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Stuff We Use: Smoked Side Markers

The Truth About Cars

Instead of a universal product like battery boosters or jack stands, we’ll walk ya through the installation of an accessory placed on one of our cars just the other week. Anyway, installing these lights couldn’t have been easier. So far, I give this upgrade full marks for ease of installation and satisfaction with results.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

Cars That Think

The presence of oil and gas installations in his village, which is in the oil-producing part of Nigeria, led him to wonder how they worked and how they were remotely controlled. While attending the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, he interned at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., And everything changed.

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From Fixing Farm Equipment to Becoming a Director at 3M

Cars That Think

Gerard “Gus” Gaynor says he knew he would become an engineer when he was 7 years old, inspired by his father’s monthly Popular Mechanics magazines. After he was discharged, he continued his education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. As his fascination with different engineering fields grew, he set out to explore them.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

Cars That Think

She was inspired by her parents, who worked in biology, and by her reading of physics journals and engineering and science magazines. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One. So the exciter was refurbished “down to the nuts and bolts,” Ansari says, before being installed.

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Is America’s Electrician Shortage Hurting our Ability To Get Away from Fossil Fuels?

Clean Fleet Report

To service the greater number of electric vehicles on roads (due to the $7,500 tax rebate on new electric vehicles), electricians need to install hundreds of charging stations along highways. A university education is often perceived to be the most desirable route out of high school. See more at E Magazine.

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Punching above its weight

Electric Auto Association

“If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation. Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering.

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Traveling Through Time, Exploring the String Theory and Hugging the Giant Sequoias

Creative Greenius

We also found magazines ( Utne Reader anyone?) I pulled an old issue of Sierra (the magazine of the Sierra Club) from July/August 1997. Al Gore is one reason I like to believe in my own favorite version of the String Theory of particle physics – multiple alternative universes occurring simultaneously is the way I like to grok it.

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