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Aerial Ashes. Aerial Ashes is a British multirotor unmanned aerial vehicle company founded in 2019 in Christchurch, Dorset.

History 

Aerial Ashes was started by Christopher Mace, a helicopter pilot in the Royal Air Force. Mace was asked to scatter the ashes of ex-RAF airmen over the sea, creating meaningful experiences for families. After refining techniques for optimal scattering, he retired and founded Aerial Ashes. The company uses drones with modified load boxes to release cremation ashes at chosen locations, offering a respectful, innovative service.
In March 2021, Aerial Ashes was the first and only company in the UK granted an operational safety case by the UKS Civilian Aviation Authority to scatter cremated ashes by drone.

In 2022, the company teamed up with A.W.Lymn The Family Funeral Service and gained a much greater reputation, being featured in The Telegraph and BBC, where Mace commented that the idea of founding the company came about after scattering the ashes of ex-military personnel at sea, assuming that each person wanted to be scattered in a specific place. The company was influential in countries such as Spain, where other companies chose to provide the same services, and it also caught the attention of the country's authorities. This year, British funeral home JC Atkinson also teamed up with Aerial Ashes to include the services provided in its catalogue.

In April 2024, Matt Young purchased the company and moved to a multi-site operation providing service throughout the UK, including Scotland. In this year, the media described the project as a "touching farewell to a loved one". In that year, the company also offered the private beaches of Beachy Head and Seven Sisters.

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 TrustPilot Reviews

Aerospace companies of Europe
British companies established in 2019
Funeral-related companies of the United Kingdom
Service companies of the United Kingdom
Mary Jane Phillips. Mary Jane Phillips (1931–2024) was a Canadian chemical engineer specializing in the catalysis of hydrocarbons, the first female faculty member in chemical engineering at the University of Toronto.

Life
Phillips was born in Toronto on 15 September 1931. She earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering at the University of Toronto in 1953. After a 1954 master's degree from Bryn Mawr College, and two years of industry work for DuPont, she went to Johns Hopkins University for doctoral study in chemistry and completed her Ph.D. there in 1960.

She was a postdoctoral researcher, first at Canada's Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (now part of Natural Resources Canada) and then in Ireland at Queen's University Belfast. Returning to  Canada, she became a lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Toronto in 1964, the department's first female faculty member. She became an assistant professor in 1972, and was tenured as an associate professor in 1977. She was promoted to full professor in 1989. She retired as professor emerita in 1997.

At Toronto, Phillips developed a course in engineering ethics, and worked to support women in engineering. Phillips became president of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario for 1993–1994.

She died on 18 March 2024.

Recognition
Phillips was elected as a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada in 1990. She became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the 2008 class of fellows, "for distinguished service to the engineering profession, and for her role as a pioneering woman in the profession and as a mentor to female engineers".

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I.Ae. 21 DL. The I.Ae. 21 DL, also known as the FMA I.A.21 or FMA 21, was an experimental training aircraft developed by Argentina during the Second World War. While only one was built due to material constraints, the FMA 21 served as an advanced training aircraft for the Argentine Air Force (FAA) from 1943-1945.

The FMA 21 was developed by Argentinian government-owned aircraft manufacturer Fábrica Militar de Aviones (FMA). Due to souring politicial relations between Argentina and the United States, FMA decided to use their experience with the North American NA-16 in service with the FAA to develop their own domestic fighter, so the FMA 21 was heavily based off the fuselage of the NA-16. It was also featured the first retractable landing gear built in the country.

Construction 
The FMA 21's fuselage consisted of welded chrome-molybdenum steel tubes covered in a duraluminium coating. The cockpit had a sliding all-acrylic canopy and was configured for tandem control.

The aircraft was propelled by a Wright R-975-E3 Whirlwind that generated 450 hp at 2250 r.p.m and drove a two-bladed variable-pitch propeller.

See also

References 

IAe021
1940s Argentine military trainer aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1943
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Qiuhua Liang. Professor Qiuhua Liang is an academic and researcher specialising in water engineering and flood risk management. He holds the position of Professor of Water Engineering at Loughborough University and is the UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction.

Career
Professor Liang obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2001. He has since established himself as a leading expert in computational hydraulics and flood modelling. In 2018, he was appointed as the UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction, recognising his contributions to the field. Professor Liang is also a Co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training Water-WISER, demonstrating his commitment to nurturing the next generation of water engineering researchers. His expertise and leadership in the field were further acknowledged when he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In July 2024, he was part of a group that received the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water, for innovation in water research.

Research
His work focuses on developing high-performance mathematical and numerical models for flood simulation and forecasting. Liang has made significant contributions to real-time flood forecasting by coupling GPU-accelerated hydrodynamic models with numerical weather predictions. His research encompasses various aspects of flood modelling, including urban flood simulations, dam-break scenarios, and the integration of multiple data sources. Liang's innovative approaches, such as using deep convolutional neural networks for rapid flood prediction, have advanced the field of flood risk management.

References

Living people
21st-century engineers
Loughborough University
Year of birth missing (living people)
AbuBakr Bahaj. AbuBakr Bahaj is an engineer and academic, who currently hold a role at the University of Southampton. He also served as the UK's first chief scientific adviser to a local council after his was appointed by Southampton City Council in 2012. Bahaj specialises in renewable energy engineering and is seen as an expert in the field.

Career
As an emerging expert in the field of renewable energy, in 2008 he was invited to provide evidence to the House of Lords' The Economics of Renewable Energy - Economic Affairs Committee.

While working at the University of Southampton, the local council announced plans for a role of chief scientific adviser, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom for a council. Bahaj was announced as the first person to hold the role in August 2012.

In 2013, Bahaj was interviewed by The Conversation to discuss the best renewable options for remote locations away from traditional power grids.

His work in the field of tidal energy has led to him discussing the subject publicly at conferences and in the media. In 
Deutsche Welle, Bahaj discussed the current problems with scaling tidal and how irregular wave patterns (e.g. storm surges), made it difficult to harness power consistently on a large scale with today's technology.

Research & publications
Bahaj's research in sustainable energy is published in over 300 articles, and referred to in journals and international conferences. In 2013, he founded the International Journal of Marine Energy (IJOME). A second journal followed in 2018, the International Marine Energy Journal (IMEJ). He currently serves as its Editor-in-Chief.

References

Living people
21st-century engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jacqueline Castle. Jacqueline Castle is a British engineer who specialises in aerospace engineering. She currently works for the United Kingdom's Aerospace Technology Institute and is also a professor at the University of Bristol.

Education
Castle studied at the University of Bristol, where she gained an MSc in Aerospace Design.

Career
Castle worked in England for aerospace company, Airbus for around 25 years. She spent part of her time at Airbus as head of landing gear for both the A350 XWB and A380. Castle's most recent position at Airbus as UK Chief Engineer. Her rise up the career ladder at one of the world's leading aerospace companies led to her been awarded many industry awards, including a Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in the 2016 edition.

Castle's most recent position is Chief Technology Officer at the UK's Aerospace Technology Institute, while also holding an Aegis Professor of Aerospace Technologies professor role at University of Bristol. In 2024, she spoke on a number of occasions about the UK's consortium aiming to develop a functioning hydrogen fuel system for aviation.

Recognition
Castle is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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Living people
Academics of the University of Bristol
Alumni of the University of Bristol
British aerospace engineers
British women engineers
Women aerospace engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nushell. Nushell (or just Nu for short) is a cross-platform shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

Nushell was created by Sophia Turner and Yehuda Katz in 2019. Inspired by the structured, functional approach of PowerShell but with clear error messages and cross-platform.

History 
Nushell was conceived as an attempt to bring structured data and modern programming ideas to the traditional Unix shell environment. Its creation was sparked by the success of PowerShell, which introduced the idea of operating on objects rather than plain text streams.

The initial concept was developed by Yehuda Katz and a small group of contributors who were inspired by PowerShell's capabilities but wanted a more functional approach. The team aimed to design a cross-platform shell that could run on Windows, Linux, and macOS, while providing features not found in existing shells like Bash or Zsh.

Nushell's first public preview came in 2019. The project gained momentum as it continued to evolve with new features such as pipelines with structured data and customizable plugins.

See also 

 Comparison of command shells
 Unix shell
 Command-line interface
 Shell (computing)

References

External links 
 
 Documentation
 
 nushell on ArchWiki

2019 software
Command shells
Unix shells
Windows command shells
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in Rust
Software using the MIT license
Kenneth K. Mei. Kenneth Kwan Hsiang Mei (; May 19, 1932 - February 16, 2017) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer and academic, who was a professor emeritus at Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. From 1994 until his death, he was also a professor of electrical engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He is best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics.

Biography
Kenneth Kwan Hsiang Mei was born on May 19, 1932 in Shanghai and served an interpreter in Korean War. Studying physics at National University of Taiwan in the 1950s for a year, he later emigrated to the United States, and received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He obtained his masters and PhD degrees from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1960 and 1962, respectively; during his doctoral studies, he was advised by Jean van Bladel. 

In 1962, Mei joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, where he was a professor until his retirement in July 1994. From 1994 until 2001, he was a Chair Professor at the institution, and served as the director of the Wireless Communications Research Center. In 2007, he received the title of honorary professor. Being elected as an IEEE fellow in 1979, he received IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2009 for "contributions to computational electromagnetics and Maxwellian circuits."

Mei's research has focused on numerical techniques for electromagnetic problems in microwave and antenna theory; he has published early research work on method of moments during the early 1960s. His later work involved innovations in the application of finite difference and finite element methods to antenna and scattering problems. He has also introduced superabsorption method in 1989 and measured equation of invariance (MEI) approach in 1992, as well as developing the concept of Maxwellian circuits.

Mei died on February 16, 2017 in Oakland, California.

Selected publications
Journal articles

References

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  (Archived)

1932 births
2017 deaths
American electrical engineers
Chinese electrical engineers
Microwave engineers
Fellows of the IEEE
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Academic staff of the City University of Hong Kong
National Taiwan University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Electrical engineering academics
American telecommunications engineers
Chinese telecommunications engineers
Scientists from Shanghai
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Engineers from Shanghai
Educators from Shanghai
Bhishm-class tugboat. The Bhishm class of tugboats are a series of six  bollard pull tugboats being built by Titagarh Shipyard near Kolkata, for the Indian Navy.

History
The contract for the construction of 6  bollard pull tugboats was signed on 12 November 2021 by Titagarh Shipyard and the Indian Navy (IN) at . The tugboat features a high indigenous content. Secondary roles of the tugboat also includes providing firefighting services to ships at harbour and limited search and rescue operations while at anchor. The presence of tugs will support IN's operational responsibilities by making it easier for naval vessels and submarines to berth and unberth, turn, and manoeuvre in restricted waters.

Ships in the class

See also
 Tugboats of the Indian Navy

References

Ships of the Indian Navy
Tugs of the Indian Navy
Auxiliary tugboat classes
Corridor IV (Hyderabad Metro). Corridor IV or the Airport Line is a proposed line serving Hyderabad as part of the Hyderabad Metro rail network in the city. The line spans . It starts at Nagole and ends at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, going through crucial areas such as LB Nagar, Owiasi Hospitals, Chandrayangutta, New High Court, and Shamshabad. There are 24 stations, 23 of which are proposed to be elevated, with the airport station being the only underground station. Its current proposal includes connections with Blue Line at Nagole, Red Line at LB Nagar and Green Line at Chandrayangutta.

History 
After the opening of Phase I one of the major complaints was the crucial areas of Nagole and LB Nagar not being connected, despite Nagole and LB Nagar being the terminus points for the Blue and the Red line respectively. The state government looked at the options of extending the metro from Nagole to LB Nagar, but this proposal was soon rejected by the central government, citing low ridership expectation. This was soon criticized by the state government, which alleged favouritism over metro project approvals, causing tensions between the two.

During the same time, there were rising calls for metro connectivity to the airport. For this reason on 26 March 2018, a special purpose vehicle company, Hyderabad Airport Metro Limited (HAML), was established by the Government of Telangana to develop the Hyderabad Airport Metro Express. Later the government released tenders for the construction of the line and aimed to began construction in 2024. However, following the change of the government due to the 2023 Telangana Legislative Assembly election, Revanth Reddy put the line on hold and ordered a redesign of the line. He later announced the airport express line was being put on hold and introduced the metro Phase II where a new airport line was designed which started from Nagole instead of Raidurg. The line would connect the highly requested Nagole LB Nagar route and extend towards Old city and finally the airport.

Finances 
Unlike Phase I, which followed a private-public-partnership between Larsen&Turbo and the government of Telangana, the government of Telangana decided to pursue a joint venture with the Indian Central Government for Phase II of Hyderabad Metro. Out of the required money which will be contributed by the government, the state government and central government will each contribute 50%. The remainder of the money will be borrowed from various banks at a low interest rate. The total cost of Phase II is estimated to be Rs 24,237 crore.

Stations

Interchanges 
Passenger interchange facilities, connecting to other metro and railway lines, will be provided at the following stations:

Nagole (connects to the Blue Line,which runs between Miyapur and LB Nagar)
LB Nagar (connects to the Red Line, which runs between Raidurg and Nagole)
Chandrayangutta (connects to the Green Line, which runs between JBS Parade Ground and Falaknuma)

List of stations

References

Hyderabad Metro
Proposed rapid transit in India
INIT SE. INIT Innovation in Traffic Systems SE is a German technology company serving the public transport market, based in Karlsruhe. The company was founded in 1983 by Gottfried Greschner, developing on his research on intelligent transportation systems at the University of Karlsruhe. INIT opened a North American subsidiary in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1999, and has expanded to serve clients in the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania. The company provides software, hardware, and services for multiple functions in the public transport sector, including dispatching and service planning, ticketing and fare collection, and intelligent transportation systems.

History 
INIT was founded in 1983 by Dr. Gottfried Greschner, as a spinoff from the University of Karlsruhe. The company initially focused on bus fleet management, and expanded into other information technology services for the public transport industry. 

INIT expanded into North America in the late 1990s. The company presented a demonstration of its intelligent transportation systems technology in 1997 in Akron, Ohio, and opened an office in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1999.

Products 
INIT provides hardware, software, and services for the public transport industry. The company's products include ticket machines, passenger information systems, and computer-aided dispatch systems.

In addition to its hardware and software products, the company also provides integration services. An example of this is the REGIOMOVE platform for the , where INIT contributed to the development of a unified mobile app for regional public transport services in Karlsruhe.

Locations 
INIT has its head office is in Karlsruhe, in the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg. The company has 6 additional offices in Germany, and 7 locations elsewhere in Europe. The North American headquarters are in Chesapeake, Virginia, and the company also has offices in the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

References

External links 

 
Companies based in Karlsruhe
Debra Reinhart. Debra R. Reinhart is an American environmental engineer specializing in waste treatment, including bioreactors, and sustainability for landfills. She is retired from the University of Central Florida as Pegasus Professor of Engineering Emerita.

Education and career
Reinhart began her university education studying for a mathematics degree at Rollins College in Florida from 1972 to 1974. However, after being inspired to go into engineering by her science classes at Rollins, she transferred to Florida Technological University (now the University of Central Florida) and completed a bachelor's degree in engineering, summa cum laude, in 1976. She went to Georgia Tech for graduate study in sanitary and environmental engineering, earning a master's degree in 1980 and completing her Ph.D. in 1989.

She worked as a civil engineer in Atlanta, Georgia from 1976 until 1986, including a five-year stint as chief of research and development for the Atlanta Bureau of Pollution Control. On completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Central Florida in 1989. She was promoted to associate professor in 1994 and full professor in 2000, and became the university's assistant vice president for research in 2008. She was named Pegasus Professor in 2009. From 2011 to 2013 she was a program director for environmental engineering at the National Science Foundation. She retired in 2021.

In her retirement, she became a Fulbright Scholar in Kyrgyzstan, providing expertise in waste management to the city of Bishkek.

Recognition
Reinhart is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

She was the 2014 recipient of the Stanley E. Kappe Award of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES) and in 2018, she became the first woman to win the AAEES Gordon Maskew Fair Award.

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Living people
Environmental engineers
American civil engineers
American women engineers
Women civil engineers
University of Central Florida alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
University of Central Florida faculty
United States National Science Foundation officials