omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
C.W. Smith (engineer). Charles  William Smith (January 1, 1926 — July 30, 2012) was an American engineer and professor.

Education 
Smith earned a BS in Civil Engineering in 1947 and an MS in Applied Mechanics in1950 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Research and career 
Smith became a full-time instructor in 1948 while working on his master's degree. He was promoted to assistant professor in 1950 upon completing his degree. At the time Virginia Tech was strictly a teaching institution and Smith pushed for a stronger role of performing research. Following a seminar from George Rankine Irwin, Smith became interested in fracture mechanics and applying photoelasticity. He was one of the investigators on the 1969 Department of Defense Themis grant that served as the genesis of Virginia Tech's international leadership in composite and advanced materials. He retired in 1992 and became an Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus. Smith was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 2002, a position held until his death in 2012.

Awards and recognition 
Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1977)
Virginia Tech Alumni Award for Excellence in Research (1977)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht (1983)
NASA's Langley Research Center Scientific Achievement Award (1986)
American Academy of Mechanics Fellow (1991)
Dan Pletta Engineering Educator of the Year Award from the Virginia Schools of Engineering (1991)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Murray Lecture and Award (1993)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Lazan (1995)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow (1997)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Tatnall (1997)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (2002 to 2012)
Virginia Tech Academy of Engineering Excellence (2006)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2010)

References 

1926 births
2012 deaths
American engineers
Virginia Tech alumni
Virginia Tech
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
20th-century American engineers
Cinzia Zuffada. Cinzia Zuffada (born 1956) is an Italian-American engineer who is the Associate Chief Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her role considers the strategic planning of scientific programs for JPL and the development of reflectometry technologies for Global navigation satellite systems. She is the chair of the Board of the Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation.

Early life and education 
Zuffada was born in Broni. She studied electronic engineering at the University of Pavia. She remained at Pavia for her doctoral research. After graduating, she worked on Electromagnetic Fields Theory as postdoctoral research fellow. In 1985, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an Associate Senior Engineer at the Kaman Sciences Corporation. She joined the California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher.

Research and career 
Zuffada joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1992. Her early research considered the development of numerical methods to solve electromagnetic scattering problems, making use of supercomputers. She was made Associate Chief Scientist in 2007.

At JPL, Zuffada was made responsible for the development of reflectometry technologies for Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). She has shown that GNSS is relevant for environmental monitoring, including ocean altimetry and hydrology (HydroGNSS). She performed the first high-precision altimetric measurements using Global Positioning System, showing that it was possible to measure surface height of the Crater Lake to 2 cm accuracy. In particular, she is responsible for the cyclone GNSS (CYGNSS) mission, which looks to improve hurricane forecasting. It works by collecting reflected GNSS data and mapping peak reflected power. This reflected power is impacted by the presence of water and vegetation. The maps can provide dynamic information about moving weather systems. CYGNSS is currently involved with missions measuring tropical cyclones. She was promoted to Acting Chief Scientist in 2016. In this capacity she oversees strategic planning for science and manages investment in research and development.

Zuffada is interested in increasing research collaborations between the United States and Rome. She was made chair of the Board of the Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation in 2017.

Awards and honors 
 2002 University of Pavia Teresian Medal 
 2014 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Magellan Award
 2015 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
 2016 Knighthood of the Order of Merit of Italy
 2019 Ghislieri Life Achievement
 2019 Embassy of the United States, Rome Science Fellow

Selected publications

References

American people of Italian descent
Italian scientists
Italian women scientists
University of Pavia alumni
Italian astrophysicists
1956 births
Living people
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
People from Pavia
American French Tool Co.. American French Tool Co., founded by Andre Beaudoin, was an independent manufacturer of etching and lithography presses from the early 1970s until its acquisition by Conrad Machine Co. in 1999. Based in Coventry, Rhode Island, their product line of large floor model presses were highly regarded by professionals for their design, durability, and precision. By 1980, American French Tool presses were installed in over 300 universities and workshops throughout North America and Europe.

Conrad Machine Co. continues to produce printmaking presses under the American French Tool name, based on the original designs.

History
Andre Eugene Beaudoin (April 11, 1920 – August 8, 2008) was born in Calais, France, and attended the Ecole des Arts de Metiers, where he studied machine design and metallurgy. He later emigrated to the United States and studied photography at Brown University.

In 1948, Beaudoin established American French Tool Co. in Coventry. At that time, its primary business was the import and sale of weaving machinery such as looms. By 1969, the company was also listed as a manufacturer of etching presses and they were being advertised in magazines and journals by the following year.

References

Manufacturing companies based in Rhode Island
Manufacturing companies established in 1948
Printing press manufacturers
Mohamed Ibrahim Selim. Mohamed Ibrahim Hassan Selim () was a lieutenant general in the Egyptian Armed Forces who served as the first chief of the general staff from 1952 to 1959, minister of Military Production from 1971 to 1972, and the first commander of Military Technical College from 1957 to 1971. He was also the founder of that college.

Biography 
Selim was born in 1916 in Cairo, Egypt. He obtained B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Cairo University in 1938, M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Alexandria University in 1958, and later he obtained his PhD in the same engineering discipline from Alexandria university in 1962.

Selim participated in the 1947–1949 Palestine war and the 1949–1956 Palestinian exodus. He also provided technical support to the Egyptian Army during the Six-Day War, and later conducted technical researches to develop uncertain equipment for the Egyptian Army.

His other staff appointments included; one of the members of the High Science Council, member of National Education Affairs and in addition to serving as a member of Development of Wired and Wireless Communications Council.

Awards and decorations 
Selim was awarded the Order of Merit  first class, and Military Prize for Science 1993 by the government of Egypt.

References 

1916 births
Military personnel from Cairo
Chiefs of the General Staff (Egypt)
Cairo University alumni
Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University alumni
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Egypt)
Year of death missing
BAZ-2215. BAZ-2215 Delfin (dolphin) is a small class minibus designed to transport passengers on city commercial routes. BAZ-2215 buses were assembled at two plants at once — BAZ and ChAZ. BAZ-2215 is a derived model from the widespread GAZelle. It is based on the chassis GAZ-3302, and the body design is the development of Ukrainian designers.

Description
The most noticeable difference is the height of the buses produced in Boryspil. They are much higher than the height of the GAZelle and allow passengers to stand in the cabin at full height. Due to this, as well as due to the presence of handrails in the cabin, standing passengers are allowed to travel. The cabin is equipped with fourteen chairs and is fenced off from the driver's cab with a partition. Passenger doors located in front of the body are automatic, there are also emergency manual doors in the back of the cabin. Wide windows provide a good overview; ventilation of the cabin is carried out with the help of one hatch in the roof and a vent on the side windows.

History
The first BAZ-2215 cars were assembled at the Boryspil Bus Factory in Prolisky, but the production facilities of this enterprise, where BAZ-A079 buses were already produced, were not enough to produce a new model alongside BAZ A079. Therefore, in August 2003, on the basis of the enterprise "ChernihivAvtoDetal", the Chernihiv Bus Factory was created, where in September of the same year the production of BAZ-2215 minibuses began. For some time, the machines were assembled at two factories at the same time but later BAZ had stopped their assembly and only Chernihiv kept producing the Delfin.

In 2003–2004, in addition to the standard modification, the Boryspil Bus Factory also produced buses on the chassis of the pre-restyling GAZelle. They received the BAZ-22151 index.

Since 2006, instead of BAZ-2215, its modification BAZ-22154 began to be produced. It has a ZMZ-405.22 engine, which meets the adopted standards of environmental safety in Ukraine, Euro-2. In addition, the updated "Dolphins" are equipped with the ABS system of the German company Wabco.

In 2010, the BAZ-22155 was presented, equipped with engine UMZ-4216 (Euro-3). Such machines are no different from BAZ-22154. In the same year, production of this family of buses stopped.

In total, more than 2,000 buses of the BAZ-2215 family were produced.

Technical characteristics

Modifications
 BAZ-2215 Delfin – base model
 BAZ-22151 Delfin – pre-restyling variation
 BAZ-22154 Delfin – Euro-2 standard variation
 BAZ-22155 Delfin – Euro-2 standard variation
 BAZ-3215 Delfin Maxi - three-axel bus based on BAZ-2215. Only two vehicles were released.

Gallery

References

Minibuses
Single-deck buses
Vehicles introduced in 2003
Buses
Buses of Ukraine
Swiftsure 33. The Swiftsure 33 is a Dutch sailboat that was designed by American naval architect Philip Rhodes as cruiser and first built in 1959.

Production
The design was initially built by de Vries Lentsch and later by Royal Netherlands Aircraft, both in the Netherlands, from 1959 until 1965, with 150 boats completed. It was imported into the United States by Seafarer Yachts.

Design
The Swiftsure 33 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a spooned, raked stem; a raised counter, angled transom; a keel-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a modified, fixed, long keel, with a cutaway forefoot and a retractable centerboard. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water.

The boat is fitted with a Universal Atomic 4  gasoline engine for docking and maneuvering. The fuel tank holds  and the fresh water tank has a capacity of .

The design has sleeping accommodation for six people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settee berths and two pilot berths in the main cabin around a dining table. The galley is located on both sides of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a sink to port and an ice box to starboard. The head is located just aft of the bow cabin on the port side and includes a sink.

The design was built in two different models, the Swiftsure 33 and the Commodore Swiftsure, with different trim and slightly different displacements and ballast. The earlier boats built by deVries Lentch have a fixed main cabin table that is permanently fixed in place, with drop-leaves. The table has a vertical hollow steel tube  running though the aft end, which houses the centerboard control cable. In the later Commodore Swiftsure model, mostly built by Royal Netherlands Aircraft, the table folds and stows away and the centerboard control cable is routed though the port cabin cabinets.The earlier boats have bronze deck hardware, while the Commodore Swiftsure model has a mix of stainless steel and aluminum hardware, with teak trim.

The design has a  hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1950s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Philip Rhodes
Sailboat types built by De Vries Lentsch
Sailboat types built by Royal Netherlands Aircraft
D. M. G. Wishart. David Matthew G. Wishart was a British statistician.

Wishart was born in Stockton-on-Tees to parents William and Nelly in 1928. His father, an engineer, worked for Imperial Chemical Industries and was later a lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Birmingham. His mother was one of the first women to have earned a doctorate in Scotland, completing her graduate studies in physical chemistry. Wishart was educated at Oundle School, and enrolled at the University of St Andrews, originally to study chemistry, before changing his focus to mathematics. Wishart was later awarded a scholarship by the English-Speaking Union. He used the funds to pursue a doctorate at Princeton University, where he met George Kendall. Wishart's doctoral thesis, Augmentation Techniques in the Theory of Queues, was completed in 1960.

Wishart's teaching career began in 1958 at the University of Birmingham. He remained a lecturer there until his retirement in 1988. Wishart served two stints as chair of the School of Mathematics at Birmingham, from 1973 to 1977, and also in 1979. He was the first person to lead the school without attaining the rank of professor. Wishart was editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B from 1965 to 1969, and awarded the Society's Chambers Medal in 1989. Through his work as a journal editor, Wishart became interested in printing, and subsequently acquired his first printing press in 1966. He devoted more time to printing after leaving the University of Birmingham. His operation grew to seven presses, and became known as Hayloft Press. A collection of Wishart's printing work is held by the University of Manchester.

References

1928 births
2003 deaths
British statisticians
20th-century British mathematicians
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
People educated at Oundle School
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Princeton University alumni
Mathematics journal editors
People from Stockton-on-Tees
British printers
LA Cyber Lab. The Los Angeles Cyber Lab, a 501(c) nonprofit organization, founded in August 2017, with Cisco Systems, is a "public-private cybersecurity initiative designed to help the (small and mid-sized) business community stay ahead of security threats"

In 2018, Department of Homeland Security awarded LA Cyber Lab a $3 million grant.

In 2019, with the backing of IBM, it added a threat-intelligence Web portal and an app for Android and IOS.

Cyber NYC, is New York City's similar cybersecurity initiative. New York City Cyber Command is a city government agency.

Zimperium enterprise mobile security apps are sponsored by State of Michigan,  NYC Cyber Command and Los Angeles Metro Rail.

References

External links 
 LA Cyber Lab
 Cybersecurity Stakeholder Agencies - Los Angeles Area Fire Chiefs Association
 Impressionist Films. LA Cyber Lab - Ad Spot 1 - Vimeo

Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Green train corridor. Green train corridor describes a concept where train coach toilet waste is no longer disposed directly on tracks. The trains instead feature built-in technology so that toilet waste is stored in a tank under every coach toilet, and is discharged into large drainage canals built along the line beside the tracks in main halting junctions.

Announcement and inauguration 

On 24 July 2016, railway minister Suresh Prabhu announced India's First Green Rail Corridor on Manamadurai - Rameswaram line for the first time in ''Southern Railways Madurai Division.

See also
 Passenger train toilet
 Swachh Bharat Mission
 Water supply and sanitation in India

References

Indian Railways
Passenger rail transport
Toilets
John D. Owens. John D. Owens is an American computer engineer, known for his work in GPU computing. He is Child Family Professor of Engineering and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis.

Education 
John Owens received his Ph.D in electrical engineering in 2003 from Stanford University under the supervision of William J. Dally and Pat Hanrahan.

Awards and honors
Owens was elected to the Class of 2021 IEEE Fellows "for contributions to heterogeneous parallel computing".  He was elected an AAAS Fellow in 2020 "for fundamental contributions to commodity parallel computing, particularly in the development of GPU algorithms, data structures, and applications."

In 2007, his paper "Scan Primitives for GPU Computing" won the Best paper award at Graphics Hardware.

Selected publications
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References

External links
Google scholar profile

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shengtou Power Station. Shengtou Power Station or Shentou power station is a large coal-fired power station in China.

The plant was initially owned by China Power Investment Corporation (CPI). The first eight units, with a total capacity of 1,300 MW, were commissioned between 1977-1987. Units 9-10, with a 1,320 MW capacity, were brought online in 2013. The first eight units were retired one year later in 2014.

The station runs on bituminous coal using supercritical and ultra supercritical boiler technology across its 4 units. It has a total capacity of 3,320 MW (Units 9 & 10: 660 MW; Units 11 & 12: 1,000 MW)

New Units

CPI (now State Power Investment Corporation) had planned to build two additional coal-fired units at the existing power station, units 11-12, with a total planned capacity of 2,000 MW. The new units were scheduled to be completed in 2016, However, construction permissions weren't granted until January 2016, and construction finally began in May 2016. In July 2017 whilst construction was progressing, The Chinese Government issued the "Guideline of Supply-Side Reform of the Coal Power Bubble". The publication included a draft list which slowed down or halted 185 coal-burning units across 21 provinces, totaling 107 GW. 114 coal units (65 GW) are ordered to slow down the construction progress during 2017 to 2020, and are not allowed to connect to the grid in 2017. Shengtou was subject to this and construction was halted.

In September 2017, negotiations allowed for the new units to be postponed rather than permanently halted. Then on 28 March 2019, the construction on the two units resumed and they were completed in January 2022 and June 2022 respectively.

See also 

 List of coal power stations

External links 

 Shentou power station on Global Energy Monitor

References 

Coal-fired power stations in China
IMOCA 60 Ecover 3. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Ecover 3 was designed by Owen Clark Design, made by the New Zealand-based Hakes Marine and launched in September 2006. The boat is a sister ship to Aviva.

Names and Ownership 
Ecover III (2006-2009)

 Skipper: Mike Golding

Mike Golding Racing (2010)

 Skipper: Mike Golding

Président (2010-2011)

 Skipper: Bruno Garcia and Jean Le Cam

Gamesa (2012-2013)

 Skipper: Mike Golding

Currency House Kilcullen (2015)

 Skipper: Enda O'Coineen

Kilcullen Voyager-Team Ireland (2016-2017)

 Skipper: Enda O'Coineen

La Mie Câline - Artipole (2017-2021)

 Skipper: Arnaud Boissières

RÊVE DE LARGE (2022)

 Skipper: Rodolphe Sepho

Nexans – Art & Fenêtres II (since 2023)

 Skipper: Fabrice Amedeo
 Sail No.: FRA 56

Racing Results

References 

2000s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by Owen Clarke Design
Sailing yachts designed by Merfyn Owen
Sailing yachts designed by Allen Clarke
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat types built in New Zealand
James W. Dally. James William Dally is an American engineer and professor.

Education 
Dally earned a BS in mechanical engineering in 1951 and MS in mechanical engineering from 1953 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He earned a PhD in mechanics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1958 with August J. Durelli.

Research and career 
After completing his PhD, Dally stayed in Chicago as the assistant director research Armour Research Foundation from 1961 to 1964 with Max M. Frocht and then professor at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1964 to 1971. He moved to the University of Maryland, College Park as a professor and department chair from 1971 to 1979. After a move to the University Rhode Island as the Dean of the College Engineering from 1979 to 1982 and IBM from 1982 to 1984, he returned to University Maryland, College Park, as a professor mechanical engineering until his retirement in 1997 and continues on as emeritus. Throughout his career he made seminal contributions in the field of mechanics  studying stress wave propagation and dynamic fracture mechanics. He was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis and later renamed Society for Experimental Mechanics, serving as president from 1970 to 1971. He contributed to seminal books in the fields of mechanics, including Experimental Stress Analysis with William F. Riley. Dally was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in 1983. He was named a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1984. In 2016, the Society for Experimental Mechanics introduced the J.W. Dally Young Investigator award in his honor. The University of Maryland, College Park also has a James W. Dally Endowed Scholarship in his name.

Awards and recognition 
Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht (1976)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1978)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Fellow (1978)
SEM Murray Lecture and Award (1979)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (1983)
National Academy of Engineering (1984)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Hetényi (1995)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Tatnall (2001)
Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2002)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Drucker Medal (2012)

References 

American engineers
Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
20th-century American engineers
Living people

1929 births