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JULY 21, 2021

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. The personal computer vastly expanded the number of people and organizations that used computers. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

Part 2: No, NACS is not today’s Tesla connector Part 3: Why Tesla’s NACS is unlikely to kill CCS Part 4: Behind the scenes as seven automakers counter Tesla’s Superchargers EV charging is changing, but much remains to be settled A flurry of news over less than a year permanently altered the US landscape for EV charging.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

A person remotely drives these vehicles to ferry passengers. The service is currently available around the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the city’s arts district renting out cars by the minute. A Vay remotely-driven vehicle seen in operation in Las Vegas United States. roads with remote drivers and no one behind the wheel.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

A study by a team at MIT has concluded that roughly 90% of the personal vehicles on the road in the US could be replaced by an electric vehicle available on the market today, even if the cars can only charge overnight. Together, the two datasets encompass millions of trips made by drivers all around the country.

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JUNE 30, 2011

is endowing a professorship, research labs and graduate studies in energy storage at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Part of the funding will support the creation of The Johnson Controls Energy Storage Research Lab at UW-Madison. Johnson Controls, Inc.

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DECEMBER 16, 2023

Bozinovski and Sestakov were electrical engineering and computer science professors at Saints Cyril and Methodius University , in Skopje, North Macedonia. Bozinovska, a physician, taught in the university’s medical school. IEEE commemorated their work with an IEEE Milestone during a ceremony at the university on 10 October.

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MARCH 30, 2014

Engineers at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre ( AMRC ) at the University of Sheffield have successfully printed a 1.5m-wide The engineers said the polymer craft could form the basis of cheap and potentially disposable UAVs that could be built and deployed in remote situations potentially within as little as 24 hours.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

Freebee’s free-to-the-user trips are financed through local governments as part of municipalities’ public transport networks, and also by private entities such as corporate business parks, hotels and resorts, and university campuses.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

The 10-day camp for students ages 13 to 17 provides an immersive and fun approach to learning about engineering. The teenagers engage in hands-on activities, speak with working engineers, and make field trips to local engineering organizations. In its inaugural year in 2018, 80 students participated; this year 330 attended.

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AUGUST 14, 2020

At its core, the project is designed to be “future-proofed” and to evolve to meet transportation goals, beginning with connected buses and shared mobility vehicles such as vans and shuttles, and expanding to additional types of CAVs such as freight and personal vehicles.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. She took the cleaning job, and scrimped and saved to pay for Norwegian reading and writing classes, a requirement to attend a university. she says. “So

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JULY 3, 2013

Ford Motor Company is developing a new form of manufacturing technology—rapid freeform sheet metal forming—that has the potential to reduce costs and delivery time for sheet metal parts needed in smaller quantities. The project is part of a three-year, $7.04-million Earlier post.).

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JUNE 16, 2022

Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. University of Texas at Arlington for more than 50 years. Hwang is a professor of IT convergence and communication engineering at. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. College of Engineering, Guindy , in Chennai, India.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

SiFAB, a scalable proprietary silicon anode battery technology demonstrated in a number of applications, including electric vehicles, power tools, smartphones, personal computers, medical devices and aviation, can deliver up to a 20% increase in gravimetric energy density in lithium-ion batteries versus cells using a graphite anode.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ).

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APRIL 5, 2024

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 Gatorade, for example, now markets a skin patch called the Gx Sweat Patch , which helps tracks personal hydration.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

First offered in 2018, the summer camp program gives teens an opportunity to explore a variety of engineering disciplines through hands-on design challenges, field trips, industry speakers, and more. The first of two sessions held at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the new camp locations, sold out well before the enrollment deadline.

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MAY 24, 2012

Andreas Malikopoulos at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading an effort to enable an automobile engine to function as an autonomous intelligent system capable of learning and realizing its optimal calibration in real-time under different conditions while the driver is driving. Background. transient operation.

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MARCH 20, 2017

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Schaeffler Group are establishing a joint research lab to develop smart mobility devices. The new lab, Schaeffler’s first SHARE lab outside Europe, is housed at NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The lab has a combined funding of S$5 million (US$3.4

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APRIL 25, 2024

Budding engineers serve on the RAS board of directors, have voting privileges, and work within technical committees. in robotics at Heidelberg University , in Germany. Tricomi says the designation benefits young engineers because they learn about ongoing research in their field and because they have direct access to researchers.

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Cars That Think

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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MAY 1, 2023

Only a handful of engineering luminaries know what it feels like to get “The Call” from IEEE Spectrum senior editor Tekla S. It’s a rite of passage, a vital part of the process of being selected by IEEE as a Medal of Honor recipient. Perry prefers to meet in person in order to develop a human connection. Education: B.A.,

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

How John Bardeen got his music box In 1949 an engineer at Bell Labs built three music boxes to show off the new transistors. The Spurlock Museum/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Bell Labs used one of the boxes to demonstrate the transistor’s portability. The following week, news of the transistor was released to the press.

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He will lead the ambitious growth plans of Automotive Lighting & Sensing , the largest part of our business, where great opportunities are evolving around vehicle personality.” graduated from Stuttgart University, Germany, and holds a PhD in Automotive Engineering.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III invented the digital microprocessor-based relay as part of his doctoral thesis. Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; In 2019 he was inducted into the U.S. I couldn’t put it down.

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AUGUST 27, 2023

Woods was endowed with intellectual gifts that allowed him, despite no formal engineering study, to become one of the most prolific U.S. inventors in electrical and mechanical engineering during the late 19th century. I think Woods clearly recognized ‘No, I’m the smartest person in the room. Who was Granville T.

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OCTOBER 25, 2023

The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency. During a YP panel session on Youth Day, young engineers highlighted technology they’ve developed. Partnering with IRENA, the U.N.,

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Spafford ’s more than three decades as professor of computer sciences at Purdue University , in West Lafayette, Ind., Indeed, the field didn’t really exist when he graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science in 1979. During Eugene H.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Virginia Tech will host a university-wide competition for students to design on-demand, remote-controlled 3-D printed aircraft and ground vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate students, individually or in groups, are invited to participate from across the university, no matter their course of study. according to challenge organizers.

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MAY 13, 2022

The Foundation’s support is made possible, in part, by the gifts from its generous donors. patents, is passionate about encouraging and supporting the next generation of engineers. While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif.,

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MAY 12, 2022

AI’s effect on jobs (including engineering jobs). Universal basic income. How do you imagine this trend changing the engineering profession? Lee: I think engineering is largely cerebral and somewhat creative work that requires analytical skills and deep understanding of problems. Kai-Fu Lee on…. It was good.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This article is sponsored by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. CSUN Master of Science in Assistive Technology Engineering. Your smartphone is getting smarter.

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MAY 10, 2016

The role of vehicle electrification in urban areas is part of a broader smart mobility model that includes shared vehicles, charging options, and driverless electric vehicle fleets of cars, buses, trams, and light rail. Personal mobility companies VeloMetro and EcoReco, for instance, are embracing the shared fleet mentality.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here's a car trivia question for you: what engine name went on to become the designation for a body style and then a car model name in its own right? Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. The answer is, of course, Marauder.

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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. That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. Chang Hae-Ja.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country.

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MAY 13, 2022

At SMSC she was responsible for integrated circuit design, validation, and product engineering of silicon chips used in PCs. Her 30-person department specifies tests and develops the scoring and ratings, has roughly 30 people who work closely with the operations people in the lab, where the tests are executed.

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