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IEEE Society Restores Electricity To a Nepali School

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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. More than 200 children attend class there, and some even live there because their home was destroyed by the earthquake, or their parents died in the disaster.

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GE unveils prototype for first Tier 4 heavy-haul locomotive

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GE gathered inputs from its North American Class I railroad customers concerning safety, reliability, fuel usage and operational needs, and then partnered with its operations and maintenance teams to test the new design’s real-world functionality.