omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
George H. Nettleton. George H. Nettleton (November 13, 1831 – March 26, 1896) was an American railroad pioneer and civil engineer from Chicopee, Massachusetts. He served as civil engineer for the Kansas City Bridge project, later called the Hannibal Bridge on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. He organized the first Kansas City Missouri Stockyards, built the Livestock Exchange building, and served as president of the Fort Scott & Memphis Railway.

Early years
Nettleton was born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts to Alpheus Nettleton (a Congregational church leader) and Deborah (Belcher) Nettleton.

Nettleton left Massachusetts to study civil engineering and mathematics in Troy, New York at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After a year of studying, and his family struggling to afford the school, he returned home.

Career
With a passion for the railroad industry, Nettleton worked for the New Haven & New London Railroad as a laborer. Upon completion of the New Haven and New London line, Chief Engineer Josiah Hunt hand-picked Nettleton to head west to work on the Terra Haute & Alton Railroad.

In 1872, Nettleton became the general superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and from his headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, supervised the line’s extension as far as the state’s western border.

Nettleton died at the age of 64 on March 26, 1896.

See also
 Chicopee, Missouri

Sources

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External links
 
 Missouri Valley Special Collections

1831 births
1896 deaths
Engineers from Chicopee, Massachusetts
Butyl oleate. Butyl oleate is a fatty acid ester and an organic chemical found in liquid form. It has the formula C22H42O2 and the CAS Registry Number 142-77-8. It is REACH registered and produced or imported into the European Union with the EC number of 205-559-6.

Synthesis and reactions
It is formed by the condensation of oleic acid and butanol often using an enzyme as catalyst or other biobased catalysts. Ionic liquids may also be used as the catalyst. It undergoes the Bouveault–Blanc reduction with oleyl alcohol and butanol as the products.

Alternative names
It is also known as Butyl cis-9-octadecenoate, Oleic acid butyl ester, butyl 9-octadecenoate and 1-butyl oleate. The IUPAC name is butyl (Z)-octadec-9-enoate.

Uses
It has approval for use as a food additive in Europe and also the US by the FDA. Various other uses include as a lubricant and lubricant additive, paints and coatings additive, and as a plasticizer especially for PVC. Similar to other fatty acid esters, it has found use in biodiesel and as a fuel additive.

See also
 Ethyl oleate
 Oleate

References

Food additives
Fatty acid esters
Sebastian Deterding. Sebastian Deterding is a German scientist. He is currently Chair in Design Engineering and Professor of Design Engineering at Imperial College, London. Previously, he held the position of Chair Professor of Digital Creativity at the University of York. He established the gamification research network and co-authored "The Gameful World" (MIT Press, 2015), a book delving into the integration of gaming elements into various aspects of culture.

Career 

Deterding is the founder and lead designer of Coding Conduct, a design agency. His collaborations have spanned a range of eminent clients, including the BBC, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Greenpeace, Novartis, Otto Group, along with numerous startups. He also established the Gamification Research Network and co-authored "The Gameful World" (MIT Press, 2015), a book delving into the integration of gaming elements into various aspects of culture.

Deterding delivered a TED talk on "What your designs say about you"

Awards and honours 
 Editor-in-chief: Games: Research and Practice (ACM Digital Library)
 Chair in Design Engineering' at Imperial College London
 Chair Professor of Digital Creativity at the University of York

Books 

 The Gameful World: Approaches, Issues, Applications (MIT Press, 16 Jan 2015)

References

Living people
New media artists
 
Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tire Assault Vehicle. The Tire Assault Vehicle (TAV) was a small remote-controlled vehicle created from a scale model kit of the German World War II-era Tiger II heavy tank, used by NASA to test the tires for the Space Shuttle. The TAV was used to drill into the tires to damage them, something which was too risky to perform manually because of the intensity of an aircraft tire explosion. 

The TAV was built from a Tamiya 1/16th scale model of the Tiger II, extensively modified into a radio-controlled, video-equipped machine to drill holes in aircraft test tires that were in imminent danger of exploding because of high air pressure, high temperatures, or cord wear. Only roughly one quarter of the original model kit parts remained in the finished TAV, with most of the vehicle made from third-party hardware and custom-made metal parts.

The TAV was used in conjunction with the Convair 990 Landing System Research Aircraft, which tested Space Shuttle tires. It was imperative to know the extreme conditions the shuttle tires could tolerate at landing without putting the shuttle and its crew at risk. In addition, the CV-990 was able to land repeatedly to test the tires.

The TAV was developed by David Carrott, a portable radio communications (PRC) employee under contract to NASA. It survived its service as a test vehicle, and as of 2017 was on display at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base.

, Tamiya is still advertising a version of the model kit used to build the TAV.

References 

NASA
Scale modeling
Haresh Gurnani. Haresh Gurnani is an Indian-American academic administrator, professor and current Dean of the Stony Brook University College of Business since July 2023. Prior to joining Stony Brook, he held multiple leadership positions at Wake Forest University, including serving as area chair of Business Analytics, Operations Management, Marketing, and Economics in the School of Business.

Early life and education
Haresh Gurnani earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, followed by a master's and doctorate in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University.

Career
Gurnani's was appointed as Dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University in July 2023, following his time at Wake Forest University. At Wake Forest, his roles included area chair of Business Analytics, Operations Management, Marketing, and Economics, as well as holding the Thomas H. Davis Chair. Prior to Wake Forest, Gurnani chaired the Department of Management at the University of Miami, contributing to various university councils and boards.

Research 
Gurnani's work spans a range of areas including operations and supply chain analytics, retail distribution channel design and marketing, healthcare operations and marketing, sharing economy, and sustainability. He has been published in prominent journals such as Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Production and Operations Management, and the Journal of International Business Studies.

Selected publications

References 

Living people
American university and college faculty deans
Stony Brook University faculty
Wake Forest University faculty
University of Miami faculty
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Christopher Alabi. Christopher A. Alabi is an American chemist and associate professor of chemistry at Cornell University. His research considers the design of sustainable materials and biomolecular therapeutics. He was elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2023.

Early life and education 
Alabi studied chemistry at New York University, where he completed undergraduate research project with David Schuster. He earned a joint bachelor's degree in chemistry and chemical engineering at NYU and the Stevens Institute of Technology. He later said that much of his success in academia came from his strong friendships and network at NYU. He moved to the California Institute of Technology for his doctoral research, where he worked alongside Mark E. Davis. He joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow with Robert S. Langer.

Research and career 
In 2013 Alabi joined the faculty at Cornell University. His group make use of synthetic and analytical probes to understand and engineer macromolecular therapeutics. He creates sequence-defined macromolecules for stimuli-response and identifies optimised drug delivery bioconjugates.

Awards and honours 

 PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Award
 2016 Cornell Engineering Research Excellence Award
 2018 Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year Award
 2018 Polymer Science and Engineering Young Investigator Award
 2022 Cornell University College Teaching Award
 2023 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

Select publications

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American biochemists
New York University alumni
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
21st-century American chemists
ASN4G. The ASN4G (Air-Sol Nucléaire de 4ème Génération) is a French nuclear-armed, scramjet-powered, air-launched hypersonic cruise missile under development by MBDA France, assisted by the ONERA. It is intended to succeed the ASMP in the pre-strategic deterrence role from 2035 onwards. Technological work on this successor began in the early 1990s and the programme's existence was officially confirmed in 2014 by French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian.

The ASN4G is due for integration on the Rafale F5 fighter under development as well as its successor, the Next Generation Fighter (NGF) derived from the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme. The new missile is expected to have more than twice the range of the current ASMPA-R, thus significantly superior to .

See also 
 Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile – Hypersonic air-launched cruise missile under development by the United States and Australia

References

Air-launched cruise missiles
Air-to-surface missiles of France
Cruise missiles of France
Nuclear cruise missiles
Nuclear air-to-surface missiles
Nuclear missiles of France
Potassium hexachlororhenate. Potassium hexachlororhenate, also known as potassium chlororhenite, is an inorganic chemical compound with the formula K2ReCl6. It is a light-green crystalline solid soluble in hydrochloric acid.

Production and reactions
Potassium hexachlororhenate is most commonly prepared by the reduction of potassium perrhenate with potassium iodide, hypophosphorous acid, or chromium(II) chloride in the presence of hydrochloric acid.

It reacts with silver nitrate to produce silver hexachlororhenate, which in turn decomposes at 400 °C to rhenium(III) chloride.

In water, it hydrolyses to form rhenium(IV) oxide.

References

Potassium compounds
Rhenium compounds
Siew-Young Quek. Siew-Young Quek is a New Zealand academic and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in bioactive and functional food ingredients, lipid science and food processing.

Academic career

Quek earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours in biochemistry from the University of Malaysia, and then completed a PhD in chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham in 1999. Quek spent four years lecturing at the University of Putra Malaysia, before joining the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2004, rising to full professor in 2020. Quek has been a visiting scholar at Guelph Food Research Center in Canada, the University of Massachusetts and Xiamen University, China. She is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Future Foods. Quek is part of the Riddet Institute Centre of Research Excellence. 

One focus of Quek's research is functional foods, and bioactive ingredients, and methods to stabilise and deliver functional ingredients, including co- and micro-encapsulation. She also works on lipid science, and the processing and safety of food.

Awards and honours 
Quek won a gold medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Invention in 2005.

Quek won a University of Auckland Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007. Quek won a Gold Medal at the University of Putra Malaysia's University Invention & Research Competition in 2002, and won the 2002 National Invention and Innovation Competition on Science & Technology, run by the Ministry of Sciences, Technology and Environment of Malaysia.

In 2012 she was made Fellow of New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology.

In 2014–15, Quek was Shanghai Outstanding Overseas Scholar, and in 2017, she was the overseas expert in food science in the 100-Talent Programme of Hunan Province.

Quek is a Guest Professor of Jiangnan University and the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science. From 2016 to 2021 she was an honorary professor of Jilin University.

Selected works

References

New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academic staff of the University of Putra Malaysia
New Zealand food scientists
New Zealand chemical engineers
Marcelo Epstein. Marcelo Epstein (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Canadian citizen living in Calgary, Alberta) is an Argentinian professor of Schulich School of Engineering (Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering) and an adjunct professor of Classics and Religion of the Faculty of Humanities  at the University of Calgary. Epstein has made "contributions in the fields of continuum mechanics and the biomechanics of soft-tissue growth and remodelling".

Life

Education 

Marcelo Epstein gets a B.S. of Civil Engineering (cum Laude) at the University of Buenos Aires in 1967. Epstein accepted a scholarship to study at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and in 1970 he earned a M.S. of Civil Engineering (cum Laude), and from 1972 he holds a Doctor of Philosophy Civil Engineering with the dissertation A General Kinematic Approach to the Nonlinear Analysis of Structures with Applications to the Theory of Shells under the tutelage of Yair Tene. In 1993 he earned a B.A. Classics (first class honours) at the University of Calgary.

Teaching 

From 1969 to 1972 Marcelo Epstein was an instructor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and from 1972 to 1973 he become a Lecturer. From 1974 to 1975 Epstein was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Civil Engineering, and from  1975 to 1976 a Research Associate at the University of Alberta. In September 1976, a few days before the Israel-Arab war, he returned from Israel, and a year later he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Alberta. Epstein was an Assistant Professor (1976-1979) and Associate Professor (1979-1983) of Mechanical Engineering, and an adjunct professor of the Faculty of Kinesiology (1992-2012) at the University of Calgary. From 2002 to the present Epstein become a full University Professor of Rational Mechanics at the University of Calgary. From 2000 to the present Epstein is adjunct professor of the Faculty of Humanities (Classics) at the University of Calgary.

Awards 

 2020 Frank Spragins Technical Award, APEGA.
 2014 Tullio Levi-Civita award in Differential Geometry and Mechanics awarded by the International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, at the 17th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Lansing, Michigan, in June 2014.
 2009 CANCAM Medal, June 2009.
 2002 University Professorship in Rational Mechanics, University of Calgary.
 2000 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM).

Recognitions 

 2017 Special Issue of the journal Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids.
 2015 Honoree of the 53rd meeting of the Society for Natural Philosophy, Calgary, August, 2015.
 2013 Included in the section of selected biographies in the major historical work by G.A. Maugin.
 2005 Research Excellence Award, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Calgary.

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Thesis

References

Sources 

 
 
 
 
 

Living people
Academic staff of the University of Calgary
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
University of Buenos Aires alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stand-in Attack Weapon. The Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW) is a tactical air-to-surface missile under development for the United States Air Force (USAF) by Northrop Grumman.

It is primarily designed to attack air-defences and high-value targets such as command-and-control sites, surface-to-surface missile launchers, anti-satellite systems, and GPS jamming systems.

History
In May 2022, the USAF awarded contracts to L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to begin the first phase of development for the Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW).
On 28 September 2023, the USAF awarded a US$705m contract to Northrop Grumman to develop and test the SiAW. The SiAW is intended to attack relocatable targets including theater ballistic missile launchers, cruise and anti-ship missile launchers, GPS jamming platforms and anti-satellite systems. It will have a shorter range than standoff weapons, being fired by an aircraft after penetrating enemy airspace. The SiAW will fit inside the F-35 Lightning II's internal weapon bays. The design leverages work on the United States Navy's AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile - Extended Range (AARGM-ER). The USAF plans to have an operational weapon by 2026.

In November 2024, Northrop Grumman delivered the first SiAW to the USAF for flight testing.

See also
 Mako Multi-Mission Hypersonic Missile, Lockheed Martin's offering for the SiAW program

References

SiAW
Rafael Carpet. Rafael Carpet is a mine breaching system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, an Israeli weapon development company. First introduced in 2006, it has been adopted by the Israel Defense Forces and was scheduled to be fielded with the French Army by 2007. The system employs a unique implementation of fuel-air explosive (FAE) technology, offering an efficient and safe method for clearing minefields and neutralizing IEDs.

Background 
The primary function of Carpet is to clear a safe passage through minefields, enabling the safe movement of combat vehicles. It operates by firing a salvo of up to 20 rockets, which disperse a fuel spray over the target area. This creates a fuel-air explosive cloud that, upon detonation, generates a strong impulse over a wide area. This impulse is effective in triggering most mines, regardless of the terrain, foliage, or man-made obstacles. The explosion clears a path up to 100 meters long within one minute, providing a significant operational advantage in minefield clearance.

Rafael Carpet can be operated in various modes including automatic, semi-automatic, and manual, offering operational flexibility. It is designed to be remotely operated from within a vehicle, protecting the crew from enemy fire. This system can also be reloaded rapidly in forward areas, enhancing its utility in combat scenarios. Notably, the rockets used in Carpet contain only liquid fuel, which is flammable but not explosive under regular operating conditions, reducing the risk to the system, vehicle, and nearby troops.

The system is notable for its relatively lightweight design, with the fully loaded Carpet launcher weighing 3.5 tons. It can carry up to 20 x 265 mm rockets, each weighing 46 kg. Training rockets, which simulate the operation without the fuel-air explosion, are also available for safe training exercises. Carpet can be towed, mounted on the rear of armored fighting vehicles, or installed inside an armored personnel carrier (APC). It has been used by the Israeli Combat Engineering Corps mounted on an IDF Puma combat engineering vehicle.

One of the significant deployments of Rafael Carpet was by the IDF during the Second Lebanon War, where it was used for neutralizing and clearing Hezbollah strongholds near the Israeli-Lebanese border. It has also been used in the Israel–Hamas war. The French Army's plan to incorporate the Carpet system involves its installation on AMX-B2 EBG combat engineering vehicles, which are designed to deploy various mine clearing systems, adding versatility to their capabilities.

References

Military equipment of Israel
 
Israeli inventions
Armoured fighting vehicle equipment
Mine warfare countermeasures
Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D). The Antarès (OPd-56-39-22D) was a French multistage rocket designed by ONERA for reentry studies. In the late 1950s, the study of missile warhead reentry necessitated the development of a more robust rocket than the existing OR, VD and OPd series. The Antarès rocket, designated OPd-56-39-22D during its developmental phase, was designed to facilitate the study of kinetic heating on objects flying at speeds up to Mach 7.

Description 
Measuring 12.2 meters in length and boasting a takeoff weight of up to 1785 kg, the rocket consisted of four stages. Three of these stages were ignited in an upward trajectory, reaching altitudes of up to 150 km, while the fourth stage accelerated the payload during its descent. Utilizing all four stages during ascent, Antares had the capability to send a payload of 35 kg to an altitude of 280 km.

The first stage featured a SEPR 734-1 Vesuve motor with a diameter of 56 cm and a length of 3.5 m, delivering a total impulse of 1025 kNs with less than 5 seconds burn time. The second stage, known as the sustainer stage Neptune, measured 39 cm in diameter and 3.2 m in length, providing 630 kNs with 32 seconds burn time. The third stage was a SEPR 685-4 Mimosa, 2.6 m long and 20 cm in diameter, delivering 167 kNs in less with a 5 seconds burn time. The fourth stage Mélanie motor was attached to the payload, measuring 22 cm in diameter.

Launches 
Between May 2, 1959, and May 13, 1961, a total of thirteen launches took place, with six of them falling under the designation Antarès. Antarès firings were preceded by a unique launch on January 30, 1959, involving the OPd-12-10-D rocket, consisting of an OPd-100 surrounded by three boosters with a diameter of 122 mm.

See also 

 Bérénice (rocket)
 Mélanie (rocket)
 Veronique (rocket)
 French space program

References 

Rockets and missiles
Onera sounding rockets