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APRA-E awards WUSTL $2M to develop predictive battery management system for plug-in vehicles; targeting more efficient use

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A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) will receive $2 million from the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E to design a predictive battery management system for lithium-ion batteries to guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. The School of Engineering & Applied Science is providing $1.2

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DOE to Award $41.9M in Recovery Funds to Spur Growth of Fuel Cell Markets

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Success at this service center will lead to further fleet conversions at some or all of FedEx’s other 470 service centers. Polyfuel will also conduct a design for manufacturability and assembly review to ensure that the systems meet the cost targets for commercialization. Anheuser-Busch (St. Louis, MO).

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Awards range from $2 million to $4 million per year per center for up to four fiscal years, subject to a progress review in year two. Since their establishment by the Department’s Office of Science, the EFRCs have produced 5,400 peer-reviewed scientific publications and hundreds of inventions at various stages of the patent process.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Many of the people at BCC were responsible for the design of the SDS 940, the computer on the strength of which Xerox bought Scientific Data Systems in 1968.)

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