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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Vanns, who now works at Disney -owned Industrial Light & Magic , in London, was an avid cinephile growing up. But he didn’t realize until after college that his coding skills would be his entry into the film industry. “I Their software is still being used today.

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MAY 24, 2022

The Ohio State University finished in second place and University of Alabama came in third. More than 27,000 students from 93 unique educational institutions have participated to date, seeding the industry with engineers who have helped redefine the automobile for more than three decades.

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MAY 13, 2023

economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? The United States today manufactures just 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990, according to a September 2020 report by the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Chinese tech giant Baidu opened a 2.5-acre acre test track and operations base for autonomous vehicles last week, its third such site in the country and its latest move to dominate the "robotaxi" industry. China's self-driving vehicle market is moving faster than that of the United States thanks to government regulatory support.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Better battery testing tech could jumpstart the used EV market To be fair, Unico says that the BAT300 series is intended for applications where expensive, research-level tools deliver more than what’s needed, but cheap, entry-level tools don’t do quite enough.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Virginia Tech a $3 million grant for research on electric vehicle charging infrastructure cybersecurity as part of a larger $80 million investment by the department on advanced technologies research ( earlier post ). —Jonathan Petit, senior director of research at OnBoard Security.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

Established automotive industry companies—not Silicon Valley—are leading the development of autonomous driving technology, according to a new report from the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters. headlines over the past year have touted tech companies innovating in the automotive space.

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JULY 18, 2020

Inspired by reverse osmosis technology that has reduced energy intensity tenfold for water purification, we decided to look into ways to use new materials for liquids separation, which if brought to industrial scale, could significantly reduce associated greenhouse gas emissions. Johnson, Scott J. Hoy, Irene Bechis, Andrew Tarzia, Kim E.

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JUNE 15, 2023

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products ( earlier post ), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 Trafigura, TechEnergy Ventures and Doral Energy-Tech Ventures also participated in the financing.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Quaise intends to first target industrial customers with a need for steam at a guaranteed flow rate, temperature, and pressure. Our goal is to match the specs of an industrial load,” says Araque. We need to go deeper and hotter to make geothermal energy viable outside of places like Iceland.”

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APRIL 9, 2024

No matter where professionals are in their tech career—whether just starting out or well established—it’s never a bad time for them to reassess their skills to ensure they are aligned with market needs. Jamieson, who helped found EPICS at Purdue University , and other project leaders will share their experiences. on 16 April.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Auburn University researchers are leading a $2-million US Department of Energy Co-Optima project ( earlier post ) that will evaluate renewable butyl acetate (BA) as a bio-based fuel additive that can be blended with diesel fuel to reduce soot and greenhouse gas emissions and yield cleaner engine operation in cold-weather conditions.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Employing silicon photonics technology, which combines a universal semiconductor material with the speed of photos, the SteerLight LiDAR senses the surrounding environment in three dimensions with higher resolution and precision, and at a lower volume production cost, than currently available LiDAR systems. “We

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JULY 30, 2021

The Volvo Cars Tech Fund and Volta Energy Technologies join existing investors Anzu Partners and the University of Minnesota. Tesla and will address a wide range of applications from audio speakers, magnetic sensors and consumer appliances to industrial motors and automotive accessory motors. million in new financing.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

While these complex machines are rapidly evolving, they remain challenging to build, require deep levels of expertise and a path towards industrialization must be further developed. eleQtron is a spin-off from the Department of Quantum Optics at the University of Siegen.

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JUNE 30, 2016

The automotive industry is witness to the highest disruption among all industries. Tech Mafia—Google, Apple have invested billions of dollars in user experience. New technologies such as Autonomous, AI, Electric have reached application maturity.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2012

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has launched an interdisciplinary research institute to promote a technologically advanced and globally competitive manufacturing base in the United States. GTMI will focus on the complete innovation value chain—from raw and recycled resources to prototypes and finished products.

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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MARCH 11, 2021

LiNa’s senior team has accumulated decades of materials engineering and design for manufacturing experience in the fuel cell industry. E4Tech, a London-based clean-tech specialist consultancy, performed an independent, strategic scoping study of stationary grid storage application based upon LiNa’s technology.

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JUNE 3, 2021

A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Tesla renews contract with Jeff Dahn’s battery team at Dalhousie University. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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JULY 7, 2022

REEs are essential for American competitiveness in a high-tech economy because they are used in many devices important to the clean-energy industry and national security, including computer components, wind turbines, hybrid/electric vehicles, LCD screens and tunable microwave resonators.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

Taro Hitosugi from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Shigeru Kobayashi demonstrates that drastic reduction of the resistance is achievable by annealing the entire battery cell. cm 2 —the reported interface resistance value when not exposed to air. Shigeru Kobayashi, Elvis F. 1c17945.

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APRIL 28, 2022

The new projects will engage the expertise of the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Iowa, Virginia Tech and Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Volkswagen Group of America Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) and Plug and Play Tech Center have launched the Volkswagen ERL Technology Accelerator Powered by Plug and Play. —Plug and Play Tech Center Founder and CEO, Saeed Amidi. Plug and Play Tech Center is an accelerator specializing in growing technology startups.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. The series addresses topics such as how to survive the first semester, ways to mitigate conflict, and learning what it takes to transition from graduate school to a career in industry or academia. “We

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APRIL 1, 2022

This finding and more (see below) highlights how the chip shortage will alter technology—and tech jobs—for years to come. Russ stresses that tech workers shouldn’t view the crunch as a temporary problem to work around when designing. In the past, design was separate from procurement. microcontroller units, or MCUs), Avnet found.

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OCTOBER 23, 2021

This research and development project is one of 24 university and industry-led projects that collectively were awarded $60 million in an effort to reduce CO 2 emissions from the transportation sector. the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Virginia Tech as partners to bring the SUPER inverter to fruition. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 16, 2012

A study by researchers at Iowa State University has determined that the automotive industry has a very large potential to utilize biobased materials. However, they noted, there are also many challenges associated with the use of biobased parts in the auto industry. Cost to manufacture is one of the main considerations.

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JULY 23, 2023

Today, more than 3,200 designers and engineers, NEV and software specialists are creating leading-edge innovations in close collaboration with Chinese tech players, start-ups, local partners as well as academia. Within the last three years, we have tripled our forces in China. China is the place to be.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Partnerships with industry are being sought. The paper was authored by Min-Kyu Song (Molecular Foundry, Berkeley Lab), Yuegang Zhang (Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Elton Cairns (Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Berkeley Lab).

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JANUARY 9, 2015

While advanced composites are used in selective industries such as aircraft, satellites and cars, these materials remain expensive, require large amounts of energy to manufacture and are difficult to recycle. PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; PolyOne Corporation; PPG Industries, Inc.; Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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APRIL 30, 2022

NGen has now announced $76 million in funding for 15 new industry-led consortia that will execute projects in strategic areas such as critical minerals & metals, traction battery & efficiency gains, power electronics, fuel cells, and lightweight materials. Partners: AIS Technologies Group, Shelley Industrial Automation, Konnexio Inc.

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JUNE 17, 2020

The cathode materials will be supplied to battery manufacturers of high-tech lithium-ion batteries that are primarily used in electric vehicles. We are playing an active role in creating the right ecosystem, in which manufacturers and suppliers work hand in hand, create qualified jobs and team up with nearby universities.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

A secure, reliable, and sustainable domestic supply of CMs and REEs is essential to the continued health of the US energy and electronics industries and is an important contributor to national security. Tetra Tech, Inc. Tetra Tech, Inc. University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND). MATERIA USA LLC (Inwood, NY).

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Hyundai Motor has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Beijing-Tsinghua Industrial R&D Institute (BTIRDI) to establish a Hydrogen Energy Fund. The binational initiative’s primary objective is to spur investment in the hydrogen industry and value chain while also fostering growth of promising startups in China and Korea.

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MAY 24, 2018

The Ohio State University has taken first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors Co. Industry and government officials judged the presentations. This is OSU’s fourth consecutive win. The powertrain components included a 2.0-liter

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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