omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Peter E. Caines. Peter Edwin Caines, FRSC (born March 8, 1945) is a control theorist and James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which he joined in 1980.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM, IFAC, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications,  the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Royal Society of Canada. He is the recipient of Bode Lecture Prize in 2009 for fundamental contributions in the areas of stochastic, adaptive, large scale and hybrid systems. He initiated the Mean Field Games (or Nash Certainty Equivalence) in engineering with Minyi Huang and Roland Malhame for the analysis and control of large population stochastic dynamic systems.  

During 1992-95, he served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, was a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Society from 2002 to 2007.  In 2013 he received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for services to the community and to Canada.

Selected publications
 P. E. Caines, [ Linear Stochastic Systems], John Wiley, 1988.
M.Y. Huang, R.P. Malhame and P.E. Caines, "Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games: Closed-Loop McKean–Vlasov Systems and the Nash Certainty Equivalence Principle," Communications in Information and Systems. Vol 6, Number 3, 2006, pp 221–252.
 Goodwin, G.; Ramadge, P.J.; Caines, P.E., "Discrete-time multivariable adaptive control," Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on, vol.25, no.3, pp. 449,456, Jun 1980.

References

External links
 Homepage
 

1945 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Academic staff of McGill University
Selwyn Wright. Selwyn Wright (/ˈˈseˌlwɪnˈˈraɪt /) (29 October 1934 – 12 February 2015) was an English physicist, who held the Brook Crompton Chair of Engineering at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. He is best known for the development of what the media termed "The Silence Machine" which was covered in some press, in New Scientist, and on some broadcast news networks in the US.

Scientific contributions
Responsible for publishing over one hundred archived scientific journal documents and awarded six technology patents, Selwyn Wright was primarily a wave theorist who provided solutions to problems related to power systems, produced in-depth research focusing on sound and vibration technology, and helped advance the development of noise cancellation systems. He most recently re-adapted his classical acoustic wave theories, framing them in a series of publications in terms of an electromagnetic theory coupled to a universal electromagnetic reference field.

References

External links
ISVR, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research University of Southampton, UK
NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA
ONERA French Aerospace Laboratory Paris, France
Aérospatiale Marseilles, France

English engineers
English physicists
British theoretical physicists
1934 births
2015 deaths
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Optica Optics Software. Optica is an optical design program used for the design and analysis of both imaging and illumination systems. It works by ray tracing the propagation of rays through an optical system. It performs polarization ray-tracing, non-sequential ray-tracing, energy calculations, and optimization of optical systems in three-dimensional space. It also performs symbolic modeling of optical systems, diffraction, interference, wave-front, and Gaussian beam propagation calculations. In addition to conducting simulations of optical designs, Optica is used by scientists to create illustrations of the simulated results in publications.  Some examples of Optica being used in simulations and illustrations include holography, x-ray optics, spectrometers, Cerenkov radiation, microwave optics, nonlinear optics, scattering, camera design, extreme ultraviolet lithography simulations, telescope optics, laser design, ultrashort pulse lasers, eye models, solar concentrators and Ring Imaging CHerenkov (RICH) particle detectors.

History 
Optica was originally developed by Donald Barnhart of Urbana, Illinois, USA, and has been in continual development since 1994. Wolfram Research first sold the original version as a Mathematica application.  From 2005 to 2009, Optica Software was sold by iCyt Mission Technology Inc, Champaign, Illinois (renamed Sony Biotechnology Inc in 2010). At iCyt, Optica2 was renamed as Rayica, and Wavica and LensLab were also developed. Later Rayica-Wavica was combined and named back to Optica3.  Since 2009, Optica Software has been a subsidiary of Barnhart Optical Research LLC.

References

External links 
 Optica Software Website
 Wolfram Research Optics Page
 Wolfram Research Optica3

Optical software
Physics software
Epsilon Composite. Epsilon Composite is a French company created in 1987 by Stephane LULL, its current CEO. The company was founded in January 1987. It's production site is located in Gaillan, France. Stéphane Lull is the CEO.

Overview 
Epsilon Composite designs and produces a wide range of Carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) products for various applications:
 Manufacturing and printing machines (flexography and textile industries)
 Energy (oil & gas offshore exploitation, wind turbines)
 Civil Engineering
 Camera support equipment (tripods)
 Automotive and leisure applications
 Aerospace (Airbus and Flying Whales Tier-1 supplier)

The main production process used by the company are pultrusion and its pull-winding variant.

Awards and recognition 
The company is regularly listed among the “key players in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics Market” in independent market reports.

In 2021, one of the company's projects was selected as JEC Innovation Awards finalist in the Aerospace category. 

Epsilon Composite won the 2023 Global Industrie Award for the development of an innovative composite overmolding process.

References

External links 

Composite materials
Aerospace
Privately held companies of France
French companies established in 1987
John Le Mesurier (British Army officer). Lieutenant General John Le Mesurier (1834-1903) was a senior British Army officer.

Biography

Descended from the Hereditary Governors of Alderney and the Rt. Hon. Paul Le Mesurier MP, Lord Mayor of London between 1793 and 1794, John Le Mesurier was the son of Reverend Henry Le Mesurier, Usher at Bedford School. He was born on 1 November 1834, and educated at Bedford School between 1843 and 1850.

He received his first commission in the Royal Engineers on 9 December 1853, and was sent to India in November 1855, serving in Sind as an Assistant Engineer and as an Executive Engineer. He served during the Anglo-Persian War, between 1856 and 1857, and fought in the Battle of Bushire and in the Battle of Khushab. He was promoted to the rank of captain in 1861, to the rank of major in 1872, to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1874, and to the rank of colonel on 1 April 1879. He was appointed as Joint Secretary to the Public Works Department of the Government of Bombay in 1884, and Superintending Engineer in Sind in 1886. He retired from the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant general on 24 March 1887.

He designed the club house of the Poona Club.

He died in Bedford on 24 November 1903, aged 69.

Lieutenant General John Le Mesurier was the grandfather of the actor John Le Mesurier, who said of him: "I am quite glad never to have come across him. I don't think I'd have survived the encounter."

References

1834 births
1903 deaths
People educated at Bedford School
British Army lieutenant generals
British military personnel in colonial India
British military personnel of the Anglo-Persian War
UPower. UPower (previously DeviceKit-power) is a piece of middleware (an abstraction layer) for power management on Linux systems. It enumerates power sources, maintains statistics and history data on them and notifies about status changes. It consists of a daemon (upowerd), an application programming interface and a set of command line tools. The daemon provides its functionality to applications over the system bus (an instance of D-Bus, service org.freedesktop.UPower). PolicyKit restricts access to the UPower functionality for initiating hibernate mode or shutting down the operating system (freedesktop.upower.policy).
The command-line client program upower can be used to query and monitor information about the power supply devices in the system. Graphical user interfaces to the functionality of UPower include the GNOME Power Manager and the Xfce Power Manager.

UPower is a product of the cross-desktop freedesktop.org project. As free software it is published with its source code under the terms of version 2 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

It was conceived as a replacement for the corresponding features of the deprecated HAL. In 2008, David Zeuthen started a comprehensive rewrite of HAL. This resulted in a set of separate services under the new name "DeviceKit". In 2010 the included DeviceKit-power was renamed. UPower was first introduced and established as a standard in GNOME. In January 2011 the desktop environment Xfce followed (version 4.8).

Sources

External links 

 
 Red Hat, Inc.: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 – Power Management Guide, sections 2.6.: UPower, 2.7.: GNOME Power Manager

Servers (computing)
Free system software
Freedesktop.org
Contraves Cora. The Cora was a digital fire-control system designed by Hungarian-Swiss Peter Tóth and produced by the Swiss company Contraves.

Development 
Peter Tóth started the design of Cora-1 in 1957. The system was intended for anti-aircraft fire direction with the Swiss Army. However, Cora-1 turned out to be too slow and too bulky for this application. It was programmed for other applications by programmers including Heinz Lienhard. One copy of the system was used at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for cartography, and was put on display during Expo 64. The unit was rediscovered in storage in 2011, and is now on display at the Musée Bolo, in the Computer Science department of the EPFL. Cora-1-was one of the first fully transistorized digital computers built in Switzerland according to the Von Neumann architecture.

An improved version of this computer was developed subsequently by a team led by Swiss engineer Peter Blum. Cora-2 was successfully used for anti-aircraft fire direction being compact enough to fit into the corresponding mobile control unit.  

The Musée Bolo met with Peter Tóth and released several videos around his work on the Cora.

References

External links 

 Discovery of Two Historical Computers in Switzerland: Zuse Machine M9 and Contraves Cora and Discovery of Unknown Documents on the Early History of Computing at the ETH Archives, Making the History of Computing Relevant , Springer 2013
 Schweizer Transistorrechner für militärische und zivile Zwecke,  IT Magazine 2012/01

Military computers
Artillery components
Artillery operation
Applications of control engineering
Ballistics
Military electronics
Computer-related introductions in 1978
Mehmet Gümüşburun. Mehmet Gümüşburun (born 1942) is a Turkish chemical engineer and bureaucrat.

Biography
Mehmet Gümüşburun was born in Gaziantep in 1942. He is a graduate of Istanbul Technical University and holds a degree in chemical engineering.

He started his career in 1967 and began to work in Gaziantep Cement Factory. He worked in different cement plants in various capacities. He was the director of Van Cement Factory from 1979 to 1982 and of Pınarhisar Cement Factory from 1982 to 1986. In 1986 he was appointed deputy director general of ÇİTOSAN, a now-defunct state-owned enterprise of cement industry in Turkey. He became director general of ÇİTOSAN in November 1987 and was in office until June 1992. He also served as the president of the Turkish Cement Producers Association (TÇMB) from 1987 and 1992.

After leaving office he worked at Yibitaş Lafarge as general coordinator from 1995 to 2000. During the same period he was also deputy president of the TÇMB. Then he worked at different companies in Turkey.

References

20th-century Turkish engineers
21st-century Turkish engineers
1942 births
Istanbul Technical University alumni
Living people
Academics from Gaziantep
Turkish chemical engineers
South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204. The South Dakota Dept. of Transportation Bridge No. 48-244-204 is a bridge over the Little White River just west of White River, South Dakota. At  in length, it is the longest concrete slab bridge in the state. Built in 1934 to carry South Dakota Highway 44 across the river, it now carries a local road north of that road's current alignment.

The bridge consists of 18 concrete slabs, each  in length, resting on a series of concrete piers with wing-walled concrete abutments at both ends. It is closed to the public.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

See also
List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
National Register of Historic Places listings in Mellette County, South Dakota

References

Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in South Dakota
Bridges completed in 1936
National Register of Historic Places in Mellette County, South Dakota
1936 establishments in South Dakota
Concrete bridges in the United States
Volvo B7F. Volvo B7F and Volvo B7FA were a series of front-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Volvo. While the B7FA was a more conventional front-engined chassis, the B7F had the engine mounted on top of the front axle, giving the buses very little front overhang.

The models are not known to have been available in Europe, but they could at least be found in Latin America, New Zealand and South Africa.

Volvo B270F
There may not be a full continuity back to the old B7F models, but at the plant in Curitiba, Brazil, Volvo are currently manufacturing the front-engined Volvo B270F for the Latin American market. A rather simple construction with leaf springs and a 7.2-litre engine from MWM International Motores.

References

External links

Cab over vehicles
B7F
Bus chassis
Gribovsky G-21. The Gribovsky G-21 () was a single engine cabin monoplane designed and built in the USSR in the  mid-1930s. Intended for touring and civil utility rôles, only one was completed.

Design and development
The G-21 had much in common with that of the earlier G-15, a two-seat touring aircraft, with a two spar wing of similar construction and geometry and a monocoque fuselage. The G-15's side-by-side cockpit was replaced with an enclosed cabin able to seat two or three. Suggested rôles included that of air ambulance.

Like the G-15 it had a completely plywood covered wing centre section which was an integral part of the fuselage. The outer wing panels were ply covered from the leading edge back to the rear spar, with the rest fabric covered. In plan the wings were strongly tapered, mostly on the trailing edges, and ended in long, elliptical tips. Its automatic leading edge slats were interconnected through the fuselage with a steel tube and its ailerons were slotted.

The G-21 was powered by a five-cylinder  M-11Ye radial engine, installed with its cylinders projecting out of the smooth cowling for cooling and driving a two blade propeller. Behind the engine the fuselage was smoothly ply covered. The front of the cabin was over the leading edge, with panelled glazing that extended aft to about three-quarters chord. The G-21's cabin roof line extended rearwards unbroken, tapering only slightly to the tail, where a forward set, mid-fuselage mounted tailplane was braced on each side by a single strut to the fin-fuselage junction.  The fin and unbalanced rudder had a curved profile; the rudder was broad and extended down to the keel.

The G-21 had a tail skid undercarriage; like the G-15, its legs were attached to the end of the wing centre section with wheels mostly enclosed in large round profile spats.  The tail skid was also faired.

It made its first flight in 1936. Equipped with extra fuel tanks, it made several notable long distance flights.

Specifications

References

1930s Soviet sport aircraft
1930s Soviet civil utility aircraft
G-21
Aircraft first flown in 1936
Flow process. The region of space enclosed by open system boundaries is usually called a control volume. It may or may not correspond to physical walls.  It is convenient to define the shape of the control volume so that all flow of matter, in or out, occurs perpendicular to its surface. One may consider a process in which the matter flowing into and out of the system is chemically homogeneous. Then the inflowing matter performs work as if it were driving a piston of fluid into the system. Also, the system performs work as if it were driving out a piston of fluid. Through the system walls that do not pass matter, heat () and work () transfers may be defined, including shaft work.

Classical thermodynamics considers processes for a system that is initially and finally in its own internal state of thermodynamic equilibrium, with no flow. This is feasible also under some restrictions, if the system is a mass of fluid flowing at a uniform rate. Then for many purposes a process, called a flow process, may be considered in accord with classical thermodynamics as if the classical rule of no flow were effective. For the present introductory account, it is supposed that the kinetic energy of flow, and the potential energy of elevation in the gravity field, do not change, and that the walls, other than the matter inlet and outlet, are rigid and motionless.

Under these conditions, the first law of thermodynamics for a flow process states: the increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added to the system by matter flowing in and by heating, minus the amount lost by matter flowing out and in the form of work done by the system. Under these conditions, the first law for a flow process is written:

where  and  respectively denote the average internal energy entering and leaving the system with the flowing matter.

There are then two types of work performed: 'flow work' described above, which is performed on the fluid in the control volume (this is also often called ' work'), and 'shaft work', which may be performed by the fluid in the control volume on some mechanical device with a shaft. These two types of work are expressed in the equation:

Substitution into the equation above for the control volume cv yields:

The definition of enthalpy, , permits us to use this thermodynamic potential to account jointly for internal energy  and  work in fluids for a flow process:

During steady-state operation of a device (see turbine, pump, and engine), any system property within the control volume is independent of time. Therefore, the internal energy of the system enclosed by the  control volume remains constant, which implies that  in the expression above may be set equal to zero. This yields a useful expression for the power generation or requirement for these devices with chemical homogeneity in the absence of chemical reactions:

This expression is described by the diagram above.

See also
 Process flow diagram
 Steady flow energy equation / Steady state single flow

References

Continuum mechanics
Thermodynamics
SmartDeviceLink. SmartDeviceLink consists of two distinct software elements: a core automotive piece which wraps in-vehicle services and integrates to the in-vehicle HMI, and a mobile proxy, which executes APIs to access and use services on the automotive head unit.

It is a project intended to standardize and wrap the many in-vehicle interfaces which may exist in the automotive context. The end goal is to provide an expandable software framework to both mobile application developers and automotive head unit creators for the creation of brought-in applications that appear integrated onto a head unit.

Features

In-vehicle core 
The in-vehicle core has some of the following features:
 Manages the physical discovery and logical transport connection to a mobile device application
 Can support white-labeled, multi-function but single application use cases, as well as single app, single function use cases
 Provides a consistent interface for applications to understand the capabilities of an in-vehicle head unit
 Manages and maintains the state of connected mobile applications and notifies applications of appropriate state changes
 Wraps in-vehicle services such as buttons, displays, voice, menu systems, audio controls and other common vehicle inputs and outputs to a common messaging format and API
 Is expandable to allow for specific OEM or head unit manufacturer APIs or messaging
 Creates a template- and meta-based UI that creates consistent developer experiences regardless of the actual HMI representation

Mobile proxy components 
The mobile proxy components support some of the following:
 Provides a common, abstracted interface to the in-car entertainment system to integrate to SmartDeviceLink-enabled mobile applications
 Is available for Android and iPhone applications
 Supports TCP, Bluetooth and Apple-specific protocol implementations for transport, and can be expanded to include other transports
 Simplifies transport discovery, connection, and protocol use
 Is expandable to allow for specific-OEM or head unit manufacturer APIs or messaging

Operation 
 Smart device and car connect via standard protocols such as  Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
 Application makes requests to the vehicle and the vehicle responds (Remote Procedure Calls). Application appears to be running inside the vehicle, but all business logic is contained on mobile device.
 User interacts with the vehicle, and it notifies application of any system or user events
 Application reacts by sending requests to modify application behavior or appearance in the vehicle.

References 

Tim Stevens: Ford races to create standard for connected cars, CNET, 26 November 2013

External links 
 GENIVI Alliance, now called COVESA (Connected Vehicle Systems Alliance): SmartDeviceLink
 

Application programming interfaces
Automotive software
IEC 62682. IEC 62682 is a technical standard titled Management of alarms systems for the process industries.

Scope
The standard specifies principles and processes for the management of alarm systems based on distribute control systems and computer-based Human-Machine Interface (HMI) technology for the process industries. It covers alarms from all systems presented to the operator, which can include basic process control systems, annunciator panels, safety instrumented systems, fire and gas systems, and emergency response systems. The practices are applicable to continuous, batch, and discrete processes. The process industry sector includes many types of manufacturing processes, such as refineries, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, and power.

Standard
The standard addresses all lifecycle phases (development, design, installation, and operation) for alarm management in the process industries. The standard defines the terminology and work processes recommended to effectively maintain an alarm system throughout the lifecycle. The standard was written as an extension of the existing ISA 18.2-2009 standard which utilized numerous industry alarm management guidance documents in its development such as EEMUA 191. Ineffective alarm systems have often been cited as contributing factors in the investigation reports following major process incidents. The standard is intended to provide a methodology that will result in the improved safety of the process industries.

See also
 Butterfleye

External links
IEC 62682
Alarm Network

Safety
Alarms
Industrial processes
Electrical standards