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This year, Ford has awarded 13 University Research Program (URP) grants to 12 different universities around the world, including Wayne State University in Detroit; Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany; and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Grant winners will be announced in early 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes could be used to create elastic energy storage systems with energy densities that could be three orders of magnitude higher than those of conventional steel springs, and comparable to Li-ion batteries with potentially more durability and reliability. Hill et al. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

The recipients of the cooperative research grants are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Chattanooga Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA), and Utah State University. The MIT project will conduct field experiments to demonstrate the mobility and energy efficiency impacts in Boston and Chicago.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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MARCH 11, 2025

Last month, Ofcom , the United Kingdoms telecom regulator, granted Amazons Kuiper Systems a license to provide low-Earth orbit-based (LEO) broadband Internet in the country. The move places Kuiper systems in a rival position with the industry leader, and SpaceX subsidiary, Starlink Services. Im in Boston, she says.

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MAY 22, 2017

TRI is working with several industry partners in addition to MIT ML to develop applications and proofs of concept for three areas of the new mobility ecosystem: driving/testing data sharing, car/ride share transactions and usage-based insurance. —Neha Narula, Director, Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Developed by Assistant Professor Chen Shoushun from NTU’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the new camera named Celex is now in its final prototype phase. With a unique in-built circuit, the camera can do an instant analysis of the captured scenes, highlighting important objects and details.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Engineering E. This project seeks to develop an “electrofuels chassis” by using engineered E. This project will develop and optimize a novel, engineered microorganism that produces a biodiesel-equivalent fuel from renewable hydrogen and carbon dioxide, at costs of less than $2.50

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Engineered Arts ] At USC Center for Advanced Manufacturing, students have taught a robot to make pour-over coffee. DeepRobotics ] MIT students and researchers from MIT Sea Grant work with local oyster farmers in advancing the aquaculture industry by seeking solutions to some of its biggest challenges. www.youtube.com.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The new Advisory Board includes: Grant Covic, Professor of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where there are more than 40 Ph.D. Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MacArthur Fellow and WiTricity founder. and postdoctoral researchers on campus working on wireless charging.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Scientists from a team spanning Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a scalable, integrated bioelectrochemical system that uses bacteria to convert solar energy into a liquid fuel. Credit: PNAS, Torella et al.

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Researchers also used the system to create PHB, a bio-plastic precursor, a process first demonstrated by MIT professor Anthony Sinskey. In addition to increasing the efficiency, Nocera and colleagues were able to expand the portfolio of the system to include isobutanol and isopentanol. This is the genius of Dan.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So [the girl] invented a teddy bear that would rub her belly for her,” explains Stephanie Couch , executive director of the Lemelson MIT Program. We’re biased, but we hope that little girl grows up to be an engineer. In this issue, we see engineers grappling with challenges of scale in modern problems.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Thus began his more than seven-decade-long career as an electrical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur—which continues to this day. While on the science committee, he met Richard Jay Solomon , who was associate director of MIT’s Research Program on Communications Policy, testifying for the committee on video and telecom issues.

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JUNE 9, 2023

In 1965 the University of Utah hired him to establish its computer science department after receiving an ARPA grant of US $5 million to investigate how the emerging field of computer graphics could play a role in the country’s technological competitiveness, according to Computer Graphics and Computer Animation. thesis in 1963 at MIT.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. The 60-hertz standard (or 50 hertz in most of the rest of the world) is taken for granted today, but in the early days of electrification—before the invention of the master station clock—the standard was seldom standard.

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JULY 15, 2023

Gretchen Ertl/CFS/MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center CFS, a startup spun out of decades of research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is among the leaders of a new wave of fusion-energy projects that have emerged in the past decade, taking advantage of technological advances as well as a surge in private-sector investment.

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JULY 22, 2023

Making sense of math Ganguly and a team of engineers developed the platform’s software, which includes modules on physics, biology, and chemistry as well as math. STEM at the root Ganguly says she was inspired to help reform STEM education when she was a graduate student at MIT. The startup received grants from the U.S.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

A three-year study by a team of researchers based at MIT has concluded that fundamental changes are needed in the US energy-innovation system. The project was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Business as usual is unsustainable over the long run.

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JUNE 4, 2022

One of the first decisions Pake in turn made was to hire, among others, Robert Taylor, then at the University of Utah , to help him recruit engineers and scientists for the Computer Science and Systems Science Laboratories. Ingalls, now a principal engineer at Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, Calif.

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JULY 10, 2024

The slide rule let engineers solve equations involving electric current, voltage, and impedance 10 times faster than by hand. In 1919 she became the first woman to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering from MIT. Three years later, she became the first woman in the United States to work as an electrical engineer.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Koratkar’s graduate student and first author of the paper, Mukherjee, was a finalist in the 2014 MIT-Lemelson National Collegiate Student Prize Competition in the graduate student category and presented his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this month. Clark and Edward T. Rahul Mukherjee, Abhay V.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

He has been granted six patents. Coughlin is active in several other professional organizations including the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the Storage Networking Industry Association. As director she provided academic leadership for all of the university’s engineering programs.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Unger was professor emeritus of computer science and electrical engineering at Columbia , where he taught courses on technology and its impact on society. in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. Unger was dedicated to promoting ethics in engineering. He went on to earn a master’s degree and Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founder of MIT's Microsystems Technology Labs. Penfield's academic career at MIT spanned 45 years. After joining MIT as a professor in 1960, he moved up the ranks and served as associate head of the electrical engineering and computer science department from 1974 to 1978. Paul Penfield. Fellow, 88; died 22 June.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Ziv, an electrical engineering professor at the Technion —the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa—and his colleague Abraham Lempel perfected the lossless compression technique, enabling perfect data reconstruction. He moved to the United States to attend MIT , where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1962.

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JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. He and his colleagues were recently granted a U.S. His ability to cross disciplines started at MIT. “At patent , shortly before his 100th birthday.

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MARCH 24, 2022

Many of today’s engineering students want to work on technologies that address public-interest challenges, IEEE Fellow Deborah Estrin says. EMBEDDED NETWORKING SENSORS Perhaps it’s no surprise that Estrin pursued a career in engineering and computer science. Her parents were pioneers in computer science and biomedical engineering.

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He began his career at Ferranti , an electrical engineering and equipment company in Manchester, England. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Winston was an electrical engineering professor at two Boston-area universities: Northeastern and Tufts. He cofounded the latters Gordon Institute , a leadership-focused engineering school. Among the students and colleagues whose careers he helped shape is IEEE Fellow Karen Panetta , dean of graduate engineering education at Tufts.

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Dennard began his career as a staff engineer at IBM ’s New York City research lab. He was granted a U.S. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering in 1954 and 1956 from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas. in Sunnyvale as vice president of engineering. patent for his invention in 1968.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Ratcliff began his career in 1965 as an electrical engineer at Public Service Indiana , an electric utility based in Indianapolis. There he helped design bulk power systems and developed engineering software. where he was an engineering manager until 1994. He earned a masters degree in engineering in 1983 and a Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. So when I went to MIT to do my Ph.D., I and Nestor Sepulveda , who was also a Ph.D.

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The four-door sedan will deliver 40 miles on a charge; a small gasoline engine will recharge the battery as it approaches depletion, extending its range by as much as 200 miles. One wonders if the recent headway at MIT in building lithium ion cells using ?virus? Engineering proptypes enjoy a tax break. Interesting in any case.

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Enabled by gains in high-speed computing, artificial intelligence, and materials science, nuclear physicists and engineers are toppling longstanding technical hurdles. Department of Energy labs, and it employs about 800 scientists, engineers, and other workers. And stellarators, a once-overlooked approach, are back in the spotlight.

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