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Before the Undo Command, There Was the Electric Eraser

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Montz suggest in their 1930 book Elements of Topographic Drawing. To make a correction to a map, these civil engineering professors at Ohio State University recommend the following steps: With a smooth, sharp knife pick the ink from the paper. Consider the careful technique Roscoe C. Sloane and John M. 1930 catalog.

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Willie Hobbs Moore: STEM Trailblazer

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home on 14 March 1994, two months shy of her 60th birthday, is the subject of the new book Willie Hobbs MooreYouve Got to Be Excellent! Moore attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she earned bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering and, in 1972, her barrier-breaking doctorate in physics.

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Cal State LA wins statewide award for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle program

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The university’s Parking and Transportation Services and Cal State LA Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility received a best practice award for sustainable transportation in the 2019 Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Best Practice Awards competition. The facility is part of the College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Universities and community colleges are revamping their semiconductor-related curricula and forging strategic partnerships with one another and with industry to train the staff needed to run U.S. Intel arrives at Ohio State Ohio State University is using its chip-fabrication facility to train future engineers and technicians.

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Rheinmetall wins multimillion-euro order for fuel cell cathode flaps and shut-off valves

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Cathode flap In total, the Group has already won six series customers for cathode flaps, increasing the 2023 booked business in this product area to around €50 million. In total, around €200 million has already been booked for all fuel cell components this year. The cathode flaps can be utilized universally.

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Worry About Sentient AI—Not for the Reasons You Think

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Birch lays out these concerns in his book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI , published last year by Oxford University Press. And he notes that we lack tests to reliably assess sentience in AI, so were going to have a very hard time figuring out which of those two things is happening.

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Researcher Describes Conceptual Cold Fusion Battery, or Small Power Unit

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Professor George Miley of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and director of its Fusion Studies Lab, reported on progress toward a “cold fusion battery”—a small power unit that uses a low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) (i.e., Vysotskii is a scientist with Kiev National Shevchenko University in Kiev, Ukraine.

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