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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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After graduating, he joined Collins Radio—now Collins Aerospace —headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The OCCHC builds apartments and homes in low-income neighborhoods. Army in 1950 after receiving a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1949 from Iowa State University , in Ames. Worth was drafted into the U.S.

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New efficient hybrid optimization control method for diesel engine emissions and performance

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Researchers at Iowa State have developed a new hybrid optimization control method to improve diesel engine emissions and performance. The genetic algorithm (GA), originally developed in the 1960s and 70s, came into commercial use in the late 1980s with the advent of more accessible commercial tools.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. will develop a commercially viable process for the production of bio-butanol, an advanced biofuel, from seaweed (macroalgae). Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies. DOE grant: $7,200,000). DOE grant: $9,000,000).

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