omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
BlueWhale (UUV). The BlueWhale is an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) produced by from Israeli manufacturer Elta Systems Ltd. is used to gather information using radar, SIGINT and communications technologies.

Mission 
It is used for intelligence gathering, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), including covert operations in coastal areas, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) - hunting submarines in its own territory, acoustic reconnaissance (ACINT), covert mine detection and other mine countermeasures (Mine Counter Measures, MCM), support to special forces including reconnaissance and mine detectors, reconnaissance and patrol for conventional submarines (Loyal Submarine Wingman), intelligence on piracy, terrorism, and illegal migration, and is intended to support maritime expeditions.

Technical data 
The boat is 10.9 meters long and weighs 5.5 tons. It sails silently and stays at sea for up to four weeks. It runs 7 knots underwater and dives 300 meters deep and carries a watertight patented mast for surface payload. This can carry antennas, including SATCOM, for real-time data exchange with mission control.

Possible payloads:

 Radar
 day/night EO/IR
 COMINT/ELINT/ESM

Underwater sensors:

 TAS (Towed Array Sonar) developed by ATLAS ELEKTRONIK
 Active and passive Flank Array Sonar (FAS) for detection of ships and submarines
 Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) for mine detection and high resolution seabed mapping, developed by KRAKEN
 Magnetic sensors for verification of mine detection

References

Further reading 
 

Unmanned underwater vehicles
One Giant Leap (book). One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon is a 2019 nonfiction book by journalist Charles Fishman, about the Apollo program, that focuses on thousands of people who worked on it.

Background 

Fishman wrote the book concentrating not on the biographies of Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin, but writing about ordinary people and often overlooked scientists and engineers who worked on the project. In his review, Robert Schaefer, a research engineer at MIT Haystack Observatory, writes that "between 1961 and 1966, 20,000 companies and a half a million workers were designing, building, or assembling pieces of Apollo ... if Apollo were a corporation, it would have been bigger than every Fortune 500 corporation except for GM." Fishman counted the numbers as "410,000 men and women at some 20,000 different companies [who] contributed to the effort". Among the scientists are Charles Stark Draper, the head of MIT Instrumentation Lab, that designed the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC), Bill Tindall, "the talented writer and orbital mechanics 'genius' from the Langley Research Center", and John Houbolt, NASA engineer who advocated for the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR).

Fishman writes that "Apollo didn't usher in the Space Age, but it did usher in the Digital Age. It helped lay the foundation of the technology that created the digital revolution, and it helped give Americans a sense of excitement and anticipation about the Digital Age ... that had been completely missing before the 1960s began."

Reception 
The book received positive reviews. National Space Society review writes that "As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the Moon within the next decade ... this book acts as a reminder about what is required to achieve epic results", while Kirkus Reviews calls the book "a fresh, enthusiastic history of the moon mission".

In his review for the Washington Post, Mark Whitaker praised the book as "meticulously researched and absorbingly written". He notes that Fishman "skips retelling the personal stories of Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins". 

Robert Schaefer notes that "Fishman is a really, really good storyteller, and One Giant Leap would make a fantastic audio book". He writes that the book gave a good understanding "of America as it was and how it changed with the Apollo mission". Schaefer concludes his review writing that "This reviewer has but one complaint, that even at 480 pages, One Giant Leap could and should have been even longer, with more on the Mercury and Gemini missions preceding Apollo, more on the Saturn V, more on each Apollo astronaut, and more on their discoveries."

See also  
 First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong
 First on the Moon (Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin book)
 Carrying the Fire the autobiography of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins
 A Man on the Moon The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, a 1994 book

References

External links 
 What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission by Charles Fishman for the Smithsonian Magazine

Spaceflight books
Books about the Apollo program
Alipurduar (Damanpur) Government Polytechnic. Alipurduar (Damanpur) Government Polytechnic, established in 2022, is a government polytechnic located in Alipurduar, West Bengal, India.

About college
This polytechnic is affiliated to the West Bengal State Council of Technical and Vocational Education and Skill Development,  and recognised by AICTE, New Delhi. This polytechnic offers diploma courses in Computer Science & Engineering, electronics & telecommunication, and electrical engineering.

See also
List of institutions of higher education in West Bengal
Education in India
Education in West Bengal
All India Council for Technical Education

References

External links
https://polytechnic.wbtetsd.gov.in/alipurduargovpoly

Universities and colleges in Alipurduar district
Educational institutions established in 2022
2022 establishments in West Bengal
Technical universities and colleges in West Bengal
Dasnagar Government Polytechnic. Dasnagar Government Polytechnic, established in 2022, is a government polytechnic located in Dasnagar, Howrah, West Bengal, India.

About college
This polytechnic is affiliated to the West Bengal State Council of Technical Education,  and recognised by AICTE, New Delhi. This polytechnic offers diploma courses in information technology & engineering, mechanical, and civil engineering.

See also
List of institutions of higher education in West Bengal
Education in India
Education in West Bengal
All India Council for Technical Education

References

External links
https://polytechnic.wbtetsd.gov.in/dasnagar-government-polytechnic

Universities and colleges in Howrah district
Educational institutions established in 2022
2022 establishments in West Bengal
Technical universities and colleges in West Bengal
Robert Rashford. Robert Rashford (born 1957)aged 67 is a Jamaican born American aerospace engineer.

Biography 
Rashford was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 15 June 1957. He moved to the United States in 1978, and has degrees from Temple University and the University of Maryland.

Rashford co-invented the world's first portable 3D non-destructive evaluation (NDE) system. This invention was used in the maintenance of the United States Government's Hubble Space Telescope. Rashford also invented a protective enclosure for use transporting orbital replacement units (orus). Rashford designed and developed unique spacecraft support systems for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) Airborne Support Equipment (UASE) at the Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC). At General Electric, he designed and tested a variety of spacecraft for both commercial and military applications. At Bechtel Corporation, he designed a nuclear reactor support structure. He has designed numerous highly complex engineering systems that successfully flew on board NASA's Manned Space Flight Programs.

References 

Living people
1957 births
American aerospace engineers
Jamaican emigrants to the United States
People from Kingston, Jamaica
Temple University alumni
University System of Maryland alumni
Jamaican engineers
Liquid3. Liquid 3 (also known as Liquid Trees) is a clean energy photobioreactor project designed to replace the function of trees in heavily polluted urban areas where planting and growing real vegetation is not viable. 

The project was designed by the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research at the University of Belgrade. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) selected Liquid 3 as an "innovative" solution for "Climate Smart Urban Development," a project produced in partnership with Serbia's Ministry of Environmental Protection and the municipality of Stari Grad.

Overview 
The Liquid3 algal photobioreactor is powered by solar panels. The glass tank is embedded into a structure that acts as a bench and is outfitted with other utilities such as charging ports. Similar to other photobioreactors, air is sucked through a pressure pump and fed to the microalgae, with oxygen released as a byproduct. Additionally, the Liquid 3 bioreactor can filter out heavy metal contaminants in the air and contains a temperature regulation system in case external climate conditions become too extreme for the microalgae. The creator of the Liquid 3, Dr. Ivan Spasojevic, was motivated to install it in Belgrade due to the city's struggle with pollution.

See also 

 CityTrees
 Smog tower

References

External links

Belgrade
Bioreactors
Sindh Coastal Highway. The Sindh Coastal Highway is a road that links Karachi with coastal towns in Sindh. It begins at N5, between Dhabeji and Gharo, and finishes close to Keti Bunder. The highway was created to help farming, bring new life to the fishing industry in the delta area, and make it easier to transport clean drinking water to the people living in coastal villages.

History 
The Sindh Coastal Highway project was first planned in 2010 with the aim of helping farming, reviving the declining fishing industry, and making sure coastal villages have enough clean drinking water. The project faced delays because of severe floods, which put it on hold for a few years. Eventually, Phase-I of the project was finished, but Phase II couldn't start for many years.

Route Description 
The Phase-II of the Coastal Highway Project goes from Buhara to Keti Bundar and reaches the Arabian Sea. This coastal highway would allow emergency responders to quickly reach places during emergencies and would also significantly boost tourism in the area.

See also 
 Makran Coastal Highway

References

Roads in Pakistan
Transport in Sindh
Transport in Karachi
Dilip Kondepudi. Dilip Kumar Kondepudi (born 1952) is an Indian scientist and professor of physical chemistry at the University of North Carolina, known for his work on chiral biomolecules.

Biography 
In 1971 he completed his bachelor's degree at the University of Madras, received his PhD in physics in 1973 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and defended his doctorate in physics on the topic "The influence of external fields on non-equilibrium systems" under the guidance of Nobel laureate I. R. Prigogine in 1979 at the University of Texas at Austin. It is considered the first to introduce the term "Gibbs energy flow" into scientific circulation. He teaches at the University of North Carolina.

Publications 
 Prigogine I. R., Kondepudi D. Modern thermodynamics — from thermal engines to dissipative structures. (Translated by , Viacheslav Belyi, edited by ). Mir Publishers, 2002. ISBN 5-03-003538-9.

References

Links 
 Dilip Kondepudi short biography
 Dilip Kondepudi at WorldCat

Living people
1952 births
Indian physicists
American physicists
University of Madras alumni
Friedrich Opel. Friedrich Franz Opel (April 30, 1875 – August 30, 1938) was a German cyclist, race car driver and industrial engineer. He was known for introducing the automobile assembly line to Germany.

Information

Personal life
Opel was born on April 30, 1875. His parents were Adam Opel and Sophie Opel, part of a family who were known as "The Ford's of Germany" for creating the Opel automobile manufacturing company. He had 4 siblings: Carl, Wilhelm, Heinrich and Ludwig. He was often referred to as Friedrich or Fritz. He studied mechanical engineering at Hochschule Mittweida University from 1894 to 1897 and later became the chief designer at Opel. In 1902, he was awarded a license to produce single cylinders for automobiles in Germany. In 1920, he commissioned "Villa Wenske", an estate and tourist attraction in Germany. In 1927, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Technische Universität Darmstadt. He was affiliated with the sports club SC Opel Rüsselsheim, which was named after his family and was created in 1928. He and his brothers sold the cycling department of Opel in 1936 due to financial issues.

Cycling
Opel was said to have won 180 titles on Opel manufactured cycles and altogether, he and his four brothers were said to have won 560 races and 13 national titles. He began competing in cycling races in 1891 and was said to be one of  August Lehr's rivals. He has been credited with winning the 1894 Basel - Kleve, the 1896 Amateur Sprint Track National Championship and the 1897 Stayers Elite Track National Championship.

Auto racing

Opel won the 1905 Circuit de Francford-sur-le-Main and won the 1922 Class 2L Opel-Rennbahin. Opel was an on-board mechanic and driver with Carl Jörns in the 1904 Coupe automobile Gordon Bennett. Opel finished 21st in the 1908 French Grand Prix. Opel was later named to the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1998.

Death

Opel passed away on August 30, 1938, at the age of 63 due to heart disease. He had been in good health and his death was unexpected.

External links
 A collection of articles on Friedrich Opel Retrieved 10 July 2023.

References

Friedrich
1875 births
1938 deaths
Sportspeople from Rüsselsheim
Cyclists from Darmstadt (region)
German industrialists
German male cyclists
German racing drivers
Don DeVoe (academic). Donald Lad DeVoe is an engineer recognized for his contributions to the fields of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and microfluidics. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he serves as Associate Chair of Research and Administration in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fischell Institute Fellow within the Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices, and holds affiliate faculty appointments in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland.

Education and career 
DeVoe received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1997 under the guidance of Albert Pisano. He joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor in 1997, and received tenure in 2002. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2008, and has served the department as Associate Chair of Research and Administration since 2013. DeVoe co-founded the Center for Micro Engineering at the University of Maryland in 1998, and served as Director of the center from 2001 to 2014. In 2000 he co-founded Calibrant Biosystems Inc., a biotechnology company focused on cancer biomarker discovery, and served the company as President until 2007. He was as an Associate Editor (2006-2012) and Senior Editor (2012-2023) for the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (J. MEMS), and has served as a Board Member (2016-2022) and Treasurer (2020-2022) for the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society.

Research 
DeVoe's research lies at the intersection of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and bioengineering, with an emphasis on the application of microfabrication and nanofabrication techniques to the development of novel bioanalytical technologies. His research interests include microfluidic platform development for applications in cancer immunology, nanomedicine synthesis, and aerovirology.

Awards 
DeVoe was recognized with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the National Science Foundation in 1999 for advances in microsystems technology development and education. He was named a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008, and was awarded the title of Wilson H. Elkins Professor by the University System of Maryland in 2020. He is a recipient of the 2023 University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, and the 2013 University System of Maryland Regents Award for Research. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

References

External links 

 DeVoe University of Maryland lab homepage
 

UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people

Mechanical engineers
Electricity sector in Bulgaria. The electricity sector in Bulgaria is an important part of energy in Bulgaria and is highly diversified. As of 2021 nuclear power accounts for 34.7% of Bulgaria's power, coal power provides 39.4%, while renewable energy provides 15.8% of the country's electricity needs.

Power production

Bulgaria consumes about 35 TWh of electricity per year, and some is exported. The residential sector is the largest consumer, followed by industry then services.

Nuclear power

Coal power
Some power stations are very dirty, and in 2023 one was found guilty of excess sulphur dioxide air pollution, which might lead to court cases against others.

In early 2023 the government attempted to postpone Bulgaria's EU commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10% that year, because it did not want to close any coal-fired power stations.

Fossil fuel subsidy of coal power is expected to end by 2025. Bulgaria aims to phase out coal power (which is low quality lignite) by 2038 or earlier. The Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air says that an earlier phase out would save many lives and much money.

Hydropower

Wind power

Solar power

References

Electric power in Bulgaria
Dandenong rolling stock factory. The Dandenong rolling stock factory  in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong South was opened in 1954 by Commonwealth Engineering. It has since been operated in succession by ABB, Adtranz and Bombardier and Alstom.

History 
The Dandenong rolling stock factory was built by Commonwealth Engineering opening in 1954. In 1990, the plant was sold to ABB. It was included in the 1996 merger of ABB and the Daimler-Benz rail division, as Adtranz, the 2000 takeover of Adtranz by Bombardier, and the 2021 takeover of Bombardier by Alstom.

Output

Trains
180 Comeng EMU sets
20 3000 class railcars
4 New South Wales XPT power cars and 13 trailers
21 New South Wales Xplorer railcars
30 New South Wales Endeavour railcars
33 Indian Railway WAP-5 electric locomotives
222 Market–Frankford Line M-4 subway cars
109 V/Line VLocity sets
31 Adelaide Metro 4000 class sets

Trams
230 Z class Melbourne trams
70 A-class Melbourne trams
132 B-class Melbourne trams
100 E-class Melbourne trams
100 G-class Melbourne trams (production from 2024)
70 trams for the Hong Kong Light Rail

References

Adtranz
Alstom
Bombardier Transportation
Locomotive manufacturers of Australia
Manufacturing plants in Melbourne
Railway workshops in Victoria (state)
1954 establishments in Australia
GreenGT H2. The GreenGT H2 is a sports racing car developed by the Swiss company GreenGT and the French racing team WELTER Racing. It uses hydrogen as an energy source.

History
The origin of the H2 dates back to 2009 after the construction of a first prototype of electric competition called GreenGT 300 kW and powered by lithium/ion batteries. The autonomy of the latter having quickly proved to be a defect of the 300 kW, GreenGT decided to use a fuel cell to provide additional energy necessary for electric motors. Its goal is to design a car without combustion, releasing only water vapor into the atmosphere. On 22 September 2011, the life-size model of the H2 passed through the wind tunnel for the first time, in France, at the IAT (Aerotechnical Institute) of Saint-Cyr-l'École. The H2 was presented on 2 June 2012 as part of the 24 Hours of Le Mans test day. It was also invited to participate outside the classification in the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans and to occupy stand no. 56 reserved for technologically innovative cars. However, the development phase of the high-power electric-hydrogen generator, which is particularly complex, encroaches on the program of on-track endurance tests essential to the preparation of a race as demanding as the classic Mancelle. 

On June 27, 2015, the H2 made its world premiere on the Circuit Paul Ricard as part of the French round of the World Touring Car Championship. On 24 and 25 May 2016, on the Circuit de Lurcy-Lévis (Allier), the H2 carried out a final validation driving session in the hands of GreenGT development driver Olivier Lombard, with a view to a demonstration planned in the framework of the 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans with Olivier Panis. During the race weekend, on 16 June, it became the first car powered by an electric-hydrogen powertrain to complete a lap of Circuit de la Sarthe. Still driven by Panis, it repeated its demonstration two days later at the start of the race.

References

Racing cars
Fuel cell vehicles
Seaborgium hexacarbonyl. Seaborgium hexacarbonyl (also called seaborgium carbonyl) is the organometallic compound with the formula . Like its chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten analogs, it is a volatile derivative of seaborgium in its zero oxidation state. Seaborgium hexacarbonyl has little practical usage, outside of scientific interest, where it and other transactinide compounds are studied to shed light on relativistic effects on electronic structure as a consequence of high nuclear charge.

Synthesis
 can be prepared by passing seaborgium atoms through a helium and carbon monoxide mixture:

Reactivity
Seaborgium hexacarbonyl reacts and interacts with a  surface in ways closely resembling its lighter congeners, molybdenum hexacarbonyl and tungsten hexacarbonyl.

References

Carbonyl complexes
Seaborgium