Sentences with phrase «as vehicle engineering»

The Company's product capabilities include producing body, chassis, exterior, seating, powertrain, electronic, active driver assistance, vision, closure, and roof systems and modules, as well as vehicle engineering and contract manufacturing.

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In general, engineers involved in remanufacturing will evaluate and repair used vehicle parts, making them as good as new.

It is also an engineering and design source for GM's small vehicles and electric vehicles, as well as home to some of GM's top - ranked suppliers globally.

Being engineered as among the most survivable and heavily armored vehicles in existence, the Abrams tank is built to withstand a high degree of enemy fire, such some enemy tank rounds, RPGs, rockets and missiles.

In it, space nerds of all stripes will find a ton of engineering to marvel at, including a 35 - story space vehicle (and even the prospect the intercontinental rockets that could get you from London to New York in under a half an hour), as well as plenty of discussion of the many technical challenges to realize this dream.

That's rapid progress and a testament to a critical early design and engineering decision: to pair Cruise's technology, optimized for complicated urban environments such as San Francisco, with GM's ability to develop and manufacture vehicles at a massive scale.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

The Nissan people kept hectoring Levandowski about vehicle - to - vehicle communication, which the company's engineers (and many in the automotive industry) seemed to see as a significant part of the self - driving car solution.

As lead research engineer at Cohda Wireless (2004 - 2011), Dr Haley was a principal inventor of the technology that enables Cohda's world leading wireless equipment for vehicle - to - vehicle safety.

Video analysis of the latest test led some analysts to conclude that the missile caught fire and disintegrated as it plunged back toward Earth's surface, suggesting that North Korea's engineers might not be capable yet of building a reentry vehicle that can carry the warhead safely through the upper atmosphere.

Doug, who I regard as one of the world's most talented engineering execs, is focused on vehicle engineering.»

The three - wheeled Elio is engineered to attain a highway mileage rating of up to 84 mpg while providing the comfort of amenities such as power windows, power door lock and air conditioning accompanied by the safety of multiple air bags and an aerodynamic, enclosed vehicle body.

«My best guess is that they have managed to put the ECU into an unencrypted test state, possibly by playing around with power - up sequences,» says Peter Highton, a senior engineer with Freescale Semiconductor in Aylesbury, UK, which makes ECU microchips for racing cars as well as ordinary vehicles.

Boosting the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles by «harvesting» the energy generated by their shock absorbers and feeding it back into batteries or electrical systems such as air conditioning has become a major goal in automotive engineering.

The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.

Ropos comes to life on the port - side deck as the vehicle's engineers run their pre-dive check.

Some researchers have been trying an alternative route: engineering gene - delivery vehicles such as viruses to transfer neurotrophic - factor genes directly into brain cells.

The outgoing three - shuttle fleet (Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour) is survived by several thousand laid - off scientists, engineers, mechanics, and other personnel who were responsible for the program's operation, as well as by a President George W. Bush — endorsed scheme to re-create the rocket - and - capsule - style vehicles of NASA's glory days with versions of shuttle hardware capable of reaching Mars.

The Expedition 40 crewmembers hope to document Cygnus» reentry Sunday as part of an engineering exercise to study the mechanics of the breakup of a space vehicle.

As it turned out, one of MacCready's young engineers — Alec Brooks, a fanatic about human - powered vehicles — had already sketched plans for a car that could compete in Australia before shelving them for lack of resources to build it.

Engineers can build autonomous vehicles capable of cruising city streets without the aid of a human driver, as demonstrated two years ago in the DARPA Urban Challenge.

His career work has focused on engineering research related to ginning and production of cotton, most recently measuring cotton fiber quality and contamination, and applying unmanned aerial vehicles as remote - sensing platforms for the production of cotton and other crops.

On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

Chiefs for Change supports the thrust of the 11 supplemental priorities put forward by the U.S. Department of Education (the Department), such as those that would support better opportunities for historically underserved populations; improvement in science, technology, engineering, and technology (STEM) education; stronger teaching and school leadership; and education as a vehicle for expanded economic opportunities.

Bugatti's chief vehicle engineer, Jens Schulenburg, can't help but chuckle as he tells us about his latest project, and who can blame him when the Vitesse's spec sheet is littered with such ridiculous numbers.

``... we combined what is usually impossible: the quality and performance of a racing car with the practicality and durability expected from a road - homologated supercar which can be used as a day - to - day vehicle», said Phillippe Gautheron, Chief Engineer of Campos (who provided the Sandracer's roll cage and chassis).

That's all the engineer had to say, as he remained tightlipped about which other Ford performance vehicles would feature the all - wheel - drive system.

Photographer, Sandon Voelker and his roommate Philip Birschbach, a Trek bike engineer, drive across the border in our support vehicle just as the young woman hands us the Ridgeline's paperwork, shooing us to «Go.»

A few years later, in 1981, engineer Giulio Alfieri brought back the project as a consumer vehicle.

But Mike Cross, chief engineer for vehicle integrity and long - standing chassis guru in charge of all Jaguar and Land Rover model lines, does not budge in his passenger seat as the 2017 Jaguar F - Pace veers to the right, down towards virginal grassland.

When it first unveiled the all - but - ready - for - production Pacifica to the media at last year's Detroit auto show, Chrysler boasted that, true to a legacy of advanced engineering and advanced marketing smarts, it was set once again to create a new vehicle segment — «sports tourers» — much as it had with its landmark minivans of 1984.

As a young, Purdue - educated engineer, he worked at Ford SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) in the golden 1980s under Michael Kranefuss, and he chased around Trans - Am road - racing cars and Bob Glidden's 200 - mph Thunderbird Pro-Stock drag car.

Although Mercedes is not targeting families with the Metris passenger van, which is more meant for commercial duty as a shuttle, there's no doubt it's a useful and well - engineered utility vehicle that could be used every day.

Chevrolet's Bolt, specifically designed and engineered as a battery - electric, all - purpose, all - weather vehicle with enough range to make running - out - of - juice anxiety a thing of the past, is not only a perfectly adequate small commuting and grocery - getting family car, it's actually very agreeable to drive.

The brand and Murray himself are using this debut to mark a series of special occasions as well, including Murray's 50th year in vehicle and engineering design, the 10th year of operation for Gordon Murray Design and anniversary of the company's iStream technology, plus the 25th year since the McLaren F1 first hit the road.

That's hardly the type of volume to justify the expense of engineering and federalizing a vehicle, but Mercedes continues to do so as a means of appeasing its most loyal AMG enthusiasts.

It was all top - quality work, as you would expect, and one can only imagine the engineering obstacles that needed to be overcome for a one - off vehicle.

Probably more silent actually, as Clarity chief engineer Kyoshi Shimizu dislikes the raising - pitch «wooooo - eeeeeeeee» motor noise you get in many electric vehicles so his team worked hard to eliminate it.

As Motor Trend features editor Jonny Lieberman points out, both cars weren't necessarily built out of need, but of each automaker's desire to produce a vehicle that showcased its engineering (and racing) prowess.

After all, as Land Rover Design Director Gerry McGovern points out, the new vehicle sheds the rigid, overly square, Germanic lines of its immediate predecessor, which was designed and engineered under BMW ownership in the late 1990s and went on sale in America in 2002.

The cooperation with MS Amlin Andretti, which includes sharing resources and working together on engineering, will continue this season as the automaker expands its presence in the first racing series for single - seat electric vehicles.

Description: To assist urbanized and non-urbanized areas, States, and Indian tribes in funding transit capital needs such as: engineering design of transit projects; capital investments in bus and bus - related activities, crime prevention and security equipment, construction of maintenance and passenger facilities; and capital investments in new and existing fixed guideway systems including overhaul, rebuilding of vehicles, track, signals, communications, and computer hardware and software.

The BRZ's entire engineering mission was a low center of gravity and low polar moment of inertia (meaning that as much as possible of the vehicle's mass is located inside the wheelbase and as low as possible.)

Corvette chief engineer Zora Arkus Duntov yearned to field a Corvette in international motorsport as a means of promoting the vehicle, but he — along with other managers — knew the stock Corvette wasn't exactly competitive against the likes of D - Type Jaguars, but perhaps a new, purpose - built machine would do the trick.

A vehicle this shape wants to lean, as mass will always have its say in the dynamic equation, but engineers found the right spring rates and antiroll bar thickness to limit body roll (lean) and enable rapid transitions.

Larry Kwiecinski, engineering group manager for the GM Global Safety Center, noted, «In our vehicles without knee airbags, the vehicle structure, the seat belts and the instrument panel are all designed to help absorb crash energy and reduce lower - leg injuries, as well.

Join us as we talk shop with the top designers, chief engineers and product planners about the latest vehicles they're bringing to the market.

«As we continue with our product transformation, we'll continue to engineer safety leadership and more capabilities into all our vehicles.»

Hyundai engineers present six powertrains: Kia Soul EV, Hyundai Tucson fuel - cell vehicle and Genesis 5.0 L V - 8, as well as 1.6 L, 2.0 L and 2.4 L 4 - cyl.

Thanks to the flexibility of the Jaguar Lightweight Aluminum Architecture, designers could work hand in hand with the engineers to determine key dimensions such as the wheelbase and track, delivering the proportions and elegant lines that distinguish it instantly as a Jaguar vehicle.