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international Year of statistics ettering University and more than 1,400 Korganizations in 111 countries are combining energies in 2013 to promote the International Year of statistics (statistics2013), a worldwide Students Chenguang Jiang and Chen Duan initiative that will highlight the contributions of Power the statistics field to finding solutions to global challenges. The goals of this awareness campaign are to increase public understanding of the power electronics Lab Booming and impact of statistics on all aspects of society and nurture statistics as a profession, especially among high-school and college students. ince it was established just over a year ago, Read more: http://kettering.edu/news/international-year-statistics-2013 SKettering University’s advanced Power electronics lab (aPel) in the electrical and Computer engineering (eCe) Department continues to become a major industry research hub on campus. The latest contract for the lab is from feV Inc., an international company that specializes in the design and development of internal combustion engines; conventional, electric and alternative vehicle drive systems; and energy technology and is a supplier of advanced testing and instrumentation products and services. Read more: https://www.kettering.edu/news/ Green kettering-advanced-power-electronics-lab-apel- continues-growth Battery Validation ettering University is Kcollaborating with Intech Kettering – a family affair energy storage Corporation (IesC) of Toronto, Canada, to test ettering University tends to run in families, maybe not as the critical characteristics of, Kfrequently as freckles or blue eyes, but if the number of siblings and experimentally fabricate, on campus and in the alumni population is any indication, it is a a newly designed aluminum- strong family trait. often students come to Kettering following in their based battery that is more parents or grandparents versatile, has a longer shelf life footsteps. but lately, a and is made of environmentally number of students are friendly, non-toxic, low-cost following their sibling components. Dr. Matthew to campus. Take the sanders, professor of Industrial “Gaabo Girls” as they are and Manufacturing engineering and director of the popularly known, three Center of Culminating Undergraduate experiences sisters who overlapped at Kettering, has received a funded research grant one another in b-section from IesC in the amount of $200,000 to perform beginning with amanda validation testing on the batteries in an on-campus, The Gaabo sisters who graduated in 2012, multidisciplinary project. sanders will collaborate followed by angela who graduated in December 2012 and finishing up with Dr. alexandre Iarochenko, president of Intech with ashley who is a member of the class of 2015. energy storage Corporation, on the research. Read more: https://www.kettering.edu/news/kettering-family-affair Spring 2013 5