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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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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

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Video Friday: Robots With Knives

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Greetings from the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Yokohama, Japan! In today’s edition of Video Friday, we bring you a dozen of the most interesting projects presented at the conference. The system is evaluated in an active outdoor three-phase powerline environment.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. System improvements include high performance fluorescent lighting, LED exit signs, retrofitting existing pole lights; and installing occupancy sensors for private offices, conference rooms and bathrooms.

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