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Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

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Jayme Thornton PPPL researchers say their simpler machine demonstrates a way to build stellarators far more cheaply and quickly, allowing researchers to easily test new concepts for future fusion power plants. Department of Energy labs, and it employs about 800 scientists, engineers, and other workers.

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OSU & Wilberforce University team claims top spot in year one of the EcoCAR EV Challenge

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The Ohio State (OSU) & Wilberforce University Team has been named the winner of Year One of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, taking the lead in the four-year collegiate engineering competition. Year One of EcoCAR is all about generating big ideas and developing a strategy for the remainder of the competition.

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Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group formed

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Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. The Working Group consists of members undertaking research and development in the field of hydrogen combustion in an opposed-piston engine. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x.

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Ham Radio Inspired This Scranton University Student to Pursue Engineering

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is pursuing an electrical engineering degree at the University of Scranton , in Pennsylvania. The junior is president of the university’s W3USR amateur radio club. The Scranton team competed against other student branches to build and program small robots to navigate a maze in the shortest time possible.

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This Engineer Became a Star in Technology Publishing

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After the war, in 1950, he received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Cornell University. But Don wasn’t a typical engineer. In April 1993, IEEE Spectrum won a National Magazine Award for its reporting on Iraq’s effort to build an atomic bomb. The staffers who worked on the report were John A.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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Remarkably, given his intense wartime responsibilities, Bush continued to develop his own ideas about computing and information. And during his lifetime, Bush was celebrated as one of the nation’s leading prophets of technological change and the most influential proponent of government funding of science and engineering.

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How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program

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Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. But that’s just what Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate engineering degree —but without creating an engineering department. What prompted offering an engineering degree?

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