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		<title>Been all around this world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO&#8211;Somewhere along a sun-smooched stretch of road here in May, we circled the Earth. Our journey to hunt down innovation stories across the country in a Chevy Volt officially crossed 24,901 miles, one measure of the earth&#39;s circumference. We&#39;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When one foot&#8217;s on the dock&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARWATER, Fla.&#8211;In most technology-adoption periods, there&#39;s a time when users are require to straddle two worlds, old and new, with one foot on the dock and one on the boat. Innovation tends to slip into any vaccuum and make that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change of scenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does Led Zeppelin have to do with Shockley Semiconductor? Very little, unless you read, as I did the other day, a piece about the legendary rock band and your mind wandered. Peter Cook wrote a piece about Led Zeppelin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REGISTER NOW TO WIN AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE. IT&#8217;S EASY AND THE DEADLINE IS MAY 18TH.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To join the adventure, register on the Avnet Express site in only 3 steps. You&#8217;ll gain access to additional Drive for Innovation content, Avnet Express, and the chance to win an electric car.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;It takes tenacity to become a female engineer&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=6790</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;That was Eliza Nelson&#39;s take when we spoke with her at &#34;Girls Have &#39;IT&#39; Day&#34; here at Xavier College Preparatory. More design resources Nelson, an Avnet FAE, was invited to speak at the event to help inspire girls gathered here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rugged challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 03:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala.&#8211;Sometimes you wonder why some people pursue the paths they do, why a good solid technology chases a crowded space, like a moth to flame, so brilliant one moment and vaporized the next. More design resources Take ruggedized computers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweepstakes Deadline: May 18th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 22:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember, the deadline to register to enter for a chance to win a Chevy Volt is May 18th. Don&#39;t miss out!]]></description>
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		<title>Making the grid smart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;Mike Sinclair stretches a faint smile and puts it plainly: &#34;one of the issues you have with this new smart grid stuff is that it&#39;s not all quite ironed out.&#34; That&#39;s a good-news bad-news story: The bad news is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What B.S. filter do you use for your own ideas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 17:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#39;ve no doubt heard the phrase your baby&#39;s ugly. You&#39;ve probably used it to describe some piece of technology you&#39;ve seen somewhere, or maybe had the courage to say so in a customer design meeting. But how do you come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powertrain Teardown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 11:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Second Teardown article in a series.) By John Scott-Thomas, TechInsights The Chevrolet Volt, GM&#8217;s entry in the electric car market,&#160;is one of the most complex vehicles on the road, using almost 100 microprocessors that are controlled by about 10 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt teardown: Charge system slide presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s a presentation compiled by Al Steier of Munro &#038; Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights that walks you through what they found during their analysis of the Chevy Volt&#39;s charge/powertrain system:]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Teardown: Powertrain presentation at Design West (32:14)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 05:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second of a three-part series of video excerpts from Design West, Munro &#038; Associates&#39; Al Steier and TechInsights&#39; John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt&#39;s powertrain and charge electronics (the session runs 32:14): &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation is dead (a panel discussion)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 12:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; You could be forgiven if your outlook for the long-term future of the North American electronics industry is dire. Mine once was. In fact, I went into this yearlong road trip hoping for good predictions but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The vandal&#8217;s message</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 17:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know because you comment so diversely and passionately on this site that the Volt is a lightning rod for opinion. Apparently in my neighborhood in San Francisco, the car itself is magnet for commentary. Last week, I found someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new direction for mixed-signal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas&#8211;LED lighting is exploding (figuratively) these days, and IC vendors are jumping at the opportunity to get into new markets, either with LEDs themselves or supporting circuitry. More design resources In March, Cirrus Logic, long considered a major player [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing big to the air hockey robot god</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 22,275 miles) SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;I consider myself a decent air hockey player, although I don&#39;t play the game as much today as I did in my salad days. More design resources Let&#39;s be honest, once you get a feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So simple a sales guy could build it</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala.&#8211;You know the caricature of the electronics sales rep: A tassel-shoed dandy who takes calls in between putting and chipping, who has a hard time remembering his college Engineering 101. More design resources They look at you with fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the maker movement bad for engineering students?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-the-maker-movement-bad-for-engineering-students</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON&#8211;Ken Connor has seen a few engineers pass before him in his decades of teaching engineering at Renssaeler Polytechnic Institute (RPI), so I thought he&#39;d make an interesting sounding board when we met here during the recent USA Science and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many engineers can fit into a Volt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILPITAS, Calif. and TEMPE, Ariz.&#8211;Whether it&#39;s&#160;pc board layout or semiconductor design, maximum packing density is a persistent objective. It&#39;s ingrained in professional engineers&#39; DNA. So it was no surprise that when we threw down the gauntlet at NXP in Milpitas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On baseball and innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s springtime, and that means it&#39;s time for renewal, resurgence, growth, fresh things and baseball. I can&#39;t help but love the season and its sport (at least its North American sport!). Both are about renewal and hope. There&#39;s a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Teardown: Video excerpts from Design West</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first of a three-part series of video excerpts from Design West, Munro &#038; Associates&#39; Al Steier and TechInsights&#39; John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt&#39;s battery pack. Here is their presentation, edited to 15:05:]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Teardown: The battery pack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Scott-Thomas, TechInsights The Chevrolet Volt is GM&#8217;s&#160;atonement for the cancellation of its first modern electric vehicle, the EV1, and a potent attempt to create a bold new&#160;technical future. The Volt&#8217;s control systems are among the most elaborate ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Teardown: Battery pack parts list</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are select components used in the design of the Chevrolet Volt 360V battery pack: LG Chem Battery Management ASSP, by STMicro in proprietary BCD Technology. The L9763 is a full ASIC with intellectual property shared by LG. Freescale microcontroller: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt teardown: Battery pack slide presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 05:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s a presentation compiled by Al Steier of Munro &#038; Associates and John Scott-Thomas of TechInsights that walks you through what they found during their analysis of the Chevy Volt&#39;s battery pack: &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Innovator&#8217;s Patent Agreement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 21:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My old friend, colleague, mentor, co-worker, meal-sharer Ron Wilson (now at Altera) sometimes operated like a precision watch. It went like this: Once a year, right around the same time (connected to nothing apparent), Ron would fulminate about how engineers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TMCnet, Education Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[04/18/12 Avnet Express Donates Chevrolet Volt Parts to ASU&#39;s Formula Electric Team]]></description>
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		<title>Charged, Electric Vehicle Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[04/18/12 Avnet Express donates disassembled Volt to ASU&#39;s Formula Electric Team]]></description>
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		<title>TMCnet, Tech Workforce Feature</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[04/16/12 Avnet Efforts Help Position Students for Tech Workforce]]></description>
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		<title>Smart bomb technology may disrupt the classroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS&#8211;Semiconductor and sensor technology used for years to guide precision bombs and cruise missiles is making its way into the hands of teachers&#8211;for peaceful purposes. More design resources Penveu, a mobile wireless technology from a unit of Interphase here, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Cruise, Top Gun and the engineering allure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS&#8211;Role models play an enormous role in inspiring young men and women to enter their professions. It&#39;s all the more crucial for young women to find role models because, even today, there are so few in electrical engineering. More design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In a jam at IDT</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 22,105 miles) SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;Some companies roll out the red carpet on this trip; others want the Volt on the red carpet. Such was the case here this spring when our friends at Integrated Device Technology (IDT) wanted us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASU engineers to receive torn-down Chevy Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 23,166 miles) TEMPE, Ariz.&#8211;When we tore down a black Chevy Volt in January, we weren&#39;t just going to throw it away once we finished with it. As any engineer knows, &#34;parts is parts,&#34; and you can do amazing things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build a DTMF POTS control link</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation-part-two</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation-part-two#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Control your world from your cell phone By Jon Gabay In our last installment, &#8220;Build your own crack POTS,&#8221; we discussed how to make a Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) interface that we could use as an access point for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Avnet Tech Games</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-avnet-tech-games</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 23, 045 miles) TEMPE, Ariz.&#8211;We&#39;ve pulled into the amazing University of Advancing Technology here to show off the Volt and enjoy the 7th Avnet Tech Games. The games were founded as a way to encourage and inspire Arizona college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KSFO Radio</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/5/12 Click Here&#160;to listen to the complete segment with Brian Fuller on KSFO Radio.]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express Announces Plans to Donate Chevrolet Volt &#8216;Guts&#8217; to Arizona State University’s Formula Electric Team</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-announces-plans-to-donate-chevrolet-volt-guts-to-arizona-state-university%e2%80%99s-formula-electric-team</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, April 12, 2012 &#8211; Any car enthusiast will say the most important part of the car lives under the hood. A group of Arizona State University students are about to get up close and personal with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For an engineer, a bright idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARY, N.C.&#8211;Michael Pena left his job at NXP Semiconductors to pursue a dream of building his own company. He calls the experience so far &#34;not without great challenges, but the most fun I&#39;ve had in years.&#34; He chose to tackle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you quantify love?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;Joy Franco has found her passion in engineering at San Jose State. She&#39;s so passionate about it that she has&#160;an homage to math, science and her husband tattooed on her forearm.&#160; If that doesn&#39;t make you feel optimistic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Without chips, no cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 18,592 miles) AUSTIN, Texas&#8211;Relentless innovation and reliability in semiconductor design has played such a huge role in the evolution of car design that the next frontier&#8211;active safety systems&#8211;simply wouldn&#39;t be possible without it. More design resources That insight is&#160;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evolution from engineer to entrepreneur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SMITHFIELD, N.C.&#8211; Steve Yauch is living the dream. At least if you go by any number of EE Times&#39; engineer-surveys over the past couple of decades. In those surveys, generally 80-90 percent of respondents aspire to start their own company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Games for Techies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Price, Managing editor for content The seventh annual Avnet Tech Games (ATG) is right around the corner, and excitement among Arizona community college and university participants is running high. This college technology competition provides students with an opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing your future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAMPA, Fla.&#8211;Every introduction of new technology into the smart grid opens it up to further attack. That was Mike Duren&#39;s frank assessment when we stopped here at Sypris Solutions to chat with him and Mike Walsh, the company&#39;s president. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-bike v. the Volt on the quarter mile</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 20,147) TEMPE, Ariz.&#8211;In the red Chevy Volt&#8211;our innovation &#34;magic carpet&#34; around the country&#8211;we&#39;ve drag raced a Prius. Here at Arizona State University&#39;s main campus, we got a chance to take it up a notch. Brian Jackson, an engineering student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control your world from your cell phone, II</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notice how the audio is cap coupled to the reference biased input stage. You will also notice that I tap off the MT8870&#8217;s op-amp output at pin 3 to capture the audio out through a unity gain non-inverting buffer. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control your world from your cell phone, III</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power Up and Testing I had already tested the POTS interface, but I assume nothing when new wiring has taken place. It is very easy for a small wire shard or solder ball to wedge between two or more connections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the fun in innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 21,450 miles) SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;We stopped by what you might call the cradle within the cradle of innovation, the old National Semiconductor headquarters (now Texas Instruments). The best part of our several hours there was that every interview we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt production resumes earlier than planned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[View the story "Volt production to resume earlier than expected" on Storify] Volt production to resume earlier than expected Storified by Brian Fuller &#183; Wed, Apr 04 2012 20:01:34 When GM halted production of its extended-range EV the Volt earlier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The No. 1 question to ask about innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I share innovation blog posts that I come across because not only is that part of what this site is about, but I&#39;m also interested in learning more about organizational dynamics and improving productivity. The intersection of technology and human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can we build future innovators with our lousy educational system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and now chief scientist at Fusion-io, &#39;fessed up to a little secret: For years he&#39;d been secretly teaching at a local middle school. Can you not only imagine a billionaire genius doing something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking at a problem from a different angle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNTSVILLE, Ala.&#8211;Innovative products often are born after looking at a problem from a different angle. That&#39;s how Paul Gierow and his employees at GATR Technologies did things. Gierow took his experience in designing space deployables (big things) and applied to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simply simplifying compilers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;When we pulled into Microchip&#39;s parking lot during our Arizona tour, we met Joe Drzewiecki, development tools manager. He teased us by saying he&#39;d have something to tell us at DESIGN West, a few weeks after our stop. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toy story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;The fun aspect of trade shows is getting to see amazing demos and take home some amusing give-aways&#8211;booth swag, if you will. More design resources As Moore&#39;s Law marches on, these toys get smaller, more interesting (or funny) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Product news: New 8-bit MCU from Microchip</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/product-news-new-8-bit-mcu-from-microchip</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 20, 329 miles) CHANDLER, Ariz.&#8211;We took the opportunity during our stop here at Microchip headquarters to chat with Greg Brown about a new product the semiconductor vendor released at DESIGN West in March. The 8-bit PIC16F(LF)178X enhancements include advanced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Exclusive Sponsor of the DESIGN West University Grant Program</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-exclusive-sponsor-of-the-design-west-university-grant-program</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-exclusive-sponsor-of-the-design-west-university-grant-program#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enables 20 Students from San Jose State University to Attend the Event to Gain Engineering Education Phoenix and San Francisco, March 26, 2012 &#8211; The Drive for Innovation &#8211; a year-long, cross-country road trip created to celebrate electronics innovation is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to tear down the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-volt-teardown-design-west</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-volt-teardown-design-west#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; Love it or loathe it, the Chevy Volt is a marvel of electronics and automotive engineering. This week at DESIGN West, we&#39;re peeling back the onion on this innovative General Motors design. More design resources In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Phoenix Journal</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/downtown-phoenix-journal</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/22/12 Photo Gallery: Girls Have IT Day]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express and UBM Electronics Host a Fireside Chat to Examine the State of Innovation in the United States at DESIGN West</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-and-ubm-electronics-host-a-fireside-chat-to-examine-the-state-of-innovation-in-the-united-states-at-design-west</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Feature Participants from Swemco, Avnet Electronics Marketing, Shockwave Impact and National Instruments &#160; Phoenix and San Francisco, March 22, 2012 &#8212; UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry&#8217;s decision makers, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express and UBM Electronics Reveal the Design Secrets of the General Motors Chevrolet Volt at DESIGN West</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-and-ubm-electronics-reveal-the-design-secrets-of-the-general-motors-chevrolet-volt-at-design-west</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three-Day Chevrolet Volt Teardown Results to be Presented in Three Sessions at North America&#8217;s Largest Electronic Design Conference in Silicon Valley, March 26-29 &#160; Phoenix and San Francisco, March 21, 2012 &#8211; What makes the Chevy Volt run? Find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why isn&#8217;t digital technology helping us innovate?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-isnt-digital-technology-helping-us-innovate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a decade ago, I wrote an essay for one of those EE Times year-in-review editions that would announce its presence with a resounding &#34;thump!&#34; on your desk. The essay&#39;s premise was that Moore&#39;s Law had advanced so far, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hackerspaces and a date for the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hackerspaces-and-a-date-for-the-volt</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 16,980 miles) HUNTSVILLE, Ala.&#8211;The most-fun stops on this year-long journey around America are schools and &#34;maker&#34; places, and Makers Local 256 here was no exception. More design resources The idea was inspired six years ago by the Tech Shop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the best innovators procrastinators?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-the-best-innovators-procrastinators</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 09:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live on deadlines in the publishing business. In fact, it&#39;s those hours just before a deadline where I often do my best work (or so I think)&#8211;heart thumping, breathing shallow and fast. But many will argue that&#39;s ridiculous, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A cut above</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/power-electronics-challenges-in-surgical-tools</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LARGO, Fla.&#8211;Like yoga, the pinnacle of design innovation is a balance struck between form, functionality, cost and, oh, 10 or 20 other variables. &#160; Not easy, but, like yoga, can be learned over years of practice. The best part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>azcentral.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3/15/12 Alternatives to gas? Despite $4 per gallon gas, electric cars still aren&#39;t selling]]></description>
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		<title>Conviction above creativity?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/conviction-above-creativity</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#39;re trying to foment change and innovation inside your company or your team, you&#39;ve no doubt read posts and books galore about the need to find creative people or cause a creative spark. This is surely important. But Doreen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Rolls into Phoenix in Support of “Girls Have IT Day”</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-rolls-into-phoenix-in-support-of-girls-have-it-day</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-rolls-into-phoenix-in-support-of-girls-have-it-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaborate with Xavier College Preparatory at the Fourth Annual Event on Friday, March 16, 2012 &#160; Phoenix and San Francisco, March 14, 2012 &#8211; The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) estimates there will be 1.4 million computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build your own crack &#8216;POTS&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/build-a-telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/build-a-telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Gabay The most successful and widely deployed communications network the modern world has ever seen is the Plain Old Telephone System (POTS). For generations, these household phone lines have provided basic voice and, later, data services to hundreds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We&#8217;re competing head-to-head with offshore sources&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/were-competing-head-to-head-with-offshore-sources</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/were-competing-head-to-head-with-offshore-sources#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 15,965 miles) SANFORD, Fla.&#8211;Dave Vickery, CEO of contract manufacturer Conelec of Florida, doesn&#39;t come off as boastful, and in fact, he isn&#39;t. But he uttered perhaps the boldest words we&#39;ve heard on the road: &#34;Manufacturing is thriving and doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forging a startup from a university lab</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/forging-a-startup-from-a-university-lab</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 9,007 miles) DURHAM, N.C.&#8211;There is an enormous volume of innovation churning in university labs across the country. Directors are more savvy about channeling research efforts into projects that have a chance at commercial success. But moving from lab to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build An Interfacing Linear Sensor</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-linear-sensors</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; A fast and easy way to hook up and calibrate different types of analog sensors By Jon Gabay It&#8217;s an analog word. Real-world processes and events happen in the analog domain. Temperature for example isn&#8217;t just On or Off. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combating the roadside bomb threat</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/combating-the-roadside-bomb-threat</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/combating-the-roadside-bomb-threat#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 15,750 miles) MELBOURNE, Fla.&#8211;The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been defined by the roadside bomb, or improvised explosive device (IED). It has killed thousands of soldiers and civilians and maimed tens of thousands more. The movie &#34;The Hurt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM: We&#8217;re Not Pulling the Plug on Chevy Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-were-not-pulling-the-plug-on-chevy-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-were-not-pulling-the-plug-on-chevy-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[03/07/12 By Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics &#038; Test for DesignNews The temporary halt in the production of the Chevy Volt isn&#39;t a sign that the Volt is dead or that electric cars are disappearing, but rather that General [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Celebrates Six Months of Inspiring People and Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-celebrates-six-months-of-inspiring-people-and-technology</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-celebrates-six-months-of-inspiring-people-and-technology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveled 14,414 miles through 17 states and interviewed 500+ people at 100 companies&#160; Phoenix and San Francisco, March 8, 2012 &#8212; Innovation: dead in America? Hardly. After six months of driving around the nation and interviewing more than 500 engineers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonder woman of Enseo</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/wonder-woman-of-enseo</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/wonder-woman-of-enseo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 18,721 miles) RICHARDSON, Texas&#8211;Let&#39;s jump into the Way-Back Machine, shall we? If you&#39;ve been in this industry long enough, you&#39;ll remember that Moore&#39;s Law, microprocessor design and falling memory prices all conspired to help the graphics-card business explode. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches from the Rohde</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rohde-and-schwarz-ceo-scott-bausback-interviewed</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rohde-and-schwarz-ceo-scott-bausback-interviewed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 9,280 miles) COLUMBIA, MD.&#8211; Scott Bausback has been around the test and measurement industry for decades. He&#39;s seen consolidation and technology innovation as the industry has adapted and evolved to manage ever faster and more complex signal challenges. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telephone Interface III</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-iii</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-iii#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I also left place holders for filter components RA1 and CA1. This setup allows adjustment of the transformer side impedance to limit frequencies and levels. As this function is not necessary in this application, I used jumpers for RA1 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telephone Interface  II</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-ii</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-ii#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a phone receiver is taken Off-Hook, the voltage on the phone drops to 6V DC, and up to 26 ma can be drawn from the phone wires. The audio is AC both ways, coupled to the 6V DC level, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Offshoring&#8217; to Virginia</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/offshoring-to-virginia</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/offshoring-to-virginia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 8,987 miles) STERLING, Va.&#8211;You&#39;ve heard or experienced the old dynamic: Prototype here; go large overseas. The labor and other costs are just better there. And, as you&#39;ve read here on Drive for Innovation, American electronics manufacturers are getting more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Contest Rules</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/weekly-contest-rules</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/weekly-contest-rules#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nicholas.walter@ubm.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Drive for Innovation Weekly Contest &#160;SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for Innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still rollin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/still-rollin</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/still-rollin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#39;s a quick update on news about our favorite innovation metaphor and automotive magic carpet, the Chevy Volt. Ours is running just fine (just finished 2,100 miles through the South!). However, General Motors announced it will idle production for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you innovate in a world of conformity?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-do-you-innovate-in-a-world-of-conformity</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-do-you-innovate-in-a-world-of-conformity#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#39;re a nation of individualists, or so we&#39;re led to believe. Yet walk down almost any street in America and you&#39;ll see people with the same straight white teeth, the same Gap-inspired clothing, the same iPhones and iPods&#8211;ghostly white spaghetti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torque News</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/torque-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/torque-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[03/01/12 Chevy Volt teardown reveals future battery pack upgrades and safety monitoring systems]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas Morning News</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dallas-morning-news</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dallas-morning-news#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[02/17/12 Drive for Innovation tour makes Dallas pit stop at TI]]></description>
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		<title>The wisdom of Solomon</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-wisdom-of-solomon</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-wisdom-of-solomon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 18,657 miles) PLANO, Texas&#8211;Let&#39;s be honest, when you pull up to a company as part of the &#34;Drive for Innovation,&#34; everybody tells you about how innovative they are, whether their latest product is innovative or not. More design resources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer mom? Try entrepreneur mom</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/soccer-mom-try-entrepreneur-mom</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/soccer-mom-try-entrepreneur-mom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 8,880 miles) CHANTILLY, VA.&#8211;There are scores of companies that have popped up along the Eastern Seaboard and down into the south in the past 20 years that have delivered ever more COTS-based computing and networking systems to military customers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An innovative analyzer for the field</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/an-innovative-analyzer-for-the-field</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/an-innovative-analyzer-for-the-field#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, MD.&#8211;8661A Robert Fulton Drive at a glance may seem an unlikely location for one of the world&#39;s fastest-growing test and measurement companies. But it&#39;s here, just off Interstate 95, not far from Washington and the cluster of military and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/your-tax-dollars-at-work</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/your-tax-dollars-at-work#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proportion of the blog posts on Drive for Innovation serve, I suspect, as sweltering hot houses for conversations about the role of government in funding R&#038;D and &#34;picking winners.&#34; In a nutshell, the arguments go like this: 1. Government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: The Power of Finding the Right Fit</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-the-power-of-finding-the-right-fit</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-the-power-of-finding-the-right-fit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Anzalone began as a power and analog field application engineer (FAE) at Avnet just four months ago. At that time, the technology was new to Anzalone, who has a background in digital board design and FPGA technology. Finding a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s got the best BBQ? (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineers-and-ribs</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineers-and-ribs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas&#8211;It&#39;s no secret that Austin&#39;s population and economy has exploded over the years as the longtime presence of Motorola (now Freescale) inspired other companies to start or add a presence here: AMD, Silicon Labs, National Instruments, Cirrus Logic&#8230; to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investing in our math and science future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration recently released its proposed fiscal 2013 budget. In it, the president seeks $80 million in new government funding to boost science and math programs in schools. We hear this pretty much every budget season from every president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation panel: Balancing creativity and profitability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;Everything in life and engineering is a balance and a series of tradeoffs. That tension is what makes great companies and kills others. We convened another innovation panel here (continuous excerpts embedded below) to dig through issues around how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you train people to innovate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the road, we ask a lot of questions about innovation. Usually, you have to ask scores of people the same question to get a few that really spark the imagination. The key question I&#39;m asking more in 2012 is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the green tech boom went bust</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired&#39;s Juliet Eilperin has written the best overview I&#39;ve read of why and how the clean-tech industry went bust. It&#39;s important to understand that the story is still unfolding, but her cartographic encapsulation of where we&#39;ve been is well worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about freedom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOWSON, MD. &#8212; Adam Nepp and Scott Wohler have known each other for many years. They&#39;re friends. They&#39;re now business partners, which raises two interesting questions about the nature of startup innovation. 1. How often does a friendship hold up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is innovation so hard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do some innovations end up in the history books and others on the rubbish heap? Tim Kastelle indirectly inspired this thought when I read his piece &#34;Two Problems Caused by the Innovation Diffusion Curve.&#34; An excerpt: &#34;The economist Rudi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Their strength is their limitation&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, FL.&#8211;Think U.S. electronics manufacturers can&#39;t compete with Asia? Think again. The rush to offshore saw U.S. bean-counters goggle-eyed over the amazing labor savings to be had in China, Vietnam, India and so on. More design resources This was validated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold, naked and hungry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[QUITMAN, Ga.&#8211;Don Morgan&#39;s wife tears up when she talks about the kids in this southern Georgia hamlet. Textile manufacturing vanished a few years ago after NAFTA went into effect. There are some jobs but there&#39;s also meth, and a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating in the Treehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROUND ROCK, Texas&#8211;Over the years, we&#39;ve seen a noticeable trend of hardware guys driving into software when they can. Why? The margins are better.&#160; But what about software guys going into hardware? Counterintuitive to be sure, or at least uncommon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you an innovator or a chicken?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In almost any EE Times survey we&#39;ve done over the decades (whether it&#39;s Salary and Opinion Survey or something else), engineers overwhelmingly view themselves as entrepreneurs. More than three-quarters will say they will start a company at some time in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micross Components Hosts Stop on &#8220;Drive for Innovation&#8221; Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Micross Components, a leading global provider of distributed and specialty electronic solutions, is pleased to announce its participation in the &#34;Drive for Innovation&#34; tour, sponsored by Avnet Express and UBM Electronics. Included as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HybridCars.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<title>Running hot and cold (toward huge potential)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 12,492 miles) DURHAM, N.C.&#8211;To me the most amazing innovations are the simplest. And the promise of embedded systems and ever-shrinking linewidths opens up vast &#34;innovation reserves&#34; we can tap. That&#39;s what&#39;s going on at Nextreme Thermal Solutions here, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future engineering challenges</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NATICK, Mass.&#8211;The weird cyclical nature of the electronics world is this: As technology has become more complex and entwined&#160;over the past 30 years, engineers have had to become more specialized. But in the past decade, as that complexity and inter-dependence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interfacing Linear Sensors, III</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Location, Location, Location Before building our board, it is a good idea to floorplan it (See Fig. 8). We will mount our board in a plastic faceplate as we did for the first project (See Fig. 9). Again, we will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interfacing Linear Sensors, II</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where We Go From Here Our goal is to make a universal two-channel single-ended sensor interface board that you can build and use to interface sensors to your microcontrollers. It will include circuit protection, biasing, offset adjustments, and gain adjustments. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relentlessly shrinking components</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla.&#8211;As new markets emerge for semiconductors and systems (or older ones evolve), the demands on component design seem to intensify. Miniaturization is relentless, but then there&#39;s temperature, especially when markets like deep-well drilling take off as they have in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Car Reports</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/green-car-reports</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[02/03/12 New Video Shows You What&#8217;s Inside Your 2012 Chevy Volt]]></description>
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		<title>msnbc.com</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/msnbc-com</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[02/02/12 Under the hood: GM blueprint for Volt 2.0]]></description>
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		<title>The raffle winner&#8217;s excitement</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-raffle-winners-excitement</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-raffle-winners-excitement#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOORESVILLE, N.C.&#8211;We&#39;ve had company receptions with coffee and cookies. We&#39;ve had local media come out to visit us and talk about innovation. But it wasn&#39;t until we pulled into the parking lot&#160;here, at Catalyst Manufacturing Services, that we had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Valdosta Daily Times</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-valdosta-daily-times</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-valdosta-daily-times#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[02/02/12 Driving into the Future Brooks teacher receives recognition for biodiesel work]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters, UK</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reuters-uk</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[02/02/12 Under the hood: GM blueprint for Volt 2.0]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: A digital electronics upgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-a-digital-electronics-upgrade</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Memec FAE Marc Edwards often helps customers tailor solutions to their technology needs, but one customer&#8217;s solution had to fit both technological and cultural requirements. The small, private company prides itself on bringing products to the table that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the teardown time-lapse video motion</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/watch-the-teardown-time-lapse-video-motion</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TROY, Mich. &#8212; Ever seen a car come apart really fast? Check out our time-lapse video of the Chevy Volt teardown we did several weeks ago here. More design resources It took three days, but the video shortens it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-9</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-9#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[01/31/12 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Harnessing&#8217; Moore&#8217;s Law</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/harnessing-moores-law</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/harnessing-moores-law#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ANNAPOLIS, MD.&#8211;In many ways, it&#39;s the age of the sensor. Companies like Zephyr Technology, headquartered here, have seen that coming for years and are working to leverage both sensor and wireless communications technology to make useful products for various markets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making better NFL players</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-better-nfl-players</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 8,836 miles) ANNAPOLIS, MD.&#8211;The Super Bowl is this Sunday, featuring some of the most elite football players on the planet.&#160; Over the years, coaches and trainers have fine-tuned players&#39; diet and exercise regimens to turn out better and better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good engineer? (Think snacks)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-think-snacks</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-think-snacks#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 12,345) SMITHFIELD, N.C.&#8211;A key question on this year-long journey is what makes a good engineer? As competition for talent spreads across the globe, are we imbuing young engineers with the right stuff to rocket-fuel their innovation and careers? More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tampa Bay Times</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tampa-bay-times</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tampa-bay-times#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[01.29.12 Brothers discover Florida as a center for innovation]]></description>
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		<title>WCTV</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/wctv</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[01.28.12 Bio Diesel Makers Honored at Brooks High School Drive for Innovation Stops in Quitman]]></description>
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		<title>Why engineering matters (in board design)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-engineering-matters-in-board-design</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 8,804 miles) FREDERICK, MD.&#8211;They&#39;re coming back home. (Board-design and manufacturing customers, that is). Bill Hornbaker and Joe Rogers have been in the board business for years, through the days when customers said, &#34;Sorry, but the romance of Asia is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The joys of bidirectional power</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-joys-of-bidirectional-power</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HACKETTSTOWN, N.J.&#8211;Electric vehicles (EVs) are takers not givers, when it comes to the grid, which, incidentally, isn&#39;t really set up yet to take power from EVs. That reality is&#160;beginning to change as more EVs hit the market and innovators re-examine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The next level of design abstraction</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-next-level-of-design-abstraction</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,891 miles) FRAMINGHAM, Mass.&#8211;The industry has talked about moving to the next level of design abstraction almost since it made the switch to the last one: Verilog and VHDL. The noise has become louder in recent years, and noted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovating-innovation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,880 miles) NATICK, Mass.&#8211;&#34;The pace of innovation in industry is just mind-boggling.&#34; So says Arun Mulpur, industry marketing manager with Mathworks here, and he&#39;s&#160;in a position to know. Mathworks software tools (Matlab and Simulink) are used to try to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different approach to fuel cells</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 8,905 miles) COLLEGE PARK, MD.&#8211;Fuel cells are remarkably efficient ways to store and discharge energy, but the word &#34;hydrogen&#34; tends to freak people out, and the hydrogen&#160;filling infrastructure just doesn&#39;t exist right now. These PEM (proton exchange membrane) cells [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shock and awe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;What&#39;s real and what&#39;s not? That&#39;s a fundamental question in design engineering, especially when you&#39;re trying to translate the analog world into the digital. More design resources Take a gyroscope, which has myriad uses but comes up big in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt teardown-Day 3</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TROY, Mich.&#8211;We&#39;re back on the third and final day of our teardown of the Chevrolet Volt. In the first two days, the team at Munro &#038; Associates burrowed its way down to the electronics module level and, late Tuesday, dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt Teardown-Day 2</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TROY, Mich.&#8211;We&#39;re back at it on day two of our three-day teardown of the Chevy Volt. 8:00 a.m. EST: Coffee, bagels and camera angles. Each of the still cameras set up to record the teardown clicks a shot every four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt Teardown-Day 1</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-1</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TROY, Mich.&#8211;What follows are outtakes from the first day of our teardown of the Chevy Volt here at Munro &#038; Associates. 12:55 p.m. EST: Moments away from the start of the teardown, which will occur over the next three days! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; San Jose</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/local-chevy-dealers-san-jose</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Chevrolet Volt Sales&#160; &#160; - Nearly 2,600 dealers are authorized to sell the Chevrolet Volt in all 50 states. - Since December 2010, General Motors has sold 6,468 Volts in the U.S. through November 2011. - In early November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: How early collaboration brings reward</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-how-early-collaboration-brings-reward</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The earlier we&#8217;re involved, the more useful we can be,&#8221; Charles Hulcher, Avnet field application engineer (FAE), said of his fellow FAEs. One customer learned the benefits of involving Hulcher and his team early in the design process, as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Kit Photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electric vehicles are a big topic of conversation nowadays, in large part because they are more efficient to operate, reduce air pollution and reduce fossil fuel dependence.&#160; However, one big topic that&#8217;s often overlooked is the drive and passion for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Fuller Video Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/brian-fuller-video-introduction</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click on the link below to meet Brian Fuller, Editorial Lead, Drive for Innovation and Editorial Director, EE Times EE Life. http://bcove.me/ah1bt7zm Biography Fuller brings more than 27 years&#8217; worth of journalism and new-media experience to his job as Editorial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevrolet Volt Highlights</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevrolet-volt-highlights</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; - Designed, engineered, built and delivered to customers in 29 months. - A one-of-a-kind, all-electrically driven vehicle. - World&#8217;s first mass-produced electric vehicle with extended range, providing a total range of up to 379 miles. - Revolutionary Voltec propulsion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation and Avnet Express</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dfi-and-avnet-express</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dfi-and-avnet-express#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; As of February 29, 2012 MILES DRIVEN: 21,282 GALLONS OF GAS: 555 RECHARGES: 84 INTERVIEW STOPS: 209 NUMBER OF TEST DRIVES: 469 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ONLINE: Over 5 million AVNET&#8217;S RANK ON FORTUNE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; Phoenix</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/local-chevy-dealers-phoenix</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Chevrolet Volt Sales&#160;&#160;&#160; - Nearly 2,600 dealers are authorized to sell the Chevrolet Volt in all 50 states. - Since December 2010, General Motors has sold 6,468 Volts in the U.S. through November 2011. - In early November 2011, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation Electric Vehicle Myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many consumers are still weary of electric vehicles (EVs) &#8211; but most people don&#8217;t have access to good information about them.&#160; For example, many consumers believe the following: MYTH #1: EVs are only appropriate for short distances FACT: Most EVs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;Electric vs. Gas Automobiles&#160;&#160; Since 1932 when Scottish inventor Robert Anderson invented the first crude electric carriage powered by non-rechargeable primary cells, the question has loomed &#8220;Is electric power or gas power better?&#8221; For nearly one hundred years electricity looked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your design-engineering muse?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-your-design-engineering-muse</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Two dots connected themselves for me recently as I was looking for inspiration on innovation. Their main connection&#160;will become apparent in a moment. Their other connection was that each dot came from the Harvard Business Review. &#160; The first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive For Innovation Weekly Contest 39</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting!]]></description>
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		<title>Press Kit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please follow the links below for more information about Avnet Express&#39; Drive for Innovation. &#160; Supporting Documents&#160;&#160; Avnet Express&#39; Drive for Innovation Fuel Costs Drive for Innovation Electric&#160;Vehicle&#160;Myths Chevrolet Volt Highlights Drive for Innovation&#160;and Avnet Express &#160; Local Chevy Dealers&#160;&#160;&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming innovation in low-power design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When generals in the U.S. military are attending to CES and considering how to deploy consumer computer tablets into their forces, you know it&#8217;s a different world. (More on that later). It&#8217;s a different world than it was a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going (literally) under the hood with the Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s more fun than driving a Chevy Volt? Tearing one apart! That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to do next week in Michigan as we build toward another new phase of the Drive for Innovation: analyzing the Volt&#8217;s inside down to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top video stories from 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/top-videos-stories-from-2011</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 15,000 miles into the Drive for Innovation, we&#39;ve just made a dent in producing the vast numbers of interviews we&#39;ve done in two dozen states with hundreds of innovators. Here&#39;s a list of most-viewed segments from the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the Volt&#8217;s battery</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/fixing-the-volts-battery</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors today announced fixes for its lithium-ion battery, which has caught fire in several federal crash tests. Here&#39;s some context around the announcement. &#160; [View the story "Chevrolet Volt called back over battery-fire issues" on Storify] &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of The EV</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-year-of-the-ev</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although by strict search-analytics terms, electric cars and electric vehicles declined or flat-lined in the Google-sphere in 2011, I still think we can dub 2011 the year of the EV. The year started with incredible buzz over the Chevrolet Volt, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Super battery&#8221; demands government R&amp;D&#8230;or does it?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/super-battery-demands-government-rd-or-does-it</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/super-battery-demands-government-rd-or-does-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last fall, I got the ball rolling on a topic that has very few fence-sitters: What should be government&#39;s role in funding development of new technologies. Government, particularly the military, has long played a role, so the question comes down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVX Showcases Electronics Innovation During Visit From Avnet Express &amp; UBM Electronics’ “Drive for Innovation” Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avx-showcases-electronics-innovation-during-visit-from-avnet-express-ubm-electronics%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cdrive-for-innovation%e2%80%9d-tour</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[December 21, 2011 05:29 PM Eastern Time AVX hosts &#8220;Drive For Innovation&#8221; tour, displays advanced automotive passive components&#8230; FOUNTAIN INN, S.C.&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, was a recent stop on the &#8220;Drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Auto Channel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[12.21.11 AVX Showcases Electronics Innovation During Visit From Avnet Express &#038; UBM Electronics&#39; &#34;Drive for Innovation&#34; Tour &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>What were the best innovation highlights of 2011?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-were-the-best-innovation-highlights-of-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-were-the-best-innovation-highlights-of-2011#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrated innovation in many ways in 2011, from creation and implementation to the sad deaths of great innovators, to spending time with Apollo 11 engineers on Long Island. In July, the first artificial organ transplant occurred. Atlantis, the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dreaded words: regulatory compliance</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-dreaded-words-regulatory-compliance</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-dreaded-words-regulatory-compliance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PEWAUKEE, Wisc.&#8211;Unless you&#39;re a regulator, the words &#34;regulatory compliance&#34; tend to strike fear and dread into people&#39;s hearts. Put aside big-government/little-government issues, compliance issues are a fact of life, especially in the medical-device and medical-systems world. More design resources Patrick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/happy-holidays</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<title>Is disruptive innovation crap?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-disruptive-innovation-crap</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-disruptive-innovation-crap#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#39;s Greg Satell&#39;s assertion amid his 5 Principles of Innovation on his blog, DigitalTonto. Disruptive innovations (identified by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen in a series of famous books) are crappy because they are generally inferior to the competitive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How fast will the smart grid grow?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-fast-will-the-smart-grid-grow</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-fast-will-the-smart-grid-grow#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON&#8211;The comparisons to the build out of the computing network are usually apt: electronics (especially wireless devices) in the home and on the grid will enable a brave new world of much more efficient power transmission and management on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: An engineering success with logistics</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-an-engineering-success-with-logistics</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-an-engineering-success-with-logistics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When one of Tom Tranter&#8217;s contacts said that his company, an Avnet customer, was having problems getting a microprocessor&#8217;s tools up and running, he thought the fix would be routine. Tranter, a Field Application Engineer at Avnet, soon learned that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The top stories of the year</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-top-stories-of-the-year</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-top-stories-of-the-year#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a lot of personal highlights from our Drive for Innovation so far, from all aspects of the 13,000 miles we&#39;ve racked up. I&#39;ll detail that separately. But of the stories we&#39;ve written so far, these below are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing the next generation of engineers</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nurturing-the-next-generation-of-engineers</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nurturing-the-next-generation-of-engineers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,880 miles) NATICK, Mass.&#8211;Is the shift toward integrated curriculum and giving students hands-on build-your-own experiences a flash in the pan or&#160;is it&#160;crucial to building engineers? It&#39;s definitely the latter, according to Tom Gaudette, principal academic evangelist at Mathworks here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical stocking stuffers, anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/medical-stocking-stuffers-anyone</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;It&#39;s that time of year. Time when you just realized you haven&#39;t bought holiday gifts. You&#39;re now panicking, you&#39;re sweating, you&#39;re cursing your organizational skills. We&#39;re here to help. More design resources During our stop at Analog Devices here, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative energy revolution?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/alternative-energy-revolution</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/alternative-energy-revolution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#39;ve written much (and you&#39;ve commented plenty!) on the pros and cons of alternative energy sources. Sometimes it&#39;s diverting and helpful to see the debate through an artist&#39;s eyes: &#160; Do you think we&#39;re tilting at windmills?? &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The trust factor in manufacturing</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-trust-factor-in-manufacturing</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWBURYPORT, Mass.&#8211;In the first six months of this journey, we&#39;ve talked to perhaps two dozen manufacturing companies, from the Midwest to the Northeast and down into the Mid-Atlantic states. Business is booming. But it&#39;s booming for different reasons. More design [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News12 Long Island segment on the Drive for Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/news12-segment-on-the-drive-for-innovation</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/news12-segment-on-the-drive-for-innovation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<title>WMTV NBC15 (Madison, Wisc.) segment</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/wmtv-nbc15-madison-wisc-segment</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<title>Fox News Carolina covers the Drive for Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<title>We&#8217;re under attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 8,810 miles) FREDERICK, MD.&#8211;In the larger, realpolitik world, countries tend to downplay espionage. It is, for many, an acceptable part of the game. For companies, however, it&#39;s turning into all-out war, with consequences as potentially devastating as getting hit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The intersection of engineering and art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,805 miles) MEDFIELD, Mass.&#8211;Let&#39;s be honest: Engineering and beauty are usually divorced from one another. Unless you&#39;re a guy like Steve Jobs, who was obsessed with beauty, you&#39;re typically solving some extremely difficult engineering problem in your products rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Build a magnetic sensing &#8216;Hall Effect&#8217; sensor interface</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/build-a-magnetic-sensing-hall-effect-sensor-interface</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jon Gabay Fame, fun and (small) fortune await!&#160; Welcome to the first in a series of articles for design engineers, students, inventors, and hobbyists with electronic, electro-mechanical, and electro-optic systems. It teaches, demonstrates, and makes available electronic modules that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our invention explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;We sit on the cusp of an explosion in innovation, the likes of which we have never seen ever. The transformation that&#39;s taking place before our eyes is from one to many; from inventor to inventors; from team to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you send your technology abroad?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/would-you-send-your-technology-abroad</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors announced this year it will develop electric cars in China. That&#39;s all well and good and strategically smart, but it comes at a price: GM has to transfer technology to the venture. The Chevrolet Volt is not a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With fans like this, who needs enemies?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/with-fans-like-this-who-needs-enemies</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Success only succeeds in large companies if the entire organization buys into the mission. So I&#39;m concerned that the astonishing engineering effort that produced the Chevrolet Volt will end up fizzling out because GM&#39;s CEO, Daniel Akerson, hasn&#39;t bought into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new paradigm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON&#8211;If you think about it, there&#39;s a huge new paradigm that&#39;s emerging before our eyes (or maybe it&#39;s not so visible because so it&#39;s so behind-the-scenes). Technologists have done a fantastic job in the past 50 years making computing faster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We rescue a stranded motorist&#8211;and live to tell the tale</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-rescue-a-stranded-motorist-and-live-to-tell-the-tale</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 12,289 miles) RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;The Volt&#39;s all about the battery, but we rarely pay attention to the traditional 12V battery, because its main battery is so interesting. We got a chance to focus on that last week when we helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation, education improvement a constant struggle: panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARLTON, N.J.&#8211;Education is broken. Innovation is learned. Too many technologists are risk-averse. These were the top-line thoughts that emerged from our hour-long innovation panel this fall at Avnet&#39;s branch offices, here, outside Philadelphia. We brought together a number of business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How would you redesign the Volt&#8217;s battery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GM Chairman Daniel Akerson came out today, amid the controversy and federal investigation into Chevy Volt battery fires, to say the battery may be redesigned. &#34;&#8230;We&#39;re just gonna take a timeout if you will in terms of redesigning the battery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s got the best BBQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 12,086 miles) RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;The Drive for Innovation road trip affords us not only a chance to talk to literally hundreds of engineers about what innovative new designs they&#39;re working on, but we get a chance to break bread with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A loaner for the Volt? No thanks</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-loaner-for-the-volt-no-thanks</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; General Motors this week said it would give loaner cars to all 6,000 Chevy Volt owners (should they want them) while federal investigators try to figure out why the electric vehicles&#39; batteries are exploding and catching fire in crash-tests. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Wins a min’s Editorial &amp; Design Award in the “Special Section/Microsite” Category</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, November 28, 2011 &#8212; UBM Electronics,&#160; a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry&#8217;s decision makers, and Avnet Express, the e-Commerce engine for Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Intrepid band of engineering students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OLD WESTBURY, N.Y.&#8211;We frequently ask entrepreneurs &#34;what&#39;s the caliber of engineering students you&#39;re getting these days?&#34; The answer is invariably something like, &#34;They&#39;re super smart but need a lot of training.&#34; This perhaps is an age-old refrain, but it takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up-front Investment: An FAE case study</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/up-front-investment-an-fae-case-study</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Weintraub is a risk taker. Well, the Avnet field application engineer (FAE) may not see himself that way, but the up-front investment of his time and knowledge in engineer-to-engineer customer support could all go out the window with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurdling the barriers to innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG, Pa.&#8211;Innovation is a beautiful word with an almost poetic ring to it, but actually doing it&#8211;succeeding at it&#8211;is not easy. Indeed, a lot of startups fail, but that&#39;s part of what makes progress&#8211;failure. In the electronics world, established companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation? Try revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CONCORD, Mass.&#8211;One of the perks about this year-long car trip is the occasional stop at a historic spot. We don&#39;t get to enjoy as many as we&#39;d like, but we have learned about some neat history in places like Cuyahoga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest 39 Now Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that the next contest is open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#39;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through&#160;www.avnetexpress.com.&#160;Good luck and happy hunting!]]></description>
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		<title>Making something new old again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;Call it reverse innovation. During our tour of UMass Amherst&#39;s incredible M5 maker space, Baird Soules talked to us about several projects on which first-, second- and third-year students collaborate to get their fingers dirty and their minds stimulated. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard has just opened an innovation lab to foster entrepreneurship&#160;within the student body. The idea is that some of its most famous entrepreneur-students, such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, left the region once they had their Harvard fill. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complexity is challenging the pace of innovation: panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON&#8211;We convened a panel of industry luminaries at ESC Boston this fall to take on some pointed questions from me and the audience about the nature of innovation. What are the challenges? Are we seeing the skill sets we need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Volt and the battery fires furor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ON THE ROAD TO RALEIGH, N.C.&#8211;We&#39;re still rolling blissfully south toward our next big innovation stop here in Raleigh, and we&#39;ve been catching up on news surrounding the Volt, its lithium ion (LiOn) battery and charging stations&#8230;specifically whether the Volt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation takes national award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We pause from our regularly scheduled programming to let you know that the Drive for Innovation site was honored as the top business-to-business web site by min, a national publisher, whose publications span the media, communications and advertising industries. By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EV Charging Stations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive for Innovation Electric vehicles (EVs) are growing in popularity, but &#34;range anxiety&#34; isn&#39;t going away. Unfortunately when you&#39;re on the road, electrons are a lot harder to come by than gasoline, due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>min online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[11/7/11 Time Magazine&#39;s &#39;The End of bin Laden&#39; Wins a min &#39;Editorial &#038; Design Award&#39; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>A man, his solar panels and a rooftop interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEALLSVILLE, MD.&#8211;A man&#39;s home, they say, is his castle. It also can give you insight into his mind. We drove out to Lee Bristol&#39;s home here (almost not making it because of an unexpected road block) expecting a routine interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the kids leave the lights on</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/crestron-home-automation-app</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCKLEIGH, N.J.&#8211;We &#34;met&#34; Crestron on a hot humid Missouri night, just up from the banks of the Mississippi in a bar that brought new meaning to the word &#34;cacophonous.&#34; We blogged about it earlier, and that episode led us 993 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Displacing the Incumbent: An FAE case study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Field Application Engineer Sean MacGregor had a lot to prove in a chance meeting with one customer, whose business was done primarily through a competing distributor. When the customer happened to mention a challenging design they were pursuing, MacGregor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A remote(s) success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 6,311 miles) ROCKLEIGH, N.J.&#8211;It&#39;s a big thing when a company name becomes a verb. Xerox, for example, became a verb to copy something on an electronic copy machine. It has its downsides, but in the end to become the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smothering the baby in its crib</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You knew it was coming; but so soon? The fewer gasoline powered cars there are on the country&#39;s highways and byways, the fewer taxes federal and state governments can collect. (In addition, the better fuel efficiency is designed into gas-powered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to put engineers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLETON, Wisc.&#8211;Years ago, Stanford administrators visited their legendary engineering-department head Fred Terman to tell him they were so pleased with his work that they were erecting a new engineering building for the labs and the students. More design resources Terman, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Volt drives by a big milestone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLARKSBURG, W.Va.&#8211;On a sunny fall evening rolling south on Interstate 79, our red Chevy Volt crossed a threshold: 10,000 miles. It has been an astonishing adventure since we started out in Chicago July 10 in 105-degree weather and 90 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s hot in high-temperature instrumentation? Oil drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;You&#39;re no doubt familiar with oil-exploration challenges, as we may be nearing so-called peak oil (or in its era already). Deep-well drilling has been increasingly prevalent as we&#39;ve slurped up &#34;easy oil&#34; during the past 100 years. This situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over the river&#8230;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOYDS, Md.&#8211;Our GPS, which we call &#34;Millie,&#34; is usually spot-on. Once we did end up headed straight for a quarry, but for the most part her directions have been accurate and easy&#8211;which is a huge relief when you&#39;re driving in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music makes the lights go on</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;Some years ago, my daughter, now graduated from college,&#160;announced that she could see colors when listening to music. I was concerned that perhaps she was experiencing music the way another generation in San Francisco did some years ago using [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we losing the innovation edge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm Augustine is worried. We&#8217;re losing our edge in innovation, he suggests. We spend more money on potato chips than we do on energy research. China has replaced the U.S. as the world&#8217;s No. 1 technology exporter. The quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A different perspective on UAVs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa&#8211;By now, we&#39;re familiar with&#160;unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The U.S. military has used them extensively in the Middle East to perform surveillance and to target suspected terrorists. More design resources The UAVs can be controlled from a room [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10/25/11 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>Wilmington Town Crier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10/22/11 Innovation on display at Analog Devices]]></description>
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		<title>A change of seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 8,205 miles) MANHASSET, N.Y.&#8211;How does the Volt handle in cold weather? We got that question a lot, believe it or not, in the summer. We got a glimpse of it in late October when a cold nor&#8217;easter storm rolled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The startup on Battle Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,832 miles) LEXINGTON, Mass.&#8211;Andreas Olofsson cut his chip-designing teeth working on Analog Devices&#8217; TigerSharc DSP. He learned that bigger isn&#8217;t always better, and he also found out he wanted to build something of his own. So when circumstances changed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Santini&#8217;s belt-driven EV</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/john-santinis-belt-driven-ev</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 8,293 miles) HACKETTSTOWN, N.J.&#8211;In the 1970s, when gas prices spiked after the Arab oil embargo, John Santini took matters into his own hands. He retrofitted a sporty red Corvette (see photo) with batteries to make it all-electric. He was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make a processor for (way) less than $100 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON, Mass.&#8211;Several years ago, an FPGA executive stood before industry colleagues and delivered one of the biggest FUD speeches you&#8217;ve ever heard. It takes $50 million-$100 million today to develop a chip, he said. That chip, given traditional competitive situations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston, we&#8217;ve got&#8230;bicycles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;Robotics is hot on campus; bicycles are ubiquitous. What happens when you marry the two? Perhaps, in engineering Professor Baird Soules&#8217; eyes, you get future satellite engineers.]]></description>
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		<title>Not just a ticket writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HORSHAM, Penn.&#8211;Scroll through the government statistics and one thing will invariably jump out at you: productivity rates have soared over the past quarter century in the technology industry. But the technology that our industry produces has made a much smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we just give up (innovating)?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you consider an acceptable rate of innovation? A fuzzy concept to be sure, but here&#8217;s why I ask: There&#8217;s been some Internet buzz in the past few weeks, drummed up by a conservative web site that compares the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tweeting robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;MARC 5.0 has its own Twitter feed. He/she/it is a robot project at the UMass Amherst&#39;s engineering department that&#39;s dedicated to the department&#39;s hip M5 maker space. It started life as a senior engineering project and has morphed into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater of the engineering mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;It&#8217;s often not difficult to get science and engineering students involved in some maker project, especially cars. When we hit the University of Pennsylvania in the early fall, the electric drag-racing team emphasized that their project was open to everyone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regenerative braking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive for Innovation Just as the Chevy Volt uses an electric motor to propel you forward, it uses the same motor to help slow you down. When you either lift your foot from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A space of their own making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMHERST, Mass.&#8211;A crucial component of encouraging the next generation of students in science and engineering is the maker/hacker culture that is blossoming across the country. More design resources We saw it in Detroit at Maker Faire; we saw it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Tech: Rugged individualism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HORSHAM, Penn.&#8211;&#8221;2E&#8221; settles into his chair at &#8220;2T&#8221; surrounded by blinking, colorful handheld devices on a demo table. One sits in a small fish tank, doing its work uninterrupted underwater. More design resources Eric Eckstein is &#8220;2E,&#8221; his email signature, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helmet shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;A cynic might say the National Football League is only interested in protecting its players because owners&#8217; investments in the players are astronomical these days. Nevertheless, there&#8217;s an important movement afoot to assess the impact of head trauma, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EV inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Price, Managing editor of content, Drive for Innovation It weighs 1,100 lbs., achieved 300 MPGe at 45 mph, can run 100 miles on a charge, and was built by at-risk high school students, who are learning at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grow &amp; adapt or wither &amp; die&#8211;your call</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/grow-adapt-or-wither-die-your-call</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/grow-adapt-or-wither-die-your-call#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG, Penn.&#8211;It&#8217;s trite but true: companies (and people) who don&#8217;t adapt are doomed to (best-case) fail or (worst-case) die. But this is particularly challenging today when the voice of the customer&#8217;s customer (or some non-customer actor) is so much louder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kick the habit</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/kick-the-habit</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/kick-the-habit#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Habit gets in the way of consumers embracing electric vehicles. I get it, but it also frosts my power brakes sometimes&#8211;the lengths to which we humans will go to maintain our habits. Why? Habits keep us in the comfortable, the familiar in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 20</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-20</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-20#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #20  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 19</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-19</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-19#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #19  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 18</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-18</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #18  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.   GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 17</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-17</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #17  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 16</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-16</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-16#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #16  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.   GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 15</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-15</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-15#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[  Avnet Drive for Innovation Contest #15 SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Talk with Craig Peterson</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tech-talk-with-craig-peterson</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tech-talk-with-craig-peterson#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10/02/11 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>Short drive and deep dive</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/short-drive-and-deep-dive</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/short-drive-and-deep-dive#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Price, Managing editor for content, Drive for Innovation I recently had a chance to pilot the Drive for Innovation Volt&#8212;a fun experience and an eye opener into the world of EVs. I&#8217;ll be the first to admit&#8211;and my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>45 ways to improve the Chevy Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/45-ways-to-improve-the-chevy-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/45-ways-to-improve-the-chevy-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 7,650 miles) WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;Everyone who&#8217;s driven the Volt on our around-the-country innovation celebration tour enjoys the experience, and often someone will toss out a good future design consideration. Analog Devices (ADI) took that idea to a whole new plane. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good engineer-part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 5,810 miles) HARRISBURG, Pa.&#8211;Nearly 550 miles from here, we posed this question to Allan Dale of Lectronix. Sitting in TE Connectivity&#8217;s innovation room here, we put the same question to engineering director Steve Jackson and Galen Martin, product development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Rules and Regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-rules-and-regulations</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-rules-and-regulations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Drive for Innovation Grand Prize  SWEEPSTAKES OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE OR PARTICIPATION WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. GENERAL CONDITIONS: The Avnet Drive for Innovation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light touch</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/light-touch</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/light-touch#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA&#8211;The problem with robots right now is they&#8217;re not particularly sensitive. Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I know we can&#8217;t boil the robotics ocean right away, and in motion and learning departments, robotics sits in an amazing era of innovation. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renegade</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/renegade</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=2681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA&#8211;College is so different these days. Can you imagine having the chance, back in the day, to build an electric dragster? That&#8217;s what engineering students at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) have done in the past six years. In an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocks that wiggle</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rocks-that-wiggle</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MT. HOLLY SPRINGS, Penn.&#8211;Microprocessors are sexy. Oscillators? Not so much, but they make the world go around. The first quartz resonators were developed around World War I and had an astounding and immediate impact on electronics design and our notions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Element Hotels, ChargePoint stations and the zen of power</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/element-hotels-chargepoint-stations-and-the-zen-of-power</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/element-hotels-chargepoint-stations-and-the-zen-of-power#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON, Mass.&#8211;Element Hotels are part of a small, hip chain whose allure includes the fact that they are extended stay facilities that adhere to &#8220;green&#8221; principles. Element is part of Westin which is part of Starwood, and the facility here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing mojo</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/manufacturing-mojo</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/manufacturing-mojo#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MOORESTOWN, N.J.&#8211;The country&#8217;s manufacturing mojo is coming back. That&#8217;s clearly evident in the companies we&#8217;ve talked to during the first three months and 7,000 miles of the Drive for Innovation. There&#8217;s no better example than Swemco, a nearly 50-year-old company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with women (in engineering)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-problem-with-women-in-engineering</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-problem-with-women-in-engineering#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA&#8211;For decades the percentage of women in engineering has stagnated at between roughly 5% of overall engineering jobs. This despite the fact that women are growing as a percentage of workforces in mathematics and the biosciences over the same period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The electric gas station</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-electric-gas-station</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive for Innovation When you run low on gas you look for a handy gas station. What happens when you&#8217;re driving an electric vehicle (EV) and you run short of electrons? Unless you&#8217;re doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you outraged yet?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-you-outraged-yet</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON&#8211;Consider: In California, Solyndra: $500 million in government-backed loans. POOF! Gone bankrupt. In Massachusetts, Evergreen Solar: received millions in government grant money, moved manufacturing to China, then went belly-up. POOF! The bottom&#8217;s falling out of the market: Shares of First Solar are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you wanna be a consultant?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/so-you-wanna-be-a-consultant</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOLON, Ohio&#8211;To me, the most difficult part of the past 10 years of economic and engineering transformation has been to watch the effect on Baby Boomers. At EE Times, you are our core audience, if you are north of 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest 13 Now open</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-13-now-open</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that the next contest is open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive For Innovation Weekly Contest 13</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-13</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week’s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! How many military/aerospace circuit protection parts are listed in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Storing Volts</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/storing-volts</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive for Innovation While electric vehicles have been around since the late 19th century, they only became practical with the development of energy storage systems that sport a lot better horsepower-to-weight ratio than bulky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you buy the Volt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 5,636 miles) PLYMOUTH MEETING, Penn.&#8211;Just before we took a couple-day break recently, we drove up into the hills around Philadelphia to catch up with my colleague and EBN Editor Bolaji Ojo. I had asked him to drive the Volt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we do this</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 5,955) BOSTON&#8211;We&#8217;re in challenging economic times. No doubt. On the road, my brother/videographer Kirk and I sit in hotel rooms editing and writing and doing sound. Often, the TV&#8217;s on, tuned to a channel like CNBC where the world, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peeling back the onion on the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peeling-back-the-onion-on-the-volt</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARLTON, N.J.&#8211;We&#8217;ve been slowly peeling back the onion on the Chevy Volt and EV technology on this site. (We&#8217;ll be tearing down a Volt next year and analyzing it to cap off this adventure). John Donovan has been looking under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Stops in Boston to Shine Spotlight on Electric Vehicles and Massachusetts’ Position as Leader in Clean Transportation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-stops-in-boston-to-shine-spotlight-on-electric-vehicles-and-massachusetts%e2%80%99-position-as-leader-in-clean-transportation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON,  September 27, 2011&#8211; UBM Electronics,  a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry’s decision makers, and Avnet Express today announced that the Drive for Innovation, which showcases electronics innovation and automotive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express and UBM Electronics Host a Roundtable Panel Discussion Focused on Innovation in Electronics at ESC Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panel to Feature Participants from Avnet Electronics Marketing, MathWorks, Microchip Technology Inc. and Analog Devices Phoenix  and San Francisco, September 26, 2011 – As the demand for oil continues to grow, technologists around the world are rushing to change the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest 12 Now Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that the next contest is open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive For Innovation Weekly Contest 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week’s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! 1. What final output swing is the EXP ISM [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We chose not to stick with that&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLETON, Wisc.&#8211;Rob Scidmore and his brother Dave found themselves out of work after the telecom meltdown in 2002. In fact, Rob said most of his family was out of work thanks to that situation. &#8220;We chose not to stick with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six years in the making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer 6,150 miles) PHILADELPHIA&#8211;When I think about the building of the pyramids or great European cathedral construction in the middle ages, I think of all the people who worked on those projects who never lived to see their completion. That thinking is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dream engineering job?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;As an engineer, Jay O&#8217;Connell (you might say) has a dream job. As chief technical director for the Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW racing team, he puts his Cornell engineering degree to use making cars go really fast (and last) around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An engineer&#8217;s day off</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND, Ohio&#8211;Earlier this summer, I mused on EE Life what the engineer&#8217;s ideal vacation would be. Is it a complete unplugging? Or is it a visit to the Smithsonian or a technology museum somewhere? Or a few days volunteering with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marching ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;You&#8217;ve probably seen some of our earlier posts and video segments from here and especially from our time with Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW Racing Team Technical Director Jay O&#8217;Connell. We got a tour of the track from Mike Welsh and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering practical jokes: the simplest ones are the most effective</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOLON, Ohio&#8211;You&#8217;ve regaled us with Engineering Practical Jokes and Academic Antics on EE Life. Sometimes the most impressive are incredibly elaborate pranks; sometimes they&#8217;re simple. Senior Design Engineer Bill Mueller, chatting with us on a recent summer day, managed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in (building) design</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-building-design</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MIDDLETON, Wisc.&#8211;Let&#8217;s face it, most successful engineering companies live and innovate in ugly buildings. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether it&#8217;s the East Coast, the Midwest, the South or Silicon Valley, where thousands of bland buildings have been &#8220;stamped out by armies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weight watchers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TROY, Mich.&#8211;Weight is not everything in automotive design, but it&#8217;s close. The Chevy Volt weighs 3,700 pounds unloaded. More than 11 percent of that weight is the lithium-ion battery itself, even so, the battery is 70 percent lighter than the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest #11 Now Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that our next contest is now open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through avnetexpress.com. Good luck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powering an electric vehicle</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/powering-an-electric-vehicle</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Price, Contributing Editor, Drive for Innovation One major hassle in owning an electric vehicle has got to be tracking down a place to charge the thing. What if I want to drive my (hypothetical) EV to the train [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social-Bookmarking.net</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/20/11 Drive for Innovation with UBM and Avnet Express]]></description>
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		<title>The engineering life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOLON, Ohio&#8211;Assessing the engineering life is just like engineering itself: it&#8217;s all about tradeoffs, rationally considered. We&#8217;ve seen this in more than a quarter century of EE Times Salary and Opinion surveys. More recently, we took your pulse on EE [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation on display</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa&#8211;Rockwell Collins&#8217; presence here near the cornfields of Iowa is huge and counter-intuitive. You could imagine a big tractor factory, sure. But a high-tech innovation center working on virtual/augmented reality, communications systems for police cars and bleeding edge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cycles ebb and flow, and nothing is more emblematic of that than oil. When oil prices spiked a few years ago, the &#8220;green energy&#8221; bandwagon nearly tipped over with passengers. Politicians and policy makers thumped lecterns with emphatic speeches about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminating innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOVI, Mich.&#8211;Since its invention, lighting has been as much about function as it has been about form. It&#8217;s no different in automotive lighting. Remember the old three-headlight Dodge pick up trucks from the 1960s? Or was it Ford? Or both? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News.Gnom.es</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/14/11 TE Connectivity Joins Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Program]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-8</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9/13/11 Listen to the show Here. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Electric driving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive for Innovation When you step on the gas in an ordinary car, most of us have a pretty good idea what happens, having driven them since we were teenagers. But what happens when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The sound of silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electric vehicles make almost no sound. That&#8217;s a hugely important win after a century of loud internal combustion engines stealing what brief snatches of quiet we find on walks or bike rides. But that&#8217;s a problem. The internal combustion engine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green ghost town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Price, Drive for Innovation, Contributing Editor For me, the mention of a ghost town conjures up images of banging shutters, dust devils rolling down Main Street, and the wind whistling through broken windows. I doubt you&#8217;ll find any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software innovation on a hardware platform</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/software-innovation-on-a-hardware-platform</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND, Ohio&#8211;Sometimes innovation means just thinking about something differently. Engineers spend their days in front of their computers. So do test and measurement devices need to emulate PCs in every respect? Keithley Instruments didn&#8217;t think so. More design resources Keithley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOMEWHERE BETWEEN CLEVELAND AND PHILADELPHIA&#8211;Viscerally, I have pretty simple thoughts about the way General Motors has been marketing the Volt. In a nutshell, I feel their heart isn&#8217;t in the game. The Nissan Leaf people are slapping them around on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mining one&#8217;s own business</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/mining-ones-own-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEVELAND&#8211;Where&#8217;s a lot of electronics innovation coming from today? Mining. Really. There has been considerable discussion in the past couple of years about minerals, especially rare earth elements that are often hard to extract or exist in places where it helps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest #10 Now Open</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-10-now-open</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce that the next contest is open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TE Connectivity Joins Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Program</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/te-connectivity-joins-avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-program</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/te-connectivity-joins-avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-program#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix  and San Francisco, September 13, 2011 – Avnet Express and UBM Electronics, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry&#8216;s decision makers, today announced that TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL), formerly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making the &#8216;MOST&#8217; of automotive infotainment</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-the-most-of-automotive-infotainment</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-the-most-of-automotive-infotainment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment system]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Henry Muyshondt, SMSC, for EE Times, Design 7/22/2008 As cars designers strive to present drivers and passengers information and entertainment systems that fully integrate consumers&#39; digital lifestyle, it becomes more important to use a multimedia networking backbone. The network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting up windmills</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tilting-up-windmills</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tilting-up-windmills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DEARBORN, Mich.&#8211;At its fiercely pounding heart, electronics innovation is a graceful confluence of art and science. This becomes more evident as Moore&#8217;s Law, open-source software and, increasingly, open-source hardware conspire to lay innovation in the hands of the masses. More [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good engineer?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LANSING, Mich.&#8211;We first heard from Allan Dale, CEO of Lectronix, as he described how the world around us has changed and is influencing innovation. We called it Quotations from the Book of Allan. Here&#8217;s another excerpt on a simple but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The racer&#8217;s edge</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-racers-edge</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-racers-edge#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;Car racing, the saying goes, started the day the second car was purchased. Technology has been a part of racing since then and has consistently driven innovation from the tracks into automobile showrooms for consumer benefit. From rear-view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interfacing the motor with the engine</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-the-motor-with-the-engine</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-the-motor-with-the-engine#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design, for Drive For Innovation Last week we took a high-level look at the Chevy Volt&#8217;s drivetrain, which turned out to be one area where engineering and marketing weren&#8217;t quite in sync. This time let&#8217;s take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We drag-race a Prius</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-drag-race-a-prius</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-drag-race-a-prius#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 4,050 miles) PEWAUKEE, Wisc.&#8211;Harry Roos has seen a lot in his years as an engineer. But a throw-down challenge to race for pink slips was something altogether different. Roos works for CMR X-Ray, located not far from here in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the future</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/here-comes-the-future</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/here-comes-the-future#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;The future of engineering is coming from Venezuela and just loves cars. Meet Harold Schweitzer, a senior engineering student at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. We met Schweitzer during a recent stop here. His brother Albert, a public relations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So you want to build a solar solution&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-solar-solution</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-solar-solution#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A key benefit to driving a Volt around the country for a year is meeting new and fascinating people. One of those is Heather Robertson, technology director for renewable energy for Avnet, whom I met in Hoffman Estates, Ill., during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A trip into the past</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-trip-into-the-past</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-trip-into-the-past#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 22:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHFIELD, Ohio&#8211;To appreciate modern innovation, sometimes you need to visit the past. We did that by winding through the Cuyahoga Valley on a recent weekend&#8211;hiking along the Ohio &#38; Erie Canal and marveling (really, what else can you do?) at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation the Steve Jobs way</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-the-steve-jobs-way</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-the-steve-jobs-way#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs, who stepped down as Apple CEO amid a legendary career, is in many ways the paragon of innovation. But for what reasons? Some people cite his creativity, especially his famous Stanford speech in which he talked about learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping electronics to optimize the era of renewables</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tapping-electronics-to-optimize-the-era-of-renewables</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tapping-electronics-to-optimize-the-era-of-renewables#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;In an era of renewable and alternative energy sources, two challenges reign supreme: Finding and tapping new sources and optimizing efficiency when using that energy. More renewable-energy design insight Heather Robertson, technology director for renewable energy with Avnet here, talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-7</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-7#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 22:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/23/11 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>Drive For Innovation Weekly Contest 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week’s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! 1. How much does Atmel&#8217;s 35-micron AT40KAL Family cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest #8 Now Open</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-8-now-open</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-8-now-open#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here for this week&#8217;s Contest. We are pleased to announce that the next contest is open! Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week&#8217;s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the check-engine light goes on</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-the-check-engine-light-goes-on</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-the-check-engine-light-goes-on#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the new-car experience. There&#8217;s nothing quite like it&#8211;the smell, the fresh and the clean feel, the comforting notion that your first repair bills are years away. So far, we&#8217;ve been on the road for seven weeks and rolled across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-next-silicon-valley</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-next-silicon-valley#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Drive for Innovation&#8217; not just another road trip 8/22/11 Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Life at Kettering</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/life-at-kettering</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/life-at-kettering#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drive for Innovation talks about Kettering student’s ‘engineering bug’ 8/17/11 Read more&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-6</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-6#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/16/11 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>Good Morning AZ</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/good-morning-az</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-5</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/9/11 Listen to the show Here.]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8/2/11 Listen to the show Here. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Design News</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-news-8111</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video: What We Paid for Our Chevy Volt 8/1/11 Read more&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 7/26/11 Listen to the show Here. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Design News</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-news</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Chevy Volt Test Drive 7/22/2011   Read more&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Blog: Illuminati Motor Works</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/blog-illuminati-motor-works</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/blog-illuminati-motor-works#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Parade and The Drive for Innovation 7/20/11 By Kevin Smith Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-4</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-4#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7/19/11   // // (This interview is courtesy of The Peggy Smedley Show, hosted by Peggy Smedley and broadcast on wsRadio.com. To view archives, go to www.peggysmedleyshow.com/archives.aspx)]]></description>
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		<title>GM-Volt.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thread: Drive for Innovation 07/12/2011 Read more&#8230; ]]></description>
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		<title>IBTimes UK</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ibtimes-uk</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ibtimes-uk#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year-long road trip in Chevrolet Volt to highlight innovative people, products and places in electronics and technology 7/12/2011 Read more&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Green Living Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/green-living-guy</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/green-living-guy#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year-long road trip in Chevrolet Volt to highlight innovative people, products and places in electronics and technology 7/11/11 Read more&#8230; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The search for juice</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-search-for-juice</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-search-for-juice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIVONIA, Mich.&#8211;Finding free juice is a challenge with the Volt. My first weekend on the road, I ventured in to Chicago to visit some museums. Pulling into a parking garage, I found that the first empty slot had&#8211;joy of joys!&#8211;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get on the drivetrain</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/get-on-the-drivetrain</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/get-on-the-drivetrain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Donovan, Low-Power Design for Drive for Innovation&#160; There are a lot of reasons for thinking of buying a hybrid electric car&#8212;ecological, economic, political, and just getting cheesed off at seeing all those hybrids with one passenger whiz by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got racing?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/got-racing</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/got-racing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;We spent a Friday at the truly lovely Road America race course here just before the American Le Mans race. Avnet, which sponsors our Drive for Innovation, also sponsors the Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW team, so it was an opportunity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAN in 30 minutes or less</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-in-30-minutes-or-less</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-in-30-minutes-or-less#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hassane El-Khoury for EE Times, Design 11/1/09&#160; Since it was introduced in the 1980s, the controller-area network (CAN) has evolved tremendously. Its extended capabilities have led to its wide adoption across applications, from automotive to industrial machine and factory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving the night sky a break</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/giving-the-night-sky-a-break</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/giving-the-night-sky-a-break#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOVI, Mich.&#8211;There are few topics that worry or tick me off more than the worsening conditions for star gazing. Unless you live in an African or South American jungle (and can see past the canopy) you&#8217;re going to have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The challenge with older circuit breakers</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-challenge-with-older-circuit-breakers</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-challenge-with-older-circuit-breakers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOLON, OH&#8211;Merlin Gerin is a legendary name in the circuit-breaker business, ever since its founding in 1920. An incalculable number of devices were installed over the decades around the world. What happens as they age? More design resources One thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Volt gets some air time in Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-volt-gets-some-air-time-in-arizona</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-volt-gets-some-air-time-in-arizona#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;Sometimes being on TV is a good-news/bad-news deal. The good news is that you get on TV. The bad news is that sometimes it&#8217;s on the morning shows, and that means an early alarm clock. Fortunately here, in August, being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reusable embedded systems software design</title>
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		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reusable-embedded-systems-software-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dinu P. Madau, Visteon Corp., for EE Times, Design 5/4/08 The drive to reduce product development cycle times has led to the need for designing reusable code. It&#39;s apparent that reusing code across software projects decreases project development time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limiting innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/limiting-innovation</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/limiting-innovation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;Jay O&#8217;Connell is a competitive engineer with a bear leg-hold trap around his ankle. Jay, a product of Cornell&#8217;s mechanical engineering program, is chief engineer for the Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW race team. This group of road-race warriors, led by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s old is new again</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-old-is-new-again</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-old-is-new-again#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOLON, Ohio&#8211;Innovation is almost always associated with the new and the sexy. Often, though, innovation brings older technologies and products a second life. Consider Utility Relay (Chagrin Falls, Ohio), which makes true RMS solid state trip units for AC and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/selling-innovation</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/selling-innovation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 3,695 miles) ELKHART LAKE, Wisc.&#8211;There are few industries in the world that are as savvy about marketing their highly technical products than the auto industry. Just go to any road or track race and you&#8217;ll see. We did. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Allan</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-book-of-allan</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-book-of-allan#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LANSING, Mich.&#8211;Allan Dale traces his computing roots back past Burroughs, for whom he worked at one point. He&#8217;s created and sold off technologies a few times over and could probably go flying off into the sunset (he&#8217;s a pilot), but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it to the streets</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-it-to-the-streets</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-it-to-the-streets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Power management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOVI, Mich.&#8211;There&#8217;s a lot of hand-wringing these days over power consumption, power usage in emerging countries and so-called &#8220;peak oil.&#8221; Forecasting charts invariably depict the bad news in the form of a hockey stick-type line that shows consumption far outpacing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Securing embedded device updates</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/securing-embedded-device-updates</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/securing-embedded-device-updates#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate control]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andre Weimerskirch and Kai Schramm for EE Times, Design 4/13/09 More and more devices in our modern world come with a multitude and variety of embedded systems. An obvious example of this trend are today&#39;s vehicles, which have several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s all in the detailing</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/its-all-in-the-detailing</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/its-all-in-the-detailing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting TE Connectivity to sponsor the Drive for Innovation was the easy part. They get the story line. They&#8217;re bringing really creative innovation to an area that&#8217;s usually overlooked by most people: interconnects. They&#8217;re in the Volt in a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bars-the new centers of innovation (really!)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/bars-the-new-centers-of-innovation-really</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/bars-the-new-centers-of-innovation-really#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whuda thunk that bars would be bleeding-edge adopters of technology? After all, their primary product (alcohol) is an ancient innovation. Sumerians supposedly fermented the first beers thousands of years ago, and wine, which can be created simply by pinching a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tribute to innovation&#8217;s past</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-tribute-to-innovations-past</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-tribute-to-innovations-past#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DEARBORN, Mich.&#8211;We can&#8217;t do justice on a road trip about innovation without admiring the innovations of the past. When we hit Maker Faire Detroit, we were delighted to realize it was located inside and outside of the Henry Ford museum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design challenges of hands-free systems</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-challenges-of-hands-free-systems</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-challenges-of-hands-free-systems#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Scott Pennock, for&#160;EE Times, Design 9/28/09 Hands-free kits and in-vehicle hands-free systems have been around for many years. The technology for these systems isn&#39;t standing still, though; changes introduced by automotive OEMs, the network, as well as increasing customer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The time-travelling radio</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-time-travelling-radio</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-time-travelling-radio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEARBORN, Mich.&#8211;The story of the Philadelphia Storage Battery Company is the stuff of legends, not the least of which is how an established company, realizing it would ultimately be doomed if it stuck to its core product line, shifted horses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in interconnects</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-interconnects</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-interconnects#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Innovation rests on innovation. In our earlier segment with TE Connectivity&#8217;s Adam Tyler, he described the company&#8217;s new HVA 280 connector and its automotive-electronics application. The HVA 280, prompted by the Chevy Volt design, was built thanks to the lessons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s the most innovative so far?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whos-the-most-innovative-so-far</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whos-the-most-innovative-so-far#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=1078</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the the first major leg of the Drive for Innovation, we hit six states in five weeks and covered 3,800 miles in the Chevy Volt. Our goal is to root out great stories about innovators, innovations and innovative products. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making virtual prototyping better: Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-virtual-prototyping-better-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-virtual-prototyping-better-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Everett Lumpkin and Casey Alford for EE Times, Design 6/22/10 Engineers embrace model-based design in many different disciplines associated with product development, for example, finite element analysis in mechanical engineering and circuit simulation for electrical engineering. Modeling enables development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting with the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/connecting-with-the-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/connecting-with-the-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 2,485 miles) TROY, Mich.&#8211;When it comes to automotive design and connectors (and especially in the era of high-voltage electronics), it&#8217;s all about &#8220;redundancy on top of redundancy,&#8221; says Adam Tyler, development engineer at TE Connectivity&#8217;s Automotive Alternative Power Systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation, Powered by UBM Electronics, to Participate at the Road America American Le Mans Series</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-powered-by-ubm-electronics-to-participate-at-the-road-america-american-le-mans-series</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix  and San Francisco, August 8, 2011 – As the Avnet Express Chevrolet Volt continues on its cross-country journey on the Drive for Innovation, it’s making a pit-stop at the Road America American Le Mans Series. Powered by UBM Electronics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconsidering safety-critical embedded system design</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reconsidering-safety-critical-embedded-system-design</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reconsidering-safety-critical-embedded-system-design#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rutul Dave, Coverity, for EE Times, Design 3/29/11 Early in March of this year, General Motors Company issued a recall of more than 10,000 Buick Lacrosse and Cadillac SRK vehicles. The issue was not a mechanical problem traditionally associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality check</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reality-check</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reality-check#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want a sense for how America is going to embrace electric vehicles, look no farther than newlyweds Christi and John. We chatted with them one recent evening at a restaurant, called Bonefish, near Cleveland. Pretty soon, we were talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All hail Mantis, the open-source robot</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-hail-mantis-the-open-source-robot</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-hail-mantis-the-open-source-robot#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEARBORN, Mich.&#8211;To chat with Eric Barch is to peer into the near future. He&#8217;s an engineering student at Kettering University who&#8217;s been bitten with the hacker/make bug. He&#8217;s emblematic of a new generation of engineers in or just out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation is here to stay</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-is-here-to-stay</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-is-here-to-stay#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Krause has bought the same Beach Boys tunes more times than he cares to remember. He started with 33 rpm record albums (remember those??). Then his technology changed, and he bought the same tunes for his 8-track tape player. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How the Volt performs</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-the-volt-performs</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-the-volt-performs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say what you will about hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles, the power grid, and the economic feasibility of electric vehicles in the short term. Driving a Chevy Volt is just a sweet ride. Many of us have formed opinions of GM cars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Illuminati 7&#8242;s engine compartment</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7s-engine-compartment</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7s-engine-compartment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 587 miles) VIRDEN, Ill.&#8211;Kevin Smith, in our earlier video and post, walked us through the Illuminati 7&#8242;s interior and exterior design, and then we got to roar out onto the highway. We also had him give us a tour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Occidental tourist</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-occidental-tourist</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-occidental-tourist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On the Road]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 1,800 miles) BETWEEN ST. LOUIS AND DETROIT&#8211;We&#8217;ve had some long hauls on the Drive for Innovation; sometimes six hours in the car. It can be tough to get in decent exercise on those days, and, for some of us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The design-chain effect on Shockwave Impact</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-design-chain-effect-on-shockwave-impact</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-design-chain-effect-on-shockwave-impact#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 1,057 miles) HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.&#8211;Jeff Lawson&#8217;s company, Zero Defect Manufacturing, is adept at contract design and manufacturing. He&#8217;s a longtime engineer who knows his stuff. But his work with his friend Tim Johannes on Shockwave Impact could turn out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maker Faire: Innovation inspiration</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/maker-faire-innovation-inspiration</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/maker-faire-innovation-inspiration#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 2,547 miles) DEARBORN, Mich.&#8211;So often we bemoan how few kids are entering engineering and other technical disciplines in college. Yet so often we hear from engineers who were inspired to get into engineering because, at very young ages, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the hood with Molex</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/under-the-hood-with-molex</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/under-the-hood-with-molex#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engine generator]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LISLE, Ill.&#8211;Some of the most important but generally overlooked components in any modern vehicle are connectors. We pulled up to the headquarters of Molex in Lisle, Ill., where the heat index was 105 at 10 a.m., to get a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shockwave Impact: Monitoring and assessing head trauma</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/monitoring-the-impact-of-multiple-concussions</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/monitoring-the-impact-of-multiple-concussions#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 1,057 miles) HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.&#8211;Fred McNeil was a star in the National Football League with the Minnesota Vikings. He often can&#8217;t remember his teammates&#8217; names. McNeil has early-onset dementia that doctors believed is linked to his football career. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rocket car</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-a-tesla-for-a-ride</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-a-tesla-for-a-ride#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa&#8211;Engineers are drawn to electric cars for two main reasons: They&#8217;re fantastic design challenges and (two) they can go really fast. More than a decade ago, I rode around with EE Greg Hanssen down in Orange County, Calif., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GM: Volt virtually sold out</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-volt-virtually-sold-out</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-volt-virtually-sold-out#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Please note: this post went live Aug. 2, 2011) Americans are buying 14 Chevrolet Volts a day. That&#39;s word from Detroit today, where General Motors announced it&#39;s effectively sold out of the 2011 model year. GM has built 4,488 2011 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual reality, real advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rockwell-collins-virtual-prototype-modeling-system</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rockwell-collins-virtual-prototype-modeling-system#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer, 1,195 miles) CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa&#8211;We often think of defense contractors as enormous companies using very expensive equipment and software to churn out expensive products that taxpayers end up paying for. Maybe not so much these days. Rockwell Collins is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Necessity: The mother of innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/necessity-the-mother-of-innovation</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/necessity-the-mother-of-innovation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time was when a state-of-the-art police squad car had a radio and cherry on top. Today, it&#8217;s a whole different ball game. Most squad cars are their own rolling command centers and have to handle not only navigation and multiple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting go</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/letting-go</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/letting-go#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a typical guy. I like maps. I tend not to ask for directions unless I&#8217;m pressured by my wife. I know East, West, North and South as intuitively as I know a lager from an ale. You could blindfold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fore!</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/incredible-technologies-golden-tee-technology</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/incredible-technologies-golden-tee-technology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=725</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.&#8211;The roller ball as a controller in video arcade games is iconic; so much so that Arlington Heights, Ill.-based Incredible Technologies (IT) incorporates it in its logo as the dot in the &#8220;I.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve been to a bar at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who revived the electric car?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/who-revived-the-electric-car</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/who-revived-the-electric-car#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 1,800 miles) ST. LOUIS&#8211;The Citicar is the most popular American electric car you&#8217;ve never heard of. From 1974-77, Florida-based  Sebring-Vanguard, Inc., produced about 2,700 of these cute little two-seaters. The Citicar and variants that followed  were the most popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are on the air</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-are-on-the-air</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-are-on-the-air#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After we announced the start of the Drive for Innovation, we got a call from the good folks at the Peggy Smedley show. It turns out our start in Chicago is not far from their studios at Carol Stream, Ill. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pit crew</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-pit-crew</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-pit-crew#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car Cam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 991 miles) ELGIN, Ill.&#8211;The Volt gets really thirsty in 103 degree Midwest heat as it roams across Illinois in search of innovation stories. Luckily, we pulled into Harting, where a pit crew awaited us in the most creative welcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four years and a hundred grand</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7-ev</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7-ev#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what Kevin Smith and friends are into on the Illuminati Motor Works 7 electric vehicle. But that&#8217;s an engineer for you. Smith, a young engaging chemical engineer with the Illinois EPA, got the alternative vehicle bug in high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The great MPG debate</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-great-mpg-debate</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-great-mpg-debate#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USA Today editorialized this morning (while reminding me it&#8217;s gonna be hot again in the Midwest, thanks for that) President Obama&#8217;s call to have average cars get 56 miles per gallon by 2025. The publication&#8217;s editorial board called it &#8220;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoom-zoom</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/illuminati-car-goes-zoom-zoom</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/illuminati-car-goes-zoom-zoom#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 587 miles) VIRDEN, Ill.&#8211;Rocketing past corn fields in the middle of Illinois is a machine that has to be seen to be believed. Take a look at part 1 of our report on our visit with Illuminati Motor Works, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a charge out of things</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/getting-a-charge-out-of-things</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/getting-a-charge-out-of-things#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 389 miles) SCHAUMBERG, Ill.&#8211;DesignNews senior technical editor Chuck Murray has been chronicling the rapid evolution of automotive electronics for the better part of a quarter-century. One thing he&#8217;s written about extensively (check out his Captain Hybrid blog) that hasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive For Innovation Weekly Contest #2</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-weekly-contest-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-weekly-contest-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complete the contest and submit your answers for a chance at winning this week’s prize. To find the answers you will need to search through www.avnetexpress.com. Good luck and happy hunting! 1. In the latest Systems inDesign Embedded Computing issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Kove in a (storage) storm</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-kove-in-a-storage-storm</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-kove-in-a-storage-storm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO&#8211;Nothing&#8217;s getting slower in life, that&#8217;s for sure. In business, the latest mission-ritical application is high-frequency trading, where investment banks are building their own server farms and, in some cases, their own servers, to get any nano-second information or trading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet home Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sweet-home-chicago</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sweet-home-chicago#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 331 miles) The Volt got its first real road run this week when Kurk Dawkins and Tom Milauskas from Avnet and I rolled into Chicago to see Kove, a really interesting storage-solutions vendor that&#8217;s just starting to talk about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s take it for a spin</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/lets-take-it-for-a-spin</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/lets-take-it-for-a-spin#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Car Cam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 305 miles) Paul Shackett is a unique engineer: He&#8217;s one of the only EEs at Masterlock. Oh, Masterlock has plenty of engineers but they&#8217;re the types of engineers who know about metals and materials science and what type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Head out on the highway</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/heading-out-on-the-highway</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/heading-out-on-the-highway#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 299 miles) Day one of the Drive for Innovation finds us in a cab with a Polish immigrant weaving our way through Schaumberg toward Chicago to find the Volt. The cherry-red beauty has been asleep inside a Public Storage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the road</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/on-the-road</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/on-the-road#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 289 miles) Curiously, the Drive for Innovation starts with a plane ride. But even before that, there&#8217;s packing to be done for a nine-month odyssey. Most importantly: Don&#8217;t forget the good-luck charm: &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>The art of the road trip</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-art-of-the-road-trip</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-art-of-the-road-trip#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;The words &#8220;road trip&#8221; tend to cause two visceral and light-speed-quick responses: I&#8217;d rather be buried alive Let&#8217;s do it, guys!!!!!! I fall into the second category, and it could be one of the reasons I got tapped for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engineer Shares How To Build An EV</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineer-shares-how-to-build-an-ev</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineer-shares-how-to-build-an-ev#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Taranovich, Contributing Editor, EDN 07/06/11 Electric vehicles (EV) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) are advancing rapidly. We see a parade of solutions including the Toyota Prius (the number-one-selling hybrid), Ford Fusion with 41-mpg city mileage, Chevy Volt with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Electronics Deliver Efficiencies</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-electronics-deliver-efficiencies</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-electronics-deliver-efficiencies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charles J. Murray,&#160;Senior Technical Editor, Electronics, Design News 11/16/10 While driving a rental car over Eisenhower Pass in the Rocky Mountains a few weeks ago, Pamela Fletcher made a surprising discovery: By comparison to the soon-to-be-released Chevy Volt, conventional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrid Wins Endurance Race</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrid-wins-endurance-race</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrid-wins-endurance-race#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis,&#160;EE Times, EE Life,&#160;Automotive DesignLine Blog 07/20/07 Think hybrids are &#34;wimpy?&#34; Well here&#39;s one that just won a 24-hour endurance race.It took many in the auto industry around the world as a surprise yesterday. But in a story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Charged Up</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-charged-up</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-charged-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis,&#160;EE Times, EE Life,&#160;Automotive DesignLine Blog 10/15/07 Almost as exciting as following the Red Sox&#39; fortunes in the post season this past weekend was the media coverage of a visit to Boston by the Chevrolet Volt electric/gasoline-powered concept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cruising imperative</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-cruising-imperative</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-cruising-imperative#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People ask me, &#34;Why?&#34; Not why as in &#34;why are you hogging oxygen on this planet when so many more deserving people, especially in China, could use the air.&#34; Not why as in &#34;why are giving me that creepy stare?&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s inside the Chevy Volt?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-inside-the-chevy-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-inside-the-chevy-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a stop at the National Science Teachers Association annual meeting this spring in San Francisco, we stumbled up a red Chevy Volt! Coincidence? Maybe it&#8217;s time we believed in precognition&#8230;.! In any event, we took Trisha aside who gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chevy Volt as a teaching aid</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-chevy-volt-as-a-teaching-aid</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-chevy-volt-as-a-teaching-aid#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, we spent some time in San Francisco at the National Science Teachers Association annual gathering, a veritable drool-fest of ideas, products and services for science and math teachers. And what sat proudly on the show floor? A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrids Push Efficiency Advancements: Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrids-push-efficiency-advancements-part-i</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrids-push-efficiency-advancements-part-i#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Swanson, Principal Engineer, STMicroelectronics EE Times, Design 08/31/10 A friend of mine came to me with a &#8220;patentable invention.&#8221; He said it was going to make him millions but he needed just a little help with the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Is This Our Future?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/column-is-this-our-future</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/column-is-this-our-future#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Nocera, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times 06/25/11// The moment I realized that driving the new Chevrolet Volt was fundamentally a new experience was not when I first turned it on and went around the block. Yes, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: EV Battery Supply May Exceed Demand</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/study-ev-battery-supply-may-exceed-demand</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charles J. Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics, Design News 08/16/2010 Lithium-ion battery technology may be considered a solution to the struggles of the auto industry in some quarters, but analysts are saying that manufacturers of the batteries may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Sets &#8216;Practical Plan&#8217; For EV</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/study-sets-practical-plan-for-ev</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/study-sets-practical-plan-for-ev#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Captain Hybrid,&#160;Design News,&#160;Blog 04/13/2011 If you&#8217;re curious about the future of electric cars in this country, then a new publication from Indiana University is must-reading for you. &#8220;Plug-In Electric Vehicles: A Practical Plan for Progress,&#8221; which is freely available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: The Volt Is Not A Dolt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/opinion-the-volt-is-not-a-dolt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/opinion-the-volt-is-not-a-dolt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Allan Yogasingam,&#160;EE Times, EE Life Blog 06/16/2009 I had a chance to read EETime&#39;s writer Mark LaPedus&#39; comments on the Chevrolet Volt the other day (Missing gaffes: the Volt is a dolt) and can&#39;t help but feel that Mr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prius Technology In Review</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/prius-technology-in-review</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/prius-technology-in-review#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis,&#160;EE Times, Design 04/23/2008 One year ago, Automotive DesignLine and EETimes took a Toyota Prius fresh from the dealer and tore it down to see what makes it tick. The resulting series of stories became some of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Tech Composites Lighter, More Cost Effective</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/high-tech-composites-lighter-cost-effective</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/high-tech-composites-lighter-cost-effective#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Doug Smock, Contributing Editor,&#160;Design News 02/08/2007 The big development shown in the Chevy Volt is a high-tech composite that lends itself to mass production. Composites in aircraft are thermosets, usually either polyester or epoxy-based, and usually require long cycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Eye Transportation Sector</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-eye-transportation-sector</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-eye-transportation-sector#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis, EE Times, News &#038; Analysis 04/13/2010 SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; A handful of entrepreneurs hope to turn Silicon Valley into Detroit 2.0 by supplying key subsystems for next-generation electric and hybrid vehicles. They share a vision of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Flap Over The Volt?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-the-flap-over-the-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-the-flap-over-the-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis, EE Times, Automotive DesignLine Blog&#160; 10/17/2010 Some fans of electric cars and hybrids, and a few folks in the press, are getting all in a knot about Chevy actually having a &#34;direct link&#34; from the gas engine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chevy Aims For Excellence With Voltec</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-aims-for-excellence-with-voltec</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-aims-for-excellence-with-voltec#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Allan Yogasingam, Technology Analyst, TechOnline 5/18/2009 General Motors and its storied Chevrolet brand have been in the news quite often of late, but largely for the wrong reasons. Yet even as GM teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, engineers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the GM-IBM collaboration on the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/behind-the-gm-ibm-collaboration-on-the-volt</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/behind-the-gm-ibm-collaboration-on-the-volt#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charles J. Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Electronics &#038; Test, DesignNews 12/14/2010 The introduction of the Chevy Volt may stand as a testament to the engineering prowess of General Motors, but it&#39;s also a product of a huge collaboration between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/driving-the-volt</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rick DeMeis, Automotive DesignLine 12/1/2010 10:53 PM EST I was able to grab a drive in a Chevy Volt &#34;range extended&#34; electric vehicle this afternoon at the New England International Auto Show&#39;s press day. Aside from the heated discussion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express, UBM Electronics Celebrate Electronics Innovation in Cross-Country “Drive for Innovation” Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/press-release</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, July 11, 2011 – UBM Electronics, a UBM company and the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry’s decision makers, today announced a first-of-its kind cross-country journey showcasing electronics innovation in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation With The Chevrolet Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-visits-mit-students-in-awe</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-visits-mit-students-in-awe#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anchored by a year-long cross-country journey in a General Motors Chevrolet Volt, Drive for Innovation features EE Times Editorial Director Brian Fuller driving a fire-engine-red Volt to innovation hubs across America interviewing engineers, entrepreneurs, innovators, students and the occasional &#8220;mad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Volt</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-volt</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah.gray@ubm.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chevy Volt interactive feature takes a look inside the technology that drives the volt. The app includes deep dives into the major electronic systems such as the engine, generator and battery pack.]]></description>
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