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University Of Minnesota & MIT Teams Win American Solar Challenge

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Earlier this month, we ran an article about the Formula Sun Grand Prix, a track race that also serves as the qualifier for the American Solar Challenge, an overland race for college solar car teams. One of the cool things about this year’s race is that they added classes for slightly more practical cars to […].

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MIT/CalTrans study finds pavement-vehicle interaction accounts for 1% of overall fuel consumption on California highways

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“While a passenger car wouldn’t achieve significant gas savings, road stiffness could make an enormous difference for 40-ton trucks, with up to 4 percent gas mileage savings,” said MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Franz-Josef Ulm, faculty director of CSHub, in an interview with Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine. “If

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Toyota Research Institute launches next phase of collaborative research with 13 new academic institutions; more than $75M investment

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These universities join MIT, Stanford and the University of Michigan which have worked with TRI over the last five years to expand the body of research into artificial intelligence (AI) with the goal of amplifying the human experience. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). University of Minnesota. Indiana University.

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Researchers identify new pathways in low-temp oxidation of hydrocarbons; important to fuel combustion, atmospheric chemistry and biochemistry

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Researchers at MIT, with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, have provided evidence and theoretical rate coefficients for new pathways in the low-temperature oxidation of hydrocarbons. Credit: ACS, Jalan et al. Click to enlarge. Their paper is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. —Jalan et al.

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IEEE Honors Pioneering Engineers

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IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google ANANTHA CHANDRAKASAN MIT “For contributions to ultralow-power circuits and systems, and for leadership in academia and advancing diversity in the profession.” FUJIMOTO MIT “For pioneering the development and commercialization of optical coherence tomography for medical imaging and diagnostics.”

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota will design a cell-free biocatalytic system that will reduce CO 2 efficiently into formate, a C 1 feedstock, with energy supplied from electricity. MIT proposes to reduce or eliminate CO 2 generation during lipid production by (1) engineering Y. Ohio State University.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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University of Minnesota: Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) - BOTTLE – Recyclable and Biodegradable Manufacturing and Processing of Plastics and Polymers based on Renewable Branched Caprolactones – DOE Funding: $2,499,997. Partners include BASF, MIT, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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