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million to Stanford University. In addition to research projects, the contribution will go towards programs to help educate future engineers in computer science and electromechanical design giving them the tools to push the boundaries of automotive innovation. The latest investment broadens an existing partnership.

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General Motors will invest €20 million (US$28 million) in the company’s Powertrain Engineering Center in Torino throughout the next four years. This amount comes on top of the initial investment of €30 million (US$43 million) when the center was founded in 2005. The Engineering Center now employees more than 460 people.

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Naval architecture and marine engineering company Foreship will lend its expertise to EDP CNET’s in depth knowledge of electrical markets to ensure the Current Direct platform targets optimal vessels and locations maximizing reductions in emissions. Contact CurrentDirect@spearps.com to learn more.

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Kroemer was professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara , when he died. Kroemer taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado , Boulder, from 1968 to 1976 before joining UCSB , where he led the university’s semiconductor research program.

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Six research teams from the University of Michigan (U-M) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have won a share of $1.16 Engineering the right fuel for sustainable transportation. Principal investigators: Margaret Wooldridge, U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering; He Lin, SJTU Department of Mechanical Engineering.

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Prabhakar Patil, former CEO, LG Chem Power, and Chief Engineer of Hybrid Technologies, Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining LGCPI in 2005, Dr. Patil spent 27 years of his professional career at Ford Motor Company in various engineering and management positions. Rita Lane, former Vice President of Operations, Apple Inc.,

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Velocys is leading the development of the project and has assembled all the technology components into a standardized integrated design. This is an important step in the reduction of the airline’s carbon emissions towards the industry targets of carbon neutral growth from 2020 and a 50% reduction by 2050 from 2005 levels.

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The upside of gasoline direct injection (GDI) engines is widely seen as being improved fuel economy coupled with an increase in specific power (especially with turbocharging), enabling significant downsizing. In other words, while the use of GDI engines can reduce CO 2 , it also can increase BC—contributing to further warming.

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Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a novel green route to convert aluminium foil waste into highly active nano-mesoporous alumina (γ-Al 2 O 3 ) (designated as ACFL550). 2005), “γ-Alumina as a Support for Catalysts: A Review of Fundamental Aspects.” 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H 2 O and Al(NO 3 ) 3.9H

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He received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1949 from Johns Hopkins University , in Baltimore, and earned a Ph.D. Three years later, while working at the IAF, he was named an honorary professor in the University of Freiburg physics department. He coauthored the seminal 2005 textbook Photovoltaic Solar Energy Generation.

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Since its founding in 1995 at Purdue University , the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in IEEE program has been providing nonprofit organizations with technology to improve and deliver services to their community while broadening undergraduate EE students’ hands-on experiences. sustainable development goals.

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A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. The teams also designed a reliable process to mix and control hydrogen and biogas, and use together as an efficient energy source.

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holds a part of a stoplight that utilizes a newer LED designed by his students. a prolific inventor and longtime professor of electrical engineering and computing, died on 17 September at the age of 93. He retired from the university in 2013. Pioneering research at the University of Illinois. Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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Mats Johansson at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology says the work is about improving the mechanical properties of batteries so that it not only stores energy but is part of the design. Emile Greenhalgh, project coordinator, at Imperial College London, was demonstrated by researchers at the US Army Research Lab in 2005.

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exhaust from heavy-duty diesel engines meeting EPA 2007 and later emissions requirements—has found no evidence of carcinogenic lung tumors. The study exposed laboratory rats 80 hours a week, for up to 30 months, to emissions from a heavy-duty diesel engine meeting 2007 US EPA standards using new filters and other control technology.

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liter 32-valve V8 engine that, for the first time in a Lexus performance engine, uses the Atkinson cycle at cruising speeds for enhanced fuel economy and then switches to the Otto cycle at higher rpm to develop impressive performance levels. The RC F features an all-new 5.0-liter In the 1982 paper, Luria et al. The Lexus 5.0-liter

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From 1979 to 1982 he was a senior researcher at NTT Basic Research Labs and was promoted in 1982 to senior staff engineer of the company’s personnel and international affairs. He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus.

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He was instrumental in increasing the school's involvement in silicon integrated circuit design. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. She taught the first VLSI system design course at the school.

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Based in Palo Alto, CA, and Pittsburgh, PA, Aurora designs and builds self-driving technology, partnering with automakers to integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms into vehicles. Before that, Chris was a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, and helped win the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

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The first results of a comprehensive study of the health effects of exposure to new technology diesel engines has found no evidence of gene-damaging effects in the animals studied, and only a few mild effects on the lungs, according to a report issued today by the Health Effects Institute (HEI). —Dan Greenbaum, President of HEI.

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Global-mean temperature change caused by car exhaust emitted from gasoline and diesel engines specified in the previous and upcoming European vehicle emission standards (EURO 3, 4, 5, and 6). After the UK had begun taxing vehicles according to CO 2 emissions, the share of registered new diesel cars increased from 26% in 2002 to 38% in 2005.

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The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. We did not shy away from controversy. We are not advocates.

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liter Isuzu diesel engine, demonstrates a 35% fuel efficiency improvement over traditional vehicles in the FedEx Express fleet. This conversion not only reduces fuel consumption and emissions, but will also extend the engine life in fleet vehicles by supplementing the necessary power with their hybrid-electric drive train.

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This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The IEEE member also belongs to the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. She is the company’s CEO.

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Jobs designed it to be a curved structure without a straight piece of glass. Jobs was not an engineer, an IT professional, or even a college graduate. Engineers, IT professionals, and business executives can learn valuable lessons by studying his career. Focus on design. Good design is the hallmark of most Apple products.

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RAPTR is being designed to investigate R egenerative A ir P reheating and T hermochemical R ecuperation concepts for reducing losses from combustion irreversibility. Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are investigating mechanisms for extending the efficiency of combustion engines closer to their theoretical potential.

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The initial three-year project is being undertaken by HySA Systems Competence Centre at its University of the Western Cape research facility. Almost every airliner designed and built since the advent of jet travel in the 1950s has been equipped with an APU, which is located in the tapered tail cone section of the rear fuselage.

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The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. Earlier post.).

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In addition, through their joint Research Center for Sustainable Transportation, Daimler and Tsinghua University since 2012 have supported research projects related to sustainable transportation in a China-specific road environment. Daimler’s local R&D efforts in China began in 2005 with the first localized Mercedes-Benz E?Class.

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Madni Current job: Distinguished adjunct professor, University of California, Los Angeles ; retired president, CEO, and CTO, BEI Technologies Date of birth: 8 September 1947 Birthplace: Mumbai, India Family: Wife (Taj), son (Jamal) Education: 1968 graduate, RCA Institutes ; B.S., Engineering wasn’t Madni’s first choice of profession.

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This is RPSEA’s fourth ultra-deepwater RFP release under the Ultra-Deepwater and Unconventional Natural Gas and Other Petroleum Resources Research and Development Program that was established by the Department of Energy (DOE) pursuant to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Appraisal and development geosciences and reservoir engineering.

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Both DOE and NIFA have been given statutory authorities to support the development of a biomass-based industry in the United States, under the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (FCEA) and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The BRDI program is designed to support near-term commercial systems.

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The “H2USA” name was used before by DOE in a program that began in 2005 to develop hydrogen technology learning centers at universities within the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative (STAC) hydrogen project area.). Composite Technology Development, Inc. Nextgen Aeronautics, Inc.

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more fuel efficient through FY2011 than it was in 2005. Acceleration of its efforts in fuel conservation through the purchase of vehicles with right-sized engines such as the Sprinter vans manufactured by Mercedes-Benz. FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp., announced that its vehicle fleet was 16.6% pick-up and delivery fleet.

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Alamy A century and a half after von Kempelen’s charade, Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo debuted El Ajedrecista (The Chessplayer), a true chess-playing automaton. Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. Its Definition.

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Mark Richards/Computer History Museum Back at home, the Sutherland brothers worked on their own versions of light-seeking robots, using surplus parts their engineer-father helped them to source in New York City. For Sutherland, engineering design has a strong aesthetic dimension. The reason? At MIT, Sutherland met with Wesley A.

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OXIS Energy is the lead partner in a collaboration with Lotus Engineering, Imperial College London and Cranfield University to develop a Lithium-sulfur vehicle battery and Energy System Controller (ESC). OXIS Energy was founded in 2005. During its first phase, the company invested heavily in design and development.

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