMBER 29, 2021

Sometimes a design is so perfectly representative of its time that to see it brings long-forgotten memories flooding back. The Motorola Envoy was a paragon of skeuomorphic design Open up the Envoy, and the home screen features a tableau of a typical office circa 1994. It’s a masterstroke in skeuomorphic design.

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APRIL 7, 2024

I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. The designers of Ethernet had wisely chosen a sweet spot among the tradeoffs: 10 megabits per second and a length of 1,500 meters. I told Mark about my idea of using store-and-forward switching to increase LAN performance.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Two electrical engineers were responsible for putting this game in the hands of the public— Nolan Bushnell and Allan Alcorn , both of whom, with Ted Dabney , started Atari Inc. to design a consumer product. It was really a design exercise; he was giving me the simplest game he could think of to get me to play with the technology.”

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JUNE 20, 2022

Hearkening back to a period in 2020 where SpaceX built and tested six different Starship test tanks in a period of six months, the company appears to be preparing to test another batch of tanks in the hopes of qualifying Super Heavy booster design changes and clearing the way for a significant upgrade to all Starship tank domes.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A decentralized cloud would minimize the need to use third-party services to manage and store data on people and business enterprises. The HEC can allow consumers to better control how their data is stored, shared, and monetized, Alamouti says. From selling makeup to becoming an engineer. Wireless innovator. in Burnaby.

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APRIL 23, 2022

Any system he designed, he vowed, would have to have a “Print Anything” architecture. This article was first published as "‘PostScript’ prints anything: a case history." This story is as much about luck and guts as about matters of principle and brilliant software engineering. It appeared in the May 1988 issue of IEEE Spectrum.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. As investment in hydrogen-powered flight expands , airports and air carriers today are realizing that it’s not enough to retrofit or design new planes for hydrogen power. Refueling raises another open question.

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MAY 4, 2022

This is a sponsored article brought to you by SICK Inc. From advanced manufacturing to automated vehicles, engineers are using LiDAR to change the world as we know it. This can be part of the curriculum of a senior design project or capstone projects for students. The data is then stored in a hard drive.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

If we do it, we would build it entirely in the open, from software to hardware design, and in collaboration with the community,” he said in the tweet. The company declined to comment further for this article.). Storing private keys offline, in a hardware wallet, significantly increases security but raises complexity for the user.

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MAY 15, 2022

And this starts with the term “charging station” Engineers — bless their souls — love to use technical terms, acronyms, and correct you when you use a term that is easy for consumers to understand, but not technically correct. In the EV industry the poster child of this is the term “charger.”

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Current LIBs [Li-ion battery] systems utilize graphite anodes, where energy is stored by intercalating lithium into the graphite layers. Significant efforts have been devoted to tackling these problems by engineering Si-based electrodes at the nanoscale. … Schematic of electrode process design. (a) —Hassan et al.

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And that’s even more impressive considering Yadea exclusively produces electric vehicles, unlike Honda which nearly exclusively produces combustion engine motorbikes. I think they could be incredibly powerful utility vehicles in the US, but that’s another issue for another article.

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JUNE 10, 2019

materials that get converted into entirely new products when they react with lithium), can store more energy than today’s electrode materials because they can accommodate more lithium ions. Magnetite, among other conversion-type electrode materials (i.e., This study uniquely represents the in situ lithiation of a precycled sample.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

She eventually changed her major to electrical engineering because, she says, she found it more interesting. This year Microsoft added PAWS to its Azure platform, a portfolio of AI services designed for developers and data scientists. You can find several of her articles in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. www.youtube.com.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

How John Bardeen got his music box In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes to show off the new transistors. The box’s design was a simple LC circuit, consisting of a capacitor and an inductor. The following week, news of the transistor was released to the press. That’s when “inherent vice” set in.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Lockheed Martin ] Taking inspiration from nature, SEAS researchers designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how jellyfish collect stunned prey. Alone, individual tentacles, or filaments, are weak. TRI ] Thanks, Lukas! Its name is Bluebell.

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