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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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It refers to materials that superconduct above −195.79 °C, the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. The extremely low temperatures and high pressures needed to induce superconductivity limited its practical value for decades. But the 1986 discovery of high-temperature superconductivity paved the way for broader applications.

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European HEFT project seeks lower-cost, more efficient and power-dense PM emotor for EVs

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The consortium of eight European partners in the HEFT project is led by Mondragan University and includes GKN Automotive. The innovations are intended to result in a high-efficient and low-cost solution that will be validated on 2 motor topologies, which will be compared to two main reference automotive IPM commercial motors in Europe (VW ID.3

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Disruption, Disrupted

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Any field needs a healthy balance of the two, but they have different roles in innovation,” says lead author Michael Park of the University of Minnesota. He demonstrated it by classifying the disruptive and consolidating elements of references in US patents. million US patents from between 1976 and 2010.

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Granville T. Woods: Smartest Guy in the Room

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He made the most of it, soon coming up with the idea for a “ troller ,” a wheeled contact point at the end of an electric street car’s pantograph arm that improved the transfer of current from overhead wires. Despite his brilliance and relentless industry, Woods is mostly referred to—that is, when he is remembered at all—as “Black Edison.”

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NSF awards $20 million to two new testbeds to support cloud computing applications and experiments

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Cloud computing refers to the practice of using a network of remote servers to store, manage and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. —Kate Keahey, a scientist at the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and principal investigator for Chameleon.

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This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

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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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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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