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Universal Hydrogen successfully completes first flight of hydrogen fuel cell powered regional airliner

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Universal Hydrogen has flown a 40-passenger regional airliner using hydrogen fuel cell propulsion. In this first test flight, one of the airplane’s turbine engines was replaced with Universal Hydrogen’s fuel cell-electric, megawatt-class powertrain. The other remained a conventional engine for safety of flight.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? There were around 20,000 job openings in the semiconductor industry at the end of 2022, according to Peter Bermel , an electrical and computer engineering professor at Purdue University.

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Rheinmetall wins multimillion-euro order for fuel cell cathode flaps and shut-off valves

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Cathode flap In total, the Group has already won six series customers for cathode flaps, increasing the 2023 booked business in this product area to around €50 million. In total, around €200 million has already been booked for all fuel cell components this year. The cathode flaps can be utilized universally.

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How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah

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Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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ECS announces 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship recipients

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Dr. Bai received his BS in Materials Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and MS in Materials Science in 2012 from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Yadong Yin at the University of California, Riverside, in 2017. Yuzhang Li, University of California, Los Angeles.

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ALBERO project seeks to enable safe transport for EVs and more on ro-ro ferries

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As well as appropriate methods for pre-sorting during boarding, they designed special parking spaces and loading decks that have innovative risk detection and safety systems. For example, the booking system, pre-sorting process and traffic management system were incorporated into the parking space design. —Lerke Thiele.

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Deep Learning Can’t be Trusted Brain Modelling Pioneer Says

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Now, in a new book, IEEE Fellow Stephen Grossberg argues that an entirely different approach is needed. Grossberg attempts to explain in his nearly 800-page book how “the small lump of meat that we call a brain” gives rise to thoughts, feelings, hopes, sensations, and plans. He calls his model Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART).

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