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André Blondel

The project created a (then) large 300,000 hp hydroelectric power plant at Genissiat on the Rhône, and transmitted electrical power to Paris more than 350 km away using polyphase AC current at 120 kV.

Bernard Price Memorial Lecture

The Lecture is named in memory of the eminent electrical engineer Bernard Price.

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

He is currently working as Meritorious Professor (in Grade 22) and Dean of the Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The classes available were Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mathematics, Handicrafts and Typography and Drawing.

Camillo Ugi

In 1905 the trained electrical mechanic, specialising in cinema equipment, was lured by career prospects to join Sport Club Germânia, today's EC Pinheiros in São Paulo, Brazil.

Cash Generator

Its core business is the buying and selling of Second Hand goods, mainly electrical and entertainment products.

Chris Lea

He was the director of facilities at Hart House at the University of Toronto, where as part of a team he won a Green Innovation Award in 2010, for a project to utilise electrical power generated from exercise bikes.

Cindrel Mountains

On the Cibin river and on the Sadu river dams and hydro-electrical power plants were constructed, the oldest being the one from Sadu in 1896.

Constant voltage

Voltage source, electrical power source that regulate voltage to a constant level

Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility

It also contains characterization equipment including scanning electron microscopes, ellipsometers and probe stations for electrical measurement.

Cryoablation

Techniques also exist where incisions are used in the open heart to interrupt abnormal electrical conduction (Maze procedure).

Dan Geer

Geer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a member of the Theta Deuteron charge of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.

Drax Group

The company's principal subsidiary is Drax Power Limited, owner of the Drax power station near Selby in North Yorkshire, the largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe which supplies about 7% of UK electrical consumption.

Erik Hoffmann

He moved to University of Stuttgart, Germany in 2001 to study Electrical Engineering.

Everett Franklin Lindquist

As a result of the fast-growing use of ITBS tests, he developed the first practical optical mark recognition system as a replacement for the electrical mark sense IBM 805 Test Scoring Machine.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

History of trams in Leipzig

The electrical-equipment manufacturer AEG served as the principal financial backer of the new undertaking.

Igor Kluvánek

Igor Kluvánek obtained his first degree in electrical engineering from the Slovak Polytechnic University, Bratislava, in 1953.

Jianyou Cao

After returning to China in 1951, He joined Department of Electrical Engineering of Tangshan Institute of Technology (now Southwest Jiaotong University), where he became the dean of department later.

Joe Volk

He is the Great Grandson of electrical engineer and inventor Magnus Volk.

John Akister

Trained as an electrical fitter and electrical draughtsman, he worked for the Metropolitan-Vickers company from 1954 to 1959, when he began national service as a private in the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Regiment.

John G. McKnight

He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1952, and worked for Ampex Corp from 1952 thru 1972, except for the years 1953..

Josip Pečarić

He studied at the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and completed his master’s degree in electrical engineering under the supervision of mathematics professor, Dobrilo Tošić, who inspired him to dedicate himself to mathematics.

Kinetic Traction Systems

KTS' rail-side device uses a brushless DC motor/generator to spin up the flywheel to store electrical energy (for instance, from regenerative braking on trains) as kinetic energy; later to be converted back to electrical energy on demand.

Lightning sphere

Ball lightning, a controversial atmospheric electrical phenomenon

Lipid bilayer characterization

In addition to simple DC current measurements it is also possible to perform AC electrical characterization to extract information about the capacitance and complex impedance of a bilayer.

Mahdi Ali

After his playing days, Ali attended the HCT – Dubai Men's College where he graduated as an electrical engineer and later assisted in the design of the Dubai Metro.

Mersen

It expanded the size of its operations in the United States with the acquisition of Gould Electronics' electrical fuses division (1999).

Móricz Zsigmond körtér

This building, constructed in 1942 in the middle of the roundabout, featured shops as well as the electrical transformer distributing current to the significant tramway network.

NASA Pathfinder

The new center section was topped by more-efficient silicon solar cells developed by SunPower Corporation of Sunnyvale, California, which could convert almost 19 percent of the solar energy they receive to useful electrical energy to power the craft's motors, avionics and communication systems.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

NECA

NECA Show, electrical construction industry’s trade show since 1901

Onaral

Banu Onaral, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Drexel University

Pen computing

1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray on electrical stylus device for capturing handwriting.

Peter Chen

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Peter Chen received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1968 at the National Taiwan University, and a Ph.D. in computer science/applied mathematics at the Harvard University in 1973.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Robert Hecht

Robert Hecht-Nielsen (born 1947), adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego

Sampo

In Episode 506, "Eegah", they receive a letter from a fan which includes a photograph of a Sampo portable television set - Sampo Corporation is a Taiwanese electrical manufacturer that produces televisions, amongst other products.

SoulStice

In addition to his career in music, he continues to pursue his career in Electrical Engineering as a Senior Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Soundcast

This directive bans from the market new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed to levels of lead, cadmium, mercury hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated biphenyl Ether (PBDE) flame retardants.

Telephonoscope

It was mentioned in various early science fiction works such as Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (The Twentieth Century: The Electrical Life) and other works written by Albert Robida.

The Other Woman

Recent island arrivals Daniel Faraday (played by Jeremy Davies) and Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) leave the survivors' camp without notice for the Dharma Initiative electrical station called the Tempest.

The Terminal Experiment

To his shock, when Peter places his superEEG on the head of a willing terminal patient, he afterwards finds in the readouts a small electrical field leaving the brain after death.

Traffolyte

The material dates back to 1927, when it was first produced by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Ltd. at their Trafford Park factory in Manchester, UK for transformer labels.

Trick arrows

Adamantium Arrows (often combined with Electrical arrowhead)

UNSW Faculty of Engineering

Michael Uzzell, Electrical Engineering - Head of Navy Engineering, Royal Australian Navy; Engineers Australia "Top 100 Influential Engineers, 2013"

Vasant Honavar

from Bangalore University, India, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engg.

William McWhirter

In 1882 he worked for Messrs Norman & Sons, setting up the first electrical lighting at Glasgow Central station.

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.

Zlatan Stoykov

He finished the Technical College of Electrical Industry in Kyustendil and graduated from the Vasil Levski Military All-Army University in Veliko Tarnovo.


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