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OCTOBER 31, 2019

In partnership with the Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Magna is applying its powertrain, electronics and full-vehicle expertise to deliver an automotive-grade, non-permanent magnet, high-performance electric motor that aims to achieve increased power density and reduced cost compared to current e-motors.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Technical challenges include inadequate data on the properties of materials used, limited process control, lack of standardized tests for qualifying machine performance and limited modeling and design tools. million to Northern Illinois University (NIU) in DeKalb, Ill.,to University of Louisville, and 23 others.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1 Brown University.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are applying new materials and concepts integrated within the battery cell to enable a variety of critical features including fail-safe or autonomic shutdown, self-healing of battery performance, and greatly extended lifetimes. Photo credit: Marta Baginska. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 15, 2017

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with experts from industry and academia, have developed predictive engineering tools for designing new, economical, and lightweight automotive composites. This approach should speed the development of more economical carbon fiber materials.

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JULY 21, 2011

The Alcoa Foundation recently awarded a $400,000 grant to the Ohio State University (OSU) Institute for Materials Research in support of innovative design and manufacturing technologies that will enable the creation of lighter, more environmentally friendly vehicle structures. The new design results in a weight saving of over 55%.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

holds a part of a stoplight that utilizes a newer LED designed by his students. Holonyak left GE in 1963 to become a professor of electrical and computer engineering and researcher at his alma mater, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He retired from the university in 2013. Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The primary goal of these NETL-supported projects is to achieve at least 2%—20,000 parts per million (ppm)—REE elemental concentration, which represents a significant enrichment from feedstocks that typically contain REEs at 300 ppm (0.03%). The University will build and test the technology in their laboratory.

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JUNE 4, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration ( MEITNER ).

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AUGUST 18, 2020

The funding opportunity announcement ( FOA ) is part of the Department’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate innovations in plastics recycling technologies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Iowa State University, Deere and Company, Green Electronics Council.

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MAY 12, 2023

Tanenbaum went on to serve as president of AT&T’s New Jersey Bell (now part of Verizon ) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. He joined the University of Illinois in 1977 as a professor.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

million in funding for six projects as part of the Systems for Monitoring and Analytics for Renewable Transportation Fuels from Agricultural Resources and Management (SMARTFARM) program. Project descriptions: University of Illinois – Urbana. University of Utah. —ARPA-E Director Lane Genatowski.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. Two years later he was accepted into the Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2021

ARPA-E released $10 million in funding for 6 projects as part of the Connecting Aviation By Lighter Electrical Systems ( CABLES ) topic. The projects selected under this opportunity and associated topics are not part of an existing ARPA-E program, but if successful could establish a new program area for ARPA-E to explore further.

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. University of Houston. Princeton University. Description.

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MAY 13, 2017

Researchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China have developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion battery cathodes, yielding high-quality, high-performance battery materials that could also enable flexible and solid-state batteries. Zhang et al.

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JULY 24, 2018

—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. This is a newly discovered reason why these promising batteries have such a steep drop off in efficiency and yield after relatively few charge/discharge cycles.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

MTR), uses a specially designed CO 2 -selective membrane—a micro-porous film that acts as a semi-permeable barrier—to separate CO 2 from other gases, such as nitrogen, in a coal-burning plant’s flue gas. The Polaris membrane system, developed by Membrane Technology and Research Inc. and City Water, Light and Power.

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JUNE 28, 2023

That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. I was interested in the design and operation of airplanes and spacecraft.” Space was really inspiring in those days,” she says.

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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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AUGUST 6, 2014

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

The award was part of a total of $13 million NSF awarded to three five-year “Frontier” projects to advance cyber-physical systems (CPS). This co-design approach is making novel intellectual contributions to the areas of formal methods, control theory, sensing and perception, cognitive science, and human-machine interfaces.

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JULY 27, 2022

After he graduated high school, there was only one university he wanted to attend: Chicago State. For 16 weeks he worked with a group of researchers designing and developing EISPACK , a package of Fortran routines that compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices—calculations common in scientific computing. a nearby U.S.

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MAY 5, 2011

It is designed to encourage the development of research and development centers that attract leading scientists from around the world and advance high-caliber work. One of the primary goals of the WPI, Somerday said, is to change the research university environment in Japan by fostering more direct collaborations with non-Japanese entities.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Allan Alcorn, shown here in 2011, designed Pong as an exercise, to learn about how to design video games. The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. At the time, video games were mostly the domain of research laboratories and universities. vonguard/Wikipedia. It could be.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Bartley, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Eric Beers, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg. Braun, University of Missouri, Columbia.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Ultra-Light Door Design, Manufacturing and Demonstration (Area of Interest 2). This project will develop and demonstrate an advanced drivers-side front door architecture comprised of lightweight materials, functionally integrated component parts, innovative mechanisms and door seal systems. Clemson University. TPI Composites.

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MAY 13, 2022

The Foundation’s support is made possible, in part, by the gifts from its generous donors. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., He joined as an undergrad at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. in 1991 with one of his Ph.D.

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 30, 2023

In the 1990s, he became known for his long-running legal battle against Universal Manufacturing Corp. The Clapper also had an “away” setting that was activated by noise, designed to deter burglars while homeowners were on vacation. Eventually, they filed for a U.S. patent for the new and improved device.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Georgia Tech is launching a new Institute for Materials (IMat), an interdisciplinary research institute designed to foster a materials innovation ecosystem for research and education. This new institute is part of a $10-million commitment over the next five years toward building a stronger materials innovation ecosystem.

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JULY 31, 2022

the John Bardeen professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana , and the creator of the first LEDs. and joined the Illinois faculty. The photographs appeared in the original print version. Take a look around during the next few days,” advised Nick Holonyak Jr. ,

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JULY 21, 2009

As part of its efforts to inform Congress, energy stakeholders, and the public about smart grid efforts, the Department of Energy released the first Smart Grid System Report , which examines the status of smart grid deployments nationwide and any regulatory or government barriers to continued deployment. Smart Grid System Report Annex A.

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APRIL 14, 2009

Kentucky was selected over Texas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. The 1,551-acre Glendale site, which sits adjacent to Interstate 65 and the CSX rail line, runs along what is called “Auto Alley” and will be submitted as part of NAATBatt’s application to the US Department of Energy. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 27, 2022

And part of the change involves extending the city’s EV-charging network. “We This duo, alongside Timothy Lipman of the University of California, Berkeley , and Alec Brooks of AC Propulsion , laid the foundation for vehicle-to-grid power. We want to predict where we need to build the next electric charging station.”.

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Columbia University , New York, N.Y. Researchers will develop systems for tagging CO 2 with carbon-14 at atmospheric level (1 part per trillion) and measuring the carbon-14 CO 2 levels. Montana State University , Bozeman, Mont. Stanford University , Stanford, Calif. University of Miami Rosenstiel School , Miami, Fla.

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