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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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I attended this year’s events, held on 4 and 5 May in Atlanta. Garcia is CEO of Urban Climate Nexus in Atlanta. Because sea levels and temperatures are rising, more than 80 percent of marine life is migrating toward the Earth’s poles and away from warmer water, he said. UCN assists U.S. I’m not surprised this is happening.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Selected Labs and Partners. Ames Laboratory. Argonne National Laboratory.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” People were really interested in clean air and clean water, so I decided there would always be interest in the environment,” Crawford says. Although it was designed for a life of 18 months, the mission operated successfully for 16 years.

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Sandia, ASU collaborate on algae computational modeling, look for algae pond predators

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Sandia National Laboratories and Arizona State University (ASU) have teamed up to improve computational models of algae growth in raceway ponds that can predict performance, improve pond design and operation and discover ways to improve algae yield outdoors.

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NIST Awards $123M in 12 Recovery Act Grants for New Research Facilities; Univ. of Ky CAER to Expand Capacitor and Battery Manufacturing Research with its $11.8M Award

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for an Advanced Nanocomposites in Renewable Energy Laboratory for designing, prototyping and testing large structural hybrid composite and nanocomposite components for the deep water offshore wind energy industry; $12.3 for the new Measurement, Materials and Sustainable Environment Center (M2SEC). (Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Allison Transmission announces global availability of 9-speed transmission, expanded electrification portfolio at IAA CV

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Allison first announced the 9-speed model in 2017 at the North American Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta. It has been designed to utilize the same vehicle manufacturer’s interfaces as its 6-speed predecessor, providing ease of integration into vehicles currently released with the Allison 2000 Series.

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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. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Of that, $26.5 Rock Island Metro, Illinois: $600,000.

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