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		<title>How to boost solar cell efficiency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer Solar power has been on the radar of scientists and engineers for many years, but has yet to become a mainstream power source for the average household. The main reason? Efficiency. Solar Energy USA is a company that provides installation of solar panels to residential areas as well as commercial<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-to-boost-solar-cell-efficiency/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Know Your Surroundings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer Ever felt self-conscious or felt like everyone was watching you as you struggle to parallel park? You back in, don&#8217;t quite get the turn right; pull out, try it again. And again. And again until you give up. Well, with new parking-assist technology emerging, you may not ever feel those<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/know-your-surroundings/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Faster (and more) signalling on the same channel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;A quick history lesson from the heart of the Silicon Valley. We all remember the emergence of low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) in the mid 1990s. The idea was to be able to move digital signals very high speeds to enable higher resolution monitors and better user interface experience with computing,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/faster-and-more-signalling-on-the-same-channel/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need more chip startups</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=9296</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s growing concern that the U.S. is losing pace in semiconductor start-ups (although we&#8217;ve seen intriguing outliers leveraging crowd-funding to make products). Rick Merritt at EE Times, in a recent piece, quoted Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan as framing a more dire situation than most have suspected. According to Merritt: “China and India are pouring money”<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-we-need-more-chip-startups/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic: The STEM Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller We asked a lot of questions on our drive around the U.S. about how we&#8217;re enabling the next generation of innovation, the new engineering classes. We found many STEM challenges but a lot of inspiration, from Don Morgan &#8212; a one-man Army of inspiration in the Georgia public school system &#8212; to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/infographic-the-stem-challenge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cold house? Electronics to the rescue!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, contributing writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. – You wake up in your chilly San Francisco apartment (or any chilly place for that matter), and your first instinct is not to crank up the thermostat several notches (too expensive!). Instead you go to your closet, rifle through an array of sport coats and collared<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/cold-house-electronics-to-the-rescue/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Want to innovate? Try spending some money</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/want-to-innovate-try-spending-some-money-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller Innovation is about a lot of different things. Partly it&#8217;s about flexible thinking, being creative. Partly it&#8217;s about taking risk. One thing that often gets overlooked in innovation is raw spending power. If you put  money into R&#38;D, the odds are that you are going to be a little bit more innovative<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/want-to-innovate-try-spending-some-money-4/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The car of the future</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-car-of-the-future-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=9216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller We&#8217;ve written all lot about the quickening pace of innovation in automotive electronics design. And you&#8217;ll recall the centerpiece of the first part of the Drive for Innovation was an all-electric Chevy Volt, which took us around North America. If you&#8217;re in automotive electronics design, you&#8217;re no doubt working on a very<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-car-of-the-future-2/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Moore&#8217;s Law offramp</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-moores-law-offramp-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=9254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We worry a lot about Moore&#8217;s Law running out of gas right about now. Now comes former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz with this piece on Harvard Business Review&#8217;s blog: &#8220;There, however, is a possible &#8220;off-ramp&#8221; to Moore&#8217;s Law that offers new hope — not just of continued improvement in semiconductors but of an open, competitive<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-moores-law-offramp-3/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Building a culture of innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/building-a-culture-of-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller If you followed us for the past couple of years on drive for innovation, this info graphic should come as no surprise. A lot of what we&#8217;ve covered, the interviews we&#8217;ve done, and the insights we&#8217;ve heard from the road tell us how to build a culture and from innovation. But I<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/building-a-culture-of-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Demand Response Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/demand-response-in-the-lab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES&#8211;So often, we get ahead of ourselves a consuming public, especially when it comes to technology innovation. Take power generation and smart-grid management. We know that electronics that drive enormous efficiency gains on the grid. After all, our smart phones can guide us to someplace we&#8217;ve never been, so why not immediately optimize all<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/demand-response-in-the-lab/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>STEM education today: A grass roots view</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/stem-education-today-a-grass-roots-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Delony You&#8217;ve seen the highlights here on the Drive for Innovation; programs across the U.S. are beginning to deliver more resources and funding to help students thrive in technology studies and deliver on an innovative future. We met Don Morgan of Brooks County High School, who strives to build an engineering program in an<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/stem-education-today-a-grass-roots-view/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Belly Up To The Bar (Code)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/belly-up-to-the-bar-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer SURREY, B.C.—Most revolutionary inventions come from years of grueling research and hours in a lab, but not the bar code. N. Joseph Woodland was sitting on a beach drawing lines in the sand with his finger. Woodland left a historic legacy in his wake, when he passed away on Dec. 8, 2012<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/belly-up-to-the-bar-code/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Once-in-a-generation shift in semiconductor design focus</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/once-in-a-generation-shift-in-semiconductor-design-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=9155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, Contributing Writer LOS GATOS, Calif.—Sometimes, an inflection point only comes along once in a generation. When it comes to power consumption, that time is now, according to Bruce McWilliams, President and CEO of SuVolta. For decades, the electronics-design paradigm was all about the megahertz arms race, as Intel pushed out faster and faster microprocessors<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/once-in-a-generation-shift-in-semiconductor-design-focus/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s innovation problem</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/apples-innovation-problem-159/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller Apple&#8217;s got a problem these days, and it&#8217;s not just a shareholder value problem. It&#8217;s a problem that faces most mature electronics companies at one point or another: It&#8217;s new-product innovation pipeline is gummed up. But first let&#8217;s recap: The popular concern today is that Apple share price is off significantly since<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/apples-innovation-problem-159/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is innovation dead?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-innovation-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller PHOENIX&#8211;Was beer really the last great innovation in civilization? Of course the answer is &#8220;not really,&#8221; but Wade McDaniel and I share a good laugh when he brings it up. We&#8217;ve seen tons of innovation since the Sumerians figured out how to craft a fermented elixir that wouldn&#8217;t kill whoever consumed it.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-innovation-dead/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The arc of innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-arc-of-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Azuro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Fuller SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;So much is written and spoken about innovation and yet it remains so very difficult to do. I&#8217;m endlessly fascinated by it, because there are companies such as Apple that make it look effortless. When we herded Paul Cunningham into a room here at Cadence Design Systems&#8217; headquarters, it afforded<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-arc-of-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking the crystal habit</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/kicking-the-crystal-habit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif—Kicking the crystal habit is difficult when people talk about addiction to the drug crystal meth. But it&#8217;s just as challenging in electronics when you&#8217;re considering moving from crystal oscillators to quartz-free oscillators. Crystal oscillators have been around for decades, and are small, cheap are prized for their frequency stability. Drive for Innovation<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/kicking-the-crystal-habit/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When offshoring manufacturing is dictated by your customer</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-offshoring-manufacturing-is-dictated-by-your-customer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, contributing writer GARLAND, Texas&#8211;For many electronics companies, it can be a dilemma: You want to manufacture your design on shore, but your customer&#8217;s price point likely means you have to manufacture abroad, where costs are lower. And if you’ve ever stepped into a Walmart, chances are that you’ve seen CE Labs&#8217; technology<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-offshoring-manufacturing-is-dictated-by-your-customer/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Telematics of Scooters</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-telematics-of-scooters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Malcolm Fuller, contributing writer Remember the speculation about what kinds of technology the new millennium would have to offer? Now we haven&#8217;t seen a flying car yet, but Saturna Green Systems in Vancouver, B.C., has developed a product that brings wireless communication and networking to two- and three-wheel electric scooter and motorcycle manufacturers. And<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-telematics-of-scooters/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;New Apple&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-new-apple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[3D printers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Delony It should not be a surprise that 3-D printed couture flounced down the runway at Paris Fashion Week; at least, it would not surprise some. New Year’s predictions consistently named the printing phenomenon the hot tech ticket for 2013, and now, Big Think’s Dominic Basulto believes 3-D printing has what it takes to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-new-apple/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A future in clusters: Tapping the value of teams</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-future-in-clusters-tapping-the-value-of-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jennifer Delony Technological advancements in cloud computing and project management are fast-tracking a radical alternative team environment that may be a prominent business tactic in unlocking talent in this decade. Dave Aron with the Harvard Business Review projects that 30% of work will be performed by clusters by 2020. So what are clusters, and how can<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-future-in-clusters-tapping-the-value-of-teams/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s most-innovative countries</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/worlds-most-innovative-countries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;The usual suspects, is the answer to that headline question (more on this later). But more telling from a new global innovation survey is how confused executives worldwide can be when asked about a number of important business-innovation drivers. That&#8217;s the take-away from the third Global Innovation Barometer, backed by GE. In GE&#8217;s parlance,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/worlds-most-innovative-countries/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crowd-funding innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/crowd-funding-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;I&#8217;ve written for many years about the new development paradigm in the semiconductor industry, given cost constraints and other factors. Since venture capitalists aren&#8217;t giving entrepreneurs any love, it&#8217;s time to leverage crowd-funding, as we&#8217;ve seen in successes like Adapteva. Now comes a battery-charging idea, based on Georgia Tech patents, that&#8217;s seeking funding. Potential<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/crowd-funding-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The basic-research challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-basic-research-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Karagozian]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES&#8211;Ann Karagozian is in some ways a UCLA lifer. The summa cum laude engineering graduate (Class of &#8217;78) has been teaching engineering here on the Westwood campus since she received her Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Cal Tech. Given that, she&#8217;s a perfect person to ask two not-unrelated questions. - What&#8217;s the state of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-basic-research-challenge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Predictions for an Innovative New Year (and beyond)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/predictions-for-an-innovative-new-year-and-beyond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 03:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovations in 3-D printing, personal sensors, personal computers, and data management are some of the trends that will make 2013 “a really exciting year for humanity,” according to Vivek Wadhwa in his take on the Washington Post’s “Tech trends to watch in 2013.” In his predictions, Wadhwa points to the sectors in which innovations will<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/predictions-for-an-innovative-new-year-and-beyond/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>‘Is innovation good or bad?’</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-innovation-good-or-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you said, “both,” you’ve earned a gold star. Tim Kastelle of Innovation for Growth argues in Why either/or thinking is dangerous that the use of classification in complex systems must outpace the need to label the world in black and white. “Either/or thinking is very dangerous in a complex system – and, for better or<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-innovation-good-or-bad/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The sound of silence-redux</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-sound-of-silence-redux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;During the first half of our around-the-country drive in the Chevy Volt, the first conversations started stirring over one of the greatest features of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles: How quiet they are. Problem is, they&#8217;re apparently too quiet, at least for the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. Last week, NHTSA proposed adding sounds to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-sound-of-silence-redux/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Too much &#8216;innovation&#8217; hype at CES?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/too-much-innovation-hype-at-ces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years, Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was arguably the best place to see new-product electronics innovation in one sprawling place. But in this year&#8217;s version, the bloom may finally have come off the rose. This refrain was epitomized by James Temple&#8217;s piece in the San Francisco Chronicle: &#160; CES looks increasingly like<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/too-much-innovation-hype-at-ces/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Military-industrial complexities</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/parvus-mil-aero-products/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 25, 975 miles) SALT LAKE CITY&#8211;The life of a military contractor isn&#8217;t always what it&#8217;s cracked up to be, especially in a world of budgetary constraints and fiscal cliffs. But Parvus, based here, which emerged from the imagination of a University of Utah student decades ago, is navigating nicely. Indeed, in 2011, just before<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/parvus-mil-aero-products/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Failure: ‘It’s an emotional problem’</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/failure-its-an-emotional-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation goes hand-in-hand with failure – and the average workforce is not motivated to get up every day, go to work, and fail. So how do you address this emotional blocker to innovation and take the sting out of failure? Doug Sundheim speculates on increasing innovation in the Harvard Business Review: “define a smart failure.”<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/failure-its-an-emotional-problem/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating engineers (and maybe changing the world)</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/celebrating-engineers-and-maybe-changing-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;When Michael Worry brought his new-born daughter home, the first place he took her, even before he entered the house was his workshop. He put her hand on a drill and said the word &#8220;drill&#8221; to her. &#8220;Society gets what it celebrates,&#8221; says the CEO of Nuvation, based here. &#8220;If we&#8217;re just as excited<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/celebrating-engineers-and-maybe-changing-the-world/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How eight engineers designed the future electric vehicle</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-engineers-designed-the-future-electric-vehicle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUNNYVALE, Calif.&#8211;A key part of any stop on the year-long Drive for Innovation was interacting with engineers either examining our Chevy Volt or driving it around. Everyone has a design suggestion. Analog Devices took it to the next level, in the Fall of 2011, by hosting an outdoor reception during which employees put Sticky-note design suggestions all<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-engineers-designed-the-future-electric-vehicle/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ensuring EV charging station safety</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ensuring-ev-charging-station-safety/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ensuring-ev-charging-station-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 24, 890 miles) CHULA VISTA, Calif.&#8211;You&#8217;ve no doubt used Leviton products in wiring or re-wiring your home. The Long Island based company is known primarily for ground-fault circuit interruption technology, and its products sit in 90 million U.S. homes. Out here, on a ridge above the Pacific Ocean, a Leviton unit is taking the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ensuring-ev-charging-station-safety/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SuVolta&#8217;s power rangers</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/suvoltas-power-rangers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/suvoltas-power-rangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 22,290 miles) LOS GATOS, Calif.&#8211;The electronics industry is so technically advanced and its companies so increasingly specialized that battling the power issues attendant with device scaling has taken on a life of its own. Welcome to SuVolta, a startup here in the shadow of the Santa Cruz Mountains that was founded to develop and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/suvoltas-power-rangers/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nuvation&#8217;s mad scientists</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nuvations-mad-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nuvations-mad-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;Nuvation is an electronics design-services company here, run by a bunch of guys who are, well, wonderfully insane. They have day jobs, but as the sun arcs below the horizon, the mad scientists in them all come out. They come out to build things like Discofish and take it all the way to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nuvations-mad-scientists/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Key to innovation? Onshoring manufacturing of course</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/key-to-innovation-onshoring-manufacturing-of-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/key-to-innovation-onshoring-manufacturing-of-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One day a couple of years ago, Gary Pisano woke me out of a sound sleep. Not literally, but figuratively through a Harvard Business Review podcast I was listening to. He was talking about his research into the impact of offshoring manufacturing on design. In the interview, he talks about the concept of the industrial<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/key-to-innovation-onshoring-manufacturing-of-course/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>RF engineer&#8217;s best friend: a dark, windowless room</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rf-engineers-best-friend-a-dark-windowless-room/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rf-engineers-best-friend-a-dark-windowless-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 04:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[antenna]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 24,940 miles) SAN DIEGO, Calif.&#8211;Communications design has moved methodically from networks to mobile devices to machine-to-machine communications. Each application has its quirks and, as the years grind on, each radio design gets more and more challenging. Especially for M2M, communications has not only the usual radio and power demands but also issues based on<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rf-engineers-best-friend-a-dark-windowless-room/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Farid Golnaraghi on STEM, Arduino and open source software</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dr-farid-golnaraghi-on-stem-arduino-and-open-source-software/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dr-farid-golnaraghi-on-stem-arduino-and-open-source-software/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation Generation, until earlier in 2012, was a spiritual cousin of  Drive for Innovation. Until the site lost sponsorship, it functioned as a place for middle-school, high-school, and early college students, teachers, parents, and mentors, promoting  STEM learning with contests and competitions as well as videos, articles, and tutorials.  &#160; Just before the site ended<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dr-farid-golnaraghi-on-stem-arduino-and-open-source-software/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Follow your passion in engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/follow-your-passion-in-engineering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BURNABY, B.C.&#8211;At some point in his life, Marc Alfonso heard the saying &#8220;follow your passion.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t consider it a suggestion; more like a commandment. An engineer at heart since he was young, Alfonso has been long fascinated with Hollywood and the making of movies. A relatively newly-minted engineer, Alfonso has started his own company<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/follow-your-passion-in-engineering/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The (embedded) art of winemaking</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-embedded-art-of-winemaking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-embedded-art-of-winemaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOODSIDE, Calif.&#8211;By his own, precise, calculations, Cypress Semiconductor&#8217;s CEO spent $1.003 million to build electronically-optimized fermentation equipment and donate the fermenters to U.C. Davis&#8217;s world-class viticulture and oenology program. T.J. Rodgers is, at heart, a gadget freak and because he also has sunk millions of dollars into his own personal winemaking operation, he likes to marry<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-embedded-art-of-winemaking/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Case study: Is beer the ultimate fuel for innovation?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-is-beer-the-ultimate-fuel-for-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-is-beer-the-ultimate-fuel-for-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Galla had a serious case of engineer’s block. All he needed was the push of inspiration to be able to see a legacy design in a whole new light. Eventually, that inspiration came from an unlikely source &#8212; beer. The problem “We&#8217;ve had a business in TE Circuit Protection providing safe and reliable solutions<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-is-beer-the-ultimate-fuel-for-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The embedded hardware verification challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-embedded-hardware-verification-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 04:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONGMONT, Colo.&#8211;Kozio is an embedded software company that may have the coolest offices in the business. Located in a planned community not far from Interstate 25 north of Denver, Kozio engineers enjoy a spacious office on the second floor, near a wine bar, cafe and other commercial establishments, some of them right beneath their feet.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-embedded-hardware-verification-challenge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The automotive electronics revolution is here</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-automotive-electronics-revolution-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 03:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRVINE, Calif.&#8211;Back-up cameras seem almost quaint today, even though the technology is just moving into the mainstream automotive market. That&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a sense that technology is catching fire really quickly in automotive design and not just at the high end. Earlier this year, as we steered the Volt through the sunny southern California climes,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-automotive-electronics-revolution-is-here/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Power inverter company&#8217;s amazing origins</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/power-inverter-companys-amazing-origins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FORT WORTH, Texas&#8211;What&#8217;s the secret to engineering a startup success? Maybe owning a plane together. Gary Chemelewski and Barry Jason go way back, back to Motorola days when Chemelewski was a design engineer and Jason was in research. They were friends and they owned a plane together. And they had some similar notions about innovating<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/power-inverter-companys-amazing-origins/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sensors, wireless systems and mapping energy fields</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sensors-wireless-systems-and-mapping-energy-fields/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHARDSON, Texas&#8211;The surge in U.S. oil and natural gas supplies is due partly to new extraction technologies but also mapping capability that helps that industry find promising spots for fossil fuels. Enter Inova, a joint venture company owned 51% by BGP (Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting) and 49% by ION Geophysical, which supplies recording instruments to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sensors-wireless-systems-and-mapping-energy-fields/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>DaVinci chip&#8217;s role in police security video</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/davinci-chips-role-in-police-security-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/davinci-chips-role-in-police-security-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALLEN, Texas&#8211;The explosion of low-cost video capture devices has the unintended consequence of complicating lives and overwhelming storage systems. We saw this in Vancouver when we met with the folks at Avigilon, one of the fastest-growing software companies in North America, thanks to their video-surveillance technology that allows a system to capture images at a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/davinci-chips-role-in-police-security-video/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The STEM challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-stem-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAVANNAH, Ga.&#8211;Sitting in front of me are 150 people who hold our future in their hands. They&#8217;re teachers from the Georgia Engineering Teachers Education (GETEA) association, and they have asked me to speak at their annual conference here about the Drive for Innovation. I want to hear from them as much as they want to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-stem-challenge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How embedded electronics elevates winemaking</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-embedded-electronics-elevates-winemaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WOODSIDE, Calif.&#8211;There are countless technology executives who attach themselves at the hip to the wine industry, either as connoisseurs, investors or outright owners of wineries or vineyards. Then there&#8217;s T.J. Rodgers. The Cypress Semiconductor CEO has invested millions of  his own dollars, blown holes in hillsides and stuffed rootstock into steep-sloping hills and imported special<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-embedded-electronics-elevates-winemaking/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Pistorius and the art and science of engineering</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/oscar-pistorius-and-the-art-and-science-of-engineering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/oscar-pistorius-and-the-art-and-science-of-engineering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; When South Africa double amputee Oscar Pistorius sprinted into history at the 2012 London Olympics, he had a lot of people to thank for the blades propelling him down the track. One is a San Diego-area engineer he&#8217;s never met: Hilary Pouchak. Pouchak is among a small group of engineers&#8211;throwbacks, almost, to an age<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/oscar-pistorius-and-the-art-and-science-of-engineering/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation and transformation of JDSU</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-and-transformation-of-jds-uniphase/</link>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-and-transformation-of-jds-uniphase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 23, 885 miles) MILPITAS, Calif. &#8211;Remember JDSU? You probably remember it better as JDS Uniphase, a high-flying optical electronics company that had its wings clipped (who didn&#8217;t?) in the telecommunications bubble burst  more than a decade ago. Today, JDSU is rebranded and repositioned as an electronics vendor that hasn&#8217;t abandoned its communications roots but has<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-and-transformation-of-jds-uniphase/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A detailed eye on security surveillance</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-detailed-eye-on-security-surveillance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 31,321 miles) VANCOUVER, B.C.&#8211;Security surveillance is one of electronics&#8217; fastest-growing markets today, but one not without its challenges. While Moore&#8217;s Law has enabled the proliferation of billions of affordable, unobtrusive cameras, bandwidth and storage remain problems within the network. Even though most systems are low resolution, keeping a camera churning all day long and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-detailed-eye-on-security-surveillance/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from the fall: Shai Agassi</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/lessons-from-the-fall-shai-agassi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vision is great until it runs headlong into cold hard reality. That&#8217;s my take-away from the news today that Shai Agassi, co-founder of battery-infrastructure company Better Place, was pushed aside as CEO. Agassi and Better Place have benefited from amazing publicity, and, to a great degree, communal hope. His articulate and passionate vision for the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/lessons-from-the-fall-shai-agassi/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adapteva&#8217;s crowd-sourced processor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been about a year since we visited the Startup on Battle Road in Lexington, Mass., where an Analog Devices DSP alum and his mates were building a processor for much less than the industry-standard $100 million. This week, that alum, Andreass Olofsson (pictured nearby) and his company, Adapteva, turned the industry on its head<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/adaptevas-crowd-sourced-processor/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Disruption in the passing lane</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/disruption-in-the-passing-lane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;So much investment, so much sturm und drang around electric vehicles and the charging infrastructure. We&#8217;re hailing them one day, burying them the next, toasting them again the day after. GM&#8217;s battery plant is on the ropes, but then Elon Musk is building superchargers for his Teslas, gleaming 480V Star Trek machines that pour energizing, solar-sourced juice<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/disruption-in-the-passing-lane/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hello (again) innovation world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Drive for Innovation looks a little different today it&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve redesigned our  site as we roll into year two of our award-winning project. We&#8217;ve taken all the fabulous content we&#8217;ve collected since we began driving around the country in July 2011 seeking out electronics-innovation stories and packaged them in a more navigable, eye-catching way.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hello-again-innovation-world/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Diversify venture capital and nurture innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILPITAS, Calif.&#8211;I had an insightful meeting here the other day with Brett Fox, a recovered venture capitalist who is running the analog components startup, Touchstone Semiconductor. Fox is a longtime analog guy (Maxim mostly) who spent some time as VC. His assessment of VCs as a group is critical (arrogant, egotistical, etc.) but he also<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/diversify-venture-capital-and-nurture-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can engineers teach well?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe not, according to&#160;David Peins, who teaches children as young as eight years old to read schematics, create working circuits on breadboards, and do other fun techie stuff.&#160; Writing in EE Times this week, Peins argues: &#160; &#34;Most engineers are not good at introducing the basic concepts, anxious to skip to the beauty of the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-engineers-teach-well/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The manufacturing-plus strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, B.C.&#8211;S.U. Moon loved manufacturing so much that a decade ago he set out on his own to start a contract manufacturing business.&#160; Ten years, 40 employees and millions in annual revenue later, Moon&#39;s Foreseeson contract manufacturing company flourishes near Vancouver.&#160; But he&#39;s not so enamored with electronics manufacturing that he doesn&#39;t grasp the competitive<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-manufacturing-plus-strategy/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Design engineering: Not for the faint of heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 31,350 miles) BURNABY, B.C.&#8211;You can build an engineering company, you can compete with startups, and you can live in a world where the Chinese &#34;give away&#34; design.&#160; That&#39;s the word from Bruce Stevens, CEO of PDE (Pacific Design Engineering) here, not far from Vancouver, where a couple of dozen engineers work in an environment<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-engineering-not-for-the-faint-of-heart/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Texas-style bandwidth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS&#8211;Nothing is ever small in Texas, whether it&#39;s livestock or technology solutions.&#160; That thought was probably running through Mark Doucet&#39;s mind as he pondered a better way to deliver high-bandwidth communications systems a few years ago.&#160; When the concept for what would become Skyfiber first germinated with him, Doucet was looking at competitive wireless communications<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/texas-style-bandwidth/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring, drop by drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOULDER, Colo.&#8211;As an engineer, you know that air safety has never been better. As a passenger, you may think, in the deep recesses of your mind, otherwise. Fortunately there are companies like Droplet Measurement Technologies, here, which are in the business of engineering even safer skies and calmer passengers. Droplet, founded 25 years ago by<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/measuring-drop-by-drop/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Startup jogs the industry&#8217;s memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;Anytime EE Times has done an engineers&#39; career survey, most of the respondents say they dream of doing a startup. In reality, only 5 percent ever do one, for whatever reason. The founders of Memoir Systems here are part of not only the 5 percent, but another unusual startup characteristic: Their technology addresses<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/startup-jogs-the-industrys-memory/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Racin&#8217; in the street</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Mileage: 26,688 miles) &#34;Tonight, tonight the strip&#39;s just right I wanna blow &#39;em off in my first heat Summer&#39;s here and the time is right For racin&#39; in the street&#34; &#8211;Bruce Springsteen OREM, Utah&#8211;Engineers can be a pleasant, friendly lot&#8230; until it comes to cars. No sooner had we set foot inside of Computrol, an<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/racin-in-the-street/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Week in Innovation (Aug. 27-31, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[View the story "Week in Innovation (Aug. 26-31, 2012)" on Storify] Week in Innovation (Aug. 26-31, 2012) Links to timely stories about innovation, electronics and the entrepreneurial spirit relevant to your world and our coverage on Drive for Innovation. Storified by Brian Fuller &#183; Tue, Aug 28 2012 17:54:05 WHAT THE APPLE-SAMSUNG PATENT CASE TAUGHT<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/week-in-innovation-aug-27-31-2012/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the front lines of the counterfeiting wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADDISON, Texas&#8211;In many ways, it&#39;s hard to comprehend the impact of or even quantify&#160;counterfeiting. In the old days, it was all about currency and then counterfeiting spread to consumer goods and electronics. Today, its rough embrace has stretched to pharmaceuticals, not only a potentially profitable business for the black hats but life-threatening for unsuspecting consumers.&#160;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/on-the-front-lines-of-the-counterfeiting-wars/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Week in innovation (Aug. 19-24)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[View the story "Week in innovation (Aug. 19-24, 2012)" on Storify] Week in innovation (Aug. 19-24, 2012) Links to timely stories about innovation, electronics and the entrepreneurial spirit relevant to our coverage on Drive for Innovation. Storified by Brian Fuller &#183; Thu, Aug 23 2012 17:56:14 Bulbvolitarian TRENDS Apple, Samsung Patent War Puts Future of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/week-in-innovation-aug-19-24/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One engineer&#8217;s experience in the Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Leibson, longtime industry editor and engineer, got a chance this summer to tool around in the Silicon Valley in a Chevy Volt.&#160; It&#39;s always good to get a different perspective, but Leibson&#39;s over three days tracks ours over 12 months.&#160; He writes: &#34;Quite simply, it drives like a smooth, well-bred car and it&#8217;s clear<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/one-engineers-experience-in-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A focused approach to eating the big pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s sometimes difficult to restrain oneself, much less one&#39;s company. Every innovation is born of a huge measure of optimism and confidence that this is the solution for the market. When the Drive for Innovation rolled into Boston in the fall of 2011, we hadn&#39;t heard of XL Hybrids. Today, we did, as the company<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-focused-approach-to-eating-the-big-pie/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Week in Innovation (Aug. 5-11, 2012)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we begin a series of round-up posts linking to some interesting stories about innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit in business and electronics. [View the story "Week in innovation (Aug. 5-11, 2012)" on Storify] Week in innovation (Aug. 5-11, 2012) Links to timely stories about innovation, electronics and the entrepreneurial spirit relevant to our<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/week-in-innovation-aug-5-11-2012/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with innovation today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s a (fill in the blank) new world today in innovation. In the old, old days, you had technology companies named after the innovators who founded them. Hewlett-Packard. Watkins-Johnson. Varian Brothers. Then startups chose names associated with their technology: Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Linear Technology, Analog Devices. Today innovators choose goofy but memorable names (Facebook,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-wrong-with-innovation-today/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hands-on education through home building</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE PARK, Md.&#8211;Oh to be a kid again! Well, not so much a kid but a college student. We&#39;ve written a lot on Drive for Innovation about the maker movement and the hands-on activities or curricula that are flourishing in universities (whether it&#39;s New York Institute of Technology, San Jose State, UMass Amherst, Penn or<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hands-on-education-through-home-building/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to reduce range anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 31,109 miles) VANCOUVER, B.C.&#8211;On the road, we ran into cool technologies and cool places to work engineering magic. Rarely did we find both at the same spot. But then we pulled into Saturna Green Systems here. Tucked inside a small pedestrian office mall in the trendy Gastown district, Saturna Green is trying to take<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-to-reduce-range-anxiety/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the world of personal microscopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES&#8211;Aydogan Ozcan is about as close to a rock star in the world of imaging and digital medicine as you can imagine. Picked by MIT&#39;s Technology Review as a top innovator under the age of 35, the UCLA engineering professor, his team and his technology are on the verge of revolution medicine and virology.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/welcome-to-the-world-of-personal-microscopes/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bound to cover just a little more ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;Sometimes the biggest, most-ambitious projects end quietly and simply. A small group of executives from Avnet Electronics Marketing, including president Ed Smith and marketing VP Ian Basey, and I gathered in the company&#39;s headquarters this month as the good folks from the charitable organization Chances for Children took ownership of our home for the past<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/bound-to-cover-just-a-little-more-ground/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;hybrid for all?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paris-based Valeo SA has an idea it hopes will help bring down the cost of hybrid car technology. Valeo has developed an electrification solution for the powertrain, Hybrid4All, which enables car manufacturers to turn a traditional engine &#8211;diesel or gasoline&#160;&#8211; into a hybrid engine, at an affordable price by using simple and standardized components. Valeo<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-hybrid-for-all/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The automobile will save the day&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a century after the commercialization of the automobile, we find ourselves in another&#8211;perhaps the most significant&#8211;transition in automotive technology since then: electric vehicles. I bring this up because since Day 1 of the Drive for Innovation I wanted to take the Chevy Volt to some unusual places, like Pikes Peak. But the primary<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-automobile-will-save-the-day/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How would you cope with high gas prices?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7/17/12 By Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor for Design News If gas prices reached $5, $6, or even $7 a gallon, would you respond by purchasing a hybrid? How about an electric car? Some consumers are already contemplating their responses to those questions. And the news is that alternative fuel vehicles have apparently begun creeping<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-would-you-cope-with-high-gas-prices/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Light at the end of the tunnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla.&#8211;Railroads were the 19th century enormous (literally) systems innovations, and invention continues relentlessly behind the scenes and far from the sexy scene of electric vehicles. There are matters of safety, efficiency and standards that keep companies like Presidio very busy building communications systems. Here Shawn Rahn, Jim Thomas and other Presidio engineers talk about<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to get girls to stick with engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;It&#39;s not easy, right? Many girls show science and mathematical aptitude in grammar school only to drift into other disciplines in high school and college. At Girls Have IT Day here this spring, we got a chance to ask some girls from St. Thomas the Apostle School how they might encourage their peers to get<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-to-get-girls-to-stick-with-engineering/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Half of Cars Will Be Electric in 15 Years&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7/19/12 By Charles Murray, Senior Technical Editor, Design News In the midst of the Tesla Model S rollout at the company&#39;s California manufacturing plant recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a startling prediction: &#34;In 20 years more than half of new cars manufactured will be fully electric,&#34; he said, according to a Reuters article. &#34;I<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/half-of-cars-will-be-electric-in-15-years/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The art and economics of off-shoring manufacturing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS&#8211;In an era of hand-wringing about manufacturing going overseas, John Knight surveys the scene as cool as the other side of the pillow. &#34;We have a term for it: boomerang customers,&#34; says the second generation executive in a family-run manufacturing business, Knight Electronics.&#160; &#34;The Internet has made things interesting from the standpoint that anybody can<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-art-and-economics-of-off-shoring-manufacturing/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing innovation in an engineering team</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SANTA CLARA, Calif.&#8211;One of the most interesting interviews we came across on the drive was here at Renesas, where we didn&#39;t really expect a philosophical discussion of the merits of nurturing innovation. But we found it in Ranjit Deshpande, Renesas&#39; vice president of engineering. He&#39;s a veteran of 2Wire, the communications company, and so brings<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nurturing-innovation-in-an-engineering-team/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: Fitting the pieces together</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avnet Field Application Engineer (FAE) Ann Worthington said her job can put the &#8220;fun&#8221; in &#8220;functionality.&#8221; That&#8217;s what happened with a recent case, when a new customer asked for a full range of solutions for their new product line. &#8220;It&#8217;s always fun for us as FAEs to go through these complex designs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Each<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-fitting-the-pieces-together/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A big pizza pie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO, Calif.&#8211;The curricula many students can choose from these days is mind-boggling. At High Tech International High here,&#160;we just scratched the surface when we met Joe Kennedy and his class. Project-based learning is all the rage these days, and for a lot of students, it&#39;s a much better way to learn than the traditional<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-big-pizza-pie/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Best receptions on the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest aspects of the year-long Drive for Innovation&#160;has been&#160;the logistics; connecting and organizing meetings at hundreds of companies, usually located in places we had&#160;not visited previously. Here are some of the best (and innovative) receptions we encountered: 1. Analog Devices: ADI communications folks pulled out all the stops for our visit&#160;to Wilmington,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/best-receptions-on-the-road/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Weirdest moments on the road</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you drive more than 30,000 miles in a year, you&#39;re going to run into some odd moments. Here are some of the top odd moments from the Drive for Innovation, in no particular order: 1. The helmet incident: Maybe it was the spirit of the holidays, but at a Maryland steakhouse, we met a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/weirdest-moments-on-the-road/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can you innovate on the clock?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to market and productivity metrics can be a poisonous combination for an engineer. As a culture, we demand faster and better. But data and observation suggests that working on the clock just isn&#39;t good for productivity or for innovation.&#160; At least that&#39;s what Frank Partnoy, author of the new book &#34;Wait: The Art and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-you-innovate-on-the-clock/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kent Reporter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6/28/12 Kent man wins new Chevrolet Volt]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation capital of the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;If it&#39;s tough for an ex-contract manufacturing executive to admit it, Ed Smith doesn&#39;t show it.&#160; &#34;America&#39;s going to become the land of innovation, not the land of manufacturing,&#34; said Smith, a former CEO of a contract manufacturing company who now is president of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas here. &#34;Everybody says everything moved to China,&#34;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-capital-of-the-world/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation Marks Last Stop Highlighting Companies Innovating in Vancouver</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-marks-last-stop-highlighting-companies-innovating-in-vancouver-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Year-long program culminates with 30,838 miles traveled through 24 U.S. states and interviewed 750 people at 245 companies&#160; Phoenix and San Francisco, June 27, 2012 &#8211; As the Drive for Innovation makes its last pit stop on its year-long journey across North America this week in Vancouver, British Columbia, the success of the program proves<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-marks-last-stop-highlighting-companies-innovating-in-vancouver-2/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Smart technology and the Pecan Street project</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas&#8211;Necessity, as we know, is the mother of invention. So too is transformation, as city officials here are realizing. Austin Energy, the big utility here, provides power for millions of Texans, but it&#39;s realizing that being a power provider is a limiting business model long term. Indeed, the company&#39;s tagline today is &#34;More than<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/smart-technology-and-the-pecan-street-project/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ted Yan gets his winning Chevy Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[RENTON, Wash.&#8211;Earlier this month, Ted Yan, a Boeing systems engineer, won our grand prize in the Drive for Innovation: a 2012 Chevrolet Volt. Ted and his wife, Audrey, who just celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary, arrived this evening at Good Chevrolet outside Seattle to pick up his brand new ride. Yan has had some luck<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ted-yan-gets-his-winning-chevy-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>July 2011 &#8211; June 2012 Infographic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Click image to download infographic as PDF (3.0 MB) &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Road rage? Try plug-in rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You knew it was bound to happen. Todd Woody has a great piece in Forbes this month about how his parking-structure charging session was hijacked by another electric vehicle owner. &#34;Had the (Ford) Focus not texted my iPhone, I would have returned hours later after meeting friends for drinks to find the car virtually uncharged,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/road-rage-try-plug-in-rage/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering: The other creative option</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;Rene Sully didn&#39;t start out studying materials science. She started out studying anthropology. Joy Franco has a complex mathematical formula tattooed on her forearm. They&#39;re both the face of the new engineer today, and they&#39;re taking their experiences as students and already trying to encourage girls not much younger than they to get<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineering-the-other-creative-option/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The wireless power challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;Wireless charging (or inductive charging) will be a significant market in the coming years, despite the inefficiencies found with contemporary charging systems. The technology will get better over time, efficiency will improve and the bill-of-materials will shrink as integration increases. There are any number of vendors in the space, so why would an<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-wireless-power-challenge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One man&#8217;s attempt to get more women in engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;One of the story lines we&#39;ve explored on the Drive for Innovation is the notion that women in electronics engineering are vastly underrepresented. This may be a problem or may not be a problem. The debate continues, as evidenced by the thoughtful comments we get on relevant stories. We&#39;ve come across some really fascinating<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/one-mans-attempt-to-get-more-women-in-engineering/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tearing Down The Chevy Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah.gray@ubm.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the help of Munro &#038; Associates and TechInsights, we performed the first major public teardown of a Volt in early 2012. We presented our findings at Design West in March and are publishing them in serial form on this site. Click on &#34;deep dive&#34; to see more.]]></description>
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		<title>Inside The Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah.gray@ubm.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Motors unveiled its ambitious electric vehicle, the&#160;Chevrolet Volt, in late 2010, and production models hit dealerships a few months later. It&#39;s powered by a 16 Kwh 360V battery that GM says will deliver about 40-50 miles range before the 149-HP gas engine kicks in to charge the battery. Click on &#34;deep dive&#34; to take<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/top-box-inside-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If this is an EV tipping point, are we at the cliff&#8217;s edge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot about the tipping point for electric vehicles. Engineers have solved the problem, if not the economics. But when a gallon of gas, at $3.75 (give or take), offers 70 times more energy density than the equivalent lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery (at 400 pounds), it may be time to reset our electric-vehicle expectations.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/if-this-is-an-ev-tipping-point-are-we-at-the-cliffs-edge/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in racing helmets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS&#8211;The most elegant solutions to problems are often the simplest. I ran across another prime example of that here at the recent Indianapolis 500. During a&#160;short side-trip off our Drive for Innovation, I was covering KV Racing&#39;s Tony Kanaan as he tried to shed the mantle of the &#34;best Indy driver never to win the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-racing-helmets/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Break the habit; get innovative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habit is an important trait if you aspire to be productive. I&#39;ve learned this in spades on the Drive for Innovation. A project with so many moving parts and people demands it. But it turns out that while habit may be good for productivity, it may not be so good for innovation. Why? Because you&#39;ve<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/break-the-habit-get-innovative/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Business Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 8, 2012 Avnet, Drive for Innovation find lots of manufacturing in U.S.]]></description>
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		<title>azfamily.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 7, 2012 Avnet Donates Chevy Volt to Non-Profit]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation Awards a New General Motors Chevrolet Volt to Seattle-based Engineer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, June 11, 2012 &#8211; After nearly a year of traveling cross-country to uncover technology innovation being created by engineers, entrepreneurs, innovators and students, Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation today announced that Seattle-based Engineer Ted T. Yan, at the Boeing Company, has been selected as the winner of a new General Motors<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-awards-a-new-general-motors-chevrolet-volt-to-seattle-based-engineer/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation Donates Chevrolet Volt to Chances for Children Arizona</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, June 7, 2012 &#8211; Approximately 17 percent of American children between the ages of two and 19 are obese, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures indicate &#8212; and those numbers climb even higher for children in low income families. Arizona-based charity Chances for Children works to give children in low-income<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-donates-chevrolet-volt-to-chances-for-children-arizona/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We have a (Volt) winner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;An engineer who works on one of the most advanced commercial aircraft designs is soon to be the proud owner of one of the most advanced electric vehicles. Ted Yan, a systems engineer with Boeing, won the grand prize sweepstakes in our Drive for Innovation: A new 2012 Chevrolet Volt. Yan has been following the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-have-a-volt-winner/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The spirit of giving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX&#8211;The On the Road portion of our year-long Drive for Innovation is winding toward its close. We&#39;ll hit our last official stop at the end of this month in Vancouver, B.C. What happens to our sporty and trusty red Chevy Volt once the trip ends? It&#39;s being donated to charity. (The torn-down Volt has been<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-donates-chevy-volt-to-charity/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation Honored with Excellence from the Business Marketing Association B2 Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, June 6, 2012 &#8212; &#160;As the Drive for Innovation culminates its cross-country year-long road trip, the program has been honored with a Business Marketing Association B2 &#8220;Award of Excellence&#8221; in the&#160; &#8220;Web Presence &#8211; Online Community, Open or Closed&#8221; category.&#160; The Drive for Innovation is an inspired initiative in partnership between<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-honored-with-excellence-from-the-business-marketing-association-b2-awards/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Volt teardown at Design Automation Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;The teardown of the Chevy Volt has been so popular that the organizers of the 49th Design Automation Conference here asked us to reprise it for their audience. Al Steier and I did so this week, but before that, I invited Steier to join our EE Times live-streaming interview program to talk about our<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-teardown-at-design-automation-conference/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of being overly sensitive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Texas&#8211;I enjoy listening to baseball on the radio, especially up in the mountains. But there, more than 150 miles from the station transmitter, the signal, especially and counterintuitively during the nighttime, can be frustratingly poor. More design resources I thought about this here when we walked into a shielded room at Silicon Labs where<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-importance-of-being-overly-sensitive/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>TMCnet.com, TMCnews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2012 Avnet Express Drive for Innovation to Stop at Parvus]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging software for faster system development</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; The tyrannical mistress that is the march of electronics innovation has pushed engineering teams to build more products in parallel&#8211;crafting software code to run on hardware that&#39;s being developed in parallel. It&#39;s an extraordinary feat that&#39;s not without perils. More design resources EDA companies (which will gather next week for the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/leveraging-software-for-faster-system-development/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain High</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Odometer: 27, 423 miles) PIKES PEAK, Colo.&#8211;Since this road trip began in Illinois, July 10, 2011, I&#39;ve wanted to push the Volt as high and as far as it would go. It is, after all, bleeding-edge electronics technology, and we had a year-long road test in effect. Pikes Peak would be the place to find<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rocky-mountain-high/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Automotive electronics design trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 09:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHANDLER, Ariz.&#8211;Most of our Drive for Innovation stops&#160;are divided neatly into two parts: Talking about the car and letting people drive the Chevy Volt for themselves. And then we talk to key people about a given company&#39;s technology and products, where they&#39;re innovative, and why people should care. More design resources We decided to combine<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/automotive-electronics-design-trends/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation Stops at Parvus to Celebrate Electronics Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 11:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parvus Selected to Showcase Advancements in Rugged Electronic Design SALT LAKE CITY, UT&#8211;(Marketwire &#8211; May 29, 2012) &#8211; Parvus Corporation today announced that it was selected as a &#34;pit stop&#34; for Avnet Express&#39; Drive for Innovation to showcase the advancements Parvus has made in rugged COTS computing and IP networking subsystems for military, aerospace and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-stops-at-parvus-to-celebrate-electronics-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The zero-sum renewable energy argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a way, the Internet&#39;s proximity and ease of use is a shame; it enables complex situations to be oversimplified, which, in the long run, can hurt public policy making. There&#39;s no better example than renewable energy, which is the supposed salve for our fossil-fuel problem. Now, solar power is being specifically touted as a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-zero-sum-renewable-energy-argument/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The new shade-tree mechanics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MESA, Ariz.&#8211;When you were a kid (if you&#39;re of a certain age), you might have found yourself under a shade tree on summer days, bent into the engine compartment of a muscle car and watching a sage expert wrench down new and improved parts of his engine. That&#39;s how you were inspired; that&#39;s how you<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-new-shade-tree-mechanics/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Precision is in the eye of optical instrumentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 09:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CARROLLTON, Texas&#8211;The electronics industry has undergone breathtaking disintermediation for 50 years, and it doesn&#39;t function today without some narrowly specialized companies. More design resources Verity Instruments here is one of those. The company makes optical emission instruments and software that is deployed in the semiconductor equipment industry for making their machines better and more precise.&#160;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/precision-is-in-the-eye-of-optical-instrumentation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation Panel: National Instruments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN&#8211;National Instruments is celebrating 35 years as an innovative, growing electronics company, so what better place to hold another innovation panel? More design resources This time, NI folks brought their own innovation to these panels by inviting employees to attend. We crammed 60 into a room and then arrayed four NI folks before them to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-panel-national-instruments/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will battery technology take another 100 years?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A century ago the New York Times reported that electric vehicle technology had arrived. Recall (although you weren&#39;t alive, unless I&#39;m missing a fantastic story) that at the time many technologies were competing to power vehicles, from electric batteries to steam to internal combustion engines. A century later, we&#39;re driving EVs but they&#39;re really expensive.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/will-battery-technology-take-another-100-years/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A new perspective on the Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation often is about approaching old challenges from new directions. Same thing with art. I came across the amazing, short video (1:54) of Ian Cook&#39;s Chevy Volt painting (right) and had to share it. It&#39;s probably not as efficient as using a good ole paint brush, but Cook clearly wanted to match the medium to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-new-perspective-on-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express&#8217; Drive for Innovation Steers into Salt Lake City to Fund Science and Technology Education for Students at Academy for Math, Engineering and Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoenix and San Francisco, May 21, 2012 &#8211; Science and technology students from the Academy for Math, Engineering and Science (AMES) in Salt Lake City, Utah will be presented with a check for $500 on May 23, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. to help with the purchase of much needed educational materials. This donation is made<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-steers-into-salt-lake-city-to-fund-science-and-technology-education-for-students-at-academy-for-math-engineering-and-science/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Assume everyone&#8217;s an idiot&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MADISON, Ala.&#8211;Spoiler alert: This has nothing to do with electronics but everything to do with innovation. More design resources Many of you reading this have had experience working a trade show for your company. It&#39;s expensive to rent the space and even more expensive to acquire and manage the materials you use for your booths.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/assume-everyones-an-idiot/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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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 still driving until the end of June, so we&#39;ve got thousands of miles to go.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/been-all-around-this-world/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARWATER, Fla.&#8211;In most technology-adoption periods, there&#39;s a time when users are required to straddle two worlds, old and new, with one foot on the dock and one on the boat. More design resources Innovation tends to slip into any vaccuum and make that straddling time either brief or relatively painless. That&#39;s the image that occurred<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-one-foots-on-the-dock/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Change of scenery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 01:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 and innovation. He recalled that the popular Yardbirds (with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck) struggled<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/change-of-scenery/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<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 to absorb presentations about technology futures. She&#39;s young, she&#39;s hip and her enthusiasm is fed<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/it-takes-tenacity-to-become-a-female-engineer/"> [...]</a>]]></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[MADISON, 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 for military applications for example. Ruggedized computing has been a discipline (OK, a holy grail)<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rugged-challenges/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Alex.Armstrong</dc:creator>
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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>
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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 challenges abound as we build a smarter grid; the good news is where there are<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-the-grid-smart/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 to grips with that when the baby&#39;s yours? Or, put differently, what B.S. filter do<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-b-s-filter-do-you-use-for-your-own-ideas/"> [...]</a>]]></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 lines of code. By comparison, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner gets by with only 6.5 million<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/powertrain-teardown/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second of a three-part series of video excerpts from Design West, Munro &#38; Associates&#8217; Al Steier and TechInsights&#8217; John Scott-Thomas analyze the Chevy Volt&#8217;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 expecting challenges&#8211;challenges in manufacturing, challenges in keeping and growing engineering jobs here, challenges in creating<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-is-dead-a-panel-discussion/"> [...]</a>]]></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 had spit on the driver&#39;s side window overnight. This morning, I discovered someone (maybe the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-vandals-message/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 in audio circuitry, was one of the latest to leverage its mixed-signal capabilities to enter<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-new-direction-for-mixed-signal/"> [...]</a>]]></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 for the dimensions of the table and the width of the goal you need to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/losing-big-to-the-air-hockey-robot-god/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 in their eyes when a customer asks a technically challenging question, and that&#39;s why he<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/synapse-snap-wireless-mesh-network-example/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is the maker movement bad for engineering students?</title>
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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 Engineering Festival. More design resources He was an interesting sounding board, but not for the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-the-maker-movement-bad-for-engineering-students/"> [...]</a>]]></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, Calif., that they took up the challenge immediately. (Well, actually it was a mild surprise,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-many-engineers-can-fit-into-a-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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 of failure along the way (you should see my seed-starter box at the moment), but<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/on-baseball-and-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 created. Close to 100 microprocessors are in the car, and over 10 million lines of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-teardown-the-battery-pack/"> [...]</a>]]></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: MPC5516 Freescale microcontroller: S9S08DZ32 (Click here for related parts) Spansion, MirrorBit Flash: GL512N11FFA02. Spansion engineering<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-teardown-battery-pack-parts-list/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 are getting screwed under the current patent system. Wilson spent much of his early career<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-innovators-patent-agreement/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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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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		<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>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/smart-bomb-technology-may-disrupt-the-classroom/</link>
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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 week announced its first product, intending to disrupt the $1.8 billion interactive white board market.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/smart-bomb-technology-may-disrupt-the-classroom/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Cruise, Top Gun and the engineering allure</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tom-cruise-top-gun-and-the-engineering-allure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 resources Christina Richards found hers in a round-about way, and today she&#39;s starting the pay-back<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tom-cruise-top-gun-and-the-engineering-allure/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 to squeeze the Volt into their lobby for an employee reception. Hey, why not? It<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/in-a-jam-at-idt/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 with those parts and a little imagination. We thought about where to donate the vehicle,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/asu-engineers-to-receive-torn-down-chevy-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 homes, apartments, and even business locations that maintain legacy telephone line systems. We also mentioned<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation-part-two/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Avnet Tech Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 students to compete in building electronics systems and compete for scholarships. Here&#39;s a link to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-avnet-tech-games/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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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 the Chevrolet Volt, courtesy of Avnet Express, the e-Commerce engine for Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT).<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-announces-plans-to-donate-chevrolet-volt-guts-to-arizona-state-university%e2%80%99s-formula-electric-team/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 one of the most challenging issues in lighting today: How to turn the highly practical<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/for-an-engineer-a-bright-idea/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 about the next generation of innovators in the United States, nothing will. Take a look:<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-do-quantify-love/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 seemingly small but nevertheless significant&#160;one that&#160;I picked up from Ray Cornyn, vice president of automotive<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/without-chips-no-cars/"> [...]</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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 during their careers. Now, generally about 5 percent actually do, but the dream is there.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/evolution-from-engineer-to-entrepreneur/"> [...]</a>]]></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 to apply what they learn in school to real-world scenarios and compete for scholarships. Students<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/games-for-techies/"> [...]</a>]]></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&#8217;s frank assessment when we stopped here at Sypris Solutions to chat with him and Mike Walsh, the company&#8217;s president. More design resources Sypris is an EMS and engineering-services company, but it has built a solid reputation<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/securing-your-future/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 here, commutes around campus on an electric bike. The prices of these feats of engineering<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/e-bike-v-the-volt-on-the-quarter-mile/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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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 way, any faults or issues in the audio chain will not affect the DTMF decoding<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/control-your-world-from-your-cell-phone-ii/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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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 covertly and really muck things up. After a close and thorough inspection of the wires<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/control-your-world-from-your-cell-phone-iii/"> [...]</a>]]></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 did was in a lab; it was like being in the valley in the 1960s,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/putting-the-fun-in-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 this year, many saw it as a death knell. However, new sales figures for March<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-production-resumes-earlier-than-planned/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 frailty, if you will, is ceaselessly fascinating to me. So I came across &#34;Five Key<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-no-1-question-to-ask-about-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 like that but how fantastic he&#39;d be as a teacher? More design resources He made<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-we-build-future-innovators-with-our-lousy-educational-system/"> [...]</a>]]></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 it the unique problem of small, portable antennae. More design resources Making effective portable antennae<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/looking-at-a-problem-from-a-different-angle/"> [...]</a>]]></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. More design resources He kept his promise. This week, Microchip announced a simplification of its<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/simply-simplifying-compilers/"> [...]</a>]]></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) and cleverer. We met Microchip Product Marketing Manager Greg Brown during our tour of Arizona<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/toy-story/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Product news: New 8-bit MCU from Microchip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 analog and integrated communication peripherals, such as on-chip 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/product-news-new-8-bit-mcu-from-microchip/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Exclusive Sponsor of the DESIGN West University Grant Program</title>
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		<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 making a stop at DESIGN West and bringing 20 students along for the ride. The<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-exclusive-sponsor-of-the-design-west-university-grant-program/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time to tear down the Volt</title>
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		<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 three sessions, Tuesday through Thursday, Al Steier of Munro and Associates and John Scott-Thomas of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-volt-teardown-design-west/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Phoenix Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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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>
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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 Avnet Express, the e-Commerce engine for Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced the Drive for<a title="read more" href="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/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 during DESIGN West, March 26-29, when UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-and-ubm-electronics-reveal-the-design-secrets-of-the-general-motors-chevrolet-volt-at-design-west/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why isn&#8217;t digital technology helping us innovate?</title>
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		<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, so quickly that pretty soon a single engineer could become the next Intel because the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-isnt-digital-technology-helping-us-innovate/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hackerspaces and a date for the Volt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 in San Francisco, a hackerspace that was gaining recognition. Makers here grew slowly, but only<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hackerspaces-and-a-date-for-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are the best innovators procrastinators?</title>
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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 rushing toward deadline introduces error and sloppiness. Whitney Johnson, a founding partner of Rose Park<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-the-best-innovators-procrastinators/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 our Drive for Innovation meetings is finding people who can articulate their best efforts at<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/power-electronics-challenges-in-surgical-tools/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 Lorenzo writes in Fortune that creativity may be overrated. What about conviction? In fact, many<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/conviction-above-creativity/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Rolls into Phoenix in Support of “Girls Have IT Day”</title>
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		<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 specialist jobs in the U.S. by 2018 &#8212; however, less than 20 percent of women<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-rolls-into-phoenix-in-support-of-girls-have-it-day/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Build your own crack &#8216;POTS&#8217;</title>
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		<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 of millions of households reliably through all kinds of adverse conditions. Cable modem phones, cell<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/build-a-telephone-interface-for-remote-home-automation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We&#8217;re competing head-to-head with offshore sources&#8217;</title>
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		<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 well. With some newer accounts we&#39;re competing head-to-head with some offshore sources and have won<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/were-competing-head-to-head-with-offshore-sources/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forging a startup from a university lab</title>
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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 marketplace is easier said than done. Research technology often doesn&#39;t always &#34;play nice&#34; with volume<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/forging-a-startup-from-a-university-lab/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Build An Interfacing Linear Sensor</title>
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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. It has a magnitude. But a heating system will rely on a thermostat to tell<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-linear-sensors/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Combating the roadside bomb threat</title>
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		<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 Locker&#34; portrayed the situation from the perspective of the bomb-disposal expert, clad in somewhat protective<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/combating-the-roadside-bomb-threat/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GM: We&#8217;re Not Pulling the Plug on Chevy Volt</title>
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		<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 Motors executives must now separate the Volt&#39;s hype from its real value in the marketplace.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-were-not-pulling-the-plug-on-chevy-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Celebrates Six Months of Inspiring People and Technology</title>
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		<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, entrepreneurs, inventors, educators and students, our research shows quite the opposite &#8212; innovation is thriving<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation-celebrates-six-months-of-inspiring-people-and-technology/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wonder woman of Enseo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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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 of the companies that flowered out of that Big Bang was 3dfx Interactive, specializing in<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/wonder-woman-of-enseo/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches from the Rohde</title>
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		<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 design resources He&#39;s done duty at Textronix and LeCroy and for the past two years<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rohde-and-schwarz-ceo-scott-bausback-interviewed/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Telephone Interface III</title>
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		<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 CA1 and left RA3 unpopulated. x &#160; Table 2 &#8211; Bill of Materials from the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-iii/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Telephone Interface  II</title>
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		<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, and effectively rides on the DC bias. The 300 to 3.3 KHz bandwidth signals are<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/telephone-interface-ii/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Offshoring&#8217; to Virginia</title>
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		<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&#8217;ve heard or experienced the old dynamic: Prototype here; go large overseas. The labor and other costs are just better there. And, as you&#8217;ve read here on Drive for Innovation, American electronics manufacturers are getting more competitive with Asian CMS providers up to certain volume levels. But here in the Old<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/offshoring-to-virginia/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Contest Rules</title>
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		<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 (the &#8220;Sweepstakes&#8221;) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC, 600<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/weekly-contest-rules/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Still rollin&#8217;</title>
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		<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 few weeks to give demand a chance to catch up with supply. &#160; [View the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/still-rollin/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How do you innovate in a world of conformity?</title>
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		<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 string&#160;streaming down from their ears&#8211;and the same TV show-inspired haircuts. Are those the markings of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-do-you-innovate-in-a-world-of-conformity/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Torque News: Chevy Volt teardown reveals future battery pack upgrades and safety monitoring systems</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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 Nevertheless, even though our culture over-uses this word, it&#39;s an important topic because innovation leads<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-wisdom-of-solomon/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Soccer mom? Try entrepreneur mom</title>
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		<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 as demand requires. More design resources The small form-factor vendors; the ruggedized COTS-based computing vendors;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/soccer-mom-try-entrepreneur-mom/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>An innovative analyzer for the field</title>
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		<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 telecoms contractors that Rohde &#038; Schwarz has an impressive U.S. presence. More design resources Lothar<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/an-innovative-analyzer-for-the-field/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
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		<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 shouldn&#39;t be in the business of picking winners; the free markets should. 2. Don&#39;t be<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/your-tax-dollars-at-work/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: The Power of Finding the Right Fit</title>
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		<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 Better Fit While he was still in the throes of the learning process, an up-and-coming<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-the-power-of-finding-the-right-fit/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s got the best BBQ? (Part 2)</title>
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		<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 name but a few. There&#39;s loads to do in Austin, chief among them is eat.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineers-and-ribs/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 (this is the second attempt from Mr. Obama), so I can&#39;t blame you for thinking<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/investing-in-our-math-and-science-future/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 to nurture great R&#038;D, great teams and help customers understand complex markets. Larry Steffan, vice<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-panel-balancing-creativity-and-profitability/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 &#34;how do you innovate?&#34; More precisely, &#34;how does your organization create a culture that innovates<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-you-train-people-to-innovate/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 the read. There&#39;s a little bit for everyone: triumph, tragedy, greed, stubbornness, stupidity&#8211;and other familiar<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-the-green-tech-boom-went-bust/"> [...]</a>]]></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 under these circumstances? 2. And what does it take to start walking the tight-rope startup<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/its-about-freedom/"> [...]</a>]]></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 Dornbusch succinctly describes the way that ideas spread: &#39;Things take longer to happen than you<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-is-innovation-so-hard/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 for a time, but back home, process optimization&#8211;both human and technological&#8211;rolled on like a mighty<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/their-strength-is-their-limitation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 of kids, she says, fall through the cracks. But there&#39;s hope. And then there&#39;s her<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/cold-naked-and-hungry/"> [...]</a>]]></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. Microsoft did it with XBox, to be sure, but they had the scale to make<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovating-in-the-treehouse/"> [...]</a>]]></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 their career. In reality, about 10 percent do. This bubbled up in my mind as<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-you-an-innovator-or-a-chicken/"> [...]</a>]]></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 a &#34;pit stop&#34; during the tour&#39;s recent swing through Central Florida, Micross was selected because<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/micross-components-hosts-stop-on-drive-for-innovation-tour/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<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 far from Duke University. More design resources You&#39;ll recall from undergraduate classes learning about the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/running-hot-and-cold-toward-huge-potential/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 has stepped it up a notch, the need for more generalized skill sets has become<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-future-engineering-challenges/"> [...]</a>]]></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 cable power from our power supply using standard banana jacks and have all connections to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-linear-sensors-iii/"> [...]</a>]]></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. It also includes a mechanism for calibrating the sensor outputs to provide a level of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-linear-sensors-ii/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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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 the past few years. How do you make your products smaller and ensure they don&#39;t<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/relentlessly-shrinking-components/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 raffle. And when Ron Cosper, Catalyst&#39;s COO reached into the glass vase to choose the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-raffle-winners-excitement/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Valdosta Daily Times</title>
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		<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>
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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>
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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 made and designed in the U.S. &#8220;The customer&#8217;s product was manufactured locally, in their own<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-a-digital-electronics-upgrade/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Watch the teardown time-lapse video motion</title>
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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 a few crazy minutes and makes Munro &#038; Associates Al Steier look like he&#39;s working<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/watch-the-teardown-time-lapse-video-motion/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-9/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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. More design resources CTO Jonathan Woodward talked to us about Zephyr&#39;s BioHarness 3, the latest<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/harnessing-moores-law/"> [...]</a>]]></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 players&#8211;players who play longer, hit harder, recover more quickly. Now they&#39;re turning to technology to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-better-nfl-players/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 design resources Steve Yauch, CEO of Carolina Electronic Assemblers, thinks there&#39;s change in the wind.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-think-snacks/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tampa Bay Times</title>
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		<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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		<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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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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 just too good to pass up.&#34; More design resources Their company, ACDI, has existed for<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-engineering-matters-in-board-design/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The joys of bidirectional power</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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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 the grid to understand what needs to be done to use EVs as power suppliers<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-joys-of-bidirectional-power/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The next level of design abstraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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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 industry analyst Gary Smith has been sounding the alarm and talking about ESL (electronic system-level<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-next-level-of-design-abstraction/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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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 manage and, in some cases, accelerate that innovation. More design resources Often, a phrase, such<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovating-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 are currently on the shelf, as it were, as research and development has shifted toward<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-different-approach-to-fuel-cells/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Shock and awe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WILMINGTON, Mass.&#8211;What&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not? That&#8217;s a fundamental question in design engineering, especially when you&#8217;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 safety applications. A gyroscope is supposed to sense rotation, but if it&#8217;s taking in data<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/shock-and-awe/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt teardown-Day 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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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 the 380V battery pack from beneath the car. 9 a.m. EST: Al Steier from Munro<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-3/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt Teardown-Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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 seconds. Visitors have to stay behind lights and Munro &#038; Associates workers, wearing their trademark<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-2/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Live-blogging the Chevy Volt Teardown-Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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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! 1:15 p.m.: Our teardown team is anchored by Al Steier, from Munro, and John Scott-Thomas<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/live-blogging-the-chevy-volt-teardown-day-1/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; San Jose</title>
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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 2011, General Motors authorized Chevrolet dealers to sell Volt demos to build up inventory, which<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/local-chevy-dealers-san-jose/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: How early collaboration brings reward</title>
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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 helped them design in a solution to a complex issue. The customer, which makes multi-service<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-how-early-collaboration-brings-reward/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 innovation and technology that has allowed us to create and market these incredibly efficient vehicles.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-drive-for-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Fuller Video Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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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 Director of EE Times&#8217; EE Life community. This is his second tour of duty with<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/brian-fuller-video-introduction/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chevrolet Volt Highlights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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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 system delivers between 25 and 50 miles of electric driving (depending on terrain, driving techniques<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevrolet-volt-highlights/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation and Avnet Express</title>
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		<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 May 31, 2012 MILES DRIVEN: 25,144 GALLONS OF GAS: 649.4 RECHARGES: 89 INTERVIEW STOPS: 222 NUMBER OF TEST DRIVES: 508 &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ONLINE: Over 5 million AVNET&#8217;S RANK ON FORTUNE 500: No. 108 AVNET&#8217;S FY2011 REVENUE: $26.5 B AVNET&#8217;S YEARS IN BUSINESS: 80 &#160; &#160;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dfi-and-avnet-express/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; Phoenix</title>
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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, General Motors authorized Chevrolet dealers to sell Volt demos to build up inventory, which amounted<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/local-chevy-dealers-phoenix/"> [...]</a>]]></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 have a range of at least 80 miles, more than double what a typical American<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dfi-ev-myths/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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 like it would run the automobiles of the future.&#160;&#160; However, cheap gasoline, improved roads, mass<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/fuel-costs/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your design-engineering muse?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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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 dot was written by Michael Schrage: &#34;To inspire innovation, get a muse.&#34; More design resources<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-your-design-engineering-muse/"> [...]</a>]]></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; Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; Phoenix Local Chevy Dealers &#8211; San Jose &#160; Video Introduction&#160;&#160; Brian<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/press-kit/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 years ago, and it&#8217;s a different world when it comes to power management &#8212; crucial<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/coming-innovation-in-low-power-design/"> [...]</a>]]></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 pc-board level. (Here&#39;s a link to the YouTube page where we&#39;re posting outtakes from the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/going-literally-under-the-hood-with-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Top video stories from 2011</title>
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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 six months of the tour: #10: Satellite bicycles #9: Helping a stranded motorist #8: Illuminati<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/top-videos-stories-from-2011/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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, over infrastructure build-out, over government investment, over battery R&#038;D and then as the year progressed,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-year-of-the-ev/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Super battery&#8221; demands government R&amp;D&#8230;or does it?</title>
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		<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 to how much is just right, and how do you avoid picking winners when (some<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/super-battery-demands-government-rd-or-does-it/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>AVX Showcases Electronics Innovation During Visit From Avnet Express &amp; UBM Electronics’ “Drive for Innovation” Tour</title>
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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 For Innovation&#8221; tour, sponsored by Avnet Express and UBM Electronics. Anchored by Brian Fuller, editor<a title="read more" href="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/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 NASA shuttle flew, the iPhone 4s was launched. Silicon makers from Intel to IBM and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-were-the-best-innovation-highlights-of-2011/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The dreaded words: regulatory compliance</title>
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		<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 Craney and Harry Roos have worked together for decades, many of those years at General<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-dreaded-words-regulatory-compliance/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
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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>
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		<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 products they eventually displace. More design resources But it all depends on how to define<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/is-disruptive-innovation-crap/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How fast will the smart grid grow?</title>
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		<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 vast scale. That&#39;s pretty much where the comparison to the computing network stops. More design<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-fast-will-the-smart-grid-grow/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Case Study: An engineering success with logistics</title>
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		<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 things weren&#8217;t so simple. &#8220;I thought it was easy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t.&#8221; It turned<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/case-study-an-engineering-success-with-logistics/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The top stories of the year</title>
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		<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 ones you found most interesting, in order of most views. Engineering practical jokes: the simplest<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-top-stories-of-the-year/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing the next generation of engineers</title>
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		<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. More design resources &#34;People used to say&#8211;the guidance counselor in high school would say&#8211;&#39;You&#39;re good<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nurturing-the-next-generation-of-engineers/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medical stocking stuffers, anyone?</title>
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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, we came across four great stocking stuffers that will delight their recipients and help ease<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/medical-stocking-stuffers-anyone/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alternative energy revolution?</title>
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		<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>
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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 resources At Rochester Electronics, the story&#39;s a bit different than others. The company is a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-trust-factor-in-manufacturing/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>News12 Long Island segment on the Drive for Innovation</title>
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		<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>
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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 by a real bomb. The U.S., for the first time, talked openly and frankly, about<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/were-under-attack/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 than delivering loveliness. Thomas Erb, a second-generation engineer running a company his father bought 50<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-intersection-of-engineering-and-art/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Build a magnetic sensing &#8216;Hall Effect&#8217; sensor interface</title>
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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 can be used to perform functions. We invite you to dive into the technology, implement<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/build-a-magnetic-sensing-hall-effect-sensor-interface/"> [...]</a>]]></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 crowd. I got a sense for this first-hand here in North Carolina&#39;s capital city, when<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/our-invention-explosion/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Would you send your technology abroad?</title>
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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 part of the deal. According to the New York Times: &#34;As part of the agreement<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/would-you-send-your-technology-abroad/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>With fans like this, who needs enemies?</title>
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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 the mission. Reuters reporter Larry Ingrassia, a longtime Wall Street Journal automotive industry observer, interviewed<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/with-fans-like-this-who-needs-enemies/"> [...]</a>]]></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 and vastly more accessible. They&#39;ve done exactly the same thing with communications. The nexus of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-new-paradigm/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We rescue a stranded motorist&#8211;and live to tell the tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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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 a stranded motorist at North Carolina State, and, in the process, just busted an old-school<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-rescue-a-stranded-motorist-and-live-to-tell-the-tale/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 leaders, mostly from electronics, to talk about the challenges they face in trying to innovate<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-education-improvement-a-constant-struggle-panel/"> [...]</a>]]></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 possibly,&#34; Akerson said in an interview with Reuters (see full video interview below). If you&#39;ve<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-would-you-redesign-the-volts-battery/"> [...]</a>]]></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 a lot of fun folks. As we head south, we&#39;ll have a chance to sample<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whos-got-the-best-bbq/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A loaner for the Volt? No thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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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. &#160; We won&#39;t be taking them up on it. There have been three car fires<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-loaner-for-the-volt-no-thanks/"> [...]</a>]]></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), today announced that the Drive for Innovation, which showcases electronics innovation in the United States<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-wins-a-min%e2%80%99s-editorial-design-award-in-the-%e2%80%9cspecial-sectionmicrosite%e2%80%9d-category/"> [...]</a>]]></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 on new resonance&#160;for an age&#160;in which companies increasingly run leaner and have less time to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/an-intrepid-band-of-engineering-students/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Up-front Investment: An FAE case study</title>
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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 design change or project cancellation. &#8220;We&#8217;re working with the customer on the front end from<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/up-front-investment-an-fae-case-study/"> [...]</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 have their own challenges with respect to innovation. Don&#39;t get fat and lazy is one.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hurdling-the-barriers-to-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 National Park, near Cleveland, where the lock system was built in the early 19th century.&#160;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-try-revolution/"> [...]</a>]]></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. The others included a robotic platform, built in collaboration with the theater department, and a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-something-new-old-again/"> [...]</a>]]></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 design resources But there&#39;s really more to it than keeping innovation in the area, through<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/nurturing-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 coming out of the college ranks into engineering jobs? How do we manage complexity? More<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/complexity-is-challenging-the-pace-of-innovation-panel/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 is a fire hazard. Some sites have seized on the news to push LiOn technology<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-volt-and-the-battery-fires-furor/"> [...]</a>]]></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 comparison, the winner in our category for consumer publications was People magazine for its coverage<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-takes-national-award/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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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 the lack of EV charging stations. Fortunately, a number of companies are rushing to fill<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ev-charging-stations/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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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>
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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 about solar power. He is, after all, a co-founder of Standard Solar, a seven-year-old company<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-man-his-solar-panels-and-a-rooftop-interview/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When the kids leave the lights on</title>
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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 miles away to this leafy town up the Hudson River from Manhattan, where a tiny<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/crestron-home-automation-app/"> [...]</a>]]></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 said, &#8220;I have something that can help you with that.&#8221; More design &#038; FAE help<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/displacing-the-incumbent-an-fae-case-study/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 name associated with an action or an industry is a milestone. More design resources Welcome<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-remotes-success/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 cars, the less gas is consumed). But how to tax electric vehicles? Two states are<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/smothering-the-baby-in-its-crib/"> [...]</a>]]></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, whose students labored and learned in a Quonset hut, demurred, or so the story goes.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/where-to-put-engineers/"> [...]</a>]]></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 humidity. Since the Volt first hummed ever so quietly out of storage near O&#39;Hare, we&#39;ve<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-volt-drives-by-a-big-milestone/"> [...]</a>]]></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 presents a fascinating engineering challenge, both mechanical and electrical. Not only are oil explorers drilling<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-hot-in-high-temperature-instrumentation-oil-drilling/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 parts of the world you&#39;ve never been. That all went out the window in Maryland<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/over-the-river/"> [...]</a>]]></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 chemical enhancements. More design resources The concern faded when I heard about synesthesia, a condition<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/music-makes-the-lights-go-on/"> [...]</a>]]></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 math and science education is 48th in the world, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-we-losing-the-innovation-edge/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 in Nevada or Florida or anywhere, far from the battle fields. The use of UAVs<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-different-perspective-on-uavs/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
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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>
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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 up the East Coast dumping snow on the Volt and millions of people. Here&#8217;s a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-change-of-seasons/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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, he gathered up his retirement savings, a handful of engineers and set up shop next<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-startup-on-battle-road/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>John Santini&#8217;s belt-driven EV</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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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 convinced that continuing rises in oil and gas prices would make electric-powered vehicles much more<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/john-santinis-belt-driven-ev/"> [...]</a>]]></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, needed a billion-dollar end market to make any reasonable ROI. There aren&#8217;t that many billion-dollar<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-to-make-a-processor-for-way-less-than-100-million/"> [...]</a>]]></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 (even negligible) impact in other industries, such as education, public safety, construction, government, medical, etc.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/not-just-a-ticket-writer/"> [...]</a>]]></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 Chevy Volt to a 100-year-old electric car, the Roberts, which had effectively the same range.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/should-we-just-give-up-innovating/"> [...]</a>]]></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 one of three maker projects running this semester at the school. UMass sophomore Matt Hunt<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-tweeting-robot/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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. More design resources Here at the University of Massachusets, in the M5 hacker space, the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/theater-of-the-engineering-mind/"> [...]</a>]]></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 accelerator or press on the brake pedal, the main drive motor temporarily operates as a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/regenerative-braking/"> [...]</a>]]></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 the cornfields of Illinois; and we saw it in the rolling hills of Western Massachusetts,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-space-of-their-own-making/"> [...]</a>]]></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 &#8220;2T&#8221; is Two Technologies, Inc. (Two Tech), a company that was named in a fairly straightforward but<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/two-tech-rugged-individualism/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Helmet shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 electronics industry is riding to the rescue. More accelerometer design resources In July, we spent<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/helmet-shock/"> [...]</a>]]></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 grade level below their age group. The class, called Automotive Design Studio, is part of<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/ev-inspiration/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grow &amp; adapt or wither &amp; die&#8211;your call</title>
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		<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 than ever. In more consumer electronics applications, social media communications trends drove handset design for<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/grow-adapt-or-wither-die-your-call/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kick the habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 chaotic world, but habits also hold us back. &#8220;You&#8217;ll never know until you try,&#8221; my<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/kick-the-habit/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-20/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-19/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 for Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-18/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-17/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 for Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-16/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rules and Regulations 15</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 Innovation (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rules-and-regulations-15/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tech Talk with Craig Peterson</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tech-talk-with-craig-peterson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<title>Short drive and deep dive</title>
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		<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 children will loudly back me up&#8212;that the cars I drive are generally of the duller,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/short-drive-and-deep-dive/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>45 ways to improve the Chevy Volt</title>
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		<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. When we drove to ADI&#8217;s facility on Oct. 5, we were greeted by a huge<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/45-ways-to-improve-the-chevy-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good engineer-part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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 engineer: What qualities make a good engineer? Martin had a similar response to Dale, and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer-part-2/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Rules and Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 (the “Sweepstakes”) is sponsored by UBM Electronics, a division of United Business Media LLC, 600<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-rules-and-regulations/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Light touch</title>
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		<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 if we want to develop even more &#8220;human&#8221; robots, we need to work on the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/light-touch/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Renegade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 earlier segment, we talked to them about the origins of the design, which emerged from<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/renegade/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rocks that wiggle</title>
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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 of time. The technology was patented by Bell Labs, and Vectron, whom we visited in<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rocks-that-wiggle/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Element Hotels, ChargePoint stations and the zen of power</title>
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		<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 outside of Boston was the first Element ever built. There are nine up now with another<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/element-hotels-chargepoint-stations-and-the-zen-of-power/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing mojo</title>
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		<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 based here. Richard Szczepkowski is the second generation (a third is already involved) management in<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/manufacturing-mojo/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The problem with women (in engineering)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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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 of time. Theories abound for this situation in the engineering ranks. Some believe that while<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-problem-with-women-in-engineering/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The electric gas station</title>
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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 an out-and-back run from your home charging station, you could have a problem. Right now<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-electric-gas-station/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are you outraged yet?</title>
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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 down 25 percent from earlier this year; shares in the Guggenheim Solar exchange-traded fund are<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/are-you-outraged-yet/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>So you wanna be a consultant?</title>
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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 years old. You&#8217;re experienced, with many years of engineering under your belt. But suddenly it<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/so-you-wanna-be-a-consultant/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Storing Volts</title>
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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 lead acid batteries. By the mid-90&#8217;s automakers had pretty much given up on being able<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/storing-volts/"> [...]</a>]]></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 up to Boston for Embedded Systems Conference (and we&#8217;d rejoin the red beauty in a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/would-you-buy-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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, it appears, is crumbling. This at first was distressing. But then we realized that they<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/why-we-do-this/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peeling back the onion on the Volt</title>
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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&#39;ve been slowly peeling back the onion on the Chevy Volt and EV technology on this site. (We&#39;ll be tearing down a Volt next year and analyzing it to cap off this adventure). John Donovan has&#160;been looking under the hood at the Volt,&#160;such as interfacing the motor with the engine and electric driving&#160;and Henry<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peeling-back-the-onion-on-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 system design in the United States with a cross country journey in an electric vehicle<a title="read more" href="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/"> [...]</a>]]></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 way alternative forms of energy are harvested, optimized and used.  Electric vehicles and the green<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/avnet-express-and-ubm-electronics-host-a-roundtable-panel-discussion-focused-on-innovation-in-electronics-at-esc-boston/"> [...]</a>]]></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 Analog I/O Module capable of driving? A. +/- 10V B. 5V/3.3V C. +/- 15V 2.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/contest-12/"> [...]</a>]]></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 that,&#8221; he said dryly. So, over beers at a local pub that no longer exists<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-chose-not-to-stick-with-that/"> [...]</a>]]></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 a little strange, I&#8217;ll admit. A similar feeling swept over me as I stood with<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/six-years-in-the-making/"> [...]</a>]]></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 race tracks in competitions that last four hours. His five-man engineering team works almost like<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/dream-engineering-job/"> [...]</a>]]></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 an EV team somewhere? This question took on greater clarity on our cross-country drive, where<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/an-engineers-day-off/"> [...]</a>]]></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 then spent time with O&#8217;Connell. He gave us insight into how the team keeps its<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/marching-ants/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 confound a colleague for hours with a simple practical joke. He thought his very bright<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineering-practical-jokes-the-simplest-ones-are-the-most-effective/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in (building) design</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 of architects and builders who, long before, abandoned the notion of excelling at their craft.&#8221;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-building-design/"> [...]</a>]]></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 one GM deployed in the EV-1. Yet unlike gas-powered vehicles, which lose weight as the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/weight-watchers/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Powering an electric vehicle</title>
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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 station in the morning and run a few errands before driving home, and that adds<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/powering-an-electric-vehicle/"> [...]</a>]]></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 Life to get a sense for your how you feel you&#8217;re treated by your employers.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-engineering-life/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation on display</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 display systems? Well, it&#8217;s here, and it&#8217;s thriving. The company is deeply embedded (pardon the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-on-display/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 renewables,  the end of the internal combustion engine and the era of &#8220;peak oil.&#8221; More<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-problem-with-oil/"> [...]</a>]]></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&#39;s no different in automotive lighting. Remember the old three-headlight Dodge pick up trucks from the 1960s? Or was it Ford? Or both? I&#39;ll never forget the first time I saw it, on a remote mountain road at<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/illuminating-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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 you depress the accelerator in a Volt? A lot more than you might expect. The<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/electric-driving/"> [...]</a>]]></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 is not only a cost-effective motive force generator; it&#8217;s a safety feature. You can hear<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-sound-of-silence/"> [...]</a>]]></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 of these ghost-town staples in the new green-technology test town being built in New Mexico.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/green-ghost-town/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Software innovation on a hardware platform</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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, in the spring, took its 2600 family of source meters to a different level, introducing<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/software-innovation-on-a-hardware-platform/"> [...]</a>]]></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 TV with those &#8220;gas-powered everything&#8221; ads. Really funny but the shot at the Volt at<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chasing-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mining one&#8217;s own business</title>
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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 to have a vast army to protect you. More design resources Beryllium isn&#8217;t considered a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/mining-ones-own-business/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>TE Connectivity Joins Avnet Express’ Drive for Innovation Program</title>
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		<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 Tyco Electronics, has joined the Drive for Innovation, a multi-faceted campaign celebrating innovation in electronics<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/te-connectivity-joins-avnet-express%e2%80%99-drive-for-innovation-program/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making the &#8216;MOST&#8217; of automotive infotainment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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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 should not only combine the long lifecycle, reliability and tough environmental requirements of the automotive<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-the-most-of-automotive-infotainment/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting up windmills</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 renewable-energy design insight Exhibit A: Carlos Nielbock, a legend here among Maker Faire attendees, participants<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tilting-up-windmills/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good engineer?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer/</link>
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		<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 controversial topic: What makes a good engineer? And, more importantly, what makes a good engineer<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/what-makes-a-good-engineer/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The racer&#8217;s edge</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-racers-edge/</link>
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		<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 mirrors to sensors to braking advances and countless others. Racing is the R&#38;D labs for<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-racers-edge/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 a deeper dive into just how the motor and engine actually do sync up. The<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/interfacing-the-motor-with-the-engine/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>We drag-race a Prius</title>
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		<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 Waukesha, Wisc. We lured him and a colleague out to Avnet&#8217;s office here for some<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-drag-race-a-prius/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the future</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/here-comes-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 professional, introduced us, and I invited him to drive the Volt down to TV3 in<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/here-comes-the-future/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<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 the first couple of weeks of our tour. She is, pardon the pun, energetic and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-solar-solution/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A trip into the past</title>
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		<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 the system of locks that connects Lake Erie and Cleveland with Akron&#8230;much of dug by<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-trip-into-the-past/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation the Steve Jobs way</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 calligraphy in college and how that influenced him to push for fonts on computers. More<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-the-steve-jobs-way/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 21:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 about the broader challenges in the first of two interview segments: We dived deeper into<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/tapping-electronics-to-optimize-the-era-of-renewables/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peggy Smedley Show</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-7/</link>
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		<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 with a minimum-unit purchase: A. $49.99 B. $41.67 C. $54.00 D. $62.17 2. Which of<a title="read more" href="/weekly-contest"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When the check-engine light goes on</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the new-car experience. There&#39;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&#39;ve been on the road for seven weeks and rolled across seven states. The odometer sits at about 4,500 miles. Despite the newness, though, we&#39;ve already<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/when-the-check-engine-light-goes-on/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Silicon Valley</title>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/peggy-smedley-show-5/#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<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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		<category><![CDATA[Automobile Price]]></category>
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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>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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 power outlet. I plugged in and walked away for six hours. When I came back,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-search-for-juice/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Get on the drivetrain</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/get-on-the-drivetrain/</link>
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		<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 you in the Diamond/HOV lane. Besides, admit it&#8212;the technology is cool. So just what is<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/get-on-the-drivetrain/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Got racing?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/got-racing/</link>
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		<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 for us to get in front of the Rahal engineers. We did (here&#8217;s a segment<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/got-racing/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 automation. With this growth, complexity of implementation has also increased on two levels: &#8226; CAN<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/can-in-30-minutes-or-less/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Giving the night sky a break</title>
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		<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 hard time letting the heavens amaze you every evening. That light scattering (OK, let&#8217;s be<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/giving-the-night-sky-a-break/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The challenge with older circuit breakers</title>
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		<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 that happens is that people call Utility Relay here, which makes microcontroller based, true RMS<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-challenge-with-older-circuit-breakers/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Volt gets some air time in Arizona</title>
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		<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 up early is a blessing because the sun hasn&#8217;t gone into broil mode. We were<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-volt-gets-some-air-time-in-arizona/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reusable embedded systems software design</title>
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		<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. Nonetheless, software engineers often resist developing reusable code because they&#39;re burdened by time-to-delivery commitments. From<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reusable-embedded-systems-software-design/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Limiting innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/limiting-innovation/</link>
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		<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 the legendary Bobby Rahal, are eating the competition alive this year in GT-class racing on<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/limiting-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 DC power circuit breakers. More design resources The 16-year-old company makes products for low-voltage protection&#8211;retrofit<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-old-is-new-again/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selling innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/selling-innovation/</link>
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		<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 spent Friday and Saturday with the excellent folks at Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan BMW racing at Road America<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/selling-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Allan</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-book-of-allan/</link>
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		<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&#39;s created and sold off technologies a few times over and could probably go flying off into the sunset (he&#39;s a pilot), but that&#39;s not nearly as fun as what he does. Today, he&#39;s the CEO of a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-book-of-allan/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taking it to the streets</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-it-to-the-streets/</link>
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		<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 generation capacity, ensuing social turmoil and then various only-in-science-fiction scenarios where we&#8217;re eating each other<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-it-to-the-streets/"> [...]</a>]]></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 dozen electronic control units (ECUs) that control almost everything, such as air conditioning, electric windows,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/securing-embedded-device-updates/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<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 way, as we&#8217;ve seen in the Connecting with the Volt and Innovation in Interconnects posts<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/its-all-in-the-detailing/"> [...]</a>]]></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 grape, is as old as the hills. Distilled spirits, the most recent innovation, dates back<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/bars-the-new-centers-of-innovation-really/"> [...]</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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 in Dearborn. Ford assembled over the years a huge collection of iconic American technology (and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-tribute-to-innovations-past/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Delony</dc:creator>
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		<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 expectations are driving many new innovations. For example, wideband technology being introduced in Europe allows<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/design-challenges-of-hands-free-systems/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The time-travelling radio</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-time-travelling-radio/</link>
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		<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 mid-race and became a household name: Philco. Depending on your age, your parents, grandparents or<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-time-travelling-radio/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in interconnects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 of the TE Connectivity&#8217;s earlier HVA 400 series, Tyler said. More design resources That device<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-in-interconnects/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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. The stories we came across were phenomenal, but that&#8217;s just me. It can be hard<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whos-the-most-innovative-so-far/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 before physical prototypes are available. It enables development that is not possible, or is very<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/making-virtual-prototyping-better-part-1/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting with the Volt</title>
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		<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&#39;s all about &#34;redundancy on top of redundancy,&#34; says Adam Tyler, development engineer at TE Connectivity&#39;s Automotive Alternative Power Systems Development Group (Troy, Mich.). (TE was formerly Tyco Electronics). It&#39;s particularly true today as we<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/connecting-with-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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, a UBM company, the Drive for Innovation is a multi-faceted campaign celebrating innovation in electronics<a title="read more" href="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/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reconsidering safety-critical embedded system design</title>
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		<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 with such recalls. &#160;In this case, a software defect disabled the driver&#8217;s ability to adjust<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reconsidering-safety-critical-embedded-system-design/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reality check</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reality-check/</link>
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		<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 about the Chevy Volt. Within a couple of minutes, it became clear that General Motors&#8217;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/reality-check/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery Technology]]></category>
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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 school who were inspired to get into the profession because they get to make things.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-hail-mantis-the-open-source-robot/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=979</guid>
		<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. That didn&#8217;t last long, and he went out and bought the cassette version. A few<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/innovation-is-here-to-stay/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How the Volt performs</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-the-volt-performs/</link>
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		<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 over the years in rental-car engagements; that they were teeny or offered cheap plastic interiors, or<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/how-the-volt-performs/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=917</guid>
		<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 of the vehicle&#8217;s engine, a beautiful creation with Frankensteinian accents (parts from a Fiero, a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7s-engine-compartment/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=910</guid>
		<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, getting to sleep can be, well, a challenge. &#160;   &#160; &#160;]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Lawson]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=831</guid>
		<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 to be something altogether different. In our earlier post, we described Johannes&#8217; vision for a<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-design-chain-effect-on-shockwave-impact/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=838</guid>
		<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 made something. Kevin Smith at Illuminati on this trip. Jeri Ellsworth earlier this year. At<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/maker-faire-innovation-inspiration/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Under the hood with Molex</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/under-the-hood-with-molex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Engine Generator]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=906</guid>
		<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 minutes from Brian Krause, vice president of marketing and communications. It was our first stop<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/under-the-hood-with-molex/"> [...]</a>]]></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 suffered six concussions in college and the pros, and his experience illustrates a point doctors<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/monitoring-the-impact-of-multiple-concussions/"> [...]</a>]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.driveforinnovation.com/?p=810</guid>
		<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., as he showed off his EV1. I was stunned at how fast it accelerated. Then,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/taking-a-tesla-for-a-ride/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GM: Volt virtually sold out</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-volt-virtually-sold-out/</link>
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		<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 Volts at its Hamtramck plant, and is selling 440 a month, according to the Detroit<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/gm-volt-virtually-sold-out/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual reality, real advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rockwell-collins-virtual-prototype-modeling-system/</link>
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		<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 taking the concept of prototyping and turning it on its head&#8211;and, perhaps most importantly slashing<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/rockwell-collins-virtual-prototype-modeling-system/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Necessity: The mother of innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/necessity-the-mother-of-innovation/</link>
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		<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 radio frequences, but also lights, sirens, and data systems designed to give police the quickest, most<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/necessity-the-mother-of-innovation/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Letting go</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/letting-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 me, spin me around walking down a path somewhere, and take the blindfold off, and<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/letting-go/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fore!</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/incredible-technologies-golden-tee-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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		<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 any time in your life, you&#8217;ve probably played IT&#8217;s Golden Tee Golf game, the most<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/incredible-technologies-golden-tee-technology/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who revived the electric car?</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/who-revived-the-electric-car/</link>
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		<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 all-electric cars in the U.S. until the Leaf and the Volt came along. Like today&#8217;s<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/who-revived-the-electric-car/"> [...]</a>]]></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. How could we turn down their kind invite to sit in for a segment? We<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/we-are-on-the-air/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The pit crew</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-pit-crew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 the Volt&#8217;s received so far:]]></description>
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		<title>Four years and a hundred grand</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7-ev/</link>
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		<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 working on a solar project, and he carried that energy into college. In 2007, things<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/inside-the-illuminati-7-ev/"> [...]</a>]]></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 bridge too far.&#8221; The editorial read in part: &#8220;Mileage mandates might well be a good<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-great-mpg-debate/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Zoom-zoom</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/illuminati-car-goes-zoom-zoom/</link>
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		<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, Virden, Ill.]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battery Generator]]></category>
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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&#39;s written about extensively (check out his Captain Hybrid blog) that hasn&#39;t changed a lot in that time is battery technology. Despite the quickening move into electric-hybrid<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/getting-a-charge-out-of-things/"> [...]</a>]]></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 at Avnet Express, the first wave of digital signage is examined. Which one of the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-weekly-contest-2/"> [...]</a>]]></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 edge on competitors. That edge means big bucks. Enter Kove, a closely held Chicago-based storage<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/a-kove-in-a-storage-storm/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet home Chicago</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sweet-home-chicago/</link>
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		<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 its technology. Part of the fun of this trip is seeing how people react to<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/sweet-home-chicago/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
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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 force is required to destroy a padlock. They don&#8217;t have a lot of EEs. But<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/lets-take-it-for-a-spin/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Head out on the highway</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/heading-out-on-the-highway/</link>
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		<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 locker since June when it was displayed at the Embedded Systems Conference Chicago. Two big<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/heading-out-on-the-highway/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>On the road</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/on-the-road/</link>
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		<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>
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		<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 this odyssey (that and the fact that all the would-be candidates seemed to vanish when<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-art-of-the-road-trip/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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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 35-mile stretches of all-electric driving, and the Nissan Leaf as the first affordable, mainstream all-electric,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/engineer-shares-how-to-build-an-ev/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Volt Electronics Deliver Efficiencies</title>
		<link>http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-electronics-deliver-efficiencies/</link>
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		<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 gasoline-burning vehicles just don&#39;t seem as good anymore. Fletcher should know. As chief engineer for<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/volt-electronics-deliver-efficiencies/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrid Wins Endurance Race</title>
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		<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 broke by our friends at Autoblog.com, a hybrid Toyota Supra (still a model available in<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrid-wins-endurance-race/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>All Charged Up</title>
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		<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 car&#8212;which even included having the vehicle at Fenway Park. During the first presentation of the<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/all-charged-up/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The cruising imperative</title>
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		<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; (It&#39;s usually because they&#39;re standing in front of me at Starbucks ordering a drink that<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-cruising-imperative/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s inside the Chevy Volt?</title>
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		<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 us our first video glimpse into the Volt and what makes it such a cool<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-inside-the-chevy-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Chevy Volt as a teaching aid</title>
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		<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 red Chevy Volt, curiously like our own Drive for Innovation rocket ship. We learned about<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/the-chevy-volt-as-a-teaching-aid/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hybrids Push Efficiency Advancements: Part I</title>
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		<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 bit.He had glued a small electric motor on the end of a board, pointing outward.<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/hybrids-push-efficiency-advancements-part-i/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Is This Our Future?</title>
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		<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 was whisper-quiet, powered by its 16-kilowatt-hour, 400-pound battery, but it still felt like a &#8220;normal&#8221;<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/column-is-this-our-future/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study: EV Battery Supply May Exceed Demand</title>
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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 facing an industry glut five years from now. Studies by Lux Research Inc. and Pike<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/study-ev-battery-supply-may-exceed-demand/"> [...]</a>]]></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>
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		<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 on the web, is the product of an expert panel that includes members from Ford<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/study-sets-practical-plan-for-ev/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: The Volt Is Not A Dolt</title>
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		<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. LaPedus is a bit misguided in his frank criticism of GM&#39;s Hail Mary project. Firstly,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/opinion-the-volt-is-not-a-dolt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Prius Technology In Review</title>
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		<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 best read features ever. Today, with fuel prices continuing to soar, the hybrid cars are<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/prius-technology-in-review/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>High-Tech Composites Lighter, More Cost Effective</title>
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		<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 times. GE Plastics is working with several partners on a new thermoplastic approach, but refused<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/high-tech-composites-lighter-cost-effective/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Eye Transportation Sector</title>
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		<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 a significant new market on the horizon, but disagree about how it will emerge. Atria<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-eye-transportation-sector/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s The Flap Over The Volt?</title>
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		<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 to the wheels in its Volt &#34;range-assisted&#34; electric car. (Here is just one example.) Well<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/whats-the-flap-over-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chevy Aims For Excellence With Voltec</title>
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		<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 at Chevrolet are working on one of the boldest innovations in GM&#39;s history: the Chevy<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/chevy-aims-for-excellence-with-voltec/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the GM-IBM collaboration on the Volt</title>
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		<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 the giant automaker and IBM Corp. Read more&#8230; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Driving the Volt</title>
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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 recently on the electric and/or hybrid technology that makes the car what it is, sliding<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/driving-the-volt/"> [...]</a>]]></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 the new Chevrolet Volt. Sponsored by Avnet Express, the e-Commerce engine for Avnet Electronics Marketing,<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/press-release/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drive for Innovation With The Chevrolet Volt</title>
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		<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 scientist&#8221; and blogging and posting video updates about their experiences. Check out the Road Trip<a title="read more" href="http://www.driveforinnovation.com/drive-for-innovation-visits-mit-students-in-awe/"> [...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Volt</title>
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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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