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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 4, 2011

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) jointly launched a new online tool called the Materials Project, which operates like a “Google” of material properties, enabling scientists and engineers from universities, national laboratories (..)

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JANUARY 6, 2020

A nationwide alliance of national labs, universities, and industry launched in December to advance the frontiers of quantum computing systems designed to solve urgent scientific challenges and maintain US leadership in next-generation information technology.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Dr. Arumugam “Ram” Manthiram, Professor, University of Texas at Austin.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. —Eric Krotkov, TRI Chief Science Officer, who leads the university research program.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore launched a new project to develop new models and tools for the planning, design, and operation of future urban transportation. Subra Suresh, Dean of Engineering and Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering at MIT.

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MAY 14, 2020

EPRI’s approach is similar to that adopted by the commercial airline industry, in which multiple refurbishments—including engine replacement—can keep a jet aircraft flying economically over many decades. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: High-Fidelity Digital Twins for BWRX-300 Critical Systems - $ 1,787,065.

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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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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 7, 2018

Traditionally, ARPA-E OPEN solicitations issue an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. The OPEN+ advanced nuclear projects are: Additive Manufacturing of Spacer Grids for Nuclear Reactors, Carnegie Mellon University, $1,000,000.

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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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JULY 1, 2013

million project is supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation as part of their collaborative research program for advanced combustion engines. Wai Cheng (Co-PI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (collaborating institution). Operating principle behind an engine using PFS. Click to enlarge.

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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. Marin Solja?i?,

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In a recent study involving a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientist, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Argonne National Laboratory and other institutions, have, for the first time, captured 3D images of microscopic cracks in metal caused by exposure to hydrogen, also known as hydrogen embrittlement.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

BP is renewing its commitment to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) through an agreement to provide another $25 million for continued energy research over the next five years, bringing the company’s total program funding to $50 million. —Ellen Williams, BP’s Chief Scientist.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Nissan said that its engineers have been carrying out intensive research on the technology for years, alongside teams from universities including MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon and the University of Tokyo. Nissan Motor Co., Autonomous driving'

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MAY 31, 2017

Since its launch in 2011, CSRC has collaborated with leading North American universities, hospitals, and research institutions on projects aimed at reducing traffic casualties, and sharing the results publicly so that all can benefit. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC. —Chuck Gulash.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Singapore University of Technology and Design have added a “fourth dimension” to additive manufacturing technology, opening up possibilities for the creation and use of adaptive, composite materials in manufacturing, packaging and biomedical applications. A team led by H.

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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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MARCH 1, 2022

Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EE’s are one engine of innovation and the driving in digital technology. As the early the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.

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JULY 15, 2020

At the conclusion of the Phase 1 period, teams will be down-selected based on an engineering design review and the projected economic impact of their Phase 1 projects on a future electricity grid. Colorado State University. University of Pittsburgh. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin along with Ohio State University and Columbia University-Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory will examine what the primary influences are on the development of persistent, massive hydrate accumulations in deep sediments below the seabed.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. The University of Illinois will conduct research to develop a composite plastic heat exchanger for a low temperature gas streams common in industry. Colorado State University. Iowa State University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Michigan State University.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A Stanford University research team is designing a high-efficiency wireless charging system using magnetic resonance coupling ( earlier post ) to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet apart. Simplified schematic of the wireless energy transfer system in free space. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The realization, which will benefit also from the collaboration with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), of technologies and devices for the capture and temporary storage of part of CO 2 produced by internal combustion engines. This fuel can already be used with existing vehicles, without the need to modify the engine.

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MIT have found that increasing the particle size of a fuel cell catalyst can decrease its degradation and therefore increase the useful lifetime of a fuel cell. UW Madison materials science and engineering assistant professor Dane Morgan and Ph.D.

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APRIL 30, 2010

Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50 Engineering a Bacterial Reverse Fuel Cell.

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JULY 26, 2012

The Phase 1 projects will focus on an engineering and economic analysis of the technologies while identifying the Phase 2 research and development needs to bring the technology closer to commercialization. University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Washington University. DOE Investment: $700,000; Recipient Cost-Share: $175,000.

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MAY 15, 2021

NREL working with industrial partners (Genomatica and DeNora) will develop a biorefining concept that uses electrochemically generated formate as a universal energy carrier to facilitate a carbon optimized sugar assimilation fermentation to synthesize fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) without release of CO 2. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Koratkar’s graduate student and first author of the paper, Mukherjee, was a finalist in the 2014 MIT-Lemelson National Collegiate Student Prize Competition in the graduate student category and presented his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month.

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MAY 31, 2016

Ceder also has an appointment at UC Berkeley’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and all the co-authors are also affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where some of the work was done.

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JULY 30, 2023

In 1961, Norbert Wiener , the father of cybernetics, broke his hip and wound up in Massachusetts General Hospital. Left: MIT Museum; Right: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University Instead, it was Russian scientist Alexander Kobrinski who debuted the first clinically significant myoelectric prosthesis in 1960.

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APRIL 21, 2009

The discovery came when MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder found out how to get a common lithium compound to release and take up lithium ions in a matter of seconds. According to Peter Bruce, a chemist at the University of St Andrews, UK, “As far as I know, this is the fastest yet for this material.&#

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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