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Nonprofits Fueling the EV Industry

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The electric vehicle (EV) industry is about to have its most significant sales spike thanks to international legislation and nonprofits ramping up support efforts. Some may wonder about the necessity of nonprofit involvement in the EV industry since companies are already making these cars for commercial use. EV support coming.

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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. Job fairs and travel grants Several new initiatives have been rolled out at the society’s flagship conferences. The grant can help students who are not presenters to attend conferences.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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The support from IEEE gave us validation, and that helped us to believe in ourselves and the ideas we came up with,” Orajaka says. Expanding microgrids beyond the underserved During their final semester in 2010, the students decided it was time to implement their idea, and they turned to IEEE once again.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible. MB of data.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story. The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. And there was something utterly beguiling about this idea.”

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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They are the ones who came with the ideas, and had the passion, grit, resilience, and creativity to partner with me in creating my entire research portfolio. After graduating in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering mathematics, Goldsmith spent a few years working in industry before returning to get her graduate degrees.

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Princeton Engineering Dean Hailed as IEEE Top Educator

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They are the ones who came with the ideas, and had the passion, grit, resilience, and creativity to partner with me in creating my entire research portfolio. After graduating in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering mathematics, Goldsmith spent a few years working in industry before returning to get her graduate degrees.

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