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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. The sensors are designed to transmit data in real time to a secure, online gateway. and its environs. Others are using their IEEE student branch to implement the projects. Here are four of the 10 projects.

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Honda begins production of 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid in North America

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The CR-V hybrid features a new two-motor hybrid system produced at Honda’s Ohio Transmission Plant (TMP-O), and a newly refined Atkinson-cycle engine unique to hybrid models that is made at the Anna Engine Plant (AEP), also in Ohio. Associates at the Ohio Transmission Plant assemble the two-motor hybrid unit.

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Honda opens new $124M wind tunnel in Ohio

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Honda opened its new $124-million wind tunnel facility in Ohio, ushering in a new era of development testing capabilities for Honda and Acura products, as well as the company’s race vehicles. The new Honda Automotive Laboratories of Ohio (HALO) facility, located at the independent Transportation Research Center Inc. Investment.

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ARPA-E awards $18M to 4 teams to optimize vehicle performance and efficiency; NEXTCAR Phase II

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This funding is part of Phase II of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles ( NEXTCAR ) program. We are eager to see how these Phase II teams can continue this crucial work in designing the efficient vehicle fleet of the future.

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NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne hot fire test rocket engine injector made by 3-D printing

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A series of firings of a liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen rocket injector assembly demonstrated the ability to design, to manufacture and to test a highly critical rocket engine component using selective laser melting manufacturing technology. Credit: NASA. Click to enlarge. —Jeff Haynes.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.”

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Battelle completing multi-year safety testing program for compressed hydrogen storage systems for vehicles

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Testing was performed at Battelle’s High Energy Research Laboratory in West Jefferson, Ohio, as well as at vehicle crash facilities in Texas and Ohio. One of the important elements in any of these systems is the vehicle duty cycle—the service environment for the vehicle. Denny Stephens.

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