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EnerDel Plans to Invest $237M in New Indiana Lithium-Ion Battery Plant

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The $237M investment is part of a targeted $600M in investments worldwide during the next five years. The new Indiana plant will give EnerDel the capacity to produce battery packs for approximately 600,000 hybrid electric vehicles, or 60,000 battery-electric cars. The Indiana plant will be financed through a $118.5

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New lightweight metals institute will be headquartered in Detroit

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The initiative is part of the National Network of Manufacturing Innovation and is being led by the Department of Defense. The White House has referred to the institute as a “teaching factory.”. Most of these jobs will be in the metal stamping, metalworking, machining and casting industries that are dominant in the Midwest.

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Exascale Computing Project (ECP) announces $39.8M in first-round application development awards

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Exascale refers to high-performance computing systems capable of at least a billion billion calculations per second, or a factor of 50 to 100 times faster than the nation’s most powerful supercomputers in use today. exascale ecosystem as part of President Obama’s National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The awards, totaling $39.8

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VeraSun Obtains $280M “Stalking Horse” Bid from Valero for Six Ethanol Facilities; Seeking to Sell All Assets

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As part of the sales process, having entered into the Valero agreement, VeraSun is now required to hold an auction to determine if other bidders will offer more favorable terms than Valero’s bid, referred to as a “stalking horse” bid. The six sites have a combined ethanol production capacity of 670 million gallons per year.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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The game was actually created as part of a training exercise to get a young engineer named. My University of South Carolina colleague James Risk grew up in Mooresville, Indiana, a small town southwest of Indianapolis. To this day, references to Frogger inevitably surface whenever I make ill-timed attempts at jaywalking in the city.

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IEEE STEM Activity Kits Are In Demand at 150 U.S. Public Libraries

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Currently all 80 branches of the Chicago Public Library have the kits, as do libraries in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. “The kits get kids interested in pursuing a technical career—which, by the way, helps increase IEEE membership down the road.”

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Tesla’s software fixes, the NHTSA’s status quo, and an impending need for updated recall terminologies

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My current vehicle, a Japanese-made van, was part of a minor fuel pump recall a couple of years ago, and even addressing that took a whole day out of my weekend. Since parts were in short supply last year, however, owners were notified with a letter to inform them when their trucks’ replacement parts were available. .

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