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Max Leo Keller. Max Leo Keller (born 22 August 1897 in Zürich, died 13 August 1956 in Birmensdorf, Zürich) was a Swiss engineer and politician of the  .

Life 
The son of Franz Alexander Keller and Frieda Keller b. Ripe studied engineering and political sciences in Zürich, Bern and Darmstadt. From 1918 he worked as an electrical engineer in Switzerland and the USA. In 1931 he received his Ph.D. From 1932 to 1939 he was the director of the Bernese Office for the Promotion of New Industries, working as an advisory engineer. From 1933 onwards, he was a political economist for the Fascist National Front and from 1938 to 1939 Chairman of the Board of the newspaper, Neue Basler Zeitung.

In July 1940, after the defeat of France against Germany, Kellermann and his fellow-citizens came to the hope of an upsurge of right-wing forces, the so-called second ‘’’’, a term used by Swiss fascists to describe the predicted surge in fascism, referring back to the first Frontenfrühling in 1933. The Swiss President, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, welcomed Keller and the leader of the 
 (ESAP), , to an official meeting. On 10 October 1940, under the leadership of Klaus Hügel in Munich, a conference was held with the leaders of the front, Hans Oehler and  of the  (BTE) (Confederation of Loyal Confederates of the Socialist Weltanschauung), Ernst Burri and Arthur Leonhardt of the  (SGAD) (Swiss Society of Friends of an Authoritarian Democracy). Keller represented the NSB in the conference. Keller was supported by Rudolf Hess, as the new head of the National Movement of Switzerland (NBS). The group demanded closer ties with Nazi Germany, and other radical steps such as calling for the elimination of the bourgeois newspapers of Switzerland and the expulsion of the League of Nations from Switzerland. On 19 November 1940 the Federal Council banned the NBS, citing fear of German annexation.

On 10 June 1941 the Swiss Federal Prosecutor led a blow against the illegal activities of the NBS. Keller was arrested. For lack of evidence, he was released on bail, whereupon he left Switzerland in November 1941 for Germany, where he became director of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in Berlin and in Weimar. He brought experience from the Swiss electricity industry. In 1944 he tried to unite the opposing national socialist societies abroad as a federation of Swiss national socialists.
After the war, Keller returned to Switzerland and was condemned to a total of 14 years for breaching military secrets and attacking the independence of the Swiss Confederation.

Keller was the great-grandson of the politician and co-founder of the Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland, Augustin Keller.

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1897 births
1956 deaths
20th-century Roman Catholics
Politicians from Zurich
Swiss Roman Catholics
Swiss collaborators with Nazi Germany
Swiss prisoners and detainees
National Front (Switzerland) politicians
Nazis convicted of crimes
People convicted of treason against Switzerland
Glenn B. Warren. Glenn Barton Warren (February 28, 1898 – January 11, 1979) was an American mechanical engineer, business executive and inventor, who was vice president and general manager of the turbine division of General Electric. In 1951 he was awarded the ASME Medal.

Born in Rich Hill, Missouri, Warren grew up in Girard, Kansas. He obtained his BSc at the University of Wisconsin in 1919 with a thesis on combined gas-steam cycles. After graduating in 1919, he started his lifelong career at General Electric. He started as member of the Test Engineering Program, and made it vice president and general manager of the turbine division at General Electric.

Warren was awarded the ASME Medal in 1951, and in the year 1959-60 served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 1970 he was awarded the John Fritz Medal by the American Association of Engineering Societies.

Selected publications 
 Walter Edward Blowney, Glenn B. Warren. The Increase in Thermal Efficiency Due to Resuperheating in Steam Turbines. University of Wisconsin—Madison, 1924.
 Glenn B. Warren. Proposed Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine with Constant Pressure Combustion: Combustion Chamber Separated from Cylinders (modified Brayton Cycle). Society of Automotive Engineers, 1969.
 Glenn B. Warren, Some factors influencing motorcar fuel consumption in service, 1965.

Patents, a selection
 Glenn B. Warren. "Patent US1631660 - Elastic-eltrid turbine ," 1927.
 Glenn B. Warren and Arthur R. Smith, "Patent US2451261 - High and low pressure turbine rotor cooling ," 1948.
 Glenn B. Warren. "US2552239 - Turbine rotor cooling arrangement," 1951.

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1898 births
1979 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
American mechanical engineers
 University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
People from Girard, Kansas
People from Bates County, Missouri
ASME Medal recipients
John Fritz Medal recipients
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American inventors
2017 Benue State flooding. The 2017 Benue State flooding took place in September 2017 in Benue State, Nigeria. It displaced at least 100,000 people, and damaged more than 2,000 homes.

Causes

Weeks of rainfall led to flash floods, discharges and river overflowing in Benue State in North-central Nigeria. 21 out of 23 local government areas in Benue are affected. Flooding in the area is common due to heavy rains and the Benue River flowing through the area.

Effects on climate change

The flooding was similar to the severe one in 2012. The flood submerged two major bridges on River Guma at Tor Kpande and Mande Ortom. Farmlands and food barns were also destroyed in the affected communities. The newly constructed Daudu-Gbajimba, and University of Agriculture Makurdi roads, were not spared as they became impassable after several portions of the roads were washed away by the rising flood waters. Agriculture in Benue faces several challenges which threaten the future of agriculture. Rainfall intensity seemed to be increasing with a gradual reduction. The average discharge at Makurdi hydrological station was 3468.24 m3s⁻¹, and the highest peak flow discharge was 16,400 m3s⁻¹. The daily maximum temperature and annual average temperature are gradually rising, leading to increased heat. Analysis  showed that the soils are moderately fertile but, require the effective application of inorganic and organic fertilisers. The main occupational activities in the area are based on agriculture.

Flooding in Benue 2024 
On May 7, 2024, there was a flooding incident in Makurdi, Benue State, that affected various communities and  vacuated many people. The event overwhelmed homes, businesses, and infrastructure. There by causing damages to buildings, social resources and agriculture of the immediate environment. 

- Affected areas include Kighir, Idye-Nenger, Zone 4, Wurukum, Wadata, Akpehe, Madonna, Judges Quarters, Gyado-Valla, and Achusa communities. 

- The number of people affected has been estimated to be around 2,000.

References

2010s floods in Africa
2017 floods
Benue State
Floods in Nigeria
August 2017 in Nigeria
September 2017 in Nigeria
2017 disasters in Nigeria
Climate change in Nigeria
Frances X. Frei. Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management and the course lead for first-year diversity and inclusion studies at Harvard Business School. She has worked for Uber and been on the board of directors at WeWork.

Early life
Frances X. Frei graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She subsequently earned a master's degree in industrial engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and a PhD in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Career
Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School.

Frei joined Uber in June 2017, where she was appointed as senior vice-president for leadership and strategy of leadership. She helped improve the company culture by encouraging teamwork. Frei stepped down as senior vice-president in February 2018 to develop an executive education program focused on women and underrepresented minorities, although she has stayed on in an advisory role.

Frei gave a talk at the TED conference in 2018 on the topic of building trust.

Frei was hired as a senior adviser to Riot Games in September 2018 to help with implementation of their "Culture and Diversity & Inclusion Initiative", following a published report outlining many former and current employees there asserting of sexual discrimination within the workplace.

On September 4, 2019, WeWork added Frei to the company's board of directors where she became the first female on the Board. Prior to joining the WeWork Board, Frei's consultancy firm was employed on a 3-year contract valued at approximately $5mn (including stock options) related to gender equality training and hiring.

In April 2023, Frei and her wife, Anne Morriss, launched their first podcast, "Fixable", produced by TED Audio Collective. Guests call in with their workplace issues and problems are resolved in 30 minutes or less.

Personal life
Frei is married to Anne Morriss. She has two sons.

Works
 
Frei, Frances; Morriss, Anne (2020). Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press.

External links
TED talk 2018, How to build (and rebuild) trust
 TED Interview 2019, A radical new theory on how we experience reality

References

Living people
Wharton School alumni
Harvard Business School faculty
American women academics
American women in business
Uber people
Lesbian academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women
Yen Chen-hsing. Yen Chen-hsing (; 10 July 1912 – 7 January 2005) was a Chinese-born engineer, educator, and politician based in Taiwan.

Early life and education 
Yen graduated from National Tsing Hua University in Beijing and moved to the United States in 1937 to continue his education. He earned a master's degree and doctorate from the Department of Mechanics and Hydraulics at the University of Iowa in 1938 and 1941, respectively.

Career 
Upon graduation, Yen returned to China and helped construct the Burma Road. After World War II, Yen devised plans to dam the Yellow River. He joined the faculty of Henan University shortly before moving to Taiwan in 1949, along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. In Taiwan, Yen became chief engineer of Kaohsiung Harbor before assuming the presidency of National Cheng Kung University in 1957. He stepped down in 1965 and was named Minister of Education. 

The next year, Yen began concurrently serving as chairman of the National Youth Commission. As education minister, Yen extended the length of compulsory education programs in Taiwan from six years to nine years and helped establish many junior colleges. Yen left the Ministry of Education in 1969 and ended his tenure at the National Youth Commission the next year. He stepped down from the Atomic Energy Council in 1971, having held the position since 1966. Yen assumed administrative posts at several universities while working in the government, and also held party posts, namely membership in the Kuomintang Standing Committee from 1981. 

While serving as president of National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology from 1969 to 1971, Yen was also president of National Tsing Hua University until 1970. He then led National Taiwan University from 1970 to 1981. Upon stepping down from NTU, Yen returned to the Atomic Energy Council from 1981 to 1990 and later served President Lee Teng-hui as a senior adviser. Yen was elected to the Academia Sinica in 1982 and awarded the University of Iowa's Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement in 1984. In 1999, the University of Iowa inducted Yen into its Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy.

Yen died in January 2005, aged 92. Following his death, the "Chen-Hsing Fluid Dynamics Lab" and "Chen-Hsing Memorial Hall" at National Taiwan University were dedicated in Yen's honor.

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1912 births
2005 deaths
Chinese Civil War refugees
Chinese mechanical engineers
Engineers from Henan
National Tsing Hua University alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Academic staff of Henan University
Academic staff of the National Cheng Kung University
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
Republic of China politicians from Henan
Presidents of National Taiwan University
Senior advisors to President Lee Teng-hui
Taiwanese mechanical engineers
Ministers of education of Taiwan
Taiwanese people from Henan
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Members of Academia Sinica
David Schenk Jacobus. David Schenk Jacobus (January 20, 1862 – February 11, 1955) was an American mechanical engineer, head of the Engineering Department of Babcock & Wilcox, inventor and educator, who served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1916–17.

Biography 
Jacobus was born in Ridgefield, New Jersey as son of Nicholas Jacobus and Sarah Catharine Jacobus. His father worked at the family business, D. Jacobus & Son, manufacturers, of New York City. After private school and Stevens high school, he attended the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1884.

After graduation Jacobus made his career in industry, working his way up to head of the Engineering Department of Babcock & Wilcox. At the Stevens Institute of Technology he became a trustee and special lecturer in experimental engineering.

Jacobus was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering (Dr.Eng.) by the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1906. He was president of the ASRE American Society of Refrigerating Engineers in 1907–07, now part of the ASHRAE, and served member of its first board of directors. He also served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1916–17, and was elected Honorary Member of the ASME in 1934.

Selected publications 
 D.S. Jacobus. Latest developments in compressed air-motors for tramways. New York, 1890.

Patents, a selection 
 D.S. Jacobus Patent US1320059 - Furnace-wall, 1919.
 D.S. Jacobus Patent US1341213 - Steam-boiler economizer and method of operating same, 1920.
 D.S. Jacobus Patent US1365321 - Underfeed-stoker boiler, 1921. 
 D.S. Jacobus Patent US2047633 - Pressure vessel and method of making the same, 1936.
 D.S. Jacobus Patent US2209974 - Fluid heat exchange apparatus, 1940.

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1862 births
1955 deaths
American mechanical engineers
20th-century American inventors
American non-fiction writers
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
Purdue University faculty
People from Ridgefield, New Jersey
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from New Jersey
Australian Engineering Heritage Register. The Australian Engineering Heritage Register is a heritage register maintained by Engineers Australia as part of its Engineering Heritage Recognition Program to recognise and preserve Australia's engineering and industrial heritage by recording the history of significant engineering works and by placing markers and interpretative panels at heritage sites. The register has no legislative standing.

The register was first established in 1984 and, by the end of 2016, had recognised 212 engineering heritage works.

See also
 
 List of engineering awards

References

External links 
Australian Engineering Heritage Register Wiki (with full entries)
 Australian Engineering Heritage Recognition Programme Guidelines
 Deprecated official register of Engineering Heritage Markers (in date order, as at April 2017) (archived on 11 September 2017)

Heritage registers in Australia
Engineering awards
Economic history of Australia
Hsia Te-yu. Hsia Te-yu () is a Taiwanese nuclear engineer who led the Atomic Energy Council from May 2000 to March 2001.

Career
Hsia earned a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and had worked for the Atomic Energy Council for over a decade prior to accepting an appointment to lead the AEC. At the time of his promotion, Hsia was head researcher at the AEC's Institute of Nuclear Energy Research. Hsia, a Kuomintang member, took office with the Tang Fei minority cabinet on 20 May 2000. He was supportive of the use of nuclear energy, though many others in the Executive Yuan were not. Much of Hsia's tenure was spent discussing the status of the Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant. In March 2001, Hsia left office and was succeeded by Hu Chin-piao.

References

Taiwanese nuclear engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan
Government ministers of Taiwan
Frontiers of Computer Science. Frontiers of Computer Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal in English, co-published by Springer and Higher Education Press. It publishes research papers, review articles, and letters in computer science, including system architecture, software, artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, networks and communication, information systems, multimedia and graphics, information security, etc. The editor-in-chief is Wei LI (Beihang University, China); the executive editors-in-chief are Zhang XIONG (Beihang University, China) and Zhi-Hua ZHOU (Nanjing University, China).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch)
 Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
 SCOPUS
 INSPEC
 Zentralblatt Math
 Google Scholar
 ACM Digital Library
 Chinese Science Citation Database
 Current Contents/Engineering
 Computing and Technology
 DBLP
 EI-Compendex
 Expanded Academic
 OCLC
 SCImago

References

External links 
 Official website

Computer science journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Academic journals of China
Ira Nelson Hollis. Ira Nelson Hollis (March 7, 1856 – August 25, 1930) was an American mechanical engineer for the U.S. Navy, Professor of engineering at Harvard University, and 5th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1917-18.

Biography

Youth, education and early naval career  
Hollis was born at Mooresville, Indiana as son of Ephriam Joseph Hollis, captain in the 59th Indiana Infantry Regiment, and Mary Kearns Hollis. He was raised in Louisville, where he attended the local high school. After graduation he was an apprentice in a machine shop and later a clerk with a railroad and a cotton commission house.

In 1874 Hollis was admitted to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, now United States Naval Academy, at the age of eighteen at the head of the list. He graduated with honors as Cadet-Engineer in 1878 as top of his class.

After graduation Hollis served in the Navy for fifteen years at sea and on shore. The first three years he spend on the USS Quinnebaug, cruising the North Sea, Mediterranean, and coast of Africa. Subsequently he was Professor of Marine Engineer at Union College in Schenectady, New York, advisor in the Squadron of Evolution, supervisor at Union Iron Works, back at sea in charge of machinery of a vessel on the China Station, and lecturer at the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.

Later career 
After resigning from the Navy, from 1893 to 1913 Hollis was Professor of engineering at Harvard University, at the Lawrence Scientific School. From 1913 to 1925 he served as President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

In 1899 Harvard University had granted Hollis an honorary Master of Arts. In the same year he also obtained a Doctor of Humane Letters from Union College. He was elected  Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1917-18. In 1912 he obtained a Doctor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh

Selected publications 
 Ira Nelson Hollis, The frigate Constitution; the central figure of the Navy under sail, 1900.

 Articles, a selection 
 Hollis, Ira Nelson. "A New Organization for the New Navy." Atlantic Monthly, LXXX (1897), 318-319.
 Hollis, Ira Nelson. "The Navy and the War with Spain." Atlantic Monthly 82 (1898): 605-10.
 Hollis, Ira Nelson. "The Uncertain Factors In Naval Conflicts." Atlantic Monthly, June 728 (1898).
 Hollis, Ira Nelson. "Origin of the Harvard Stadium," Harvard Engineering Journal, 1904.

References

External links 
 Ira Nelson Hollis, The Cultural Landscape Foundation

1856 births
1930 deaths
American mechanical engineers
American non-fiction writers
United States Naval Academy alumni
Union College (New York) faculty
Naval War College faculty
Harvard University faculty
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
People from Mooresville, Indiana
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Edwin Salisbury Carman. Edwin Salisbury Carman (January 31, 1878 - March 20, 1951) was an American mechanical engineer, founder and head of Edwin S. Carman, Inc., engineers and foundry consultants, and inventor. He was president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1921-22.

Biography

Family and education 
Edwin Salisbury Carman was born at Prairie Depot in Wood County, Ohio as son of Howard Carmen and Minerva Adeline (Bixler) Carman. His grandfather, Thomas S. Carman (1808-1903), had been a physician in Ohio and a pioneer in the early days of the state.

After public school education, he took a commercial course and attended evening classes in engineering at the Cleveland Manual Training School.

Career in industry 
In 1899 Carman started his career in industry at the Sun Oil Company, of Toledo, later Sunoco. In 1903 he joined the American Machine & Manufacturing Co., where he assisted in designing electric cranes, rolling mill equipment and special machinery at the engineering department. In 1905 he was promoted chief engineer in charge of the designing, drafting and estimating departments.

Carman later founded his own construction and consultancy firm, Edwin S. Carman, Inc., engineers and foundry consultants. He was elected president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the year 1921-22.

Selected publications 
 E. S. Carman. Foundry Moulding Machines and Pattern Equipment: a Treatise Showing the Progress Made by the Foundries Using Machine Molding Methods. 1920

Patents, a selection
 Patent US1124293 - Casting mechanism for typographs, 1915. 
 Patent US1220725 - Mold-making machine, 1917. 
 Patent US1476688 - Flask-filling machine, 1923. 
 Patent US1631998 - Rotary brush, 1927
 Patent US1739887 - Mechanism for handling sand in foundries, 1929.

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1878 births
1951 deaths
American mechanical engineers
American businesspeople
20th-century American inventors
People from Wayne, Ohio
Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Engineers from Ohio