omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Marguerite Sayers. Marguerite Sayers BE CEng FIEI serves as Executive Director for Customer Solutions  of ESB. She is the President for Engineers Ireland (EI) for 2019. She is also a Fellow of EI.

Biography 

Marguerite Sayers was born c 1970 and grew up near Tralee, County Kerry. graduated from University College Cork with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1991. She went one to get diplomas in Accounting and Finance from University of Limerick and in Project Management from her alma mater, UCC. She has worked for ESB since she graduated and before this role she was Managing Director, ESB Networks in Ireland. She is a chartered engineer and a fellow of Engineers Ireland. Since May 2018 Sayers has been the Executive Director for Customer Solutions. Sayers spent seven years involved in the executive committee and other councils of Engineers Ireland. In May 2019 she became the 127th president of Engineers Ireland. She is only the 4th woman to hold this position. Sayers is also a member of the National Pediatric Hospital development board.

See also 

 ESB Group
 Engineers Ireland

References

External links 
 Profile on Bloomberg

Living people
Alumni of University College Cork
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Limerick
21st-century Irish women engineers
21st-century Irish engineers
Engineers from County Kerry
People from Tralee
Ann Blandford. Ann Blandford FHEA is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at University College London (UCL). She serves as deputy director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering. Her research focuses on behaviour change, well-being, and human errors in the field of healthcare.

Education 
Blandford graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She worked as a software engineer before pursuing a PhD in artificial intelligence (AI) and education at the Open University supervised by Eileen Scanlon and Mark Elsom-Cook.

Career and research
Blandford previously served as professor at the interaction design centre at Middlesex University from 1995 to 2001.  

Blandford has served as professor in human-computer interaction at UCL since 2002, where her research has involved studies of serendipity, leading to a proposal for a new definition of the phenomenon. With Stephann Makri she worked to further refine their classification of "serendipitous occurrences". Her current work covers HCI research in digital health, including challenges of interdisciplinarity.

Awards and honours
In 2016, Blandford became one of the first 12 women to receive a Suffrage Science award for contributions to the field of maths and computing.

References 

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Living people
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of the Open University
Academics of Middlesex University
Beth Koigi. Beth Koigi is a Kenyan entrepreneur working to improve the access of water for off-grid communities. Koigi is a founder of Majik Water, a company which aims to harvest drinking water from the air to serve communities across the world who are not able to access safe, clean drinking water. The equipment works on the same principle as the condensate type of dehumidifiers, causing the water vapor that is normally found in air to condense into its liquid form.

Early life 
Koigi was born in Kimende in Kiambu County.

Education and career 
Koigi earned a Bachelor of Science in Community Development, Project Planning and Management from Chuka University, Kenya (Class of 2013), and a Masters in Project Planning and Management from the University of Nairobi (Class of 2017).

Following her bachelor's degree, she was a founder of Aqua Clean Initiative, founded in 2013. Koigi was awarded the Young Water Fellowship in September, 2018, and has been a current associate fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Nordic Baltic Hub since April 2015. Additionally, Koigi is a Grant Advisor for The Pollination Project since December 2015. Koigi is currently a founding member of Majik Water, which was founded in July 2017. Majik Water won the EDF Pulse Award Africa in 2017, and Koigi was a shortlisted contender for the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize 2019. She appeared at TEDxFasoKanu in 2019.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Kiambu County
University of Nairobi alumni
21st-century Kenyan businesswomen
21st-century Kenyan businesspeople
Safiatou Nana. Safiatou Nana is a Burkinabé renewable solar energy engineer and entrepreneur. She has focused her research and work on producing energy in rural communities through off-grid solar-powered systems. Nana was named one of the "5 African innovators to watch in 2019 and beyond" by One due to her work on a mobile solar powered water pumping system.

Education 
Nana gained her BSc in electrical engineering at the Institut International d'Ingénierie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement (2iE) in 2014 before gaining her MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering at The Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change) (PAUWES) in 2016.

Work

Renewable Energy 
Safiatou worked as an assistant energy engineer in 2014 with PPS (Project Production Solaire) Sarl. She focused on the design, cost analysis and technical feasibility of off-grid solar energy systems for remote sites. In 2016 Safiatou worked as a junior engineer at the Kwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology. She focused on assessment of bio-methane production from waste in order to research utilization of slaughter wastes potential towards energy self-sufficiency. From 2016 to 2017 Safiatou was a community manager for the African Network for Solar Energy - ANSOLE.

Safiatou became the co-founder and Deputy Secretary General for Youth for Energy Saving organisation in early 2017 which brings together young people and other stakeholders to raise awareness about energy saving in schools, university residences, and other public buildings in Burkina Faso. She left in late 2018.

In May 2018, Nana founded SolarKoodoo and Sun-Taklas Energy, becoming the chief executive officer and managing director of the companies respectively. The start ups are focused on providing renewable energy solutions to rural Burkina Faso with the use of solar energy cells.

Fashion 
Nana is the CEO of Yiri Accessories, a fashion brand that designs, produces, and sells handbags and other accessories made locally with African materials.

Blogging 
Nana runs the blog EnergyIn'Afrik which she launched on 2017. She writes about energy issues within Africa and how research within the continent has contributed to the renewable energy literature. Nana focuses on a range of subjects including solar panels, energy storage, energy efficiency, smart appliances, electric vehicles, energy harvesting, entrepreneurship in the energy sector.

Awards 
Nana has been shortlisted for the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by the Royal Academy of Engineering. Nana was shortlisted due to her work on SolarKoodo as a movable solar water pumping system that aids farmers to pull water from boreholes in off-grid regions where water tables drop very low whilst also being able to electrify homes.

References 

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Living people
21st-century engineers
21st-century women engineers
People associated with solar power
Burkinabé scientists
Burkinabé women
21st-century Burkinabé people
Regina Moran. Regina Moran FIEI was CEO of Fujitsu Ireland and UK. She was the President for Engineers Ireland for 2014. She is a Fellow of Engineers of Ireland. Moran is currently Vodafone Enterprise Director and chair of THEA, the Technological Higher Education Authority.

Biography 

Regina Moran is from Clonmel, Co Tipperary. She completed her studies in Engineering with a certificate from Waterford Institute of Technology and finishing a diploma with Cork Institute of Technology. She later completed an MBA from Dublin City University. Moran won the Sir Charles Harvey Award for her post-graduate work. She was Director of Operations for DMR Consulting Ireland after she co-founded it in 1997. In April 2004 this company went on to become Fujitsu Consulting and then to merge with Fujitsu Services. Moran was made CEO of this group in August 2006. She went on to become CEO of Fujitsu Ireland when all Fujitsu companies merged in 2009 Ireland. She went on to hold the role as CEO of Fujitsu Ireland and UK and then on to more global positions. In 2018 she left Fujitsu to become Vodafone Enterprise Director.

Regina has been a board-member for the Irish Business Employers’ Confederation as well as a member of the Dublin City University governing authority. Moran has been a Non-Executive Director of EirGrid.

See also 

 Engineers Ireland

References 

Living people
Alumni of Dublin City University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Waterford Institute of Technology
Alumni of Cork Institute of Technology
People from County Tipperary
21st-century Irish engineers
21st-century Irish women engineers
Anne Butler (engineer). Anne Butler CEng. FIEI served as president for Engineers Ireland in 2005. She was only the second woman to hold this position. Butler was a founding director of the Environmental Protection Agency in Ireland.

Biography 

Anne Butler grew up in Kilkelly, County Mayo. She studied Civil Engineering in University College Galway in 1976. Butler went on to complete a MSc in Structural Engineering in 1977 and then a Diploma in Environmental Engineering in 1990 from Trinity College, Dublin. Butler has become a chartered Engineer. She went on to be President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Butler was a founding Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ireland and remained on its board for ten years. Butler is  on the Board of the ESB Group and on the Governing Body of the Dublin Institute of Technology. Butler was awarded the TBD Alumni Award for her contribution to the field of "Engineering, IT and Mathematics". Butler is also a member of the Irish Academy of Engineering.

See also 
 Engineers Ireland

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Galway
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Engineers from County Mayo
Environmental engineers
21st-century Irish women engineers
21st-century Irish engineers
20th-century Irish women engineers
20th-century Irish engineers
Imbagedo. Imbagedo is a reservoir located in the Inderta woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1998 by SAERT.

Dam characteristics 
 Dam height: 20 metres
 Dam crest length: 328 metres
 Spillway width: 20 metres

Capacity 
 Original capacity: 1 776 278 m³
 Dead storage: 360 000 m³
 Reservoir area: 36 ha
In 2002, the life expectancy of the reservoir (the duration before it is filled with sediment) was estimated at 24 years.

Irrigation 
 Designed irrigated area: 80 ha

Environment 
The catchment of the reservoir is 12.4 km² large. The reservoir suffers from rapid siltation. Part of the water that could be used for irrigation is lost through seepage; the positive side-effect is that this contributes to groundwater recharge.

References 

Reservoirs in Ethiopia
1998 establishments in Ethiopia
Tigray Region
Era Quhila. Era Quhila is a reservoir located in the Inderta woreda of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia. The earthen dam that holds the reservoir was built in 1997 by the Tigray Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Dam characteristics 
 Dam crest length: 
 Spillway width: 
 Original capacity:

Irrigation 
 Designed irrigated area: 
 Actual irrigated area in 2002:

Environment 
The catchment of the reservoir is  large, with a perimeter of  and a length of . The reservoir suffers from rapid siltation. The lithology of the catchment is Agula shale and a bit of Mekelle Dolerite. Part of the water that could be used for irrigation is lost through seepage; the positive side-effect is that this contributes to groundwater recharge.

References 

Reservoirs in Ethiopia
1997 establishments in Ethiopia
Tigray Region
Amie Ragg. Amie Augustus Ragg  (7 October 1878 – 5 September 1957) was a Fijian engineer, civil servant and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Council between 1944 and 1950.

Biography
Ragg was born in Fiji and initially worked as a marine engineer before becoming a mechanical engineer. In 1901 he married Florence Fretheway; the couple had three children, two sons and one daughter. In middle age he joined the Department of Public Works, and after studying for the AMICE certification, he rose to become director of the department.  He retired in 1938, and was awarded the Imperial Service Order the following year.

Ragg contested the Southern seat in the 1940 Legislative Council elections, but was beaten by the incumbent Alport Barker. However, in the 1944 elections he unseated Barker, becoming an MLC alongside his younger brother Hugh. He was re-elected in 1947, but lost to Barker in the 1950 elections.

He died in September 1957 at the age of 78.

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1878 births
Fijian engineers
Fijian civil servants
Members of the Legislative Council of Fiji
1957 deaths
Laros-100. The Laros-100 is a Russian light aircraft specifically designed for aerobatics flying.

Design and development

The Laros-100 has a high wing of rectangular plan mounted at 0° angle of incidence and without dihedral. It has two spars which, like the ribs, are made from aluminium alloy and is aluminium-skinned. Its ailerons are horn-balanced; there are no flaps.  A single faired strut on each side braces the wing to the lower fuselage.

The fuselage has a steel tube structure which is aluminium-skinned. Its  Lycoming AEIO-360 engine is conventionally nose-mounted and drives a two-blade propeller.  Apart from its windscreen, the cabin is under the wing and seats two in tandem, with access by two starboard-side, forward-hinged doors. In profile the fuselage tapers to the tail, providing ground clearance for a tailwheel undercarriage. Both tail surfaces are trapezoidal in outline, with the tailplane on top of the fuselage. The port-side elevator carries an electrically-powered trim tab.

The prototype has conventional landing gear, though proposed production models offered nosewheel gear as an alternative. The mainwheels are mounted, unfaired, on cantilever legs and has hydraulic brakes. The tailwheel is steerable and fully castoring.

Operational history

The Laros-100 first flew on 14 June 2013 from Drakino airfield, Serpukhov, piloted by Yevgeny Frolov. It first appeared in public two months later at the 2013 Moscow Salon. There are no reports of production or of sales apart from that of the prototype, which was put on offer in 2014.

Specifications

References

High-wing aircraft
aerobatic aircraft   
2010s Russian civil aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 2013
Carola Wenk. Carola Wenk (born 1973) is a German-American computer scientist known for her research on algorithms for finding similarities between geometric shapes, such as matching vehicle trajectories to road networks, comparing trajectories with each other using Fréchet distance, or testing similarity for gel electrophoresis data. Her work has also involved biomedical applications of geometric algorithms, including the use of virtual reality to diagnose glaucoma. She is a professor of computer science at Tulane University.

Education and career
Wenk is originally from Berlin. She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1998 at the Free University of Berlin with the thesis Algorithmen für das Crossdating in der Dendrochronologie (Algorithms for Crossdating in Dendrochronology) supervised by Helmut Alt. She continued to work with Alt at the Free University of Berlin and in 2002 completed a doctorate in computer science (Dr. rer. nat.) with the dissertation Shape Matching in Higher Dimensions.

After postdoctoral research with Alon Efrat at the University of Arizona, Wenk joined the faculty at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2004. She chaired the faculty senate of the university from 2010 to 2012. As faculty senate chair, she oversaw a change in the university grading system to allow plus and minus modifiers in letter grades, and a policy to reduce the use of paper by making all campus printers and copiers double-sided.

She moved to Tulane University in 2012, and was promoted to full professor in 2017. Since 2021 she has been chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tulane.  She also holds an adjunct position in the mathematics department.

Book
With Mahmuda Ahmed, Sophia Karagiorgou, and Dieter Pfoser, Wenk is the co-author of the book Map Construction Algorithms (Springer, 2015).

References

External links
Home page

Map Construction Algorithms book home page

1973 births
Living people
German computer scientists
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Free University of Berlin alumni
University of Texas at San Antonio faculty
Tulane University faculty
American women academics
21st-century American women
Frederic Holloway. Frederic Ancrum Lord Holloway (1914–1990) was a former vice president of science and technology at Exxon.

Early life and education 
Holloway was born in Lumberton, North Carolina, to Elisha Andrew Holloway and Cammie Anderson. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1935 and four years later completed his doctorate in the same field at MIT.

Career

Academic career 
In 1965, just a year after its founding, Holloway became an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Between 1966 and 1972 he served on the NAE's Committee on Public Engineering Policy and, until 1975, he was part of the Committee on Environmental Engineering. Following his election into NAE Council in 1971, Holloway served two consecutive terms on its executive committee from 1971 to 1975 and from 1977 to 1986 respectively. A year prior to his election, Holloway served as vice-chairman and chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry in London. He then joined  the governing board of the United States National Research Council and served for them from 1971 to 1985. During his career as chairman, Holloway was honored by Georgia Tech and Stevens Institute of Technology.

Exxon 
Holloway started working for Exxon on one of their refineries at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as a process engineer prior to outbreak of World War II in 1939. Throughout the war, he worked through the ranks, eventually becoming general superintendent in 1953 at the age of 39. In 1955, Holloway moved to Esso Standard Oil Company, and served in their headquarters until 1961. When Exxon and Esso Standard split that year, Holloway was taken by Exxon who relocated him to Houston, where he became vice president for manufacturing planning.

A year later, Exxon relocated him again, this time to New York, where he worked for their parent company as deputy refining coordinator. Until 1964, Holloway was involved with Exxon Research and Engineering Company and after his tenure with ER&E was expired in 1968, he founded Corporate Research Laboratories. For the last ten years, as Exxon employee, Holloway was the head of corporate planning department and the science and technology department. During the 1970s energy crisis when OPEC caused oil price to hike making Americans pay more, Holloway suggested Exxon to massively invest into companies that started to develop synthetic fuel technologies and other alternative energy sources.

Retirement and death 
Following his retirement from Exxon in 1978, Holloway continued to work for the National Academy of Engineering, as well as Gulf States Utilities and Construction Specialists, of both which he later became a director. Holloway died on November 30, 1990, at the age of 76, from intracerebral hemorrhage, which was followed by a short illness at the Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Georgia Tech alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
ExxonMobil people
People from Lumberton, North Carolina
Seyitömer power station. Seyitömer power station is a 600-megawatt coal-fired power station in Turkey near Seyitömer, Kütahya Province, built in the late 20th century, which burns lignite mined locally.

The four units were started in 1973, 1974, 1977 and 1989.

The plant is owned by Çelikler Holding and in 2018 received 67 million lira capacity payments. The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot. In January 2020 the plant was shut down for failing to meet new pollution limits: however three out of four units were upgraded and restarted later in 2020. According to İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği (Climate Change Policy and Research Association) in 2021 the plant discharged waste without a licence and without penalty. It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2062, would prevent over 4000 premature deaths.

References

External links 

 Seyitömer power station on Global Energy Monitor
 Seyitomer coal mine on Global Energy Monitor

Coal-fired power stations in Turkey
Tunçbilek power station. Tunçbilek power station (also known as Çelikler Tunçbilek power station) is a 365 MW coal-fired power station in Turkey in Kütahya built in the 1970s, which burns lignite from Tunçbilek coal mine.
The plant is owned by Çelikler Holding and in 2018 received 41 million lira capacity payments. The area is a sulfur dioxide air pollution hotspot. According to İklim Değişikliği Politika ve Araştırma Derneği (Climate Change Policy and Research Association) in 2021 the plant operated without a licence for 11 days without penalty. 

In 2022 it was operating on a temporary licence.

It is estimated that closing the plant by 2030, instead of when its licence ends in 2064, would prevent over 6000 premature deaths.

References

External links 

 Tunçbilek power station on Global Energy Monitor

Coal-fired power stations in Turkey