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List of Engineering Colleges in Delhi ~ Engineering Colleges at Delhi ~ List of Engineering Colleges ~ Engineering Colleges Details

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

List of Engineering Colleges in Delhi ~ Engineering Colleges at Delhi ~ List of Engineering Colleges ~ Engineering Colleges Details

1 . College Name Amity School of engineering & technology

Address Amity Noida Campus Sector – 44 Noida – 201303 (U.P.)

Phone : 6569180,1800-11-00-00 (Toll-Free)

Website : www.amity.edu/aset/

Courses B.Tech in Electronic & Communication Engg, Computer Science & Engg, Information Technology, Mechanical & Automation Engg.

2 . College Name Chhotu Ram Rural Institute of Engineering

Address Kanjhwala Delhi-81

Courses Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering Civil Engineering Medical Electronics Engineering Digital Electronics Engineering Electrical Engineering Pharmacy Instrumentation & Control Architecture Assistantship

3 . College Name Delhi College of engineering

Address New Campus,Bawana road, Delhi-110042

Email : dce@dce.edu

Phone : 7296918,91-11-27871018

Website : www.dce.edu

Courses B.E. in Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Science & Chemical Technology, Production & Industrial Engineering •B.Tech. in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering M.E / M.Tech : Vlsi Design And Embedded Systems, Power Systems, Environmental Engg, Hydraulics & Flood Control, Structural Engg, Control & Instrumentation, Electronics & Comm Engg, Thermal Engg, Production Engg, Polymer Tech, Computer Tech & Application, Information Systems, Digital Systems Design, Signal Processing, Process Control, Microwave & Optical Communication, Software Engineering

4 . College Name Faculty of Engineering and Technology

Address Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi- 110025

Phone : 26985831, 26981261, 26981268

Website : jmi.nic.in/Fengg/FoEngg.htm

Courses Undergraduate programmes:B.Tech. in Civil engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering, Electronics and Communication engineering, and Computer engineering; B Arch; and as continuing programmes for in-service engineers, •B.E. in Civil engineering, Electrical engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Electronics & Communication engineering. •Postgraduate programmes: M.Tech (Electrical Power Systems Management), M.Tech (Environmental Science and Engineering), M.Sc (Electronics)

5 . College Name Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engg

Address Sector -13, Rohini, New Delhi-110085

Courses Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Electronics & Communicaton Engineering (ECE), Mechanical & Automation Engineering (MAE), Information Technology (IT)

6 . College Name Indian Institute of technology

Address IIT P.O. Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016

Phone : 26591710, 26597294

Website : www.iitd.ac.in

Courses Undergraduate Programmes: B.Tech.in,Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering (Power), Engineering Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Production and Industrial Engineering, Textile Technology •Dual Degree Programme: B.Tech. & M.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering and M.Tech in Process Engineering & Design, Chemical Engineering and M.Tech in Computer Applications in Chemical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering •B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering and M.Tech in Information & Communication Technology •Integrated Degree Programme: M.Tech. in Mathematics and Computing

7 . College Name Indraprastha University

Address Delhi

Courses M.E / M.Tech : Chemical Technology, Bio-Technology, Information Technology

8 . College Name Institute of engineers

Address ITO New Delhi-110 002

Courses B.E

9 . College Name International Maritime Institute Ltd.

Address Surajpur Kasna road, Greater Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida, UP-201306

Email : training@imiindia.com

Phone : 0118-4326311, 4326312

Courses BE(ME)

10 . College Name Jamia Millia Islamia

Address Jamia Nagar New Delhi 110 025

Courses M.E / M.Tech : Geo-Technical Engg, Geo-Technical Engg (Pt), Applied Arts, Art Education, Painting, Sculpture, Electrical Engineering System Management, Environmental Sc. & Engg.(Pt)

11 . College Name Netaji Subhash Institute of technology

Address Sector 3 , Dwaraka, New Delhi-110045

Phone : 91-11-25099050

Website : www.nsit.ac.in

Courses Bachelor Programmes: B.E.in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering, Information Technology, Bio-Technology •PG Programmes: M. Tech. (Signal Processing), M. Tech. (Information System), M. Tech. (Process Control) •PH.D. Programmes: Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manufacturing Process and Automation Engineering, Applied Sciences M.E / M.Tech : Industrial Electronics & Automation, Mechatronics System, Bioformatics, Production & Automation, Bio-Medical Engineering

University University of Delhi

12 . College Name Sharda Group of educational institutions

Address Laxmi Nagar, Delhi

Phone : 2051235

Courses BE IN Mechnical Engg. Electronics & Comm. Engineering Computer Engg. Information Tech Electrical & Electronics Engg. Electronics & Instrumentation Engg.,BHMCT,MBA,MCA

13 . College Name Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha

Address Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi – 110016,

Email : info@slbsrsv.ac.in

Website : http://www.slbsrsv.ac.in

Courses Shastri/Shastri-Sammanit equivalent BA/BA (Hons).

University Deemed University

14 . College Name The Aeronautical Society of India

Address 13B, Indra prastha estate New Delhi-110002

Phone : 3317516

Courses B.E,BTECH

15 . College Name The Institution of Electronics & telecommunic

Address Lodhi road, New Delhi-110003

Phone : 4631810

Courses BE

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Virtual world avatars provide clues to how trends spread

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 3 (ANI): University of Michigan researchers in the US are analysing information regarding the virtual world Second Life avatars to study how trends or “gestures” spread across this online community.

The researchers describe gestures as code snippets that Second Life avatars must acquire in order to make motions such as dancing, waving or chanting.

According to them, roughly half of the gestures they have studied thus far made their way through the virtual world friend by friend.

“We could have found that most everyone goes to the store to buy gestures, but it turns out about 50 percent of gesture transfers are between people who have declared themselves friends. The social networks played a major role in the distribution of these assets,” said Lada Adamic, an assistant professor in the School of Information and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

The researchers will make a presentation on their findings on July 7 at the Association for Computer Machinery’s Conference on Electronic Conference in Stanford, California.

“There’s been a high correspondence between the real world and virtual worlds. We’re not saying this is exactly how people share in the real world, but we believe it does have some relevance,” Adamic said.

This study is one of the first to model social influence in a virtual world because of the rarity of having access to information about how information, assets or ideas propagate.

It has also shown that the gestures that spread from friend to friend are not distributed as broadly as ones that were distributed outside of the social network, such as those acquired in stores or as give-aways.

The researchers say that the early adopters of gestures, among the first 5-10 percent to acquire new assets. are not the same as the influencers who tend to distribute them most broadly. This aligns with what social scientists have found.

“In our study, we sought to develop a more rigorous understanding of social processes that underlies many cultural and economic phenomena. While some of our findings may seem quite intuitive, what I find most exciting is that we were actually able to test some rather controversial and competing hypotheses about the role of social networks in influence,” graduate student Eytan Bakshy, who will be presenting the findings at the conference.

The researchers examined 130 days worth of gesture transfers in late 2008 and early 2009. They looked at 100,229 users and 106,499 gestures.

The team obtained the data from Linden Lab, the maker of Second Life. Personally-identifying information had been removed. (ANI)

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Now, a motorbike, which runs on air-pressure!

May 13, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Ludihana, May 13 (ANI): A group of engineering students in Ludhiana has developed an eco-friendly motorbike which runs on air-pressure and doesn’t require fuel.
The 100cc bike equipped with two compressed air cylinders, gives a mileage of 11 miles per hour, which the students have plans to increase with some changes in near future.

Students of Auto Engineering Department at the Guru Nanak Dev Polytechnic College in Ludhiana have invented this air-powered bike.

They claim that it is the world’s first 100cc motorcycle powered by air and can help eliminate pollution to a great extent.

“There are bikes that run on batteries, but a lot of time is spent in charging them. In an air bike, you just need to fill air through a compressor. If we develop its air tank and reprocess the exhaust air, the capacity of this air bike can be increased, ” said Akashdeep Singh, one of the innovative students.

“The main advantage is that it is pollution-free as its exhaust is cold air. The Defence personnel can also use the bike, as thermal radiation cameras cannot detect it. Also, the engine of this bike can work underwater and breathes air from its storage tank, which in turn sucks it from the atmosphere,” said Balbir Singh, another student.

Having created the environment-friendly bike, the college students opine that it might not look very hi-tech and sophisticated for now, but it is a step in the right direction for a greener Earth.

“The idea of an air bike was conceived as our energy resources are being depleted day-by-day and pollution level is rising. Keeping all this in mind we have designed a 100cc bike which runs on air pressure technique,” said Jagraj Singh Kaul, Head of the Department, Auto Engineering Department.

Established in 1953, Guru Nanak Dev Polytechnic College (GNDPC) is one of the oldest engineering institutions in north India and is a pioneer in technical education.

An ISO-certified institution, the GNDPC is committed to improve technical excellence to achieve global standards.

The polytechnic has set up its own Electrical and Electronics Laboratories Library and Computer Center under World Bank assisted projects.

And the air-powered bike is an innovation that makes the college proud.

In future, Motor companies can perfect this technology and produce air-powered vehicles. By Karan Kapoor (ANI)

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Apex court to hear graft case against Vijayan in May

April 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday decided it will hear in May a lawsuit that alleges delay in sanction by the Kerala government to prosecute former state power minister and Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan in a corruption case.

The aex court had initially declined to hear the public interest lawsuit and dismissed it. But on MOnday, a bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam decided to hear it in May after counsel for K.B. Suresh, who brought the PIL, insisted it has merit.

Kerala-based scribe T.P. Nandkumar has approached the apex court against a Kerala High Court order of Feb 12, 2009, that dismissed his contention that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was delaying the trial of Pinarayi Vijayan and two state bureaucrats on the pretext that the government has not given permission to prosecute them.

The other two accused in the case, besides Vijayan, are former power secretary K. Mohana Chandran and former joint secretary (power) A Francis.

Nandkmar had contended before the high court that the CBI, which probed the graft case, did not need any government approval to prosecute them as they were not entitled to legal protection from trial for corrupt acts.

Vjayan faced a CBI probe for his alleged role in awarding a contract in 1997 for renovation and modernisation of two hydro-power plants in the state to Canadian firm SNC Lavalin without any competitive bidding.

The government’s official auditor later found that the award of the contract by the Kerala State Electricity Board to the Canadian firm at the behest of the minister had resulted in a loss of Rs.3.5 billion to the state exchequer.

The contract had allegedly been given to the Canadian firm ignoring a Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited report, which had said that the renovation of three power plants could have been achieved at a cost of less than Rs.1 billion.

Nandkumar had approached the high court alleging that the state government was not keen to prosecute Vijayan and two bureaucrats though a corruption case against them was lodged in February 2005.

He also contended that that there has been no progress in the investigation.

But the high court disposed of scribe’s plea after the state government said that the CBI has approached it for approval for trial of the former minister and the bureaucrats, and that it was examining the plea.
Indo Asian News Service

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Canadian technologists develop world’s first flying micro-robot

April 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

You might have seen flying robots in the reel world of Hollywood science fictions, but you will now be able to see the flying robots in the real world. Yes, the technologists at the University of Waterloo in Ontario have developed the world’s first flying micro-robot.

The team of engineers led by professor Mir Behrad Khamesee, the professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, who is skilled in developing micro-scale devices using magnetic levitation, has claimed that they have developed the prototype of flying robot, called MicroElectroMechanical Systems, or MEMS. According to the researchers, the tiny, flying robot can be used for moving objects precisely, assembling mechanical components, handling hazardous samples, and sometimes performing microsurgeries.

The technologists have reported that the robot, powered by a magnetic field, can hover, holding objects. The robot is controlled by a laser-focusing beam remotely.

In the statement, Behrad Khamesee has claimed, “We have developed a magnetically levitated micro-robot, which is a new technology for manipulation using flying micro-robots. We are the first in the world to make such a floating robot equipped with micro-grippers. It can enter virtually any space and can be operated in a sealed enclosure by a person outside, which makes it useful for handling bio-hazardous materials or working in vacuum chambers and clean rooms.”

In the research report explaining the invention, Khamesee has explaned, “We develop a focal point of a magnetic field in space, which the microrobot hangs on,” wrote Khamesee. “By changing the location of the focal point (through current control in several coils), the micro-robot is consequently moved.”

“It can enter virtually any space and can be operated in a sealed enclosure by a person outside, which makes it useful for handling biohazardous materials, or working in dust-free environments,” Khamesee has said.

The technologists have submitted the report on their invention to the journal Focused Section on Mechatronics for MEMS, which published jointly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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BHEL posts impressive figures

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Maintaining its high growth momentum, Heavy Electrical Equipment Plant (HEEP) unit of BHEL, Haridwar achieved new benchmarks during the fiscal 2008-09 recording significant increase in most parameters,” HEEP executive director Devedendra Kumar Modi said, as he shared with the press details of the year’s performance, on Friday. The turnover, up by 22 per cent, was 2,868 crore, with a profit before tax of Rs 419 crore, profit after tax of Rs 349 crore and Rs 503 crore cash surplus.

The turnover of in-house developed products increased to 669 crore and the shop turnover, to a record Rs 1,948 crore, Modi said. “The company has maintained its goodwill nationally and internationally, despite stiff global competition and the economic downturn,” he added.

To buttress his claim, he said HEEP had secured orders worth Rs 7,109 crore leading the total of orders in hand to Rs 14,010 crore. The order book position had necessitated plans for modernisation and augmentation of HEEP. Work was in progress to enhance its capacity from 5,250 MW to 10,020 MW with an investment of Rs 1,000 crore.

A new turbine shop, an additional block for blade shop, TG testing facility for 800 MW generators, etc., were among the infrastructural development projects speedily being implemented.

HEEP supplied equipment added 3,170 MW to the national grid, Modi said. CFFP, its sister unit, performed equally well during the financial year.

As its executive director S.M. Mahajan said, its turnover rose to Rs 340 crore from Rs 307 crore in the previous year. With Rs 20 crore of work-in-progress added to it, the gross turnover would amount to Rs 360 crore, he said.

A 12 per cent increase in the turnover was despite a furnace blast accident causing great loss to the unit, Mahajan said.

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Delhi IIT professor awarded Canada’s prestigious IDRC Research Chair

March 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar.2 (ANI): Research in wireless technology in India just received a Canadian boost when an IIT professor in Delhi was awarded a research chair from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), one of world’s leading institutions in international development.

Dr Ranjan K. Mallik, IDRC Research Chair in Wireless Communications will team with Dr Robert Schober, the Canada Research Chair from the University of British Columbia (UBC), to conduct joint research on the most pressing problems of wireless communication system design.

According to a Canadian High Commission release, this collaboration will also strengthen UBC’s involvement with the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunication Technology and Management, IIT Delhi, established by the Government of India.

The International Research Chairs Initiative (IRCI) is a collaboration between Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canada Research Chairs Program. Launched in December 2007, applications are solicited for joint research between Canada Research Chairs and their counterparts at universities in the developing world. The selected teams will receive up to a million dollars over five years, each to address a key development challenge.

Professor Mallik and Schober’s team was one of the eight successful teams which were selected among 104 applications through a rigorous peer-review process.

“I look forward to this collaborative research program,” said Dr Mallik, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in engineering sciences.

The demand for wireless communications is expected to significantly increase over the next decade especially in emerging industrial nations such as India. This strong growth is of vital importance to India’s economy and to large sections of the Indian population that do not have access to technologies such as mobile phones, fixed Internet access, and mobile Internet access. The growth can only be sustained through high quality research for improved and affordable products and highly qualified personnel to implement these new ideas.

The research between professors Mallik and Schober will address these two needs and provide significant opportunities for technology transfer to industry. Its long-term goal is to generate fundamental theories and technologies that have a lasting impact on the field of wireless communications and to foster research and development in the wireless communications sector in India and in Canada.

The two professors will closely collaborate with Canadian companies like Bell Canada, SierraWireless, fSONA Systems and Indian companies Sasken, STMicroelectronics, GM India Science Laboratory that are supporting this project. (ANI)

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Delhi IIT professor awarded Canada’s prestigious IDRC Research Chair

March 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Professor Mallik and Schober’s team was one of the eight successful teams which were selected among 104 applications through a rigorous peer-review process.

77-year-old ‘shopaholic’ buried alive under 16yr pile of shopping

January 9, 2009 By Rajiv Gupta 1 Comment

London, Jan 9 (ANI): A 77-year-old woman lost her life after 16-year pile of unopened purchases collapsed on her.

Joan Cunnane, was buried alive under 3ft of ornaments, clothes in suitcases and electrical goods, still unpacked.

It took two days for the twelve policemen with sniffer dogs to unload her stock and find her body.

“It gave her pleasure to buy things,” The Sun quoted her best friend Roy Moran as saying.

“I once asked how many scarves she had. She said 300. I asked why so many. She said they were all different colours,” he added.

Roy reported Joan missing on Tuesday in Stockport, Greater Manchester, after she missed a hospital appointment. (ANI)

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Deaf children given implants as babies can learn to speak

January 5, 2009 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

London, January 5 (ANI): Experiments conducted by Australian researchers have shown that brain activity in deaf cats develops normally if they are fitted with a cochlear implant shortly after birth.

Rob Shephard, of the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne, says that this finding may explain how deaf children given implants as babies can learn to speak almost as well as hearing children.

The researcher points out that in animals with normal hearing, sound vibrates hair cells in the inner ear and thereby trigger neurons to send impulses to the brain.

However, according to him, these hair cells are often defective in deaf animals, and cochlear implants compensate by stimulating neurons directly.

With a view to finding out how this artificial stimulation affects the brain, Shephard and his colleagues recorded electrical activity in the cortex of 17 8-month-old cats that were deaf from birth.

The researchers activated each cat”s cochlear implant while monitoring their brains, reports New Scientist magazine.

They said that 10 of the cats had received the implant relatively recently, and their electrical activity was “completely scrambled”, indicating that they did not perceive sound coherently: normal cortex activity is key to perceiving sound and, in humans, to developing speech.

However, in the seven cats that received implants at 8 weeks old, brain activity was similar to that in hearing cats.

A research article in the Journal of Comparative Neurology highlights the fact that some deaf people consider it to be unethical to operate on deaf babies, who would otherwise learn sign language.

But neurologist Jim Pickles, of the University of Queensland, says the latest work “increases the weight of evidence to implant children early”. (ANI)

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Why schizophrenics have abnormal electrical waves in their brains

November 4, 2008 By Rajiv Gupta Leave a Comment

London, Newcastle University scientists have found out what leads to the abnormal electrical waves in the brains of schizophrenia patients.

The researchers say that schizophrenics lack the vital brain receptor cells that control them.

They made this discovery when they used a drug, called ketamine, for switching off the receptors in rats, the waves changed frequency.

The scientists believe that the new work could pave the way for new treatments.

According to an expert, the study has provided one of the first evidence of what might actually be going on to produce changes in electrical activity in the brain in people with schizophrenia

Earlier, when researchers looked at the differences between the brain function of people with and without schizophrenia, they found the “gamma frequency oscillation”, a pattern of electrical activity, in schizophrenics

With an aim to find the cause of this alteration, scientists used ketamine, which when applied to rat brain cells, changed the frequency of its electrical activity by blocking the NMDA brain receptor.

Ketamine is a recreational drug in humans, and has been known to cause some of the symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations.

Thus, they concluded that people with schizophrenia either lack enough of these receptors, or they are just not working properly.

“We have shown that by selectively targeting receptors we can modify the dynamics of the brain,” the BBC quoted Dr Mark Cunningham, who led the research, as saying.

He added: “Our hope would be that in the long term this could lead to a method for actually improving brain function, not only for people with schizophrenia, but potentially for many other brain conditions.”

The study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. (ANI)

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New robotic tracking system to be used to help repair orbiting satellites

October 3, 2008 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Oct 3 : Researchers at Queen’s University, Canada, are developing a new robotic tracking system that will be used to enable repairs of orbiting satellites.

This system will service more than 8,000 satellites now orbiting the Earth, beyond the flight range of ground-based repair operations.

Currently, when the high-flying celestial objects malfunction – or simply run out of fuel – they become “space junk” cluttering the cosmos.

“These are mechanical systems, which means that eventually they will fail,” said Electrical and Computer Engineering professor Michael Greenspan, who leads the Queen’s project.

But, because they are many thousands of kilometers away, the satellites are beyond the reach of an expensive, manned spaced flight, while Earth-based telerobotic repair isn’t possible in real time.

Dr. Greenspan’s solution to this problem is the development of tracking software that will enable an Autonomous Space Servicing Vehicle (ASSV) to grasp the ailing satellite from its orbit and draw it into the repair vehicle’s bay.

Once there, remote control from the ground station can be used for the repair, he explained.

“The repair itself doesn’t have to be done in real time, since everything is in a fixed position and a human can interact with it telerobotically to do whatever is required,” he said.

The Queen’s team is now working to develop the ASSV with the aerospace company MDA (McDonald-Detweiller Associates) Space Missions, which earlier built the Canadarm and has been responsible for all Canadian systems in the International Space Station.

According to Dr. Greenspan, computer vision is the main technical challenge of grasping the satellites.

Since these objects circle the globe in “geosynchronous” orbit, their speed is synchronized with the Earth’s rotation.

The robotic system must recognize the satellite first, then determine its motion and match that motion before grabbing it.

Due to the harsh illumination conditions in space, conventional video cameras are of limited use.

The preferred sensor is a form of light-based radar called LIDAR, which provides a set of 3D points that accurately measure the surface geometry of the satellite.

The Queen’s team, which includes Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students Limin Shang, Babak Taati and Michael Belshaw, has developed a software that allows such a system to identify a satellite, determine its position and finally track it in real time, using this specialized range data. (ANI)

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