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NTSB recommends nationwide ban on personal electronic devices while driving; also calls for modifications to the equipment and the completion of a NHTSA rulemaking on collision warning systems

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Following a Board meeting on a 2010 multi-vehicle highway accident in Gray Summit, Missouri, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called for the first-ever nationwide ban on driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) while operating a motor vehicle. The accident resulted in 11 fatalities. Globally, there are 5.3

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IEEE’s TryEngineering Summer Institute Provides Hands-On Experiences

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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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New Approach to Release Hydrogen from Ammonia Borane Promising for Fuel Cell Vehicle Applications

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A team of chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a noncatalytic hydrothermolysis approach to release hydrogen from ammonia borane (AB)—a promising hydrogen storage material containing 19.6 Research findings were also presented 15 June during the International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering in Philadelphia.

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Video Friday: Welcome to 2022

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA ERF 2022 – June 28-30, 2022 – Rotterdam, Germany Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. John Deere ] I appreciate the idea that this robot seems to have some conception of personal space and will react when that space is rudely violated.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. 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. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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From Punch Cards to Python

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now part of Unisys , in Philadelphia. For her, however, the most important outcome was the influence it had on the development of modern programming languages, making writing code more accessible to everyone, according to a Penn Engineering Today article. The IEEE Philadelphia Section sponsored the nomination. got its start.

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Video Friday: Robot Friends

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Azores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. Robotstart was there in person, so check out its coverage at the link below. But it’s way weirder on video! ???? ?RHP