An intern works on a model car to see how engineering and aerodynamics affect speed,
A heat image shows how air flows over a car.
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a three-part column series submitted by Mount Airy City Schools Superintendent Kim Morrison about the system’s School-to-Work program.
NASCAR and Richard Childress Racing (RCR) have a vision for growing their own engineers, marketing specialists, drivers, and pit crew members. RCR boasts excellence with over 16 championships and 200 victories across NASCAR’s top three series. They want to see students through high school and college enter into STEAM careers in NASCAR.
UNC Charlotteâs Energy Production and Infrastructure Center is One of 10 Selected Nationwide for U.S. Department of Energy Award
$3.6 million grant will support effort to lower solar electricity costs, increase the competitiveness of American solar manufacturing and improve grid reliability
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EPIC s 2.5 kW rooftop solar PV system for research on microgrid control that will be used on the SETO project
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Newswise CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jan. 14, 2021 - UNC Charlotte s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) has been selected for a $3.6 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to improve the resilience and reliability of the regional grid. Badrul Chowdhury, professor of electrical and computer engineering, is the principal investigator for the project.
The Board of Directors of the Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives has selected Brian S. Mosier as the associationâs next president and CEO, effective April 1.
Mosier will succeed Richard G. Johnstone Jr., who is retiring after a 36-year career with the association, the last 22 as general manager and then president and CEO.
Mosier has been with VMDAEC since 2013, first as vice president of government affairs and later as vice president of member and government relations. He was promoted to chief operating officer in 2019.
His 25-year career with electric cooperatives began in 1995 with Union Power Cooperative in North Carolina, where he managed the cooperativeâs for-profit subsidiary. In 2004, he joined Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative in Chase City, Va. as vice president of business development.
Warm and humid climate make rocks more brittle, accelerate weathering, study finds
Warm and humid climate make rocks more brittle, accelerate weathering, study finds
New study by University of North Carolina confirms that increased humidity in air and rising temperatures leads to rocks weathering faster.
Sandhya Ramesh 8 January, 2021 11:07 am IST Text Size:
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Bengaluru: Warm and humid weather plays a major role in accelerating the weathering process of rocks, breaking them down faster, a new study has found.
Weathering is the natural process of breakdown of rocks into smaller pieces and minerals. The slow phenomenon is an ongoing process over millions of years, leading to formation of soil and sand. The process also releases carbon.
What Trump Shares With the âLost Causeâ of the Confederacy
It is hard to miss the parallels between now and then of rewriting history and campaigns of disinformation.
By Karen L. Cox
Dr. Cox is the author of the forthcoming book âNo Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice.â
Jan. 8, 2021
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Wednesday morning, President Trump urged a crowd of supporters who showed up in Washington, D.C., to âwalk down to the Capitolâ and protest the certification of the election taking place nearby on Pennsylvania Avenue. A few hours later, he stood in the White House Rose Garden to deliver a different message after members of this same group â who carried flags bearing his name â stormed the Capitol, brawled with Capitol Police and breached both chambers of Congress. Mr. Trump repeated false claims about election fraud but told them: âYou have to go home now. We have to have peac