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Engineering Education Scheme Wales. The Engineering Education Scheme Wales (EESW) is a Registered Charity based in Bridgend which works to encourage young people to consider engineering as a career. The EESW has been operating nationally in Wales since 1989 and now runs several projects at various stages of education as well as its flagship engineering scheme for students aged 16–18.

Activities

The Scheme 
The scheme for Sixth Form students operates on a yearly basis starting in October and takes on about 450 students from Welsh schools. Small groups of students are assigned a local company and work on a real engineering project with that company over a five-month period. Support is provided by an engineer from the partner company and Welsh universities who provide access to workshops and more powerful equipment.
Students work throughout the period to produce a final report with their experiences and findings which is presented to a panel of professional engineers at the EESW's annual Awards and Presentation day in March.

Other work

Stem 
In 2009, the EESW merged its activities with Technology Alliance Wales (TAW), which previously focused on promoting STEM subjects from primary school age up to Sixth Form. Since then, the EESW has extended its range of activities to include the F1 Challenge, Girls into Engineering, Scalextric Challenge, the Jaguar Sports Car Challenge and an apprenticeship pathway.

The F1 Challenge
The EESW runs the F1 Challenge in Wales at both primary and secondary levels; the project involves designing and making a model F1 racing car powered by a CO2 capsule. Students work in a team to create a portfolio documenting their progress through each stage (e.g. brainstorming, design, testing) before creating a model car to compete in regional finals held in North and South Wales. The winners of the regional finals go on to the UK final held at the Big Bang Event. The winners of the secondary age group UK final represent the country at an international competition which is held in a different country each year.

References

External links
 EESW Website

Education in Wales
Total route modernisation. Total route modernisation is a concept first introduced by British Railways whereby a particular railway route is upgraded in one "big bang", with track, signalling and often stations and rolling stock all being renewed or modernised simultaneously in a multifaceted programme of works.

This is in contrast to the more traditional process under which a line of route is gradually improved over time with a series of piecemeal incremental upgrades, such as electrifying a line while leaving the signalling as it is, or easing out bottleneck junctions one at a time, or gradually raising line speeds by individual bits of track realignment over different stretches of line over a long period, as had been the typical approach over many decades on, notably, the East Coast Main Line.

An example of total route modernisation was that of the Chiltern Main Line carried out by British Rail's Network SouthEast sector. Under this scheme, mechanical semaphore signals were replaced with new colour-light signalling, a new fleet of Class 165 "Chiltern Turbo" diesel trains was introduced, Automatic Train Protection was fitted, line speeds were raised, and stations refurbished. This work took four years in all, and was completed in 1992.

References

Rail infrastructure
Weather Stress Index. The Weather Stress Index, or WSI, is a relative measure of the weather conditions, often used as a comfort indicator. The index, a number between 0 and 100, represents the percentage of time in the past with temperatures below the current temperature, for a given location, day and time. This makes the index a local measure based in past weather conditions. For example, if for a given location, on the 25th of July at 13:00 UTC the WSI is 85 for a temperature of , this means that the temperature  was inferior to 42 °C in 85% of the time in the past, on the same place, on the 25th of July at 13:00 UTC (and superior to 42 °C in 15% of the time on the same place, day and hour). In other words, the WSI gives the probability of finding a smaller temperature in the local weather history, at a given day and time, than that of the present measurement. Therefore, high values of WSI predict a relative discomfort from excessive heat for local inhabitants.

Using the index 

The same WSI for different geographic points might not refer to the same temperature - a WSI of 99.99 for a given location near the North Pole might refer to a temperature that, in lower latitudes, could be rated with a WSI of 50 (an average temperature) for the same day and hour.

See also 
 Heat index
 Meteorology

References

Atmospheric thermodynamics
Meteorological indices
Mechanical brake stretch wrapper. Mechanical brake stretch wrappers are manual stretch wrapping systems which consist of a simple structure supporting a roll of film to be stretched and a mechanical brake which acts on the film roll, creating resistance to turning and stretching the film as it is fed out.

The amount of braking is often variable by means of either a knob or a lever system.  The support structure is most commonly a base paired with a handle, but recently pole wrappers have been introduced providing a more ergonomic design.

References

Books
 Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, 

Packaging machinery
Turntable stretch wrapper. Turntable stretch wrappers are a type of automatic and semi-automatic stretch wrapping system.  A load is placed on a turntable, which rotates relative to the film roll, which is housed in a carriage attached to a vertical "mast" on which it may move up and down.

Information
In the simplest turntable systems, stretch is achieved by rotating the load at a speed in which the take-up demand on the load surface is faster than the rate at which the film is allowed to be fed, being limited by a brake system.

More sophisticated systems also pre-stretch the film before wrapping by means of fixed/variable gear ratios or other, even more sophisticated means, such as hydraulic ratios which can better take advantage of film "sweet spots", improving performance and film savings.

References

External links

Packaging machinery
Orbital stretch wrapper. An orbital stretch wrapper is a means of applying stretchable plastic film to a load, consisting of a roll (or rolls) of stretch wrap supported on a vertical rotating ring and a means of passing a load through the ring's eye horizontally.  Several designs are available.

The item or load can go through the ring  on a conveyor or can be placed into the ring by a pallet truck.  Small loads can be suspended within the rotating ring by hand.  Stretch is achieved by creating tension between the load and film roll using a brake or gear ratio system.

References

Books
 Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, 

Packaging machinery
Arnold Anderson (scientist). Arnold Anderson was a Six Nations Tuscarora tribal member who worked as a chemical engineer on the Manhattan Project to help the United States develop the first atomic bombs. He was president and founding member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society which was founded in 1977 with six other American Indian scientists. Anderson attended the  Caledonia High School.

References

20th-century Native American scientists
People from the County of Brant
American chemical engineers
Canadian chemical engineers
Manhattan Project people
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Place of birth missing
Six Nations of the Grand River people
Tuscarora people
Toronto Power Generating Station. The Toronto Power Generating Station is a former generating station located along the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, slightly upstream from the newer Rankine power station.  Completed in 1906 in the Beaux-Arts-style, the station was designed by architect E. J. Lennox and was built by the Electrical Development Company of Ontario (owned by William Mackenzie, Frederic Thomas Nicholls, and Henry Mill Pellatt) under supervision of Hugh L. Cooper to supply hydro-electric power to nearby Toronto, Ontario.

The plant is built on top of a deep wheel pit, with turbines at the bottom of the pit, turning generators at the top by means of long vertical shafts. The water from the turbines runs out through a brick-lined tailrace which eventually comes out at the base of the falls.  In its prime, it had a generating capacity of .

The plant ceased operations on February 15, 1974 as Ontario Hydro looked to make better use of the available water downriver at the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations in Queenston. In addition, the plant produced electricity at a frequency of 25 Hertz, now largely unused.  The vacant plant was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983, due to its importance in the development of business, industry and technology in Ontario, its status as the first wholly Canadian-owned hydro-electric facility at Niagara Falls, and the unusual application of Beaux-Arts design to an industrial plant.

Ownership of the Toronto Power Generating Station was transferred to the Niagara Parks Commission in 2007.  Structural assessments were subsequently undertaken in order to consider future adaptive reuse options for the facility.  In its current empty state, the plant has been the subject of urban exploration activities.

As a result of a 2021 procurement process, the Commission announced in 2024 a partnership with venue management company Pearle Hospitality and condo developer Society Developments to develop the station into a luxury hotel. Under the station will remain in the hands of Niagara Parks with Pearle Hospitality as a tenant, with developers will provide the $200 million investment. The opening of the new hotel is scheduled for 2027.

See also
 Ontario Power Company Generating Station
 Rankine Generating Station

References

External links

National Historic Sites in Ontario
Buildings and structures in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Energy infrastructure completed in 1913
Beaux-Arts architecture in Canada
E. J. Lennox buildings
1913 establishments in Ontario
Hydroelectric power stations in Ontario
Donald J. Grace. Donald J. Grace (February 21, 1926 – March 15, 2007) was an American Electrical Engineer. Grace was the longest-serving director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, holding the position from 1976 to 1992.

Career
Grace spent most of his early career at Stanford University, where he earned his PhD in electrical engineering in 1962 and was given a joint appointment to the electrical engineering faculty and the Systems and Techniques Laboratory. He rose quickly to become director of the lab and Associate Dean of Engineering at Stanford under Joseph M. Pettit.

In 1969, Grace took a position at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as the head of the Center for Engineering Research. He accepted the directorship of the Engineering Experiment Station at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1976, succeeding Maurice W. Long and interim director Thomas E. Stelson. Grace was instrumental in the name change of the Engineering Experiment Station to the Georgia Tech Research Institute in 1984. "We're finally calling ourselves what we evolved into years ago," Grace said upon announcing the change.

During his tenure as director, the dollar value of GTRI's contracts increased by a factor of ten, from $10 million to $100 million. The number of labs increased to more than a dozen, and several new facilities opened, including the Advanced Technology Research Center, the Centennial Research Building and a four-building radar and electronics research center in Cobb County. Grace retired in 1992 in order to care for his wife, Joan, who had a degenerative muscle disease.

References

1926 births
2007 deaths
20th-century American engineers
American electrical engineers
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
Büssing A5P. The Büssing A5P was an armoured car produced in Germany during World War I.

History
The Büssing company had received its first orders of military vehicles in 1910, producing artillery tractors and supply trailers. By November 1914, the German Army had become aware of the potential of the armoured car by the hit-and-run tactics employed by the Belgians with the Minerva. The Oberste Heeresleitung decided to produce its own armoured vehicle and the manufacturing companies Ehrhardt, Daimler and Büssing were requested to develop an armoured car with all-wheel drive.

During 1915, Büssing delivered the ordered prototype. In contrast to the Belgian armoured cars, the A5P was a massive vehicle, using a 'double-ended' layout that could at least pose a tactically useful high ground clearance. Its powerplant was Büssing's successful 6-cylinder truck engines. It had a large steel armoured body and was crewed by ten men. Six of the crew operated three 7.92 mm machine guns, usually the MG 08 or MG 15nA. Some vehicles even received two Becker 20 mm cannons.

In 1916, the A5P began production. Nevertheless, the German Army considered the Ehrhardt design more effective to fulfil the demanded operational tasks. As a result, only one vehicle was produced. The A5P, together with several other armored cars, served in a column on the Romanian Front in 1916 and on the Russian Front in 1917.

References

"Fighting Vehicles of the World" by Philip Trewhitt and Chris McNab, 2004

World War I armoured cars
World War I armoured fighting vehicles of Germany
Green-glazed pottery. Green-glazed pottery () was a type of colored pottery developed in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 CE). The body of green-glazed pottery ceramics was made of clay, coated with a layer of glaze, and fired at a temperature of 800 degrees Celsius. Green-glazed pottery is a type of lead-glazed earthenware (): lead oxide was the principal flux in the glaze, often mixed with quartz in the proportion of 3:1. The polychrome effect was obtained by using as coloring agent copper (which turns green).

Due to the low firing temperature, the bodies are earthenware, and the glaze often only applied to parts of the objects, which are fragile and have high water absorption.<ref name="Zhang">[https://books.google.com/books?id=R9QNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA57 The Ceramics of China: the Yangshao culture, the Song dynasty By Gen Yang, Xiqiu Zhang, Wengu Shao, p.57]</ref>  In some cases the lead glazes make the objects slightly poisonous. For these reasons, the objects are only known as grave goods from burials, and examples used in everyday life have not been found.  In surviving examples the glaze has often corroded, and turned a "greyish-silver".  They are liable to flake off.

Green-glazed pottery was to be followed by Sancai polychrome glazes, generally including the same green, from the 7th century during the Tang period. Examples of green-glazed pottery have also been found in Parthian ceramics.

Notes

References
Vainker, S.J., Chinese Pottery and Porcelain'', 1991, British Museum Press, 9780714114705

External links
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chinese pottery
FlightTime Radio. The FlightTime Radio Show is a weekly aviation radio program based in Jacksonville, Florida. The program delivers tips and information on all aspects of aviation to both pilots and non-pilots. The show features a diverse range of guests, from WWII veterans to present-day students, pilots, and astronauts.

History
In June 2006, the city of Jacksonville, Florida, passed an ordinance prohibiting citizens from working on aircraft at home. The law specifically targeted owners and builders of aircraft. Milford Shirley, President of EAA Chapter 193, and chapter members joined forces with members of EAA Chapter 1379 to challenge the ordinance. The efforts to repeal the ordinance were successful. In October 2007, the City Council voted unanimously to remove the law.

In a radio interview during the repeal process, it was suggested to Mr. Shirley that a talk radio program about the fun and joy of flying, covering all aspects of aviation, would serve the community well.

On January 5, 2008, FlightTime Radio produced its first live broadcast from the studios of WBOB AM-1320. During its time on the air, FlightTime Radio changed its broadcast frequency to WBOB AM-1530 and is now on WBOB AM-600, FM-100.3, and FM-107.7, covering Northeast Florida. The change has considerably increased the broadcast area of the program. Since the first show, the program has aired live every Saturday morning. The programming is now available through many PodCast outlets, The FlightTime Radio Show is also available four times each day, seven days per week, on the world's only 24-hour internet aviation radio station, Flight Line Radio. The show is known for doing "live" remote broadcasts in support of aviation events. In early 2010, the show was invited to be broadcast by the Smithsonian Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center during the National Air and Space Museum's annual Father's Day "Become a Pilot" celebration and was invited back for a second year in 2011. The hosts from the Airplane Geeks podcast joined Milford and Charlie for that 2011 FlightTime Radio live broadcast, which was incorporated into Airplane Geeks Episode 152.

In 2010, FlightTime Radio introduced a new segment called Flying Down Under. Produced by Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast in Australia, the segment appears every two weeks and provides insight into the world of aviation in Australia.

The FlightTime Radio Show was thought at the time to be the only live over-the-air aviation broadcast in the world. Show sponsors include the Piper Aircraft Company, among others.

References

External links
 Official FlightTime Radio site
 Official FlightTime Radio Facebook site
 Official Plane Crazy Down Under Site

2008 radio programme debuts
American talk radio programs
Aviation radio series
Pragati College of Engineering and Management, Raipur. Pragati College of Engineering and Management (PCEM) was an engineering college located in Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. The college is affiliated to the Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University and approved by All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi.

Academics
PCEM offered four-year undergraduate programmes leading to the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in
 Civil Engineering
 Mechanical Engineering
 Computer Science Engineering
 Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
 Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Rajeev Vora is Director of PCEM. In 2017, Pragati College of Engineering and Management has not accepted any admission and issued No Objection Notice to Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University to close the college.

References

External links
 Official Website
 Institute information on Directorate of Technical Education's website  

Engineering colleges in Chhattisgarh
Education in Raipur, Chhattisgarh
LOFTI-1. LOFTI-1 was an American satellite which was launched in 1961 and operated by the United States Navy and Naval Research Laboratory. It was used to conduct research into the propagation of very low frequency radio signals in the ionosphere, and to investigate if these signals could be received by submarines. A 136.17 MHz transmitter was used for this investigation.

The launch of LOFTI-1 was conducted at 03:45 UTC on 22 February 1961, using a Thor DM-21 Ablestar rocket flying from Launch Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It was a secondary payload aboard the rocket, with the primary payload being the Transit 3B prototype navigation satellite. The rocket and upper stage used had the serial numbers Thor 313 and Ablestar 007 respectively. The launch resulted in a partial failure, with the spacecraft being placed in a more eccentric orbit than planned, and failing to separate from the upper stage.

LOFTI-1 was a  spacecraft, which was powered by six groups of solar cells charging a nickel-cadmium battery. It ended up in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , and 28.3 degrees of inclination. It had an orbital period of 96.4 minutes. Due to the low perigee of its orbit, LOFTI-1 decayed quickly, and reentered the atmosphere on 30 March 1961, less than 37 days after launch. Despite being in the wrong orbit and operating for less time than had been planned, some useful data was returned from the mission. Together with data returned by later satellites, the data returned by LOFTI-1 proved that very low frequency signals were not suitable for satellite communications with submarines.

See also 

 LOFTI-2

References

Spacecraft launched in 1961
Satellite launch anomalies
Spacecraft which reentered in 1961
REMPEC. The Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) assists the Mediterranean coastal States in ratifying, transposing, implementing and enforcing international maritime conventions related to the prevention of, preparedness for and response to marine pollution from ships. The Centre also implements activities within the framework of a number of externally funded projects and programmes, such as the EU funded SafeMed II Project and the GEF/UNDP/IMO GloBallast Project. 

REMPEC is one of the Regional Activity Centres of the Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) and is administered by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The Centre was established in 1976 and is hosted by the Government of Malta.

Goals 
The role of REMPEC is to contribute to preventing and reducing pollution from ships and combating pollution in case of emergency. Its main objectives are :
 To strengthen the capacities of the coastal States in the Mediterranean
 To facilitate co-operation among them in case of a major marine pollution incident and to obtain assistance from outside the region if necessary
 To assist coastal States of the Mediterranean region which so request in the development of their own national capabilities for response to pollution incidents
 To facilitate information exchange, technological co-operation and trainings

See also 
Barcelona Convention
Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance

External links 
 Official website of REMPEC
 Regional Activity Centres of the Mediterranean Action Plan

International Maritime Organization
United Nations Environment Programme
Sea Installer. Sea Installer is an offshore wind turbine installation jack-up vessel. She was ordered by A2SEA, a Danish offshore wind turbine installation company, and it was built by Chinese COSCO Shipyard Group Co., with a contract value is US$139 million.

Sea Installer has a length of , breadth of , draft , and she has a speed of . She can jack up at water depths of up to .  Her loading capacity is 5000 tons, equal to eight to ten offshore wind turbines. The crane capacity is 900 tons. The vessel can carry up to 60 people.

The vessel was delivered in the second half of 2012.

References

External links

 Sea Installer (A2SEA website)

Crane vessels
2012 ships