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Nael Barakat. Nael Barakat is a Kuwaiti mechanical engineer.

Educational and career
Barakat earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Kuwait University in 1989. He subsequently moved to Canada to pursue a master's degree and doctorate in the same subject, from Concordia University in 1996, and McMaster University in 2000, respectively. Barakat began his teaching career as an assistant professor at Lake Superior State University in the United States, then joined the Grand Valley State University faculty until moving to Texas A&M University in 2016. After leaving TAMU, Barakat held a professorship at the University of Texas at Tyler.

In 2012, Barakat was elected to the World Federation of Engineering Organizations Anti-Corruption Committee. In 2022, he began serving a four-year term on the U.S. Fulbright Specialist Program Roster. The following year, Barakat was elected chair of the National Engineering Ethics Board.

Awards and honors
Barakat was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010. The ASME awarded Barakat the Edwin F. Church Medal in 2020.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Kuwait University alumni
McMaster University alumni
Concordia University alumni
Grand Valley State University faculty
Texas A&M University faculty
University of Texas at Tyler faculty
Lake Superior State University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Kuwaiti emigrants to the United States
Engineers from Texas
Kuwaiti engineers
Engineers from Michigan
Amna Al Shamsi. Amna bint Abdullah Al Dahak Al Shamsi (Arabic: آمنة بنت عبد الله الضحاك الشامسي) is an Emirati politician serving as the Minister of Climate Change and Environment since 6 January 2024. She previously served as the spokesperson for the UAE Government during the COVID-19 pandemic, and chaired the organizing committee for the International Junior Science Olympiad 2021 and the International Biology Olympiad 2023.

Education 
She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Khalifa University, and both bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Sharjah.

Career 
She previously held the position of Assistant Undersecretary for the Care and Capacity Building Sector at the Ministry of Education since July 2016, and served as Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department at the Ministry of Education. She has been a member of several committees, including the Digital Transformation Committee, the National Family Prevention Committee, and the Gulf Gifted Council. She chairs several national committees, including the Child Protection Council in the Educational Environment, the National Committee for Green Education, and the National Committee for Creative Arts in Education.

References

Emirati women in politics
Khalifa University alumni
University of Sharjah alumni
Living people
Women government ministers of the United Arab Emirates
Environment ministers of the United Arab Emirates
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bob Diamond (engineer). Robert Stephen Turin (October 6, 1959 – August 21, 2021), also known as The Trolley Man, was an American engineer.

Life and career 
Diamond was born in Brooklyn. He was an engineer.

In 1980, Diamond gained national attention after rediscovering an abandoned 19th-century Atlantic Avenue train tunnel in Brooklyn, New York.

In 1982, Diamond founded the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association, a nonprofit organization.

Diamond died on August 21, 2021, at the age of 61.

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1959 births
2021 deaths
Engineers from Brooklyn
20th-century American engineers
Trepça Crystal Museum. The Trepça Crystal Museum is located in the town of Stantërg, near the Trepça Mines in Mitrovica, Kosovo. This museum is a treasure trove of crystals and minerals extracted from the depths of Kosovo. Its history dates back to 1964, when it was established with over 1,300 exhibits of various types of crystals, transforming the museum into an important national institution for Kosovo, both in terms of its value and its tourism appeal.

History 
In 1970, the Kosovo Institute for Nature Protection placed 512 crystals exhibited in the museum under protection, further enhancing its importance. From its inception, the museum was housed in a building that, due to its age, did not meet the conditions necessary for the proper display and preservation of the crystals. In 2012, with funds from the Government of the Republic of Kosovo and the enterprise, a modern building for the crystal museum was constructed, with an investment of around 560,000 euros. This new facility displays approximately 1,500 selected exhibits of crystals and minerals.

In addition to crystals from the Trepça Mine, the museum also exhibits over 100 types of crystals from various countries around the world, including Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and Brazil, which the museum acquired through exchanges for crystals from the Trepça Mines. The Trepça Crystal Museum is a valuable asset for Kosovo, carefully preserved, protected, and displayed for all visitors who wish to learn more about the beauty of crystals and minerals. In addition to crystals, the museum also displays old tools used by miners in the early days of the mining operations.

See also 
 Shala e Bajgorës
 City Museum of Mitrovica

References 

Museums in Mitrovica, Kosovo
Museums established in 1964
Deltares. Deltares is a  in the Netherlands specialising in hydraulic engineering research and consulting, along with water management, geotechnics,  and infrastructure. The organisation's research mainly focuses on rivers and river deltas, coastal regions, and offshore engineering. As of 2020, Deltares employed over 750 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff members from 42 nationalities, located in Delft and Utrecht. The turnover in 2020 was €112 million.

Areas of expertise
Deltares operations focus on, among other things:

 Water management;
 Water safety;
 Hydraulic engineering;
 Groundwater;
 Soil management;
 Geology;
 Ecology;
 Water quality;
 River and coastal morphology.

Facilities 
In addition to desk study research, Deltares undertakes physical model research and development of computer applications. For physical model research, Deltares has several wave flumes (including the Delta Flume), wave basins, and lock facilities. Facilities are also available for research on pumps and pipelines.

For geotechnical research, Deltares provides facilities such as the geocentrifuge, a water and soil flume (for dredging research), and a geotechnical laboratory.

History 
Deltares was established on January 1, 2008, following the findings of the Wijffels Committee, from the merger of:

 GeoDelft
 Delft Hydraulics, previously known as the  (Hydraulic Research Laboratory)
 Parts of TNO–Building and Underground
 Parts of the specialized services RIZA, RIKZ, and DWW from Rijkswaterstaat.

Initially, the name Delta Institute was considered. However, this name had been used until 1992 by another organization: the Delta Institute for Hydrobiological Research. This organization is now part of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW).By 2008, the Delft laboratory had become known by the English name WL | Delft Hydraulics, and in an effort to consolidate knowledge with similar institutes, it was merged with other research institutes and sections of Rijkswaterstaat, becoming known by its present name.

See also 
 Delta Works
 Flood control in the Netherlands
 Rijkswaterstaat
 Waterloopkundig Laboratorium
 Zuiderzee Works

References

External links 
 Deltares
 Aankondiging Delta-instituut (archived)

Coastal engineering
Civil engineering
Hydraulic engineering
Delta Works
Research institutes in the Netherlands
Wanjiun Liao. Wanjiun Liao () is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and academic administrator, the executive vice president of National Taiwan University. Her research interests include wireless networks, vehicular ad hoc networks, edge computing, and video on demand.

Education and career
Liao was a student of electrical engineering at National Chiao Tung University, where she earned bachelors and masters degrees in 1990 and 1992 respectively. She completed a PhD in electrical engineering at the University of Southern California in 1997. Her doctoral dissertation, Design and analysis of interactive video-on-demand systems, was supervised by Victor On-kwok Li.

She has been at National Taiwan University since 1997. She became director of the Computer and Information Networking Center in 2002, full professor of electrical engineering in 2005, Distinguished Professor in 2010, Himax Chair Professor in 2013, Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor in 2014, National Chair Professor in the Ministry of Education in 2021, and NTU Chair Professor in 2022.

She chaired the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2013 to 2015, served as director general for engineering and technologies in the Ministry of Science and Technology from 2016 to 2017, became Vice President for Academic Affairs of National Taiwan University in 2018, and has been executive vice president of the university since 2023.

Recognition
Liao was a 2003 recipient of the K. T. Li Young Research Award of ACM Taipei.
She was named an IEEE Fellow in 2010, "for contributions to communication protocols in multimedia networking". She was a 2011 distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and is a 2023 distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

References

External links
Internet Research Lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Taiwanese electrical engineers
Taiwanese women engineers
Women electrical engineers
National Chiao Tung University alumni
University of Southern California alumni
Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
Fellows of the IEEE
National Highway 40 (Nepal). National Highway NH40  (Thanapati-Samakhushi) is a national highway of Nepal. The highway is located in Kathmandu District and Nuwakot District of Bagmati Province. The total length of the highway is .   

The Highway was proposed to construct 
 as a Feeder road (F082) from Samakhushi to Gangate  but later plan changed and took decision to convert  of the road from Samakhushi to Thanagau as National Highway 40. The government gave a contract to upgrade and develop the Feeder road F082 (from Samakhusi to Thanagau ) plus (Thanagau to Chhahare ) total . The project was envisioned to increase trade between Kerung bazaar and China through Rasuwa and Nuwakot

References

External links
Map of National Highways of Nepal
SNH-2021/22

Highways in Nepal
Roads in Bagmati Province
Tetrachloroethylene carbonate. Tetrachloroethylene carbonate is a carbonate ester with the chemical formula . It is produced by the photochlorination of ethylene carbonate. It has been used as precursor for oxalyl chloride.

Tetrachloroethylene carbonate acts as a Lewis base and it forms a complex with the Lewis acid antimony pentachloride. Tetrachloroethylene carbonate reacts with tributylamine, forming phosgene.

See also
 Tetrachloroethylene
 Tetrachloroethylene oxide

References

Carbonate esters
Organochlorides
RKIIGA-74 Experiment. The RKIIGA-74 Experiment was a homebuilt single-engined flying boat designed and built by staff members and students of the Lenin Komosol Institute, Riga in the early 1970s.

Design and development
In 1972, students at the Lenin Komosol Institute, Riga began work on a project to design an amphibian aircraft, named the RKIIGA74 Experiment, suitable for use in the numerous lakes and rivers of Latvia, which would be made from parts of existing machines that had already been designed and tested. The aircraft's wings and tail were taken from a KAI-12 Primorec glider, a Soviet license-built version of the Let LF-109 Pionýr, while the aircraft's hull was adapted from a Progress motorboat, with the windscreen moved rearwards and sloped more to reduce drag. The engine installation, including the nacelle and propeller were taken from an Aero Ae-145 light aircraft. 

The Experiment was a parasol monoplane, with the fabric covered wooden wing attached to the hull by chrome-nickel steel cabane struts with also supported the engine, while the tail surfaces were carried on an open tailboom of lattice construction. The aircraft was powered by a single  Avia M332 air-cooled four-cylinder inverted inline engine driving a two-bladed propeller. The crew of two sat side-by-side in an open cockpit and were provided with dual controls.

On 6 September 1974, taxi trials began at Lake Baltezers, with short hops taking place. These tests resulted in the addition of a step to the aircraft's hull. Thus modified, the aircraft was flown for the first time on 17 September 1974. Performance both on the water and in the air was found to be good, and 15 flights were completed with about 2 hours total flight time. The Experiment was exhibited at Moscow in 1976.

Specifications

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1970s Soviet sport aircraft
Flying boats
Leslie Rusch. Leslie Ann Rusch (born 1958) is an American and Canadian electrical engineer whose research interests include optical communication, edge computing, spread spectrum techniques, flexible antenna arrays, and wireless brain implants. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Université Laval in Quebec City, where she holds a tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud and the NSERC/Huawei Industrial Research Chair in Fibre Optic Communications Systems.

Education
Rusch is a graduate of Schaumburg High School in Illinois. She majored in electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, graduating in 1980. After working for the US Department of Defense from 1980 to 1990, she returned to graduate study at Princeton University, where she earned a master's degree in 1992 and completed her PhD in 1994. Her dissertation, Interference Suppression in Spread Spectrum Code Division Multiple Access, was supervised by Vincent Poor.

Recognition
Rusch was named an IEEE Fellow in 2010, "for contributions in optical and wireless communications systems". She was the 2013 recipient of the IEEE Canada J. M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, given "for excellence in graduate supervision". In 2017, IEEE Canada gave her their R. A. Fessenden Award, "for contributions to communications systems in optical & wireless technology importance". She became an Optica Fellow in 2017, "for research in optical communications including code division multiple access technologies, ultrawide band signal generation, transient gain effects in optical amplifiers, and exploitation of orbital angular momentum in fiber communications".

She was given her Canada Research Chair in 2017; it was renewed in 2022.

References

External links
Optical Communications Laboratory

1958 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Canadian electrical engineers
Canadian women engineers
Women electrical engineers
California Institute of Technology alumni
Princeton University alumni
Academic staff of Université Laval
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of Optica (society)
Monty Sutrisna. Monty Sutrisna is a British academic and researcher in construction and project management. He currently holds the position of Head of the School of Built Environment at Massey University in New Zealand. With an extensive career spanning academia and industry, Sutrisna has made contributions to the built environment field through his research, teaching, and leadership roles.

Early life and education
Monty Sutrisna was born and raised in Indonesia. He completed his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, specializing in Construction Management, at Tarumanagara University, Indonesia, in 1997. Seeking further education, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he earned an MBA from the University of Salford in 2002. He continued his academic journey by pursuing a PhD in Construction Management, which he was awarded by the University of Wolverhampton in 2004.

Academic roles
Monty Sutrisna's academic career began at the University of Salford, UK, where he held positions as a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and eventually Director of Postgraduate Research Training. In 2012, he joined Curtin University in Western Australia as an associate professor of Construction Management. During his tenure at Curtin University, he served as the Head of the Construction Management Department and Acting Head of the School of Built Environment. In April 2019, Sutrisna was appointed Head of the School of Built Environment at Massey University, New Zealand, where he continues to lead the school in strategic planning, research, and industry engagement. He is the former president of the Australasian Universities Building Education Association.

Research and publications
Sutrisna is a prolific researcher with a broad range of publications, including refereed journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His research interests encompass cost estimation, project cost control, offsite construction, stakeholder engagement, and digital transformation in the construction industry. He has chaired and organized several international conferences and workshops, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in his field.

Grants and funding
Throughout his career, Sutrisna has secured substantial research funding. He is the scientific lead of CanConstructNZ, "Creating Capacity and Capability for the New Zealand Construction Sector," funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment.

References

Living people
Tarumanagara University alumni
Alumni of the University of Salford
Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton
Academics of the University of Salford
Academic staff of Curtin University
Academic staff of Massey University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ariane flight VA262. Ariane flight VA262 was the maiden flight of the Ariane 6, carrying a  payload, consisting of a mass simulator, plus a number of small CubeSats and other experiments as rideshare payloads.

Mission 
The launch experienced a one-hour delay due to a data acquisition system issue. Despite this, the countdown resumed smoothly, and the rocket lifted off successfully at 19:00 UTC, flying a northeastern trajectory that took it over Europe. During the initial launch, the initial stages, including the two P120C solid rocket boosters and core stage, performed as expected. The upper stage ignited at the T+8-minute mark and performed a ten-minute burn to establish a preliminary orbit. Following a coasting phase, the upper stage reignited at T+56 minutes for a successful 22-second burn, placing it in a circular orbit. Cubesats were deployed according to schedule at this point. However, during the mission's final phase, the auxiliary propulsion system (APU) malfunctioned at T+1 hour and 14 minutes.

The APU performs two critical functions in the re-ignition of the upper stage's Vinci engine. First, the APU heats up small amounts of propellant inside a 3D-printed gas generator and the gas it creates is injected back into the tanks to re-pressurize them. Secondly, the APU can produce a low level of thrust, to either settle floating propellant in the tanks before re-ignition of the Vinci engine or to make fine orbital adjustments (similar to a thruster).

The failure of the APU prevented the planned third burn at T+2 hours and 37 minutes. The third burn was considered an important test for future Ariane 6 missions and as part of ESA's efforts to leave zero launch debris in space.

The plan was for this third burn was to direct the upper stage into a safe deorbit over the Pacific Ocean and release the two reentry capsule experiments. The failure left the upper stage stranded in a  circular orbit. At this altitude, their natural orbital decay due to atmospheric drag is expected to take decades.

Payload  
The payload was primarily a mass simulator but carried multiple rideshare payloads. They include five experiments (PariSat by GAREF, Peregrinus by Sint-Pieterscollege, LIFI by OLEDCOMM, SIDLOC by Libre Space and YPSat by ESA) and eight CubeSats (OOV-Cube by RapidCube, Curium One by PTS, ISTSat by University of Lisbon, 3Cat-4 by Polytechnic University of Catalonia, GRBBeta by Spacemanic, ROBUSTA-3 by University of Montpellier, CURIE by NASA and Replicator by Orbital Matter), which were deployed correctly. The launch also carried two reentry capsules (SpaceCase SC-X01 by ArianeGroup and Nyx Bikini by The Exploration Company) that were slated to be deployed after the second stage was to be deorbited, but the vehicle did not make reentry as planned.

See also 

 List of Ariane launches

References 

VA262, Ariane flight
2024 in spaceflight
Rocket launches in 2024
Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator. The Reduced Gravity Walking Simulator, or Lunar Landing Walking Simulator, was a facility developed by NASA in the early 1960s to study human locomotion under simulated lunar gravity conditions. Located at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, it was designed to prepare astronauts for the Moon landing during the Apollo program.

Design and operation 
A reduced gravity simulator was needed to prepare astronauts for the Moon landing. It was proposed by the NASA engineer William Hewitt Phillips. The simulator was a part of the Lunar Landing Research Facility (LLRF) and was completed in 1965. In 1972, the LLRF was redesigned into the Impact Dynamics Research Facility.

The simulator was made of "canvas slings, steel cables, a small trolley, and a wooden walking surface". The simulator consisted of an inclined walkway tilted at a 9.5° angle from vertical. Test subjects were suspended on their side via cables attached to different parts of their body, "a puppet-type suspension system at the end of a long pendulum", and were inclined on their side at the same 9.5° angle. This arrangement allowed them to walk along the inclined surface while experiencing only one-sixth (17%) of Earth's gravity - equivalent to the Moon's gravitational pull. The remaining weight was supported by the suspension system. The suspension system used multiple cables connected to an overhead monorail trolley that moved parallel to the walkway. This setup permitted subjects to walk, run, jump and perform other locomotive activities along the length of the walkway. However, lateral and rotational movements were restricted.

According to Francis B. Smith, during the training, the suspended astronaut feels "approximately 1/6 of the earth's normal gravity field ... a 180 pound astronaut "standing" on the platform would exert a force of only 30 pounds - the same as if he were standing upright on the lunar surface".

Scientists used the simulator to analyze the physiological effects of reduced gravity on various forms of locomotion: walking, jumping, and running; fatigue limit, energy expenditure, and speed of locomotion were also studied and measured.

Subjects wore pressurized spacesuits during some tests to more closely replicate lunar surface conditions. All three astronauts of the Apollo 1 trained there; in total, 24 astronauts used the simulator to train for the lunar missions. The simulator became popular among journalists. In 1968, Walter Cronkite of CBS tried it himself for a "rather comical televised walk on the moon".

Gallery

See also 
 Lunar Orbit and Landing Approach

References

Further reading

External links 
 

Human spaceflight
Apollo program facilities
Langley Research Center