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Toyota unleashes generative AI to meld car design with engineering ideas

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Synthetic judgement may quickly get rid of one of the crucial greatest bottlenecks within the car-design procedure. Toyota Analysis Institute executives mentioned Tuesday they’ve advanced a generative AI method that guarantees early design sketches incorporate engineering parameters.

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Volkswagen using AR to design new production lines in Chattanooga

Green Car Congress

As the Volkswagen Chattanooga factory ramps up production of the new Atlas Cross Sport, and lays groundwork for assembling the next generation of Volkswagen electric vehicles planned to begin in 2022, engineers are using augmented reality (AR) goggles to design production lines and help spot potential issues. —Frantisek Zapletal.

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Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group formed

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Several organizations, encompassing companies, research labs, and academia, have formed the Hydrogen Opposed Piston Engine Working Group. The Working Group consists of members undertaking research and development in the field of hydrogen combustion in an opposed-piston engine. The only criteria emission of concern is NO x.

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Caltech’s SSPD-1 Is a New Idea for Space-Based Solar

Cars That Think

That’s when SSPD-1, a solar space-power demonstrator satellite carrying a bevy of new technologies designed at the California Institute of Technology, blasted into low Earth orbit for a year-long mission. That’s one of the reasons we’ve pulled away from that approach and moved toward a flat design. And yet the dream lives on.

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How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century

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Remarkably, given his intense wartime responsibilities, Bush continued to develop his own ideas about computing and information. And during his lifetime, Bush was celebrated as one of the nation’s leading prophets of technological change and the most influential proponent of government funding of science and engineering.

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How to Boot Up a New Engineering Program

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Starting a new engineering program at a university is no simple task. By 2026, the university will offer an undergraduate engineering degree —but without creating an engineering department. IEEE Spectrum spoke with Seth Fraden, one of the new program’s interim cochairs, about getting a new engineering program up and running.

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An Engineer Who Keeps Meta’s AI infrastructure Humming

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As a data-center network engineer with Meta’s network infrastructure team, Susana Contrera is playing a leading role in this unprecedented technology rollout. Her job is about “bringing designs to life,” she says. But she decided to pursue a career in engineering because of her parents, who were small-business owners.

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