omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Electrodynamic wheel. An electrodynamic wheel is a type of wheel proposed for use in electrodynamic levitation of the maglev train transport system.

Unlike a conventional wheel, an electrodynamic wheel has a rim studded with magnets of alternating poles. As the wheel spins, which is done at a rate so that there is slip between the rim and the guideway's surface, magnetic fields are induced in the conductive guideway, which repels the wheel.

Depending on the spin, electrodynamic wheels can provide propulsion, braking, control, and lift.

Using 2D model
The mechanical rotation of a radially positioned permanent-magnet Halbach array above a conducting, nonmagnetic track induces eddy currents in the track that can inductively create suspension and propulsion forces simultaneously. The parameters that affect the performance of this electrodynamic wheel are studied using a 2-D steady-state finite-element method.

Examples 
The Hendo hoverboard uses electrodynamic wheels to levitate itself over a conductive surface.

See also
 Halbach array
 Spin-stabilized magnetic levitation

References

Wheels
Magnetic levitation
Python Conference. The Python Conference (also called PyCon) is the largest annual convention for the discussion and promotion of the Python programming language. It originated in the United States but is also held in more than 40 other countries. It was one of the first computer programming conferences to develop and adhere to a code of conduct. The conference hosts tutorials, demonstrations and training sessions.
 
PyCon 2020 was listed as one of "The best software engineering conferences [to attend] of 2020" and "As Python becomes ever more popular in the scientific community and for big data, the influence of PyCon will continue to grow." PyCon is often attended by Guido van Rossum (the author of the Python language). Other groups, such as PyLadies and Django Girls, often have concurrent sessions.

It is sometimes referred to in software documentation and conference papers.

It is organised by the Python Software Foundation, and is supported by many significant companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.

Location history

The canonical "PyCon" has run annually in the United States since  in Washington, D.C:

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External links

Python (programming language)
Annual events
2003 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Computer conferences
Puzzle Bots. Puzzle Bots is a graphic adventure developed by Ivy Games and published by Wadjet Eye Games. The game uses a point and click interface to interact with the environment, solve puzzles, and communicate with characters.

Reception

The game received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Gamezebo called it "An incredibly charming adventure, packed with plenty of humor and some deviously clever puzzles." Adventure Gamers also praised the game's "great mix of bot abilities and [...] charming story".

See also
Gravity Ghost

References

External links
 

2010 video games
Adventure Game Studio games
Adventure games
Indie games
Point-and-click adventure games
Single-player video games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States
Wadjet Eye Games games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Pegler Yorkshire. Pegler Yorkshire is a British manufacturer of valves and other engineering products. It is part of the Flow Control division of Aalberts.

The company has its head office in Doncaster, with four manufacturing sites in Leeds, Doncaster, Budapest and Jiangmen. In 2012, it employed over 1400 people.

History 
Pegler Yorkshire was created in 2009 by the merger of Pegler Ltd and Yorkshire Fittings Ltd.

As Peglers Limited 

Pegler Bros. & Company was founded in 1899 by Francis "Frank" Pegler (d. 1938) of the Northern Rubber Company of Retford, Nottinghamshire, to manufacture plumbing fittings. The company was incorporated as Pegler Bros. & Company (Doncaster) Limited in 1914 and renamed "Peglers Limited" in 1932. In 1933, it employed 1,100 people. It became a public company in 1935. Another of the founders, Francis Egerton Pegler, died on 16 February 1957. The company merged with another plumbing manufacturer in 1968 to become Pegler-Hattersley.

As Yorkshire Fittings Ltd 

The "Yorkshire" brand of plumbing fittings belonged to Yorkshire Copper Works Ltd of Leeds. This company was founded in 1909 on the site of the former Elmore's Depositing Co., to manufacture copper and brass tubes for boilers. The company developed corrosion-resistant alloy products such as "Bemal" brass condenser tubes, "Leespec" copper boiler tubes and "Gumal" copper/tin tubes. In 1934, the "Yorkshire" solder-ring pipe fitting was patented and launched. In 1954, the Register of Trade Marks ruled that a geographical name such as "Yorkshire" was not sufficiently distinctive to be registered as a brand name, but this did not stop it becoming a generic term for this type of pipe fitting.

In 1958, the works merged with the Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) to form Yorkshire Imperial Metals. Yorkshire Copper Works (Holdings), representing the copper works, owned 50% and ICI owned the other 50%. In 1962 ICI created Imperial Metal Industries (IMI) to look after its half-share of YIM. In 1968 IMI bought Yorkshire's half-share in the business. Yorkshire Fittings then became IMI Yorkshire Fittings.

Factory Closure Announcement 
On August 8, 2024, Pegler Yorkshire, a prominent British manufacturer of plumbing and heating products, announced the proposed closure of its Belmont Works factory in Balby, Doncaster. This decision comes after 120 years of operation and is part of a strategic move by its parent company, Aalberts, to enhance global competitiveness. The closure could result in the relocation of manufacturing operations to other Aalberts facilities, although the UK distribution center at Manvers will remain operational.

References 

Engineering companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Doncaster
Archibald McDowall. Archibald McDowall (2 December 1841 – 13 May 1918) was a Surveyor General of Queensland (then a colony, now a state of Australia).

McDowall was born in Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Educated in Hobart, he studied surveying under James Erskine Calder, moving to Queensland in 1861. On 13 May 1862 McDowall joined the Queensland Surveyor-General's Department and was appointed commissioner of crown lands, West Maranoa. He introduced the standard steel tape for ground measurement to Queensland, replacing the chain.

McDowall was Surveyor General of Queensland from 23 February 1891 until retiring on 30 June 1902. He introduced the use of telegraphic time-signals for accurate longitude observations.

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1841 births
1918 deaths
Surveyors General of Queensland
People from Moonee Ponds, Victoria
19th-century Australian people
Saloni Malhotra. Saloni Malhotra is the founder and CEO of DesiCrew, an IT-enabled service company that provides back-office and support services in rural areas of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, India. She has worked to establish Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies in rural parts of the states and employ previously inexperienced and untrained people from small villages.

Career 
Saloni did her engineering from University of Pune in state of Maharashtra. She started her career in an interactive media startup, Web Chutney based in Delhi. She came into contact of Professor Jhunjhunwala of TeNet group, IIT Madras and came up with this idea.

Her company DesiCrew been recognized for this innovative approach. DesiCrew has rural delivery centers in the Indian southern states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat, and employs 900-odd people from these villages. She currently is on the Board of Directors of DesiCrew.

Awards 
 Nominated : MTV Youth Icon 2008
 Facilitated in the presence of the President of India by the CII.
  ^

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Indian chief executives
Living people
21st-century Indian businesswomen
21st-century Indian businesspeople
Indian women chief executives
Indian women company founders
Indian women business executives
Year of birth missing (living people)
MIT Program on Emerging Technologies. The Program on Emerging Technologies (PoET) is a collaborative effort between the School of Engineering and the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

According to the PoET website:
"Emerging technologies in areas such as ubiquitous computing, genetic engineering, and micro and nanotechnologies are developing at extraordinary rates. Understanding of the economic, security, environmental, and cultural implications of emerging technologies has not kept pace with underlying technological change. The Program on Emerging Technologies at MIT seeks to improve responses to emerging technologies by engaging early and explicitly with the pervasive uncertainty that is often under-recognized in technology assessment exercises."

PoET areas of research include planned adaptation in regulation.

Leadership
Kenneth A. Oye, Director.
Daniel Hastings, Principal Investigator 
Merritt Roe Smith, Principal Investigator

Funding
PoET is an NSF-IGERT Program, meaning it receives funds from the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program.

References

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth A. Oye. Kenneth Akito Oye (born October 20, 1949) is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science (School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) and Data Systems and Society (School  of Engineering) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies and former Director of the MIT Center for International Studies.

Life
Oye graduated from Swarthmore College and from Harvard University with a Ph.D in Political Science. He is best known for publications on Regime theory and International Political Economy. His current research focuses on planned adaptation in the face of pervasive uncertainty, with applications in emerging technologies.

In 2018, Oye received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contributions to "promoting understanding of Japan in the United States."

Oye currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of the World Peace Foundation.

Works
 "Regulate 'home-brew' opiates." Oye et al. Nature. 521.7552 (2015): 281–283.
 "Regulating gene drives." Oye et al. Science. 345.6197 (2014): 626–628.
 “Embracing Uncertainty,” Kenneth A. Oye, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol XXVI, No 1, Fall 2009, pp 91–93.
   
 

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American political scientists
Swarthmore College alumni
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
1949 births
Living people
American academics of Japanese descent
American Quakers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class
DAYDREAMER. DAYDREAMER is a goal-based agent and cognitive architecture developed at University of California, Los Angeles by Erik Mueller. It models the human stream of thought and its triggering and direction by emotions, as in human daydreaming. The architecture is implemented as 12,000 lines of Lisp code.

History
DAYDREAMER was begun by Erik Mueller in 1983 while he was studying under Michael G. Dyer in the UCLA Computer Science Department. It was completed in 1987 and was followed by the ThoughtTreasure program, which was started in 1993.

See also
 Intelligent agent
 Interactive storytelling

References

Further reading
 Mueller, Erik T. (1990). Daydreaming in humans and machines. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. .
 Mueller, Erik T., & Dyer, Michael G. (1985). Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
 Mueller, Erik T., & Dyer, Michael G. (1985). "Daydreaming in humans and computers". Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

External links
 DAYDREAMER code at GitHub
 DAYDREAMER code at CMU

Cognitive architecture
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Alaskan Engineering Commission. The Alaskan Engineering Commission (AEC) was a U.S. Federal agency, sometimes known by its initials or by alternate spelling Alaska Engineering Commission.  It was created by the Alaska Railroad Act in 1914 by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in order to arrange for the construction of a railway system in Alaska.  William C. Edes was named chairman, chief engineer Colonel Frederick Mears. In 1915, the AEC became part of the U.S. Department of the Interior.  In 1923, after the railroad began operation and construction was complete, it became the Alaska Railroad Commission, later renamed to The Alaska Railroad.

Among other accomplishments, it designed and/or built a number of works listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Works include:
Mears Memorial Bridge, built in 1923
Alaska Engineering Commission Cottage No. 23, 618 Christensen Dr. Anchorage, Alaska, NRHP-listed
Alaska Engineering Commission Cottage No. 25, 645 W. Third Ave., Anchorage, AK, NRHP-listed 
Pioneer School House, 3rd Ave. and Eagle St., Anchorage, AK, NRHP-listed
Seward Depot, 501 Railway Ave. Seward, Alaska, NRHP-listed
Wasilla Depot, Parks Highway and Knik Rd. Wasilla, Alaska, NRHP-listed
Whitney Section House, 3400 W. Neuser Dr., Wasilla, AK, NRHP-listed

References

External links
Alaska Engineering Commission Photograph Collection - University of Washington Digital Collection

Agencies of the United States government
Alaska Railroad
University of Kragujevac Faculty of Technical Sciences. The Faculty of Technical Sciences (abbr. FTN; ) in Čačak is an independent department of the University of Kragujevac. Founded in 1975, the school nowadays offers academic and undergraduate studies, master's degree studies, doctoral and specialist undergraduate studies. The faculty's programs cover electrical engineering, computer engineering, mechatronics, information technology, informatics and management. besides that, the faculty offers the vocational studies as well.

History
The institution was established as Pedagogical-Technical Faculty with the assignment of developing teachers of mechanical and electrical engineering, and technical education.

The faculty was founded on 18 November 1975. In 1982, the faculty extended the field of its activity by the admission of graduates to BSc in mechanical and electrical engineering. Since 1986, the faculty has been operating under the name of Technical Faculty, and has pursued its work under the name ever since. The studies that were held at the faculty were: electrical engineering (industrial energetics), electrical engineering (power systems), mechanical engineering, electrical and technical education. In 1998, the Post-Secondary School of Technical Education dissociated from the faculty.

Because of the significance of computing and informatics in the modern world, and their close relation to other technical fields, new teaching groups were introduced into the teaching program of the Technical Faculty in academic year 1992–93. The studies leading to the following degrees were introduced: electrical engineering (mechatronics) and technics and informatics. This was particularly justified in the academic year 1998–99 by introduction of the department that offered undergraduate studies in computer engineering and industrial management.

On 15 October 2012, the faculty officially changed its name to Faculty of Technical Sciences. The name changing was followed by a significant increase in the activities of this higher education institution as well as expanding the spectrum in the field of scientific research. In June 2020, the Science Technology Park in Čačak was opened, with the faculty being its co-founder. Two months later, in August 2020, the Government of Serbia formally closed the "Higher School of Technical Sciences" (providing vocational studies) and merged it with the faculty, as part of wider reform of higher education in Serbia.

Departments
The faculty has a total of ten departments:
 Department of Computer and Software Engineering
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Department of Entrepreneurship Management
 Department of Industrial Management
 Department of Information Technologies
 Department of Mechanical Engineering
 Department of Mechatronics
 Department of Physics and materials
 Department of Power Engineering
 Department of Technical and Pedagogy Education

See also
 University of Kragujevac

References

External links

 
  (Serbian)

University of Kragujevac
Engineering universities and colleges in Serbia
Information technology institutes
Schools of informatics
Defense industry of Serbia
Čačak
ExOrdo. Ex Ordo is cloud-based conference management software for association and academic conferences, congresses and symposia. Ex Ordo combines a core abstract management functionality with a registration system, scheduling software, and a mobile conference app. It is used by conferences in 58 countries across a wide set of research fields.

History
Ex Ordo was conceived in 2008 by Paul Killoran when he was still an engineering student at NUI Galway. While helping one of his lecturers organise a conference, 

Ex Ordo has since grown to become conference management software that includes delegate registration, conference scheduling and the ability to build a book of proceedings.

Awards and recognition
Awarded Best New Web Application 2011 and Best Practice 2011 awarded by the Realex Fire Web Awards.

Named a Top 10 Abstract Management System for Academia by Event Industry News in 2016.

Ex Ordo is backed by Enterprise Ireland.

See also
 Abstract management
 Research or academic conferences
 Peer review
 Proceedings

References

External links
 
 The Conference Mentor

Academic conferences
Abstract management software
Yves Lambert. Yves Maurice Lambert (4 June 1936 – 27 March 2021) was a French aerospace engineer. He was Director General of Eurocontrol from 1994 to 2000.

Biography

A graduate of the École Polytechnique (1956) and the École nationale de l'aviation civile (French civil aviation University, promotion 1959), Lambert started his career as head of the technical department of the civil aviation in Algeria (1961). After that, he became director of the air safety organization Organisation de gestion et de sécurité in Algeria (1965–1968).

In 1972, he was nominated to be the French representative at the International Civil Aviation Organization. He became Secretary General of ICAO in 1976, a position he held until 1988. He returned to France to be air navigation director of Direction de la navigation aérienne now called Direction des Services de la navigation aérienne until 1993.

In 1994, he was nominated Director General of Eurocontrol, a position he held until his retirement in 2000.

Yves Lambert was a member of the Académie de l'air et de l'espace and the Royal Aeronautical Society. Lambert died in Paris, France on 27 March 2021, at the age of 84.

Awards
 Officier of the Legion of Honour
 Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite
 Médaille de l'Aéronautique

Bibliography
 Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace and Lucien Robineau, Les français du ciel, dictionnaire historique, Le Cherche midi, June 2005, 782 p. (), p. 304, LAMBERT, Yves

References

1936 births
2021 deaths
French aerospace engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
École nationale de l'aviation civile alumni
Corps de l'aviation civile
Corps des ponts
École nationale d'administration alumni
Aviation in France
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
Recipients of the Aeronautical Medal
International Civil Aviation Organization people
French officials of the United Nations
People from Nancy, France
Christopher J. Hardy. Christopher J. Hardy (born 1955) is an American physicist and inventor of several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) subsystem technologies for use in real time MRI and cardiac MR imaging and spectroscopy.

Biography
Hardy obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March, 1983. He is currently a principal scientist and Coolidge Fellow at General Electric. He developed the first graphical approach that allowed physicians to explore anatomy in real time during cardiac MRI, as opposed to viewing groups of images at a later time, and he also developed a technique that improved imaging speed. Both accomplishments have gained widespread use. He has also led the teams that developed 32 channel and 128 channel General Electric MRI systems.

Hardy has written 98 research papers and 54 patents.

Awards and honors
 1986,1993 Inventor of the Year, Eastern New York Patent Law Association
 1988 Distinguished Inventor, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc. (Washington, DC)
 1989, 1994, 1997, 2005 GE Whitney Gallery of Technical Achievers / Whitney Award
 1996 GE Gold Patent Medallion
 2002 Fellow, American Physical Society 
 2003 Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering 
 2008 Redington Award for Imaging Technologies
 2010 Fellow, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 
 2010 GE Coolidge Fellow
 2011, 2012 Distinguished Reviewer, Magn Reson Med, J Magn Reson Imag

Selected works

Selected Patents
 Hardy, Christopher J,  " Method for calculating wave velocities in blood vessels" 
 L. Marinelli, CJ Hardy, "Method for reconstructing images" 
Hardy, C.J. and Sasikanth Manipatruni, General Electric Co, 2014. Photonic system and method for optical data transmission in medical imaging systems. U.S. Patent 8,847,598.

References

1957 births
Living people
21st-century American physicists
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Fellows of the American Physical Society