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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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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. The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees. The society’s approach has paid off.

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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It is our expectation that we will continue to review and refine what we’ve learned and achieved over the course of the SuperTruck initiative, and use that knowledge to bolster our leadership in fuel efficiency. Lightweighting: MSI-ACPT, Maxion Inmagusa, Oregon State University, Strick, Toray. mpg (19.26 Fleet: Schneider, Walmart.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Pake was executive vice chancellor, provost, and professor of physics at Washington University in St. Laser printers.

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Studying Climate Change with an Ice Radar Drone

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candidate at Stanford University, launches Peregrine at Norway’s Slakbreen glacier. institutions— the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the Center for Remote Sensing and Integrated Systems (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas—had been developing improved IPR instruments, so IPR was ready to get on board.

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The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology

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But before that, a number of the researchers I spoke to for this book told me that they had started to see it in papers that they were reviewing. This was work from Denis Jabaudon at the University of Geneva, and they were looking at how neurons actually differentiate. Adee: Well, so Michael Levin is a professor at Tufts University.

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