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Shay Motors Corporation. Shay Motors Corporation was an automobile company founded by Harry J. Shay in February 1978 as the Model A & Model T Motor Car Reproduction Corporation. Harry Shay arranged with Ford Motor Company to build a limited run, modern-day reproduction of the Ford Model A Roadster, with a rumble seat, that was to be sold through the network of Ford Automobile Dealers and built in Battle Creek, Michigan. It was hoped that displaying the vehicles in Ford dealer showrooms would increase potential customer visits and sales.

History

Design
While having the outward appearance of the classic automobile, the reproduction was built with a fiberglass body and used a modern frame and powertrain. The Model A used the same 2.3L 4 cylinder engine as a Ford Pinto with the option of a Ford C4 automatic transmission or a four-speed manual transmission. Five different body styles were offered including a left hand spare tire mount behind the front fender, a dual spare mount behind each front fender, a spare tire mount on the rear of the vehicle, a pickup truck version, and a Model A C cab/panel truck. Harry Shay was quoted at the time that the vehicle was “an illusion of a Model A” and only the appearance would be authentic. A number of design patents were applied for and awarded involving components for the vehicles that Shay Motors built. The vehicles were offered with a 12 month 12,000 mile warranty. Keeping the production numbers under 10,000 units would exempt Shay Motors from having to incorporate modern Federal regulations into the reproductions. The production of a 1955 Thunderbird was also started in 1980 with different models planned as the company grew.

Closure
Shay Motors was unable to keep up with the orders received and experienced problems with some of the early Model A's produced. The production method used was to have a team of four people completely assemble each vehicle instead of using a traditional assembly line. In 1982 Shay Motors was struggling with cash flow problems as well as high interest payments on loans along with a number of lawsuits. The company ceased production in mid-March 1982 and, despite trying to reorganize through bankruptcy, the company's assets were sold to Camelot Motors, Inc., in April 1983. Final production numbers for the Shay Motor Corporation Model A were 5,000 units along with 200 units of the Thunderbird reproductions during its time in business.  Harry Shay continued to work in the auto industry until 1990; he died in 1995 at age 70.

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Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Battle Creek, Michigan
Car manufacturers of the United States
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Michigan
Retro-style automobiles
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Michigan
Laser chemical vapor deposition. Laser chemical vapor deposition (LCVD) is a chemical process used to produce high purity, high performance films, fibers, and mechanical hardware (MEMS). It is a form of chemical vapor deposition in which a laser beam is used to locally heat the semiconductor substrate, causing the vapor deposition chemical reaction to proceed faster at that site. The process is used in the semiconductor industry for spot coating, the MEMS industry for 3-D printing of hardware such as springs and heating elements,2,6,7,9 and the composites industry for boron and ceramic fibers.  As with conventional CVD, one or more gas phase precursors are thermally decomposed, and the resulting chemical species 1) deposit on a surface, or 2) react, form the desired compound, and then deposit on a surface, or a combination of (1) and (2).

References 

Semiconductor device fabrication

Thin film deposition
Silicon carbide fibers. Silicon carbide fibers are fibers ranging from 5 to 150 micrometres in diameter and composed primarily of silicon carbide molecules. Depending on manufacturing process, they may have some excess silicon or carbon, or have a small amount of oxygen. Relative to organic fibers and some ceramic fibers, silicon carbide fibers have high stiffness, high tensile strength, low weight, high chemical resistance, high temperature tolerance  and low thermal expansion. (refs) These properties have made silicon carbide fiber the choice for hot section components in the next generation of gas turbines, e.g. the LEAP engine from GE (General Electric).

Manufacture
There are several manufacturing approaches to making silicon carbide fibers. The one with the longest historical experience, invented in 1975 and called the Yajima process, uses a pre-ceramic liquid polymer that is injected through a spinneret to produce solidified green (unfired) fibers that go through a series of processing steps, including significant time in high temperature furnaces to convert the polymer to the desired SiC chemistry. These fibers are typically smaller than 20 microns in diameter and supplied as twisted tows containing 300+ fibers. Several companies employ some variation of this technique, including Nippon Carbon (Japan), Ube Industries (Japan), and the NGS consortium (USA).

A second approach utilizes chemical vapor deposition (CVD) to form silicon carbide on a central core of a dissimilar material as the core traverses a high temperature reactor. Developed by Textron (now Specialty Materials Inc located in Massachusetts) over 40 years ago, the silicon carbide deposit resulting from the gas-phase CVD reaction builds up on a carbon core with a columnar microstructure. The fiber, sold as the SCS product family, is relatively large in diameter, measuring from approximately 80 to 140 microns.

Laser-driven CVD (LCVD) is a related approach using multiple laser beams as the energy source to incite the gas phase reaction, with the significant difference that the fibers are grown as-formed and not on any core structure, The LCVD fibers are fabricated in a parallel array as each laser beam corresponds to a deposited fiber, with growth rates ranging from 100 microns to over 1 millimeter per second and fiber diameters ranging from 20 to 80 microns. Free Form Fibers, based in upstate New York, has developed the LCVD technology for the past 10 years.

Usage
Almost all silicon carbide fiber produced is used as a fiber reinforcement material in ceramic composites. The majority are used to produce metal matrix composites, such as aluminum, titanium, or molybdenum composites. They can also be used to make various ceramic matrix composites such as SiC/SiC, a high temperature composite used in aerospace.

Silicon carbide (SiC) fibers are used in aerospace, automotive, and defense for high-strength, heat-resistant components like engine parts and armor. They reinforce composites in turbines and nuclear reactors, improve medical devices, and enhance electronics with superior thermal conductivity.

See also
Polymorphs of silicon carbide

References 

Carbides
Kalinin K-9. The Kalinin K-9 was a liaison/sport aircraft designed by Konstantin Alekseevič Kalinin.  It had a parasol wing, only one was built in 1932.  The prototype was evaluated during some test flights, but development was never carried out.  The tests revealed that the K-9 was too large and too heavy in relation to the installed engine, ( Walter NZ 60, ).

Specifications (K-9)

References

Further reading

Kalinin aircraft
1930s Soviet sport aircraft
Parasol-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 1932
William Jolly Duncan. William Jolly Duncan CBE FRS (26 April 1894 – 9 December 1960) was a 20th century Scottish physicist remembered as a pioneer of aeroelasticity and "air flutter" theory critical to modern aviation.

Life

He was born in Govan on 26 April 1894 the only son and eldest child of Robert Duncan, of Ross & Duncan engineers and boilermakers, and his wife, Mary Ann Jolly (1865-1929). He was educated at Allan Glen's School in Glasgow, then, when his father was elected MP for Govan, he was sent to boarding school in England, studying at Dulwich College before studying Engineering at University College, London under Prof J. D. Cormack.

In 1914 he enlisted at the start of the First World War serving in France and Flanders before being returned to Britain in 1916 to use his talents at the Aeronautical Inspection Unit of the Ministry of Munitions. After the war he worked with his father's firm of Ross & Duncan.

On the death of his father in 1924, he inherited the estate of Dalchonzie near Comrie. However, inheriting a partnership in the family firm did not hold his interest and he left in 1926 to join the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory. In 1934 he became first Professor of Aeronautics at University College Hull. In the Second World War he was attached to the Royal Aircraft Establishment and afterwards became Professor of Aerodynamics at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1947 alongside Sir Frank Whittle.

In 1950 he returned to his home city as newly created Mechan Professor of Aeronautics and Fluid Mechanics at Glasgow University, remaining in this post until death.

He died on 9 December 1960 a few weeks after a severe operation from which he did not recover. He is buried with his parents at Old Logie Kirkyard east of Stirling. The graveyard lies a few hundred metres north of the modern Logie Cemetery and Kirk. The grave lies in the north-west corner.

Family
In 1936 he married Enid Meyler Baker (1909-1991), daughter of G. S. Baker of the William Froude Laboratory.

Publications
Elementary Matrices (1947)
Flutter and Stability (1949)
The Fundamentals of Flutter (1951)

References

1894 births
1960 deaths
People from Govan
People educated at Allan Glen's School
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Scottish physicists
Fellows of the Royal Society
State Aircraft Factory (Bulgaria). State Plane Factory (Bulgarian: Държавна самолетна фабрика) was established in 1938 and operated until 1954 in Lovech.

History 
The buildings of the factory were constructed from Polish engineers. In the first years in the factory worked around 50 years. Chief engineer is Dimitar Atanasov, chief of the engineering department – engineer Konstantin Boshnakov, constructors – Boris Bonchev, Anton Daskalov, Peter Hristanov, Dimitar Manolov, Vladimir Vlahov.

Products

See also 
 Darzhavna Aeroplanna Rabotilnitsa

References

Footnotes

Notes

Bibliography 

 

Aircraft manufacturers of Bulgaria
Bulgarian companies established in 1938
Lovech
Data science competition platform. A data science competition platform is used by businesses to host data science challenges that are hard to solve for one group.

Platform
Historically, crowdsourcing challenges have been known to solve very complex problems. The Netflix Prize is one such competition. Since then there have been several platforms developed on the idea of data science competitions. Research has been completed on how competition can improve research performance. Companies like JPMorgan Chase also run internal contests involving large numbers of employees.

Examples of data science competition platforms include Bitgrit, Correlation One, Kaggle, InnoCentive, Microprediction, AIcrowd, and Alibaba Tianchi. Alibaba's competition platform was used in KDD 2017.

References 

 
Challenge awards
Voltea. Voltea is a water technology company based in Dallas, Texas.

Overview 
The company developed Capacitive DeIonization (CapDI), a desalination method that removes dissolved salts from brackish water. In 2016, the company opened an automated robotic production facility in Texas.

Capacitive deionization (CapDI) 
Capacitive deionization (CapDI) is an electrical process that combines oppositely charged electrodes with anionic and cationic selective membranes.  When salt water flows into the cell between an electric field, the ions move through the selective membranes to the oppositely charged electrodes and desalinated water leaves the cell. 

When the surface of both electrodes is covered with ions, the electrodes are cleaned by reversing the electrode polarity. The ions are pushed from the electrodes and are trapped between the membranes. The concentrated brine that forms between both membranes can then be removed from the cell. When the polarity of the electrodes is reset to normal, the cell is ready for use again. 

In 2017, the company launched a point-of-use (PoU) device named DiUse. The device is self cleaning and delivers no-salt water softening and low cost brackish water desalination. The device is internet enabled and can be remotely monitored and controlled.

In 2018, Voltea launched a point-of-entry (PoE) device named DiEntry for whole-home water treatment.

Partners 
The company collaborated with Liquid Purification Engineers International (LPE) to enter the desalination markets of Thailand and Asia.

Funding 
The company backed €6 million from Anterra Capital, Rabobank, ETF and Unilever. The company raised another €10 million in 2017.

Achievements 
For the year 2018, the company was nominated for ‘2018 Global Water Awards’.

References 

Engineering companies of the Netherlands
Thomas J. Hayes III. Thomas J. Hayes III (August 26, 1914 – March 16, 2004) was a United States Army Major General.

Early life and education
He started at West Point in 1932 graduating as a Second Lieutenant in 1936.

Military service
Following graduation from West Point Hayes obtained a master's degree in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended the Engineer School and was then posted to the 20th Engineer Regiment at Fort Benning.

World War II
At the outbreak of World War II he was overseeing the construction of Bluie West Eight air base in Greenland. In 1942 he was transferred to Nassau, Bahamas to oversee the construction of Oakes Field and Windsor Field.

Postwar
In 1960, now a Brigadier General, he was appointed commander of the Ballistic Missile Construction Office, responsible for the construction of ICBM support and launch facilities across the U.S.

In 1961, Hayes was awarded the Goethals Medal.

He served as assistant to the Chief of Engineers for NASA Support and was involved in the construction of facilities at the Kennedy Space Center.

During the buildup of U.S. forces to meet the demands of the Vietnam War and the consequential demand for support services and infrastructure in South Vietnam, Hayes noted that "supporting units seem to bear more than their share of losses as a nation progressively reduces its Armed Forces in the years between wars".

He served as commander of the South Atlantic Division from 1967 until his retirement in 1969.

Later life
Hayes retired from the Army in August 1969.

In October 1981, Hayes and Jan Howard, who had also lost a son in Vietnam, publicly unveiled the model of the winning design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Personal life
He married Jean Pedley in 1942 in Nassau. They had two daughters and a son. His son, Thomas J. Hayes IV, was killed in action in South Vietnam on 17 April 1968 while serving with the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment.

References

1914 births
2004 deaths
United States Army generals
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Medal (US Army)
Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering and Technology. Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering & Technology was established in 2003 by Sree Bhakthi Samvardhani Yogam. It is named after Sree Narayana Guru (1855–1928).

Campus 
Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering & Technology is located at Korom, a rural village 6 km from Payyanur, a town in north Kerala. It is approximately  from Kannur and  from Kasaragod.

History 
Sree Bhakthi Samvardhani Yogam was established in 1907.

In the early 2000s, there were hardly any self-financed colleges of engineering and technology in Kerala. The seats available in government engineering colleges were limited. When the government permitted the establishment of self-financed engineering colleges, Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering & Technology was established in 2003. Sree Narayana Guru was a great Saint Philosopher and Social Reformer of Kerala. The Yogam embarked on a noble project Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering And Technology(SNC) an Engineering College in Payyanur, Kannur in 2003. The college was named after the Great Saint cum Social Reformer of Kerala, Sree Narayana Guru (1855-1928)

Other education institutions managed by Sree Bhakthi Samvardhini Yogam.
Sree Narayana I.T.C, Talap, Kannur
Sree Narayana Nursery School, Kannur 
Sree Narayana Vidhya Mandir Senior Secondary School, Kannur

Courses offered 
The following Under Graduate/Post Graduate Courses are offered by Sree Narayana Guru College of Engineering & Technology, Payyanur.
 B Tech in Civil Engineering
 B Tech in Mechanical Engineering
 B Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 B Tech in Electrical and Communication Engineering
 B Tech in Computer Science and Engineering
 M Tech in Computer Aided Structural Engineering (Civil Engineering)

See also 
 Sree Sundareswara Temple

References

Engineering colleges in Kerala
Electricsports ES-Trike. The Electricsports ES-Trike is a German electric-powered ultralight trike produced by Electricsports GmbH of Ostrach. The aircraft is supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

The design is a collaboration between Wolfgang Zanki, who specializes in carbon fibre composites, Toni Roth, who builds electric-powered harnesses and Meinrad Reisch, who builds electric paramotors.

Design and development
In its single seat model, the ES-Trike was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, the German 120 kg class and the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The aircraft design features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat open cockpit with a cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear and a single piston engine or electric motor in pusher configuration.

The airframe is made from carbon fibre and titanium, with its single or double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplants offered are the Polini Thor 100 or 200 piston engine or the Flytec HPD 10 electric motor of . The automatically folding carbon fibre propeller is mounted on a  shaft to allow it to operate in less-disturbed air.

The airframe has a basic weight of , to which can be added the carbon fibre complete fuselage fairing, which weighs . With the motor and battery the weight is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including single and double surface wings. The aircraft's performance depends greatly on the wing that is selected.

Variants
ES-Trike Mono
Base model with one seat.
ES-Trike Duo
Model with two seats.

Specifications (ES-Trike Mono)

References

External links

ES-Trike
2010s German sport aircraft
2010s German ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Electric aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Yevhen Zhovtyak. Yevhen Zhovtyak (; b. 19 March 1961, Rudnyky, Sniatyn Raion) is a Ukrainian politician.

In 1984, he graduated Kharkiv Aviation Institute (KhAI) as a mechanical engineer. After graduation Zhovtyak worked as a design engineer at the Zhulyany Engineering Factory in Vyshneve, specializing production of missiles for the Soviet S-300 missile system.

In 1993, Zhovtyak received a graduate degree in state administration from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Institute of State Administration and Self-Government. While studying in the institute, in 1992–1994 he also worked as a state official at the Kyiv-Stiatoshyn Raion administration and later as a specialist for some office support departments of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

He was a member of the Ukrainian parliament in 1994–2005 (2nd, 3rd, and 4th convocations). Being a politician of People's Movement of Ukraine and Ukrainian People's Party, Zhovtyak was elected from his constituency in Kyiv Oblast (Kyiv-Sviatoshyn Raion). While being a member of parliament, in 1999 he also received a law degree from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv. 

Following the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine, in 2005–2006 he served as a Governor of Kyiv Oblast.

References

External links 
 Yevhen Zhovtyak at the Official Ukraine Today portal
 Members. Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" website.
 Personal blog. Yevhen Zhovtyak at blogspot

1961 births
Living people
Politicians from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
Ukrainian People's Party politicians
Republican Platform politicians
People's Movement of Ukraine politicians
Governors of Kyiv Oblast
Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Third convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Second convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute alumni
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University alumni
MSDS Studio. MSDS ("make shit, design shit") Studio is a Toronto-based design studio founded by Jessica Nakanishi and Jonathan Sabine in 2011. They focus on furniture, lighting, and interior design. Nakanishi's and Sabine's collaboration comes from Nakanishi's experience in interior design, and Sabine's background in making furniture. Their style has been described as a mixture of Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian simplicity.  Toronto Life called them one of "Toronto’s best architects and designers right now".

Collaborations 

MSDS Studio designed interiors for Toronto businesses  Shopify, and SPiN Toronto. They designed housewares  for Umbra Shift.

Awards 
They received the Juror's Choice Award at the 2013 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

Azure named them "Canadian product designers of the year" in 2017 as well as featuring them in their "30 Canadian Product Designers Leading the Charge".

They became the first Canadian studio to be featured at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair in 2015. At the Stockholm Furniture Fair, MSDS presented their new range of furniture.

References

Interior design
Toronto-related lists
List of Seattle megaprojects. This is a list of megaprojects in the Seattle area. For this list, a megaproject follows the often cited definition of $1 billion (2017 dollars) or more.

Other Washington state megaprojects
Notable Washington state megaprojects outside the immediate Seattle area include the following:

Hanford cleanup $113.6 billion
Hanford Vitrification Plant $12 to $16.8 billion
WNP-3 and WNP-5 nuclear power plants up to $24 billion estimated to complete  (cancelled, WPPSS default)
Grand Coulee Dam $5.541 billion in 2017 dollars
Third Powerplant (completed 1980) $2.002 billion in 2017 dollars
North Spokane Corridor (freeway): $1.49 billion
Lower Snake River Wind Project phase I and II (Tucannon River Wind Farm) $1.33 billion 
Interstate 90 widening near Snoqualmie Pass: $1 billion

See also
List of megaprojects
List of tunnels in Seattle

References

Lists of most expensive things
Megaprojects
Megaprojects