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Ford launches app developer challenge to improve consumer understanding of personal fuel efficiency

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Ford launched a $50,000 challenge for software developers to write innovative apps to help consumers better understand and improve their personal fuel efficiency. Participants will have access to Ford’s OpenXC connectivity research platform as a sandbox to create and test their ideas for the Personalized Fuel Efficiency Apps Challenge.

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Chevrolet previews Spark EV Tech Performance concept, other performance concepts including Cruze Diesel for SEMA

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The Spark EV Tech Performance concept builds on Spark EV’s performance with a unique power-delivery algorithm that enhances acceleration. turbo engines, along with suspension, exterior and interior accessories and distinctive color-and-graphic packages. A Personalization Sonic concept puts a larger emphasis on personalization.

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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot

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Bozinovski and Sestakov were electrical engineering and computer science professors at Saints Cyril and Methodius University , in Skopje, North Macedonia. Atanasovski is dean of the university’s electrical engineering and information technologies school. “It The frequency increases when a person is relaxed and not moving.

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Vodafone Launches Private 5G Tech to Compete With Wi-Fi

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Private 5G networks—in which a person or company sets up their own facility-wide cellular network—are today finding applications where Wi-Fi (the IEEE 802.11 Which means that what we build, in essence, has a similar bill of materials as a good quality Wi-Fi router.”

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The IEEE Women in Engineering group decided to use manga’s popularity with young people as a way to encourage girls to consider a career in STEM fields. When I saw [IEEE WIE] was looking for stories about a young woman who was solving problems with engineering, I thought that it was right up my alley and that it would be fun,” she says.

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Virginia Tech hosting debut student competition to design 3-D printed aircraft, ground vehicles

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—Al Wicks, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the university’s Mechatronics Lab. Separately, Maryland-based engineering firm Robotic Research LLC is donating vehicle electronic kits and the nonprofit energy investment Stiefel Family Foundation is providing cash awards.

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Where the President-Elect Candidates Stand on Key Issues

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The candidates were asked about their plans for increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion at IEEE; expanding science, technology, engineering, and math education programs; and ways to attract and retain members. One example he shared was the IEEE science-kit program being offered at libraries in Region 4.