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Austin J40. The Austin J40 was a luxuriously appointed pedal car as a children's toy, which was manufactured to order by Austin in Bargoed, Wales.

History 
The Austin J40 was born from a social employment project in Wales. Miners who had been declared unfit for work because of black lungs were able to participate in this project that was set up for them. The material came from waste material from the Austin factory in Longbridge. Apart from the fact that this company offered work to the ex-miners, it also offered a good training ground for future managers of the Austin Motor Company in dealing with personnel. The company employed 250 men.

The 1946 prototype, the Joy1, was based on the 1940 Austin 8 road car. Following the Joy2, Joy3 and Joy4 prototypes, the Pathfinder came in 1949, with a body based on the 1930s OHV Austin Seven Racer. Production started in July 1949 at a small factory, the Austin Junior Car Factory, in Bargoed in South Wales, but ended in 1950 due to disappointing sales figures. Its successor was the Austin Junior 40 (J40), which was based on the popular Austin A40 Devon and Dorset model and went into production from 1950. It featured an opening bonnet, an imitation engine with real spark plugs, battery powered headlights, a horn, a seat upholstered in imitation leather, an imitation instrument panel, detachable wheels with Dunlop tyres, an opening boot lid and a handbrake. Furthermore, many parts were chrome-plated. In 1957, a lengthened version with a working petrol engine in the boot and rear-axle drive was released, and in which the pedals were omitted.

The J40 was initially intended as an export item to the United States, but later also to Canada and Denmark. In the Netherlands, the Austin J40 was imported by the company R.S. Stokvis. Every year, rallies for children are still held at the Goodwood circuit, since the Austin J40 Pedal Car Club was founded in 1983. Furthermore, the cars were used for traffic lessons for children, in a merry-go-round at fairs and as an advertising object. A number of copies were also converted with a petrol engine. Up to the end of production in 1971, 32,098 copies of the J40 were sold.

The car was available in various colours and a red one was also used as an attraction for taking children's photos, such as at Diergaarde Blijdorp in Rotterdam.

In 2022, British company Burlen Fuel Systems acquired the rights to the Austin Pedal Cars name and subsequently revealed a new Austin J40 at the Goodwood Revival later that year. The car entered production in 2023, featuring a hand-formed aluminium body, hand stitched leather seat and electronic instrument gauges, priced at £25,000.

References 

Toys
Austin Motor Company
Toy cars and trucks
1950s toys
Misamis Occidental II Electric Cooperative. Misamis Occidental II Electric Cooperative, also known as MOELCI-II (), is an electric cooperative serving the municipalities starting from Panaon to Bonifacio in Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

MOELCI-II provides essential electricity services to residential, commercial and industrial customers within its franchise area. MOELCI-II is affiliated with the National Electrification Administration (NEA).

History 

The electrification of the Philippines was a key national development goal in the mid-20th century, aimed at improving living standards, boosting economic growth and connecting rural communities. Prior to this initiative, many areas, particularly in rural provinces like Misamis Occidental, lacked access to reliable electricity. This lack of access hindered economic development and limited access to basic services. Recognizing the importance of electrification, the Philippine government, through the National Electrification Administration (NEA), launched a nationwide program to establish electric cooperatives across the country.

Following the launch of this national electrification initiative, the province of Misamis Occidental was divided into two distinct service areas, each managed by a separate electric cooperative: Misamis Occidental I Electric Cooperative (MOELCI-I) and Misamis Occidental II Electric Cooperative (MOELCI-II). MOELCI-II was officially organized, registered, incorporated and began operations on June 2, 1976, becoming the 77th electric cooperative to be established in the Philippines. This division aimed to provide more efficient and localized electricity distribution to the residents of Misamis Occidental.

See also 

 Misamis Occidental
 List of electric distribution utilities in the Philippines

References 

Electric cooperatives of the Philippines
1976 establishments in the Philippines
Companies based in Misamis Oriental
Single pilot operations. In aviation, Single Pilot Operations (SPO) refers to a proposal for commercial flights operated with one pilot, where previously two would be required.

Single pilot operations will require improvements in technology including aircraft and cockpit design, and changes to pilot training. Safety must be proved to win acceptance by regulators and the public.

History
Historically, large aircraft required several personnel on the flight deck, such as a navigator, a flight engineer, and a dedicated radio operator. Improvements in automation, reliability and technology such as autopilot and satellite navigation have enabled modern large aircraft to operate safely with only two pilots on duty.

With further technological improvements, it may be possible safely to reduce crew requirements to one, providing cost savings.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been investigating Extended Minimum Crew Operations (eMCO), where an aircraft could be operated by one pilot in the cruise. This would be an initial requirement before single pilot operations might be allowed at a later stage. The research project runs from 2022 to 2025. Airbus and Dassault have expressed interest in eMCO.

Airbus completed its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project in 2020, demonstrating an autonomous flight with an A350-1000 aircraft. In 2023, Airbus project Dragonfly used a combination of normal and infrared cameras, as well as radar, to assist pilots in various situations. In 2024 Airbus began testing an autonomous aircraft taxi system called "Optimate".

Opposition
Proposals for Single Pilot Operations are opposed by several pilots' trade unions, including the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations (IFALPA), the American Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the European Cockpit Association, and the British Air Line Pilots Association.

In their white paper, ALPA argue that two-pilot operations reduces errors through cross-checking, workload sharing and better decision-making, and provides redundancy in the case of pilot incapacitation. They argue that pilots learn from each other when working together; that pilots are more versatile than aircraft equipment and sensors; and that pilots are better at autonomous decision making. They also raise concerns about cybersecurity.

See also
Automated flight attending
Autonomous aircraft
Germanwings Flight 9525
Single-pilot resource management
Uninterruptible autopilot

References

External links
Airbus – Autonomous Flight
One Means None, European Cockpit Association campaign website

Aircraft automation
Nuria González Prelcic. Nuria González Prelcic is a Spanish electrical engineer focusing on signal processing and MIMO architectures for millimeter-wave communications, with applications including wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad hoc networks. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

Education and career
González received a master's degree from the University of Vigo in 1993, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1998, both in telecommunications engineering. Her doctoral dissertation, Adaptive time-frequency decompositions based on wavelets, was supervised by Domingo Docampo.

She continued at the University of Vigo, as an associate professor from 2002 to 2020. In 2020 she moved to the US, becoming an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University. She took her present position as professor of electrical and computer engineering in the University of California, San Diego in 2024.

Recognition
González was named a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for 2024–2026. She was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to millimeter wave wireless communications".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Spanish electrical engineers
Spanish women engineers
Women electrical engineers
University of Vigo alumni
Academic staff of the University of Vigo
North Carolina State University faculty
University of California, San Diego faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
IFE Elevators. IFE Elevators (), fully known as IFE Elevators Co., Ltd., simply as IFE, is a Chinese elevator manufacturer founded in 1998. After approval from the CSRC, the company was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in March 2017. It is focused on the production of elevators, and escalators, as well as travelators. The firm is an elevator supplier of the Singapore Housing and Development Board.

In the early days, IFE was mainly engaged in the manufacture of freight elevators. Outside of China, the company has established operations in markets such as Singapore, Australia, and the Philippines. The firm supplied products to Quezon City-based Diliman Doctors Hospital. In 2023, it launched new villa elevator products in the Middle East.

History
The company's predecessor was established in 1987. In 1989, it produced its first elevator. In 1998, IFE was officially formed. In the same year, it entered Indonesia. In 2008, the firm won its first bid for the HDB projects in Singapore. 

In 2012, IFE was changed to a joint stock company. In 2014, it set up a South African branch. As of 2016, the company had an annual production capacity of 15,000 complete elevators. 

In 2016, IFE attended the MSRE Exhibition. In 2017, the company went public on the SME Board of the SZSE, with the stock code 002774. In 2021, its full-year sales reached more than 1.98 billion yuan.

References

Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
2017 initial public offerings
Elevator manufacturers
Escalator manufacturers
1998 establishments
Manufacturing companies established in 1998
Ann Ledwith. Ann Ledwith is an Irish engineer and academic administrator currently as interim provost and deputy president of the University of Limerick since 2024. She has held various roles in academia and industry, focusing on engineering, technology management, and the development of work-based learning programs.

Early life and education 
Ledwith was born in Limerick, Ireland. She earned a degree in electronic engineering from the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick in 1983. She later completed an M.B.A. at the Kemmy Business School and a Ph.D. in technology management at the University of Brighton in 2004.

Career 
Ledwith was a product development engineer and later worked as a product development manager in high-technology firms. She spent over twelve years in industry, focusing on product design, project management, and research and development in small firms.

In 1992, she joined the University of Limerick (UL) and held several academic and administrative roles. She managed the centre for project management, focusing on the development of programs tailored to industry needs. As assistant dean of research (adult and continuing education) in the faculty of science and engineering, she supported research initiatives and promoted flexible learning opportunities for adult learners.

Ledwith served as director of continuing and professional education, where she contributed to the creation of part-time and blended learning programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These programs covered areas such as project management, innovation management, technology management, and reliability.

As dean of graduate and professional studies, she oversaw postgraduate education and facilitated work-based learning programs at the university. Her research during this time concentrated on new product development, project management, and innovation and technology management in small firms. She published her findings in academic journals including the Journal of Product Innovation Management and the International Journal of Project Management.

In her role as director of UL@Work, she led the Human Capital Initiative (HCI) project, which focused on developing industry-relevant education through flexible, technology-supported learning methods. She also managed the introduction of Brightspace, the university's virtual learning platform.

In November 2024, she was appointed interim provost and deputy president of the University of Limerick following an internal recruitment process.

References

Living people
Academics of the University of Limerick
Alumni of the University of Limerick
20th-century Irish women engineers
21st-century Irish women engineers
Irish women academics
Irish academic administrators
Women academic administrators
21st-century Irish women educators
21st-century women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tiffany Santos. Tiffany Suzanne Santos (born 1980) is an American electrical engineer and materials scientist who works for the research division of Western Digital as an expert on tunnel magnetoresistance, non-volatile memory, and magnetic thin-film memory, and as Director of Non-Volatile Memory Materials Research.

Education and career
Santos is the daughter of Ted Santos, a physician and pathologist in Valdosta, Georgia. After graduating as salutatorian from Valdosta High School, she became a student of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received a bachelor's degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2007 under the supervision of Jagadeesh Moodera. She received the Outstanding Senior Thesis award of the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering for her bachelor's thesis, Ferromagnetic Europium Oxide as a Spin-Filter Material. Her doctoral dissertation, Europium oxide as a perfect electron spin filter, was based on research applying magnetic materials in spintronics.

She became a postdoctoral researcher and then staff scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory before joining Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) in 2011. HGST was acquired by Western Digital in 2012.

Recognition
Santos received the L’Oréal USA Fellowship for Women in Science in 2009. In 2022 she was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society.

She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2024, after a nomination from the APS Topical Group on Magnetism and Its Applications, "for innovative contributions in synthesis and characterization of novel ultrathin magnetic films and interfaces, and tailoring their properties for optimal performance, especially in magnetic data storage and spin-transport devices".

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
People from Valdosta, Georgia
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Women electrical engineers
American materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Argonne National Laboratory people
Western Digital people
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Tunbow. Tunbow Group Ltd., established in 1995 by Charles Chan and his wife, is a prominent Hong Kong-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specializing in electrothermic household appliances. The company integrates design, product development, research and development, and production quality management to deliver a diverse range of products.

Tunbow's product line primarily focuses garment care appliances like steam generator irons, garment steamers, and steam irons and cooking appliances, which include coffee machines, steam cooking appliances.

The company is recognized as one of the world's top five OEM for electric irons, earning the moniker "King of Irons."

Tunbow exports a significant portion of its products to Europe. The company has established production facilities in India. Its main factory is located in Huizhou, China.

Clientele 
Tunbow serves as an OEM for various home appliance brands, including Beaba, Beko, Sencor, Severin, Grundig, Tchibo, Klarstein, Smeg, Philips and Espressione.

Structure 
Tunbow Group is a subsidiary of Town Ray’s Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (Stock Code: 1692).

References 

Manufacturing companies established in 1995
Manufacturing companies of Hong Kong
Home appliance manufacturers of China
Electronics companies established in 1995
Jurgen Eijgendal. Jurgen Eijgendal is a mining executive and engineer. He is the managing director of Ghana Manganese Company Ltd and Nsuta Gold Mining Ltd. Eijgendaal previously served as the president of the Ghana Chamber of Mines.

Education 
Eijgendaal holds a MA degree from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Career 
Eijgendaal began his mining career managing underground chromite ore mining operations in South Africa. He later transitioned to Ghana, where he became the managing director of Ghana Manganese Company Ltd. In addition, he leads Nsuta Gold Mining Ltd focusing on gold exploration and production in Ghana.

In 2012, he joined the board of Castle Peak Mining Ltd. From 2006 to 2010, Eijgendaal served as President of the Ghana Chamber of Mines.

References 

Living people
Leiden University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
ProteanTecs. proteanTecs is a technology company, specializing in deep data analytics. It develops predictive and preventative monitoring solutions for electronics throughout their lifecycle, from chip manufacturing to deployment.

History 
proteanTecs was founded by Shai Cohen, Evelyn Landman, Eyal Fayneh, Roni Ashuri, Yahel David, Yuval Bonen in May 2017 in Haifa, Israel. The company publicly launched on April 1, 2019. On August 27, 2020, it secured $45 million in funding, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) and joined by Lip-Bu Tan, former CEO of Cadence and Intel board member.  In September 2020, proteanTecs was granted a U.S. patent for monitoring High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) signals, one of a number of patents held.

In March 2021, the company joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program. In October, proteanTecs received the TSMC OIP Partner of the Year Award for its contributions to the semiconductor industry. In November, proteanTecs began supporting advanced 3 nm semiconductor technology and, in December, received an award from Frost & Sullivan for Best Electronics Health Monitoring Technology.

By 2022, the company had secured close to $200 million in funding, from investors including Porsche Automobil Holding SE, MediaTek, and Advantest. In December 2022, it was named "Most Promising Startup in Israel" by the Globes newspaper. 

In March, the company joined the Intel Foundry Services Alliance and began working with BAE Systems to improve defense supply chains. In February, it joined Arm's Total Design alliance to monitor ARM-based chips.

Products and technology 
By applying machine learning to data created by on-chip monitors (IP), the company's data analytics solutions deliver insights for software applications and in-chip applications.

References 

Israeli companies established in 2017
Technology companies of Israel
Software companies of Israel
Fuleswari River. Fuleswari River is a river in Siliguri, West Bengal, India.

In December 2024, the West Bengal Irrigation and Waterways department initiated a project with a budget of Rs 10 crore to desilt the Fuleswari and Jorapani Rivers and restore their natural flows. Iron nets attached to 17 bridges along the rivers will be employed to remove man-made waste from the rivers.

References

Rivers of West Bengal
AN/ALQ-172. AN/ALQ-172 is an integrated airborne defensive electronic countermeasure system for the B-52 Stratofortress, MC-130E Combat Talon, MC-130H Combat Talon II, AC-130H Spectre and AC-130U Spooky. Originally produced by ITT Defense & Electronics Corp (now part of L3Harris Technologies) in the early 1980s, it was designed to improve low-level penetration survivability of the B-52.

History
A study in 1996 by analysts of the Battelle Memorial Institute determined problems with repair of the ALQ-172 resulted in the highest cost per flying hour (CPFH) of any system on the B-52. The United States Air Force instituted Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) 93 modifying the system's memory and processing capability. By fiscal year 1997 (FY97), it also reported a second system was needed on the aircraft for full threat protection.

Also in FY96, Air Staff directed the ALQ-172 be installed on AC-130H gunships replacing the non-supportable AN/ALQ-131 jamming pods. Also installed on special operations forces (SOF) AC-130U, MC-130H and MC-130E aircraft, two subsystems were installed; one forward and one aft, with a single common display and control unit. Other engineering differences on these aircraft involved adding low-band transmitters, antennae and antenna control units.

Upgrades have incorporated geolocation capabilities, advanced countermeasures and new technologies. Nine Line-replaceable units (LRUs) have been upgraded, with five of those tested as of mid-2024. The upgrades are part of the maintainability and reliability system (MARS) upgrade; a 10-year, $947 million project enhancing the performance of the B-52's electronic countermeasures systems. With continuing support and upgrades, the ALQ-172 is expected to be in service well into the 2040s.

Technical description

Features
Integrated with aircraft controls and displays, the system provides countermeasures capabilities for multiple sophisticated pulse, continuous wave, doppler and monopulse threats simultaneously. Using digital frequency discrimination (DFD) technology, the system is capable of determining pulse width, angle of arrival (AOA), and pulse-repetition frequency (PRF) of threat signals, deinterleaving and processing them.

In accordance with the Joint Electronics Type Designation System (JETDS), the AN/ALQ-172 designation represents the 172nd design of an Army-Navy electronic device for an electronic countermeasures system. The JETDS system also now is used to name Air Force systems.

Characteristics
 Weight per aircraft: 1,631 pounds
 LRUs per system: 7
 Systems per aircraft: 2
 Antennas per aircraft: 7
 Systems produced: 943 (over 6,000 LRUs)

Variants
 AN/ALQ-172(V)
 AN/ALQ-172(V)1 - on AC-130U and MC-130H aircraft
 AN/ALQ-172(V)2
 AN/ALQ-172(V)3 - on AC-130H Gunships

See also

List of military electronics of the United States

References

External links
 AF.mil - B-52H Stratofortress Fact Sheet

Electronic warfare equipment
Military electronics of the United States
Equipment of the United States Air Force
Electronic countermeasures
Electronic warfare
Military equipment introduced in the 1980s