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DOE awarding $71M to 20 RD&D projects to cut GHG emissions, expand EV infrastructure; $5M to Achates for opposed-piston 2-stroke hybrid

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Tennessee Technological University. Charge to Work USA: National Workplace Charging Program. North Carolina State University. Marquette University. University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. University of Wisconsin- Madison. WM International Engineering LLC.

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University of Tennessee to head $250M advanced composites manufacturing institute; Ford, Honda and Volkswagen members

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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. GrafTech International; Heil Trailer International; Herty Advanced Materials Development Center; Hills, Inc.;

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. IEEE Life Senior Member Eduardo Palacio President, IEEE-USA IEEE Life Senior Member Eduardo Palacio is IEEE-USA president.

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Volkswagen Group of America joins LIFT for automotive light-weighting research; first automotive OEM member

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The group comprises Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti; VWGoA is the first automotive OEM to join the Detroit-based Manufacturing USA institute. The innovative research being done and the network of industry and academic experts available at LIFT were keys drivers in our decision to join.

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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He is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at the university, which helps faculty members get access to research funding, government laboratories, and industry research centers. National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013.

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Potent GHG SF6 rapidly accumulating in atmosphere, driven by demand for SF6-insulated switchgear in developing countries

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In an open-access study in the EGU journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , an international team of researchers reports that the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 ) is rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, driven by the demand for SF 6 -insulated switchgear in developing countries. Simmonds et al. —Simmonds et al.

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Codeveloper of NASA’s Newest Lunar Retroreflector Dies at 78

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Christopher Davis Codeveloper of a lunar retroreflector Life Fellow, 78; died 1 April Davis taught engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park for 48 years. He left two years later and joined the faculty in the University of Maryland’s electrical and computer engineering department.

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