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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Williams Advanced Engineering: final iteration of prototype WAE battery pack incorporating dedicated cell packaging for optimum centre of gravity, vehicle control unit, DCDC converter, integrated cooling, charge port, and styled carbon covers. The all-new battery has peak power of 170kW and continuous power of 90kW, with a capacity of 15 kWh.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Endera , a technology company specializing in all-electric commercial vehicles, charging infrastructure, and software solutions, launched its new all-electric powertrain for Class 3 and 4 zero-emission commercial vehicles. This patent-pending design locates the batteries and all high-voltage infrastructure within the frame rails.

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MAY 13, 2023

economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make? But for the CHIPS Act to succeed, each fab will need hundreds of skilled engineers and technicians of all stripes, with training ranging from two-year associate degrees to Ph.D.s.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

This work provides a versatile electrolyte design strategy for divalent metal batteries. In an effort to address this problem, a UMD research team led by Chunsheng Wang, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Research in Extreme Batteries, developed a novel design strategy that incorporated a new class of solvents.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Greta Bekerytė started out cleaning offices and ended up designing electronics for EV charging stations. Bekerytė moved from her native Lithuania to Norway in 2010 to take advantage of the country’s free university tuition, but first she had to find a way to support herself. It wasn’t easy. she says. “So

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JANUARY 8, 2024

Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. The award is sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. After earning her Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. The program has moved into bench-scale and engineering-scale prototype materials processing to address scale-up challenges and opportunities. Sharon, PA).

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MAY 23, 2024

The wireless communications pioneer is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences. So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By She went on to teach engineering at Stanford for more than 20 years.

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JULY 21, 2020

Key to the design of these new soft, solid-electrolytes was the use of soft polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs), the pores of which were filled with nanosized ceramic particles. 2020) “Universal chemomechanical design rules for solid-ion conductors to prevent dendrite formation in lithium metal batteries.” Venturi, V.,

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AUGUST 15, 2013

Ford will expand its collaboration with Australian universities as part of a commitment to developing a world-class system of external alliances, programs and practices in Australia and Asia. The company has appointed senior Ford Technical Engineer, Richard Taube, as Ford Australia’s Manager for University Programs.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

He served as founding director of Hyundai Ventures, and then, led Hyundai CRADLE (Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experiences) as its founding director based in Silicon Valley. We aim to create the world’s first transformer-class vehicle, also known as the Ultimate Mobility Vehicle.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to longer-lived batteries with higher energy densities. We designed this structure that gives us three-dimensional electrodes, like a honeycomb. —Ju Li.

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MAY 23, 2024

The wireless communications pioneer is Princeton ’s dean of engineering and applied sciences. So it’s surprising to learn that she almost dropped out in her first year of the engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley. “By She went on to teach engineering at Stanford for more than 20 years.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The University of California San Siego (UCSD) has formed the San Diego Institute for Materials Discovery and Design, a joint initiative of the Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD. Installation of the TEM is expected to be complete by January 2020.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Reaction Engines recently completed a joint Proof-of-Concept study with the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to determine whether the company’s innovative thermal management technology could be combined with STFC’s catalysts to create an aviation system based on ammonia fuel.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

announced that an independent study on the Cummins Westport ISX12N 400 hp natural gas engine demonstrated that the engine meets and exceeds California Air Resources Board’s (“CARB”) optional Low NO x standard of 0.02 Engine testing was performed on a chassis dynamometer. Cummins Westport Inc.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $12 million to support early-stage research for natural gas engines and off-road fluid power systems. Recipients of the three new cost-shared projects are: Colorado State University will receive $1.2 University of Minnesota will receive $1.1 University of Minnesota will receive $1.1

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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MAY 9, 2023

As well as developing a best-in-class product, this work will support the growth of a UK supply chain in components for electric vehicles. Project partners include: University of Bristol, Customer Interconnect Ltd, API Capacitors Ltd. Project partners include: University of Bath, Equipmake, Aeristech. million. . £8

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MARCH 8, 2022

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) will collaborate with the University of Michigan (UM) to use additive manufacturing and machine learning to create an advanced burner that will eliminate 99.5% SwRI Research Engineer Luis Gutierrez is working with Prof. of the methane encountered during oil production. —Luis Gutierrez.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Engineering education has evolved during the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to close classrooms and shift to remote learning, prompting instructors to adapt their curricula and teaching style. interactive four-part virtual-event series to equip engineering educators with best practices.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. The chip uses a new algorithm the team developed with Ken Duffy from Maynooth University : guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND). It’s never boring.”

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

OPEN solicitations are an open call to scientists and engineers for transformational technologies across the entire scope of ARPA-E’s energy mission. Pinnacle Engines will electrify its four-stroke, spark-ignited, opposed-piston engine to improve fuel efficiency and reduce its cost.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

outlined two of the plug-in hybrid projects in which the engine manufacturer is currently involved. The first project, in partnership with the Ohio State University, PACCAR, NREL and Argonne National Laboratory and funded with $4.5 After the race and the post-race tear-down, Cummins settled on 4-cycle engines. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 21, 2020

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Reactant-transport engineering of the anode flow field architecture and fuel flowrates mitigates parasitic borohydride hydrolysis and hydrogen oxidation reactions and lessens anode passivation by hydrogen bubbles. and Raymond H.

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MAY 2, 2017

UPS is working with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and other partners to design a first-of-its-kind, zero tailpipe emissions, Class 6 medium-duty delivery truck that meets the same route and range requirements of UPS’ existing conventional fuel vehicles. This will support the full duty cycle of the truck, including highway driving.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) FE-FOA 0002397 , University Turbines Systems Research (UTSR) — Focus on Hydrogen Fuels. representative of existing combustor designs, new combustor designs, and retrofit applications.

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AUGUST 8, 2020

OCTOPUS will take this leading-edge motor, power electronics and packaging transmission design, adding next generation materials, manufacturing processes, simulation and test cycles to deliver a full e-axle powertrain with unique levels of integration and revolutionary performance characteristics suitable for real world application by 2026.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, have synthesized a porous liquid with the potential for application in a wide range of new, more efficient and greener chemical processes including carbon capture. The results provide the basis for development of a new class of functional porous materials for chemical processes.

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Solid Power Inc.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs. Nature-inspired soil engineering. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $55.5

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APRIL 17, 2020

A research team led by Northwestern University has designed and synthesized new metal-organic framework (MOF) materials with ultrahigh porosity and surface area for the storage of hydrogen and methane for fuel cell-powered vehicles. Credit: Northwestern University. Teller (BET) area of 7310 m 2 g ?1 160 K/5 bar). —Omar K.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Our world-class research team is working on various energy production and storage technologies that could help meet the world’s growing energy needs while advancing a lower-carbon future. Prototype cells deliver energy density in excess of 140 Wh/kg, with a design performance of 155 Wh/kg in 10Ah pouch cells. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 14, 2016

(BAIC BJEV), a subsidiary of BAIC, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Dresden University of Technology (TUD) to create the Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Joint R&D Center. The two also entered into a letter of intent on the establishment of Sino-German Automotive Light Weighting Technology Engineering Center Co.,

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At least, that’s what researchers at Brown University did, by building a wireless communications system that mimics the brain using an array of tiny silicon sensors, each the size of a grain of sand. Arto Nurmikko, Brown University The researchers also conducted simulations to test the system’s error rate, which increases with more sensors.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Williams Advanced Engineering (WAE) and Molicel have agreed on a strategic collaboration to support the next generation of high performance, superior quality, lithium-ion power battery cells. The relationship will initially focus on collaboration to assess and develop technology to support demonstration activities.

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