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JANUARY 7, 2024

Although the market is growing, the number of engineers and technologists who understand the complicated systems is not. The IEEE Fellow is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Manitoba , Canada, and past vice president of IEEE Educational Activities.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Engineers at NASA Glenn are testing a new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) inlet-fan combination—the first of its kind ever to be tested. Originally conceived of as a propulsion system for generation-after-next (N+2), the BLI system could increase fuel efficiency by 4-8% more than the advanced engines airlines are beginning to use.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Unifrax, the inventor of specialty ceramic fibers, has a 75+ year track record of developing and supplying engineered inorganic materials at large scale to advanced industries worldwide including electric vehicles, aerospace, and chemical processing. —Chad Cannan, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Unifrax.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

CALM will coalesce the strengths and knowledge of the aluminum and plastics/composites industries with technology providers in design, fabrication and joining to accelerate the implementation of mixed-material solutions that will reduce vehicle mass. CALM is intended to be industry-led with CAR as the project manager. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 10, 2015

XGS produces the anode material through proprietary manufacturing processes and uses its xGnP graphene nanoplatelets to stabilize silicon particles in a nano-engineered composite structure. Doron Aurbach (Bar Ilan University) for a 3-day technical seminar on batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

Xtrac, best known for the gearboxes and driveline components it develops for numerous motorsport formulas and high performance road cars, is joining a group of experts from industry and academia this week looking at cutting-edge technologies that could enhance the performance of transmission systems generally. Steve Vanes. Steve Vanes.

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MARCH 5, 2025

A friend got me interested in the possibilities of working in the semiconductor industry, where manufacturers are engaged in a constant, high-stakes competition to build smaller, faster circuits. But eventually, the scaling process stagnated and engineers were forced to switch to shorter wavelengths. nm wavelength.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The University of California San Siego (UCSD) has formed the San Diego Institute for Materials Discovery and Design, a joint initiative of the Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD. In addition, the campus-wide Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Program will be an important part of the Institute.

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MARCH 20, 2012

The European automotive industry risks losing the present technological leadership if this doesn’t happen. In the long-term, this jeopardizes our industry’s competitiveness and European jobs. The figure suggests that the car market will continue to be dominated by traditional combustion-engine models for the foreseeable future.

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AUGUST 7, 2009

On 30 June 2009, two fuel cell vehicles, two Toyota Technical Center engineers, an SRNL engineer and a NREL engineer completed a 331.5 Driving range data from each vehicle was calculated by SRNL and NREL engineers. Jared Farnsworth, Toyota Technical Center advanced powertrain engineer.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

In an industry-first customer loyalty program, Ford will provide the power upgrades free of charge to all current owners of a 2011 Super Duty diesel pickup. The new engine architecture enables easier service work for all major engine components, potentially reducing downtime. Ford Motor Company is upgrading the 6.7-liter

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JUNE 21, 2012

Rémi Bastien, Renault’s Senior Vice President of Research, Advanced Studies and Materials and 2012 Chairman of EUCAR, set out the association’s recommendations on Horizon 2020 to an audience of MEPs (Members of European Parliament) and stakeholders at a seminar in the European Parliament on 20 June.

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MARCH 25, 2024

At the International Battery Seminar & Exhibit held 12-15 March in Orlando, many of the world’s leading battery makers, test equipment manufacturers, and theorists gathered to talk about advances in the field and to present new products claiming to make the battery production process quicker and cheaper.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

The awards were presented during the 2016 CAR Management Briefing Seminars (MBS) in Traverse City, Mich. For the Module category, which focuses on the achievements from within the automotive supplier base, the winner was ContiTech for its unique polyamide rear crossbeam for the 2016 Mercedes S-Class.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

With a focus on advanced technology, the ERL’s mission is to identify and develop innovations for future generations of vehicles with the goal of transferring technologies from many industries into the automotive domain. and the cloud—to be able ultimately to design a vehicle that can learn, predict and adapt to drivers.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

VoA made the announcement at the Management Briefing Seminar, hosted by the Center for Automotive Research. —Oliver Schmidt, general manager, Environment and Engineering Office, Volkswagen Group of America. 3Degrees and carbon offsets. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage.

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MAY 13, 2023

economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? The United States today manufactures just 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990, according to a September 2020 report by the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The transistor, the basic building block of the electronics industry, was developed in 1947 by. IEEE Electron Devices Society is holding seminars and panel discussions at IEEE conferences, as well as presenting webinars, giving away prizes, and organizing other events from now until the end of next year. to replace the vacuum tube.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

This approach permits a precise distinction between fuel burned to provide a given level of service and fuel burned as a result of inefficiencies, such as the use of older technology, circuitous routing, or taxiing with two engines instead of one. Aviation Fuel Efficiency'

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AUGUST 9, 2009

Sue Cischke, Ford group vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering, pointed to the “ key role ” government policies such as fuel standards and greenhouse gas emission regulations, play in the development and support of Ford’s product and technology pathways. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) mpg in 2016. annual increase.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

PAL Robotics’ Kangaroo demonstrates classic “zero-moment point” or ZMP walking, with only one or two engineers tagging along, and neither of them look all that nervous. This small soft robot has the potential to be employed as a robotic system for inner and outer pipe inspection and confined space exploration in the oil and gas industry.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Grab will open an R&D center in Jakarta and target hiring 150 engineers over the next two years. To equip Indonesian engineers with globally competitive skills, Grab will provide training opportunities at its R&D centers in Singapore, Beijing and Seattle. million commuters in greater Jakarta. million commuters in greater Jakarta.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Engineered Arts ] Kittens: the enemy of lazy robots everywhere. I’m very curious about what “ [ Agility Robotics ] This is a summary video of KIMLAB Robot Demos at UIUC Engineering Open House 2023. The ability to re-orient objects in a power grasp provides unique value to both industrial and domestic applications.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In a new study, engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder debuted mCLARI, a 2-centimeter-long modular robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps in multiple directions. MIT CSAIL ] This UPenn GRASP SFI Seminar is by E Farrell Helbling at Cornell, on Autonomy for Insect Scale Robots.

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JUNE 25, 2012

We’re not throwing stones or rocks at lead acid battery industry. The proposed system uses a very small starter battery, the sole function of which is to start the engine. Hay Railroad Engineering Seminar, UIUC). There are some things it can’t do. One of those is perform uniformly in large strings. start-stop) vehicles.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Hannah Stuart, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, and Ph.D. NRG ] For the harvest of small tomatoes the qb SoftHand Industry adapts naturally to the shape and, gently, exerts the appropriate force to be able to perform the assigned task. [ QB Robotics ] The next generation of LoCoBot is here.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

DFKI ] The Utah Bionic Leg, developed by University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Tommaso Lenzi and his team in the HGN Lab, is a motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees. Utah Engineering ] PLEN is all ready for the world cup. Utah Engineering ] PLEN is all ready for the world cup.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Clearpath Robotics ] MAB Robotics is developing legged robots for the inspection and maintenance of industrial infrastructure. Engineered Arts desktop robots feature 32 actuators, 27 for facial control alone, and 5 for the neck. Shipping early next year. The robots are following a script for this video, using one of their many voices.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Includes a chronological list of EV trade shows, seminars, exhibitions, and upcoming electric vehicle events. In the words of Wasim Sarwar Dilov, Head of Research and Advanced Engineering at Rimac Automobili, this Expo will be a great place to strategize with the entire surrounding battery industry.

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MAY 6, 2022

To face this challenge, a team of engineers from Caltech has developed Neural-Fly, a deep-learning method that can help drones cope with new and unknown wind conditions in real time just by updating a few key parameters. More and more factories are moving to Thailand, hence education plays an important to educate the students in Industry 4.0

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JULY 31, 2022

Note the curved mirrors hanging from the ceiling, the better to view the maze of engineers, technicians, and support staff of the development laboratory. Sitting in his shirtsleeves at an industrial beige metal desk piled with papers, amid dented bookcases, gym bag in the corner, he does not look like anybody’s definition of a star engineer.

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AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. Since then, he has been revered in the South Korean media as the industry’s “godfather.”

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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 continued that line of research at UC Berkeley, which he joined in 1970 as a professor of engineering.

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JUNE 4, 2025

Prototyped in 1975, this automated taxi-dispatch system was the brainchild of mechanical engineer Dwight Baumann and his students at Carnegie Mellon University. Indeed, the idea that universities are engines of innovation is so ingrained that we take it for granted that it was always the case. Are innovators born or made?

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