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Zeppelin-Lindau V I. The Zeppelin-Lindau V I was a metal-framed, pusher configuration, German sesquiplane, designed by Claude Dornier. It flew on 13 November 1916 and crashed on the first flight.

Design and development

It was designed by Claude Dornier, then with Zeppelin-Werke Lindau GmbH and first flew on November 13, 1916. It was a single seat experimental test aircraft for Abteilung Dornier.

The V I was a two bay sesquiplane, its lower wing both shorter and narrower than the upper one. Both had roughly rectangular plans, though the upper tips were rounded. Two steel tube, V-form interplane struts braced the upper and lower wing spars together across an unusually small interplane gap. The wings had Dornier's preferred metal spars and ribs and were fabric covered.

A pusher configuration aircraft, the V I was powered by a  Maybach Mb.III engine placed, partially exposed, at the rear of the forward fuselage. This was a smooth ovoid aluminium sheet structure and contained the cockpit just behind the nose. Behind the wing trailing edges the fuselage was an uncovered steel tube structure, rectangular in cross-section. Its upper and lower tailbooms were mounted on the wings at the top and bottom of the inner interplane struts, far enough apart to provide clearance for the propeller. It narrowed aft to the tail, which, like the wings, had surfaces with fabric covering over metal structures. A trapezoidal fin was mounted  between the converging fuselage members, where the final vertical tube served as the rudder post and carried a rectangular rudder. The horizontal tail was mounted on the upper fuselage, braced with V-struts to the lower booms ahead of the rudder post. An SKF latticed radiator was fixed above the upper wing. 

Its undercarriage was fixed and conventional, with mainwheels on a single axle supported at each end by a V-strut to the lower fuselage. There was a small tailskid below the rudder post.

The pusher layout was probably influenced by the success of the British D.H.2, and F.E.2b fighters which, with the French Nieuport 11 sesquiplane had helped to attain aerial superiority on the Western Front in the summer of 1916.

Operational history

The machine was built at Seemoos, Friedrichshafen and was transported to Loewental airfield and stored in readiness for flight trials. Ground-based taxiing trials indicated that it was top heavy, where it nosed over on the ground on at least once. On 13 November when the initial flight was to take place, company pilot Schroeter did not turn up so Oblt. Riechsffreiherr Hans Haller von Hallerstein volunteered instead. The aircraft lifted off the ground and flew on an undulating path before climbing almost vertically and then diving and crashing into the ground. Kallerstein was killed and the aircraft was so badly damaged that it was not repaired.

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Pusher aircraft
Sesquiplanes
1910s German military aircraft
Zeppelin-Lindau aircraft
Dornier aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1916
Eric Feron. Eric Marie Feron is a computer scientist and aerospace engineer. He has been the Dutton/Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2005.

He taught at MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics from 1993 until his appointment at Georgia Tech. He obtained his BS from Ecole Polytechnique in 1989, his MS from Ecole Normale Suprieure in 1990, and PhD from Stanford University in 1994. His particular research foci are aerobatic control of unmanned aerial vehicles, multi-agent operations, including air traffic control systems and aerospace software system certification. One of his students at MIT was Selçuk Bayraktar, the designer of the Bayraktar TB2 drone.

Selected research
Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Maneuver-based motion planning for nonlinear systems with symmetries." IEEE Transactions on robotics 21.6 (2005): 1077–1091.
Frazzoli, Emilio, Munther A. Dahleh, and Eric Feron. "Real-time motion planning for agile autonomous vehicles." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 25.1 (2002): 116–129.
Schouwenaars, Tom, et al. "Mixed integer programming for multi-vehicle path planning." 2001 European control conference (ECC). IEEE, 2001.
Boyd, Stephen, et al. Linear matrix inequalities in system and control theory. Vol. 15. Siam, 1994.

Published Books 

 Advances in Control System Technology for Aerospace Applications, Eric Feron (editor), 2016, Springer.
 General Theory of Algebraic Equations, Translate by Eric Feron, 2006, Princeton University Press.
 Linear Matrix Inequalities in System and Control Theory, Stephen Boyd, Laurent El Ghaoul, Eric Feron, 1994, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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Georgia Tech faculty
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Stanford University alumni
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BugsXLA. BugsXLA is a Microsoft Excel add-in that provides a graphical user interface for WinBUGS, OpenBUGS and JAGS, developed by Phil Woodward. BugsXLA allows a wide range of Bayesian models to be fitted to data stored in Excel using model statements similar to those used in R, SAS or Genstat. It has been used to analyse data in a variety of application areas, for example quality engineering, pharmaceutical research, organisational sciences and ecology. The primary purpose of BugsXLA is to reduce the learning curve associated with using Bayesian software.  It does this by removing the need to know how to code in the BUGS language, how to create the other files needed, as well as providing reasonable default initial values and prior distributions.

References

External links
BugsXLA page
BugsXLA YouTube

Statistical software
Journal of Infrastructure Systems. The Journal of Infrastructure Systems is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers covering all aspects of civil engineering.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Ei Compendex, Science Citation Index Expanded, ProQuest databases, Civil Engineering Database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCO databases.

References

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Civil engineering journals
American Society of Civil Engineers academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1995
Optelecom. Optelecom-NKF, Inc. is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets high-bandwidth communications products, financial market data information, and business video systems.

History 
The company was founded as Optelecom in 1974 by William Culver and Gordon Gould to build optical networking products utilizing fiber optic cable, optical amplifiers and lasers. Today, it develops fiber optic communications products and laser systems for commercial and military customers.

Previous to working together to form Optelecom, Culver was employed at IBM's Federal Systems Division, Quantum Electronics Department while Gould was working at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, (now the New York University Tandon School of Engineering). The two sought to focus on inventing and developing a new breakthrough technology for fiber optics for missile systems.”

The firm’s products were based on Gould's invention of the optical amplifier and the laser -- his  acronym for ''light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.'' On the day of his invention, he realized its potential in telecommunications, writing in his journal: “Brief statement of properties and possible uses of the Laser…..Applications to communications, radar, etc. are obvious.”

In 1983, David R. Huber joined Culver and Gould at Optelecom, where he developed and patented optical amplifiers, optical multiplexed sensors, and a multiplexed optical data distribution system. Subsequently, Optelecom provided management, financial, and production assistance to Huber as a founding shareholder of Hydralite, Inc., later renamed Ciena Corp. At the launch of Ciena, Culver explained the goal as enabling a “single, hair-thin cable to carry many signals simultaneously, with each one being piggybacked on a different frequency of light.” In the long run," Culver said at the time, "the new venture could become a very significant portion of Optelecom's business."

In April 2005, Optelecom changed its name to Optelecom-NKF as part of its acquisition of NKF Electronics. Optelecom-NKF products (communication products that transport data, video, and audio over high-speed internet, ethernet, and fiber optic cables) are produced in an ISO-9001 certified facility and supported by a global network of technical professionals and distribution partners.

Optelecom-NKF was acquired by TKH Group N.V. of Haakbergent, Netherlands on January 27, 2011.

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American companies established in 1974
William Elvin Jackson. William Elvin Jackson (1904–1972) was an aviation electronics engineer who contributed to the fields of aeronautical navigation, communications and air traffic control. Jackson assisted in the development of nearly all of the electronic aids to air navigation and air traffic control during his careers in both industry and government. Those contributions included the advancement of instrument landing systems (ILS), very high frequency omni-ranges (VHFOR), and distance measuring equipment, all of which are the worldwide standard systems in use today.

Jackson was the editor of "The Federal Airways System," a publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that traces 40 years of technical engineering achievements that enabled the prevalence of air transportation in public inter-city, intercontinental and international private and business travel.

William Jackson graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.  The 1925 Brown University Yearbook foreshadowed his future:  

In the mid-1920s, Jackson, while living in Schenectady, New York, was a central part of a worldwide group of thousands of experimenting wireless engineers, referred to as "hams". They used ham radios and Morse code to communicate among themselves between 42 countries, all in an effort to improve code transmission when two-way communication was the first wireless technology.  At the time, he was employed with General Electric in its radio department.

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1972 deaths
Amateur radio people
Zelda Zabinsky. Zelda Barbara Zabinsky is an industrial engineer and operations researcher specializing in the application of global optimization to logistics. She is a professor of industrial engineering at the University of Washington, where she also holds adjunct positions in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil and environmental engineering.

Education and career
Zabinsky did her undergraduate studies at the University of Puget Sound, majoring in mathematics with a minor in biology. Her interests from this time include optimization of transportation as well as predator-prey dynamics. After graduating, she worked at the National Marine Fisheries Service and Boeing before following her husband to Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she worked on applications of operations of research to health care at Vector Research, now part of the Altarum Institute. She completed her Ph.D. in industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan. Her 1985 dissertation, Computational Complexity of Adaptive Algorithms in Monte Carlo Optimization, was supervised by Robert L. Smith. She joined the University of Washington faculty in 1985.

Book
Zabinsky is the author of the book Stochastic Adaptive Search in Global Optimization (Kluwer, 2004).

Recognition
Zabinsky is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, elected in 2009. She was elected to the 2019 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, for "fundamental contributions in developing theory and algorithms for global optimization, with significant applications in engineering design, health care, and numerous other fields, and substantial impacts in education and service".

References

External links
Home page

Women in STEM: Ep. 8 Math House, interview with Zabinsky on encouraging children to follow STEM careers

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20th-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American women engineers
American women academics
British Rail Class 810. The British Rail Class 810 Aurora is a type of bi-mode multiple unit being constructed by Hitachi Rail for East Midlands Railway (EMR). Based on the Hitachi AT300 design, 33 five-car units will replace  Class 222 units on EMR's intercity routes in 2025.

Background
In July 2012, it was announced by Network Rail that the Midland Main Line (MML) would be electrified north of Bedford, allowing the diesel trains currently used on the route by to be replaced with new electric trains. However, electrification was 'paused' by Network Rail in June 2015, and then cancelled in July 2017 by then-Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, who made the decision to use bi-mode trains on the MML instead.

In August 2019, East Midlands Railway placed a £400million order for 33 five-car bi-mode units, to replace its Class 180 and 222 fleets on the MML. The purchase is being funded by Rock Rail East Midlands. It was originally planned that the new trains would enter service before December 2022; following multiple extensions, the fleet is planned to enter service in early 2025 as of March 2024.

In October 2020, following a public competition, EMR announced they would be branded as Aurora.

Design
The Class 810 is a modification of the Class 802 units Hitachi have delivered to a number of British train operators. The major change is a  reduction in the length of each vehicle, which is required in order to allow paired (ten-car) Class 810 trains to use London St Pancras station. Some of the length reduction has been achieved by reprofiling the front end of the train and shortening the nosecone.

Compared to Class 802 units, the 810s will also be fitted with an additional diesel power pack—for a total of four—and each engine will be uprated from . Both of these changes are intended to satisfy the franchise requirement that the new trains equal or exceed the performance of the current Class 222 units. The power packs will be installed under the first, second, fourth, and fifth vehicles, while the third (centre) vehicle will carry the high-voltage transformer. Traction motors will be fitted to the bogies of the second and fourth vehicles.

Interior

In response to customer feedback regarding seating comfort on earlier Class 80x units, both first- and standard-class seats on the Class 810 will be of a unique design that is intended to offer enhanced comfort. They will be based on the existing FISA Lean design, but of an altered appearance. EMR were working closely with Derby-based design company DGDESIGN on the design of the new interiors. It is claimed that the seats will have wider cushions, more-sculpted headrests, softer and deeper armrests, additional privacy screening, and be upholstered in a wool-rich moquette that is intended to be easier to keep clean. Every passenger will have access to power sockets and USB charging points, at-seat coat hooks, and storage space under each seat.

Fleet details

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High-speed trains of the United Kingdom
Hitachi multiple units
Hybrid multiple units of Great Britain
25 kV AC multiple units
Train-related introductions in 2025
David R. Huber. David R. Huber is an American engineer specializing in optical networking. He is the holder and assignor of several patents in the field of optical transmission, distribution, and communication.

David R. Huber received his B. S. degree in physics from Eastern Oregon State College in 1974 and his PhD degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University in 1980. Upon graduation, he began working at the Martin Marietta Company in the area of space instrumentation. It was in 1982 when his career focus changed to fiber optics receivers, wavelength division fiber-optic communication systems, and fiber-optic bandwidth and dispersion measurements while employed at ITT Corporation.

Working at Optelecom from 1983 to 1988, Huber developed optical multiplexed sensors and a multiplexed fiber optic wideband data distribution system. In 1988, he joined General Instrument Corporation, where he patented several inventions, including Remote pumping for active optical devices, Method for producing a tunable erbium fiber laser, and wavelength selective coupler for high power optical communications. These technologies were core elements of the wave division multiplexing (“WDM”) system developed by Huber.

Huber returned to Optelecom in 1993 to develop optical networking systems by starting Hydralite Inc. (renamed Ciena Corp.) with Optelecom and entrepreneur Kevin Kimberlin. Their venture was chartered and the founders shares were issued to Huber, Kimberlin, and Optelecom on November 12, 1993. Optelecom took an ownership stake for providing management, financial, and production support for Ciena. Press coverage at that time noted that the firm would “specialize in equipment such as lasers, modulators, and amplifiers used to send data through fiber cables at very high rates." Referred to as wave division multiplexing, the new technology would, according to William H. Culver, Optelecom's chairman, let “a single, hair-thin cable carry many signals simultaneously, with each one being piggybacked on a different frequency of light." In June 1996, Ciena introduced the first dense WDM system.

After Ciena went public, Huber left to start another optical networking company, Corvis Corporation (renamed Broadwing Corporation) in 1997, where he served as Chairman of the Board until Corvis was acquired by Level 3 Communications, Inc. in 2007 for $1.4 billion.

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Ghana Railways 1851 class. The Ghana Railways 1851 class were a class of diesel-electric locomotives built by English Electric-AEI Traction for the Ghana Railways in 1969/70.

Description
The 1851 class were a dual cab hood type general purpose locomotive. Engine, electrical and control equipment was essentially as fitted to the British Rail Class 37 as well as a number of other export locomotives.

The main frame consisted of two fabricated box section longitudinal members with fabricated box section cross members. These box sections were sealed to form the fuel tank in the centre of the locomotive.

The bogies, designed by English Electric, were cast steel with axles fully compensated with underslung beams acting on long travel coil springs. Side bearers are totally enclosed with oil lubrication. Lateral spring controlled intercouplers link the bogies, reducing track stresses and flange wear in curves. Traction motors are mounted on the axle towards the inner end of the bogies to reduce weight transfer under load.

History
By 1999 only two remained in service. In 2003 just one, 1864, remained in storage at New Takoradi, but had been scrapped by 2007.

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Co-Co locomotives
English Electric locomotives
Diesel–electric locomotives of Ghana
Railway locomotives introduced in 1969
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives
Journal of Architectural Engineering. The Journal of Architectural Engineering is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers covering all aspects of engineering design, planning, construction, and operation of buildings, including building systems; structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering; acoustics; environmental quality; lighting; and sustainability.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed in Ei Compendex, Emerging Sources Citation Index, ProQuest databases, Civil Engineering Database, Inspec, Scopus, and EBSCO databases.

References

External links

Civil engineering journals
American Society of Civil Engineers academic journals
Academic journals established in 1995
Architecture journals
English-language journals
Judith Kersey. Judith A. Kersey (born 1943) is an American engineer. She was the first woman guidance systems engineer at NASA Kennedy Space Center.

Education
As a student at the University of Florida, Kersey initiated and chaired the first Florida State Symposium for Women in Engineering and Science in 1974. In 1975, she became a senior member of the Society of Women Engineers and was elected the national career guidance committee chair.

Career
After earning a master’s degree in electrical engineering, she joined the engineering team at Kennedy Space Center. As one of the first female engineers at the spaceport, Kersey was not listened to by her superiors. After warning a senior engineer of a potential mistake, which was proven to be the correct judgment, she was promoted to the Systems Assurance Office to ensure similar mistakes were avoided.

She later became the first female guidance systems engineer at NASA during the Apollo program. Amongst her years at NASA, she had held various positions such as NASA deputy director for Electronic Engineering, division chief of the Space Shuttle test group at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and NASA associate director for Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance. She also played a roles in the Saturn V and the space shuttle programs and received the Kennedy Space Center Federal Woman of the Year Award, the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, and was selected as a Fellow Member of the Society of Women Engineers. Upon her retirement, Kersey sat as a member of the Society of Women Engineers's  electronic communications committee and a member of the scholarship committee.

In 2005, Kersey was inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame.

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Living people
1943 births
American women engineers
University of Florida alumni
NASA people
21st-century American women