omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Michela Taufer. Michela Taufer (born 23 April 1971) is an Italian-American computer scientist and holds the Jack Dongarra Professorship in High Performance Computing within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Senior Member. In 2021, together with a team al Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, she earned a R&D 100 Award for the Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.

Education
Taufer attended the University of Padua where she obtained a Laurea in Computer Engineering in 1996. She later went on to earn her Ph.D. in computer science at  ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) in 2002. The dissertation for her Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich) was titled, Inverting Middleware: Performance Analysis of Layered Application Codes in High Performance Distributed Computing, and was supervised by Thomas M. Stricker and Daniel A. Reed.

Research
Her current research interests include high performance computing, scientific applications, and their programmability on multi-core and many-core platforms. She applies advances in computational and algorithmic solutions for high-performance computing technologies (i.e., volunteer computing, accelerators and GPUs, and in situ analytics workflows)  to multi-disciplinary fields including molecular dynamics, ecoinformatics, seismology, and biology.

See also 

 Stefano Valore
 Silvio Micali

References 	

American computer scientists
American expatriates in Switzerland
Fellows of the IEEE
American women computer scientists
ETH Zurich alumni
University of Padua alumni
Italian computer scientists
University of Tennessee faculty
Italian emigrants to the United States
Italian expatriates in Switzerland
University of Delaware faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
1971 births
Living people
Italian women computer scientists
Jang Chol. Jang Chol (, born 1955) is a North Korean politician and scientist. He served as President of the State Academy of Sciences under the Cabinet of North Korea and a member of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was elected a deputy to the 11th and 12th convocations of the Supreme People's Assembly, North Korea's unicameral parliament.

Biography
Jang was born in 1955 in Pyongyang. In February 1999, he was appointed the manager of the state-of-the-art electronic engineering base at the National Academy of Sciences, and was appointed the manager of the enterprise where Jeon Hee-seok works. Since serving as Director of the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, he has been the Director of the Academy of Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea since September 2009. In September 2010, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In 2003, he served as a member of the 11th convocation to the Supreme People's Assembly and following the April 2009, he has been member of the 12th convocation. At the time of the death of Jo Myong-rok in 2010 and death of Kim Jong Il in 2011, he was a member of the funeral committee.

References

Living people
1955 births
People from Pyongyang
Workers' Party of Korea politicians
Members of the Supreme People's Assembly
North Korean scientists
Rover P6BS. Rover P6BS aka Leyland Eight GE (Group experimental) was a prototype from Rover for a mid-engines sports car. Rover had a Buick V8 and after some work on it was finished in 1967 and was planned to go into Rover P5B and P6B, but the engineers wanted something sportier and had already started a project on the side. The team headed by David Bache created an advanced coupé with the V8 mounted in the middle, but offset to the right. The reason for this was that the gearbox was in front of the engine and this placement allowed the transaxle to be run on the side of the engine and thus making the car lower. It has three seats. Most of the work was done at Alvis and it was speculated it would be a new Alvis. It was designed to be production ready and it even got a preliminary price tag, in a US press release it said the cost would be US$5000. The test drivers loved it. It never entered production, but the project lived on as the never made Rover P9.

References

External links 

 Motor Magazine Road Test From 30th March 1968

Rover vehicles
Pedro Siochi. Pedro Siochi (1886–1951) was a Filipino architect and civil engineer of famous landmarks in the Philippines.

Background
Pedro Siochi y Angeles was a Chinese-Spanish-Filipino architect and civil engineer of famous landmarks and structures in the Philippines. He was born in 1886 in Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines.

Education
Siochi attended the University of Ghent in Belgium. He later worked with the Philippine Bureau of Engineering and Construction.

Career

Pedro Siochi and Company
Siochi was the founder and owner of the architecture firm Pedro Siochi and Company, Inc.

Notable works
Among the significant works of Pedro Siochi and Company are famous Philippine landmarks, namely:
 Talavera River Irrigation System in Bulacan Province (1923)
 Culasi Port in Roxas City (1926)
 Manila Central Post Office (1926) with Arch. Juan M. Arellano and Arch. Tomás Mapúa (1926)
 Legislative Building (1926) with Arch. Ralph Harrington Doane, Arch. Antonio Toledo, And Arch. Juan M. Arellano
 Manila Metropolitan Theater (1931) with Arch. Juan M. Arellano
 St. Cecilia's Hall of St. Scholastica's College (1932) with Arch. Andres Luna San Pedro
 Taal Vista Lodge in Laguna (1937–39) with Andres Luna de San Pedro
 Cebu Provincial Capitol (1938) with Juan M. Arellano
 Caliraya Dam in Laguna (1939)
 Santa Catalina College (1952).

Death
Siochi passed away in 1951 in Manila, the Philippines.

See also
 Manila Metropolitan Theater
 Manila Central Post Office
 Legislative Building
 Cebu Provincial Capitol
 Caliraya Dam

References 

1886 births
1951 deaths
Filipino people of Japanese descent
People from Manila
Michael Green (architect). Michael Green is a Canadian architect, co-founder of Michael Green Architecture which he leads with firm partner Natalie Telewiak, and an author of books on mass timber construction. The Case for Tall Wood Buildings  is a case study on using materials such as cross-laminated timber panels and engineered glulam wood beams to build skyscrapers as tall as 30 storeys, originally prepared in 2012 by Green, Equilibrium Consulting, LMDG Ltd. and BTY Group. Green also coauthored Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance, which was published by Birkhäuser in 2017. In March 2020, Birkhäuser published the second and expanded edition of this book. In 2013, Green gave a TED talk titled “Why we should build Wooden Skyscrapers’. In 2014, Green received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Northern British Columbia.

Michael Green is the founder of Design Build Research and Timber Online Education, a non-profit school and research platform dedicated to teaching the design and construction of socially, culturally and environmentally relevant student-led installations with a focus in systemic change in building for climate, environment, disaster and global shelter needs. Green’s architecture firm Michael Green Architecture designed the seven-story T3 building in Minneapolis, which was built using 3,600 cubic metres of wood, and is intended to sequester about 3,200 tonnes of carbon for the life of the building.

In 2021, MGA | Michael Green Architecture was chosen as Best Firm in North America by Architizer Magazine.

Publications
 The Case for Tall Wood Buildings, -2012
 Technical guide for the design and construction of tall wood buildings in Canada, FP Innovation -2014
 Alpenglow, -2015
 The Case for Tall Wood Buildings (2nd Edition), -2017
 Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance., Birkhäuser -2017
 Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance (2nd Expanded Edition), Birkhäuser -2020
 Technical guide for the design and construction of tall wood buildings in Canada (2021 Edition), FP Innovation -IN PROGRESS

Recognition 
Michael Green was the Project Principal for MGA's four Governor General’s Awards for Ronald McDonald House,* Wood Innovation and Design Centre, North Vancouver City Hall,** and the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club Dock Building.

*Project began at McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design and completed at Michael Green Architecture **Lead Design Architect: Michael Green, formerly of McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design, now of Michael Green Architecture

References

External links 
 Michael Green Architecture
 DBR
 TOE

Canadian architects
1966 births
Living people
Qased (rocket). The Qased (also Ghased, ) rocket is an Iranian expendable small-lift orbital space launch vehicle. It made its maiden flight in 2020, lofting Iran's first military satellite named Noor () into orbit.

Design 
Qased is a three stage rocket. Its first stage is propelled by a Ghadr medium range ballistic missile with a diameter of , burning UDMH and N2O4 for 103 seconds and an approximate thrust of , although Qased's application of the proven Ghadr as its first stage is limited to the first launches and subsequent launches are to utilize a solid fueled first stage. The  diameter second stage is the solid fueled Salman with a lightweight carbon fiber composite casing, a flexible nozzle with thrust vectoring capability, and a burn time of 60 seconds. The third stage was erroneously believed to be a Saman-1 upper stage with an Arash-24 solid fuel motor with a burn time of 40 seconds. Later publicly revealed images revealed it was a specific system developed by the IRGC.

Strategic implications 
The launcher is notable as it is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace force rather than the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) and is small enough to be launched from a transporter erector launcher. The launch unveiled a full-blown parallel military space program separate from the ISA, with separate development paths and solid fueled launch vehicles, as opposed to the ISA's liquid fueled rockets.

In terms of the Noor satellite itself, the launch does not fundamentally change the security equations in the Middle East; however, the unveiling of the IRGC space program and its emphasis towards solid fueled launch vehicles (which are more military viable than Iran's previous liquid fueled launchers like the Simorgh) might indicate Iran's hedging strategy to acquire ICBM technology without the security repercussions of openly attempting to do so.

Launch history

Gallery

See also 
IRGC Aerospace Force
Salman (rocket stage)
Noor (satellite)
Shahroud Space Center
Other Iranian satellite launch vehicles

 Safir (rocket)

Simorgh (rocket)
Zuljanah (rocket)
Qaem-100 (rocket)

External links
 
 First launch video -

References 

Space launch vehicles of Iran
Microsatellite launch vehicles
Ellen (E-ferry). E-ferry Ellen () is a pioneering electric car ferry. She operates the  route between the islands of Ærø  and Als in Southern Denmark.

History
Ellen was developed from E-Ferry, an EU-backed project costing EUR 21.3 million. Although this is around 40% more expensive than a conventional vessel, operating costs are 75% lower. It is expected that she will save the release of 2,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.

The ferry was built by Søby Værft A/S, with sections fabricated in Szczecin, Poland. In September 2016, 22 sections were welded together and the hull was towed to Søby on Ærø for outfitting.

Project evaluation
The E-ferry project ended successfully in June 2020, with Ellen in service. Evaluation of the project shows

85% energy efficiency (grid-to-propeller)
1600 kWh consumption (per roundtrip of 22 nautical miles; approx. 40 km)
4–8 years before higher investment cost turns into savings from lower operational costs
2,520 tonnes/year  emissions saved (compared to a modern diesel ferry; using electricity produced on Ærøby from clean renewable sources; 2,010 tonnes if powered from the standard Danish grid mix)
 emissions from battery production estimated 215-430 tonnes (three months emissions from the best modern diesel ferry)

Layout
Ellen can carry 30 vehicles and 200 passengers. She was designed to minimise weight. Her passenger areas are on the same level as the open car deck. She has no ramps, instead using those on shore. The hull is steel but the bridge is made of aluminum. Deck furniture is made from recycled paper rather than wood, giving the ferry a total weight of 650 tonnes.

Ellens batteries were developed by Leclanché of Switzerland and are reported to be Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide. They are split between two battery rooms below deck and have a capacity of 4.3 MWh, larger than any other electric vessel at its time. She is one of the first such vessels to have no emergency generator. A charging arm on the shore ramp moves with the tide and allows battery recharging while loading. Charging time is about 20 minutes.

Service
Ellen was built to operate the 22 nautical miles between the islands of Ærø  and Als in Southern Denmark. She replaced MF Skjoldnæs from 15 August 2019.

Gallery

References

External links
 

Ferries of Denmark
Electric boats
2016 ships
Ships built in Szczecin
Titanium(II) iodide. Titanium(II) iodide is the inorganic compound with the formula TiI2.  It is a black micaceous solid.  It adopts the cadmium iodide structure, featuring octahedral Ti(II) centers.  It arises via the reaction of the elements:
Ti + I2  →  TiI2

As such, it is  an implied intermediate in the van Arkel–de Boer process for the purification of titanium metal.

References

Titanium(II) compounds
Iodides
Titanium halides
Cross dehydrogenative coupling. Cross dehydrogenative coupling (also known as CDC reaction), coined by Chao-Jun Li of McGill University, is a type of coupling reaction allowing the construction of a carbon–carbon bond or C-Heteroatom bond directly from C-H bonds in the presence of an oxidant, leading to the thermodynamically unfavorable formal removal of a H2 molecule. As such, CDC are couplings belonging to the C-H activation strategy.

The key to the CDC coupling is eliminating the need for substrate prefunctionalization. Therefore, the CDC reaction has the advantages of high efficiency, Atom economy and environmental friendliness. Such reactions can be achieved or activated by transition-metal catalysis or oxidation reaction (e.g. benzoquinone, peroxides, O2, hypervalent iodine), or by either photocatalysis or electrocatalysis. The mechanism and reactivity of the CDC reactions varies dramatically depending on the substrate. CDC reactions have been used to construct bonds between sp3-sp3, sp3-sp2, sp3-sp, sp2-sp2, sp2-sp and sp-sp C-H bonds. The synthesis and functionalization of various nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur-containing heterocycles have also been achieved via CDC.

See also 
C-H activation
Cross-coupling
Atom economy
Oxidative coupling

References 

Coupling reactions
Organometallic chemistry
Carbon-carbon bond forming reactions
Catalysis
Titanium(II) bromide. Titanium(II) bromide is the inorganic compound with the formula TiBr2.  It is a black micaceous solid.  It adopts the cadmium iodide structure, featuring octahedral Ti(II) centers.  It arises via the reaction of the elements:
Ti + Br2  →  TiBr2

The compound reacts with caesium bromide to give the linear chain compound CsTiBr3.

References

Titanium(II) compounds
Bromides
Titanium halides
Linear chain compound. In chemistry and materials science, linear chain compounds are materials composed of one-dimensional arrays of metal-metal bonded molecules or ions.  Such materials exhibit anisotropic electrical conductivity.

Examples
Many linear chain compounds feature square planar complexes. One example is , which stack with  distances of about 326 pm. Classic examples include Krogmann's salt and Magnus's green salt.  Another example is the partially oxidized derivatives of . The otherwise ordinary complex  gives an electrically conductive derivative upon oxidation, e.g., with bromine to give , where x ~0.05. Related chlorides have the formulae  and .

In contrast to linear chain compounds, extended metal atom chains (EMACs) are molecules or ions that consist of a finite, often short, linear strings of metal atoms, surrounded by organic ligands.

One group of platinum chains is based on alternating cations and anions of  (R = iPr, , ) and .  These may be able to be used as vapochromic sensor materials, or materials which change color when exposed to different vapors.

Linear chains of Pd-Pd bonds protected by a "π-electron sheath" are known.

Not only do these olefin-stabilized metal chains constitute a significant contribution to the field of organometallic chemistry, both the complex's metal atom structures and the olefin ligands themselves can conduct a current.

Methodology
Some linear chain compounds are produced or fabricated by electrocrystallization. The technique is used to obtain single crystals of low-dimensional electrical conductors.

See also
platinum pop

References

Nanotechnology
Conductive polymers
Molecular electronics
Semiconductor material types
Green Riyadh. The Green Riyadh project is a large landscape-improving project in the capital city of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. It is a project with an estimated budget US$32 Million. This project is part of four major projects to devolve the city ordered by the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salaman bin Abdualazi. It is one of many under the Saudi Vision 2030. The goal is to develop the city and be one of the top 100 cities in the world.

Vision
The project would help to increase the green space per capita in the city by planting different plants across the city. The recycling water system is going to be used. The greening program would result in better air quality and decreased town temperatures.

Forestation
The project has a goal of planting 7.2 million trees in different places around the city using 72 local tree species that can handle the heat and wind in Riyadh. The trees will be placed in schools, car parking sites, government facilities, healthcare facilities, universities, parks, Mosques, and roads, streets, and green belts of a specific length.

Irrigation
The city uses about 90,000 cubic meters per day for irrigation and by the end of the project, it needs 1 million cubic meter per day. To achieve this a new sustainable irrigation system will be used.

See also
 King Salman Park, a park located in Riyadh as a part of the Riyadh Green project. It is estimated to be five times bigger than London's Hyde Park, London and four times than the New York's Central Park.

References

External links
 Riyadh Green website

Year of establishment missing
Economy of Riyadh
Geography of Riyadh
Proposed infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
Government programs
Yu Mingfang. Yu Mingfang (; 3 October 1927 – 12 April 2020) was a Chinese engineer specializing in synthetic fiber. He was the founder of China's chemical fiber industry. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).

Biography
Yu was born into a merchant family in Ningbo, Zhejiang, on 3 October 1927. In September 1944, he was accepted to Soochow University, where he majored in chemical engineering. After graduating in 1948, he was hired as a technician in Shanghai Textile Construction Corporation. He joined the Communist Youth League of China in 1952 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1954. In November 1957, the Shanghai Textile Industry Bureau founded the Chemical Fiber Department. He became one of the first eleven technicians in Shanghai to participate in the construction of chemical fiber industry. He was appointed deputy chief engineer of the industry, in 1961, becoming deputy director in 1964 and director in 1980. In January 1990, he was transferred to Shanghai Textile Polyester General Factory as chief engineer. In December 2001, he was hired as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Donghua University. He died of illness in Shanghai, on 12 April 2020.

Honors and awards

 2002 Guanghua Engineering Technology Award
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

References

1927 births
2020 deaths
Scientists from Ningbo
Engineers from Zhejiang
Soochow University (Suzhou) alumni
Academic staff of Donghua University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Chinese chemical engineers
21st-century Chinese educators
20th-century Chinese engineers
Engineering academics
List of power stations in the British Crown Dependencies. This is a list of current and former electricity-generating power stations in the British Crown Dependencies. The Crown Dependencies are the Bailiwick of Jersey, the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Isle of Man. They are British Islands but are not part of the United Kingdom.

In addition to the generation of electricity at operational stations, there are several sub-sea cables that connect to these power stations to the United Kingdom and France. They include the Isle of Man to England Interconnector and the Channel Islands Electricity Grid.

See also 

 Jersey Electricity Company
 Guernsey Electricity
Channel Islands Electricity Grid
 Manx Utilities
 List of power stations in England
 List of power stations in Scotland
 List of power stations in Wales
 List of power stations in Northern Ireland
List of power stations in France

References 

British Crown Dependencies
Electric power infrastructure in the United Kingdom
2020 Icheon fire. A major fire occurred on 29 April 2020 at a construction site in Icheon, South Korea, killing 39 people and injuring another 10. Blood samples taken from 23 victims indicate most had died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Autopsies have been completed on 15 of the 39 people killed, as recommended by South Korea authorities, but has angered victims' families. All killed workers were irregular or subcontract workers.

The building under construction has four floors above-ground and two more underground. The building did not have sprinklers or other obligatory safety measures. The fire broke out when some 78 workers were in the sub-basement working on polyurethane foam. The first explosion occurred around 13:30 (4:30 UTC). At least 10 explosions were heard.

Authorities launched an investigation to determine the cause of the fire and what safety regulations were violated.

An earlier fire at a refrigerated warehouse in Icheon on 7 January 2008 had killed 40 workers.

See also
 2017 Jecheon fire
 Miryang hospital fire
 Wooshin Golden Suites fire

References

2020 disasters in South Korea
Icheon fire
2020 industrial disasters
April 2020 in South Korea
Building and structure fires in South Korea
Explosions in 2020
Industrial fires and explosions in South Korea
2020 fire
Construction accidents
History of Gyeonggi Province
Deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning