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BMW E1. BMW E1 is the name of two electric/hybrid city car concepts by German automobile manufacturer BMW, revealed at the 1991 then 1993 International Motor Show Germany.

First generation (Z11; 1991)

The first-generation BMW E1 prototype, the Z11, was revealed in 1991, and was all-electric. Only one example of this car was built.

Overview
The Z11-gen BMW E1 concept was revealed at the 1991 International Motor Show Germany in Frankfurt, Germany. It was a fully-functional 3-door, 4-seat electric city car. The E1 initially began development in 1990 with Technik, a division of BMW started in 1985, created to develop new technologies for cars. It was designed to test if a production electric car would work, partly due to the U.S. state of California's demand that 2% of new cars sold in the state be zero emission. This is the same reason for the creation of the General Motors EV1.

Specifications
The Z11 E1 concept was powered by a 19 kWh sodium sulphate battery, which in turn powered a direct-drive motor on the rear axle, giving the car a total output of 45 bhp and 111 lb ft. of torque. The E1 had a range of  and two-hour rapid charging. The structure of the car was made from aluminum while the body was made from recycled plastic and was finished in a bright red paint. The car used custom-built alloy wheels, which were  in the front and  in the back.

Replacement
The only Z11-gen E1 concept was destroyed in a fire that occurred while it was charging, and was replaced by a new concept for 1993.

Second generation (Z15; 1993)

The second-generation BMW E1 prototype, the Z15, was revealed in 1993 at International Motor Show Germany on September 9, 1993. Two examples of the car were built; an all-electric version and a hybrid version. The Z15, like the previous Z11, was also a 3-door city car that seats four passengers.

Specifications
The electric version is powered by a 19.2 kWh sodium nickel chloride battery and has a top speed of . It is finished in a green metallic paint and features a green interior.

The hybrid version also uses the 4-cylinder internal combustion engine used in the BMW K1100 motorcycle and a 5-speed manual transmission, and has an output of 82 hp. This variant is painted red.

Both examples of the Z15-gen E1 feature a similar lightweight body to that of the Z11, which is made of aluminum and plastic.

Legacy
Although the E1 was never produced, BMW introduced the ICE-powered 1993 3 Series Compact, featuring similar styling to the Z11, two years after the Z11 E1 concept's revealing. Furthermore, BMW did eventually introduce an electric city car, the i3, in 2013, 20 years after the Z15 concept. The Z15 concept remains at the BMW Museum in Munich.

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Li Zhengming. Li Zhengming (; 2 January 1931 – 4 October 2021) was a Chinese engineer who was a professor at Nankai University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Li was born into an intellectual family in Shanghai, on 2 January 1931, during Republic of China. His grandfather Li Weige () was an industrialist and educated in the United Kingdom. His father Li Zhongdao () graduated from the University of Michigan and his mother graduated from the University of Illinois, both were professors at Soochow University and then Fudan University. His uncle Li Fuji was a physicist graduating from the University of Bonn, and another uncle Li Zhongyong () was a doctor and an alma mater of the University of Berlin. He secondary studied at the High School Affiliated Soochow University. In 1949, he arrived in the United States to begin his education at the Department of Chemistry, Erskine College. In 1951, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services issued an order prohibiting Chinese students from leaving the United States. He was helped by the then president, Dr. R. C. Grier, who wrote a letter to the senators of South Carolina. At the end of 1952, Li Zhengming was finally approved to return China. After earning the Bachelor of Chemistry degree and the E. L. Reid Chemistry Prize, he returned to China as one of the first batch of returned students by boat. In August 1953, he did his postgraduate work at Nankai University under the supervision of Yang Shixian ().

After graduating in 1956, he stayed at the university and worked successively as an instructor (1956–1962), associate professor (1962–1979), full professor (1982–1996), and deputy dean of the School of Chemistry (1994–1998). In 1997, he became director of National Engineering Research Center for Pesticides, and served until 2014.

On 4 October 2021, he died from an illness in Tianjin, aged 90.

Honours and awards
 1987 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
 1990 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 1991 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 1992 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 1993 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 1994 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class)
 1995 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 1999 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 2007 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)

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2021 deaths
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Erskine College alumni
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Zheng Yuguo. Zheng Yuguo (born 5 November 1961) is a Chinese engineer who is a professor at Zhejiang University of Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Zheng was born in Xiangshan County, Zhejiang, on 5 November 1961. After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1979, he enrolled at Zhejiang Engineering College (now Zhejiang University of Technology), where he majored in the Department of Chemical Machinery.

After graduating in 1983, he stayed at the university and worked successively as an instructor (1983–1995), associate professor (1995–2000), full professor (2000–present), deputy dean of the School of Biological and Environmental Engineering (2006–2010), and dean of Biological and Environmental Engineering (2010–2020).

In March 2018, he became a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Honours and awards
 2008 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 2010 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 2014 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 November 2019 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation

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1961 births
Living people
People from Xiangshan County, Zhejiang
Engineers from Zhejiang
Zhejiang University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Zhejiang University of Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Zhou Ji (born 1962). Zhou Ji (born 10 February 1962) is a Chinese engineer who is a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Zhou was born in Jiutai County (now Jiutai District of Changchun), Jilin, on 10 February 1962. He attended Jilin University where he received his bachelor's degree in semiconductor chemistry in 1983. After completing his master's degree at the Changchun Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, he attended Peking University where he obtained his doctor's degree in inorganic chemistry in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University between 1991 and 1993.

He was appointed associate professor of Tsinghua University, in 1993, becoming deputy director of the Department of Materials in 1997 and full professor in 1998. He was honored as a Distinguished Young Scholar by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2004. He was appointed as a "Chang Jiang Scholar" (or " Yangtze River Scholar") by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2007.

Honours and awards
 2005 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 2016 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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Living people
People from Changchun
Engineers from Jilin
Jilin University alumni
Peking University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Charles Walker (engineer). Charles Clement Walker  (25 August 1877 – 30 September 1968) was a British engineer and aerodynamicist, who became a founding director and chief engineer at de Havilland. He was "one of the great men of aviation's formative decades".

Personal life
He was educated at Highgate School from 1887 to 1892 and went on to University College, London, where he was in 1938 elected a Fellow.

He married Eileen Hood (1892 – 20 May 1970) on 2 September 1916 at St Michael's Church in Highgate, Middlesex.

Their only son David was killed flying on a training aircraft with the 2FTS of the RAF, on 2 October 1941, aged 21.

He lived at his house Foresters in Middlesex. He died aged 91 at home.

His name is commemorated in Walker Grove, a street in Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

See also
de Havilland Mosquito

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1877 births
1968 deaths
Aerodynamicists
Academics of University College London
Alumni of University College London
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De Havilland
de Havilland Comet
De Havilland Mosquito
English civil engineers
People educated at Highgate School
Royal Aeronautical Society Silver Medal winners
Mina Hsiang. Mina Hsiang is an American engineer and product executive. She was the third administrator of the United States Digital Service in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Hsiang was on the original rescue team for Healthcare.gov.

Education 
Hsiang received a Bachelors of Science and Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Career 
Hsiang's experience ranges across startups, venture capital, consulting and government. In her early career, Hsiang worked on healthcare projects in rural Malawi for the Clinton Foundation and in the prosthetics program with DEKA Research & Development Corporation. She helped start two companies in her role at General Catalyst Partners. She also served as the Vice President of Market Strategy for Optum Analytics. After leaving Optum, she joined the federal government as a member of the team that helped improve the Healthcare.gov website. Afterwards, Hsiang was a tech lead for the Precision Medicine Initiative. She was the founding executive director of the Digital Service at Health and Human Services. After leaving the federal government, she helped build Devoted Health as its Vice President of New Market Development. 

In 2021, she was named the third administrator of the United States Digital Service. Hsiang is the first woman and first Asian American to be the administrator of the United States Digital Service.

Hsiang received a waiver that allowed her to hold on to her stock portfolio while serving in her leadership role in government. Hsiang owned shares of Rebellion Defense, an artificial intelligence defense company, which she disclosed to the federal government. Hsiang sold the shares three weeks after being appointed administrator of the United States Digital Service, which was within the required deadline to do so. In 2022, the Project on Government Oversight raised questions about the propriety of her stock holdings. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense made two purchases from Rebellion Defense totaling $225,000.

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Experimental Techniques. Experimental Techniques is an official journal of the Society for Experimental Mechanics and was established in 1975. The journal is  published by Springer Nature and the editor-in-chief is Bonnie Antoun (Sandia National Laboratories).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.167.

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English-language journals
Materials science journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 1975
Bimonthly journals
Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials. The Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf  of the Society for Experimental Mechanics. Jennifer L. Jordan (Los Alamos National Laboratory) has been the editor-in-chief since 2020. The journal was established in 2015 with Eric N. Brown as the inaugural editor-in-chief.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Astrophysics Data System
Ei Compendex
Emerging Sources Citation Index
ProQuest databases
Scopus

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English-language journals
Materials science journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 2015
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NEC ProSpeed. The ProSpeed was a line of laptop computers developed by NEC in 1988. It was introduced simultaneously with their slimmer and less heavy UltraLite line of notebook computers. The i386SX-equipped CSX model, released in September 1989, was the first laptop with a color LCD. It was also one of the first laptops with to be offered with a docking station. The CSX model was featured on the front cover of PC Magazine.

Models

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Computer-related introductions in 1988
ProSpeed
Rodica Ramer. Rodica Ramer is a Romanian born Australian professor of microelectronics at the University of New South Wales, where she and her team  work on the development of radio-frequency microelectronic technologies, advancing wireless communication technology. She earned a Ph.D from the University of Bucharest in solid-state physics in 1992. Prior to working at UNSW, she was a senior research scientist at the Microwave Laboratory, National Centre for Nuclear Energy of Romania, a research associate at the Superconductivity Laboratory, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and at the Microwave Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. She is a fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy.

She has authored over 200 publications  and holds  a number of patents relating to microwave waveguide devices and antennas.

Selected publications

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Academic staff of the University of New South Wales
1933 births
Living people
Usui Bridge. Usui Bridge (Japanese: 碓氷第三橋梁, うすいだいさんきょうりょう) is the largest brick-masonry arched bridge in Japan, located over Usui river in Gunma prefecture. The bridge was built in 1892 for Usui railway line to travel between Yokokawa in Gunma prefecture and Karuizawa in Nagano prefecture. It was designed by a British engineer Charles Assheton Whately Pownall during the Meiji era, with some of the piers reaching heights of up to .

The total length is  and used about 2 million bricks for its construction. Following electrification of the Shin'etsu Main Line, a new line was constructed in 1963.

In 2001, it formed a part of walkway trail.  

The bridge is also called Megane bashi meaning spectacles bridge because of its arch shape.

Bus routes
JR BUS KANTO Usui Line
For Karuizawa Station
For Yokokawa Station
This bus route passes through Megane-bashi bus stop located near this bridge during autumn.

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Transport buildings and structures in Gunma Prefecture
Brick bridges
Jaideep Srivastava. Jaideep Srivastava is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was awarded the Distinguished Research Contributions Award of the PAKDD, for his lifetime contributions to the field of data mining. He is also Distinguished Fellow of Allina’s Center for Healthcare Innovation. Previously, he was the director of Social Computing group at QCRI. He has a Bachelor's of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in India. He has a Masters and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was one of the principal investigators of the Virtual Worlds Observatory project along with Noshir Contractor, Marshall Scott Poole and Dmitri Williams. He received the IBM faculty award in 2002 and became an IEEE Fellow in 2004. In 2011 he co-founded Ninja Metrics with USC Professor Dmitri Williams and was assisted by Kyong Jin Shim, Nishith Pathak, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad and Senthil Krishnamoorthy.
In 2021, Guide2Research ranked him as one of the top 1,000 researchers in Computer Science. He was also the Data Mining Architect at Amazon during the early days (1999-2000) of the organization.

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1959 births
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Glossary of automotive terms. This glossary of automotive terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to automobiles, including their parts, operation, and manufacture, as well as automotive engineering, auto repair, and the automotive industry in general. For more specific terminology regarding the design and classification of various automobile styles, see Glossary of automotive design; for terms related to transportation by road, see Glossary of road transport terms; for competitive auto racing, see Glossary of motorsport terms.

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See also
Glossary of automotive design
Glossary of mechanical engineering
Glossary of motorsport terms
Glossary of road transport terms
List of auto parts
Outline of automobiles

References

Automotive terms
Automotive terminology
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists
Franklin Prestage. Franklin Prestage (1830-1897) was a British-Indian railway engineer who made major contributions to the construction of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

Life 

He was born in London, but lived the major part of his life in British India. He was born in 1830 to Thomas Prestage and Augusta Wilson.  He was married to Eliza Cary and had eight children. He died in 1897.

Education 

He trained as an engineer.

Career 

He was an agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway. He also served as a member of the Legislative Council of Bengal.

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway 

In 1878, Franklin Prestage proposed the construction of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. He played a major role in its subsequent completion and realization.

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1830 births
1897 deaths
Engineers from British India
British people in colonial India
53rd Space Operations Squadron. The 53rd Space Operations Squadron (53 SOPS) is a United States Space Force unit. Assigned to the Space Operations Command's Space Delta 8, it is responsible for providing payload and transmission command and control of the Wideband Global SATCOM and Defense Satellite Communications System constellations. It is headquartered at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado.  Whereas the 4th Space Operations Squadron (4 SOPS) operates the satellite "bus" (e.g. the solar cells, batteries, propulsion, etc), the 53 SOPS is responsible for operating the mission payload - high capacity "wideband" military satellite communications.

History 

The Squadron's namesake comes from the Army's 53rd Signal Battalion, which before deactivation was assigned the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command's U.S. Army Satellite Operations Brigade. In September 2021, it was announced that the Battalion's operational mission and personnel would be transferred to the United States Space Force. Activated on 29 June 2022 at a ceremony held at Peterson Space Force Base, the Squadron became the newest unit within the United States Space Force. The unit is distinct in its mission, being the sole armed forces entity to control payload functionality for all U.S. Wideband MILSATCOM.

Emblem symbolism 
The 53d Space Operations Squadron's emblem consists of the following elements:
 Platinum represents the men and women of Space Operations Command.
 Atlas and the Globe symbolize the unwavering strength and support 53d Space Operations Squadron Guardians provide globally to warfighters, interdepartmental, and multinational partners.
 The spacecraft and orbit signify Guardians' mastery of payloads and transmission control through generations of communications platforms.
 The constellation Pleiades pays homage to the organization's past as a United States Army unit and the seven stars represent previous command structure and operational elements at each Wideband Satellite Operations Center. Ancient stories depict the Pleiades as a group of loved ones who left their way of life to ascend to the heavens, and the 53d Space Operations Squadron embodies these stories in its transfer to the United States Space Force.

Structure 
Headquarters, Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado
 Detachment A, Fort Detrick, Maryland
 Detachment B, Fort Meade, Maryland
 Detachment C, Landstuhl, Germany - Activated 19 July 2022
 Detachment D, Wahiawa, Hawaii - Changed from Camp Roberts, California to Wahiawa, Hawaii in 2011 
 Detachment E, Fort Buckner, Japan

List of commanders 
 Lt Col D. Susan Rogers, 29 June 2022

List of superintendents 
 SMSgt Raymond T. Flores, 29 June 2022

See also 
 Space Delta 8
 10th Space Operations Squadron
 U.S. Army Satellite Operations Brigade

References

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Military education and training in the United States
Tractable (company). Tractable is a technology company specializing in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assess damage to property and vehicles. The AI allows users to appraise damage digitally.

Technology 

Tractable's technology uses computer vision and deep learning to automate the appraisal of visual damage in accident and disaster recovery, for example to a vehicle. Drivers can be directed to use the application by their insurer after an accident, with the aim of settling their claim more quickly. The AI evaluates the damage from images, and therefore doesn't assess what isn't visible (such as, for example, interior damage to a vehicle or property).

History 

Alexandre Dalyac and Razvan Ranca founded Tractable in 2014, and Adrien Cohen joined as co-founder in 2015. The company employs more than 300 staff members, largely in the United Kingdom.

Tractable was named one of the 100 leading AI companies in the world in 2020 and 2021 by CB Insights. It won the Best Technology Award in the 2020 British Insurance Awards.

In June 2021, Tractable announced a venture round that valued the company at $1 billion. Tractable was the UK's 100th billion-dollar tech company, or unicorn.

In July 2023, the company received a $65 million investment from SoftBank Group, through its Vision Fund 2.

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Technology companies established in 2014
British companies established in 2014
Vehicle insurance
Applied machine learning
Computer vision software