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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. After earning her Ph.D.

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The wireless communications pioneer is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences. So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By She went on to teach engineering at Stanford for more than 20 years.

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As a data-center network engineer with Meta’s network infrastructure team, Susana Contrera is playing a leading role in this unprecedented technology rollout. Her job is about “bringing designs to life,” she says. But she decided to pursue a career in engineering because of her parents, who were small-business owners.

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MARCH 14, 2023

For Synopsys Chief Executive Aart de Geus , running the electronic design automation behemoth is similar to being a bandleader. The IEEE Fellow has been playing guitar in blues and jazz bands since he was an engineering student in the late 1970s. De Geus, who helped found the company in 1986, has some experience with bands.

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The initiative aims to improve the country’s reliance on hardware infrastructure and to become a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design. Sharma, a semiconductor engineer, was instrumental in organizing the meeting for the Tokyo-based company. While building his radio, he says, he fell in love with engineering. “I

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MARCH 15, 2024

We know the folks at Zipline pretty well, though, and they’ve certainly made creative engineering work for them, as we saw when we visited one of their “nests” in rural Rwanda. We want to be a universal delivery service. Engineering test footage of Zipline’s Platform 2 docking system at their test site in Half Moon Bay in California.

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APRIL 28, 2022

Purdue University and Duke Energy plan to explore the feasibility of using advanced nuclear energy to meet the campus community’s long-term energy needs. Kettelhut professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Bowen Laboratory of Large-Scale CE Research. Approximately 50% of campus electricity is purchased from Duke Energy.

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The IEEE Jamaica Section is acting as a catalyst to engage and inspire the island nation’s next generation of engineering and technology professionals. The section held a first-of-its-kind workshop in January at the University of Technology in Kingston. Students from several local schools and universities participated in the event.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here is a collection of the project ideas related to the electric vehicle. We have published a video “ Top 75 electric vehicle related project ideas ” on our YouTube channel “ Get Electric Vehicle ” Now, here is a collection of the comments and responses to those comments in that video. Thank you.

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Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

reflective, developed by engineers at Purdue University, has earned a Guinness World Records title for the whitest paint. reflectivity compares to a reflectivity of 80–90% for other white paints designed to reflect sunlight that are currently available. Credit: Purdue University/Joseph Peoples. 427 FA9550-17-1-0368).

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MAY 27, 2022

It was an idea born of frustration, or at least that’s how Charles Babbage would later recall the events of the summer of 1821. Babbage set to work on the concept for a Difference Engine, a machine that would use a clockwork mechanism to solve polynomial equations. That is, he wanted to build a full-scale Difference Engine.

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A A lot of people have said they also thought of this idea.

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Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have received a patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office for a novel design that could increase the efficiency and reduce toxic emissions from gasoline-fueled internal combustion engines. That complicates the engine of course. —Vasily Geyko.

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. An active and involved volunteer Greene’s parents are not engineers. It was there that I got to explore and engage with a diversity of different engineers,” Greene says. “It Now a Ph.D.

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But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. They look for things that cars need to understand, and they have absolutely no idea about anything else, which can cause all kinds of problems for them. Not impossible, no. Sure, why not.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), in collaboration with the Algae Foundation and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, announced a new AlgaePrize competition for high school through graduate students studying at a US-based high school, college, community college, university, and/or graduate school.

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Ford and Purdue University researchers are working to develop a new, patent-pending charging station cable that could combine with in-development vehicle charging technology, making it even easier for people to transition to EVs with seamless re-charging. —Michael Degner, senior technical leader, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

After all, diesel cars cost less to maintain, burn less fuel, and have a longer engine life. Although the pollutant emissions of a diesel engine are less than those of a gasoline one, it still emits carcinogens, nitrous oxides, and soot. Older models don’t even have the emission-control features that newer ones do.

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Prototype II Tour Engine—a novel split-cycle engine—on the bench. Tour Engine , the developer of a novel split-cycle engine ( earlier post ), has its Prototype II engine running and will present details on its operation at the upcoming SAE 2012 World Congress in Detroit. Readings from control engine.

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JULY 29, 2023

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. Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. She has worked there for more than four years. “It

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AUGUST 15, 2021

A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. However, urban environmental design often neglects life cycle GHG emissions.

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Chemical engineers at Rice University and Pennsylvania State University have shown that combining machine learning and quantum chemistry can save time and expense in designing new catalysts. There’s a certain concentration of gas-phase species that come out of the engine. —O’Connor et al. —A.S.M.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A. Team members are John W.

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At least, that’s what researchers at Brown University did, by building a wireless communications system that mimics the brain using an array of tiny silicon sensors, each the size of a grain of sand. Arto Nurmikko, Brown University The researchers also conducted simulations to test the system’s error rate, which increases with more sensors.

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APRIL 17, 2020

A research team led by Northwestern University has designed and synthesized new metal-organic framework (MOF) materials with ultrahigh porosity and surface area for the storage of hydrogen and methane for fuel cell-powered vehicles. Credit: Northwestern University. Teller (BET) area of 7310 m 2 g ?1 160 K/5 bar). —Omar K.

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Rather, the data and communication systems are designed to be incredibly, unquestionably dependable and reliable. It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I The Webb’s comms aren't flashy. One is the 2.09

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JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. To get to the best ideas, collaboration is critical. Columbia University.

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The winning design: “WaterBone”. The design challenge served to accelerate innovative ideas by using novel material technologies, structural designs, energy absorbing materials and unique methods of manufacturing to reduce vehicle curb weight while maintaining current US automotive safety standards. Click to enlarge.

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To help achieve this, the recyclability of the materials used is already taken into account during the design process for new models. In order to achieve this, the idea is to develop, among other things, sensor technology using AI-based materials detection and other spectroscopic methods (e.g.

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Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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MARCH 20, 2023

These speculations aside, the idea that a person could simply die in plain view and without friends or family was shocking. My one great advantage has been my access to students and to scientific instruments at the University of Adelaide, where I am a professor of electrical and electronic engineering. police sketch artist.

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” So almost everyone who joined PARC in its formative years had a different idea of what the center’s charter was. Laser printers.

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. It also kickstarted the field of genetic engineering — the study of altering the genome to fight disease and change human health for the better. With advancements like CRISPR, genetic engineering is entering its own renaissance. I did my Ph.D.

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The Volkswagen and BASF international “Science Award Electrochemistry 2016” goes to Dr. William Chueh from Stanford University. Chueh is assistant professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Center Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. Dr. William C.

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Researchers from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and their colleagues report successfully engineering poplar trees to produce lignin that degrades more easily, thereby lowering the effort and cost to convert wood to biofuel. Source: GLBRC. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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has developed and built a technical demonstration electric vehicle using its range-extender engine. The range extender is based on a single-cylinder, water-cooled four-stroke engine that builds on proven, low-cost technologies in a design optimized for this application. Hyperdrive’s new range extender engine.

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