Engineering News

A study to develop plans and costs for creating e-waste material recovery facilities in the BIMP-EAGA countries will be undertaken by the environment and ICT clusters of the BIMP-EAGA.

A team of researchers at Virginia Tech have developed at battery that utilizes sugar creating an energy-dense battery that could replace traditional batteries. These new batteries would be more economical, refillable and biogradable. 

A two-year $550,000 grant has been awarded to the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP) at Penn State University by the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development (DCED).

The IEEE Standards Associated has announced the winner of their “I Spy Ethernet IEEE 802.3™” contest, Rahul Kar, an IT student from Calcutta, India. Mr. Kar’s submission represented smart cities based on the Internet of Things.

Testing has begun on solar cells that contain a layer of carbon nanotubes in hopes to increase the efficiency of solar cells by capturing more of the sun’s rays that usually go to waste.

The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine against Turner Broadcasting System for the second time in less than three months. The $200,000 proposed fine is for transmitting advertisements that imitate the national public warning system used by the President of the United States to address the public during a national emergency. The warning system is also used to deliver important emergency information from federal, state and local authorities.

A new $6.5 million, 32-acre site will be built on the north campus of University of Michigan as a test center for self-driving vehicles. The testing center will be made into a fake downtown that will feature buildings, parked cars, traffic signals, a tunnel, bicycle lanes and more.

On Wednesday, January 15^th, Apple reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over complaints that the company did not do enough to prevent children from making unauthorized purchases on mobile applications.