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Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation. The Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation is an award for excellence in engineering in Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight months are set aside to help the contestants. The winner is awarded £25,000, with the second, third and fourth runners-up gaining £10,000 each.

History
The award was introduced in January 2014 by the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom. Competitor engineers must be from Sub-Saharan Africa. 

In 2024 Esther Kimani was the winner of the prize and, because it was the award's tenth year, she was awarded £50,000. She was second winner from Kenya. Kimani had developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis.

Benefits
Sixteen competitors are selected and they are given any support they need during the competition and beyond to deliver their projects. These competitors receive training and support and they get the opportunity to improve their networking. The winner receives £25,000 and the second, third and fourth places are awarded £10,000.

Award recipients
2015 Dr. Askwar Hilonga and team of Tanzania
2016 Arthur Zang of Cameroon
2017 Godwin Benson of Nigeria
2018 Brian Gitta and his team from Uganda
2019 Neo Hutiri from South Africa
2020 Charlette N'Guessan from Ghana
2021 Noël N'guessan from Ivory Coast 
2022 Norah Magero from Kenya
 2023 Anatoli Kirigwajjo from Uganda
 2023 Edmund Wessels from South Africa
2024 Esther Kimani, Kenya

References

International awards
Awards established in 2014
Awards of the Royal Academy of Engineering
2014 establishments in the United Kingdom
Thomas Carr (engineer). Thomas Carr (1824–1874) was an English mechanical engineer of Montpelier, Bristol. Of his several inventions, the Carr's disintegrator was the best-known of its type.

Early life and education
Thomas Carr was born at Durham, England, on 23 January 1824. He was the third son of Rev. John Carr, professor of mathematics in the University of Durham.

Carr showed a talent for mechanics while still a child. At the age of 15, he was placed with Messrs. Bury Curtis and Kennedy of Liverpool. He remained three years, distinguishing himself through the accuracy of his drawings.

Career
Carr invented an improved steering apparatus for ships; Though is received a high approval by authorities on the subject, it was not generally adopted owing to the expense required in repairing it. Some time afterwards, he brought out a new method of drying glue, which could be used at any time -a matter of great importance in the manufacturer of this article- and it was sold to a manufacturer in Leeds. He also originated several other inventions.

His last and principal invention was the disintegrator. This machine, which he described to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, was extensively used in various trades and manufactures especially in connection with agriculture. It was considered to be one of the most valuable inventions of its era. He also brought out a flour mill on the disintegrator principle, which was used extensively in Scotland.

Carr became a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1872.

Death
Carr died in Bristol, England on 29 March 1874, at the age of 50.

References

External links
 Thomas Carr at Grace's Guide to British Industrial History

1824 births
1874 deaths
English mechanical engineers
English inventors
People from Durham, England
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Accredited diploma (France). In France, an Accredited Diploma (Diplovis) (in French: "Diplôme Visé") is a national higher education diploma delivered by public or private Grandes Écoles and colleges (écoles supérieures) and not necessarily linked to a university degree. For certain Grandes Écoles or colleges, it may also be accompanied by a bachelor's or master's degree, adding further recognition. 

It is one of the two diplomas delivered by the Grandes Écoles, along with the Engineer's Diploma and a type of diploma awarded following an evaluation procedure by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, judging the academic quality of the Grande École or college program.

Definition 

This visa from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is state recognition of specific training. Accredited colleges and programs are subject to continuous pedagogical control. Program content, admissions panels and diploma-awarding commissions are reviewed by the French government. Accreditation is granted by decree of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, for a maximum renewable period of 6 years.

Conditions for awarding and renewing accreditation 

Higher education institutions applying for an accreditation must be recognized by the French state. Renewal applications are examined and evaluated by the Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (HCÉRES), with the exception of business schools, which are evaluated by the Commission d'évaluation des formations et de diplômes de gestion (CEFDG). 

Approximately 120 Bachelor's to Master's level courses in France have this accreditation, for a duration of 1 to 6 years.

See also 

 Répertoire National des Certifications Professionnelles (RNCP)
 Titre (degree)

Notes and references 

Academic degrees of France
Lianne Deeming. Lianne Elizabeth Deeming (born May 1967) is a British engineer. She is CEO of Blue light Commercial.

She is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
She was awarded the Mensforth Manufacturing Gold Medal .

Career
She graduated from  Sheffield University, and from Warwick University.
She worked for British Steel,  Corus Group plc, and Tata Steel.

References 

1967 births
British engineers
Tata Group people
Living people
Lian Zhao. Lian Zhao (born 1969) is a Chinese and Canadian electrical engineer whose research interests include wireless communication and resource management for mobile edge computing. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Education and career
After a 1990 bachelor's degree from the Civil Aviation University of China and a 1993 master's degree from Wuhan University, Zhao worked as an engineer in civil aviation for five years before changing to an academic career track.

She received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2002, with the dissertation Error and Power Control Techniques for DS-CDMA Systems with Applications supervised by Jon W. Mark. She joined Toronto Metropolitan University (then named Ryerson University) in 2003. She was tenured as an associate professor in 2006, and became a full professor in 2014.

Recognition
Zhao has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communication Society and of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to modeling, performance analysis, and resource management of wireless networks".

References

External links
Home page

1969 births
Living people
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese women engineers
Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Civil Aviation University of China alumni
Wuhan University alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Academic staff of Toronto Metropolitan University
Fellows of the IEEE
China Hi-Tech Fair. The Shenzhen High-Tech Fair (Simplified Chinese: 深圳高交会, 高交会), officially known as the China Hi-Tech Fair (Simplified Chinese: 中国国际高新技术成果交易会, CHTF), is one of the most influential technology fairs in Shenzhen, China. It is jointly organized by Chinese National and Shenzhen municipal government departments and research institutions.

Description 
Since its inception in 1999, the fair has been held annually in Shenzhen, usually at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in mid-November. The fair serves not only as a platform for technological exchange but also as an important venue for connecting innovative startups with capital.

The fair covers multiple fields, including but not limited to electronic information, environmental protection, new energy, biotechnology, and advanced manufacturing. Additionally, the CHTF includes forums, technical seminars, product launches, and international cooperation exchanges, attracting numerous domestic and international enterprises, research institutions, and investors.

References

Events in Shenzhen
Science events in China
1999 establishments in China
Charlette N'Guessan. Charlette Desirée N'Guessan is an Ivorian software engineer, tech entrepreneur and writer. She was the first woman to win the Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation for the image recognition system, BACE API.

Life
N'Guessan was born in about 1994. Charlotte's name is not unusual in her family as all of her five sisters have that name. She studied at the  Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology in Accra which is where the idea for the software was first developed. In 2018 she created her company BACE group.

N'Guessan was living in Ghana when she became the first woman to win the annual Africa Award for Engineering Innovation awarded by the British Royal Academy of Engineering, in the 2020 competition to showcase engineering science.  After being the first African woman to receive this award, she also raised the honor of Ghana being the first to reach this high level. N'Guessan won the award because of the technology she and her team created BACE API, a technology that identifies and identifies African people. The announcement was made by the Cameroonian entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong on behalf of the judges. This technology has been made wise in order to be identified and evaluated through thinking and wisdom in an easy way, which the public and many companies have been satisfied. The technology can verify a person's original photo or video taken on a cell phone and quickly identify the target.

The BACE API software uses Ghanaian Passports and other documents for authentication and verification. This relied on good cooperation with the officials who are in charge of this part of the country's government. The technology was created to help companies that rely on personal identification. Two Ghanaian companies are using the software to identify their customers.

When she achieved this success, she received an award and praise, including from the minister of Africa in the UK, James Duddridge.

Writing
 Space Fostering African Societies: Developing the African Continent through Space, Part 1 - contribution to Annette Froehlich's 2019 book
She discusses "AI Opportunities in the African Financial Sector" in "The AI Book: The Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and FinTech Visionaries", 2020

References

Living people
Ivorian engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cold Regions Hydrological Modelling platform. The Cold Regions Hydrological Modelling (CRHM) Platform is a hydrological modelling program incorporating the seminal works of Don Gray, Raoul Granger, Pat Landine, and John Pomeroy, among others, in representing hydrological processes for small to mid-sized catchments in cold regions of the earth. Code and software development was carried out by University of Saskatchewan engineer, Tom Brown. Used extensively and supported by the University of Saskatchewan's Centre for Hydrology, CRHM has also been used in 57 Canadian and 31 organizations worldwide to build basin hydrology models. In Canada, the platform has been used to support hydrological predictions related to glacier and snow melt in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and western provinces. CRHM includes following components: Basin, Observation, Snow Transport, Interception, Radiation, Evaporation, Snowmelt, Infiltration, Soil Moisture Balance, Wetlands, Flow, Gravitational Snow Transport, Glacier Melt, and Freezing and Thawing Fronts Dynamics.

Operation 
CRHM requires files (extension .obs) of high-frequency (preferably hourly) continuous time series of observed air temperature, wind speed, humidity, and precipitation. The R package CRHMr can be used to prepare these time series, including infilling missing values. CRHMr can also be used to post-process and plot CRHM outputs.

Other packages that can be used to acquire data for use by CRHM include MSCr which uses data from Meteorological Service of Canada files, Reanalysis, which creates .obs files from several types of reanalysis files, including ERA, WATCH and NARR, and WISKIr, which uses data from a Wiski web server.

Research supported by CRHM 
CRHM has been used extensively in snow modelling and studies of the effects of climate change on cold regions headwater basins. Results from use of the model have also been used in studies of agricultural practices, changes in glaciers, grasslands, and boreal forests.

References

External links 
 

Hydrology models
Esther Kimani. Esther Kimani is a Kenyan engineer who developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis. Her awards included the 2024 Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation.

Life
Kimani was brought up in a farming family in a rural community in the mountains of Nyandarua in Kenya. She remembers how their crops could be lost to disease or how other farmers would spend money to apply the wrong chemical in fear of a ravaged crop. Farmers usually lose a third of their crop to diseases or pests in Kenya.

On 8 September 2022, she was invited to an award ceremony where the Rwandan president Paul Kagame was a guest. It was the Africa Food Prize Awards Ceremony and she and  Mark Musinguzi, founder of Hya Bioplastics in Uganda, shared the main prize of Ksh 6 million. She was also the 2022 Youth Adapt Winner.

In 2024, Kimani was the winner of the Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation. Because it was the award's tenth year she was awarded £50,000 which was twice the usual amount. Norah Magero had won the award so Kimani was the second winner from Kenya. Kimani had developed a method of identifying diseases in crops using image analysis. Losses were said to be reduced by 30% and the yield at harvest was increased by 40%. The cost of the device was low at three dollars a month and it made more inspections than could be done in person. Moreover the device not only notified the farmer but it also informed those overseeing farming so they could be aware of a problem in a specific area.

The three runners up included another Kenyan, Kevin Maina. He had created roof tiles from recycled plastic. The other two runners up were Rory Assandey from Côte d'Ivoire and Ugandan Martin Tumusiime.

References

Living people
Kenyan software engineers
People from Nyandarua County
Year of birth missing (living people)
A. K. M. Shamsuddin. A. K. M. Shamsuddin was a retired secretary and former High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Kenya.

Early life
Shamsuddin was born in 1950 in Sirajganj District. He studied electrical engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Career
Shamsuddin worked at Bangladesh Railway from 1973 to 1992; he was an Assistant Electrical Engineer and later the Chief Electrical Engineer.

From 1992 to 1996, Shamsuddin was the deputy secretary of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. He served as the chairman of the state-owned Padma Oil Company Limited and Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited. He was the Chief of Electrical Inspector from 1998 to 1999.

From 2000 to 2004, Shamsuddin was working at the Bangladesh Hydrocarbon Unit. He was the chair of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Technical Committee of Energy. He was the secretary in-charge of the Ministry of Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment in 2005.

Shamsuddin was the secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education. He implemented the Primary Education Development Programme-2 and received an award from the Asian Development Bank. In November 2006, he was appointed President of the Bangladesh Bridge Federation. He retired in 2007.

Shamsuddin was appointed High Commission of Bangladesh to Kenya in February 2008. He had concurrent accreditation to Ghana, Mauritius, Tanzania, and Uganda.

Death 
Shamsuddin died on 26 July 2022 from COVID-19.

References 

1950 births
2022 deaths
Bangladeshi civil servants
People from Sirajganj District
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
High commissioners of Bangladesh to Kenya
High commissioners of Bangladesh to Uganda
High commissioners of Bangladesh to Ghana
High commissioners of Bangladesh to Mauritius
High commissioners of Bangladesh to Tanzania
Proceedings of Higher Education Institutions. Textile Industry Technology. The Proceedings of Higher Education Institutions. Textile Industry Technology (Russian: Известия высших учебных заведений. Технология текстильной промышленности) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on textile and light industry technology. It was established in 1957 and publishes studies on innovations in textile production processes, the development of new materials, ecological and energy-saving technologies, and engineering applications in textile manufacturing.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Russian Science Citation Index, Scopus, and Chemical Abstracts Service.

References

External links

Multilingual journals
Textile journals
Academic journals established in 1957
Amy J. Ko. Amy J. Ko is an American computer scientist, and a professor in the University of Washington Information School, where she also serves as associate dean for academics. Her research involves human–computer interaction, software engineering, computing education, and computer accessibility.

Education and career
Ko studied both computer science and psychology as an undergraduate honors student at Oregon State University, under the mentorship of computer scientist Margaret Burnett and psychologist Bob Uttl. After graduating in 2002, she went to Carnegie Mellon University for doctoral study in computer–human interaction, and received her Ph.D. in 2008. Her dissertation, Asking and Answering Questions about the Causes of Software Behaviors, was supervised by Brad A. Myers.

She joined the Information School of the University of Washington in 2008, with a courtesy appointment in the university's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. She was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and full professor in 2020.

She was also a co-founder of AnswerDash, a spin-out from the University of Washington. She served as its chief technology officer from 2013 to 2015, and its chief scientist from 2015 until 2020, when it was acquired by CloudEngage.

Recognition
Ko was named to the CHI Academy in 2022. She is also a Distinguished Speaker and Distinguished Member of the Association of Computing Machinery.

Personal life
Ko is a transgender woman; she came out as transgender in 2019, at age 39.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American transgender women
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Software engineering researchers
Computer science educators
Oregon State University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Transgender academics
Allegorithmic. Allegorithmic SAS is a French software company founded in 2003 by Sebastien Deguy.

History 
In January 2019, Adobe Inc. acquired the company to integrate its 3D and immersive design with Adobe's Creative Cloud tools as well as expand Allegorithmic's Substance 3D software. That same year, the Project Substance Alchemist open beta was launched, allowing users to edit existing Substance materials or create new ones using “a mixture of manual, parametric, and AI-driven workflows.”

Adobe Substance 3D tools was launched in 2021. Its tool suite includes: Substance 3D Stager, Substance 3D Painter, Substance 3D Sampler, Substance 3D Designer, and Substance 3D Asset Library. Allegorithmic software has been used in the following video games: Horizon Zero Dawn, Forza Horizon 3, Paragon, Steep, Watch Dogs 2, Rainbow 6 Siege, Halo Wars 2, Dead Rising 4, and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.

Allegorithmic's Substance 3D Designer software won the Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2023. Its Substance Painter texturing tool was also used in the Oscar-winning short film Mr Hublot and won an Emmy Award in 2024 in the Engineering, Science & Technology category.

References

Software companies of France
French companies established in 2003
2019 mergers and acquisitions
James W. Mitchell. James W. Mitchell is an African American chemist and was the David and Lucille Packard Professor of Material Science at Howard University.

Early life and education 
James W. Mitchell was born on November 16, 1943, in Durham, North Carolina. He was one of five children born to Willie and Eunice Mitchell. His interest in chemistry began in 1960 during a summer program at North Carolina Central University that was funded by the National Science Foundation.

Despite suffering financial hardships, he was able to fund his education through a scholarship and by working on-campus at North Carolina A&T State University. He earned his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 1965. He pursued his studies in Analytical Chemistry, receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1970 from Iowa State University.

Career and achievements 
Mitchell's first job after receiving his Ph.D. was with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Initially starting as a member of the technical staff, he quickly rose through the ranks to become Head of the Analytical Chemistry Research Department in 1975. During his time there, he also became one of the founders for the Association of Black Laboratory Employees. He supervised the Inorganic Analytical Chemistry Research Group and though his leading, made the Department a renowned Laboratory Research organization worldwide. He was first Black Bell Labs Fellow and the first black director and vice president of research. In 2002 he began working at Howard University as the David and Lucille Packard Professor of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering. He also co-wrote a book, "Contamination Control in Trace Analysis." He was Director of the CREST Nanoscale Analytical Sciences Research and Education Center. He has published over 60 scientific papers, and patented several innovative processes.  

As a chemist, he wrote approximately 100 articles. Mitchell developed processes, such as "on-demand" reagent generation, which improved the production of high-purity materials for optical fibers and semiconductors. He established benchmarks in materials purity and quality, enabling transformative advancements in optical communication and high-power laser technologies. He also led research in diamond material development, introducing methods to enhance diamond properties for industrial applications. 

Mitchell received the Percy L. Julian Research Award and the Pharmacia Industrial Analytical Chemistry Award. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989. In 1999, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Industry Award from the National Society of Black Engineers. He was named the 1993 Black Engineer of the Year by US Black Engineer magazine for his contributions to analytical chemistry and materials engineering.

References 

Wikipedia Student Program
Analytical chemistry
Howard University faculty
21st-century African-American scientists
20th-century African-American scientists