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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

A UK-based consortium, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a £ 5.7 million) grant to help develop new super-light materials solutions for building more fuel-efficient cars and aircraft. An official project launch event will be held at the University of Manchester in June 2010. million (US$8.9

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APRIL 8, 2015

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic precursors and other substances from biomass with a recently announced $3.3-million million grant from the United States Department of Energy. Part of a $13.4-million

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So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By 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. She has been granted 38 U.S.

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in robotics at Heidelberg University , in Germany. 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.

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So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By 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. She has been granted 38 U.S.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. EPIC is a multi-year, research investment program focused on electricity-related innovations, finding new energy solutions and bringing clean energy ideas to the marketplace.

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APRIL 21, 2019

Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. —Huazhen Fang.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

and Suzhou Automobile Research Institute at Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, in which the two parties have agreed to promote a cooperative effort regarding the research of future automotive technology. For years, Tsinghua University and Nissan have had a long partnership that has yielded great results.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

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. The support from IEEE gave us validation, and that helped us to believe in ourselves and the ideas we came up with,” Orajaka says.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a new family of anode materials that can double the charge capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes. As a metallic foil, the IdEA anode does not require an external current collector, significantly reducing the fraction of inactive components.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Williams was granted 27 U.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. He was granted 15 patents. patents during his time at IBM.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding 20 grants for FY 2009 in two research areas on natural systems: biosensing and bioactuation (12 awards); and obtaining hydrocarbons from biomass and microorganisms (8 awards). Ribeiro, all from Purdue University. Curt Conner, all from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

Turning an idea into a mobile app In 2020 Tiwari and two of his classmates submitted a pitch and a business plan for their product to the Conrad Challenge , a competition for students developing technologies that address a global problem. He was granted a patent in Germany last year. Tiwari filed for a U.S.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2012

The rotation of a magnet in the transmitting unit causes a second magnet in the receiving unit—which also experiences that rotating magnetic field to rotate in a synchronized manner.

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JULY 24, 2018

—Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. This is a newly discovered reason why these promising batteries have such a steep drop off in efficiency and yield after relatively few charge/discharge cycles.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has [link] Michigan State University a $5-million grant to study how biofuel crops acquire nitrogen, insights that could help maximize yields while minimizing fertilizer use.

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JULY 19, 2021

This is now what's available from IP.com with its latest suite of workflow solutions dubbed IQ Ideas Plus TM. IQ Ideas Plus makes it easy for inventors to submit, refine, and collaborate on ideas that are then delivered to the IP team for review. The IQ Ideas Plus portfolio was introduced earlier this year in the U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2023

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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APRIL 3, 2021

The idea of using wind for transportation is thousands of years old, with some experts citing dates as far back as 5000 B.C. The University of Stuttgart designed a wind-powered car. One example is the Ventmobile , built by University of Stuttgart students in 2008. The Potential of Wind Power.

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MARCH 3, 2023

She also provides guidance to university students and young professionals through outreach programs at Dell such as STEM Aspire. Zakrzewska originally wanted to become a radio broadcaster, but she also liked the idea of becoming an engineer so she could create technology that people would consider magical like she did.

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MARCH 17, 2016

Supported by an IDEA grant from the Transportation Research Board at the National Academies of Science, transportation experts at the University of Washington STAR Labs will analyze both quantitative and qualitative pilot data collected from multiple sources including video, telematics, and transit operator surveys.

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JULY 26, 2021

” However, the TLC has granted Revel 49 licenses, according to Fromberg, covering all but one vehicle in the company’s Model Y fleet. Revel told Teslarati that it will consider growing into other neighborhoods and boroughs once the company has more of an idea of where the fleet is being utilized most frequently.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector. And this incremental nature of innovation means that controlling the spread, manufacturing, and further development of new ideas is almost impossible.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

The conclusions of that study are detailed in a new book— Unlocking Energy Innovation (MIT Press, 2012)—by Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT, and David Hart, a professor of public policy at George Mason University.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. Restoring electricity after an earthquake The idea for the project came from a chance encounter in a shopping center.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

A new start for decarbonizing chemical manufacturing DC-MUSE was conceived in the summer of 2020 in a workshop attended by over 40 companies and institutions, and organized by a planning grant from the National Science Foundation to build capacity in convergent research. million in grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

The idea is to continue to evolve, to continue to make the device more user-friendly. The company recently received a vote of confidence in that approach via an innovation grant from the UCSF-Stanford Pediatric Device Consortium. The PDC did not disclose the amount of the grant.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2022

That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. million grant from the U.S. Renewell recently received a $2.7 Department of Energy and is currently raising a $3.3

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DECEMBER 24, 2014

Researchers at Kitasato University in Japan, Brown University in the US, and colleagues in Japan have found that bacteria could be a rich source of terpenes—natural compounds common in plants and fungi that can be used to make drugs, food additives, perfumes, and other products, including advanced fuels ( earlier post , earlier post ).

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

A team of researchers from Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has discovered an entirely new form of crystalline order that simultaneously exhibits both crystal and polycrystalline properties, which they describe as “interlaced crystals.”. Resources.

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JULY 9, 2012

billion (US$10 billion) for the 2013 work program will support projects and ideas that will boost Europe’s competitiveness and tackle issues such as human health, protecting the environment and finding new solutions to growing challenges linked to urbanization and managing waste. In total, €8.1 billion (US$1.5 billion (US$3.3

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Funded by a $2-million grant from the US Department of Energy, a team of scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) led by Eric Masanet is building a sophisticated cost model for fuel cells that will will take into account the total cost of ownership. Analytica Technology.

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JULY 21, 2009

The US Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( AFOSR ) has awarded an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers a two-year, $3-million grant to develop nanoscale graphene additives for novel fuels to help supersonic jets fly faster and diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

One of the exhibitors was Ghost Robotics —we've previously covered their nimble and dynamic quadrupedal robots, which originated at the University of Pennsylvania with Minitaur in 2016. We thought it was a great idea. Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C.

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APRIL 6, 2022

It was a photographic system to demonstrate the idea of an all-electronic camera that didn’t use any consumables in the capturing and display of still photographic images.”. Photos have become the universal form of casual conversation,” he said in a 2018 interview with The Institute. Sasson fixed those problems and was granted a U.S.

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He has a 34-year career as a journalist, advertiser, marketer, publicist, event planner, teacher, and fundraiser for-profit and not-for-profit organizations including Motorola, Business Marketing Association, and Michigan State University. Participative leadership, where ideas are followed by action.

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