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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. She earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial systems engineering in 2015 and a master’s in engineering with a concentration in mechatronics in 2017.

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Swiss team concludes that particulate filters should be mandatory for GDI engines

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The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Bern University of Applied Sciences, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, several industrial partners and Empa were all involved. The results of the GasOMeP project were presented during a conference held at the Empa Academy in late March.

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How Eddie Custovic Is Building His Legacy

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The IEEE senior member established an innovation lab for budding entrepreneurs at La Trobe University , in Melbourne, Australia, where he is an engineering professor. It goes back to being a refugee in Switzerland, where my brother and I had to learn how to earn money,” Custovic says. He’s now doing so, in a number of ways.

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Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor

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Madni sat at the helm of BEI Sensors and Controls, overseeing a product line that included a variety of sensor and inertial-navigation devices, but its customers were less varied—mainly, the aerospace and defense electronics industries. defense industry. 1972, University of California, Los Angeles, both in electrical engineering; Ph.D.,

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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He recognizes the diminishing power of the oil and gas industry, and embraces the imminent future of electrically powered transportation. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion. He works in the sustainable energy technologies industry and he is an advocate for change.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. In the industrial world, it’s entirely different. So we called 20 subjects from all across Switzerland, some people also from outside Switzerland, with different levels of expertise. And so we tried to do the same for human pilots.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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