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Professor of Civil Engineering (Dublin). The Professor of Civil Engineering is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin. The chair was founded in 1842, thirty years before the establishment of the college's first degree programme in civil engineering. It is one of the oldest chairs in civil engineering at any university, surpassed in the British Isles only by the 1840 establishment of the Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow. It was previously styled Professorship of the Practice of Engineering in the  mid-nineteenth century and Professorship of Engineering from 1960 to 1985. The title was restored to Professor of Civil Engineering in 1986 following the creation in 1980 of new Chairs in Engineering Science.

Succession of Professors of Civil Engineering
 1: John Benjamin Macneill (1842–1852; Professor Extraordinary of Civil Engineering 1852–1880)
 2: Samuel Downing (1852–1882)
 3: Robert Crawford (1882–1887)
 4: Thomas Alexander (1887–1921)
 5: David Clark (1921–1933)
 6: John Purser (1933–1957)
 7: William Wright (1957–1985)
 8: Simon Perry (1986–2002)
 9: Margaret O'Mahony (2006)

Professors of Engineering Science
Following the reorganisation of the School of Engineering into three departments in 1980, two new Professorships in Engineering Science were created. The Foundation Chair was retained by the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.

Chair of Electronic Engineering (1980)

Professors of Engineering Science
 1: Maurice Whelan (1981-1991; Professor of Industrial Electronics 1991-1994)
 2: Frank Boland (1994-2016; vacant 2016-2020)

Professor of Electronic Engineering
 3: Anil Kokaram (2020-present)

Chair of Mechanical Engineering (1980)

Professors of Engineering Science
 1: Paul Wallace (1980–1981) 
 2: David Talpin (1982-1986)

Professors of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
 2: David Talpin (1986-1992)
 3: John Fitzpatrick (1992-1998)

Professors of Mechanical Engineering
 3: John Fitzpatrick (1998-2012; vacant 2012-2020)
 4: Stephen Spence (2020-present)

See also
School of Engineering (Trinity College Dublin)

References

1842 establishments in Ireland
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering, Dublin
Wells Vertige. The Wells Vertige is a British mid-engine, rear-wheel drive two-seater sports car by Wells Motor Cars.

History 
The car was created by Robin Wells who conceived the idea in 2014. No other sports car appealed to him so he decided to make one himself. It made its public debut at the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The launch helped Wells Motor Cars form a partnership with Hall Engineering and Design which is based in Northamptonshire with Robin Hall as CEO. The Vertige is built on a steel monocoque chassis with composite body, butterfly doors and tubular steel roll-cage. It is equipped with front and rear aluminium double-wishbone suspensions
. Robin Wells included hints to his personal interests in the car, with the gearstick designed to mimic the feel and precision of a conductors baton.  

It has an I4 naturally aspirated 2.0 litre Ford Duratec petrol engine, producing  and  of torque, paired with a 6-speed manual transmission. It has an estimated top speed of  and accelerates from 0- in 4.8 seconds.

Production is planned to run in batches, with 25 cars produced per year over at a new factory in Bishop's Itchington, Warwickshire, with price starting at around £75,000. The first batch of 7 cars were built by Hall Engineering and sold to close relatives and friends.

With the launch of the first production cars in 2025 (the Launch Edition), a group of owners, with support from Wells Motor Cars Ltd. established the Vertige Owners Club (the VOC).

Gallery

Prototype 001

Production version

References

External links
 

Cars of England
Cars introduced in 2021
Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Sports cars
Cars powered by transverse 4-cylinder engines
Friedrich Moll. Friedrich Rudolf Heinrich Carl Moll (31 January 1882 – 8 May 1951) was a German wood specialist who worked on preserving  wood in mines and shipping and naval applications.

Biography 
Moll was born in Culm, West Prussia and worked as a shipwright before training in shipbuilding at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1902. He then worked on English trawlers, and in 1909, he wrote a dissertation examining the disappearance of trawlers. He examined the application of mercury chloride to preserving telephone poles. In 1920, he received a doctorate from the University of Berlin for work on fungi and their control. He then worked as a lecturer in the Technische Hochschule at Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1922 to 1936. He worked on treatments against shipworms.

References 

1882 births
1951 deaths
Teredinidae
Preservation methods
People from Chełmno
People from West Prussia
Nick Mathewson. Nick Mathewson is an American computer scientist and co-founder of The Tor Project. He, along with Roger Dingledine, began working on onion routing shortly after they  graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 2000s. He is also known by his pseudonym nickm. Mathewson and Dingledine were the focus of increased media attention after the leak of NSA's highly classified documents by Edward Snowden, and the subsequent public disclosure of the operation of XKeyscore, which targeted one of The Tor Project's onion servers along with Mixminion remailer which are both run at MIT.

Education 
Mathewson graduated from MIT in 2002, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. He later earned a Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Linguistics from MIT.

Works

The Tor Project 
Tor was developed by Mathewson, along with his two colleagues, under a contract from the United States Naval Research Laboratory. Mathewson is also lead developer responsible for the security, design, maintenance of the Tor protocol, along with sending out security patches.

libevent 

He is also the primary maintainer for libevent, an event notification library used by some prominent applications like Google Chrome, Transmission and also Tor.

Honors 
Mathewson, along with the other two developers of the Tor Project (Roger Dingledine and Paul Syverson), were recognized in 2012, by Foreign Policy magazine as #78 in their list of the top 100 global thinkers of the year.

Selected publications

References 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Tor (anonymity network)
Free software programmers
Ruth Schnapp. Ruth Schnapp  (September 19, 1926 – January 1, 2014) was California's first female structural engineer and an equal rights activist.

Schnapp applied to prestigious universities at the advice of her father, one of these being Stanford. She was admitted and one of thirteen women engineering students entering that year and the only to graduate in civil.

She worked at Boeing over the summers in Seattle, where she was from. However, when the war in Japan ended, Boeing announced that all of the female staff were to be demoted to typist positions at a vastly reduced wage. This was a far cry from the manual work Schnapp was doing and the experience she gained in both design and disaster prevention. In protest, she typed everything given to her as slowly as possible. She also faced discrimination back at university. One instance involved the attire of her and her fellow engineers. Sensibly, Schnapp and the fellow female engineers wore jeans to their class involving welding and because they did not have time to change after they would arrive at the cafeteria for dinner without the traditional/proper "Ladies' Attire". The school enacted a regulation after this that "no women were to be seen on campus without the appropriate attire again". This struck Schnapp as very unfair and dangerous, so she fought the regulation and Stanford ultimately agreed and made an exemption.

After graduating Stanford in 1950, the main issue became finding a job that would hire a female engineer. Finally, she was hired by the firm of Isadore Thompson. Schnapp was set right away overseeing work at a hospital in Southern California that was employing new welding fastening techniques in its construction. Getting straight to work, Schnapp slowly became more and more respected by her peers and advanced steadily.  Somehow finding the time between raising three children and working in the field, she studied for the California Structural Engineer's license and passed the exam her first try.

She worked on large scale projects like the San Francisco Public Library, the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Quentin Prison, and the San Francisco Asian Art museum. She also fought to gain better representation for women in engineering, joining the Society of Women Engineers and giving one hundred talks to school-children about what engineers do and how girls can join the profession.

In 1984, Schnapp made the decision to go into business herself and founded Pegasus Engineering, Inc., a company that performed earthquake and natural disaster structural assessments for the next 17 years.

By 2001, Ruth Schnapp retired at the age of 74 and continued her work of talking to children and adults about earthquake safety and encouraging women to join the engineering field.

Schnapp was also active in support of equal rights including the protest at the Pacific Stock Exchange on August 26, 1980.

References

American structural engineers
Engineers from Washington (state)
Activists from Seattle
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
1926 births
2014 deaths
Exxaro Solar Power Station. The Exxaro Solar Power Station, also Lephalale Solar Power Station, is a planned  solar power plant in South Africa. The solar farm is under development by Cennergi, a subsidiary of Exxaro Resources Limited, a South African multinational mining group, active in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The power generated here will be sold to Exxaro Coal Plc, for use in their coal mine at Grootegeluk, under a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA), between the two Exxaro subsidiaries. The expected benefits to the group include (a) reduction of the group's carbon footprint (b) financial savings on energy acquisition and utilization and (c) to provide green, secure and sustainable electricity for mine operations at Grootegeluk Coal Mine.

Location
The power station will be located in the town of Lephalale, in Waterberg District, in Limpopo Province of South Africa. The solar farm will sit on the "Grootegeluk mining complex", which employs in excess of 2,000 people.

The Grootegeluk mine is located about , west of Lephalale, the nearest town. This is approximately  northwest of Modimolle, the capital of Waterberg District. Grootegeluk Coal Mine is located about  west of the city of Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo Province.

Overview
Exxaro Resources Limited, is in the process of integrating green energy sources into its mining processes at a number of its coal mines, Grootegeluk being the first. The mining group is also diversifying into "cleaner" minerals, including bauxite, copper and manganese. Switching to solar-powered electricity at Grootegeluk is expected to reduce the mine's carbon emissions by 35 percent.

Other considerations
Cennergi, an IPP, is 100 percent owned by Exxaro Resources Limited. The IPP already operates and manages the Tsitsikamma Community Wind Power Station (95 megawatts) and the Amakhala Emoyeni Wind Power Station (134 megawatts). Both wind farms are located in Eastern Cape Province.

Developments
In June 2022, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) gave its official approval to Cennergi, for the IPP to proceed with this development of an 80 megawatts power station.
Exxaro, the parent conglomerate, plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

See also

List of power stations in South Africa
Mogalakwena Solar Power Station

References

External links
 Approximate Location of Exxaro Solar Power Station

Solar power stations in South Africa
Waterberg District Municipality
Proposed solar power stations
Economy of Limpopo
Inglis Bridge, Monmouth. The Inglis Bridge, Monmouth, Wales crosses the River Monnow linking Vauxhall Fields and the suburb of  Osbaston. Designed by, and named after, Charles Inglis, the bridge was constructed in 1931 and refurbished in 1988. It is a Mark II model of an Inglis bridge, and the only known example in Britain of such a bridge still in public use. Access is now limited to pedestrians, vehicular use being prohibited in 2018 on safety grounds. The bridge is a Grade II listed structure.

History
Sir Charles Inglis (31 July 1875 – 19 April 1952) was a British civil engineer. While a lecturer in mechanical engineering at King's College, Cambridge, Inglis joined the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps and on the outbreak of World War 1 was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. Appointed director of the bridging department, he designed a transportable steel bridge that could be erected in a day. Named the Inglis bridge in his honour, the design remained in use by the British Army throughout the First World War and the inter-war period, until being superseded by the higher capacity Bailey bridge in 1940–1941.

The Inglis Bridge at Monmouth was built by the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (RMRE) in 1931. The regiment was, and is, based at Monmouth Castle, and the bridge provided access to its training ground on Vauxhall Fields. The regiment undertook the refurbishment of the bridge in 1988. The bridge was closed to vehicles in 2011 on safety grounds, although it was reopened shortly afterwards in the face of local opposition. The bridge was again closed to vehicles in 2018 amid arguments over the responsibility for the funding of repairs. It remains the only known example of such a bridge in the UK in public use.

Location
Vauxhall Fields was developed as a pleasure ground in the 18th century by John Tibbs, landlord of the Beaufort Arms Hotel. In the 1850s, the headquarters of the RMRE were established at Monmouth Castle, and a training camp was developed on Vauxhall Fields in the early 20th century. In 1905, access over the River Monnow to the camp was facilitated by the construction of a wooden bridge, known as the White Bridge. This was replaced by the Inglis Bridge in 1931, with the latter using the masonry footings of the former.

Description
The bridge is constructed of tubular steel and comprises a  single span with a  deck. It is supported by longitudinal stringers and two spans of lateral bracing. The design is of the Warren truss type. The Inglis bridges were constructed using prefabricated components, allowing for rapid deployment and reuse in combat conditions. The Mark I design comprised steel tubes of differing lengths, which led to errors during assembly. The Mark II model standardised the steel tubes used to a single length. Inglis Bridge is a Grade II listed structure.

Notes

References

Sources

External links
 Cadw report on First World War military activity in South-east Wales

Bridges in Monmouthshire
Bridges completed in the 20th century
Grade II listed bridges in Wales
Grade II listed buildings in Monmouthshire
Buildings and structures in Monmouth, Wales
Pedestrian bridges in Wales
Sun Jinsheng. Sun Jinsheng (born 1 January 1965) is a Chinese drilling engineer who is a researcher at the China National Petroleum Corporation and a professor of China University of Petroleum, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Sun was born in Yudu County, Jiangxi, on 1 January 1965. In 1981, he attended Jiangxi Normal University where he received his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1985. After completing his master's degree in organic chemistry at Nankai University, he attended Southwest Petroleum University where he obtained his doctor's degree in applied chemistry in 2006.

Sun was despatched to PetroChina Exploration and Development Research Institute as an engineer in 1988, what he was promoted to senior engineer in 1995 and to deputy director in 2006. In August 2016, he was hired as a professor of China University of Petroleum.

Honours and awards
 2009 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2012 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2013 Science and Technology Innovation Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 2014 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
 2014 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering
 2016 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1965 births
Living people
People from Yudu County
Engineers from Jiangxi
Jiangxi Normal University alumni
Nankai University alumni
Southwest Petroleum University alumni
Academic staff of China University of Petroleum
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Tang Guangfu. Tang Guangfu (born 9 August 1966) is a Chinese engineer who is vice president of State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Tang was born in Chu County, Anhui, on 9 August 1966. He secondary studied at Chuzhou High School. In 1986, he enrolled at Xi'an Jiaotong University, graduating in 1990 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. He went on to receive his master's and doctor's degrees from the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, all in nuclear fusion and plasma physics.

He was appointed an engineer of China Electric Power Research Institute, in 1996, and moved up the ranks to become president in 2006. In 2012, he became director of State Grid Smart Grid Research Institute, and vice president in 2016.

Honours and awards
 2006 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2012 Guanghua Engineering Technology Award
 2016 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1966 births
Living people
People from Chuzhou
Engineers from Anhui
Xi'an Jiaotong University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Tang Li (engineer). Tang Li (; born 5 December 1965) is a Chinese nuclear weapon engineer who is vice president of Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Tang was born in Yixing County, Jiangsu. His father  is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 1984, he enrolled at Beihang University, majoring in aerodynamics. After graduating in 1988, he was despatched to Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, where he was promoted to deputy chief engineer in February 2003 and vice president in December 2005.

Honours and awards
 2006 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2008 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2016 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1965 births
Living people
People from Yixing
Engineers from Jiangsu
Beihang University alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Wang Guofa (engineer). Wang Guofa (born 1 August 1960) is a Chinese engineer who is a researcher at the China Coal Technology Engineering Group, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Wang was born in Wendeng County (now Wendeng District of Weihai), Shandong, on 1 August 1960. His father worked in a state owned aquatic products company and his mother was a farmer. He secondary studied at the High School of Xiaoguan People's Commune (). After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1978, he enrolled at Shandong Institute of Technology (now Shandong University), majoring in the Mechanical Department. He went on to receive his master's degree from Northeast Institute of Technology (now Northeastern University) in 1985.

He entered the workforce in January 1982, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in July 1996. After graduating, in December 1985, he was dispatched to the Beijing Mining Research Institute, China Coal Research Institute, becoming senior engineer in 1991. He is now a researcher at the China Coal Technology Engineering Group.

Honours and awards
 2012 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2013 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2014 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1960 births
Living people
People from Weihai
Engineers from Shandong
Shandong University alumni
Northeastern University (China) alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Zhang Hanxin. Zhang Hanxin (1 January 1936 – 1 October 2021) was a Chinese scientist specializing in fluid mechanics, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was chairman of Chinese Aerodynamics Research Society.

Biography
Zhang was born in Pei County, Jiangsu, on 1 January 1936, during the Republic of China. He secondary studied at Xuzhou No. 2 High School. In 1954, he enrolled at Tsinghua University, majoring in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering. In 1963, he did his postgraduate work at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Guo Yonghuai. At the same time, he taught at Tsinghua University. In 1972, he was despatched to the China Aerodynamics Research and Development Center as a researcher.

On 1 October 2021, he died from an illness in Beijing, aged 85.

Honours and awards
 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

References

1936 births
2021 deaths
People from Pei County
Scientists from Jiangsu
Tsinghua University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aerodynamicists
Orion 27. The Orion 27 is an American sailboat that was designed by Henry Mohrschladt as a cruiser and first built in 1979.

The Orion 27 design was developed into the Orion 27-2 in 1981.

Production
The design was built by Pacific Seacraft in the United States, from 1979 until 1981, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Orion 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with the decks having a plywood core, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop, cutter rig or yawl rig, a raked stem with a bowsprit, an angled transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel and is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of  for docking and maneuvering.

There are two interior arrangements, designated "A" and "C". Both have sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and an aft cabin with a single berth on the port side. The "A" has a drop-down U-shaped dinette, while the "C" has a two bench dinette table, which allows a bigger head with a shower. The galley is located on the starboard side, just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove and a double sink.

Operational history
The boat is supported by an active class club, the Pacific Seacraft Orion 27 Club.

Operational history
A review in Blue Water Boats, described the design as, "beautiful, strong, and capable". The review went on to say, "unsurprisingly for a Mohrschladt design, the Orion 27 has conservative lines. Under the waterline is a long keel with a forefoot cutaway to improve nimbleness and reduce wetted area. The sections carry the tried and true wine-glass shape. Don’t expect record setting pace with this kind of shape; think strong, safe, and good manners for heaving-to in the rough."

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Henry Mohrschladt
Sailboat types built by Pacific Seacraft