omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Vinod Kannan. Vinod Kannan is an Indian businessman. He is the CEO of Vistara Airlines.

Early life and education
Kannan grew up in Bangalore and left for Singapore to do his degree in Electronics Engineering at Nanyang Technological University after which he joined Singapore Airlines. He later did a master's degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and University of California, Los Angeles.

Career
Kannan had worked with Singapore Airlines (SIA) for over twenty years. In June 2019, he joined Vistara as the Chief Strategy Officer. In January 2020, he became the Chief Commercial Officer of Vistara. In January 2022, he  became the  chief executive officer of Vistara.

References

Living people
21st-century Indian businesspeople
20th-century Indian businesspeople
National University of Singapore alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Lutetium vanadate. Lutetium vanadate is inorganic compound with ferromagnetic and semiconducting properties, with the chemical formula of Lu2V2O7 with the same structure as pyrochlore.

Preparation
Lutetium vanadate can be obtained by the reaction between lutetium oxide, vanadium trioxide and vanadium pentoxide at a high temperature (1400 °C) in an argon atmosphere with oxygen pressure of 2.0×10−5 bar.
 2 Lu2O3 + V2O3 + V2O5 → 2 Lu2V2O7

See also
Ytterbium-doped lutetium orthovanadate

References

Lutetium compounds
Vanadates
Vanadium(IV) compounds
Lutetium(III) iodide. Lutetium(III) iodide or lutetium iodide is an inorganic compound consisting of iodine and lutetium, with the chemical formula of LuI3.

Preparation 

Lutetium(III) iodide can be obtained by reacting lutetium with iodine:

 2 Lu + 3 I2 → LuI3

Lutetium(III) iodide can also obtained by the reacting metallic lutetium with mercury iodide in  vacuum at 500 °C:

 2 Lu + 3 HgI2 → 2 LuI3 + 3 Hg

The elemental mercury generated in the reaction can be removed by distillation.

The lutetium(III) iodide hydrate crystallized from the solution can be heated with ammonium iodide to obtain the anhydrate.

Properties 

It is a brown, very hygroscopic solid with a bismuth(III) iodide-type crystal structure. In air, it quickly absorbs moisture and forms hydrates. The corresponding oxide iodide is also readily formed at elevated temperature.

Lutetium(III) iodide doped with cerium is designed for use in PET scanners. Lutetium iodide can be used together with yttrium iodide and gadolinium iodide in LuI3-YI3-GdI3 scintillators to detect neutron and gamma radiation.

References 

Lutetium compounds
Iodides
Lanthanide halides
Feng Liu (physicist). Feng Liu is a material physicist.

Liu earned a bachelor's of science degree in materials science at Tsinghua University in 1984. He left Tsinghua in 1986 with a master's of science in solid state physics and obtained a doctorate in chemical physics at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1990. Liu then served as a postdoctoral researcher for four years, first with Rutgers University, before moving to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 

Between 1995 and 2000, he worked at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as a research scientist. Liu joined the University of Utah faculty in 2000 and was promoted to a full professorship in 2007. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011, "[f]or contributions to the theory of nanostructures and strain-induced nanoscale self-assembly". In May 2021, Liu was named the Ivan B. Cutler Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Utah. Liu became a distinguished professor in July of the following year.

References

Place of birth missing (living people)
Chinese nanotechnologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Chinese physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Chinese expatriates in the United States
University of Utah faculty
Tsinghua University alumni
Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison staff
Living people
Lunsemfwa Lower Hydroelectric Power Station. Lunsemfwa Lower Hydroelectric Power Station, is a planned  hydroelectric power station in Zambia. The power station is under development by a consortium comprising Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company (LHPC), a Zambian independent power producer and EleQtra, a United Kingdom-based financial and development company. The off-taker is planned to be Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (ZESCO), the national electricity utility parastatal company.

Location
The power station would be located across the Lunsemfwa River, in Zambia's Central Province, downstream of the 40 MW Mulungushi Hydroelectric Power Station and the 18 MW Lunsemfwa Hydroelectric Power Station.

Overview
The design calls for generation capacity of 255 megawatts. the power station is planned as a run of river project, without a large reservoir. The gross hydraulic head is planned at . Three penstocks each with diameter of  and  long, will carry water to three electric generators, each rated at 85 MW. The 1,630 GWh generated here annually are expected to be purchased by ZESCO for integration into the Zambian national grid.

Developers
As far back as 2010, Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company and InfraCo Africa Limited, planned to develop a power station on the Lunsemfwa River. At that time, a 120 MW project was anticipated at a projected cost of between US$220 million and US$275 million. Eleven years later, a 255 MW plant is planned with InfraCo passing the responsibility to her subsidiary EleQtra. The owner remains LHPC.

Cost and timeline
The cost of construction is reported as approximately US$300 million. Construction is expected to start in 2023 and last approximately three years.

See also

Zambezi River
List of power stations in Zambia

References

External links
  Lungu orders solution for Upper Lunsemfwa Dam As of 18 June 2017.
  Low power production at Lunsemfwa attributed to US$50m ZESCO debt As of 25 June 2020.

Hydroelectric power stations in Zambia
Central Province, Zambia
Buildings and structures in Zambia
Design 1006 ship. The Design 1006 ship (full name Emergency Fleet Corporation Design 1006) was a wood-hulled cargo ship design approved for production by the United States Shipping Boards Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFT) in World War I. They were referred to as the "Daugherty"-type after A. A. Daugherty, the president of the National Shipbuilding Company. The USSB ordered a total of 40 hulls from three shipyards: National Shipbuilding Company of Orange, Texas shipyard (28 ordered, 16 cancelled); Union Bridge & Construction Company of Morgan City, Louisiana shipyard (6 hulls ordered, 6 cancelled); and Dirks Blodgett Shipbuilding Company of Pascagoula, Mississippi (6 hulls ordered but built as Design 1001). The design was altered by National Shipbuilding increasing the deadweight to 5,000 tons (the official designation was changed to Design 1056). Only 12 were completed for the USSB while two were built as tankers (A.A. Daugherty - ON 220746; and P.J. Reilly - ON 220969) in 1920 for the National Oil Transportation Company of Port Arthur, Texas and one as a barge (W. E. Ebsen - ON 219455).

References

External links
 EFC Design 1006: Illustrations

Standard ship types of the United States
Kayhan Space. Kayhan Space Corp. doing business as Kayhan Space is an American space technology company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2019, their products have been centered on space-related activities. Focusing on space awareness, Kayhan Space has made products such as Pathfinder for dodging space debris and other satellites.

History 

Kayhan Space was founded in 2019  by Siamak Hesar and Araz Feyzi, immigrants to the US and both naturalized U.S. citizens for over 10 years. Hesar holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a focus on precise orbit determination. He has supported several NASA missions in the past, most notably as a radio science working group (RSWG) team member for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission while at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Feyzi is a co-founder of Syfer, an internet device security company.

On December 14, 2021, Kayhan Space announced that $3.7 million was raised in seed funding.  

On September 28, 2022, Kayhan Space along with Astroscale and the University of Texas at Austin, won a Small Business Technology Transfer Phase 1 award. The award, worth $250,000, is under the Orbital Prime program, which is run by the technology division of the United States Space Force. The award is contracted to aerospace small business companies that work with academic or nonprofit organizations.

On September 19, 2023, Kayhan Space announced a subsequent $7 million financing that brought the companies total venture capital funding raised to $10.7 million.

Products

Pathfinder 
Pathfinder is a subscription-based software designed to help space companies perform their missions without worrying and countering orbital debris and other damaging objects from affecting missions. Major customers of Pathfinder include Capella Space, Lynk Global and Globalstar.

Eagle 
Eagle is a software for orbit simulation and model for Low Earth Orbit, Geostationary orbit, and Interplanetary orbits.

Gamut 
Gamut is a software to prevent debris collisions in launch trajectories, and submitting trajectories to the government for approval.

Proxima 
Announced in 2022, Proxima is being built in cooperation with Astroscale and University of Texas at Austin, it is an enhancement of Astroscale's current system for rendezvous and proximity operations. It allows for minimal manual support for safe close-distance maneuvers.

References 

Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
Philippe Louis Voltz. Philippe-Louis Voltz (15 August 1785 – 6 February 1840) was a French mining engineer, metallurgist, and geologist. He examined fossils in relation to stratigraphy and, with his knowledge of languages, took part in the interchange of ideas between French and German geologists.

Voltz was born in Strasbourg where his father David ran a cafe. He went to the École polytechnique in 1803 and the École des Mines in 1805 before joining the mine establishments in Belgium and in the Alsace region. He studied steel making in England and Germany and worked on blast furnaces in France. From 1830 he gave lectures in geology at Strasbourg where he influenced many future geologists including Jules Thurmann and Amanz Gressly. Along with Armand Dufrénoy (1792-1857), he was also involved in arranging the geological collections with a stratigraphic focus at the Strasbourg Academy and brought together numerous fossil plants, some described by his student Wilhelm Philippe Schimper. He became an inspector of mines in 1836.

He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1831. Fluent in German, Voltz corresponded with German geologists and was made a member of the Leopoldina Academy in 1833. He organized a special meeting of the French Geological Society in Strasbourg in 1834 with attendance from both French and foreign geologists. He was a founding member of the Société d’Historie Naturelle de Strasbourg. The Triassic conifer genus Voltzia was named in his honour in 1828 by Adolphe Brongniart. The mineral voltzite was named after him by Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet in 1833.

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1785 births
1840 deaths
French paleontologists
Alison Lewis. Alison Lewis is a South African chemical engineer known for her research in crystallisation and precipitation as applied to the recovery of valuable metals. She is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and is a member of UCT’s Senior Leadership Team. Lewis is also the founder and director of UCT’s Crystallisation and Precipitation Research Unit.

Early life and education 
Lewis attended school at Pinetown Convent School in KwaZulu Natal and then St Mary’s Anglican School for Girls in Johannesburg. She earned a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Cape Town in 1993 after obtaining a BSc and MSc in chemical engineering at the same institution.

Under her maiden name, Billing, Lewis served on the UCT Students Representative Council from 1983 to 1985. An anti-apartheid activist she was detained without trial in 1986 under the Section 3.1 of the 1986 State of Emergency legislation From 1988 to 1990 as Alison Ozinsky, she was a member of the Cape Democrats in the United Democratic Front and served as the editor for the organisation's journal, Upfront.

Academic career 
Lewis began her academic career as a senior lecturer in UCT’s department of chemical engineering in 1995, becoming an associate professor in 2002. She became a full professor in the same department in 2007 and served as head of department from January 2013 until June 2015 when she was appointed dean of the faculty of engineering & the built environment. She is the first woman to have held this deanship at UCT.

The National Research Foundation has rated Lewis as Researchers who enjoy considerable international recognition by their peers for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs since 2009.

Awards and honours

Received the NRF President’s Champion of Research Capacity Development at South African Higher Education Institutions Award in 2010. 
Received the Distinguished Woman Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology at the South African Women in Science Awards for Research and Innovation in 2012 and 2015 .
She received the Africa Water Leadership Award: conferred on "outstanding professionals who have the vision, flair, acumen and professionalism to demonstrate excellent Leadership and Management skills in an organisation, making changes and achieving results” in 2016.
She received the Engineering Research Capacity Development Award from the National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) in 2021. 
Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), the South African Institute of Chemical Engineers (FSAIChE) and the South African Academy of Engineering (FSAAE). 
Elected as an International Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA in 2024.

Selected works

References

External links 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
South African chemical engineers
University of Cape Town alumni
Academic staff of the University of Cape Town
Alumni of St Mary's School, Waverley
ISO 25119. ISO 25119, titled "Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry – Safety-related parts of control systems",  is an international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems that are installed in tractors and machines used in agriculture and forestry, defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Parts of ISO 25119
ISO 25119 consists of following parts:
 General principles for design and development
 Concept phase
 Series development, hardware and software
 Production, operation, modification and supporting processes

See also 
 IEC 61508

References

25119
Safety engineering
Tom Pittman (computer scientist). Tom Pittman is an American computer scientist. He was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club and known for coauthoring The Art of Compiler Design (1992).

Biography 
Pittman received a BA in Math from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966 and a PhD in Computer and Information Science at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1985.

Pittman was a founding member of the Homebrew Computer Club, who created a personal computer based on the low-powered Intel 4004 chip and maintained the Homebrew mailing list. In two months, he wrote a Tiny BASIC interpreter for the Motorola 6800, selling it for only five dollars.

He and James Peters coauthored The Art of Compiler Design (1992), an important introductory textbook to compiler and interpreter design.

References

External links 
 

Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists
American computer scientists
American computer programmers
American computer science educators
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sharonville Engineer Depot. The Sharonville Engineer Depot (sometimes Sharonville Engineering Depot) was a facility constructed by the United States Army near Sharonville in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, for the purpose of storage of strategic metals.  The site was originally 642 acres in size.

The site was constructed in 1942.  The site was transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA) in 1949.  After that time, the GSA sold or transferred portions of the property to various governmental and private entities.  GSA retained approximately 80 acres which (in 1998) were leased to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

The Depot is listed as a Formerly Used Defense Site by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

The Depot was investigated by contractors working for the USACE in the mid-1990s.  The investigation was triggered by reports of possible contamination in groundwater by organic compounds at the nearby Brighton Corporation.  Four monitoring wells were installed and the groundwater was sampled, but no organic compounds were detected.

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United States Army logistics installations
Military installations in Ohio
Hamilton County, Ohio
Domitilla Del Vecchio. Domitilla Del Vecchio is an Italian control theorist, whose research connects control theory to systems biology, synthetic biology, synthetic biological circuits, and regenerative medicine. She has also studied self-organization in traffic control. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center.

Education and career
Del Vecchio's father was a Roman engineer and her mother was a businesswoman. She earned a laurea at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1999, and completed a PhD in control theory and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2005.

She became an assistant professor of electrical and engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan in 2006, also affiliated there with the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. She moved to her present position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010.

Book
Del Vecchio is coauthor of the book Biomolecular Feedback Systems (with Richard M. Murray, Princeton University Press, 2014).

Recognition
Del Vecchio was the 2010 winner of the Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Automatic Control Council, "for contributions to the theory and practice of hybrid dynamical systems and systems biology". She was named to the 2021 class of IEEE Fellows, "for contributions to circuit engineering in synthetic biology". She is also a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian engineers
Italian women engineers
Control theorists
University of Rome Tor Vergata alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control
Walter M. Nielsen. Walter McKinley Nielsen (December 18, 1900, Tyler, Minnesota – January 8, 1981) was an American professor of physics and one of the founders of Duke University's physics department.

Biography
Nielsen studied at the University of Minnesota, completing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1922 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1925. He was the third person to join the physics department at the newly endowed Duke University. There he was an instructor from 1925 to 1928, an assistant professor from 1928 to 1937, and a full professor from 1937
to 1966, when he retired as professor emeritus. He was on leave of absence for the academic year 1929–1930 as a National Research Council Fellow at the Bartol Research Foundation and during World War II.

His promotion of research and leadership brought Duke University's physics department "into international prominence." Under his influence, Duke University's physics department appointed a number of outstanding physicists, including Martin M. Block, William M. Fairbank, Walter Gordy, Fritz London, Henry W. Newson, Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim, and Hertha Sponer. Nielsen’s doctoral students include Karl Z. Morgan.

Nielsen chaired the Duke University Council for many years, the Council of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (of which he was a member from 1946 to 1959), and the Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (APS) for one year.

In 1937 he was elected a Fellows of the American Physical Society. In 1946 he received the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award with citation for "outstanding service to the Navy in the field of degaussing and magnetic stabilization of ships".

In 1928 he married Katharine Phelps Tryon (1901–1975). They had two sons and a daughter. In retirement Walter and Katharine Nielsen lived in their house built in 1937 in Durham, North Carolina and in their smaller house near Boone, North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There he made a large collection of photographs of wildflowers.

Selected publications

References

1900 births
1981 deaths
University of Minnesota alumni
Duke University faculty
20th-century American physicists
Cosmic ray physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
People from Tyler, Minnesota
Recipients of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award
Thomas K. Caughey. Thomas Kirk Caughey (1927 – December 7, 2004) was an American engineer and leader in the fields of dynamics and vibrations, fluid-induced forces in turbomachinery, stochastic nonlinear systems, and structural monitoring and active control of large structures. He was academic who served as a professor of applied mechanics at the California Institute of Technology. His awards include the Norman Medal in 1999 and the Theodore von Kármán Prize in 2002, both from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award, which was established in 2008, is named after him.

Biography
Born in Rutherglen, Scotland, Caughey graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1948 from the University of Glasgow. From 1947–1951 he worked at Jas. Howden & Co. in Glasgow where he devised an automatic machining system for a new type of rotary compressor. Later, he moved to the United States as a Fulbright scholar and attended Cornell University, where he earned an MS Mechanical Engineering in 1952. In 1954, he completed his PhD from Caltech.

Caughey started his career as an instructor at Caltech in 1953 and later served as a professor of applied mathematics and mechanical engineering between 1955 and 1996.

In 1994, he became the Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and served until 2004.

He worked with fellow professor Donald E. Hudson to develop the C. I. T. MARK II Response Spectrum Analyzer, which was displayed at the Second World conference on Earthquake Engineering in Tokyo in 1960.

Caughey died on December 7, 2004, at the age of 77.

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Scottish scholars and academics
Cornell University alumni
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
California Institute of Technology alumni
1927 births

2004 deaths