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Elon Musk looking to found STEM school, including University: Bloomberg

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It appears that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now looking to start a school, eventually expected to expand into a university in his home state of Texas. The filing also says that Musk will eventually look to expand the schools to include a University once the primary and secondary schools are operational.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center to launch 4 new system usability research projects

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The new projects will be undertaken in partnership with University of Michigan, Miami University, University of Nebraska, Texas Transportation Institute and State Farm. Toyota’s CSRC is investing $1 million in research projects focused on creating systems that are safe and efficient.

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GM and SAE International select 8 NA universities for new autonomous vehicle competition; Bolt EV the platform

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At WCX 17: SAE World Congress Experience, SAE International and General Motors announced the eight North American universities which will compete in the upcoming AutoDrive Challenge. The participating universities are: Kettering University. Michigan State University. North Carolina A&T University. Michigan Tech.

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Volvo Trucks, UMN partner with local fleets for extreme weather field testing of Volvo VNR Electric truck batteries

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Volvo Trucks North America is working with the University of Minnesota (UMN) to conduct extreme weather testing for its Class 8 VNR Electric model to analyze the impact of ambient temperature on a truck’s battery life. To date, the EMS tool has helped Murphy and HEB achieve more than a 20% increase in range.

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Unifrax introduces Battery Advisory Board to support SiFAB silicon fiber anode battery technology

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Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Manthiram is Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program. Prior to working at Motorola, Lane held various senior-level operations roles at IBM for more than 10 years.

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Self-Destructing Circuits and More Security Schemes

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Last week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers introduced several technologies to fight even the sneakiest hack attacks. It can be a starting point of some dangerous attacks,” Mao Li , a student in Mingoo Seok ’s lab at Columbia University, told engineers at ISSCC.

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Government’s Role in Further Developing 5G Technologies and Future Networks

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Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) have been foundational elements of this government support. degrees in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. Murat Torlak received the M.S.

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