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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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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. Once I discovered it, I found that I loved it.” After earning her Ph.D.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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No battery is perfect, however, so engineers keep pushing for new and improved ways to store those electrons. This story looks at promising research out of Japan’s Shinshu University on light-absorbing materials to split water into hydrogen and oxygen directly—cutting the electrolyzer out of the equation.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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IEEE HAC also collaborated with IEEE Women in Engineering. IEEE student members from Moi University in Mombasa, Kenya, designed and deployed "smart kibandas"— open huts or cubicles used for informal business. The program aims to inspire WIE members to participate in HAC activities.

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Up close and personal with Volkswagen’s e-Golf carbon offset project: Garcia River Forest

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MRC lists the amount of chemical usage on its website, monitors chemicals in the water table, doesn’t use the herbicide within the watercourse protection zones, and plans to phase out the use of the chemical by 2020. Engineers tore apart the old structure, excavated for new concrete retaining walls, and added rock armor to the slope.

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How Will EV Charging Powered by Renewable Energy Create a Greener World

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It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal. Renewables Using the Earth’s Water & Heat. The tectonic-plate-related power is generated most in Iceland, El Salvador, New Zealand, Kenya, and the Philippines. power generation.