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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Solid Power Inc.

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APRIL 25, 2014

and will donate a Chevrolet Camaro to each one of the 16 universities that were recently selected for the exclusive competition. EcoCAR 3 challenges university students across North America to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains over the course of the next four years. California State University, Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

At the time of his death, he was a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cleveland State University and served as dean of its engineering school. He was a former professor and dean at several schools including Temple University , California State University, Northridge , and Ohio University.

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MARCH 11, 2017

The lab’s expertise and unique facilities in materials science, metallurgy and advanced manufacturing attracted the attention of HTS’s leadership during a 2015 visit to Tennessee. The iMFT process to produces parts designed using its innovative Thermal Management Solutions (iTherm). —HTS CEO William Sames.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

Fagen is a proven biofuels engineering, procurement and construction contractor that has built more ethanol plants in the United States than any other company. to execute the front-end engineering, procurement and detailed engineering design work for the project. DuPont had already contracted KBR Inc.

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JULY 27, 2022

After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. Department of Energy science and engineering research center. About Jack Dongarra Employer: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Title: Professor emeritus, computer science Member grade: Life Fellow Alma mater: Chicago State University.

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APRIL 15, 2011

At the SAE 2011 World Congress in Detroit, Michigan, US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, David Sandalow, announced the official launch of the EcoCAR 2 : Plugging into the Future competition and the sixteen university teams selected to participate.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Volkswagen Group of America’s Innovation Hub Knoxville, the company’s technology unit for applied materials science, has expanded its research collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT). We aim to leverage the unique knowledge and innovative power the Tennessee Valley holds.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Approximately 6 billion gallons of fuel are wasted in the US each year as vehicles wait at stop lights or sit in dense traffic with engines idling, according to US Department of Energy estimates. Such camera systems do exist—including one produced by GRIDSMART , a company located just a few miles from the ORNL campus in East Tennessee.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

We can now control local material properties, which will change the future of how we engineer metallic components. This new manufacturing method takes us from reactive design to proactive design. As a result of our work, designers can now specify location specific crystal structure orientations in a part.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Western Michigan University (WMU) have enabled standard raised pavement markers to transmit GPS information that helps autonomous driving features function better in remote areas or in bad weather.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected a team of universities to lead a new Air Transportation Center of Excellence ( COE ) for alternative jet fuels and the environment. The selected university members all have nationally recognized collegiate environmental and aviation-related education programs.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Designed for DC voltage, the new insulator will allow fewer partial discharge events and provide improved electromagnetic interference protection. University of Tennessee. There are two key engineering challenges in the development of 10 kV, 10 MW electric power distribution cables for double-aisle passenger aircraft.

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MARCH 29, 2022

While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. In 1944 Skolnik joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , one of IEEE’s predecessor societies. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore. He taught at the university until he retired in 2000.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

9 Universities and Labs: Colorado School of Mines; Michigan State University; Michigan Tech University; The Ohio State University; University of Kentucky; University of Michigan; University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee; Wayne State University. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2010

Genera Energy, a for-profit company wholly owned by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, broke ground on Tennessee’s Biomass Innovation Park, a campus that integrates and optimizes the entire biomass supply chain. Genera Energy was formed to implement the University of Tennessee’s Biofuels Initiative, a $70.5-million

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Adaptive Robotics Lab ] Meet GE Aerospace’s Sensiworm (Soft ElectroNics Skin-Innervated Robotic Worm), a highly intelligent, acutely sensitive soft robot that could serve as extra sets of eyes and ears for Aerospace service operators inside the engine. The compact design allows for easy placement on a desktop. GE ] Why not Zoidberg?

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MAY 28, 2010

The Hub, which includes partners from universities, industry and other national labs, will use advanced modeling and simulation capabilities (e.g., computational fluid dynamics) and apply them through a new multi-physics computational capability to support significant leaps forward in nuclear reactor design and engineering.

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JULY 18, 2012

million investment in three university-led projects, helping to train and educate the next generation of nuclear energy scientists and engineers. University (Westinghouse). Institute (Carpenter Technology; General Electric-Hitachi; The Ohio State University). University of. University of. State University.

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MAY 26, 2017

Combining simple structures with very high-chemical disorder, high-entropy alloy design represents a new strategy for the development of materials with combinations of properties that cannot be achieved in conventional alloys. —First author Cameron Tracy, Stanford postdoc.

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DECEMBER 7, 2015

Researchers at Fudan University, with colleagues at the University of Jinan and Chongqing University, have developed alkali- and sulfur-resistant tungsten-based catalysts for SCR NO x emissions control. A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. Huang et al.

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JULY 14, 2015

The FOAs were awarded with two primary objectives: to design, construct, and field-test a SOFC prototype system; and to support innovations that improve the reliability, robustness, and endurance of SOFC cell and stack technology. The University of South Carolina. The Tennessee Technological University.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

EPA defines an AECD as “ any element of design that senses temperature, motive speed, engine RPM, transmission gear, or any other parameter for the purpose of activating, modulating, delaying, or deactivating the operation of any part of the emission-control system. ”. diesel engine. Typical AECDs include controls for: Starting.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

A fundamental modeling capability will enable the widespread design of feedstock-flexible biomass gasifiers that are cost-effective and scaled to match the regional distribution of biomass feedstocks. The technology uses unique, engineered catalysts that facilitate new reaction pathways to liquid motor fuels from biomass. USDA Awards.

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JUNE 21, 2016

We expect collaborations across multiple disciplines; from 3D bio-printing, cell science, and process design, automated pharmaceutical screening methods to the supply chain expertise needed to rapidly produce and transport these live-saving materials. Modular Chemical Process Intensification (MCPI) Institute.

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JANUARY 22, 2012

The SAE Taskforce on wireless charging and positioning of electric vehicles (SAE J2954) ( earlier post ) is progressing, and is slated to have a final draft of the guideline this year, according to the Society of Automotive Engineers, International (SAE). Design validation test and wireless charging verification test.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Lignin’s protective characteristics persist during biofuel processing, where it becomes a major hindrance, surviving expensive pretreatments designed to remove it and blocking enzymes from breaking down cellulose into simple sugars for fermentation into bioethanol. That impedes the mechanism the enzyme has to anchor to cellulose.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

And it is vulnerable to precisely the kind of destructive storms that microgrids are designed to ride out with minimal interruption in electric service. To that end, engineers at the U.S. We have designed such a controller, which we call a microgrid orchestrator , and are now developing facilities to thoroughly test it in the lab.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As director of technology integration at Lockheed Martin , in Grand Prairie, Texas, he leads a team that is actively pursuing breakthroughs designed to, among other things, allow life-saving missions to be performed in hazardous environments without putting humans at risk. It’s amazing that people paid attention and listened to me.”

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The projects are based in 24 states, with approximately 47% of the projects led by universities; 29% by small businesses; 15% by large businesses; 7.5% University. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. cannot be engineered. University. Earlier post.). by national labs; and 1.5%

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The projects selected are located in 25 states, with 50% of projects led by universities, 23% by small businesses, 12% by large businesses, 13% by national labs, and 2% by non-profits. The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Camelina will be engineered with.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. The Telechron Model Type E master station clock shown at top was used at the Tennessee Valley Authority beginning in the 1930s. He graduated from MIT in 1894 with a degree in electrical engineering, and within the year he (along with his friend George C. electricity lines.

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APRIL 20, 2023

With Moore’s law and the scaling of transistors waning, the industry is turning to chip designs that don’t work for supercomputing used in massive simulations. nuclear stockpile, “needs to fundamentally rethink its advanced computing research, engineering, acquisition, deployment, and partnership strategy,” warns the report.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Sparkz (Knoxville, Tennessee). APEX Petroleum Engineering (Englewood, Colorado).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

EVs offer a virtual clean-slate from which to accelerate the design of safe, software-defined vehicles with computing and supporting electronics being the prime enabler of a vehicle’s features, functions and value. EVs require automakers to design new manufacturing processes and build plants to make both EVs and their batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion billion and has around 4,600 total staff, of which 3,000 are scientists and engineers. Schematic of the SNS.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company’s new Smartville 360 ESS is a scalable second-life energy storage system that’s designed to incorporate battery packs from different manufacturers (currently, Tesla and Nissan), at varying levels of health, into one unified system. Smartville currently has a pilot project up and running at the University of California San Diego.

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