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MAY 2, 2025

Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory ] Building on reinforcement learning for natural gait, weve upped the challenge for Adam: introducing complex terrain in training to adapt to real-world surfaces. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.

Environment

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JUNE 30, 2025

He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1971 from Auburn University , in Alabama. Therefore Texas Instruments and similar companies sold universal digital building blocks such as multipliers and register files. In 1998 Jim left AT&T and helped found StarCore, a DSP design center in Atlanta.

San Antonio

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

As part of the MOU, De Havilland Canada will be issued options to purchase 50 ZeroAvia hydrogen-electric engines. As part of the program, ZeroAvia will develop a flight demonstrator, with De Havilland Canada’s support, using a Dash 8-400 aircraft to aid certification and showcase the operational and commercial potential of the engine.

Canada

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

With the support of the State of Georgia, Jackson County and City of Commerce, SK Innovation plans to hire more than 1,000 skilled workers by the end of 2021 as it prepares for initial production at the first of two electric vehicle battery plants being built in Commerce, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta.

Georgia

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA). The EcoCAR EV Challenge, managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions. Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL). McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).

Universal

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DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Both models provide maximum fuel efficiency by pairing the high-voltage lithium-ion battery and electric traction motor with a high-efficiency Atkinson-cycle gasoline engine.

Michigan

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Shell Nitrogen Enriched Diesel is an ultra low sulfur diesel fuel (ULSD) with an exclusive advanced cleaning system that helps protect diesel engines against performance-robbing gunk (carbon deposits) build-up on fuel injectors with continual use. Heavy-duty truck fleet trials of Shell Nitrogen Enriched Diesel demonstrated a 4.8%

Diesel

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NOVEMBER 12, 2010

A research team led by Atlanta-based. In Phase I of the project, the team conducted an engineering design analysis to identify and compare potential hydrogen storage technologies, fuel cell options, electrical energy storage and powertrain architectures for use on an electric utility vehicle.

Extended Range

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

Building on this progress, the new projects will help further reduce the cost of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, expand fueling infrastructure and build a strong domestic supply chain in the United States. These projects include: Center for Transportation and the Environment ($3 million DOE investment): Based in Atlanta, Ga.,

Hydrogen

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APRIL 2, 2015

To support the purchase and planned deployment of the 1,400 new CNG vehicles, UPS plans to build 15 compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations. CNG is an important building block in our long-term fleet strategy and offers environmental and economic advantages. The cities are Atlanta, Ga.; Charleston, W.Va.; Doraville, Ga.;

Fuel

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JANUARY 12, 2012

Many of the fueling stations will be co-located at Pilot-Flying J Travel Centers already serving goods movement trucking through an exclusive agreement with Pilot to build, own and operate natural gas fueling facilities at agreed-upon travel centers. We are moving quickly to build this important network in order to support the new trucks.

Clean

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MAY 19, 2023

IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. I attended this year’s events, held on 4 and 5 May in Atlanta. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. UCN assists U.S.

Engine

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JULY 28, 2025

Gostin Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Steven Miller Photography Gostin retired earlier this year as a principal research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, in Atlanta. She also served as the systems engineering, integration, and test lead in the software engineering and architecture division.

Atlanta

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JANUARY 8, 2010

NIST grant to significantly expand the Center for Applied Energy Research Laboratory’s (CAER) capabilities with a new 36,000-square-foot (3,344-square-meter) building dedicated to research in the biomass and biofuels industries, advanced distributed power generation and storage, and technologies for electric vehicles.

Grant

Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2022

The City of Covington, Georgia has landed a massive $43 million lithium-ion battery recycling plant, the largest of its kind in North America, just weeks after electric automaker Rivian announced it would build its second U.S.-based based factory in the area. The plant will be 154,000-square-feet and will begin operations in the Spring.

Georgia

Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

UPS plans to build an additional five compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations and add more than 700 new CNG vehicles including 400 semi-tractors and 330 terminal trucks. This $130-million dollar investment in CNG capacity for 2018 builds on previous UPS investments of $100 million dollars in 2016 and $90 million dollars in 2017.

2008

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JANUARY 6, 2015

Smart Mobility builds upon Ford’s Blueprint for Mobility ( earlier post ). Ford engineers are working with HP to track the driving habits of 100 vehicles used nationwide by HP employees for work and personal commuting. This experiment studies a driver’s behavior over time in order to build a more personalized mobility profile.

Ford

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

During the development process, Michelin engineers worked side-by-side with the DeltaWing team in order to understand the speed, load and stresses that the tires might experience. The four-wheeled DeltaWing features a virtual three-point layout with narrow front track, wide rear track and significantly reduced aerodynamic drag.

Power

Teslarati

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Rivian has selected a construction firm to build its new production facility located outside of Atlanta, Georgia. We are proud to play our part in building a future that will help Rivian ‘keep the world adventurous forever,’ while also creating a workplace and community that will thrive for years to come.” Clayco Inc.

Georgia

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

—senior author, Drew Gentner, assistant professor of chemical & environmental engineering. Collected over three weeks at each site in the summer, samples were taken from a forest in Michigan, and from urban environments in Atlanta and New York City. With these instruments, we can determine molecular formulas with more accuracy.

New York City

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MARCH 31, 2021

The Fulton County School System, located in the Greater Atlanta Metropolitan Area, has also joined the deployment, lending its expertise in school transportation and infrastructure. In addition to propane-fueled buses, Blue Bird is the only school bus maker in the US that builds electric variants of all three school bus types: A, C, and D.

Audi

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers in New York City will lead the effort, which was developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Louis; the State of Iowa; the Iowa Energy Center; and Iowa State.

Iowa

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AUGUST 5, 2009

Outfitting of a high-volume manufacturing facility to build DC Bus Capacitors for the electric drive vehicle industry. Electric Transportation Engineering Corp. Advanced Vehicle Research Center; Auto Exposure LLC; Big Fish Advertising and Public Relations; MotorWeek; Sabre Engineering; Northeast Utilities. Powerex, Inc.

Lithium Ion

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AUGUST 20, 2010

VPI will develop optimally engineered systems for manufacturing coal-biomass briquettes/pellets that are ideally suited for transportation, storage, and co-feeding fixed- and fluidized-bed gasifiers. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.) -Partnering with the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Ky.;

Coal

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

Along the country road that leads to ATL4, a giant data center going up east of Atlanta, dozens of parked cars and pickups lean tenuously on the narrow dirt shoulders. He says that this giant building and four others DataBank has recently built or is planning in the Atlanta area will together add 133,000 square meters (1.44

Portland

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. Of that, $26.5 Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. Minneapolis-St.

Emissions

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APRIL 24, 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.

Atlanta

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

The future of engineering is bright, and it’s being shaped by the young minds at the TryEngineering Summer Institute , supported by IEEE. This year more than 300 students attended the TESI to fuel their passion for engineering and prepare for higher education and careers. I really liked that it was hands-on,” Ghannad says.

San Diego

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MARCH 29, 2024

Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and uses two AI models to anticipate and replicate a person’s smile before the person actually smiles—a major advance in robots predicting human facial expressions accurately, improving interactions, and building trust between humans and robots.

San Diego

Teslarati

MARCH 9, 2024

Rivian is also pausing construction on the new factory, set to be located outside of Atlanta, in hopes to focus instead on achieving profitability with the upcoming R2, R3 and R3X EVs. Once they are finalized, we will update the public on the details of the incentive package.” . "Ultimately, billion in 2023.

Illinois

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Comstock proposes to build a pre-pilot scale system to demonstrate a novel new pathway to convert its biointermediates from forestry residues and other forms of lignocellulosic biomass into renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, gasoline, and marine fuel at dramatically improved yield, efficiency, and cost. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

Production

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. He says he picked up his love of engineering from the science fairs he participated in throughout middle school and high school in Westford, Mass. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It

Boston

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MAY 31, 2024

This year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony , held on 2 and 3 May in Boston, celebrated pioneers in engineering who have developed technologies that changed people’s lives, such as the Internet and GPS. Most said they were inspired to become engineers by a parent. Mulligan Jr.

Boston

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

The self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski , who cofounded Waymo, has retreated to building autonomous trucks constrained to industrial sites. The Apollo costs only $28,000 to build, so its much cheaper than a Waymo car, which is estimated to cost $150,000. million to $9.6 million per year. And what about Tesla?

San Francisco

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MAY 10, 2023

Additionally, she is a true role model to legions of engineers around the world. Donna is a true role model to legions of engineers around the world. She worked with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and chemists there, she says, and “if they had a laser, I helped them out.”

Light

Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

July 21, 2022 – Building on strong demand for its new EVs, Ford today announced a series of initiatives for sourcing battery capacity and raw materials that light a clear path to reach its targeted annual run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. DEARBORN, Mich.,

Ford

Electric Auto Association

MARCH 1, 2023

And that includes Atlanta, which is 10 times larger than Asheville.” They’ve all been incredibly important to building our chapter in terms of inspiration, organizational effort, and effective visioning.” Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering.

San Diego