omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum. The Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum is an aviation museum located at Amelia Earhart Airport in Atchison, Kansas focused on Amelia Earhart.

History

Background 
In 1979, Grace McGuire purchased a Lockheed 10-E from the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando, Florida. She intended to restore it to flight and use it to recreate Amelia Earhart's attempted circumnavigation. After trying and failing to interest Pratt & Whitney in supporting the effort and being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, McGuire was forced to abandon the effort.

Establishment 
Laidacker M. "Ladd" Seaberg, an Atchison economic development promoter, and his wife Karen made contact with McGuire in the early 1990s. They eventually purchased the airplane from her and it was transported to Atchison in August 2016. The following year, the museum announced plans for what would eventually become a  hangar.

The building first opened to the public on 1 February 2023, before being officially dedicated 14 April. The museum hired Mindi Love Pendergraft as a new executive director three months later. In the meantime, the foundation had funded the creation and placement of a bronze statue of Amelia Earhart in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

Exhibits 
The museum is centered around the restored Muriel -- a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra (identical to the plane Earhart flew on her final flight). The museum also features 14 interactive exhibits, including a virtual reality experience. A bronze statue of Amelia Earhart is also on display outside the museum.

Collection 

 Lockheed 10-E Electra Muriel

Events 
An annual Amelia Earhart festival is held at the airport.

See also 
 Amelia Earhart Birthplace
 International Women's Air & Space Museum
 National WASP WWII Museum
 Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots

Notes

References

External links 
 

Aerospace museums in Kansas
Museums in Atchison County, Kansas
Wang Yu-li. Wang Yu-li () is a Taiwanese biomedical engineer.

Education and career
Wang attended National Taiwan University from 1969 to 1973, and earned a bachelor's of science degree in physics. Between 1975 and 1980, he was a student at Harvard University, where he obtained a doctorate in biophysics. Upon completing postdoctoral research at Harvard in 1982, Wang joined the National Jewish Hospital and Research Center as a staff scientist. In 1987, Wang joined the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research as a principal and senior scientist. Between 1997 and 2008, Wang was a professor of physiology at University of Massachusetts Medical School. He subsequently joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty as Robert Mehrabian Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and served as head of the CMU biomedical engineering department until 2017.

Awards and honors
Wang was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2015, and a member of Academia Sinica in 2018.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Taiwanese engineers
21st-century Taiwanese engineers
Biomedical engineers
Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
Members of Academia Sinica
National Taiwan University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Harvard University alumni
UMass Chan Medical School faculty
IMOCA 60 V&B Monbana Mayenne. V&B Monbana Mayenne is an IMOCA 60 monohull sailing yacht, designed by Guillaume Verdier and constructed by Mer Concept (FRA) in France, launched on 27 of June 2022. It is designed for the Vendée Globe 2024, a solo tour of the world. Its skipper is the French Maxime Sorel.

Design 
Sistership to Apivia 1, it was built by Mer Concept, the sailing team and company of Francois Gabart which also manages the IMOCA campaign of Charlie Dalin.

Racing Results

References

External links 
 https://www.teammaximesorel.com/ (official website)

IMOCA 60 yachts
Vendée Globe yachts
2020s sailing yachts
IMOCA 60 For People. For People is an IMOCA 60 monohull sailing yacht, designed by Antoine Koch in cooperation with Finot-Conq, constructed by CDK Technologies in France, and launched on 16 March 2023. It is designed for the Vendée Globe 2024, a non-stop round-the-world solo race. It is skippered by the French offshore sailor Thomas Ruyant.

Design 
It is a sister ship to Paprec Arkéa and, similarly to that yacht, features a fully enclosed cockpit with a shock absorbing seat. The hull is optimized for the downwind conditions of the southern ocean, but has a slim design.

Racing Results

See also 

 Thomas Ruyant (skipper)

References 

IMOCA 60 yachts
Vendée Globe yachts
2020s sailing yachts
IMOCA 60 Macif 2. MACIF Santé Prévoyance, is an IMOCA 60 monohull sailing yacht, designed by Guillaume Verdier, built by CDK Technologies and Mer Concept in France, and launched on 24 June 2023. It has been designed for the Vendée Globe 2024, a solo tour of the world. Its skipper is the French Charlie Dalin.

Design 
Compared to Apivia the boat is designed for better performance in the downwind conditions of the southern ocean. It was built by CDK Technologies (hull) and Mer Concept (assembly and outfitting), the sailing team and company of Francois Gabart which also manages the IMOCA campaign of Charlie Dalin.

Racing Results

References 

IMOCA 60 yachts
Vendée Globe yachts
2020s sailing yachts
IMOCA 60 Oceans Lab. Oceanslab is an IMOCA 60 monohull sailing yacht designed by Sam Manuard and constructed by Pauger Composites in Hungary and Black Pepper Yachts in France. It was launched on 22 October 2023. It is designed for the Vendée Globe 2024, a solo tour of the world. Its skipper is the British Phil Sharp.

Design 
IMOCA 60 Oceans Lab is the sistership to L’Occitane and Initiatives-Cœur 4.

Unlike other IMOCAs, Oceanslab is powered by fuel cells rather than a combustion engine.

References 

IMOCA 60 yachts
Vendée Globe yachts
2020s sailing yachts
Società Generale Semiconduttori. SGS (Società Generale Semiconduttori, English: General Semiconductor Company) was an Italian manufacturer of semiconductor devices, most notably diodes, transistors and DIP ICs.

History
In 1957, Mario Tchou, an engineer from Olivetti, convinced Adriano Olivetti to found an Italian electronic manufacturing company for production of solid-state electronic devices. Olivetti sent his son Roberto Olivetti and Mario Tchou to negotiate with Virgilio Floriani, president of Telettra, to establish a joint venture. Within the same year, Olivetti and Telettra found Società Generale Semiconduttori (SGS). One of the reasons for SGS's foundation is the need of parts (diodes and transistors in particular) for Elea, a mainframe that was being developed by Olivetti. Headquarters of the company was located in Agrate Brianza.

In 1960, Fairchild Semiconductor acquired one third of the company and a joint venture called SGS-Fairchild got formed. That gave SGS access to Fairchild's newly invented planar manufacturing technology. The partnership ended in 1968 and Fairchild sold its SGS stocks to IRI-STET, predecessor of TIM.

In December 1971, SGS merged with an italian semiconductor company named ATES and forms SGS-ATES. On 23 April 1985, the company changes its name to SGS Microelettronica. 2 years later, SGS Microelettronica merged with Thomson Semiconductors to form SGS-Thomson, which later becomes STMicroelectronics in 1998.

See also
Leonardo
Zilog
Mostek
Thomson-CSF

References

Electronics companies established in 1957
Electronics companies of Italy
Phyllis Mary Nicol. Phyllis Mary Nicol (2 March 1903 – 13 June 1964) was an Australian physics professor who taught at the University of Sydney's physics department.

Life
Nicol was born in Wollongong's seaside suburb of Thirroul in 1903. She was the first child of Florence (Reeves) and Walter George Phillip Nicol, a bullocky. She attended North Sydney Girls High School, before studying physics at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1926.

She did research on the properties of selenium which was published in 1926.

She and a fellow demonstrator at the university, Edgar Booth wrote a textbook together about physics for high school students. Their book, Physics, Fundamental Laws and Principles with Problems and Worked Solutions was published in 1931. She was still living at the Women's College and in 1933 she became its sub-principal. She was known as Philly Nic and for being a spinster in a hurry and dressing without care. Conversely she told her students that they would gain confidence if they dressed smartly for examinations. Nicol was undervalued and overlooked. The leading cricketer Betty Archdale was the college's principal from 1946 and she also served on the university's senate.

Harry Messel joined the University of Sydney as Professor of physics in 1952 and in that year Nicol applied to be a senior lecturer. Her application was unsuccessful. All the department's staff designated as temporary had their grades assessed by a senate committee in 1953. Messel wrote well of Nicol's ability to coach students but he did not consider her a lecturer. In the same year she had a mastectomy. She left the Women's College in 1954, and her position as sub-principal, to move to the Sydney suburb of Lane Cove to live with her sister.

Death and legacy
Nicol's physics 1931 book with Edgar Booth achieved its 16th edition in 1962. She died in her home in Lane Cove in 1964 of cancer. She had resigned from the department, that she had joined in 1921 as a student, a few days before her death.

References

External links 
 Biography at ADB

1903 births
1964 deaths
People from Wollongong
University of Sydney people
Australian physicists
Australian women educators
Emil W. Roesky, Jr., Memorial Aviation Heritage Museum. The Emil W. Roesky, Jr., Memorial Aviation Heritage Museum is an aviation museum located in Coffeyville, Kansas.

History 
The museum is named for Emil W. Roesky, Jr., the manager and long time tour guide. It celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2022.

Facilities 
The museum is located in a 1933-built hangar at Pfister Park, the location of the former Big Hill Airport.

Exhibits 
Exhibits include a display about the Funk Aircraft Company, including the first Funk engine, and memorabilia from Coffeyville Army Air Field.

Collection 

 Brock KB-2
 Funk B
 Funk B-75-L
 Funk B-85-C
 Mitchell U-2 Superwing
 Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

References

External links 
 

Aerospace museums in Kansas
Lewis Ascender. The Lewis Ascender is an American homebuilt bush aircraft designed by Alec Wild and Eric Lewis.

Design and development 
The Ascender is a single-engined development of the Wild DoubleEnder, which itself is derived from the Piper PA-18 Super Cub.  Work on the Ascender began in 2016, with the aircraft being fully designed in CAD.  The wings were initially to be taken from the DoubleEnder, but were later entirely redesigned with mechanically actuated double-slotted flaps.  The leading-edge slats present on the DoubleEnder were removed on the new Ascender wing to reduce drag.  The Ascender's tail, which resembles that of the Super Cub, features a horizontal stabilizer with a symmetrical airfoil and an enlarged vertical stabilizer.  The Ascender's landing gear is fitted with 35-inch tires and oversized disc brakes.  The fuselage of the Ascender is built with 4130 chromoly steel, while the wings are aluminum.  The cockpit features a large bubble canopy and seats two in a side-by-side layout, and a bench seat behind the cockpit seats two additional passengers.  The aircraft was initially powered by a single  Superior Air Parts XP-400 engine mounted above the cockpit, but this was later replaced by a  Lycoming YIO-390-EXP.  Fuel is provided by a pair of 24-gallon tanks located in the wings.  A ballistic parachute can be installed as an option.

Operational history 
After a construction period of 18 months, the Ascender was first flown in April 2018.  Flight testing resulted in modifications to the engine cowling and ailerons.  In July 2018, the Ascender's Superior XP-400 engine suffered a crankshaft failure which resulted in the aircraft ditching in a lake in Alaska and sinking.  The aircraft was subsequently recovered and, after two years of repairs, flew once again with a new Lycoming engine.

Alec Wild and Eric Lewis have expressed interest in making an Ascender kit aircraft available to the public.

Specifications

See also

References 

Homebuilt aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 2018
Single-engined tractor aircraft
East End Treatment Plant. The East End Treatment Plant is a water-treatment facility located in Portland, Maine, United States. At an average daily output of almost 20 million gallons, it is the largest treatment facility in the state. In operation since 1979, and run by Portland Water District, the plant sits at the opposite (southern) end of Tukey's Bridge from the former B&M Baked Beans factory. 

In addition to producing clean water, which flows into nearby Casco Bay, the facility also created hundreds of tons of treated biosolids. Around four million tons of septage from private septic systems in Maine's cities and towns are sent to the facility each year. The plant prevents around  of pollution from entering Casco Bay on an annual basis.

In 2018, the plant received a $12 million upgrade. In the summer of that year, over one million gallons of partially treated sewage was released into Casco Bay after a disinfection tank was not powered on after being cleaned. A second tank was overwhelmed by high rainfall. The plant was fined $16,800 by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. The penalty was used to pay for restoration work at the city's Evergreen Cemetery.

Another discharge occurred in July 2020, when nearly four million gallons of partially treated sewage was released into Casco Bay after a power failure at the plant. East End Beach, which was given a rebirth shortly after the plant came online in 1979, was temporarily closed.

In 2023, plans to upgrade the secondary clarifier and primary sludge gallery at a cost of just over $5 million, financed by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and Maine Municipal Bond Bank as part of the State Revolving Loan Fund Program. Penta Corporation won the bid to undertake the work.

References 

Water treatment facilities
Industrial buildings completed in 1979
Water supply and sanitation in the United States
1979 establishments in Maine
Industrial buildings and structures in Portland, Maine
Delaware Aviation Museum. The Delaware Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, Delaware.

History

Background 
In 1957, Larry Kelley began helping his uncle restore a UC-78. Years later he purchased the same aircraft.

Establishment 
The Delaware Aviation Museum Foundation was co-founded by Sean Carroll, Larry Kelley and John Kenny in 2004. After receiving a lease for a  hangar, Carroll moved his restoration company, Kimble's Aviation Services, to the airport. The museum was set up in an adjacent control tower and terminal building.

Facilities 
The Jeffrey L. Ethell Aviation Library at the museum holds a collection of 3,000 books that belonged to the author.

Collection

Aircraft 

 Aeronca L-16
 Cessna O-1 Bird Dog
 Cessna UC-78 Bobcat
 de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
 de Havilland DH.82C Tiger Moth
 de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
 de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
 de Havilland Canada DH.82C Tiger Moth
 ERCO Ercoupe
 North American B-25J Mitchell
 Piper J3C Cub
 Piper J4F Cub Coupe
 North American L-17A Navion

Ground vehicles 

 BSA M20
 Jeep

Events 
The museum holds an annual Wings & Wheels Fall Festival.

Programs 
The foundation offers rides in three of its aircraft. It also offers flight training in three of its aircraft.

References

External links 
 

Aerospace museums in Delaware
Museums in Sussex County, Delaware
Spotlight Automotive. Spotlight Automotive Ltd. () is a joint venture between BMW Group and Great Wall Motor (GWM) founded in 2018 to develop and produce Mini-branded battery electric vehicles in China.

History 

In November 2019, following an agreement in 2018, BMW and GWM established Spotlight Automotive. 

Its manufacturing plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu was constructed between 2020 and 2022. Its first mass-produced vehicle, a Mini Cooper SE (J01) rolled off from the plant on 14 October 2023.

Products 
 Mini Cooper E/SE (J01) (2024–present), subcompact hatchback, BEV
 Mini Aceman (J05) (2024–present), subcompact SUV, BEV

References

Joint ventures
BMW
Great Wall Motors
Automotive industry in China
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2018
Chinese companies established in 2018
Car manufacturers of China
Electric vehicle manufacturers of China
Jacqueline Whalley. Jacqueline Louise Whalley is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology, specialising in software engineering and computer science education.

Academic career

Whalley trained as a chemist before concentrating on computer science and software engineering. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Massey University and a PhD titled Synthetic studies towards the total synthesis of sordaricin at the Australian National University in 1995. Her doctoral studies were supervised by Lew Mander, and involved making computer predictions of the outcome of Diels–Alder chemical reactions, after which she would test the predictions in the laboratory. Whalley undertook postdoctoral research at the University of St Andrews and Imperial College, working on positron emission tomography in medicinal chemistry for hormone-dependent cancers and neurological disease. Whalley completed a Master of Science with Distinction at the University of Kent in 2001, creating a molecular-level computer model of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for use in biomedical research. She joined the computing lab at the University of Kent, where she was the lead researcher on a European Union CRAFT Framework 6 grant developing a fisheries management system.

Whalley moved to Auckland University of Technology in 2004. From 2015 to 2015 she was the director of the Geoinformatics Research Centre, and from 2021 is co-director of the Software Engineering Research Lab. Whalley was promoted to full professor in 2023. 

One of Whalley's research interests is the teaching of computer programming and software engineering. She has investigated how students learn to debug, and uses social science and psychology to study learning processes. Her research on assessment and learning taxonomies has affected how computer programming is taught to beginners in Australia and New Zealand.

Selected works

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
New Zealand chemists
New Zealand computer scientists
Massey University alumni
Australian National University alumni
Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
Alumni of the University of Kent
Rupert Wimmer. Rupert Wimmer (Kuchl, 1960) is an Austrian materials researcher, wood scientist and full professor at the Institute for Wood Technology and Renewable Materials at BOKU University, who is an elected fellow (FIAWS) of the International Academy of Wood Science.

Career 
Wimmer studied wood science and technology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, where he completed all of his graduate studies. He also studied technical environmental protection at the Technical University of Vienna as well as at the BOKU University,.

He has been employed as an adjunct professor at the Mendel University in Brno in Czech Republic (Department of Wood Science), full professor and head of the Wood Technology and Wood-based Composites Unit at University of Göttingen, R&D Manager at Funder Industries, and key researcher in the Austrian research institute, Wood K plus.

His research interests include, among others, wood quality, wood biology, bio-based fibre materials, wood-based composites, wood products industry, biomaterials and sustainability issues. Wimmer is an IUFRO office holder in wood technology, and he has been a member of editorial boards in several scientific journals, including Les/Wood, Wood and Fiber Science, Frontiers in Chemistry, Southern Forests, Springer Series in Wood Science, and Dendrochronologia.

In 2021/22, he served as the president of the International Society of Wood Science and Technology. His research teams have won awards in the area of biomaterials and wood technology. Since 2021, through an initiative of the International Society of Wood Science and Technology, he has been organizing The Wood Science Talks.

In June 2023, Wimmer was elected as the secretary of the executive committee of the International Academy of Wood Science, an international academy and non-profit assembly of wood scientists, which represents worldwide all the fields of wood sciences.

In October 2023, a meta-research carried out by John Ioannidis et al. at Stanford University included Rupert Wimmer in Elsevier Data 2022, where he was ranked at the top 2% of researchers of all time in wood science (forestry – polymers), having a c-index of 3.348 He also possesses an h-index of 54 and more than 8,500 international citations at Google Scholar.

Personal life 
Wimmer lives permanently in Vienna. Married since 1987, he is the father of two daughters and a son, and a grandfather to two granddaughters.

References

External links 
 Google Scholar
 ResearchGate

Austrian scientists
Fellows of the International Academy of Wood Science
Wood scientists
1960 births
Living people
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna alumni
J. D. Hanawalt. J. Donald "Don" Hanawalt ( – June 26, 1987) was an American physicist who joined The Dow Chemical Company in 1931 and became a Corporate Vice President by 1953. He co-authored (with Harold W. "Sid" Rinn) an article titled, "The Identification of Crystalline Materials" which, along with a 1938 publication titled, Chemical Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction: Classification and Use of X-Ray Diffraction Patterns,  are considered the foundations of powder X-ray diffraction as an analytical technique. The work is still in use today as part of the powder diffraction file (PDF) published by the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD), a non-profit scientific organization dedicated to collecting, editing, publishing, and distributing powder diffraction data for the identification of materials. The membership of the ICDD consists of worldwide representation from academe, government, and industry.

The ICDD presents an award bearing Hanawalt's name every three years to recognize distinguished, recent work in the field of powder diffraction in honor of his contributions.

References 

Crystallographers

Diffraction

1900s births
1987 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Susanne Biundo-Stephan. Susanne Biundo-Stephan (born 1955) is a retired German computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of Ulm. Her research concerns automated planning and scheduling in artificial intelligence.

Education and career
Biundo earned a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1989, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Automatische Synthese rekursiver Programme als Beweisverfahren, was published in 1992 as a book by Springer.

She was a researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence from 1989 to 1998, before taking her present position as a professor at the University of Ulm in 1998. She headed the artificial intelligence institute at Ulm from 2017 until her retirement in 2021.

Recognition
Biundo is a fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (formerly the European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, ECCAI), elected in 2004.

References

External links

1955 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the University of Ulm
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence