omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
I.Ae.32 Chingolo. The I.Ae.32 Chingolo (named after the South American bird) was a civil trainer, touring and aerobatic aircraft developed in Argentina in the 1940s. It was designed by Sandro Gorissenso and developed by the Instituto Aerotécnico for manufacture by the company “Mario Vicente Construcciones Aeronáuticas” in Córdoba Province as an initiative under President Juan Perón's first five year plan.

Design and development
The design, which shared some of the technical characteristics of the earlier I.Ae. 31 Colibrí, was a conventional low-wing cantilever monoplane with and had fixed tailwheel undercarriage; seating a student pilot (or passenger) and instructor (or pilot) in a tandem enclosed cockpit. Only one prototype was built.

Specifications

See also
 I.Ae. 31 Colibrí

References
 
 Bridgeman, Leonard. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1950-1951 edition New York: The Mcgraw. Hill Book Company, Inc, 1950 Pg.9c (No ISBN)

Further reading

External links 

 Crónicas y testimonios – Fábrica Militar de Aviones

1940s Argentine civil trainer aircraft
FMA aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1949
ESITH. The School of Textile and Clothing industries (ESITH) is a Moroccan engineering school, established in 1996, that focuses on textiles and clothing. It was created in collaboration with ENSAIT and ENSISA, as a result of a public private partnership designed to grow a key sector in the Moroccan economy. The partnership was successful and has been used as a model for other schools.

ESITH is the only engineering school in Morocco that provides a comprehensive program in textile engineering with internships for students at the Canadian Group CTT. Edith offers three programs in industrial engineering: product management, supply chain, and logistics, and textile and clothing

References

 
 
 

Universities and colleges in Morocco
1996 establishments in Morocco
Educational institutions established in 1996
Textile engineering
20th-century architecture in Morocco
Education in Casablanca
Universities and colleges established in 1996
Oil discharge monitoring equipment. Oil discharge monitoring equipment (ODME) is based on a measurement of oil content in the ballast and slop water, to measure conformance with regulations.  The apparatus is equipped with a GPS, data recording functionality, an oil content meter and a flow meter.  By use of data interpretation, a computing unit will be able to allow the discharge to continue or it will stop it using a valve outside the deck.



Operating principle

A sample point on the discharge line allows for the analyzer to determine the oil content of the ballast now and slop water in PPM.  The analyzer is self-maintaining by periodical cleansings with fresh water, and therefore requires a minimum of active maintenance from the crew.  The results of the analyzer are sent to a computer, which determines whether the oil content values are to result in overboard discharge or not.  The valves that direct the ballast water either over board or to slop tank are controlled by the integrated computer, and a GPS signal further automates the process by including special areas and completes the required input for the Oil Record Book.

All oil tankers with a gross tonnage of larger than 150 must have efficient Oil Discharge Monitoring Equipment on board.

The oily discharge is sent out to sea through a pump.  The oily mixture has to pass through a series of sensors to determine whether it is acceptable to be sent to the discharge pipe.

Based on regulations, the following values must be recorded by the system:
 Date and time of the discharge
 Location of the ship
 Oil content of the discharge in ppm
 Total quantity discharged
 Discharge rate
All records of Oil Detection Monitoring Equipment  must be stored on board ships for no less than 3 years.

Oil Discharge Monitoring systems today consist of a computing unit that is installed in the cargo control room.  The computer unit control and receives data from other ODME components.

ODME systems also have an analyzing unit that contains the Oil content meter, a fresh water valve for cleaning purposes, and a pressure transmitter that monitors the sample flow through the measuring cell.

See also 
 Marpol 73/78
 Marpol Annex I
 Oily water separators
 Oily water separator (marine)
 Oil Content Meter
 Magic Pipe
 IMO
 Port Reception Facilities

References 

Waste treatment technology
Ocean pollution
Ocean zoning. Ocean zoning is a policy approach for environmental resource management in oceanic environments. This, often big picture, approach to ocean management allocates areas for various ocean uses. Types of zones can include areas designated for marine protected areas (including marine reserves), aquaculture, various types of fishing, shipping, recreation (including scuba diving), mooring/anchoring, and energy production (including offshore wind power). The process of marine spatial planning can result in ocean zones being legally established.

Benefits of ocean zoning can include reducing conflict between users, safeguarding ecologically important areas, enabling commercial activity to develop with certainty, and supporting international cooperation. Balancing environmental, economic, security, social, and cultural interests in delineation of zone boundaries remains a key challenge of ocean zoning.

References

External links

Open Channels - Forum for Ocean Planning and Management
SeaSketch - Software tools to support collaborative ocean planning

Marine conservation
Natural resource management
Sustainable fishery
Oceanographical terminology
Eli M. Pearce. Eli M. Pearce (May 1, 1929 – May 18, 2015) was research professor at New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering and a past-president of the American Chemical Society. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from Brooklyn College in 1949. Pearce earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering). He published more than 250 papers on his research. He designed fire-resistant polymers.

References

Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Presidents of the American Chemical Society
Brooklyn College alumni
1929 births
2015 deaths
Jason Hsuan. Jason Hsuan is the chairman, executive director and chief executive officer of TPV Technology. Hsuan graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan in 1968, and holds a doctorate degree in systems engineering from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (then Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn) and a master's degree in systems engineering from Boston University.

In 2012, he was chairman and CEO of TPV Technology Limited.

References

Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
National Cheng Kung University alumni
Boston University College of Engineering alumni
Vikram Adve. Vikram Adve (born 28 June 1966) is the Donald B. Gillies professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Academia
In 2020, Vikram Adve became a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and leads AIFARMS, a $20M National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute funded by NIFA and NSF at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vikram Adve, along with Chris Lattner, designed and developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001. Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner received the 2012 ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software system.

Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing, approximate computing, software security, system reliability, and parallel programming. His group open-sourced the HPVM compiler infrastructure for various Central processing unit and Graphics processing unit architectures, Field-programmable gate array and domain-specific accelerators.

Vikram Adve served as interim head of University of Illinois Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019.

Prior to joining the faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993.

See also
Chris Lattner
Mary K. Vernon

References

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
IIT Bombay alumni
Living people
1966 births
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Indian computer scientists
EIDORS. EIDORS is an open-source software tool box written mainly in MATLAB/GNU Octave designed primarily for image reconstruction from electrical impedance tomography (EIT) data, in a biomedical, industrial or geophysical setting. The name was originally an acronym for Electrical Impedance Tomography and Diffuse Optical Reconstruction Software. While the name reflects the original intention to cover image reconstruction of data from the mathematically similar near infra red diffuse optical imaging, to date there has been little development in that area.

The project was launched in 1999  with a Matlab code for 2D EIT reconstruction which had its origin in the PhD thesis of Marko Vauhkonen and the work of his supervisor Jari Kaipio at the University of Kuopio.  While Kuopio also developed a three dimensional EIT code  this was not released as open-source.  Instead the three dimensional version of EIDORS was developed from work done at UMIST (now University of Manchester) by Nick Polydorides and William Lionheart.

Methods and models
The forward models in EIDORS use the finite element method and this requires mesh generation for sometimes irregular objects (such as human bodies), and the meshing needs to reflect the electrodes used to drive and measure current in EIT.  For this purpose an interface was developed to the Netgen Mesh Generator.

History
As the project grew there was a desire to incorporate forward modelling and reconstruction code from a variety of groups and Andy Adler and Lionheart developed a more extensible software system. The most recent version is 3.10, released in Dec, 2019.

The EIDORS project also includes a repository of EIT data distributed under open-source licenses.

Applications
EIDORS has been extensively used in biomedical applications of EIT, including lung imaging, measuring cardiac output. It has been used for investigation of imaging electrical activity in the brain, and monitoring conductivity changes during radio-frequency ablation. Outside medical imaging the toolbox has been used in process tomography, geophysics  and materials science.

References

External links
 EIDORS website on Sourceforge

Medical imaging
Inverse problems
Le Collectionneur de cerveaux. Le Collectionneur de cerveaux (Thinking Robots) is a French horror film (1976) based on George Langelaan's novel Les robots pensants starring Claude Jade.

The young pianist Penny Vanderwood (Claude Jade) notices that a robot, created by the Count Saint-Germain (André Reybaz), plays chess in the same way as her deceased fiancé Robert Tournon. She convinces her friend Lewis Armeight (François Dunoyer) to open Robert's coffin, which is empty. Penny seeks to solve this mystery and embarks on the trail of the count...

Fantastic story adapted from George Langelaan's "Thinking Robots" and which portrays the contemporary adventure of a chess-playing automaton. Alone on the stage of a provincial theatre, the famous pianist Penny Vanderwood practices for her next piano recital. A middle-aged man breaks into the theatre and observes the young woman. As soon as she finishes playing, he applauds at length: "I had long dreamed of inventing a pianist robot and when I saw you, I knew it would look like you." The man leaves Penny his business card: "Count of St. Germain, creator of automatons." The day after her recital, Penny reads in bed a flattering newspaper article dedicated to her. The girl's attention is drawn to another article announcing a championship that pits the best chess players in town against a mysterious and infallible robot presented by the Comte de Saint-Germain... Intrigued, Penny decides to extend her stay to attend the tournament...

Films scored by Vladimir Cosma
1976 films
1970s French-language films
Southern Condor. The Southern Condor is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Southern Powered Parachutes (formerly called Condor Powered Parachutes) of Nicholson, Georgia. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

The company seems to have gone out of business about 2006 and production ended.

Design and development
The Condor complies with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, but was never an accepted US light-sport aircraft.

The Condor features a  parachute-style wing, two-seats-in-tandem accommodation, tricycle landing gear and a single  Rotax 582 engine in pusher configuration. Twin  Rotax 503 engines were a factory option.

The aircraft carriage was built from a combination of bolted aluminium and 4130 steel tubing by Aerostar of Romania and then assembled in the US. In flight steering is accomplished via foot pedals that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has lever-controlled nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates spring rod suspension.

Operational history
In June 2015, 13 examples were registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, although a total of 15 had been registered at one time.

Specifications (Condor S Sport)

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Condor
2000s United States sport aircraft
2000s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Southern Powered Parachutes. Southern Powered Parachutes was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Nicholson, Georgia. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight and the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles trainer rules. The company's designs were never listed in the American light-sport aircraft category.

The company was founded as  Condor Powered Parachutes by John Massey in about 2001 as a result of his experience as a powered parachute pilot and dealer for other brands. He wanted to produce a lower-cost aircraft and Massey had a chance meeting with the president of Aerostar that led to a manufacturing relationship. As the model line expanded the company changed its name to Southern Powered Parachutes.

Southern produced two models, the Condor and Raptor, with the airframes built by Aerostar in Romania. The airframes were shipped to the US and assembled in Georgia for domestic sale. At least 15 Condors and eight Raptors were built. The company seems to have gone out of business in about 2006.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
Alliant Aviation. Alliant Aviation LLC was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Three Rivers, Michigan and later in Richland, Michigan. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight categories. None of the company's aircraft appear on the list of accepted American light-sport aircraft.

Alliant was formed about 2003 as a restructuring of Destiny Powered Parachutes. The new company retained the same address in Three Rivers, Michigan for a time, before moving to nearby Richland, Michigan. Alliant was a limited liability company (LLC).

The new company showed its first new aircraft, the Alliant Destiny Fusion at Sun 'n Fun, Lakeland, Florida in 2003. The Fusion featured an unusual semi-stressed skin composite fuselage. The company line included the Destiny LT two-seater, Destiny ST single-seater and the Destiny XLT two-seater. In about 2004 the ParaCraft Falcon F-1 was introduced.

The company seems to have gone out of business about 2005.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Powered parachutes
Sharif College of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. Sharif College of Engineering and Technology (SCET) is a college located in Sharif Medical City, in the Jati Umra neighborhood of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

It was founded in 2010, as a project of Sharif Trust, a nonprofit organization formed in 1995 under the Societies Registration Act of 1860.

SCET is affiliated with the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. The college offers three degree programs: 1. B.Sc Chemical Engineering 2. B.Sc Electrical Engineering 3. B.Sc Computer Sciences.
Since the time of its founding, students of this college have participated in national and international competitions.

References

Engineering universities and colleges in Pakistan
Universities and colleges in Lahore
U.2. U.2 (pronounced 'u-dot-2'), using the port SFF-8639, is a computer interface standard for connecting solid-state drives (SSDs) to a computer. It covers the physical connector, electrical characteristics, and communication protocols.  

It was developed for the enterprise market and designed to be used with new PCI Express drives (NVM Express) along with SAS and SATA drives. It uses up to four PCI Express lanes and two SATA lanes.

History 
The Enterprise SSD form factor was developed by the SSD Form Factor Working Group (SFFWG). The specification was released on December 20, 2011, as a mechanism for providing PCI Express connections to SSDs for the enterprise market. Goals included being usable in existing 2.5" and 3.5" form factors, to be hot swappable and to allow legacy SAS and SATA drives to be mixed using the same connector family.

In June 2015, the SFFWG announced that the connector was being renamed to U.2.

Connector 
The U.2 connector is mechanically identical to the SATA Express device plug, but provides four PCI Express lanes through a different usage of available pins.

U.2 devices may be connected to an M.2 port using an adapter.

Availability 
In November 2015, Intel introduced the 750 series SSD which is available in both PCI Express and U.2 variants.

Since then, U.2 has achieved a high level of support from the major storage vendors and storage appliance suppliers.

U.2 compared with M.2 
U.2 can use 3.3V, 5V and 12V for power, while M.2 only supports 3.3V.

As implemented 
While the U.2 standard does not imply a form factor of the device that uses it, in practice U.2 is used only on 2.5" SSDs. 2.5" drives are physically larger than M.2 drives and thus typically have larger capacities.

U.3 
U.3 (SFF-TA-1001) is built on the U.2 spec and uses the same SFF-8639 connector. A single "tri-mode" (PCIe/SATA/SAS) backplane receptacle can handle all three types of connections; the controller automatically detects the type of connection used. This is unlike U.2, where users need to use separate controllers for SATA/SAS and NVMe. U.3 devices are required to be backwards-compatible with U.2 hosts. U.2 devices are not compatible and cannot be used with U.3 hosts.

See also
 EDSFF – U.2 successor
 Hard disk drive
 M.2

References

Computer buses
Computer connectors
Serial ATA 
Peripheral Component Interconnect 
SCSI 
Computer storage buses
SATA Express
Bruno A. Boley. Bruno A. Boley (May 13, 1924 – February 11, 2017) was the Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University for 20 years. He also served as an engineering faculty member at Ohio State University, Columbia University and Cornell University. He received the B.S. in Civil Engineering from City College of New York and the Sc.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

References

1924 births
2017 deaths
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Northwestern University faculty
City College of New York alumni
Columbia University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Ohio State University faculty
9 Algorithms That Changed the Future. 9 Algorithms that Changed the Future is a 2012 book by John MacCormick on algorithms. The book seeks to explain commonly encountered computer algorithms to a layman audience.

Summary
The chapters in the book each cover an algorithm.
Search engine indexing
PageRank
Public-key cryptography
Forward error correction
Pattern recognition
Data compression
Database
Digital signature

Response
One reviewer said the book is written in a clear and simple style.

A reviewer for New York Journal of Books suggested that this book would be a good complement to an introductory college-level computer science course.

Another reviewer called the book "a valuable addition to the popular computing literature".

2020 edition
The book has been re-released by Princeton University Press in 2020.

References

External links
short video of the author talking about the book

2012 non-fiction books
Computer books
Princeton University Press books
Gerald M. Best. Gerald M. Best (1895–1985) was a noted railroad historian, writer, photographer, and one of the top sound engineers in the motion picture industry.

After receiving an electrical engineering degree from Cornell, Best served in the Army Signal Corps, worked for AT&T, and then went to work for Warner Brothers in 1928, where his knowledge of sound technology was very useful as the age of talking pictures began.  In 1958, he went to work for Walt Disney, taking responsibility for Disneyland’s railroad.  After retiring in 1962, he served as an advisor to the President’s Golden Spike Centennial Commission and the Golden Spike National Historic Site.  Under his guidance as Engineering Consultant and National Park Service Representative, the National Park Service ordered the construction of two steam locomotives by O'Connor Engineering Laboratories as replicas of the famous Central Pacific Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119, which met at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869.

Best collected over 130,000 railroad photographs, negatives, blueprints and other records – one of the largest collections ever assembled.  After his death, his widow, Harriet, arranged for it to go to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.  Best wrote over a dozen books, as well as numerous articles on railroad history.

In 1948, he purchased an 1883 steam engine for $250 from the Waimanalo Sugar Plantation in Hawaii, which had been using it in the harvesting of sugar cane.  With the help of Chadwell O'Connor, he meticulously restored the locomotive.  The engine was kept for many years on the Grizzly Flats Railroad in San Gabriel, California, which was owned by fellow railroad enthusiast Ward Kimball.  Named the Olomana, Best donated the engine to the Smithsonian Institution in 1977.

Partial list of books by Gerald Best

Below is a partial list of notable books written by Gerald Best:

American Railroad Journal, 1966
Central American Holiday: A Guide to the Railroads of El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico
Iron Horses to Promontory
Locomotives of the Southern Pacific Company
Mexican Narrow Gauge
Minisink Valley Express: A History of the Port Jervis, Monticello & New York Railroad
Nevada County Narrow Gauge
Promontory's Locomotives
Railroads of Hawaii: Narrow and Standard Gauge Common Carriers
Ships and Narrow Gauge Rails: The Story of the Pacific Coast Company
Snowplow: Clearing Mountain Rails
Sugar Trains: Narrow Gauge Rails of Hawaii
The Last Spike is Driven
The Ulster and Delaware: Railroad Through the Catskills

See also

Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

References

Bibliography

External links
Golden Spike National Historic Site

1895 births
1985 deaths
20th-century American historians
American audio engineers
20th-century American engineers
Railway historians