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JUNE 9, 2023

Their groundbreaking research, conducted at the University of Utah , in Salt Lake City, and at their company, Evans and Sutherland , helped jump-start the computer graphics industry. A ceremony was held at the university on 24 March to recognize the computer graphics and visualization techniques with an IEEE Milestone.

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MARCH 11, 2013

Researchers from Rice University and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report in a paper in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry that particularly in Northeastern cities, ozone levels dropped even beyond what was anticipated by cutting emissions of NO x from 2002 to 2006. from 2002 to 2006. —Daniel Cohan.

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JANUARY 12, 2013

2015) formulated by the National Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC), coal consumption will be limited to 3900 million metric tons (MMT) by 2015, which will present a challenge given the tremendous increase in coal use within the last 5 years (2300 MMT in 2006 and 3200 MMT in 2010). Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 15, 2010

Professor Stan Golunski, Deputy Director of the newly established Cardiff Catalysis Institute , in collaboration with engineers at Brunel and Birmingham Universities, is investigating the feasibility of an on-board exhaust gas reforming system to improve combustion and recover waste heat. Energy Environ. doi: 10.1039/b927199f.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Skutterudites are one of several promising novel thermoelectrics—materials that convert a heat differential to electricity—that have been developed and pursued for more than a decade, notes Ctirad Uher, co-author of the PRL paper and author of a chapter on Skutterudite-based thermoelectrics in the 2006 Thermoelectrics Handbook.

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JULY 17, 2014

million in research grants are awarded under a joint DOE-USDA program that began in 2006 focused on fundamental investigations of biomass genomics, with the aim of harnessing nonfood plant biomass for the production of fuels such as ethanol or renewable chemical feedstocks. Patrick Brown, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

In 2006, China decided to meet 15% of its transportation energy needs by 2020 and, following India’s example, focused on Jatropha, with plans to raise it on more than 1 million ha of marginal lands. India encouraged millions of marginal farmers and landless people to plant Jatropha across India, Kant and Wu said.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The X PRIZE Foundation (XPF) is expanding its vision to address worldwide challenges in the areas of Energy & Environment; Exploration of the Oceans and Space; Life Sciences; and Education & Global Development with $100 million in prizes over the next 10 years. Energy & Environment. pH, temperature, current), mapping (e.g.

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APRIL 1, 2009

More than two dozen scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will participate in the investigations. He and his co-principal investigators will direct teams in different aspects of the process. Terry Hazen. Earlier post.)

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JULY 18, 2010

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) modeled the emissions impact had plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) replaced light duty gasoline vehicles in the Denver, Colorado area in summer 2006. million vehicles and would have increased by 3 tpd from power plants.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Reviewers included Dr. Martin Patel of Utrecht University and Michael Levy of the American Chemistry Council. The United Soybean Board’s study sheds even more light on why biodiesel is good for the environment. Key findings of the study include: Average soybean yield for the 2004-2007 time period was 42.35 kg (for the 3.36

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MARCH 27, 2025

Marko Delimar has been a proponent of empowering the next generation of engineers, scientists, and technologists since he was an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Zagreb , in Croatia. He founded the University of Zagrebs IEEE student branch and later became its chair. It has since grown in popularity.

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MAY 31, 2014

A study led by a team from Peking University has estimated that global black carbon (BC) emissions increased from 5.3 Black carbon has two deleterious effects on the environment. After 1988, the total emissions leveled off but seem to increase again since the mid-1990s to reach another peak of 2,956 Gg in 2006.

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MAY 25, 2010

in 2006) but if they are replaced by EVs, the contribution would rise to 2-4%. Fuel-cycle SO 2 emissions of EVs compared to those of gasoline ICEVs and HEVs in China, current (left) and future (right). Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge. Gasoline vehicle exhausts contribute very little to total national SO 2 emission (0.2%

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Kumagaya City: Using Kumagaya’s suburban metropolitan environment, study the practicality of applying Honda’s EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles to a park-and-ride system centered around Kagohara Station. Click to enlarge. – 2.0L

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JULY 2, 2010

Bacteria belonging to the family Deinococcaceae are some of the most radiation-resistant organisms yet discovered, notes Dr. Michael Daly at USHUS (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences), who has been working with the bacteria for years. Deinococcus. Nature 443, 569-573 doi: 10.1038/nature05160. Radman lab.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A new study released by BMW i and New York University (NYU) finds that, in the coming years and decades, fundamental changes in the demographic makeup of cities will profoundly alter the way people travel. This report, prepared by the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management at NYU’s Robert F.

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MAY 12, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, the use of advanced high-strength steels in vehicles has grown from an average of 81 pounds per vehicle (36.7 However, each material used in vehicle production contributes to lightweighting and improves fuel economy, but each does so at a different cost to the manufacturer—and to the environment.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

While awareness is high and knowledge has increased since a Maritz Research 2006 poll, few consumers today purport to be very familiar with either electric-only, flex fuel or gasoline-hybrid vehicles. However, even some of the Prius’ product characteristics were not universally understood.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2025

In the 2005 Grand Challenge, Carnegie Mellon Universitys H1ghlander was one of five autonomous cars to finish the race. He loaned it to the museum in 2006, and since 2008 it has resided permanently in the museums collections, alongside other remarkable specimens in robotics and automobiles.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The way cars are used here, the ways in which cars interact with the environment, the way in which human beings reside in urban centers in China are profoundly going to seed the development of the auto industry in every other part of the world. The government increased spending in a third phase, from 2006, to RMB 1.1 Zhixin Wu.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University ’s Porter School of Environmental Studies , was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher. In 2006 she and her research team developed algorithms that process and analyze data collected by communication networks to monitor rainfall.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

A new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) concludes that the emissions associated with the transport of ethanol could negate its potential economic and environmental benefits compared to gasoline. This amount of fuel production represents 8% of light duty gasoline consumption in 2006, calculated on an energy basis.

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AUGUST 21, 2013

First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion All the instruments are supported by a variety of sample environments and data analysis and visualization capabilities.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Guardian is a high-level driver assist system, constantly monitoring the driving environment inside and outside the vehicle, ready to alert the driver of potential dangers and stepping in when needed to assist in crash avoidance. patents in the field in 2006. Basically, it is a smart vehicle designed to get smarter over time.

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JULY 19, 2009

Using biodiesel in construction vehicles offers promising environmental benefits in terms of reduced tailpipe emissions as well as reductions in fuel cycle emissions of selected pollutants, according to a new study by researchers at North Carolina State University. Shih-Hao Pang, H. Christopher Frey and William J.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Barroso was born in Brazil and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in 1989 in electrical engineering from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. The company’s first data center designed by Barroso opened in 2006 in The Dalles, Ore.

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JULY 15, 2010

Verenium’s conversion process originated from technology developed by a team led by Dr. Lonnie Ingram at the University of Florida and originally licensed by Celunol. mobilis is a good ethanol producer that is highly alcohol-resistant, but is also very sensitive to its environment, is not very hardy, and can mostly use only glucose.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have estimated state-level field-to-pump water requirements of corn ethanol production across the US. Of the 17 billion liters of production added from 2006 to 2008, 8 billion liters of ethanol production (43%) will have a EWe greater than 100 L L -1. Credit: ACS. Click to enlarge. Chiu et al.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

The five warmest years since the late 1880s, according to NASA, are in descending order 2005, 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2006. Pope earned her PhD in Meteorology in 1990 from the University of Reading. She joined the Met Office in 1982 and became a manager of stratospheric research in 1991 and of climate model development in 1996.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Exposure to air pollution on city streets is enough to counter the beneficial health effects of exercise in adults over 60, according to new research led by Imperial College London and Duke University. That should allow everyone to be able to enjoy the health benefits of physical activity in any urban environment. The unborn.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Alma mater: University of Maryland in College Park. Barth initially attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, to pursue a degree in biology, but she soon realized that it wasn’t a good fit for her. She transferred to the University of Maryland in College Park, and changed her major to applied mathematics.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

However, a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University assessing the overall life cycle emissions associated with CO 2 -EOR sequestration under a number of different scenarios has concluded that “ without displacement of a carbon intensive energy source, CO 2 -EOR systems will result in net carbon emissions. Of the $21.6

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JUNE 28, 2024

Mathur is currently a professor of practice and a member of the academic council at Marwadi University , in Rajkot, India. Previously, Rahman served as the vice president of IEEE Publication Services and Products (2006) and president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (2018 and 2019).

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JUNE 28, 2023

CRAWFORD EMPLOYER Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. TITLE ‘Professor of civil engineering, agronomy, and electrical and computer engineering MEMBER GRADE Fellow ALMA MATERS University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ohio State University, Columbus But her engineering path eventually led her back to agriculture.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

The research has so far focused on lower speed and load conditions that represent a major proportion of an engine’s operation in a real world environment. MTZ Vol 67, 11/2006 Pages 830 - 840. At 2000 rpm and up to approximately 2.7 Lubrication system. Wet sump with plain bearings and electric oil pump. Cooling system. Luckert, A.

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APRIL 10, 2016

A team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has characterized the intermediate volatility organic compound (IVOC) emissions from on-road gasoline vehicles (LDGVs) and small off-road gasoline engines (SOREs). Single-ring aromatic compounds (C 6 -C 9 ) are traditionally thought to be the dominant class of SOA precursors emitted from LDGVs.

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