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Hodges Former dean of engineering Life Fellow, 85; died 13 November Hodges, who was dean of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley , conducted pioneering research in IC design and semiconductor manufacturing. Hodges continued that line of research at UC Berkeley, which he joined in 1970 as a professor of engineering.

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This work, by Philip Arm, Mayank Mittal, Hendrik Kolvenbach, and Marco Hutter from ETHZ RSL, will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2024 ) in May in Japan (see events calendar above). Stigmergy is a kind of group coordination that’s based on environmental modification. Cool, right?

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MARCH 8, 2023

At the IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in December, two groups of researchers suggest that silicon might not be the best answer. No matter how many transistors there are between the input and output there are only two sources of resistance,” says SangHeyon Kim , associate professor of electrical engineering at KAIST.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

A study by a team from the University of Cambridge (UK) and MIT attributes ~8,000 premature mortalities per year to aircraft cruise emissions. Lead author Steven Barrett from MIT notes that there are many uncertainties, including how accurately the model reflects how air travels vertically from high altitudes to low altitudes.

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AUGUST 17, 2011

The group presented their results at the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference in June. The group found four red areas where cracks—and oil leaks&madsh;were especially likely to occur. When the researchers compared their model with the real-life image, they found an almost perfect match.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. She liked working on creative projects and mathematics, so she decided to study math and literature at MIT. She holds more than 50 U.S.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

Mancino Former manager of engineering reliability at RCA Life senior member, 93; died 24 September For most of his career, Mancino worked as an engineer at RCA , which was headquartered in New York City. Mancino began his career at RCA in 1951 as an electromagnetic compatibility engineer in Camden, N.J. While serving in the U.S.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. While there, he helped develop the Moving Picture Experts Group Advanced Audio Coder, which compresses music signals. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England.

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APRIL 6, 2022

A recent survey has revealed that 99 percent of computer vision engineers have had a machine learning project completely canceled due to insufficient training data. MIT Synthetic data has some advantages over traditional datasets, the researchers note. Researchers have already been looking towards synthetic data to fill this breach.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2009

is introducing Ethanol Boosted Direct Injection (EBDI) technology to optimize flex-fuel engines to a level of performance the company says will exceed gasoline engine efficiency and approach levels previously reached only by diesel engines. Ricardo, Inc. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). The prototype EBDI is a 3.2-liter

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MAY 24, 2022

Now, in the age of advanced technology, an engineer has created his own mechatronic version of the mythical beast. It has already been featured at the Toulouse International Fair, where it thrilled onlookers from 9 to 18 April. Dion Khodagholy/Columbia Engineering Sun in a Box. Alain Pitton/NurPhoto/AP Body Area Network.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. He left MIT in 1959 to join Electronic Communications, now part of Raytheon. In 1944 Skolnik joined the American Institute of Electrical Engineers , one of IEEE’s predecessor societies. in engineering from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore.

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The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. After graduating in 1985 with bachelor’s degrees in physics and mathematics, she headed to MIT as a graduate student with the goal of pursuing a career in medical engineering. The group has trained 10,000 medical professionals on how to use the kits.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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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 is a professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind. She then pursued a Ph.D.

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Scott Kemp of MIT, another of the paper’s authors. “So In other words, “it’s not a very good bomb, but it could explode and wreak all kinds of havoc,” says John Lee , professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan. So you don’t even need centrifuges, and that’s what really is important here.”

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The CLEEN program helps develop environmentally friendly and energy efficient aircraft and engine technology that could be introduced into the commercial aircraft fleet. The five contracts are expected to total $125 million over the five-year span of the program.

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Bob Kahn: I got my PhD from Princeton in 1964 and took a job as an assistant professor at MIT in the electrical engineering department. At around the same time, Len (Leonard) Kleinrock was doing theoretical work on queuing networks at MIT. Licklider who came to ARPA from BBN (and MIT before that).

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JULY 9, 2022

His career goal, for as long as he can remember, was to be an engineering professor. Rather, he thought of scientific and engineering research as a type of religion, practiced at universities. Zadeh received an electrical engineering degree from the University of Tehran in 1942. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb. Kalman in 1972.

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Larson worked as a power engineer for Hughes Aircraft , IBM , the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International ), and other companies. CHOOSING ENGINEERING Larson was born in Stockton, Calif., He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1960 from MIT. China Green Energy Council in 2008.

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The selections announced focus on eight approaches to improving vehicle efficiency: Advanced fuels and lubricants : Eight projects awarded to improve fuels and lubricants that will enable optimal performance of advanced combustion engines. Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants LLC. Advanced fuels and lubricants. Grantee Description.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. He hopes to talk with Turkey's science minister and the TOGG [Turkish Automobile Joint Venture Group], a new company formed by the government. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He plans to study material science and engineering.

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The electrical engineer left her job at a semiconductor startup to pursue an MBA so she could better understand the business side of technology. Her engineering background got her the position. and international defense and intelligence agencies. that funds information technology for U.S.

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A new desalination process developed by engineers at MIT could treat produced water—deep water, often heavily laden with salts and minerals—from natural gas wells at relatively low cost. The research is the work of a team including MIT postdoc Prakash Narayan, mechanical engineering professor John H.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

He is an active member of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section , which he chaired, and has been involved with several societies, standards groups, and the IEEE Future Directions committee. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs.

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Since projects were not assigned from above, the researchers formed their own groups; support for a project depended on how many people its instigator could get to work on it. The group thought it should have a computer of its own. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., This had its advantages.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These investments are one reason why the International Energy Agency (IEA) in September insisted that there’s still hope to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 °C Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

government established a Supersonic Transport Advisory Committee, which began discussions with international partners about building a supersonic airliner. A new generation of aeronautical engineers and entrepreneurs are, however, keen to once again take on the technical, environmental, and economic challenges.

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The autonomous boats—rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware—are being developed as part of the ongoing “ Roboat ” project between MIT and the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute). Collision-free trajectories.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2021

This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Already, engineered fabrics serve crucial functions here on Earth. In each case, electronic fabrics sensitive to vibrations and charge could serve as a foundational technology.

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Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. —Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Founder and Chairman Li Shufu.

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Volkswagen Group engineers are currently working on electrifying up to 40 different models, ranging from all battery-electric drives to plug-in hybrids and even fuel cell systems, he said. For the medium term, the Group strongly believes that the plug-in hybrids will be the leading alternative. —Martin Winterkorn.

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the session counted among its panelists: Professor John Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Sloan Auto Laboratory at MIT. Examples of advanced powertrains are turbo charged gas engines, diesel and hybrid. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc., 8.6 / 10.6. 6.6 / 8.2. ?6.7

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MAY 17, 2022

A Portable Desalination System Makes Water Potable—Without a Filter Payal Dhar (Freelance Blogger) MIT researchers have developed a prototype of a suitcase-size device that can turn seawater into safe drinking water. The unit’s one-button operation requires no technical knowledge. What’s more, it has a completely filter-free design.

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MARCH 1, 2023

But these engineers and programmers largely shared the same point of view. Into PARC flowed many former ARPA contractors, including some from Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory , the University of Utah ‘s computer graphics operation, Doug Engelbart’s group at SRI , and BBN’s artificial-intelligence efforts.

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JULY 18, 2011

A paper on their new technology—conjugative assembly genome engineering, or CAGE—was published in the journal Science. Engineering biological systems can be unpredictable, as a single misplaced or misdesigned allele can be lethal. introducing genome-wide changes dynamically in a living cell.

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Arzeda will leverage computational algorithms to engineer proteins for the creation of new synthetic enzymes to activate methane, the first step in producing a liquid fuel from natural gas. Enzyme Engineering for Direct Methane Conversion. REMOTE Technical Approach: High-Efficiency Biological Methane Activation. Lead organization.

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