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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Engineering education has evolved during the past year. 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. interactive four-part virtual-event series to equip engineering educators with best practices.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Researchers at Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China have proposed a control method based on a speed loop structure-variable sliding mode controller (SMC) for interior permanent magnet synchronous motors in electric vehicles. The method combines maximum torque per ampere with a vector control strategy.

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JULY 8, 2022

As previous articles in this series have noted, JWST is parked at Lagrange point L2. It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5 One is the 2.09

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Some things are constant in the universe. And any article I write about electric trikes invariably draws out all the armchair automotive engineers who chime in with the well-practiced “they should just put the two wheels in the front because it’s more stable!” Entropy always tends towards disorder. Taxes always come around.

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JULY 29, 2023

Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. It also kickstarted the field of genetic engineering — the study of altering the genome to fight disease and change human health for the better. With advancements like CRISPR, genetic engineering is entering its own renaissance. I did my Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

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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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. as a software engineer.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Recent US Supreme Court precedent has opened the door for states to enact laws requiring all new cars sold in the state to be electric as of a certain date, according to a paper by the nonprofit Coltura published in the University of Michigan Journal of Environmental and Administrative Law.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Researchers from Tsinghua University and Peking University have investigated the effects of fuel properties on particulate emissions gasoline direct injection engines (GDI). The study results, reported in the journal Fuel , demonstrated that the fuel composition has a significant on particulate emissions from GDI engines.

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MAY 6, 2017

The goal of the work was really to develop a genome-scale engineering tool for yeast … traditional metabolic engineering focused on just a few genes and the few existing genome-scale engineering tools are only applicable to bacteria, not eukaryotic organisms like yeast. Miller Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of Stanford University engineers has for the first time built a tiny computer with 178 transistors made from carbon nanotubes, a semiconductor material that may replace silicon in computer chips. The research was led by Stanford professors Subhasish Mitra and H.S.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

People have expected great things from Alice Parker , who was raised in a family of distinguished scientists and engineers. And Parker, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California has delivered. It is now available on the Engineering and Technology History Wiki.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2010

Larry Wackett, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, has a paper in press in the journal Current Opinion in Biotechnology reviewing approaches to engineering microbes to produce advanced biofuels, including renewable hydrocarbons. —Wackett 2010. 2010.10.010.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. Engineering S. cerevisiae to consume xylose more efficiently. Click to enlarge. cerevisiae.

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 27, 2021

I saw an odd comment on Reddit about my article on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) report on Tesla’s Autopilot System. Someone shared the article on Reddit and u/norman_rogerson mentioned that the link to the full report was broken. Very, very odd.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. This tribute is an excerpted version of an article dedicated to his memory written by three of his colleagues: IEEE Member Jae Jeong Hwang, Zoran M. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace. GE Aerospace declined to make a researcher available to be interviewed for this article.) I am a believer that this type of material is a game changer.”

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JUNE 29, 2023

Alamy A century and a half after von Kempelen’s charade, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo debuted El Ajedrecista (The Chessplayer), a true chess-playing automaton. Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Si definición. Its Definition.

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DECEMBER 17, 2015

The US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) have released a request for information (RFI) ( DE-FOA-0001460 ) titled “Co-Optimization of Fuels and Engines” (Optima). Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

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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JANUARY 26, 2018

One type of stacking fault, called a 9R phase, is particularly promising, said Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering and the corresponding author of the Advanced Materials paper. The microprojectile tests were performed by a research group at Rice University, led by professor Edwin L.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Combined with program management and course curriculum customization, the program is targeted to educate up to 60,000 Indian engineers in semiconductor fabrication technologies, over a 10 period. “It’s exciting to embark on this journey with Lam Research and the IISc.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.

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JANUARY 31, 2024

Japanese transport officials raided a Toyota -affiliated plant Tuesday after the company admitted to cheating on engine testing, as Toyota Motor Corp. which makes diesel engines. reported it sold over 11 million vehicles in 2023 to retain its status as the world’s top car manufacturer.

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DECEMBER 9, 2022

Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Although he retired from teaching in 2013, Brooks was still active in the university’s research program in virtual environmentsand scientific visualization until 2020. Brooks received a Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%. Energy & Fuels Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ef200449y. —Mohan et al. Resources.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages. In 2017, Yannis Tsividis wrote a feature article for Spectrum describing his research at Columbia University into the possibilities of digital-analog hybrid computer chips.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Clair Omar Musser, an engineer working for Scientific Space Industries, a subsidiary of Hughes Aircraft, took up the challenge. Musser’s original orrery was a hulking machine, standing over 2 meters tall and intended for use in museums and university classrooms. In his 1958 U.S. I was wrong. Born in 1901 in Manheim, Pa.,

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JANUARY 27, 2015

exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Researchers at the Engine Research Center, University of Wisconsin—Madison, are now proposing surrogate models for these nine fuels developed for studying low-emission, high-efficiency advanced diesel engine concepts. Bunting (2011) Surrogate Model Development for Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engines. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 3, 2023

The IEEE Board of Directors shapes the future direction of IEEE and is committed to ensuring IEEE remains a strong and vibrant organization—serving the needs of its members and the engineering and technology community worldwide—while fulfilling the IEEE mission of advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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APRIL 23, 2013

A team from the University of Exeter (UK), with support from Shell Technology Centre Thorton, has modified strains of E. To achieve this aim, we engineered E. Hydrocarbons produced by cells expressing the synthetic alkane pathway (CEDDEC) or the cyanobacterial alkane pathway (AR and AD from N. Howard et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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MAY 1, 2024

In 1912, Oskar von Miller , an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum , had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public? Eventually, they agreed, and under the guidance of lead engineer Walther Bauersfeld , Zeiss created something amazing.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

A team from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, reports that a low-temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) emissions control system for lean-burn engines can simultaneously reduce the high concentrations of NO x and oxidize hydrocarbon (HC) emissions. Concept of the SOFC emissions control system. Credit: ACS, Huang et al.

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