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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

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For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). In the U.S.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. in electrical engineering from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas, de Geus joined General Electric in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. Mr. Jobs wanted to commit enough money to build an automated factory that would produce about 300 000 computers a year. But sometimes bright people think a little differently.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

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of Dallas, Texas. Single lens reflex (SLR) A camera viewing system that, by swinging an angled mirror temporarily between lens and film, allows a person looking into the viewfinder to seem to see through the lens, previewing the image that will be captured on film. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp.

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Teen Wins Scholarship for His Glaucoma-Detection Device

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Kalia’s EyePal was showcased at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) held in May in Dallas. I love creating solutions,” he says, “and building things for people.” I designed, prototyped, and built a custom keyboard that doesn’t require a person to use their hands.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Double-Stator Switched Reluctance Motor (DSSRM) Technology General Atomics and the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) will develop a new type of electric motor with the. unique “double stator” motor design, which has initially been investigated at UT-Dallas, which can smoothly and efficiently. motor’s rotating components.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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The Next ‘Better Place’ Is Australia New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Tesla Motors to Build Battery Packs for Other Car Makers Previous post Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions Next post Cutting Costs With Solar Walls From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1. While utilities such as E.ON

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