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Wrightspeed partners with AxleTech on heavy-duty electric drive

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The partnership integrates decades of axle engineering experience into Wrightspeed’s electrification technology to meet growing demand from the company’s customers and partners, including Mack Trucks and New Zealand Bus (NZB). Wrightspeed Inc.,

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Emmy Award Winner’s Algorithms Bring High-Quality Video to Your TV

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Alan Conrad Bovik ’s passion for science fiction inspired him to pursue a career in engineering. But he decided to study nuclear engineering in school—which then seemed like the future of energy. When he took a course in computer programming, he fell in love with it and ended up changing his major to computer engineering.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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"I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I I wanted to figure out a way to combine my interests in both engineering and medicine.". Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. and a Ph.D. POSITIVE FEEDBACK.

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Toyota Research Institute launches next phase of collaborative research with 13 new academic institutions; more than $75M investment

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Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering. University of Illinois. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Indiana University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Princeton University. Smith College. Stanford University. Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC).

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. Crawford is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. Presenting my work in front of respected and accomplished engineers felt unreal,” Tiwari says. “I He plans to make it available for Android and iOS devices.

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Turing Award Winner On His Pioneering Algorithms

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Department of Energy science and engineering research center. Instead, he became a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he taught for 33 years. He has won many awards at the conference for his papers. a nearby U.S. Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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