omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Philip Chan (scientist). Philip C. H. Chan was the Deputy President and Provost of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HKPU), who is currently Emeritus  Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Before joining PolyU on 1 March 2010 he had been Chair Professor of the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1991, the year he entered the university as a founding member.

After Professor Timonthy Tong finished his term as HKPU President, he was appointed as interim President from 1 January 2019 to 30 June 2019. On 1 July, Professor Jin-Guang Teng assumed his post as President. Professor Chan continues to serve as Provost and Deputy President until 29 February 2020, and retired from HKPU.

Chan was born in Shanghai and then raised in Hong Kong.

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Hansa-Brandenburg W.17. The Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 was a German flying boat fighter of the World War I era, designed and built by Hansa-Brandenburg.

Design and development
Two W.17 prototypes were built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy. The first prototype (A49/I) was a biplane with a cantilever lower wing, while the second prototype (A 49/II) was a triplane with interplane bracing struts. Armament consisted of two  Schwarzlose machine guns. Gottfried Banfield, who oversaw evaluation of the W.17, judged the aircraft unsuitable for service due to its poor maneuverability. The second W.17, meanwhile, was evaluated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy in July 1917 but was not ordered into production.

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1910s German fighter aircraft
Flying boats
W.17
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Triplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1917
Hansa-Brandenburg C.II. The Hansa-Brandenburg C.II, company designation K, (Luftfahrtruppen (LFT) series 66.5, 66.8 and 67.5), was a two-seat reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany by Hansa-Brandenburg in World War I, powered by Mercedes D.III or Hiero 6 water-cooled in-line piston engines.

Design and development
The C.II was derived from the earlier Brandenburg KDD prototype, (LFT serial 60.56), and two batches were ordered by the LFT, as the Mercedes D.III powered series 66.5 and Hiero 6 powered series 67.5., in 1916. The 67.5 aircraft were re-serialled in the 66.8 range, but the production contract with Brandenburg was cancelled in November 1916, as the LFT and Austro-Hungarian air ministry preferred production by in-house companies like UFAG and Phönix, which, nevertheless, developed their own designs.

The C.II prototypes followed contemporary Brnadenburg practice with a deep fuselage and a semicircular tailplane sitting on top of the rear fuselage. The characteristic 'Star' or 'Pyramid' wing strut arrangement, consisted of four pairs of V struts attached to the mainplanes at the roots and at 3/4 span converging to a point in the middle of the wing cellule. Unlike the KDD the C.II fuselage did not fill the interplane gap but the pilot was still sat under the centre-section with difficult ingress and egress, particularly in case of an accident. Controls and undercarriage were all conventional with wooden framed fabric-covered control surfaces and tail-skid undercarriage.

Operational history
Two prototypes were built, (66.51 and 66.81), with 66.51 flying in October 1916 and 66.81 flying in June 1917. Flight tests revealed poor longitudinal stability, high landing speed, poor glide ratio and relatively slow climb rate. After testing both prototypes were stored at Aspern until the Armistice and further development was abandoned due to the superiority of the Phönix C.I and UFAG C.I.

Specifications (66.51)

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1910s Austro-Hungarian military reconnaissance aircraft
C.II
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1916
William Englebert. William Englebert (died 1634), was a noted inventor and engineer in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. According to Thomas Fuller, he was "an incomparable engineer", and John Norden praised him as "an excellent engineer". Elizabeth I awarded him an annual pension of one hundred marks.

Background
William Englebert was the son of N Englebert (or Engleberde) of Sherborne, Dorset and educated at Sherborne School.

Professional career
While information on Englebert's work is scarce, he was an innovator in fen draining and worked in Deeping Fen with Captain Thomas Lovell for which he was greatly praised by John Norden in 1618. He was a patron and mentor to fellow inventor and engineer Gabriel Plattes who dedicated two of his works to Englebert.

Frustrated by a lack of opportunity in England in his later life, he requested King James I's Privy Council for leave to serve Foreign Princes and States, being prepared to waive his pension on that condition, but he was denied license to depart.

Background
It is not known whether Englebert married. In his later years he lived in Westminster, where he died in 1634.

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17th-century English engineers
Net ecosystem production. Net ecosystem production (NEP) in ecology, limnology, and oceanography, is the difference between gross primary production (GPP) and net ecosystem respiration. Net ecosystem production represents all the carbon produced by plants in water through photosynthesis that does not get respired by animals, other heterotrophs, or the plants themselves.

Overview

Net ecosystem production describes the total carbon in an ecosystem that can be stored, exported, or oxidized back into carbon dioxide gas. NEP is written in units of mass of carbon per unit area per time, for example, grams carbon per square meter per year (g C m−2 yr−1). In a given ecosystem, carbon quantified as net ecosystem production can eventually end up: oxidized by fire or ultraviolet radiation, accumulated as biomass, exported as organic carbon to another system, or accumulated in sediments or soils. Carbon classified as NEP can be in the form of particles in the particulate organic carbon (POC) pool such as phytoplankton cells (living) and detritus (non-living), or it can be in the form of dissolved substances that have not yet been decomposed in the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool. In any form, if the carbon gets respired or decomposed by any living organism (plant, animal, bacteria, or other microscopic organism) to release carbon dioxide, that carbon no longer counts as NEP.
 NEP = GPP - respiration [by plants] - respiration [by animals and other heterotrophs]

Net ecosystem production vs. net primary production

Net ecosystem production is all the carbon not respired, including respiration by plants and heterotrophic organisms such as animals and microbes. In contrast, net primary production (NPP) is all the carbon taken up by plants (autotrophs) minus the carbon that the plants themselves respire through cellular respiration.
 NPP = GPP - respiration [by plants]

Net community production

Net community production (NCP) is the difference between net primary production and respiration by animals and heterotrophs only. Net community production is equal to net ecosystem production, and is only calculated differently.
 NCP = NPP - respiration [by animals and other heterotrophs]

Annual net community production (ANCP) is this carbon pool estimated per year. For example, annual net community production in the tropical South Pacific Ocean can be very close to zero, meaning that basically all carbon produced is respired by heterotrophs. In the rest of the Pacific Ocean, annual net community production can range from 2.0 to 2.4 mol C m−2 yr−1, meaning that carbon produced by phytoplankton (minus what the phytoplankton respire themselves) is greater during a given year than what gets respired by heterotrophs

See also

 Primary production
 Ecosystem respiration
 Biological pump
 Oceanic carbon cycle
 Lake metabolism
 f-ratio
 Biomass (ecology)
 Biogeochemical cycle

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Plants
Ecology
Biological oceanography
Marine biology
Limnology
Michelle Amos. Michelle Amos is an electronics design engineer at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center. Amos joined NASA in 1990 as an electronics design engineer. She currently designs electrical systems and control equipment in KSC's Advanced Technology Development Center and works on a support team for the International Space Station configuring and documenting its electrical configurations. She is the project manager lead for the shuttle transition and retirement activities.

In 2002 she won an All Star Award at NASA's Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference. She was the chairperson of NASA's Black Employee Strategy Team. She worked on Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, as a system engineer.

Education 
Amos graduated from Southern University and A&M College in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering. In 2005, she earned a Master of Science in engineering management from the University of Central Florida.

Honors 
In 2002 she won an All Star Award at NASA's Women of Color Government and Defense Technology Awards Conference. She was the chairperson of NASA's Black Employee Strategy Team. In 2003, she received the KSC Strategic Leadership Award

Personal life
Amos was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Dunk and Dorothy Wright, one of ten children. Amos is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). She and her husband, John D. Amos, have  three children and live in Oviedo, Florida. In 2020, Amos and her husband began a three-year term leading the Louisiana Baton Rouge Mission of the LDS Church.

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Christine A. Merdon. Christine A. Merdon is an American civil engineer who was Deputy Architect of the Capitol (COO) from 2010-2018 then Acting Architect of the Capitol, following the retirement of Stephen T. Ayers in 2018.

Career 
Before joining the Architect of the Capitol as Deputy Architect of the Capitol/Chief Operating Officer in 2010, Merdon worked in private industry, starting as a project manager and ascending to the role of Senior Vice President of Program and Construction Management with McKissack & McKissack. Her responsibilities included projects in Washington, D.C.; Chicago, Illinois; and Los Angeles, California. She has been responsible for the  program and construction management of more than $15 billion in major construction projects and programs including: Washington Nationals Major League Baseball Stadium, O’Hare Airport Modernization Program, Los Angeles Unified School District, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson Memorial Renovations.

Prior to her work in the private industry, Merdon was employed by the White House Military Office as a project manager responsible for managing classified design and construction projects at the White House, Camp David and other presidential support facilities.

Education 
Merdon began her federal career in 1981 as a cooperative education engineering student for the U.S. Navy. After earning her Bachelor of Science degree in 1987 from the University of Maryland in civil engineering, she continued her career with the Navy as a project engineer and project manager. In 1999, she received a Master of Science degree in civil engineering. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland.

Honors 
Throughout her career, Merdon has won many outstanding performance awards, as well as excellence awards for construction projects. She is the recipient of the 2016 D.C. Professional Engineer of the Year award and an award-winning member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. She is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers, the Society of American Military Engineers, the former Chair of the Board of Visitors for the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Maryland and the past president of the National Capital Region ACE High School Mentor Program. She is also a distinguished member of the National Academy of Construction.

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Stanford Telecommunications. Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., (STI) was an American engineering company engaged in technology development for satellite communications and navigation, in Santa Clara County, California.  They were founded by James J. Spilker Jr. (1933–2019), P. Marshall Fitzgerald (1933–2013), and John W. Brownie in 1973, reincorporated in Delaware and went public in 1988, and were sold to several buyers (Intel, Newbridge/Alcatel, Dii/Flextronics, and ITT Industries) in 1999.

STI's founders were largely responsible for the design of the signals used in the GPS navigation system.

Founded and grown without any venture capital money, STI grew to 1300 employees before being sold.

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Bakewell Bridge. Bakewell  Bridge is a Grade I listed stone arch bridge spanning the River Wye in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The bridge is also a scheduled monument.

History 
The bridge dates back to the 14th century and was constructed using ashlar gritstone. The bridge has five arches with cutwaters, one of which supports the base of a cross, and was widened in the 19th century. It carries the A619 road, which begins in Bakewell and leads via Chesterfield to Worksop in Nottinghamshire.

See also
Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire
Listed buildings in Bakewell

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History of Derbyshire
Scheduled monuments in Derbyshire
Grade I listed buildings in Derbyshire
Bridges in Derbyshire
Bakewell
Jerry Yudelson. Jerry Yudelson (born in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an environmentalist and author, best known for publishing 14 green building and sustainable design books since 2006. Yudelson’s work is focused on the long-term environmental impact that urban development has on climate change, resulting from greenhouse gas emissions caused by operating home and buildings.

Academic achievements 
Yudelson has a B.S. in engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), an A.M. in water resources engineering from Harvard University, and a Master Of Business Administration from the University of Oregon. He was a Rotary Foundation Fellow for International Understanding for his graduate studies in West Germany at the Technical University in Aachen. He was a U.S. Public Health Service Trainee in environmental engineering science for Ph.D. studies at Caltech.

Environmentalism 
Yudelson was a pioneer in organizing Earth Day activities in 1970 on the Caltech campus. He taught some of the first university courses in the U.S. in the new field of environmental studies, while at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1972, he organized community opposition to a proposed convention center on the Monterey Bay headlands at Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz, resulting in the cancellation of the project and eventually the creation of Lighthouse Field State Beach. In a 2014 article in The Guardian, Yudelson likened sustainable architecture to sex, saying, “It’s all about performance, not promise. Show me your numbers."

Professional achievements 
In 1978, California Governor Jerry Brown appointed Yudelson as director of the SolarCal Office. In 1979, SolarCal produced the first state-level solar energy development plan in the U.S.

In 2011, Wired magazine anointed Yudelson as the "Godfather of Green".

In 2011, Yudelson was named to the prestigious inaugural class of LEED Fellows by the Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI).

In 2014 and 2015, Yudelson served as president of the Green Building Initiative, a national nonprofit and originator of the Green Globes green building rating system.

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Catherine Mulligan. Catherine Mulligan is a professor of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering and the Research Chair in Geo-environmental Sustainability at Concordia University. She is also the founding director of the Concordia Institute for Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems. Mulligan's work focused on the decontamination of water and sediments.

Biography
Mulligan credits a conversation with her mother for triggering her interest in engineering. Mulligan completed a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Engineering from McGill University. She then pursued a PhD in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering also at McGill University.

Mulligan has been a professor at Concordia University since 1999. Her research focuses on developing and characterizing novel processes for sustainably purifying soil, sediment, and water that have been contaminated by metals, hydrocarbons, or other pollutants. 

She served as director of the CREATE program at Concordia from 2012 until the program's end in 2018, leading the project's interdisciplinary investigations into solutions for environmental sustainability. Mulligan was the vice president of communications for the Canadian Geotechnical Society from 2013 to 2014.

In 2017, Mulligan was featured in a book by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum titled Women of Innovation: The Impact of Leading Engineers in Canada.

In 2020, Mulligan became the third woman to be president of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

As of January 2021, Mulligan has authored or contributed to over 175 publications.

In September 2022, The Royal Society of Canada recognised  Mulligan's academic achievements and inducted her as Fellow of the Royal Society. This recognition came from her three decades of work in researching ways to decontaminate the environment.

Awards and recognition
 2020 Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
 2019 Provost's Circle of Distinction, Concordia University
2018 John B. Stirling Medal, Engineering Institute of Canada
 2017 Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
 2017 feature in Women of Innovation book, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
 2004 Young Innovator Award, Petro-Canada
 2002 Young Innovator Award, Petro-Canada

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Chiao-Min Chu. Chiao-Min Chu (3 March 1919 – 6 December 1996) was a Chinese-American engineer. Born on 3 March 1919. Chu received his bachelor's degree in engineering from National Wuhan University in 1939, and completed his subsequent education in the United States. He became a fellow of the University of Michigan in 1945, one year before he earned a master's degree in engineering. Upon the completion of his doctorate in 1952, Chu taught at the Detroit Institute of Technology as assistant and associate professor. In 1955, Chu returned to the University of Michigan as an associate research engineer. The following year, Chu began teaching at his alma mater as an assistant professor. He was named an associate professor at Michigan in 1958, and rose to full professor status in 1963. Chu retired in 1989, and was granted emeritus status. He was also a fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Chu was married to May Shou-Mei Keh (1929–2014) from 1954 to his death on 6 December 1996.

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Techren Solar Project. The Techren Solar Project is a 400 megawatt (MWAC) solar photovoltaic power plant near Boulder City, Nevada.  Electricity production began with completion of the two building phases in 2019–2020. The project is co-located with several other large solar power projects in the Eldorado Valley.

Project details

The project was originally founded and developed by SECP (Sustainable Energy Capital Partners)  and further developed by 174 Power Global, the US subsidiary of the South Korean company, Hanwha Group.  The project was constructed in two phases:  the 100 MW Techren 1 began in 2017 and the 200 MW Techren 2 began in 2018.

Both units are built to a 1.5 kVdc maximum system voltage standard.   This increase from the previous 1.0 kVdc standard  enables the inverter to operate at higher efficiency and reliability, and is expected to reduce overall balance of system costs over the lifetime of the facility.  Swinerton Renewable Energy was the EPC contractor,  and Clenera provided asset management services.  Project completion in September 2019 was as scheduled.

NV Energy is purchasing the electricity from both facilities, which are eligible for further customer participation under the NV GreenEnergy Rider opportunity.  As with Boulder Solar and the Fort Churchill Solar Array, Apple Inc. helped to motivate the project through participation of its northern Nevada data centers in the program.

An additional 100 MW was developed: the 25 MW Techren 3, the 25 MW Techren 4 which were completed in October 2020, and the 50 MW Techren 5 completed in December 2020.

See also

 Nevada Solar One
 Copper Mountain Solar
 List of photovoltaic power stations
 List of power stations in Nevada
 Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
 Solar power in Nevada

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Solar power in the Mojave Desert
Buildings and structures in Boulder City, Nevada
Solar power stations in Nevada
Photovoltaic power stations in the United States