omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
New South Wales E17 class locomotive. The E.17 class  was a class of patent long boiler steam locomotive built by the Robert Stephenson & Company for the New South Wales Government Railways of Australia.

History
In the 1860s, rail construction in New South Wales was intensifying, with the Main South and Main West mainlines being extended to Goulburn and Bathurst respectively. Grades along this route were up to 1 in 30 (3.3%) steep. As a result, it was obvious that a heavy goods engine would be needed to carry cargo along these lines. These locomotives were based on Stephenson's patent long boiler engines of 1843 for the York & North Midland Railway. The first order, for six locomotives, was built by Robert Stephenson & Company, and these engines would be placed in service in 1865–7 on the Main South and Main West lines for goods workings. These locomotives quickly showed themselves to be useful, and as a result new orders were placed. Some of these were built by Vale & Lacy in Sydney, and other local firms. By July 1879, 23 of these engines were roaming the state's mainlines, seven for the then-isolated section of line near Newcastle.

Accidents
On the night of 30 January 1878, a head-on collision between two E.17 Class goods trains resulted in the drivers and firemen of both trains, together with a guard riding in the cab of the up train, being killed. The primitive system of working the trains was found to be a contributing factor. Both locomotives were written off and replaced by new locomotives supplied by Robert Stephenson & Company.

Demise and preservation
Withdrawals began with 11N in 1889, and some were sold to coal mines or transferred to the Public Works Department (PWD) for construction duties around this time. Two of these engines would return to NSWGR ownership, 41X, classified X10 and renumbered 1003 in 1924 and scrapped in 1927, and E22, renumbered 1002 in 1924 and scrapped in 1929. Other long lived engines were 40, transferred to the PWD and from there sold to BHP in 1914, becoming that railway's No. 1. After being used to construct the plant, it was converted to a saddle tank, becoming known as "Old Lizzie" by BHP staff, the name sticking up to her scrapping in 1960. Vale & Lacy loco 42 was another long-lived engine, bought by the Caledonian Coal Co at West Wallsend. The engine was then bought by Australian Iron & Steel (AIS) in 1903, and placed into service in Wollongong, surviving dieselisation of the works and only being withdrawn in 1958 due to poor condition, being scrapped the following year.
Number 18 was another lucky engine, sold to the Southern Coal Company at Corrimal in 1897. The engine was dismantled, awaiting overhaul, in 1963, when AIS brought the colliery, and the repairs were never finished. However, the relic would instead be donated to the fledgling NSW Rail Museum in Thirlmere, where it remains as of August 2020, statically preserved.

References

17
0-6-0 locomotives
Robert Stephenson and Company locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1865
E17 class locomotive
Standard gauge locomotives of Australia
Kevoree. Kevoree is an open source project that aims at enabling the development of reconfigurable distributed systems. It is built around a component model, and takes advantage of the Models@Runtime approach to provide efficient tools for the development, live adaptation and synchronization of distributed Software Systems.

History 
The Kevoree project has been initiated by the University of Rennes / IRISA and INRIA Bretagne Atlantique. Started in 2010, Kevoree is now a mature solution to develop distributed software systems.

References

External links 
 Kevoree sources on GitHub

Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Software using the GNU Lesser General Public License
Sulabha K. Kulkarni. Sulabha Kashinath Kulkarni (born 1 June 1949 in Pune, Maharashtra) is an Indian physicist, whose research spans the areas of Nanotechnology, Materials Science, and Surface Science. She is currently a visiting faculty member at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India.

Early life and education 
Born in 1949, Kulkarni was educated in Pune and earned her Bachelor of Science (1969), Master of Science (1971), and Doctor of Philosophy (1976) in Physics from the University of Pune. From 1976 to 1977, she conducted her post-doctoral research on gas/solid interactions using surface science techniques in the Physics Department (E20) at Technical University, Munich, Germany.

Work and career 
Kulkarni joined as a faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University of Pune upon her return to India. She continued to research and teach for 32 years, also introducing a course on Nanotechnology at the post-graduate level. In March 2009, she joined the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune and continued as a UGC scientist. From 2010 to 2011, she served as Pro Vice Chancellor at the Banasthali University, Rajasthan. She returned to IISER Pune as UGC Professor and is currently a Visiting Faculty at IISER Pune.

Awards and honors 
 Associate editor, Journal of Nanophotonics (2011- )
 Fellow (FNA), Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi) (2011- )
 Bharatiya Stree Shakti "Women and Technological Innovation National Award (2007)
 Associate editor, International Journal of Nanoscience & Nanotechnology (2006- )
 Fellow (FASc), Indian Academy of Science (Bangalore) (2004– )
 Fellow (FNASc), National Academy of Sciences, India (Allahabad), (2003– )
 Elected President, IPA Pune Chapter (1996–1998)
 Fellow, Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (1995- )

References

Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Women scientists from Maharashtra
Indian women physicists
Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences
1949 births
Living people
20th-century Indian women scientists
21st-century Indian women scientists
21st-century Indian physicists
20th-century Indian physicists
Indian condensed matter physicists
Indian nanotechnologists
Renato Giuseppe Bosisio. Dr. Renato Giuseppe Bosisio (1930–2019)  was a Québécois Canadian academic and expert on microwave engineering. He is also known for returning the Order of Canada in protest of Henry Morgentaler's appointment to the Order.

Positions
Bosisio is a professor emeritus at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, Department of Electrical Engineering.

Notability
Bosisio has authored and/or coauthor over 300 academic papers and refereed international conferences. In them, he has made global contributions in developing microwave and millimeter wave engineering. He also holds 12 patents.

In 1992, he founded the Poly-GRAMES Research Center.

Accolades
On January 14, 2002, Bosisio was appointed to the Order of Canada. On November 30, 2009, he resigned in protest of Henry Morgentaler's appointment to the Order.

On May 3, 2004, Bosisio was awarded the McNaughton Medal of IEEE Canada Outstanding Educator Award for "research and teaching of microwaves and innovation of six-port based digital receivers" in 2004.

References

2019 deaths
Members of the Order of Canada
1930 births
Canadian people of Italian descent
McGill University alumni
Forges de Zeebrugge. Forges de Zeebrugge (since 1 January 2017: Thales Belgium) is an arms manufacturer in based in Herstal, Belgium.

Forges de Zeebrugge was founded as a munitions factory between Zeebrugge and Zwankendamme, in the 1930s, as a subsidiary of Carcoke. During World War II, the site was taken over by German forces. Allied bombing, especially in July 1943, devastated the factory site; the original munitions factory was never rebuilt and later remediation of this site was difficult due to unexploded munitions.

The surviving FZ business changed focus to rocketry. In 1971, FZ bought the Fort d'Évegnée from Belgian Army, using it to store explosives.

Modern-day FZ is a subsidiary of Thales, and is a leading manufacturer of aircraft air-to-ground rocket system (70mm, 2.75") including rocket launcher (7, 12 and 19 tube), rockets and firing control system.
FZ rocket systems are qualified and in operational use on more than 300 platforms including Airbus Helicopters, AgustaWestland, Hindustan Aeronautics, BAE Systems, Embraer, General Dynamics, Hawker Beechcraft and other aircraft manufacturers. In 2011, FZ workers briefly went on strike, in response to a Belgian government reform of arms exports - which was triggered by FN exporting arms to Libya.

In October 2015, FZ has successfully completed a test firing of its 70 mm laser-guided rocket (FZ275 LGR) from a Denel Rooivalk helicopter.
In December 2017, an Airbus Helicopters H145M helicopter successfully launched a 70mm Laser Guided Rockets (FZ275 LGR) during its firing campaign at the Älvdalen test range of the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration Flight test Centre.

See also
 FN Herstal
 Hydra 70

References

Firearm manufacturers of Belgium
Defence companies of Belgium
Air-to-ground rockets
Herstal
Soumagne
Companies based in Liège Province
Kharkiv KhAZ-30. The ViS ViS-3 is a high wing, single-engine ultralight, designed and built in Ukraine. The production version is designated as KhAZ-30 (ХАЗ-30).

Design and development

The ViS-3 is a two-seat, side by side, conventionally laid out ultralight high-wing monoplane. It first flew on 8 October 2006 and its flight test programme led through the revised ViS-5 to the Kharkiv State Aviation Plant built KhAZ-30 (ХАЗ-30) production aircraft, which first appeared in public on 22 May 2012. The development programme has brought small but significant changes to the design, chiefly in the removal of forward sweep and the addition of dihedral and flaps.  It is mostly of metal construction, though with fabric-covered wings. These have straight edges and constant chord and are braced by a single streamlined strut on each side, forward leaning from the lower fuselage to the wing.

The fuselage is noticeably shallow, with a long cabin glazed ahead and behind the wing, both above and to the sides.  A  Rotax 912 ULS flat four engine in the nose drives a three-blade propeller.  The rectangular tailplane is set well back; the ViS-3 had mass balanced elevators, developed on the ViS-5 to include aerodynamic (horn) balances and slightly increased in span.  There is a tall fin and rudder, also straight-edged but swept; the rudder has a prominent trim tab. A fixed tricycle undercarriage has spring cantilever main legs and  cantilever-mounted, castoring nosewheel.

Variants
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2013-14, p. 656-7
ViS-3 First prototype, flown 8 October 2006.
ViS-5 Production prototype. Unswept wings with flaps and span  less than ViS-3, length  greater.
KhAZ-30 (ХАЗ-30) Designation of production aircraft.  heavier empty, 16% greater fuel capacity than ViS-3. Public debut 22 May 2012.

Specifications (ViS-3)

References

2000s Ukrainian ultralight aircraft
Kharkiv Aviation Factory aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 2006
PS Power and Sample Size. PS   is an interactive computer program for performing statistical power and sample size calculations.

Program description 

The P program can be used for studies with dichotomous, continuous, or survival response measures. The user specifies the alternative hypothesis in terms of differing response rates, means, survival times, relative risks, or odds ratios. Matched or independent study designs may be used. Power, sample size, and the detectable alternative hypothesis are interrelated. The user specifies any two of these three quantities and the program derives the third. A description of each calculation, written in English, is generated and may be copied into the user's documents. Interactive help is available. The program provides methods that are appropriate for matched and independent t-tests, survival analysis, matched and unmatched studies of dichotomous events, the Mantel-Haenszel test, and linear regression.
The program can generate graphs of the relationships between power, sample size and the detectable alternative hypothesis. It can plot graphs of any two of these variables while holding the third constant. Linear or logarithmic axes may be used and multiple curves can be plotted on each graph. Graphs may be copied and pasted into other documents or programs for further editing.

Reviews 

Reviews of this program have been published by McCrum-Gardner, Thomas and Krebs, Stawicki and Pezzullo.

Web version 
A web-based version of the program is also available at https://statcomp2.app.vumc.org/ps/.

References

External links 
 PS Webpage
 P3G : Public Population Project in Genomics and Society
 CTSpedia
 UCSF Biostatistics
 Software Informer

Statistical software
Arthur V. Sheridan. Arthur V. Sheridan (1888 – June 20, 1952) was a Bronx Engineer who served as Bronx Borough  Commissioner of Public Works from 1942 to 1952 under Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons and Arterial Coordinator Robert Moses.

Early life
A native of New York City, Sheridan attended the City University of New York and studied engineering at Columbia University.

Public Service Engineering career
Sheridan Started his career working on a federal engineering project, earning himself presidential commendations from both Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Sheridan was named Chief Engineer of the Bronx by Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons. In 1942, Lyons appointed him from that position to the position of Bronx Borough Commissioner of Public Works.

Career outside of Public service
Sheridan served as president of numerous professional and community groups. From 1928 to 1930, he was the president of the New York Society of Professional Engineers. Sheridan was a founding member and from 1937 to 1938 served as the second president of the National Society of Professional Engineers after David B. Steinman. He also served as president of the Bronx Rotary Club. Sheridan also belonged to both the American Legion and the New York Athletic Club.

During World War I, Sheridan served in the American Expeditionary Forces and as a military consultant during World War II.

In addition, Sheridan edited The American Engineer for 15 years, lectured at Yale, and taught engineering at New York University and Manhattan College.

Outside of the engineering field, Sheridan lectured on history and philosophy.

Death
Sheridan died in a car collision on June 20, 1952, en route to pick up his 11-year-old son to drive back to their home in Lake Mohawk, New Jersey, less than two weeks before his retirement as Borough Commissioner of Public Works on July 1.
He is interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.

Legacy
Sheridan Boulevard (originally the Sheridan Expressway) is named after Sheridan. This road is 1.4 miles long and connects the Bruckner and Cross Bronx Expressways in order to provide a route for commercial vehicles, which cannot travel on the Bronx River Parkway. In the late 2010s, the Sheridan Expressway was converted into a boulevard.

In addition to the highway, Sheridan has a scholarship named after him at Manhattan College.

Bibliography
 "Whither Engineering Education?"
 "Three Centuries in the Bronx"
 "Traffic in the Bronx"

References

1888 births
1952 deaths
People from the Bronx
American civil engineers
Engineers from New York City
Hisaki (satellite). Hisaki, also known as the Spectroscopic Planet Observatory for Recognition of Interaction of Atmosphere (SPRINT-A) was a Japanese ultraviolet astronomy satellite operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The first mission of the Small Scientific Satellite program, it was launched in September 2013 on the maiden flight of the Epsilon rocket. It was used for extreme ultraviolet observations of the Solar System planets.

Hisaki was decommissioned by deactivation on 8 December 2023.

Launch and naming
Hisaki was launched with an Epsilon rocket, which was its first flight. The four-stage Epsilon rocket flew from the Mu rocket launch complex at the Uchinoura Space Center. The launch occurred at 05:00 UTC on 14 September 2013, following a scrubbed launch attempt on 27 August 2013. Following its successful insertion into orbit and deployment of its solar arrays, the satellite was renamed Hisaki, having been designated SPRINT-A until that point.

Hisaki was named after a cape  used by local fishermen to pray for safe travels in the eastern part of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima near the Uchinoura Space Center, but has the additional meaning of "beyond the Sun".  An old name for the mission was EXCEED (Extreme Ultraviolet Spectroscope for Exospheric Dynamics).

Observations
Hisaki carries an extreme ultraviolet spectrometer, which is used to study the composition of
the atmospheres and the behavior of the magnetospheres of the planets of the Solar System. Designed for a one-year mission, Hisaki was operated in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , 31 degrees of inclination and a period of 106 minutes.

In 2016, Hisaki recorded dust storms on Mars altering the upper atmosphere.

In October 2020, it performed joint observation with the BepiColombo probe which performed a flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.

In 2023, Hisaki performed joint observations with Juno orbiter.

It was decommissioned on 8 December 2023 due to accuracy issues.

References

Spacecraft launched in 2013
2013 in Japan
Satellites of Japan
Extreme ultraviolet telescopes
Satellites orbiting Earth
Spacecraft decommissioned in 2023
POF Metallurgical Laboratory. The POF Metallurgical Laboratory (also known as "ML") is a research and development laboratory located near the Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) in Wah Cantonment, Punjab, Pakistan. It is a part of POF Materials Testing Laboratories (PMTL Labs).

Established in 1972 to study non-ferrous metals, it played an important role during the development of Pakistan's clandestine nuclear weapons program. Its activities include research into non-ferrous and ferrous metals, materials science as well as testing, accreditation and quality assurance.

History

The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) used the Metallurgical Laboratory in 1972 to conduct basic research into the chemistry and physical metallurgy of non-ferrous metals. Dr. Khalil Qureshi played a pioneering role as the lab's principal investigator.

The lab also undertook classified studies, as codename: Wah Group Scientists, in designing and developing the non-nuclear physical components and performing metallurgy testing of explosives to be used in nuclear devices under Dr. Zaman Sheikh, a physical chemist. The importance of its work in materials science and understanding the chemistry and metallurgy of plutonium evolved in the Metallurgical Laboratory into a critical laboratory, similar to the Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science & Technology. Due to the sensitivity of the projects and security concerns of scientists at the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), the program was definitely moved to KRL in the 1980s.

Current Role 
These days POF Metallurgical Laboratory offers a variety of material testing services, including:

 Metallographic testing: This examines the microstructure of metals and alloys to understand their properties and behavior.
 Chemical analysis: This determines the elemental composition of a material.
 Mechanical testing: This evaluates the mechanical properties of a material, such as its strength, ductility, and hardness.
 Testing for ferrous and non-ferrous materials: ML can test both iron-based (ferrous) and non-iron-based (non-ferrous) metals and alloys.

Accreditations 
The lab is accredited by various accreditation bodies including PNAC and ISO 14001:2004 by TUV Austria Bureau.

Customers 
Following industries utilize the services of ML:

 Automobile industry
 Research Institute
 Oil and gas Industries
 Defense production
 Manufacturing units
 Research & Development
 Steel industries

References

Further reading
Rehman, Shahid-Ur (1999). Long Road to Chagai. Islamabad, Pakistan: Shahid-ur-Rehman. p. 157. 
Khan, Feroz (2012). Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb. Stanford University Press. p. 552.  Retrieved 3 February 2024.

Military research of Pakistan
Science parks in Pakistan
Research institutes in Pakistan
Laboratories in Pakistan
Materials science institutes
Softeks V-24 Lastivka. The Softeks V-24 Lastivka (Ластівка, Swallow) is a four-seat, twin pusher engined utility aircraft, designed and built in Ukraine in the 2010s for survey and transport work. The first prototype flew late in 2012.

Design and development

The Lastochka is designed for a wide range of utility work, such as fire and geological surveys, freight transport and passenger carrying. It is a low wing monoplane constructed largely of composites, with straight tapered wings tipped with winglets. Their trailing edges carry slotted ailerons and slotted flaps. Two  Rotax 912 ULS air-cooled flat four engines are mounted in pusher configuration on pylons over the wings in short cowlings, positioned with their propeller discs as close as possible to the fuselage.  Rotax 914 engines are an alternative.

The nose and cabin transparencies are smoothly contoured, with no windscreen step, and entry is by an upward opening door on each side forward of the wing leading edge. There are transparencies aft of those in the doors, placed over the wing. A baggage space has a maximum volume of , depending on layout details. The upper fuselage line drops gently behind the cabin to the T-tail, where the fin is integral with the fuselage, straight edged and swept, with a backward leaning rudder hinge. The rudder, with a swept trailing edge, has a horn balance extending forward of the hinge line under the fuselage, where it is faired into a small ventral fin. There is a small, electrically activated rudder trim tab, set low down. A high aspect ratio, rectangular tailplane is placed on top of the fin, bearing a similarly shaped one piece elevator. This has a central trim tab.

The Lastochka has a tricycle undercarriage with main legs retracting inwards; each leg has a pneumatic shock absorber and carries a single wheel fitted with hydraulic brakes. The nosewheel retracts forwards. The aircraft is designed to operate from water or snow, using floats or skis, if required.

The first flight took place on 20 November 2012 and the Lastochka was first demonstrated in public at the SP Korolyov Aviation Meeting, held from 17 to 20 Jane 2010 at Smokovka airport, Zhytomyr.

Specifications (Rotax 912 ULS)

References

2010s Ukrainian civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2012
T-tail aircraft