omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Cynthia Sung. Cynthia Rueyi Sung is an American roboticist. Her research field is foldable robots. She serves as Gabel Family Term Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Biography

Early life and education 
Sung learned origami from her mother as a child, and became interested in robotics as a high school student after following the explorations of the Mars rovers Opportunity and Spirit.

Sung received a Bachelor of Science with a major in mechanical engineering from Rice University in 2011 and a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Computational design of foldable robots via composition", and her doctoral advisor was Daniela Rus.

Career 
As a student at MIT, Sung led a team developing the Robogami system, making it easy for beginners to design and 3D print robots by putting them together from flat parts folded at hinged connections, and she continues to develop the system after moving to the university of Pennsylvania, incorporating improved motion and control capabilities into the system.

She has developed a technique of "additive self-folding", in which robots are initially created as long flat strips of a self-folding material, which arranges itself into the desired shape of a robot when placed into hot water. For her work in this area, Popular Mechanics gave her one of their 2017 Breakthrough Awards.

In 2017, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers named Sung to represent the society in the New Faces of Engineering program. Sung was the 2020 winner of the Johnson & Johnson Women in STEM2D Scholars Award in Manufacturing, for her work in foldable robotics and their applications in healthcare and medicine. She and her coauthors won the IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Mechanisms and Design for their work on aerial vehicles with foldable wings that can reshape themselves for both fixed-wing and quadrotor flight.

References

External links
Sung Robotics Lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American roboticists
Women roboticists
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Rice University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
21st-century American women
HMS Thruster (F131). HMS Thruster (F131) was a Mark I LST built by Harland and Wolff. Launched in September 1942 and commissioned the following March, she saw service as part of the Allied invasion of Italy.

Design and development

Thruster was the third of the LST Mk.1 class ships which could carry 13 Churchill tanks, 27 other vehicles and 193 men. It had a high speed even when laden for the assault (about 18 knots) but did not have a shallow draught, which meant that a  long bow ramp had to be added and this took up a lot of room inside the ship.

Bruiser had only two sister ships, as plans to build more in the United States led instead to a simpler though slower design capable of similar capacity but with a much shallower draught.

Royal Navy service
Thruster took part in the Salerno landing in 1943. In 1944, she was refitted as a  fighter direction ship, for use during the Normandy landings in controlling fighter aircraft by ground-controlled interception. Later in 1944 she took British troops back into Athens in Greece. Thruster was transferred to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1947.

Royal Netherlands service
She was acquired by the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1947 and renamed HNLMS Pelikaan with the hull number A 830.

See also

References

Amphibious warfare vessels of the Royal Navy
World War II naval ships of the United Kingdom
Ships built in Belfast
1942 ships
Ships built by Harland and Wolff
Teruo Fujii. is a Japanese professor of Engineering and Applied Microfluidic Systems in University of Tokyo, and since 2007 as a professor at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the university (Director General of the institute from 2015 to 2018 ) has been conducting research on Microfluidics. 
He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo (1993). Fujii was also co-director of LIMMS-CNRS/IIS, a joint research lab between CNRS, France, and IIS, from 2007 to 2014. He served as the President of The Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society(CBMS).

Since April 2021, Fujii has been 31st president of the University of Tokyo, after succeeding Makoto Gonokami who retired in 2021, and about six months after taking office, he will formulate an action policy for running the University of Tokyo during his term in the 2020s (tentative name "To the Sea of Dialogue and Creation").

On 30 September 2021, Fujii announced "UTokyo Compass", as a statement of the guiding principles of the University of Tokyo, sub-titled "Into a Sea of Diversity: Creating the Future through Dialogue". He emphasizes that it is not only a mission statement like those announced by successive presidents each time they take office. He ideally presents UTokyo Compass as a basic framework for that scholars, researchers and students of the UTokyo sets the course with a view to solving global issues by fundamentally elaborating questions and dialogues from the standpoint of academics.
 
When Fujii took office as President of the UTokyo, he set "Diversity & Inclusion" as one of the pillars to formulate new action guidelines, and made an epoch-making personnel affairs in which the composition of directors of the new executive department (including the president) is a majority of women.

Fujii has served as an executive member of the Cabinet Office's Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) since 2021.

Notes 

a.  Fujii says that his motivation for Microfluidic Devices research was that when he was a senior research scientist at RIKEN in the late 1990s, his boss encouraged him to find a new research field.

References 

Living people
1964 births
Members of the International Alliance of Research Universities
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Presidents of the University of Tokyo
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Volato Aeronaves. Volato Aeronaves also known as Volato Aeronaves e Compósitos Ltda is a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer.

History
The founders of the company, Zizo Sola and Marcos Vilela, worked with Richard Allen Trickel Jr. in the USA in the 1990s. Richard Allen Trickel Jr. was the designer of the KIS 2, KIS 4, KIS Cruiser, Super Pulsar and Pulsar Super Cruiser aircraft, of which more than 300 were built. The idea of founding an experimental aircraft factory in Brazil arose from this collaboration. Together they first developed the Volato 400, a modern four-seater made of composite materials. They are currently working on a further development of the machine, the Volato 200, a two-seater.

The company also produces composite parts for Embraer.

Aircraft

See also
Tri-R Technologies
Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista
Aero Bravo

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Brazil
Ultralight aircraft
Companies based in São Paulo (state)
Brazilian brands
Humanitarian Pilots Initiative. Humanitarian Pilots Initiative (HPI) is an NGO with charitable aims, with registered headquarters in Rehetobel, Switzerland. Its stated aim is to provide a focus for 'committed pilots and supporters who use their abilities for humanitarian purposes – regardless of politics, religion, ethnicity or nationality'.

Assets
Since 2017, in the central Mediterranean, HPI in conjunction with Sea-Watch have operated a SAR-coordinating reconnaissance aircraft, Moonbird, a single-engined Cirrus SR22 (registration HB-KMM), and since June 2020, also the Seabird, a twin-engined high-performance Beechcraft Baron 58 (registration HB-GMM).

Activities
In July 2018, Malta blocked Moonbird operations by HPI and Sea-Watch, following an incident between Italy, Malta and the charity ship Lifeline. The Times of Malta reported that HPI had been "involved in rescue of 20,000 people". The blockade lasted three months.

In June 2020, during 14 missions, 21 boats were  spotted,  and more than 940 migrants in distress.

In July 2020, pictures from the Moonbird showed ships apparently ignoring a vessel in distress over a period of 40 hours.

On another sortie in July 2020, observers on the Moonbird gathered evidence suggesting the involvement of Armed Forces of Malta in refoulement by the Libyan coastguard.

In September 2020, the Italian Civil Aviation authority grounded Moonbird; operations restarted in November 2020.

In March 2021, by their own estimates, HPI flew 9 missions, during which a total of some 476 people were observed in distress on 7 boats.

In June 2021, HPI's two aircraft were operating from Lampedusa, on the island of Sicily. Both aircraft were still operational in December 2021.

References

External links
 HPI official website

Sea rescue organizations
European migrant crisis
Immigrant rights activism
Humanitarian aid organizations in Europe
Refugee aid organizations in Europe
Calcium polonide. Calcium polonide is an intermetallic compound with the chemical formula . It is made up of calcium and polonium. Rather than being found in nature, the compound is entirely synthetic, and difficult to study, due to polonium's high vapor pressure, radioactivity, and easy oxidation in air.

Structure
At atmospheric pressure, it crystalizes in the cubic rock salt crystal structure. At a high pressure of around 16.7 GPa, the structure is predicted to transform to the caesium chloride-type crystal structure.

Electronic properties
Based on theoretical calculations, calcium polonide is predicted to be a semiconductor.

See also
 Magnesium polonide
 Potassium polonide

References

Polonides
Calcium compounds
Rock salt crystal structure
Conilee Kirkpatrick. Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948) is an American electronics engineer.

Education and career
Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969 and earned a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, with the dissertation Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon. She worked for General Electric on storage tube technology in the 1970s, and became director of advanced  technology implementation for Rockwell International's Microelectronics R&D  Center. As a senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation, she developed an artificial neural network on an integrated circuit, to be used as an AI accelerator. She later became a vice president of HRL Laboratories, and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council.

Along with her professional work in engineering, Kirkpatrick has been active in mentoring Southern California middle-school girls in engineering.

Recognition
Kirkpatrick was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, "for leadership in development and manufacturing of III-V electronic materials and devices and their application to military and commercial systems".

References

1948 births
Living people
American electronics engineers
American women engineers
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
List of U.S. Air Route Traffic Control Centers. The United States has 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC). They are operated by and are part of the Federal Aviation Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. An ARTCC controls aircraft flying in a specified region of airspace, known as a flight information region (FIR), typically during the en route portion of flight. The purpose of control is to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic and prevent collisions. In countries other than the U.S., such a facility is generally known as an area control center.

Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Center

Anchorage Air Route Traffic Control Center

Atlanta Air Route Traffic Control Center

Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center

Chicago Air Route Traffic Control Center

Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center

Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center

Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center

Honolulu Air Route Traffic Control Center

Houston Air Route Traffic Control Center

Indianapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center

Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center

Kansas City Air Route Traffic Control Center

Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center

Memphis Air Route Traffic Control Center

Miami Air Route Traffic Control Center

Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center

New York Air Route Traffic Control Center

Oakland Air Route Traffic Control Center

Salt Lake City Air Route Traffic Control Center

Seattle Air Route Traffic Control Center

Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center

See also
List of area control centers

References

External links
Air Route Traffic Control AVweb

Air traffic control centers
Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica. Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica, Ltda. is a Brazilian manufacturer of light aircraft headquartered in Sumaré, São Paulo.

History

The beginning 

Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica was founded in São Paulo city, in 1983 by Gonçalves brothers.

The history of Flyer began with the launch of the Flyer II, the first ultralight aircraft developed by the company. With a design similar to the renowned Quicksilver

The Flyer GT 

In 1986, Flyer designed and manufactured the Flyer GT, a basic ultralight that became the most assembled in Brazil, with over 750 units produced. Flyer GT was discontinued. In the same year of its launch, Flyer also developed and produced the amphibious aircraft Hidroflyer, which remained in production until 2002.

In 1990, Flyer created Ultramotores, a specialized service center for aircraft equipped with ROTAX engines.

In 1991, Flyer inaugurated its factory in the city of Sumaré, state of São Paulo.

The Pelican 500BR   

In 1998, Flyer established a partnership with the Canadian company Ultravia, resulting in the joint production of the Pelican 500BR in Brazil. By 2006, Flyer had produced 125 units of this model.

Flyer expanded its operations in 2004, starting the assembly of kits and aircraft from the renowned American company Van's Aircraft. The first assembled model was the RV-4.

In February 2005, Flyer acquired a 750 m² hangar at Americana Airport in São Paulo for flight tests.

In 2006, the Pelican 500BR reached the number 125 assembled aircraft.

In 2008, Flyer established a partnership with the American company The New Kolb Aircraft CO, resulting in obtaining the LSA (Light Sport Aircraft) certification for the Kolb Flyer aircraft.

In August 2008, Ultramotores, Flyer's partner company, opened a new hangar at Americana Airport.

International market 

In 2016, Flyer developed the Flyer F600 NG aircraft.

In 2020, Flyer initiated a commercial assistance program and began assembling Quick Builds for Van's Aircraft.

Products 
Ultralight Aircraft
Super Coyote S6-S (Under license of Rans Aircraft)
Pelican 500BR (Under license of Ultravia)
Kolbflyer SS (Under license of Kolb Aircraft)
F600NG

Light Sport Aircraft
RV-7 (Under license of Van's Aircraft)
RV-9 (Under license of Van's Aircraft)
RV-10 (Under license of Van's Aircraft)
RV-12 (Under license of Van's Aircraft)
RV-14 (Under license of Van's Aircraft)

See also
New Kolb Aircraft
Van's Aircraft
Tecnam
Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista

Literature
Tacke, W. Hrsg.: Flügel Welt Index, 2017–18, 2017, Flying Pages, EAN 4194047409950

References

External links
 Flyer website

Aerospace companies of Brazil
Aircraft manufacturers of Brazil
Companies based in São Paulo (state)
Manufacturing companies established in 1983
1983 establishments in Brazil
Brazilian brands
Jonathan Cooper (bioengineering). Jonathan Cooper  (born 22 June 1961) is Professor of Engineering in the College of Science & Engineering at the University of Glasgow. Professor Cooper has held the Wolfson Chair in Bioengineering at the school since 2009.

Research and career 

After graduating from a PhD at the University of Oxford, Cooper was employed as a lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 1991. He was awarded the title of Professor in 1998, becoming the youngest person to have been awarded the position at the university at the time. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2008 he was made the Wolfson Professor of Bioengineering, a position which he currently holds.

Cooper lectures undergraduate and masters programs on electronics and biomedical engineering at the University of Glasgow. In 2012 he established University of Glasgow’s degree programme in Biomedical Engineering, which was the first of its kind in Scotland. He has supervised over 40 PhD students since 1996, and was the leader of the EPSRC-funded Doctoral Training Centre in Bioengineering from 2006 to 2017.

As of June 2021 Cooper’s research has been published over 265 times in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, PNAS, Lab on a Chip and Chemical Communications. He has developed techniques in a range of disciplines including Lab-on-a-Chip diagnostics, cell measurements and proteomics. His work has been recognised by many invited/plenary lectures at international conferences, including Microfluidics and Nano-fluidics, the European Congress of Lab-on-a-Chip, micro-Flu, European Congress of Lab-on-a-Chip and Asia Pacific Congress on Lab-on-a-Chip.

Field research 

Cooper’s research in microfluidics includes the development of low-cost “origami” lateral flow diagnostics, which use folded paper to control the mixing of diagnostic reagents. This technique has been trialled for field use in several low-resource locations including Vietnam, for the early detection of sepsis, and in Uganda for the detection of tropical diseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis.

Awards and honours 

 Elected Fellow of the Scotland’s National Academy of Science & Arts, Royal Society of Edinburgh (2001)
 Elected Fellow of the UK’s National Physics Academy, Institute of Physics (2003)
 Elected Fellow of the UK’s National Electronics Academy, Institute of Electrical Engineering (2003)
 Elected Fellow of the UK’s National Engineering Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering (2004)
 Royal Society Merit Award (2010)

Selected publications

References 

1961 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Southampton
Aerotec S/A Indústria Aeronáutica. Aerotec S/A Indústria Aeronáutica was a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer founded in 1962 with the support of the Department of Science and Aerospace Technology (Portuguese: Departamento de Ciência e Tecnologia Aeroespacial; DCTA) in São José dos Campos.

History
Beginning in the late 1960s, the company produced a two-seat trainer aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force, the Aerotec A.122 Uirapuru. Thirty units were produced for the civilian market. The Uirapuru was also exported to Bolivia and Paraguay.

Thereafter, Aerotec produced mainly components for Embraer until 1980. At that time, the Brazilian Air Force showed interest in a performance-enhanced version of the Uirapuru. A prototype with an improved cockpit canopy and enlarged tail unit was built as the A.132 Uirapuru II. Since the Brazilian Air Force did not order this aircraft, only a few examples were produced for Bolivia.

In 1987, the company was acquired by Embraer.

Aircraft

See also
 Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista
 Indústria Aeronáutica Neiva

References

Notes

Bibliography

 
 

Embraer
Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Brazil
Companies based in São Paulo (state)
Brazilian brands
Dulce Pássaro. Dulce Pássaro (born 1953) is a Portuguese engineer and politician. She was Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning in Portugal between October 2009 and June 2011.

Education
Dulce dos Prazeres Fidalgo Álvaro Pássaro was born in the municipality of Oliveira do Hospital in Coimbra district on 23 November 1953. She graduated in chemical engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico, and then studied sanitary engineering at NOVA University Lisbon.

Career
Pássaro began her career as an assistant professor at a Polytechnic college. In 1977 she was admitted as a senior officer of the Portuguese civil service, being appointed as head of the waste division of the General Directorate for Environmental Quality, and subsequently as the director of the waste and recycling service. Later she was the director of the planning and international affairs department of the Waste Institute, before being appointed as the president of the same Institute. She worked on legislation to combat maritime pollution, and participated in the drafting of the first national water quality law, the national waste plan, and strategic plans for industrial and hospital waste management. She also prepared the waste legislation for Macau, at the time a Portuguese territory. Pássaro was also a member of several Commission of the European Union committees. 

From March 2003 to October 2009, Pássaro was a member of the board of directors of the Instituto Regulador de Aguas e Residuos (Regulatory Institute of Water and Waste).  A supporter of the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS), she was appointed Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning of the XVIII Constitutional Government in October 2009. This was considered a surprise by the press. She held the position until June 2011 when the PS needed to form a coalition after the elections and her position was given to a coalition partner. In October 2017 she headed the Socialist Party list for the municipal assembly of Oliveira do Hospital, with her party winning 15 of the 21 seats, resulting in her becoming president of the council.

References

1953 births
Living people
People from Oliveira do Hospital
Socialist Party (Portugal) politicians
Women government ministers of Portugal
Instituto Superior Técnico alumni
Alina Deutsch. Alina Deutsch is a Romanian-American electronics engineer who worked for many years at Thomas J. Watson Research Center on topics including interconnects for Very Large Scale Integration.

Education and career
Deutsch is originally from Bucharest. She graduated from Columbia University with an electrical engineering degree in 1971, and joined IBM in the same year. She earned a master's degree from Syracuse University in 1976, and retired in 2009.

She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1999, "for contributions to the design of practical lossy transmission line structures for digital and communication applications".

Other activities
Deutsch is the translator of Sanda Marin's Traditional Romanian Cooking, a widely-used Romanian cookbook by . Her translation was published in 1996 by Black Sea Publications.

In her retirement she became an amateur impressionist painter, and moved from Westchester County, New York to Houston, Texas.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electronics engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Romanian electrical engineers
Romanian women engineers
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Syracuse University alumni
Fellows of the IEEE
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Engineers from Bucharest
BridgeView (San Francisco). BridgeView is a  residential skyscraper in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California.  The tower has 245 residential units on 26 floors.

See also

List of tallest buildings in San Francisco

References

Residential condominiums in San Francisco
Residential buildings in San Francisco
Residential skyscrapers in San Francisco
Skyscrapers in San Francisco
South of Market, San Francisco