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DOE to award $89M for advanced manufacturing R&D, battery manufacturing a key focus

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The FOA requests proposals in three areas: Topic 1 - Innovations for the Manufacture of Advanced Materials: Focuses on employing machine learning to develop better batteries, phase change storage materials for heating and cooling applications, and new semiconductors that convert temperature differences into electricity.

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DOE to award $89M for innovative manufacturing technologies

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Topic 1 - Innovations for the Manufacture of Advanced Materials: Focuses on employing machine learning to develop better batteries, phase change storage materials for heating and cooling applications, and new semiconductors that convert temperature differences into electricity. Thermal Process Intensification.

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This Engineer’s Hardware Is Inspired by the Brain

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These include automating the inspection process for identifying defects in semiconductors and developing computer-vision systems to improve crop yields and analyze geospatial Earth-observation data. But he didn’t want to get pigeonholed as a traditional semiconductor engineer. This led to a fascination with electronics.

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New $3M round of funding for DOE High Performance Computing for Manufacturing

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Improvements in the lifecycle energy consumption of products of interest: This includes jet engine efficiency; materials and shape optimization for light-weighting in transport technologies; semiconductor electrical efficiency; and recycling and reuse for industrial-scale materials production and processing waste.

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University of Texas researchers develop new solar photoelectrosynthetic process to convert CO2 to methanol

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Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington are developing a new process for photoelectrosynthesis of methanol—the conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol using sunlight and hybrid CuO–Cu 2 O semiconductor nanorod arrays. Ghazaleh Ghadimkhani, Norma R. 49, 1297-1299 doi: 10.1039/C2CC38068D.

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Summit Shares Best Practices for Attracting Students to STEM

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Sessions included topics on pedagogy, engineering education, and outreach best practices, as well as inspirational talks and resources to empower the STEM community. A panel of semiconductor professionals discussed the growing interest in semiconductor engineering.

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How Smart Semiconductor Technology Will Improve Personal Health

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In order to prevent a collapse of the healthcare system, the topics of preventive healthcare and well-being are becoming more important. How Infineon Makes Smart Health Work Infineon’s semiconductor products and software solutions are the perfect match for smart health devices as they meet the needs of digital healthcare applications.