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Why Engineers Still Need the Humanities

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Since last September, Ive been spending seven hours a day, five days a week happily researching the history of women in electrical engineering. So far Ive uncovered the names of more than 200 women who contributed to electrical engineering, the first step in an eventual book project. I could keep going. Who exactly are we?

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The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses

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The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesnt occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. Amazon, at the forefront of this revolution, is leveraging robotics and AI to shape the warehouses of the future.

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IEEE Foundation President Boosts Support for Future Engineers

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Marko Delimar has been a proponent of empowering the next generation of engineers, scientists, and technologists since he was an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Zagreb , in Croatia. He founded the University of Zagrebs IEEE student branch and later became its chair.

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Airbus is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft

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One of the greatest climate -related engineering challenges right now is the design and construction of a large, zero-emission, passenger airliner. For this plane, the company is targeting a 20-to-30 percent reduction in fuel consumption, according to Bruno Fichefeux, head of future programmes at Airbus.

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Revealed: General Motors battery guru explains why lithium – not hydrogen – is central to our EV future

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GM’s top EV battery guru, Andy Oury, believes we could switch to a hydrogen-based economy in the future, if we could build enough renewable energy to run it. The post Revealed: General Motors battery guru explains why lithium – not hydrogen – is central to our EV future appeared first on EV Central.

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The Coming Quantum Boom: A New Industry a Century in the Making

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That Paris event made me realize that quantum engineering has evolved very differently from, say, nanotechnology. Quantum engineering involves math and phenomena that are fundamentally different from the classical physics engineers have so successfully exploited up to now. According to IEEE Life Member Hausi A.

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Faster, Safer Cars Come Into Focus With New Optical Network Tech

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I think the car of the future will be a moving data center equipped with a high-performance computer (HPC), numerous sensors, 6G radio systems, and an optical backbone network to connect them all,” says Hiroyuki Tsuda , an electrical and computer engineering professor at Keio University in Tokyo.

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