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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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Until recently, the residents of Melamchi, Nepal, cooked meals and heated water for bathing over a wood-burning stove. The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research.

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Toyota Connected’s ‘Cabin Awareness’ concept uses new tech to detect occupants

Green Car Congress

—Simon Roberts, managing engineer, TCNA, who has spearheaded the development process. The idea for Cabin Awareness was born in 2019 out of the inaugural Toyota Connected Hackathon, a 36-hour innovation event that challenged teams of software designers and engineers to ideate, develop and test real-world solutions.

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Video Friday: Agilicious

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Honda ] Skydio’s partnership with WeRobotics provides microgrant scholarships to Flying Labs across the globe, with Nepal Flying Labs being selected as a recipient for their project to create a digital twin of Changu Narayan Temple, the oldest temple in Kathmandu Valley dating back to the 5th Century.

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Best electric scooters in India 2023

Electric Vehicles India

There are some things to consider before building your bike. As of 2018, Ampere Vehicles is part of Greaves Cotton, one of the nation’s largest engineering firms. Pure Epluto 7G PURE is now one of India’s leading EV2W brands and also holds a dominant position in exports to South Asian countries like Nepal and Bhutan.

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Power Electric Scooter Buyers Guide | Mid 2021

Plug In India

Basically they have used software and hardware engineering to protect the battery pack. 75+ dealerships Pan India and Nepal. The most impressive aspect of the company PureEV is the manic focus on battery engineering at their RnD center at IIT Hyderabad. Many people tell us that the build quality of the scooters can improve.

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