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Germaine Kamayirese. Germaine Kamayirese is an engineer and politician in Rwanda, who served as the Minister of Emergency Management and Refugee Affairs in the Rwandan cabinet, from 18 October 2018 until she was dropped from cabinet on 27 February 2020.

Before that, from 24 July 2014 until 18 October 2018, she served as the Minister of State for Infrastructure responsible for Energy, Water and Sanitation.

Background and education
She was born in Nyarugenge District on 5 August 1981. From 2000 until 2005, she studied at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), which today is the College of Science and Technology (Rwanda), a constituent college of the University of Rwanda. She holds a Bachelor of Electricalmechanical Engineering, awarded by KIST in 2005. She also holds a Masters of Communications Management, awarded jointly in 2010 by KIST and Coventry University, in the United Kingdom.

Career
From 2008 until 2011, Germaine Kamayirese served as a network specialist at "Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency" (RURA). From 2012 until 2014, she served as a network specialist at "Tigo-Rwanda". From 2010 until 2011 Kamayirese served as an advisor at the "Institute of Engineering Architecture Rwanda". As of September 2017, she was a member of "Rwanda Women Engineers Association" (RWEA).

In her capacity as the State Minister responsible for energy, water and sanitation in the Ministry of Infrastructure, she was in charge of executing the country's national strategy and policy of power production, transmission, distribution and trading within Rwanda and with foreign energy entities. She was also responsible for the provision of reliable, safe and sustainable water supply and sanitation services throughout Rwanda.

In a cabinet reshuffle on 18 October 2018, Ms Kamayirese was named the new Minister of Emergency Management and Refugee Affairs.

Family
Germaine Kamayirese is a mother of four children.

Other considerations
In December 2014, Forbes Magazine named her among "The 20 Youngest Power Women In Africa 2014".

See also
 Judith Uwizeye
 Gérardine Mukeshimana
 Yvonne Khamati

References

External links
Website of the Rwanda Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs  
Website of the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure

Living people
1981 births
People from Kigali
Rwandan engineers
Rwandan women engineers
College of Science and Technology (Rwanda) alumni
Alumni of Coventry University
Government ministers of Rwanda
Infrastructure ministers of Rwanda
Women government ministers of Rwanda
21st-century Rwandan politicians
21st-century Rwandan women politicians
21st-century women engineers
Nevin E. Funk. Nevin Elwell Funk (November 4, 1883 – April, 1973) was an American electrical engineer, vice president engineering at the Philadelphia Electric Company, now PECO Energy Company. He is known as president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1943-44, and recipient of 1952 ASME Medal.

Biography

Youth, education and early career 
Funk was born in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1883 to Nevin Ilrsinus Funk and Mary Louise (Elwell) Funk. He obtained his BSc in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in 1905.

After his graduation in 1905-06 Funk started his career as apprentice in the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1906 he was sub-foreman at the New York Central Railroad for a few months, and next from 1906-07 assistant professor at Georgia School of Technology, now Georgia Institute of Technology.

Further career and acknowledgement 
In 1907, Funk's career at the Philadelphia Electric Company took off. Only in between, in 1912-13, he was sales manager at Sterling Switchboard Co. He advanced at the Philadelphia Electric Company from assistant foremen to executive vice-president in charge of engineering since 1929, and retired in 1950.

In 1943 Lehigh University awarded Funk the honorary doctorate in engineering. From 1943 to 1945 he served as president of the Lehigh University Alumni Association board. In 1952 he was awarded the ASME Medal by the ASME for "pioneering achievements in economic operation of interconnected power systems," and in 1953 he received the Engineer of the Year award from Engineer's Week.

References

External links 
 Nevin Funk - Engineering and Technology History Wiki

1883 births
1973 deaths
American electrical engineers
20th-century American businesspeople
Lehigh University alumni
People from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
ASME Medal recipients
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Crosby Field. Crosby Field (March 12, 1889 – September 20, 1972) was an American mechanical and electrical engineer, manufacturer, vice president of the Brillo Manufacturing Company, and inventor. He is particularly known as inventor of the process to manufacture steel wool continuously, and as recipient of the 1953 ASME Medal.

Biography

Youth, education, and early career
Field was born in Jamestown, New York, in 1889 as only child. His father was a clergyman, and his mother a member of "the southern branch of the Crosby family, which settled originally in Massachusetts in the Colonial period." He obtained his BSc from New York University in 1909, his MSc in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1912, and his MSc in electrical engineering from Union College in 1914.

After his graduation in 1912 Field had started working at General Electric, among others at the Protective Apparatus Laboratory under Charles Proteus Steinmetz. After making a start with his own private practice as consulting engineer in 1914-15, he became chief engineer at Standard Aniline Products Corporation, now part of Allied Corp. After the outbreak of World War I, he served as in the United States Army Ordnance Department as inspector in ordnance, in which he rose to major.

Further career and acknowledgment
After World War I he returned to chemical industry as engineering manager of the National Aniline and Chemical Works, which would also merge into Allied Corp. In 1923 he to the Brillo Manufacturing Company, where he eventually served as vice president until 1942.

In World War II Fields again served in the US ARMY Ordnance Corps in the rank as colonel and assistant director of safety in the Office of the Chief of Ordnance.

Field was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and was awarded the ASME Medal in 1953. He served as president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and on the council of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Over the years he had obtained more than 140 patents.

Selected publications
Crosby Field. Unit processes and principles of chemical engineering / by John C. Olsen,... ; in collaboration with Crosby Field, Alfred L. Webre, Theodore Baker... [et al.], 1932
Crosby Field. The study of missiles resulting from accidental explosions; a manual for investigators. Washington, DC, United States Atomic Energy Commission, 1947.

Patents, a selection
Patent US1646396 - Scrubbing device and material therefor
Patent US1886661 - Plant apparatus and method for making metal 
Patent US1886662 - Wire shaving machine
Patent US1976013 - Lubricating apparatus for metal cutting

References

External links
Crosby Field (1889-1972), Smithsonian Institution Archives

1889 births
1972 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Lehigh University alumni
People from Jamestown, New York
ASME Medal recipients
Engineers from New York (state)
20th-century American inventors
Arthur V. Tobolsky. Arthur Victor Tobolsky (1919–1972) was a professor in the chemistry department at Princeton University known for teaching and research in polymer science and rheology.

Personal 

Tobolsky was born in New York City in 1919.  
On September 7, 1972, Tobolsky died unexpectedly at the age of 53 on September 7, 1972, while attending a conference in Utica, N.Y.

Education 

Tobolsky graduated from Columbia in 1940, and received his PhD from Princeton in 1944. He studied under Henry Eyring and Hugh Stott Taylor.

Career 

Early in his career, he spent one year at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.  After that, he spent his entire career in the Chemistry Department at Princeton. He served on the Editorial Boards of American Scientist, the Journal of Polymer Science, and the Journal of Applied Physics. In 1966, Tobolsky was a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His most cited work proposed a molecular theory of relaxing media.

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
1919 births
1972 deaths
20th-century American chemists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Princeton University faculty
E. Burnley Powell. Edwin Burnley Powell (September 23, 1880 – 1963) was an American mechanical and consulting engineer. He was awarded the 1954 ASME Medal for many years of consulting engineer. The ASME had argued, that in these days he was "probably the most widely consulted engineer in the public-utility field."

Biography

Youth, education and early career 
Powell was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi in 1880 to Edward F. Powell and Hardinia Burnley Powell Howie, an artist, instructor in applied arts, and student of William Merritt Chase. He attended Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, where he obtained his BSc in 1904.

In 1900 Powell had started his career in 1900 at the New York Edison Company, now Consolidated Edison, at the meter and testing department. After his graduation in 1904 until 1907 he was as chemist in charge of the Chemical Laboratory & Mechanical Testing Department.

Further career and acknowledgement 
In 1907 Powell moved to the Stone & Webster engineering services company in Stoughton, Massachusetts, where he started as engineer on the engineering department. From 1914 to 1920 he was betterment engineer, supervising charge betterment work on several power stations. In 1920 he was appointed consulting engineer for the organization, specializing in power stations.

In 1952 Powell was elected Fellow of ASME, and in the same year he celebrated fifty years of continuous membership. In 1954 the ASME awarded his that year the ASME Medal for "distinguished service in engineering and science."

Family 
Powell married Jessie Elizabeth (Walker) Powell. Their son, Edwin Burnley Powell, Jr. (27 Sept. 1909 – June 1985) followed into his footsteps. He graduated from MIT in 1932 and published a series articles about a method of measuring and displaying generator rotor angles in the late 1950s.

Selected publications 
 Powell, Edwin Burnley Boiler-furnace refractories, New York, American society of mechanical engineers, 1925.

Articles, a selection
 E. B. Powell. "Requirements in the Design of Steam Power Stations for Hydraulic Relay," Mech. Eng., vol.43, no. 10, Oct. 1921, pp. 650, 652 and 674
 Powell, E. B. "Design of the Steam-Power Station for Hydraulic Relay." Power. Vol. 53, 12, pp. 482–5

References 

1880 births
1963 deaths
American mechanical engineers
Millsaps College alumni
People from Brookhaven, Mississippi
ASME Medal recipients
Ruswarp Hydro. Ruswarp Hydro or Whitby Esk Energy, is a Hydroelectric generation scheme that operates on the River Esk at Ruswarp, North Yorkshire, England. The project uses an Archimedes Screw in a reverse direction to generate electricity and was funded by people in the community. Around  of water pass along the screw per second, which generates enough electricity to power 45–48 homes.

History
Esk Energy (Yorkshire) was formed as an industrial and provident society in 2008 to explore the idea behind a green energy scheme in Eskdale. Initially, windpower was researched but it was decided that a wind turbine would be visually intrusive in the North York Moors National Park. After a river survey and an approval was made by the Environment Agency, the collective pressed ahead with the hydro scheme.

Provisional planning for the scheme was given the go-ahead in October 2009 and a co-operative was formed to raise the capital needed for the project. The money raising culminated in a share option to raise extra funding of the £450,000 that was required for the scheme. With the funding secured, construction started in May 2012 with the plant being commissioned into service on 12 December 2012.

The Archimedes Screw that was built for the scheme arrived on site in September 2012 and was installed by October of the same year. The screw is  wide,  long and will allow a maximum  of water to pass through a second. The screw is wide enough to allow fish to move through downstream without coming to harm. At the same time that the project was being built, the North York Moors Park Authority re-built the fishpass adjacent to the turbine. The screw generates up 160,000 Kilo-watt hours per year which is enough electricity to power 45–48 homes, and reduces carbon emissions by up to  per year.

Even though the National Park Authority was satisfied that the development would have no detriment to the ecology or hydrology to the river, some in the community were upset that they were not fully informed as to the prospect and possible ramifications of the hydro scheme. Parts of the local community were unaware that when the river was in low flow, the water would not go through the screw, but go over the weir or through the fish pass as normal, as they claim, this had not been communicated to them.

References

External links
Diagrammatic side on cutaway of the screw and generating house

Hydroelectric power stations in England
Power stations in Yorkshire and the Humber
Buildings and structures in North Yorkshire
Hydroelectric power stations in Yorkshire and the Humber
Mohammad Khurshid Khan. Mohammad Khurshid Khan is a British Pakistani academic who previously served as Vice-Chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan. He is professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Director for Student Recruitment (School of Engineering) at University of Bradford. He is currently on sabbatical from the University of Bradford and is serving as the CEO of Feversham Education Trust (FET) in Bradford.

Khan received his BEng in 1983, Phd in 1987, and MBA degree in 1997 from the University of Bradford, UK.

References

Living people
Pakistani academic administrators
Vice-chancellors of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Alumni of the University of Bradford
People associated with the University of Bradford
Year of birth missing (living people)
C. C. Mitchell. Commander Colin Campbell Mitchell FRSE MIME OBE (1904–21 January 1969) was a Scottish mechanical engineer also with a very prominent service record in the Royal Navy. He was the inventor of the Aircraft catapult and Aircraft arresting gear used on aircraft carriers. He was usually referred to as Commander C. C. Mitchell.

Life

He was born in Edinburgh the son of Mary Agnes Mitchell and her husband, the artist John Campbell Mitchell RSA (1862–1922). He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then studied engineering at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1925.

He joined the staff of MacTaggart Scott & Co in Loanhead on graduating and was promoted to Technical Director in 1931. His invention of aircraft arresting gear in 1931 brought him to the attention of the Admiralty. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy and reached the rank of Commander. He served as Engineer-in-Chief to the Admiralty. He was one of the investigating officers into the V1 launch sites. After the War he became Director of Brown Brothers & Co on Broughton Road in Edinburgh.

In 1955 he was the first non-American to win the Newcomen Gold Medal. In 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower awarded him the Medal of Freedom of the United States.

In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir William Wallace, Ronald Arnold, Charles Patterson and Robert Schlapp.

He died in Edinburgh on 21 January 1969.

Family

His elder brother, Lt John Patrick Campbell Mitchell, was killed whilst serving in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War on 21 April 1917 during the Second Battle of Arras. He was only 19. He is buried in Bruay Communal Cemetery Extension.

References

1904 births
1969 deaths
Engineers from Edinburgh
People educated at Edinburgh Academy
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Scottish mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
20th-century Scottish inventors
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
Granville M. Read. Granville Moorman Read (March 18, 1894 – December 1, 1962) was an American mechanical engineer and Chief Engineer at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. from 1946 to 1959. In 1955 the ASME awarded Read the ASME Medal ""for his outstanding leadership in developing men and in organizing and completing projects of extraordinary national and industrial importance."

Biography

Youth, education and early career 
Read was born in Bedford County, Virginia in 1894, son of Daniel Warwick Read and Laura Moorman Read. His father was a lawyer and teacher, and both parents had been teachers at the New London Academy from 1885 to 1896.

Read attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, the Drexel Institute, and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. After his graduation in 1915 he started his lifelong career at E.l. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Further career and acknowledgement 
In 1915 Read started at Du Pont as a "material checker at the smokeless-powder plant in Hopewell, Va., which the company operated for the federal government during the First World War." From 1930 to 1940 he served as Assistant Director of the Industrial Engineering Division.

In World War II he participated in the Manhattan Project. As deputy of 
E.G. Ackart, Du Pont's chief engineer and Engineering Department head, Read was primary responsibility for the construction aspects of the plutonium program at Du Pont. From 1946 to 1959 Raed was Chief Engineer at Du Pont as successor of E.G. Ackart.

In 1955 Read was awarded the ASME Medal by the ASME, and in 1957 the National Society of Professional Engineers granted him the NSPE Award for Outstanding Service to the engineering profession. On May 29, 1960 the North Carolina State University awarded Read the Honorary degree.

Home and family 
Read lived at the stately home, called Read-Moor, in Bedford County, Virginia near the New London Academy on Route 811. Read bought it in 1936 from his uncle Barlow Read, the original owner. Read remodelled and modernized the old house and named it Read-Moor.

Read died at his home in Westover Hills, Wilmington, Delaware on December 1, 1962.

References 

1894 births
1962 deaths
American mechanical engineers
DuPont people
Virginia Tech alumni
Drexel University alumni
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
People from Bedford County, Virginia
ASME Medal recipients
Engineers from Virginia
20th-century American engineers
Manhattan Project people
Wuest type herringbone gear. A Wuest type herringbone gear, invented by Swiss engineer Caspar Wüst-Kunz in the early 20th century, is a type of herringbone gear wherein "the teeth on opposite sides of the center line are staggered by an amount equal to one half the circular pitch". This staggering of the two rows of teeth causes the gear to wear more evenly, at the slight cost of strength.

References 

Gears
20th-century inventions
Swiss inventions
Jean-Philbert Nsengimana. Jean-Philbert Nsengimana is a Rwandan software engineer and politician, who has served as the cabinet minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), since 31 August 2017. Immediately before his current assignment, from December 2011 until 31 August 2017, he served as the cabinet minister for Youth and ICT. He has maintained that assignment in the various cabinet reshuffles since.

Background and education
Nsengimana has a Masters of Information and Communication Technology, majoring in Software Engineering, awarded by the National University of Rwanda. His Masters in Business Administration, majoring in Information Technology Management, was obtained from the S P Jain School of Global Management.  He later received a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Career
From 2003 until 2007, he served as a director of "Rwanda Development Gateway". He also served as a regional coordinator for Africa at the "Development Gateway Foundation", between 2006 and 2008. He then worked as a country director at Voxiva Inc. from 2008 until 2010.

During the six years at the helm of the combined Youth and ICT ministry, Nsengimana has strongly advocated for the role that information technology can play in solving many of the development challenges that face young Africans, and by extension, African governments.

In December 2011, the government of Rwanda combined the Youth ministry with the ICT ministry and Nsengimana was appointed to head the joint docket. In August 2017, the Youth/ICT docket was split and Nsengimana remained as Minister of ICT, while the now new docket of Minister for Youth was assigned to Rosemary Mbabazi.

Family
Jean-Philbert Nsengimana is a married father of three children.

See also
 Cabinet of Rwanda

References

External links
 Personal Profile 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rwandan engineers
Government ministers of Rwanda
National University of Rwanda alumni
S P Jain School of Global Management alumni
Harvard Kennedy School alumni
Martin Frisch. Martin Frisch (November 22, 1899 – June 16, 1959) was a Hungarian/American mechanical engineer, director of Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, and inventor. He is known for his contributions to the "development of modern practices in fuel pulverizing and steam generation.", and as recipient of the 1958 ASME Medal

Biography

Early life and education 
Frisch was born 1899 in Csebze, Hungary, now Cebza in Timiș County in Romania. He came with his family to the United States in 1909, where they settled in St. Louis, and naturalized in 1917. Frisch was named after his father, also engineer and inventor, who filed his first patent request from St. Louis in 1914.

After regular education Frisch was a student at Washington University from 1917 to 1919, and from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 1919 to 1921. In 1921 he obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.

Further career and acknowledgement 
After his graduation in 1921 Frisch started as manager of field engineering at the Combustion Engineering company. In 1929 Frisch joined the Foster Wheeler Corporation in New York City, an Industrial Research Laboratory, where he worked his way up. He started as engineer in charge of engineering in the furnace and pulverizer division of the corporation in 1929, and made it chief engineer in 1940. In 1948 he was vice-president in charge of engineering, and elected as a director of the corporation, a double position he still held in 1952.

Frisch was awarded over 50 patents in "fuel pulverization, steam generation, combustion, manufacturing methods and other areas of heat engineering." In 1958 the ASME awarded him their highest recommendation, the ASME Medal.

Selected publications 
 Frisch, Martin. "Pulverized-fuel-burning furnace." U.S. Patent No. 1,734,669. 5 Nov. 1929.
 Eric, Lundgren, and Frisch Martin. "Finely divided fuel burning furnace." U.S. Patent No. 1,866,404. 5 Jul. 1932.
 Frisch, Martin. "Pulverizing apparatus." U.S. Patent No. 1,898,086. 21 Feb. 1933.
 Frisch, Martin. "Burner." U.S. Patent No. 1,950,980. 13 Mar. 1934.
 Frisch, Martin. "Heater." U.S. Patent No. 2,305,611. 22 Dec. 1942.
 Frisch, Martin, "Method and apparatus for Method and apparatus for temperature regulation," Patent US2319223, 1943.
 Frisch, Martin, "Vapor generator," U.S. Patent No. 2,405,573. 13 Aug. 1946.

References 

1899 births
1959 deaths
American mechanical engineers
20th-century American businesspeople
Hungarian mechanical engineers
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
People from Timiș County
ASME Medal recipients
Hungarian emigrants to the United States