United States’ First Electric Car Engineering Graduate Program to Start Up this Fall
May 6th, 2010 admin
It’s a sign of the times that there is enough worldwide demand for electric car engineers that an institution of higher learning can establish a graduate program devoted to the subject. Although in the last few years programs have sprung up in the United States that offer certificates or minors concentrating on EV engineering, yesterday Wayne State University in Detroit
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