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Study finds high-density, low-rise cities such as Paris may be optimal urban form for reducing life cycle GHG emissions

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A study by researchers at CU Boulder and Edinburgh Napier University finds that high-density, low-rise environments such as those found in Paris are the optimal urban form when looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over their whole life cycle. However, urban environmental design often neglects life cycle GHG emissions.

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Students Use Their Tech Know-How to Protect the Environment

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universities and colleges to use their engineering and technical skills to mitigate and address the impact of climate change in their communities. Some teams are working on their projects as part of an engineering curriculum or a senior design project. The sensors are designed to transmit data in real time to a secure, online gateway.

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Elon Musk Has No Idea What He’s Doing With Tesla Bot

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But from listening to what Elon Musk said today, I don't think he has any idea what getting humanoid robots to do useful stuff actually involves. Besides, autonomous cars live in a highly constrained action space within a semi-constrained environment, and Tesla cars in particular have plenty of well-known issues with their autonomy.

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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” The general idea is really simple,” Schneider says. “A A lot of people have said they also thought of this idea.

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$12+M awarded to 4 projects seeking to design crops with ability to fix their own nitrogen; no artificial fertilizers

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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) and UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) made the awards following an “Ideas Lab” that focused on new approaches for dealing with the challenges of nitrogen in the growing global food demand. Golbeck, Penn State University; Christopher A.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. He describes computational imaging as a mixture of optical design, algorithms, and deep learning to try to push the physical limits of conventional systems.

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UVA Engineering researching thermoelectric materials to improve efficiency of jet engines

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Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering are seeking to improve the efficiency of jet engines by identifying and developing thermoelectric materials that can harness excess energy. UVA is one of only three universities in North America that participate in the Rolls-Royce University Technology Center Network.

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