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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Pipersville, Pa.

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Environmental groups sue San Diego Association of Governments over $214B Regional Transportation/Sustainable Communities plan; first regional plan under SB 375

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The Cleveland National Forest Foundation and the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit in the San Diego Superior Court against the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), challenging SANDAG’s $214-billion 2050 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (2050 RTP/SCS). Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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is recovering technical capabilities it lost two or three generations ago and is on track to returning astronauts to the moon,” says Bleddyn Bowen , associate professor at the University of Leicester, in England. “It and the electric propulsion thrusters are being tested in Cleveland. “It’s a demonstration that the U.S.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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A 1900 advertisement from General Electric (formed through the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric) touted the advantages of electric Christmas lighting over gas and candles: "No Danger, Smoke or Smell." In 1910 GE changed its basic design to a round bulb, although still with the exhaust tip.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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Consequently, governments, universities, and companies have long looked to fusion to remedy these ills. NASA Glenn Research Center , in Cleveland, are investigating whether this approach could one day provide enough power to operate small robotic probes on the surface of Mars, for example. Among those interested parties is NASA.

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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designed for Diesel Fuel (DF-2) operating with reduced performance with JP-8. The fact that none of the engines that use JP-8 are designed—including their fuel systems—and calibrated for JP-8. ARL’s vehicle technology research dates back to the early 1980s in gas turbine engines. combustion in a piston engine.

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