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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created the MIT/MTL Center for Graphene Devices and Systems (MIT-CG). This interdepartmental center, part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), brings together MIT researchers and industrial partners to advance the science and engineering of graphene-based technologies.

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JULY 27, 2016

Ford Motor Company and MIT are collaborating on a new research project that measures how pedestrians move in urban areas to improve certain public transportation services, such as ride-hailing and point-to-point shuttles services. —Ken Washington, vice president of Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

MIT researchers have developed a new system that could potentially be used for converting power plant emissions of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide, and thence into useful fuels for cars, trucks, and planes, as well as into chemical feedstocks for a wide variety of products. and Ghoniem, A. FeO 3-δ membranes: a kinetics study.

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MARCH 8, 2013

BASF SE has launched the “North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials—a research collaboration with Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. About 20 new post-doctoral positions will be created at the three universities.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Daimler is becoming a new member of the MIT CSAIL Alliance Program. MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. The new cooperation with the MIT ideally complements this.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) will be investing approximately $50 million over the next 5 years to establish joint research centers at Stanford and MIT, focused on the research and development of intelligent vehicle and mobility technologies. Pratt, is a great opportunity to work with two leading research teams from two top universities.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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 became dean of UC Berkeley’s engineering college in 1990.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Cornell researchers led by Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering and the James A. Friend Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering, have been exploring the use of low-cost materials to create rechargeable batteries that will make energy storage more affordable.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The five-year project will be led by Amedeo Odoni, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, and engage some 30 other faculty and researchers from the School of Engineering, the Sloan School of Management, and the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. Li’s new battery, however, is all solid; there is no liquid or gel in it of any kind, he says.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

MIT researchers have built a model to simulate long-range atmospheric transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Friedman’s work will provide a foundation for ongoing work in Selin’s research group at MIT, in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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JANUARY 4, 2018

The Volkswagen Group and self-driving technology startup Aurora Innovation, founded by technology veterans from Google, Tesla and Uber, announced a strategic collaboration ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. He has a PhD in Robotics from MIT. Chris Urmson, Co-founder & CEO.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Since its launch in April 2021 , the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance has convened a diverse set of experts to explore three areas in which fundamental research could have the most impact: climate change; the nexus of biology and engineering; and securing critical infrastructure against hackers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs. Penfield's academic career at MIT spanned 45 years. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. Paul Penfield. Fellow, 88; died 22 June.

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DECEMBER 27, 2022

He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Iona University , in New Rochelle, N.Y. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

MIT researchers have found a new family of highly active catalyst materials that provides the best performance yet in the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in electrochemical water-splitting—a key requirement for energy storage and delivery systems such as advanced fuel cells and lithium-air batteries. Source: MIT. Grimaud et al.

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DECEMBER 19, 2015

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. Huber’s group, however, has been working to develop new catalytic materials that are orders of magnitude cheaper than precious metal catalysts.

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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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JUNE 9, 2023

an experimental prototype engineered to dispense dog treats on demand. In this paper, we propose AutoCharge, an autonomous charging solution for quadrotors that combines a portable ground station with a flexible, lightweight charging tether and is capable of universal, highly efficient, and robust charging. ICRA 2023 ] Thanks, Ken!

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. While there, he helped develop the Moving Picture Experts Group Advanced Audio Coder, which compresses music signals.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Skolnik began his career in 1955 at MIT ’s Lincoln Laboratory. While there, he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University , in Boston. 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.

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For many applications, such as wearables, stretchability is necessary since our skin stretches as we move,” said James Pikul , a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “A With careful engineering, he said, the batteries can be stretched more than 900 percent.

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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. In engineering, she focuses on developing methods to analyze remote sensing data. “I She then pursued a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MacArthur Fellow and WiTricity founder. and postdoctoral researchers on campus working on wireless charging.

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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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MARCH 9, 2010

Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee is the fourth recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

YouTube ] Scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that's more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards.

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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. A team at Columbia University, in New York City, has developed a wireless-communication technique for wearable medical devices that sends signals securely through body tissue. But the tide looks to be turning.

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MAY 6, 2022

MIT ] The Sechseläuten ("the six o'clock ringing of the bells") is a traditional spring holiday in the Swiss city of Zürich, and this year, it had a slightly less traditional guest: ANYmal! Our engineers design the mechanical, electrical, firmware, robotics, and software components that power ultra-precise mobile printers.

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JULY 9, 2022

Fuzzy theory is wrong, wrong, and pernicious,” said William Kahan, a highly regarded professor of computer sciences and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1975. Kalman in 1972, who is now a professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee. The denunciations were sometimes extreme. But Zadeh never wavered.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Analyzing the data using a model developed at MIT, the researchers discovered that only a small percentage of nanoparticles absorbed and released ions during charging, even when it was done very rapidly. This study is the first to do that comprehensively, under many charging and discharging conditions. —Yiyang Li, lead author.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Simply put, Germany took a perfectly working battery-electric vehicle, modified it with a synthetic methanol engine, and dubbed it as a work of true innovation. Bundesministerin Anja Karliczek hat heute in Berlin den Prototypen eines Autos vorgestellt, das mit dem synthetischen Kraftstoff Methanol angetrieben werden kann.

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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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AUGUST 3, 2014

The next step in the implementation of the project will be establishment of a joint Chinese-Russian working group. Using established designs minimizes technological risks, says Buongiorno, an associate professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE) at MIT. The Chinese delegation came to St.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Hacettepe University , in Ankara. IEEE Presidents' Scholarship , which is payable over four years of undergraduate university study. The award was presented during the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair. The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. He plans to study material science and engineering.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. Emissions Engines Fuels Health Low Temperature Combustion' Credit: ACS, Jalan et al. Click to enlarge. —Jalan et al.

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