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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Virginia Tech. a software company that provides buildings with energy efficiency solutions. IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. I pledge to: Global Community Building: Highlight networking opportunities at IEEE events. Intellectual Property Rights: Build IPR awareness.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The 20 PARC employees were housed in a small, rented building, “with rented chairs, rented desks, a telephone with four buttons on it, and no receptionist,” recalled David Thornburg, who joined PARC’s General Science Laboratory fresh out of graduate school in 1971. MAXC set a pattern for PARC: building its own hardware.

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Ferrari’s Plug-in Hybrid One-Ups the Combustion Engine

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In a test by Car and Driver magazine, the car exploded to 60 mph in 2.0 At a private showing near the track, in a new building crammed with knee-wobbling historic racers, Ferrari gives us a glimpse of its near-term future: the 296 GTB plug-in hybrid, and a display of its magnificent new V-6 engine. Ferrari conservatively quotes a 2.5-second

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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Mission to Earth–Moon Lagrange Point by a 6U CubeSat: EQUULEUS ," IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. Funase, et al.

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