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Roya Maboudian. Roya Maboudian is distinguished professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. She also holds The John F. Heil, Jr. Chancellor's Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley. She has served as editor of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and ACS Sensors, and as associate editor of IEEE/SPIE Journal on Microfabrication, Microlithography and Microsystems.

Education and early career 
Maboudian obtained her B.S. in electrical engineering from the Catholic University in 1982. She went on to receive her M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1988, respectively, under advisor David L. Goodstein and co-advisor Tom Tombrello. She was a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State and an IBM fellow at UC Santa Barbara before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. She was one of the first women to earn tenure in the Chemical Engineering Department at Berkeley.

Research 
Maboudian's research is in the area of surface and materials science and engineering of micro/nanosystems, towards applications in sensing, health and environmental monitoring, energy technologies and sustainability. Her research has addressed several technological barriers in microsystems technologies.  Her early Berkeley research involved pioneering fundamental studies of surface and interfacial phenomena in microelectromechanical systems. These studies paved the way for the development of surface modifications to combat the problem of stiction, considered a key bottleneck in MEMS commercialization. Since then, her work has broadened to other aspects of materials and surfaces, including silicon carbide-based harsh environment sensing, chemical sensing , gecko-inspired adhesives, supercapacitor energy storage devices and green construction.

Awards and honors 
 IEEE Fellow, 2021
 Bakar Fellow, 2019
 Fellow of the American Vacuum Society, 2014
 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 1998
 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, 1996
 Hellman Family Award, 1996
 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1994

References

External links 
 Maboudian Lab webpage
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Chemistry faculty
California Institute of Technology alumni
Women chemical engineers
American chemical engineers
Fellows of the IEEE
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Iron bird (aviation). An iron bird is a ground-based test rig used for prototyping and integrating aircraft systems during the development of new aircraft designs.  Aircraft systems are installed into the iron bird so their functions can be tested both individually and in correlation with other systems.

Overview 
Iron birds are used for system integration, reliability testing, and shakedown testing of aircraft systems such as landing gear, avionics, hydraulics, and flight controls.  The components may be arranged roughly in the same layout as they will be in the final aircraft design, but left accessible for ease of maintenance. Some iron birds also include a flight deck so that testing can include pilot inputs and simulated flight profiles, and can be used in pre-flight pilot training. Others are used for testing of propulsion systems. 

Iron birds can also be used after aircraft certification for troubleshooting ongoing issues and for testing of proposed modifications prior to fleet integration.

See also 

 Engine test stand
 Testbed aircraft

References 

Aerospace technologies
Aircraft industry
Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines. The Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines (ICpEP, formerly Philippine Institute of Computer Engineers) is a non-profit professional organization of computer engineers in the Philippines. It is registered under the Securities and Exchange Commission as a non-stock and non-profit organization. ICpEP is also the official computer engineering organization for academic community and industry practitioners in the Philippines.

History 
In 1992, a group of computer engineers formed a professional organization for computer engineers, the Philippine Institute of Computer Engineers, or PhICEs. But after years of being active and conducting conventions, seminars, and symposia to fellow computer engineers and students, PhICEs became inactive.

In 2008, several computer engineers tried to revive the professional organization after it's been inactive for years. Then the organization was reformed as Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines.

History of ICpEP.SE 
ICpEP.SE or Institute of Computer Engineers of the Philippines Student Edition, is a student chapter of the ICpEP, which aims to link academics to various colleges and universities. The first group of student chapters started in 2008, it was founded by 11 schools, namely, Adamson University, Asia Pacific College, Central Colleges of the Philippines, De La Salle University, Far Eastern University Institute of Technology, Mapua Institute of Technology, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Manila, STI College-Recto, Technological Institute of the Philippines-Manila, and Technological Institute of the Philippines-Quezon City. And now, there are more than sixty-eight schools across the Philippines that have an ICpEP student chapter.

See also 

 Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines
 Computer engineering

References

External links 

 ICpEP official website
 ICpEP Singapore Chapter website
 ICpEP Facebook page

Professional associations based in the Philippines
Computer science-related professional associations
Engineering societies
1992 establishments in the Philippines
Peter Henrici Prize. The Peter Henrici Prize (; ; ) is a prize awarded jointly by ETH Zurich and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for "original contributions to applied analysis and numerical analysis and/or for exposition appropriate for applied mathematics and scientific computing". The prize is named in honor of the Swiss numerical analyst Peter Henrici, who was a professor at ETH Zurich for 25 years.

Description
The prize, initiated in 1999 with funds contributed by ETH Zurich, is awarded every four years. It consists of a certificate containing the citation and (as of 2023) a cash prize of $5,000 (US). The winner is chosen by a prize committee, consisting of four members, two members chosen by SIAM and two others by ETH Zurich. "The prize may be awarded to any member of the scientific community who meets the general guideline of the prize description."

Award ceremony
The award is presented every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). The presentation of the prize is made by the SIAM president. The recipient is requested to give a lecture at the conference.

Prize winners
 1999 : Germund Dahlquist
 2003 : Ernst Hairer and Gerhard Wanner
 2007 : Gilbert Strang
 2011 : Bjorn Engquist
 2015 : Eitan Tadmor
 2019 : Weinan E

See also 
 Alice Roth Lecture Series

References

Awards established in 1999
Awards of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Numerical analysis
ETH Zurich
1999 establishments in Switzerland
Fast Grants. Fast Grants is an American charity that provides funding for scientific research. The project was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide quick funding to scientists working on research projects that could help with the pandemic.

History 
The project was launched in April 2020 by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University; Patrick Collison, co-founder of online payment processing platform Stripe; and Patrick Hsu, a bioengineer at the University of California.

Support 
The project is supported by donations from Arnold Ventures, The Audacious Project, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, John Collison, Patrick Collison, Crankstart, Jack Dorsey, Kim and Scott Farquhar, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Fiona McKean and Tobias Lütke, Yuri and Julia Milner, Elon Musk, Chris and Crystal Sacca, Schmidt Futures, and others.

Grants 
Fast Grants provides funding between $10,000 and $500,000. The charity says they respond to applications within two days, and will also fund researchers outside the United States.

As of April 2021, Fast Grants has awarded 250 grants totaling more than $50 million to researchers working on COVID-19 related projects, including testing, clinical work, surveillance, virology, drug development and trials, and PPE. Fast Grants provided initial funding for SalivaDirect, the saliva test used in the NBA “bubble” in Orlando during the 2020 season. Other notable grant recipients include Addgene, the Center for Open Science, Susan Athey, Carolyn Bertozzi, Catherine Blish, Pamela Bjorkman, Susan Daniel, Barbara Engelhardt, Laura Esserman, Judith Frydman, Amy Gladfelter, Eva Harris, Akiko Iwasaki, Kevin Kain, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Nevan Krogan, Ronald Levy, Allison McGeer, Miriam Merad, Keith Mostov, Mihai Netea, Daniel Nomura, Melanie Ott, Bradley Pentelute, Rosalind Picard, Hidde Ploegh, Angela Rasmussen, Erica Ollmann Saphire, Katherine Seley-Radtke, Erec Stebbins, Alice Ting, Alain Townsend, David Veesler, Bert Vogelstein, Tania Watts, and Qian Zhang.

As of January 2022, new Fast Grants applications have been paused due to lack of additional funding.

Impact 
The pioneering Fast Grants program has inspired multiple other well-funded efforts that replicate its low overhead, high impact funding model. Some examples include Impetus Grants for longevity research (>$30M of funding), Robert Downey Jr.'s Footprint Coalition for climate change, and Superalignment Fast Grants from OpenAI for safe AI development ($10M of funding).

References 

Charities based in the United States
Organizations established for the COVID-19 pandemic
Charitable activities related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Psytron. Psytron is a 1984 video game developed by Psy-Sci and published by Beyond Software.

Gameplay
Psytron is a game in which the player is the automated brain controlling the defense and maintenance aboard a space station that is currently under attack.

Development
Psytron was programmed by Paul Voysey and Tayo Olowu.

Reception

Carol Hutchins reviewed Psytron for White Dwarf #56, giving it an overall rating of 9 out of 10, and stated that "I found it very exciting and thought that the addition of Freeze Time a very novel twist. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who finds playing wave after wave of identical, invincible opponents is tedious in the extreme."

Reviews
Crash (Jun, 1984)
Sinclair User - Aug, 1984
Your Spectrum #07 (1984-09)

References

External links
Text of additional reviews at Spectrum Computing

1984 video games
Commodore 64 games
Shoot 'em ups
Video games about alien invasions
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Npj Quantum Materials. npj Quantum Materials is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering the properties, fabrication techniques and applications of quantum materials. This includes superconducting and topological materials, correlation phenomena, and quantum effects in materials and systems for energy generation.

Founded in 2016, it is published by the Nature Publishing Group in cooperation with Nanjing University. Sang-Wook Cheong and Steven Kivelson act as editors in chief.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in major indexing services like Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-E), Current Contents, Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 7.032 and a 5-year impact factor of 7.41.

References

External links

Quantum mechanics journals
Academic journals established in 2016
Nature Research academic journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
English-language journals
Continuous journals
Dorthe Ravnsbæk. Professor Dorthe Bomholdt Ravnsbæk is an inorganic / materials chemist who has been internationally recognized for her work in battery technology.

Background 
Ravnsbæk received her Ph.D. from the iNANO branch of Aarhus University in 2011, and was a postdoctoral researcher with Yet-Ming Chiang at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ravnsbæk was appointed to the faculty of University of Southern Denmark in 2014. Her research focuses on different Metal hydride combinations that could potentially power batteries from cheap, abundant sodium ions in place of Lithium-ion battery materials. She co-Leads the ECOSTORE initiative at SDU.

Awards 
 2016 - L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Rising Talent
 2011 - EuroScience Young Researcher Award

References 

Danish women chemists
Danish chemists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Anaïs Orsi. Anaïs Orsi is a climate scientist studying global warming through changes in polar ice.

Background 
Orsi received a Master's Degree in Engineering from the École Polytechnique in 2007. She then obtained a Master's Degree in Oceanography from the University of California, San Diego, and her PhD from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She travels to Antarctica to study internal weather patterns and uses them to predict future climate change.

Awards 
 2016 — L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards Rising Talent

References 

French climatologists
Women climatologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Knowledge engine. A knowledge engine is part of a decision-support system that combines data with data models and inference rules to provide an interface for people who want to make decisions or discover related data.  It may involve automatically extracting and structuring knowledge from less-structured sources, using these models and rules.

History 
In the late 1990s, the Decision Support Group at the University of Fribourg developed a model for decision support software. This described the interface between data and models on one hand, and graphical interfaces for exploring them and making decisions on the other, as a knowledge engine.  They also developed a mathematical modeling language, LPL, in concert with that work.

With the rise of the semantic web, natural language processing, and topical knowledge bases, a number of other analytical tools have been categorized as knowledge engines, including in genomics (KnowEnG), modeling human action (PaStaNet), and speeding up general-purpose question answering.

General-purpose search and discovery tools such as Wolfram Alpha have also described themselves as knowledge engines.

See also 
 Knowledge engineering
 Knowledge engineer

References 

Knowledge engineering
Vladimir Mitkevich. Vladimir Fyodorovich Mitkevich (; 3 August 1872, Minsk – 1 June 1951, Moscow) was a Soviet scientist and electrical engineer.

In 1929, Mitkevich participated in the Second International Congress of the History of Science held in London in June–July 1931.

References

1872 births
1951 deaths
20th-century Russian physicists
Scientists from Minsk
Academic staff of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Electrical engineers from the Russian Empire
Mechanical engineers from the Russian Empire
Physicists from the Russian Empire
Soviet electrical engineers
Soviet mechanical engineers
Soviet physicists
Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Prairie strips. Prairie strips are strips of native perennial vegetation that are strategically integrated into row crop fields. This technique is used in conservation farming to improve biodiversity, and protect soil and water. 

Native prairie vegetation improves soil stability, reduces soil erosion and nutrient runoff, and concentrates more organic carbon in soil than corn and soybean crops. Research has found that strategically setting aside land in corn and soybean fields benefits biodiversity, water and soil in a greater extent than other types of perennial vegetation. 10% of a corn field set aside for native vegetation can reduce sediment movement by 95%. Phosphorus and nitrogen lost through run off are reduced by 90% and 85% respectively. Farmers can take odd areas or difficult-to-farm areas out of production as they integrate native plant species into farm fields as contour buffers and edge-of-field filters.

In Iowa, most of the rich and fertile soils have been dedicated to corn and soybean crops. Only around 0.1 percent of the original tallgrass prairie remains. Prairie strips are among the few remaining areas for the native vegetation.

Entomologists at Iowa State University observed beneficial aphid-eating insects in soybean fields and the prairie strips. They found that prairie strips supported twice the number of aphid-eating insects than soybean fields.

References

Environmental conservation
Agriculture in the United States
Ricardo Cortez (mathematician). Ricardo Cortez is an American mathematician and currently the Pendergraft William Larkin Duren Professor at Tulane University.

Professional career 
Ricardo Cortez earned a BS in mechanical engineering in 1986 and a BA in applied mathematics in 1988 from Arizona State University.  In 1995, he earned his applied mathematics PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.  He was an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, which is New York University's mathematics research school, from 1995 to 1998.  Since 1998 he has been: Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Tulane University (1998–2001), Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, Tulane University 2001–2007. As of 2007 he is a professor, Mathematics Department, at Tulane University.

Awards and honors 
Cortez was awarded the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2012.
He was named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions in numerical methods for fluid dynamics and leadership in promoting opportunities in mathematical sciences for underrepresented groups".

References 

20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Arizona State University alumni
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
Tulane University faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
List of PSG College of Technology people. This list of PSG College of Technology people is a selected list of notable past staff and students of the PSG College of Technology.

Academics

G. V. Loganathan, former professor, Virginia Tech
A. G. Ramakrishnan, professor, Indian Institute of Science
Ragunathan Rajkumar, George Westinghouse Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Siva Umapathy, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar laureate
Kalidhindi B. R. Varma, Vice-chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Madhu Bhaskaran, engineer and Professor at RMIT University
Navin Ramankutty, Professor of Global Food Security and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia

Business

Shiv Nadar, chairman and CSO of HCL Technologies
C Vijayakumar, CEO, HCL Technologies
Sundar Raman, CEO of Reliance Sports and Cricket Administrator
Sundaram Karivardhan, industrialist and motorsport pioneer
Lakshmi Narayanan, ex-vice chairman and ex-CEO of Cognizant and Chairman of ICT Academy
Madhusudhan Rao Lagadapati, executive chairman of Lanco Infratech

Government, Politics and Public Services

Y. S. Chowdary, former Minister of State, Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Government of India
Jose K. Mani, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha
K. Pandiarajan, businessman and politician
Ramachandran Govindarasu, former secretary of ADMK (IT Wing)
 K. Annamalai, Former IPS & Current President of Tamil Nadu BJP
Kishore Kumar Rajaram, President, Sivananda Saraswathi Sevashram

Arts and Entertainment

Cottalango Leon, winner of Academy Award
Mahesh Muthuswami, cinematographer
Aparna B Marar, classical dancer

Scientists

Mylswamy Annadurai, director of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2, ISRO
R. M. Vasagam, space scientist and former Project Director, Ariane Passenger Payload Experiment

References

External links
 

Lists of people by university or college in India
Samuel L. Manzello. Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering, Inc. and a visiting professor Tohoku University (Japan).

Life and career 
Manzello holds B.S. with honors (1996) and PhD (2000) in mechanical engineering from University of Illinois-Chicago. He was awarded NASA Graduate Student Research fellowship during his PhD. He carried out experiments in NASA's drop tower and Japan Microgravity Centre's drop tower. He investigated sooting and radiation on droplet combustion in microgravity.

After graduation, Manzello joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow in 2001 and worked for 20 years. He left in 2021, and joined Reax Engineering, Inc, as a technical advisor. He is currently a visiting professor at Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. He is an associate editor for Fire Technology journal.

Manzello was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface Fires published in 2020.

Awards and honors 
 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from the National Fire Protection Association for a paper "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007 Angora Fire"  This is the first journal paper which investigated the firebrand exposure from wildland-urban interface fires.
 2017 Samuel Wasley Stratton Award, National Institute of Standards and Technology "for his groundbreaking engineering and scientific research on the vulnerabilities of built structures to ignition from wind-driven firebrand showers produced from wildland-urban interface fires".
 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication from Society of Fire Protection Engineers for a paper "Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Outdoor Firefighting".

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American engineers
American mechanical engineers
University of Illinois Chicago alumni
National Institute of Standards and Technology people
1,2-Dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane. 1,2-Dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane is a volatile liquid chlorofluoroalkane composed of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine and fluorine, and with structural formula CClF2CHClF. It is also known as a refrigerant with the designation R-123a.

Formation
1,1,2-Trichloro-1,2,2-trifluoroethane can be biotransformed in sewage sludge to 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane.

Properties
The critical temperature of R-123a is . The rotation of the molecule appears to be hindered by the present of chlorine on each carbon atom, but is eased at higher temperatures.

Use
Although not deliberately used, R-123a is a significant impurity in its isomer, the widely used 2,2-dichloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane (R-123).

References

External links
 

Hydrochlorofluorocarbons