Our engineers have built the future. We helped to pioneer the plug-in hybrid car and invent broadband communications.
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Reducing reliance
on fossil fuels
Widely known as the 鈥渇ather of the plug-in hybrid,鈥 Professor Andrew Frank has championed this approach to fuel-efficient vehicles that combines gasoline engines with electric motors running on rechargeable batteries.
In 1997, when broadband communications and the 鈥淲orld Wide Web鈥 were both in their infancy, two 不良研究所 professors and a graduate student came up with a better way to route data in fiber optic networks.