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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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The Rise and Fall of 3M’s Floppy Disk

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If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks. This was around the same period that AT&T, still smarting from misadventures like the EO Personal Communicator , spun off Bell Labs as Lucent Technologies.

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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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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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The lack of an engineering mentor while growing up didn’t hinder Anna Zakrzewska from having a successful career in telecommunications. She is a senior principal engineer at Dell Technologies in Dublin. None of my family members or family friends were engineers,” she says. I couldn’t see myself as a lecturer,” she says.

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What Are Zero Emission Day and National Drive Electric Week?

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The US Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels Data Center also has a tool which compares the annual emissions of an EV versus internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle on a national or state level. Attend an online or in-person event. You can easily get involved by attending , volunteering , or sponsoring an event.

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Ford opens new Silicon Valley research center; focus on connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, big data

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With the new facility, Ford expects to have one of the largest automotive manufacturer research centers in Silicon Valley by the end of the year, with 125 researchers, engineers and scientists. in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from its Haas School of Business. Maciuca holds a Ph.D.

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Automobile Information manage providers, ranked through general OEM automobile portions gross sales

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Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 726-2462 Swamy Kotagiri (CEO) $18,920 ( f ) $16,671 ( f ) $37,840 ( f ) $36,242 ( f ) Frame buildings, exteriors, powertrain, electronics, mechatronics, mirrors, lighting fixtures, seating, whole automobile production Northville, MI, USA (734) 855-2600 Martin Fischer (president & member board of control) $12,000 $10,454 (..)