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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. But that’s just what Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate engineering degree —but without creating an engineering department. What prompted offering an engineering degree?

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The Engineer Who Pins Down the Particles at the LHC

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The Large Hadron Collider has transformed our understanding of physics since it began operating in 2008, enabling researchers to investigate the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Irene Degl’Innocenti Employer: CERN Occupation: Digital electronics engineer Education: Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering; Ph.D.

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Electric Cars Could Fully Recharge In Under 5 Minutes with New Charging Station Cable Design

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Article courtesy of Purdue University. WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana — Purdue University engineers have invented a new, patent-pending charging station cable that would fully recharge certain electric vehicles in under five minutes – about the same amount of time it takes to fill up a gas tank.

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Why a Technical Master’s Degree Can Accelerate Your Engineering Career

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Purdue University. Companies large and small are seeking engineers with up-to-date, subject-specific knowledge in disciplines like computer engineering, automation, artificial intelligence, and circuit design. The program has been ranked in the top 3 of U.S.

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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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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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