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COMAC of China, Boeing open Energy Conservation Center; first focus on aviation biofuel from waste cooking oil

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Funded by both companies, the Boeing-COMAC Technology Center is working with China-based universities and research institutions to expand knowledge in areas such as sustainable aviation biofuels and air traffic management that improve commercial aviation’s efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. SAMC), Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Co.,

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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Elements of these solution sets were introduced by SMART in a 2006 article entitled “ New Mobility: The Next Generation of Sustainable Urban Transportation ,” in the Bridge Magazine of the National Academy of Engineers. Building capacity for now and for the next generation. The five themes are: Systems integration.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). California State University, Northridge (CSUN). For more than three decades, the university has hosted the world's largest assistive technology conference. The university is also home to a sister degree, the. Your smartphone is getting smarter.

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Commercial Aircraft Corp of China and Boeing to partner on aviation energy conservations and emissions reductions

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This is the first collaboration agreement between COMAC, which is building the new C919 jet and ARJ21 regional jet, and Boeing, which this year celebrates its 40 th anniversary of providing commercial aircraft and services to China's aviation industry. SAIGC) and Shanghai Commercial Aircraft Magazine Co., Commercial Aircraft Corp.

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New Method for Rearranging Refinery Distillation Sequence Could Improve Energy Efficiency Up to 48%

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Refineries could trim millions of dollars in energy costs annually by using a new matrix method developed at Purdue University to rearrange the distillation sequence needed to separate crude petroleum into products. Some are easy to build and just involve trivial retrofitting, and some are more difficult. There are a lot of challenges.

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A Well Earned, Guilt Free #YearOfJoe

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My wife’s boss gave me a job as a magazine editor for the American Portrait Society in 1981, and I became known in the figurative art world which was a blast while it lasted. My clients included HP, Universal Pictures, Washington Mutual, Sony, 20th Century Fox, Tyco Toys, Tangle Toys, Playmates Toys and others who kept me busy year round.

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Video Friday: Robots for Humanity

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An overview of ongoing work by Hello Robot, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Washington, and Robots for Humanity to empower Henry Evans’s independence through the use of the mobile manipulator Stretch. And of course, you can read more about this project in this month’s issue of IEEE Spectrum magazine.

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