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DOE, General Motors and MathWorks launch EcoCAR Mobility Challenge

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EcoCAR is a collegiate automotive competition aimed at developing a highly skilled, domestic workforce by providing hands-on experience designing and building next-generation mobility solutions to meet our nation’s future energy and mobility challenges. Georgia Tech. The participating universities include: Colorado State University.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Pioneers and Emerging Technologies

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IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. It’s human frailty being replicated in the online environment. Engineering changes the way the world works.” Mulligan Jr.

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NSF awards $55.5M to support 3 new Engineering Research Centers; one focused on power electronics

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million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. The modular treatment systems, which will need less energy and fewer chemicals, will safely enlist the selective properties of reusable engineered nanomaterials to provide clean water at any location or scale.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Video Friday: Medusai

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medusai ] via [ Georgia Tech ] Thanks, Gil! NASA JPL ] Teleoperation plays a crucial role in enabling robot operations in challenging environments, yet existing limitations in effectiveness and accuracy necessitate the development of innovative strategies for improving teleoperated tasks. It flew for the last time on January 18, 2024.

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Rivian makes executive changes to overcome ‘extremely challenging’ production ramp

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Rivian is making changes to its leadership team, parting ways with its Vice President of Manufacturing engineering as it continues to try and overcome an “extremely challenging” production ramp due to current industry conditions. Rivian will part ways with Charly Mwangi, who has been at the company since May 2020.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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Through his network of honor society members, he also found a mentor who helped him get an internship at a major research institute in Georgia. An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It Now a Ph.D.

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