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APRIL 30, 2025

Freddy II was completed in 1973 as one of a series of research robots developed by Donald Michie and his team at the University of Edinburgh during the 1960s and 70s. University of Edinburgh More people joined the team to build Freddy Mark 1.5, Stuart Sutherland of the University of Sussex and Roger M.

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MAY 27, 2025

Carolina Cruz-Neira Employer: University of Central Florida Occupation: Computer-science professor Education: Bachelors degree in systems engineering, Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas; masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science, University of Illinois Chicago; Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

At a time in American history when even the most intelligent Black women were expected to become, at most, teachers or nurses, Willie Hobbs Moore broke with societal expectations to become a noted physicist and engineer. The biography, published by IEEE-USA , is the seventh in the organizations Famous Women Engineers in History series.

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JUNE 17, 2025

No one imagined that a girl from Cobán would one day hold a doctorate in engineering or conduct cancer research in France. She received a Gray scholarship , awarded by the IEEE Systems Council to students pursuing graduate studies in process control systems engineering, plant automation, or instrumentation measurement.

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MARCH 3, 2023

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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JUNE 11, 2025

The mission control room at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md., said the lead engineer, who gave a two-handed high five to a nearby colleague. So any NEO already on the books (for example, in NASA’s database or ESA’s database ) is quite likely to come with decades of warning. erupted in cheers. “We

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to capture carbon dioxide using hydrogen gas to convert it into formic acid. coli host strain was engineered for the continuous production of formic acid from H 2 and CO 2 during bacterial growth in a pressurised batch bioreactor.

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MAY 24, 2012

Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Background. transient operation.

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MAY 13, 2023

But for the CHIPS Act to succeed, each fab will need hundreds of skilled engineers and technicians of all stripes, with training ranging from two-year associate degrees to Ph.D.s. Engineering schools in the United States are now racing to produce that talent. We need to ramp up our efforts really quickly.”

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AUGUST 16, 2023

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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JUNE 20, 2019

The university’s Parking and Transportation Services and Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility received a best practice award for sustainable transportation in the 2019 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards competition. The facility is part of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S.

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JUNE 9, 2023

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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MARCH 22, 2010

Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine.

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APRIL 15, 2022

“When I was learning data structures, I began to see things from a different viewpoint—how to make things efficient,” says Lu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and a university faculty scholar at Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , in West Lafayette, Ind.

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MARCH 10, 2018

The difficulty and high cost of making CNT membranes has confined them to university laboratories and has been frequently cited as the limiting factor in their widespread use. Freeman, Professor of Chemical Engineering at UT Austin. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Yale University.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

In October, her second book on this work, The Social Impact Advantage , was published. Employer CapEQ Title President and CEO Alma mater Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Boyea-Robinson helps companies, government agencies, and other organizations meet goals for diversity and equity through her consulting firm, CapEQ.

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DECEMBER 26, 2014

And so the outlook is for ever-better engines or electric motors in heavy vehicles used in a way that results in the worst weight-to-payload ratios for any mechanized means of personal transportation in history. He has published 35 books and more than 400 papers on these topics. —Vaclav Smil. 24,24 doi: 10.1109/MSPEC.2015.6995626.

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JUNE 9, 2010

The system, coupled with the HDi diesel engines of the Peugeot and Citroën brands, will be featured on both manual and automated manual transmission models and will equip a million vehicles by 2013. Engine re-start is immediate (400 msec), noiseless and with no vibrations, even if the driver suddenly changes his or her mind about stopping.

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Henrik Christensen, one of the most influential robotics researchers in the world, is joining the University of California San Diego. He will direct the UC San Diego Contextual Robotics Institute and serve as a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering.

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MAY 24, 2009

John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment at Yale University and also the Director of the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. Anastas , considered the ”Father of Green Chemistry“ is the Teresa and H. He has published widely on topics of science through sustainability.

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DECEMBER 7, 2024

The resources include lesson plans, an e-book, and videos. Onsemi funds STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) educational activities for underprivileged youth in underserved communities where it operates globally. are intended to familiarize students with industry terms used by engineers.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

For example, the booking system, pre-sorting process and traffic management system were incorporated into the parking space design. An important element of LoMoSS is that, after passengers disclose their vehicle’s drive type when booking, this information is recorded in the booking system and linked to the vehicle’s license plate.

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APRIL 18, 2019

The benefits of connected, self-driving cars (CAVs) will likely induce vehicle owners to drive more, and those extra miles could partially or completely offset the potential energy-saving benefits that automation may provide, according to a new University of Michigan study. 2019.03.174.

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MARCH 8, 2012

Researchers at the University of Missouri’s Department of Chemical Engineering (MU) have developed and demonstrated a new type of battery, referred to as the “convection battery” or “convection cell”. Dowell Professor in Chemical Engineering. He is the co-author of the book entitled “Sustainable Nuclear Power”.

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MAY 12, 2022

One such effort is a book that came out last fall called AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future. The book is co-written by. AI’s effect on jobs (including engineering jobs). Universal basic income. How do you imagine this trend changing the engineering profession? Some people in the field are concerned that the.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This year Kleiman’s book Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer was published. The book follows an award-winning documentary, The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers , which Kleiman helped produce. The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2013

EVA serves as a platform to showcase the results of the work at TUM CREATE, a joint research program by Technische Universität München (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU). TUM CREATE engineers designed an innovative concept for more effective thermal management of the battery cells that targets to extend the pack’s lifespan.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

A professor of bioinformatics and programming languages at the University Politehnica of Bucharest , he has been interested in viruses and antivirus software since he was a child. And between 2006 and 2008 I started to develop an antivirus engine, called Scut Antivirus. Gagniuc set out to fix this apparent oversight. Gagniuc: Yes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A few years ago, Martin Ford published a book called Architects of Intelligence , in which he interviewed 23 of the most experienced AI and robotics researchers in the world. There is increasing evidence, however, that this primary engine of progress is beginning to sputter out. Evan Ackerman. There's no looking back now.".

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AUGUST 19, 2024

The Internet applications people use every day but largely take for granted were made possible by scientists and engineers who, for the most part, toiled in anonymity. Ahmed’s grandfather was an electrical engineer who told him that he had been sent to the United States in 1919 to work at General Electric‘s location in Schenectady, New York.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Institute : What drew you into engineering? Bill Mensch: I went to Temple University [in Philadelphia] on the recommendation of a guidance counselor. When I got there I found they only had an associate degree in engineering technology. He was the system engineer, and I was the semiconductor engineer.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For her, however, the most important outcome was the influence it had on the development of modern programming languages, making writing code more accessible to everyone, according to a Penn Engineering Today article. The dedication of the A-0 compiler as an IEEE Milestone was held in Philadelphia on 7 May at the University of Pennsylvania.

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MARCH 1, 2022

Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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APRIL 15, 2023

A range of trailblazers imagined quantum physics turning into quantum engineering turning into quantum user tech—or, for those working before the quantum era, imagined far-off theoretical horizons coming into range of practical applications. IEEE Spectrum : What were the criteria you used to select the historical figures your book highlights?

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