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Balu Balachandran. Balu Balachandran is a Distinguished Fellow and the Group Leader for the Ceramics and Covetic Materials group in the Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA.

Education 
He received his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1975 from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Master of Science (MS) in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Materials Science and Engineering in 1980 from OGI School of Science and Engineering, Oregon, USA.

Awards 
Dr. Balachandran received many awards and recognition:

 2014, Argonne Distinguished Fellow
 2014, Distinguished Alumni Award, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
 2006, Fellow, Institute of Physics 
 1999, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
 1996, University of Chicago’s Distinguished Performance Award
R&D 100 Awards – Four Awards (The R&D 100 Awards are internationally recognized as the “Oscars of Innovation.” They have been awarded for the best high-technology inventions in a given year since 1962).
 2011, R&D 100 Award for the development of advanced ceramic capacitors for power inverters
 2004, R&D 100 Award for the development of hydrogen transport membranes
 1995, R&D 100 Award for developing dense ceramic membranes for natural gas conversion
 1993, R&D 100 Award for developing an efficient new production process for high-Tc powders
Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards for Excellence in Technology Transfer – Two Awards (Awards given by FLC for transferring technology to industry)
 1996, Award for Excellence in Tech Transfer for transferring the process to manufacture phase-pure high-Tc powders to industry
 1995, Award for Excellence in Tech Transfer for transferring membrane technology to industry
FLC Awards of Merit – Two Awards (Awards given by FLC for transferring technology to industry)
 1994, Award of Merit for transferring the superconductor powder process
 1992, Award of Merit for transferring the cryogenic current lead technology

References 

American people of Tamil descent
American people of Indian descent
Argonne National Laboratory people
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni
Oregon Health & Science University alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Living people
Indian emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
Rhodium trifluoride. Rhodium(III) fluoride or rhodium trifluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula RhF3.  It is a red-brown, diamagnetic solid.

Synthesis and structure
The compound is prepared by fluorination of rhodium trichloride:

It can also be obtained by direct combination of the elements:

Anhydrous  is insoluble in water and does not react with it, but the hydrates  and  can be prepared by adding hydrofluoric acid to aqueous rhodium(III) solutions.

According to X-ray crystallography, the compound adopts the same structure as vanadium trifluoride, wherein the metal achieves octahedral coordination geometry.

References

Fluorides
Platinum group halides
Rhodium(III) compounds
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science City. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Science City is a science city that is currently under construction. It is being built by Department of Science and Technology Government of Bihar to promote and popularize Science among people. It is located at Rajendra Nagar, Patna in the  Indian state of Bihar. It aims to promote and popularize science as well as demonstrating and preserving the history of scientific development in Bihar.

Design 
The building adopts state of the art technology. It is designed as a  G+1 building, covering  on a  site near the Moin-ul-Haq Stadium in Rajendra Nagar, Patna with an estimated cost . The construction works of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Science City is likely to be completed by November 2025, whereas other technical works like installation of science exhibits are expected to be completed by June, 2025.

Exhibition
It is to have four galleries: Body and Mind, Space and Astronomy, Basic science, Sustainable planet consisting of 243 interactive and realistic exhibits.
Along with the same there will be a Grand Atrium lobby for entrance, Orientation Theatre, Multipurpose Halls, Temporary Exhibition Halls, 500 seater Auditorium, 300 seater Cafeteria, 4D Theatre, Retails spaces, Bio Diversity Park and many more to enchant the commuters to its beauty.

Facilities
It is to have four learning suites: Marker Space, Big Data Centre, Demo Kitchen and a gym on first floor for children who visit during a study tour or excursion. The dormitory is to accommodate 250 students connected to the learning suites.

Stakeholders Involved
Prime Stake holder is Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of Bihar Partnered with Building Construction Department, Govt. of Bihar for Excitation of Building works. Prime Consultant for the project is Flying Elephant Studio, Bangalore formed consortium along with Gleeds Consulting India Pvt Ltd (Project and Cost management consultant) and Studio Nabila birjis (Interior Consultant) (now known as Atelier birjis) and Gallagher & Associates (Exhibit Consultant) . Execution Agency is Shapoorji Pallonji.

See also
 Shrikrishna Science Centre
 Indira Gandhi Planetarium
 Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India 
 Science City Kolkata
 List of science centers#Asia

References

Tourist attractions in Patna
Buildings and structures in Patna
Bihar articles missing geocoordinate data
Memorials to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Science parks in India
Science museums in India
Sally Davenport. Sally Jane Davenport  is an Aotearoa-New Zealand academic and a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington. She is also Director of the National Science Challenge, Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI). SfTI is a 10-year (2014-2024) science investment by the Aotearoa-New Zealand Government with a mission to enhance the capacity of Aotearoa-New Zealand to use physical sciences and engineering for economic growth and prosperity.

Academic career

Professor Davenport completed her PhD in 1985 at Victoria University of Wellington, before taking up a post-doctorate at the University of Oxford. On her return to New Zealand, Davenport joined the staff at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.

Davenport was appointed to the New Zealand Productivity Commission  in 2011 and reappointed in 2014.

In 2018, Davenport was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Selected works 
 Davenport, Sally, John Davies, and Charlotte Grimes. "Collaborative research programmes: building trust from difference." Technovation 19, no. 1 (1998): 31–40.
 Davenport, Sally. "Exploring the role of proximity in SME knowledge-acquisition." Research policy 34, no. 5 (2005): 683–701.
 Davenport, Sally, and Shirley Leitch. "Circuits of power in practice: Strategic ambiguity as delegation of authority." Organization Studies 26, no. 11 (2005): 1603–1623.
 Leitch, Shirley, & Sally Davenport. (2011). Corporate identity as an enabler and constraint on the pursuit of corporate objectives. European Journal of Marketing. 45 (9/10), 1501 – 1520. 
 Davenport, Sally. & Shirley Leitch. (2009) We Are What We Grow: The Discursive Strategies of Pro- and Anti-GE Factions Regarding the Future of Agriculture in New Zealand. European Planning Studies, 17(7), 943-961.
 Davenport, Sally. "Panic and panacea: brain drain and science and technology human capital policy." Research policy 33, no. 4 (2004): 617–630.
 Davenport, Sally, and David Bibby. "Rethinking a national innovation system: The small country as' SME'." Technology Analysis & Strategic Management 11, no. 3 (1999): 431–462.

References

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Living people
New Zealand women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Rocketeer. A rocketeer is a person who uses rockets.

It may also refer to:

People
 A soldier specialized in rocket artillery
 1st Rocketeer Corps of Poland, who operated the Congreve rocket
 A person who rides rockets, an astronaut
 A person who operates model rockets
 A person specializing in creating rockets; a rocket scientist

Entertainment
 The Rocketeer (character), a fictional comic book character and media franchise
 The Rocketeer (film), a 1991 Disney film featuring the character
 The Rocketeer (soundtrack), 1991 soundtrack album
 The Rocketeer (NES video game), a 1991 videogame based on the character
 The Rocketeer (TV series), animated series based on the character
 Rocketeers, comic book characters, see list of Marvel Comics teams and organizations
 "Rocketeer" (song), a 2010 song by Far East Movement off the album Free Wired

See also

 Rocketer, a sailing brig wrecked in 1857; see List of shipwrecks in January 1857
 Rosie the Rocketer, a scout attack plane
 Rosie the Rocketeer, a Boeing spaceflight test dummy 
 
 
 Rocket (disambiguation)
 Rocket Man (disambiguation)
 Missileer (disambiguation)
Conversor marciano. Conversor marciano, or transformador marciano, is an invention of Alberto Santos Dumont to assist climbers.

Description
The equipment was placed on the back, like a backpack, and when a motorized propeller was connected, it reduced the weight of the body in the ascent of mountains. The name of this one that was considered a "strange device" comes from the idea of Santos Dumont to reproduce the gravity of Mars, lower than that of the Earth.

Santos Dumont held a demonstration of equipment in the National Museum in 1932.

It is considered that, with the advent of cable cars, the invention has become obsolete and had negative economic impact on its creator.

Gallery

References

Alberto Santos-Dumont
1926 in Brazil
Dimethylolpropionic acid. Dimethylolpropionic acid (DMPA) is a chemical compound that has the full IUPAC name of 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid and is an organic compound with one carboxyl and two hydroxy groups. It has the CAS Registry Number of 4767-03-7.

Properties
 
DMPA is an odorless free flowing white crystalline solid and essentially non-toxic. DMPA has two different functional groups hydroxyl and carboxylic acid so the molecule can be used for a wide variety of syntheses. In addition to reaction with other chemicals, DMPA can also react with itself to produce esters via esterification, as one example.

Uses 

One key use of DMPA is in the field of coatings and adhesives. It is used as a modifier in the production of anionic Polyurethane dispersions. Solvent soluble binders/resins for coatings can be converted into an aqueous binder with the use of this material. In this case it is reacted with a suitable diisocyanate such as isophorone diisocyanate or TMXDI usually along with other polyols to make a prepolymer.

There is also the possibility of using 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid for the synthesis of dendrimeric molecules, also known as hyperbranched molecules. When each hydroxyl group is reacted with 2,2-bis (hydroxymethyl) propionic acid, the number of hydroxyl groups present in the molecule doubles. Repeating this reaction step, produces one more shell each time  and thus the molecule grows. If at the end the hydroxyl groups are reacted with a bifunctional component, dendrimeric UV binders can be produced, for example. Dendrimeric molecules have low solution viscosities and improved properties.

It has a wide variety of other uses including production of  hyperbranched polyesters, waterborne polyesters, waterbased alkyd resins, and aqueous epoxy resins. It has even found use in polyethylene terephthalate fiber production. Another use is in the medical field for drug release purposes. In the business world it has been cited as an outstanding growth opportunity

See also 
 Prepolymer
 Waterborne resins

References

External links 
 NIST
 PubChem
 Fabrichem website
 Technical Data Sheet

Beta hydroxy acids
Coatings
List of Alpha Pi Mu chapters. Alpha Pi Mu is an honor society for Industrial and Systems Engineering students. In all but two cases, chapters of this society are named after each school, and are not given Greek letter designations. Two chapters, at Syracuse and Iowa State, have Greek letter names to recognize previous local societies there.

Following is a list of Alpha Pi Mu chapters. Active chapters are indicated by bold. Inactive chapters are in italics. References cited within each listing or below.

References

External links

Lists of chapters of Association of College Honor Societies members by society
Etosha Cave. Etosha R. Cave is an American mechanical engineer based in Berkeley, California. She is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Twelve, a startup that recycles carbon dioxide.

Early life and education 
Cave grew up in Houston, Texas, where she became interested in recycling oil and gas. During high school she joined the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). She studied at Olin College, and was in the first graduating year in 2006. She held a NSBE Scholarship. After graduating, she worked at the McMurdo Station, where she serviced HVAC systems and built the laser diode for future NASA missions.  Eventually Cave returned to her studies, and started a doctoral program at Stanford University working under the supervision of Thomas F. Jaramillo. During her PhD she worked on electrochemical approaches that could be used to convert carbon dioxide and water into useful plastics and household cleaners. She built a gas analysis system that could determine the composition of electrochemical reactions in realtime and earned her PhD in 2015.

Research and career 
While at Stanford University, Cave co-founded Twelve, a startup that uses metal catalysts to recycle carbon dioxide. At first, Twelve struggled to raise money from the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Today Twelve is based at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and has secured several academic partnerships including funding from the National Science Foundation and I-Corps program. 

Cave ultimately hopes that they will be able to make diesel fuel from recycled carbon dioxide and water. Cave discussed the idea at TEDx Stanford, where she explained the recycled carbon dioxide could reduce our carbon footprint as well as supporting future space travel. Twelve was awarded the Forbes magazine Change the World Award and was selected for the Advanced Manufacturing Office Cyclotron Road program in 2016. She was a finalist for the Carbon Xprize in 2018.

Awards and honours 
Her awards and honours include;

 2016 Echoing Green Fellow
 2017 7x7's Hot 20 Perennial Bay Area Innovators 
 2017 Smithsonian Institution Innovators to Watch
 2018 Grist Top 508 
 2018 Vanity Fair 26 Women of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley, Media, and Beyond

She has spoken at the Aspen Ideas Festival and been part of Science Foo Camp. She is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Cave is a member of the advisory board of the Berkeley Startup Cluster.

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African-American inventors
Stanford University alumni
Olin College alumni
American chemical engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American inventors
American women inventors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
African-American women engineers
African-American engineers
David L. Ferguson. David Ferguson (1949–2019) was a Distinguished Service Professor and Provost's Scholar at Stony Brook University.

He joined Stony Brook University in 1981, becoming the first African-American assistant professor there.

From 1998 to 2002, Ferguson served as the founding director of Stony Brook's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. From 2002 to 2017, he served as the chair of Department of Technology and Society, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

For his contribution to STEM education, he received the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, jointly administered by the White House and NSF, in 1997.

References 

1949 births
2019 deaths
20th-century African-American academics
20th-century American academics
20th-century American educators
Stony Brook University faculty
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
Deadfacing. Deadfacing or dead-facing is the practice of removing power from an electrical circuit prior to mating or demating the interface of the circuit. Deadfacing is used to prevent short circuits, as well as arcing that could damage circuitry, present a shock hazard, or introduce molten metal into the area of the circuit, or that could potentially trigger an explosion.

Applications in spaceflight 
Deadfacing is frequently employed in spaceflight. For example, the Apollo Lunar Module used deadfacing between the connectors coupling the ascent and descent stages, allowing the descent stage to be safely decoupled prior to liftoff of the ascent stage from the lunar surface.  As a result of the Apollo 1 fire, one of the many recommendations was to use deadfacing for the connection and disconnection of peripheral electrical devices, such as cameras.

The first known project-wide requirement for deadfacing was in 1970, as part of the Atlas-Centaur program administered by General Dynamics. Prior to that time, it had been specified only on a connector-by-connector basis.

Notes

References 

 

Electrical safety
Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition. The Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition (TADTE; ) is a biennial defense exhibition held in Taiwan.

TADTE is organized by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). It is held biennially. Repeat exhibitors include both local firms such as, Lungteh Shipbuilding, foreign companies such as Lockheed Martin, and military concerns such as National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology and the Republic of China Army arsenals (primarily the 202, 205 and 209). It is generally a three day event.

History 
From 2013-2015 the Exhibition experienced a 27% increase in the number of exhibitors.

The 2019 Exhibition featured an enclosed UAV Test Flight area for product demonstrations. The US Government approved export licenses to allow advanced American technology to be exhibited during the 2019 show.

See also 
 Africa Aerospace and Defence Expo
 Eurosatory
 Egypt Defence Expo
 International Defence Exhibition
 International Defence Industry Exhibition
 International Defence Exhibition and Seminar
 Defense industry of Taiwan

External links

References 

Trade fairs in Taiwan
Arms fairs
Biennial events
Compass (NASA). Compass (often stylized as COMPASS), is a collaborative engineering team founded in 2006 in support of the LSAM (Lunar Surface Access Module) Design Study at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The team primarily performs integrated vehicle systems analyses. The team is a logical extension of Glenn's long history of analysis and design of spacecraft. Compass conducts "studies," in which the team receives a request from a contractor to analyze a space system design. The group reviews the parameters of the design, conducts simulations, details the design, and drafts a final report. Working in real time among engineers and scientists with a wide breath of experience allows designs to come together quite rapidly. Compass designs spacecraft with lofty goals in mind; many of their projects seem like they have come out of a sci-fi film. An example of this is a nuclear-powered robot designed to burrow into Europa. Early success of the team allows it to continue to produce preliminary designs of spacecraft. The name "Compass" was originally based on an acronym that has since been deprecated (Collaborative Modeling for the Parametric Assessment of Space Systems).

History
The Compass team shares many similarities with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Team X group and the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Integrated Design Center Team The computer program GLIDE was designed internally to support SSH data transfer across firewalls, and greatly supports the current capability of the team. The team formally became Compass in 2006 as a response to a multi-center Lunar Lander Concept Design study led by the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Projects
 Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), originally based on a Compass design in 2010.  A lightweight rocket has a launch platform on top of it. Samples from the surface of Mars are transported into orbit by the rocket, where a ship can collect them and return them to Earth.
 Nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft, developed in 2012. The idea is that the spacecraft could transport a team of 6 astronauts into orbit around Mars for 400 days, and then return them to Earth. An electric ion thruster, powered by a 2.5 megawatt nuclear reactor, would serve as the propulsion system
 Europa Cryobot was designed to tunnel deep through the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa to investigate life that might exist in the liquid ocean that lies underneath

References 

NASA
Santos-Dumont Merit Medal. The Santos-Dumont Merit Medal is a Brazilian decoration created to honor civilians and military, Brazilian or foreign, for outstanding services rendered to the Brazilian Air Force or in recognition of its qualities and value in relation to aeronautics.

History
It was created by Decree No. 39,905, of September 5, 1956, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the Santos-Dumont 14-bis plane.

The medal is granted by act of the Commander of the Air Force. The merit of the candidates eligible to be awarded the medal is examined by the Santos-Dumont Merit Council. The council consists of the Commander of the Aeronautics, acting
as its President; the Chief of the Aeronautics Staff; the General Staff Commander; and, as secretary, the Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Air Force.

External links
 Santos-Dumont Merit Medal - Almanac of Awardees - Recipients of the medal, as of july 2022.

References

Santos-Dumont Merit Medal
Awards established in 1956
1956 establishments in Brazil
Alberto Santos-Dumont