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JULY 24, 2022

Now, a team of researchers at MIT, the University of Houston, and other institutions have shown that cubic boron arsenide overcomes these two limitations of silicon as a semiconductor material. Cubic boron arsenide provides high mobility to both holes as well as electrons, and has excellent thermal conductivity.

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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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APRIL 22, 2019

Researchers at the University of Houston have now developed an organic cathode that improves both stability and energy density. Credit: University of Houston. Its moderate redox potential enables the reversible formation of a resistive active material-electrolyte interface. 2019.03.017.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The financing was co-led by The Engine and by The GOOSE Society of Texas. Other participants include angel investors from the Creative Destruction Lab program and the Houston area. The development of the reactor incorporates expertise from chemical engineering, optics, materials science, theoretical physics, and nanophotonics.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

The 10-day camp for students ages 13 to 17 provides an immersive and fun approach to learning about engineering. The teenagers engage in hands-on activities, speak with working engineers, and make field trips to local engineering organizations. In its inaugural year in 2018, 80 students participated; this year 330 attended.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Yan Yao, Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston and co-corresponding author for the paper, said the groundbreaking results came from combining both an organic quinone cathode and a new tailored boron cluster-based electrolyte solution. Neither approach is practical.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

ICE Thermal Harvesting (Houston, TX). Transitional Energy will install state-of-the-art, American-made geothermal heat engines at Blackburn Oilfield in Nevada for electrical power production. University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK). Transitional Energy (Aurora, CO).

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Shell and the consortium partners—including McDermott’s CB&I Storage Solutions, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, GenH2 and the University of Houston—have been selected by the U.S. CB&I Storage Solutions will provide engineering, design and LH 2 construction storage expertise.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Researchers at the University of Houston (UH), with colleagues from Central China Normal University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, have developed a two-electrode catalyst that relies on one compound to produce hydrogen and oxygen efficiently from both seawater and freshwater. —Shuo Chen.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The assistant professor and William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has proposed the development of a modular electrochemical system that will provide “a sustainable, negative-carbon, low-waste and point-source manufacturing path preferable to traditional large-scale chemical process plants.”.

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APRIL 10, 2021

Licensed from Rice University, Syzygy’s “antenna-reactor” plasmonic photocatalyst has been published in leading academic journals such as Science , Nature , and PNAS. The development of the reactor incorporates expertise from chemical engineering, optics, materials science, theoretical physics, and nanophotonics. Earlier post.).

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JULY 27, 2017

A new robust and highly active bifunctional catalyst developed by Rice University and the University of Houston splits water into hydrogen and oxygen without the need for expensive metals such as platinum. Credit: Desmond Schipper/Rice University). Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Welch Foundation.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Rice University researchers and colleagues at Princeton and Syzygy Plasmonics have developed a plasmonic photocatalyst for the direct decomposition of hydrogen sulfide gas into hydrogen and sulfur, as an alternative to the industrial Claus process. Image courtesy of Halas Group/Rice University).

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To reduce the number of accidents in the global oil and gas industry caused by damaged pipelines, University of Houston researchers are developing an autonomous robot to identify potential pipeline leaks and structural failures during subsea inspections. A prototype of the ROV has been tested in Chen’s lab and in Galveston Bay.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2021

A diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company based in Houston, Phillips 66 has filed numerous patent applications on battery-related technology. We’re pleased to put some of our resources into play with Faradion as it works to bring game-changing technology to market using our high-performing anode materials. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

A reaction cell (left) and the photocatalytic platform (right) used on tests of copper-iron plasmonic photocatalysts for hydrogen production from ammonia at Syzygy Plasmonics in Houston. —Hossein Robatjazi, chief scientist at Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics. Courtesy of Syzygy Plasmonics, Inc.

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MAY 19, 2023

IEEE’s Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony showcases emerging technologies and celebrates engineering pioneers who laid the groundwork for many of today’s electronic devices. Engineering changes the way the world works.” Engineering changes the way the world works,” he said. Mulligan Jr. Allen Medal.

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MAY 22, 2024

Arthur Erickson discovered drones during his first year at college studying aerospace engineering. Today, Erickson is the CEO of Houston-based Hylio , a company that builds crop-spraying drones for farmers. In 2020, Hylio opened a factory in Houston and started selling drones to American farmers.

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MARCH 24, 2017

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Houston created an efficient, simple-to-manufacture core/shell photoanode with a highly active oxygen evolution electrocatalyst shell (FeMnP) and semiconductor core (rutile TiO 2 ) for the photoelectrochemical oxygen evolution reaction (PEC-OER) for solar water splitting.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

First offered in 2018, the summer camp program gives teens an opportunity to explore a variety of engineering disciplines through hands-on design challenges, field trips, industry speakers, and more. The first of two sessions held at the University of Pennsylvania, one of the new camp locations, sold out well before the enrollment deadline.

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JANUARY 10, 2021

Researchers from Oregon State University College of Engineering, with colleagues from Cornell University and the Argonne National Laboratory, have used advanced experimental tools to provide a clearer understanding of an electrochemical catalytic process that’s cleaner and more sustainable than deriving hydrogen from natural gas.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Aramco’s fuels technology program is focused on reducing the overall environmental impact, cost and complexity of both current and future fuel-engine systems. With a global refining presence, Aramco brings a perspective into how fuels can be designed and matched to engines for higher performance and lower emissions.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

While current federal regulations have emissions limits on new vehicles, the regulations do not affect vehicles already in use, said senior author Oliver Gao, Cornell professor of civil and environmental engineering. Aging trucks, however, can easily degrade from normal to high-emitting conditions.

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JULY 12, 2017

million to 22 new cost-shared projects to accelerate the research of advanced battery, lightweight materials, engine emission control technologies, and energy efficient mobility systems (EEMS). An additional two projects will research and develop novel emission control strategies for advanced combustion engines. Cornell University.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Rice University researchers led by Dr. Robert Hauge have created a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that can be deeply integrated into the manufacture of devices and that promises to combine the best qualities of high-energy batteries and fast-charging capacitors in a device suitable for extreme environments. Nicholas, N.W.,

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NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Now, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have developed a solid-state thermal transistor—the first device of its kind that can use an electric field to control the flow of heat through electronics. Electronic transistors are central to modern electronics.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

GMZ Energy, a provider of advanced nano-structured thermoelectric generation technology, was co-founded by MITs Professor Gang Chen and collaborator Zhifeng Ren of the University of Houston. An automotive TEG is intended to improve fuel economy by power from waste heat to reduce the electric generator load on the engine.

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MAY 6, 2019

Pennsylvania State University: Applying machine learning methodologies toward the study of microearthquakes (MEQs) and their linkages to probable zones of permeability, as well as the risks associated with induced seismicity in geothermal development. noun, adjective) and use these relationships to build structured (e.g.,

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AUGUST 4, 2021

McDermott International, a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions (ECS) to the energy industry, has joined a consortium of public, private and academic partners collaborating on a US Department of Energy (DOE) project—Demonstration and Framework for H2@Scale in Texas and Beyond.

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DECEMBER 10, 2015

A team led by Yan Yao at the University of Houston will create a new cathode for the battery. A team led by Sehee Lee at the University of Colorado Boulder will develop the new anode for the battery.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Engineers from the University of Houston and the University of Texas report that waterflooding with a surfactant—thereby altering the wettability of oil reservoir rocks—can increase oil recovery from 62 to 85%.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. That is where Chinmay Hegde , an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon, comes in. Even just six years ago, generative AI technology was very rudimentary.

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JANUARY 29, 2021

A team of researchers led by Zhifeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, has developed an oxygen-evolving catalyst that takes just minutes to grow at room temperature on commercially available nickel foam.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

Electric motors are much quieter because they don’t have the same processes as combustion engines. No combustion=no engine noise Conversely, gas-powered cars generate noise through vibrations and other engine mechanisms when operating. Additionally, EVs don’t have traditional exhaust and gear systems that generate noise.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of California, San Diego. The University of California, San Diego, seeks to address this issue by developing a low-atomic-number renewable wall for fusion devices that contains a slurry composed of carbon, ceramics, and a volatile binder. Interfacial-Engineered Membranes for Efficient Tritium Extraction - $1,397,973.

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