omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
William C. Geer. William C. Geer (1876 – 9 September 1964) was a B.F. Goodrich chemist and eventual Vice President of Research known for inventing the aircraft Deicing boot.  Geer began working on the deicing problem in 1927.  By 1929 the work showed enough promise that he won support from the Guggenheim fund, and by 1930 he had made the first flight test.  He was able to persuade C. W. Leguillon of the B. F. Goodrich Tire and Rubber Company that his system worked, and a commitment to develop the device.  He eventually held 40 patents on the deicing boot.  He also developed golf ball cover materials and adhesives for bonding rubber to various substrates.

Geer was a native of Ogdensburg, New York.  He received his doctorate in chemistry from Cornell University in 1905. He joined the B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company in 1907 as Chief Chemist.  He became vice president of research in 1920, retiring in 1925 due to ill health.  He authored the text "The Reign of Rubber" in 1922.  

He won the 1951 Charles Goodyear Medal.

References

American chemists
1876 births
1964 deaths
Cornell University alumni
Polymer scientists and engineers
Nanoli Nane Mawal. Nanoli Nane Mawal is a village in India, situated in Mawal taluka of Pune district in the state of Maharashtra. It encompasses an area of .

Administration
The village is administrated by a sarpanch, an elected representative who leads a gram panchayat. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, the gram panchayat governed three villages and was based at Sai.

Demographics
At the 2011 Census, the village comprised 73 households. The population of 454 was split between 229 males and 225 females.

Air travel connectivity 
The closest airport to the village is Pune Airport.

See also
List of villages in Mawal taluka

References

Villages in Mawal taluka
Nanoli Tarf Chakan. Nanoli Tarf Chakan is a village and gram panchayat in India, situated in Mawal taluka of Pune district in the state of Maharashtra. It encompasses an area of .

Administration
The village is administrated by a sarpanch, an elected representative who leads a gram panchayat. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, the village was a self-contained gram panchayat, meaning that there were no other constituent villages governed by the body.

Demographics
At the 2011 census, the village comprised 199 households. The population of 983 was split between 517 males and 466 females.

Air travel connectivity 
The closest airport to the village is Pune Airport.

See also
List of villages in Mawal taluka

References

Villages in Mawal taluka
Gram Panchayats in Pune district
Kassahun Ayele. Kassahun Ayele Tesemma (born June 17, 1949) is a retired Ethiopian diplomat.
 From 1973 to 1983 he was an engineer at the sugar factory in Metehara.
 From 1983 to 1984 he was a member of the group of technical experts  n Sugar .
 From 1984 to 1992 he was working as an engineer in the service of industrial projects.
 From 1992 to 1993 he served as director general of the Authority Project Development Studies.
 From July 1 and August 1993 he was responsible for the Office of Production Services and Support in the Office of the Prime Minister.
 In 1994 he was appointed member of the Central Committee of the Amhara National Democratic Movement.
 From August 1995 to June 19, 2002, was Minister of Trade and Industry.
 On March 26, 2002, was appointed ambassador to Washington, D.C., where he was accredited from June 19, 2002, to May 15, 2006.
 From  to  was ambassador in Berlin.

References

1949 births
Living people
Ambassadors of Ethiopia to the United States
Ambassadors of Ethiopia to Germany
4-Ethyltoluene. 4-Ethyltoluene is an organic compound with the formula CH3C6H4C2H5.  It is one of three isomers of ethyltoluene, the other two isomers being 3-ethyltoluene and 2-ethyltoluene. All are colorless liquids and all are used for the production of specialty polystyrenes.

Production and use
Ethyltoluene is produced by ethylation of toluene:
CH3C6H5  +  C2H4   →   CH3C6H4C2H5
Over typical acid catalysts, this process gives a mixture of the 2-, 3-, and 4- isomers.  Using a modified zeolite catalyst, the alkylation is shape-selective for the 4- isomer.   

4-Ethyltoluene is subjected dehydrogenation to give 4-vinyltoluene.

References

Alkylbenzenes
C3-Benzenes
Weather modification in North America. Weather modification in North America has been taking place since as far back as the 1950s.  Programs related to this field have been authorized by the governments of both the United States and Canada.

Alberta Hail Project

The Alberta Hail Project was a research project sponsored by the Alberta Research Council and Environment Canada to study hailstorm physics and dynamics in order to design and test means for suppressing hail. It ran from 1956 until 1985. The main instrument in this research was an S-band circularly polarized weather radar located at the Red Deer Industrial Airport in central Alberta, Canada.

Project Stormfury

Project Stormfury was an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by flying aircraft into them and seeding with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government from 1962 to 1983.

In Southern California
Weather modification via cloud seeding has a long history in perennially dry Southern California. Santa Barbara County has been cloud seeding with both ground-based machines and dedicated cloud-seeding airplanes since the 1980s. In 2016, Los Angeles County rebooted its cloud seeding program (with ground-based machines) for the first time after 2002.

Pumping up deep ocean waters to cool the surface

Pumping up colder deep ocean water in front of a tropical storm to cool the sea surface skin temperature could be a technique used to fight hurricanes in the Atlantic before they develop into major hurricanes.

It is purely speculative and difficult to realize since placing such pumps in the path of a hurricane would be difficult. Furthermore, any such project  would need a large number of them to upwell enough water to cool a large enough sea surface area to have any effectiveness. That is without counting the ridiculous amount of energy needed to power those pumps and its effects on marine life.

See also

 Weather modification
 Cloud seeding
 Wind shearing
 Sea surface temperature
 
 Saharan air layer

References

External links

 
Meteorology research and field projects
Climate of North America
Air Warfare Centre RAAF. The Air Warfare Centre (AWC) is a Force Element Group of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) based at RAAF Base Edinburgh. It was formerly titled the Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG) and was reformed into the AWC in 2016.

The role of the AWC is similar to the AOSG and whilst it still conducts research and development on defence systems such as aircraft and weapons at the Woomera Test Range (WTR), it has expanded its role to address opportunities to improve Air Force's ability to maximise the operational effectiveness of fifth-generation, networked capabilities through improved integration across Defence and increased knowledge sharing with allied AWCs.

Units
As of February 2021, the Air Warfare Centre comprised:
Test and Evaluation Directorate
Aircraft Research and Development Unit
Air Warfare Engineering Squadron
Institute of Aviation Medicine
Aeronautical Information Service – Air Force 
Cyber and Electronic Warfare Directorate
Joint Electronic Warfare Operational Support Unit 
Joint Survivability and Tactics Validation Unit
No. 80 Squadron
No. 462 Squadron
Information Warfare Directorate
 Air Intelligence Training Unit
 No. 83 Squadron
 No. 87 Squadron
 No. 460 Squadron
 No. 464 Squadron
Tactics and Training Directorate
Air Warfare School
No. 88 Squadron

References

External links
Air Warfare Center (AWC) home page

RAAF groups
Military units and formations established in 2016
2016 establishments in Australia
Traffic model. A traffic model is a mathematical model of real-world traffic, usually, but not restricted to, road traffic. Traffic modeling draws heavily on theoretical foundations like network theory and certain theories from physics like the kinematic wave model. The interesting quantity being modeled and measured is the traffic flow, i.e. the throughput of mobile units (e.g. vehicles) per time and transportation medium capacity (e.g. road or lane width). Models can teach researchers and engineers how to ensure an optimal flow with a minimum number of traffic jams.

Traffic models often are the basis of a traffic simulation.

Types
Microscopic traffic flow model Traffic flow is assumed to depend on individual mobile units, i.e. cars, which are explicitly modeled
Macroscopic traffic flow model Only the mass action or the statistical properties of a large number of units is analyzed

Examples
 Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model
 Traffic generation model
 History of network traffic models
 Traffic mix
 Intelligent driver model
 Network traffic
 Three-phase traffic theory
 Two-fluid model

See also
Braess's paradox
Gridlock
Mobility model
Network traffic
Network traffic simulation
Traffic bottleneck
Traffic flow
Traffic wave
Queueing theory
Traffic equations

References

External links
http://math.mit.edu/projects/traffic/

Traffic flow
Mathematical modeling
Trihedral Engineering. Trihedral Engineering Limited (Trihedral) is a Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canadabased creator of industrial automation software. The VTScada SCADA platform is the company's main product.

Trihedral's has customers in fresh water and wastewater, subsea and terrestrial oil production, air traffic management monitoring systems, fire station and 911 emergency alerting systems, national broadcast networks, marine systems, manufacturing, and food & beverage industries.

Trihedral has offices in Nova Scotia, Florida, Alberta, Alabama, California, Michigan, Texas and Scotland.

VTScada
VTScada is both a Human Machine Interface (HMI), and a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software package. Functionally, VTScada includes real-time monitoring and control, telemetry, alarm and events management, alarm notification, data acquisition, reporting, trending, mapping, application version control, Internet and mobile access.

VTScada communicates with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), pump controllers and other devices using radio, LAN, WAN, cellular, or phone lines. This information is logged and displayed to users on a computer screen via trend graphs, reports, or graphical display pages. The software can also send control signals back to the devices to control the process.

The VTScada software is used by nearly 900 municipalities across the United States, and thousands of industrial customers globally. Notable uses of the software include:
 An estimated one-third of drilled North Sea oil is controlled by VTScada
 The City of Sacramento, California uses VTScada for monitoring and control of its fresh and wastewater infrastructure, with a license that supports up to 500,000 data points
 Toyota uses VTScada to control its Kentucky assembly plant
 Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, and Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Halifax, Canada use the software to control their customs systems
 The Miami Dade County, Florida Water and Sewer Department uses VTScada in their stormwater management system, to monitor up to 500,000 data points

History
Glenn Wadden founded Trihedral in 1986. In 1988, the company released “WEB”; one of the first PC-based SCADA packages that ran on the DOS platform. Trihedral briefly trademarked the term "WEB" in 1990, before the Internet's widespread proliferation.  In 1998, Trihedral Engineering Limited opened a 100% wholly owned subsidiary, Trihedral UK, in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1997, WEB became Visual Tag System (VTS) and was updated to run on the Windows operating system.  By 2007, Trihedral had developed VTScada, an integrated toolset of telemetry features designed for the water and wastewater industry.  The same year, Trihedral, Inc., opened in Orlando, Florida.

Awards
 In 2015, Control Engineering (magazine) was named VTScada winner of the Control Engineering Engineer's Choice award in the HMI Software category. 
 Canada's Top 100 Employers ranked Trihedral among Nova Scotia's Top Employers from 2007 to 2013.

References

External links

Business software companies
Companies based in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian companies established in 1986
Beverley Bolin. Beverley Louise Bolin (23 January 1923 – 19 September 2014) was the first woman to become a registered architect in South Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Architectural) from the University of South Australia in 1949.

Early life and education
Beverley Louise Bolin was born in Sydney on 23 January 1923. Ernest William Bolin and Mabel Kathleen Bolin were British immigrants and they soon moved to Brighton in South Australia. They settled in Tranmere in Emerson Grove.

Beverley completed the combined Engineering Degree in Architecture at the University of Adelaide and Fellowship Diploma of Architecture at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries (now University of South Australia). She was the first woman to become a registered architect in South Australia. While at university, Beverley was active in the Adelaide University Women’s Union as well as Wilderness School Old Scholars for her former school (McDonough 2012). She also participated into University life through club involvement being including the Adelaide University Engineering Society. Whilst she was studying she was apprenticed to Adelaide architects and she then went on to work for the South Australian Housing Trust.

Career
In 1950, Bolin was working in London where she became an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In 1988, she was working near Los Angeles where she was the President of the Women’s Architectural League. Despite this in 1998 Bolin was identified as a "Missing Golden Jubilee Graduate".

Personal life and death
Bolin married Robert D. Carter in London in 1956, with whom she had one son, Christopher.

Bolin later moved to Suffolk. She died in Southwold, Suffolk on 19 September 2014, at the age of 91.

Career
 Lawson and Cheeseman, 1946
 South Australian Housing Trust, 1947
 John Grey and Partner - London, 1948 - 1960
 John Grey and Partner - London, 1965 -

References

1923 births
2014 deaths
20th-century Australian architects
20th-century Australian women
Architects from Sydney
Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Australian women architects
Builder's photo. A builder's photo, also called an official photo, is a specific type of photograph that is typically made by rail transport rolling stock manufacturers to show a vehicle that has been newly built or rebuilt. The builder's photo is meant to show an overview of the basic exterior form of a unit of rolling stock. Photographs made by railfans that show similar features to builder's photos are sometimes informally referred to as roster shots. Builder's photos were also made by some automobile manufacturers to show a representative sample of new models they produced.

Prints of builder's photos were also often made for executives of the manufacturers and railroad companies to hang in their offices. Builder's photos were also reproduced as post cards as well as reprinted in advertisements to promote the railroad companies or manufacturers depicted therein. In the United Kingdom, steam locomotives were often temporarily painted in photographic grey color schemes so they would photograph well in black and white images. Some details in darker-colored areas of the subject were also sometimes painted in a high-contrast bright color to ensure that they would be visible in the photograph. Historians and preservationists use builder's photos as official references to show the equipment as-built.

Builder's photos are commonly shot from an angle that shows one end, often the designated front end, and a full side of the car or locomotive. The rolling stock is normally positioned on a section of track with no other rolling stock coupled to it for the photograph. Sometimes the photograph was further processed to reduce the contrast of or even entirely remove the background to further highlight the rolling stock that was photographed.

See also
 Builder's plate
 Railwayana
 Photographic grey

References 

Rail technologies
Photographic techniques
Rail transport photography
Valencell. Valencell is a US-based biometric technology company that develops biometric sensor technology for wearables and hearables, and provides its patent-protected technology to consumer electronics manufacturers in various industries. Valencell's PerformTek technology enables wearables and hearables to continuously measure biometrics such as heart rate, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure, heart rate variability, respiration rate, VO2 and other parameters for health and fitness assessment. The technology can be integrated into products designed by consumer electronics manufacturers, mobile device and accessory makers, medical device, sports and fitness, and hearing aid companies. Valencell has more than 60 patents granted, plus more than 100 patents pending. More than 35 companies utilize Valencell's technology and intellectual property, which has been commercialized in wearable devices made by companies including Bose, Suunto, LG, Jabra, Samsung, and Sony.

History 
Valencell was co-founded by a team of scientists and engineers - President Dr. Steven LeBoeuf, VP Engineering Dr. Jesse Tucker and VP Product Management Dr. Mike Aumer, and has been augmented further with R&D talent since the company was formed in 2006. Since inception, the company has won more than $3 million in government grants and has raised more than $35 million in venture funding from investor firms such as WSJ Joshua Fund, GII Tech, and TDF Ventures. In June 2018, Valencell raised $10.5M from Sonion and existing investors.

Biometrics lab 
In September 2014, Valencell opened the Valencell Biometrics Lab, an exercise science lab designed to test biometric wearables and hearables in their intended use cases. The Biometrics Lab tests more than 400 different devices from various manufacturers each year and analyzes over one million biometric data points on a monthly basis. Volunteers test wearable devices in 25 distinctive testing protocols ranging from hard intervals to easy lifestyle efforts.

References

Biometrics
Wearable devices
Sensors
Companies based in Raleigh, North Carolina
Tony Cocker. Anthony David Cocker (born 26 April 1959) was the chief executive of E.ON UK, one of the Big Six UK energy providers. He is also a chairman of Infinis Energy Management Limited's board.

Early life
He was born in the Borough of Fylde, Lancashire. He has a younger brother.

He read mathematics at Lincoln College, Oxford, gaining a BA in 1981 and D.Phil. in 1984. His doctorate researched the shape of water droplets. He later studied at International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne in 1988.

Career
He worked for L.E.K. Consulting from 1984 to 1992, then Bass Brewery.

Powergen
He joined Powergen in 1997 as head of corporate strategy. In August 2001 he became managing director of Energy Trading, replacing Nick Horler. Powergen was acquired by E.ON in 2002.

E.ON
In 2008 he became at chief executive of E.ON Energy Trading in Düsseldorf. It was announced in September 2011 that he would become chief executive of E.ON UK, taking that role in January 2012.

In 2015, he earned £908,000.

Infinis
Tony was appointed chairman and non-executive director on 1 August 2017, having retired from E.ON in July 2017.

SSE 
In April 2018, Cocker joined SSE plc. as a non-executive director.

Personal life
He is married with a son (born in November 2000) and daughter (born in August 1998). He married Madeleine Parker in September 1991 in Oxford. He lives in Warwickshire.

See also
 Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of E.ON since May 2010
 Paul Coffey, chief executive of npower since August 2015
 Vincent de Rivaz, chief executive since 2003 of EDF Energy
 Ed Wallis, former chief executive of Powergen
 :Category:Electric power companies of the United Kingdom

References

External links
 E.ON UK

1959 births
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
British chief executives in the energy industry
E.ON
People from the Borough of Fylde
People from Warwickshire
Living people
Jessica Hodgins. Jessica K. Hodgins is an American roboticist and researcher who is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute and School of Computer Science. Hodgins is currently also Research Director at the Facebook AI Research lab in Pittsburgh next to Carnegie Mellon. She was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017. Until 2016, she was Vice President of Research at Disney Research and was the Director of the Disney Research labs in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.

Early life and education 
Jessica Hodgins was born in Urbana, Illinois to Audrey and Frank Hodgins. Audrey was an educator whose work was published in numerous journals and magazines. Frank is the namesake of the Frank Hodgins Fellowship Fund for graduate students in English at the University of Illinois. Hodgins attended Urbana High School. She earned a BA in mathematics from Yale University, and went on to receive her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1989.

Career 
Hodgins was Associate Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology from 1998 to 2000. She has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2000.

She was Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Graphics from 2000 to 2002, and she served as Papers Chair for ACM SIGGRAPH in 2003. She was elected the president of ACM SIGGRAPH in 2017. Prior to being elected president, she served as director at large from 2009 to 2017.

Disney Research 
Hodgins joined Disney Research in 2008 and founded the Disney Research Pittsburgh lab. Much of her research there has been focused on motion capture and computer animation technologies. In 2012 she was part of a team that developed and demonstrated a technique for motion-capture acting to be performed with a single camera and no markers.

Facebook AI Research Lab 
Beginning in summer 2018, Hodgins is on partial leave from CMU to build a Facebook AI Research Lab located in Pittsburgh.

Awards 
Hodgins has received a NSF Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, and a Sloan Fellowship.

In 2010, she was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award.

In 2017 she was awarded the ACM SIGGRAPH Steven A. Coons Award.

Hodgins was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to character animation, human simulation, and humanoid robotics".

References

External links 
 CMU Robotics Institute page
 CMU School of Computer Science page
 Disney Research page 

Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Living people
Yale University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
American roboticists
Women roboticists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Sloan Research Fellows
Computer graphics researchers
Disney Research people
2018 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people)