omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Steven D. Eppinger. Steven D. Eppinger (born 1961) is an American engineer, and Professor of Management, Professor of Management Science and Innovation, and Professor of Engineering Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for his work on product design and product development.

Biography 
Eppinger studied mechanical engineering at MIT, where he received his Bachelor of Science, his Master of Science in 1988, and his Doctor of Science in 1993.

After obtaining his master's degree in 1988 he became Assistant Professor at MIT, where he was later appointed Professor in the field of Management, in Management Science and Innovation, and in Engineering Systems. At MIT, Eppinger also directed its Center for Innovation in Product Development, co-directed LGO/SDM programs, and from 2004 to 2007 was deputy dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management.

After graduation in 1993 he was awarded the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award from MIT, and the Award for Innovation and Excellence in Management Education from the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1995 and in 2001 he obtained the ASME Best Paper Award in Design Theory and Methodology.

Selected publications 
Eppinger authored and co-authored many publications in the field of product design and development and is a highly cited author in the field. A selection of his books. 
 Pimmler, Thomas Udo, and Steven D. Eppinger. Integration analysis of product decompositions. Cambridge, MA: Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994,
 Ulrich, Karl T., and Steven D. Eppinger. Product design and development. Vol. 384. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995, 2000, 2004, 2008,

Articles, a selection:
 Eppinger, S. D., Whitney, D. E., Smith, R. P., & Gebala, D. A. (1994). "A model-based method for organizing tasks in product development." Research in Engineering Design, 6(1), 1-13.
 Krishnan, Viswanathan, Steven D. Eppinger, and Daniel E. Whitney. "A model-based framework to overlap product development activities." Management science 43.4 (1997): 437-451.
 Smith, Robert P., and Steven D. Eppinger. "Identifying controlling features of engineering design iteration." Management Science 43.3 (1997): 276-293.

References

External links 
 Steven D. Eppinger at MIT

1961 births
Living people
American mechanical engineers
American business theorists
American operations researchers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Gualterus Schneider. Captain Gualterus Schneider (23 November 1772 – 10 September 1841) was a Dutch colonial administrator who the third Surveyor General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1811, succeeding George Atkinson, and held the office until 1833. He was succeeded by F. B. Norris.

Gualterus Schneider was born on 23 November 1772, in Jaffna, Ceylon, the son of Lieutenant Johann Hendrich Schneider (1753–?) and Christina Elizabeth (née Schoorman, 1749–1779). Schneider was 23 and employed in the engineering service of the Dutch East India Company as a landmeter (land surveyor), when the maritime provinces of Ceylon were ceded to the British. He accepted service under the British Government as civil engineer and was placed in charge of the Royal Engineers and the Ceylon Pioneer Lascars, a labour corps officered by Europeans, which was engaged in the construction of roads and bridges. He was appointed as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Ceylon Rifles in 1806 and promoted to captain in 1808.

When the Survey Department was formed in August 1800, Schneider was appointed principal surveyor of Colombo. He acted as Surveyor-General for a brief period when Atkinson left the colony on leave in preparation for his retirement. Schneider continued in an acting capacity following Atkinson's retirement for seven years before his appointment was made permanent 1818. In 1832, following extensive reforms to the Engineer and Surveyor's Department, he was pensioned off on 18 March 1833.

He was an ardent Freemason and held the high rank of 32°, and Grand Inspector. 

Schneider married twice, first to Sophia Statts (1780-1830) on 5 February 1797, and five months after her death, on 19 May 1831, to Elizabeth Katherina Stewart Titterton (1813-1839), daughter of James Titterton, apothecary of the colonial armed forces. He had two daughters, Johana Gertruida (1797-1822) and Maria Henrietta (1805-1834) by his first marriage and a son, Gualterus Fredrik (1833-1871), by the second. Schneider died on 10 September 1841 in Colombo and was buried at Wolvendaal Church. His grandson Sir Gualterus Stewart Schneider served as the 7th Solicitor General of Ceylon (1917).

References

Surveyors General of Ceylon
Sri Lankan people of German descent
People from Jaffna
People from Dutch Ceylon
18th-century people from the Dutch Empire
19th-century people from the Dutch Empire
1772 births
1841 deaths
Dutch East India Company people
David G. Mantell. David George Mantell (31 December 1836 – 13 December 1904) was a Scottish engineer who was the tenth Surveyor General of Ceylon and the first Chief Surveyor. He was appointed in 1894, succeeding P. C. H. Clarke, and held the office until 1896. He was succeeded by F. H. Grinlinton.

References

Surveyors General of Ceylon
19th-century Scottish people
1836 births
1904 deaths
Frederick Grinlinton. Frederick Henry Grinlinton  (27 March 1853 – 11 March 1938) was a British engineer who was the 11th Surveyor General of Ceylon. He entered the Ceylon Survey Department in 1870. He was appointed in 1896, succeeding David G. Mantell, and held the office until 1904. He was succeeded by Philip David Warren. 

After retiring in 1904, he traveled to the Federated Malay States to advise on the creation of a Malay surveying department.

He was the son of Sir John Grinlinton.

References

External links

Surveyors General of Ceylon
19th-century English engineers
20th-century English engineers
1853 births
1938 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Meteorological Society
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
Robert Stanser Templeton. Robert Stanser Templeton (2 December 1855 – 5 November 1930) was an Anglo-Irish civil engineer and the 13th Surveyor General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1910, succeeding Philip David Warren, and held the office until 1915. He was succeeded by W. C. S. Ingles. 

He was the son of naturalist Robert Templeton and grandson of botanist John Templeton.

References

Surveyors General of Ceylon
19th-century Irish engineers
20th-century Irish engineers
1855 births
1930 deaths
A. H. G. Dawson. Arthur Harry Gerald Dawson (20 August 1876 – 10 December 1957) was a British engineer who was the 16th Surveyor General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1927, succeeding A. J. Wickwar, and held the office until 1932. He was succeeded by G. K. Thornhill. 

He married Norah Matheson, daughter of Sir Alexander Matheson, 3rd Baronet.

References

Surveyors General of Ceylon
1876 births
1957 deaths
G. K. Thornhill. George Kraal Thornhill  (3 March 1884 – 29 January 1960) was a British engineer who was the 17th Surveyor General of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1932, succeeding A. H. G. Dawson, and held the office until 1937. He was succeeded by L. G. O. Woodhouse.

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1884 births
1960 deaths
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society
Fellows of the Royal Meteorological Society
Luis Alberto Rico. Luis Alberto Rico Samaniego (born 9 November 1938) is a Mexican engineer and politician affiliated with the National Action Party. As of 2014 he served as Senator of the LVIII and LIX Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Coahuila and as Deputy during the LVI Legislature.

References

1938 births
Living people
Politicians from Mexico City
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
National Action Party (Mexico) politicians
20th-century Mexican politicians
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni
Autonomous University of Nuevo León alumni
Mexican mechanical engineers
Senators of the LVIII and LIX Legislatures of Mexico
Ulu Tutong Dam. The Ulu Tutong Dam is an embankment dam on the Sungai Tutong River in Tutong District, Brunei. The primary purpose of the dam is to increase water supply in Tutong and Brunei-Muara Districts by as much as  annually. It has a normal reservoir volume of , making it the largest water supply project in the country. In February 2010 Sinohydro won the bid to construct the US$63 million project and construction began soon thereafter. It was originally expected to be complete in February 2014 but the date was pushed to February 2015 due to difficulties at the construction site. It was eventually fully completed in February 2017. In July 2018, it was officially renamed Ulu Tutong Golden Jubilee Dam by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. The dam is owned by the Public Works Department of Brunei.

See also
Benutan Dam

References

Dams completed in 2017
2017 establishments in Brunei
Dams in Brunei
Tutong District
HZO. HZO manufactures thin film coatings applied to devices during their assembly processes to protect electronics from damage caused by exposure to corrosive liquids.  HZO headquarters are located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company also has Centers of Excellence in Shenzhen, China and Bac Ninh, Vietnam.

Background 

HZO is funded through a combination of equity and debt financing. The company publicly unveiled its protective technology for electronics at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2012. In 2013 and early 2014 the company expanded its corporate offices and production facilities worldwide to include locations in China, Japan and California. The company also has several application partners throughout Asia with further expansion anticipated. HZO revenues increased by more than 90% in 2013 and the company expects continued growth in 2014 with a consequent increase in royalties. The company’s tagline is “protection from the inside out.”

Technology 

HZO’s technology is applied directly to the circuitry of devices and components, creating a physical barrier that protects electronics against damage caused by water and other corrosive liquids, humidity, sweat, dust and debris. HZO’s early customer base included medical, military, automotive and consumer markets. Products implementing HZO technology include a Tag Heuer smartphone, along with a variety of wearable devices, which has helped secure HZO as a differentiating feature in wearable computing technology.   In 2013, the company unveiled enhancements to its proprietary equipment and machinery, and the company began mass manufacturing with an international brand on a wearable device.

Awards 

Since its official introduction in 2012, HZO has received awards and acknowledgments at a local, national and international level. These include the 2012 CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award for Embedded Technologies, recognition as one of the Top Emerging Nanotech Innovators in both 2012 and 2013 by the National NanoBusiness Commercialization Association, and Winner of 2012 Stoel Rives & Utah Technology Council Innovation Award.
The following year, HZO also received recognition with the following awards;
“Best Advanced Technology” at the Wearable Tech Expo, New York, "Best in Show" at the Wearable Tech Expo, Los Angeles, "Best New Product or Service of the Year" by the International Business Awards, Gold Stevie Award–Consumer Electronics, "Innovative Product of the Year"–Silver Winner, Best in Biz Awards
In 2014, HZO received "Innovation World Cup Finalist" at the Wearable Technologies Conference, Munich and “Best of State in Consumer Electronics”, Utah 2014.

Media 

HZO has received critical acclaim with features on MSNBC in January 2012, The Huffington Post in January, 2012 and April 2012, BBC in January 2012, and The New York Times in January 2012.

References 

Nanotechnology companies
Companies based in Utah
Technology companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in Utah
Tangir Hydropower Project. Tangir Hydropower Plant (THPP) is a proposed (Expression of Interest for Development phase) small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation station of 15 megawatt generation capacity (three units of 5 MW each), located on the left bank of Tangir River in Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan about 30 km downstream of Diamer-Bhasha Dam and 430 km from Islamabad. The project area is accessible from Chilas by Karakoram Highway and a jeepable road leads to the project area.

Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) intends to develop the 15 MW Tangir Hydropower Project under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode. The project would be implemented under the "Policy for Power Generation Projects- 2002" and would revert to the Government of Pakistan after the concession period. The Government of Pakistan/ Government of Gilgit-Baltistan/ WAPDA would provide up to one third of the equity in the Partnership. It is located at 35°26'N 74°05'E. It is a small hydel power generating plant proposed to be constructed and put in commercial operation with the Average Annual generating capacity of 112.34 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity.

Salient Features

Weir Elevation: 1430 m
Powerhouse Elevation: 1215 m
Catchments Area: 740 km2
Mean Annual Discharge: 24.52 m3/s
Design Discharge: 8.70 m3/s
Gross Head: 215 m
Net Head: 202.9 m
Capacity: 15.0 MW
Mean Annual Energy: 112.34 GWh
Plant Factor: 85.5 %
Headrace tunnel length: 3340 m
Penstock/pressure shaft: 350 m, 1.75 m
No. & Type of Turbine: 3 Pelton-type, 500 rpm
Total Project Cost with IDC: $30.967 Million
Cost/KWh: 4.29 US cent
EIRR: 35.0 %
FIRR: 22.56 %
B/C Ratio: 2.23

Current status
The project has been identified by HPO and a Pre-feasibility study is in progress.

See also 

 List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
 List of power stations in Pakistan

References 

Dams in Pakistan
Hydroelectric power stations in Pakistan
Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Proposed renewable energy power stations in Pakistan
William Frederick Faviell. William Frederick Faviell (1822 – 3 July 1902) was a British railway constructor. He constructed the first railway in India and later built railways in Ceylon and South Africa.

Biography 
Faviell was born in 1822 in Yorkshire. Son of a builder of bridges and canals, he began to work as a railway engineer on the Great Eastern Railway in Colchester with two of his brothers. Later, he decided to move his interests overseas and built railways in India, Ceylon and South Africa.
Back in England, he bought the estate of Down Place in the Surrey where he lived with his wife Sarah and their six children until 1890. There, he decided to create one of the first Model Farm of the South of England at Blackwell Farm. He employed Henry Peak to design the new building.
He died on 3 July 1902 at Tunbridge Wells.

Work

India

In 1850, Faviell obtained the contract to build the first section of railway in India. 
Although the idea came in 1843 from the chief engineer of the Bombay Government G. T. Clark, the construction of the 15.75-mile route began 7 years after under the direction of Faviell. It connected Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhor Ghat inclines. Given the topography of the area on the crest of the Western Ghat mountain ranges, about 42,000 workers had to travel 15–20 miles each day carrying an estimated 6,296,061 cubic yards of earthwork on their heads. The low wages and the working conditions resulted in a riot in January 1859. Europeans were attacked by the Indian workforce with sticks and stones.
Finally, Faviell gave up his contract in 1859 and was replaced by Solomon Tredwell.

Ceylon
In 1863, Faviell began a new project of railway from Colombo through the hills of Kandy. In spite of the difficult geographical condition, the construction of the 73-mile route was a success when it was finished four years later.

South Africa
His last foreign contract was in South Africa in 1877, where he undertook to extend the Port Elizabeth railway, then only 67 miles long, into the interior in the direction of Cradock and Graaff-Reinet.

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1822 births
1902 deaths
British railway pioneers
19th-century British businesspeople
Deliktaş Tunnel. The Deliktaş Tunnel (), a.k.a. Kangal-Deliktaş Tunnel, is a railway tunnel near Deliktaş village between Ulaş and Kangal districts of Sivas Province in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It was built to shorten and to ease the ramp on the railway line connecting Sivas with Malatya and Erzincan. The construction began on November 15, 1973, however its progression was quite slow until 2003 when the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) took over the project. Although the works at the tunnel were completed in 2006, works for the infrastructure on the railway line around the tunnel began only in 2009. At the end of 2011, all construction works were finished. Following the installation of signalization facilities, and completing the test runs with freight trains, the tunnel was put into service in late 2012.

The tunnel was drilled by the New Austrian Tunnelling method (NATM). With its length of , the Deliktaş Tunnel is Turkey's longest single track railway tunnel. The tunnel is  wide and has a clearance of . It is also the only railway tunnel of the country, which features built-in lighting, ventilation and firefighting facilities. The automated lighting system controls tunnel lights installed at every  through motion detectors. According to official records, a total of 5,330 people worked for the construction that lasted 39 years, while eight workers died in accidents during this time.

The Deliktaş Tunnel serves also to contribute to the transportation of iron ore from Divriği mine to steel works in a more economic way. The tunnel helped to reduce the travel time of railbus service between Sivas and Divriği from five hours to two hours and 16 minutes.

References

Railway tunnels in Turkey
Transport in Sivas Province
Tunnels completed in 2012
Black & Decker Workmate. The Black & Decker Workmate is a general purpose portable workbench and general carpentry tool manufactured under the brand Black & Decker. It is a folding table for portability, but when unfolded stands about  tall. The table top consists of two wooden jaws, one of which is fixed and the other moveable on threaded rods operated by handles. It can be used as a bench vice to hold wood, metal and other parts, either clamped between the jaws or, using supplied bench dogs, clamped on the table top. The jaws are wide enough to hold most bench top tools, such as a drill press, planer, miter saw, etc.

When invented, the designer Ron Hickman had difficulty convincing anyone to market the Workmate, and sold them himself at trade shows. He had his first breakthrough in 1968, after convincing a DIY magazine to let him exhibit at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, which enabled him to sell 1,800 units that year.

After seeing some success in 1971, Black & Decker decided to work with Hickman to improve his initial design and in 1972 Black & Decker's MKII version of the Workmate went into production. When released, it was sold in the United Kingdom for £24.95.

Black & Decker had trouble keeping up with demand for the Workmate in the UK, but was still unconvinced of how well the Workmate would be accepted in the United States. As a test of demand, the UK-manufactured Workmate WM325 was introduced to the United States market in 1974 as the Model 79-001 Type E ("E" for England). U.S. consumers snapped them up, and Black & Decker began building Workmates for the North American market at their factory in Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

The first Workmate produced in Canada and sold in the United States was designated the Model 79-001 Type 1. The 79-001 was produced until 1982, with frequent revisions, designated by Type numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Types E, and 1 through 5 used a pair of cast-aluminum pivoting H-frames to support the vice jaws and to allow the Workmate to fold for storage. The aluminum H-frame gave the Workmate a very distinctive appearance and was considered to be "Hickman's greatest aesthetic stroke." By the Type 6, the aluminum H-frames were replaced by ones of stamped steel.

Black & Decker have since sold 30 million Workmates (2011). Ron Hickman received a royalty of £1 for each Workmate sold, and became a wealthy man.

References

Workmate
Woodworking tools
Nai Gaj Dam. Nai Gaj Dam is an embankment dam currently under construction on the Gaj River in the gorge area at the edge of Kirthar Mountains range at about  north-west of Dadu city in Dadu District, Sindh Province of Pakistan. When complete, its power station will have a 4.2 MW installed capacity. Consultant supervision by Techno Consult International (TCI) from Karachi, Pakistan.

Construction
Construction of the dam started in May 2012. Initially planned to be completed in 3 years, the project has been heavily delayed, increasing its cost from an initial estimate of Rs17 Billion to a revised Rs 47.7 Billion in 2019. Around 51% of the construction work was completed as of 2018. The dam is now expected to be completed in 2024.

It is estimated that water will be supplied from Nai Gaj Dam to 28800 acres land in tehsil Johi and 300000 acres in other areas of Dadu District. Moreover, Nai Gaj Dam will supply 50 cusecs of water to the Lake Manchar for decreasing its pollution. Furthermore, the water will also be supplied from the dam to Kachho desert and area of Kohistan in Dadu District. PM Imran Khan vowed to complete the project and expressed concern over ineptitude of sindh government.https://www.dawn.com/news/1618684

Salient features
Type of Dam: Earth Core Rockfill dam.
Height of Dam: 194 Ft
Live Storage: 0.16 MAF
Gross Storage: 0.30 MAF
Dead Storage: 0.140 MAF
Sedimentation Load: 0.45 acre-feet / sq. mile
Fuse Plug Capacity: 74000 Cusecs
Spillway Capacity: 253000 Cusecs
Command Area: 40,000 Acres
Cropped Area: 80,000 Acres
Cropping Intensity: 200%
Power House Installed Capacity: 4.2 MW
Project Cost (2009): Rs.28.153 Billion (Revised)
EIRR: 13.18%
B.C. Ratio: 1.32:1

See also 

 List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
 List of power stations in Pakistan
 Nai Gaj

References 

Dams in Sindh
Hydroelectric power stations in Pakistan
Dadu District
Proposed hydroelectric power stations
Proposed renewable energy power stations in Pakistan
Itema. Itema S.p.a. is a multinational Italian company that produces textile machinery for all types of weaving.

History

The history of Itema begins in 1967 with the birth of Somet, leading textile machinery company, in the province of Bergamo in northern Italy.

In 2000, the company changed its name to Promatech, after the acquisition of Vamatex, another important textile machinery manufacturing company, also located in the Bergamo area.

The new company acquired SulTex (Sulzer textile), a Swiss textile machinery manufacturing company, whose origins date back to 1834, and the exclusive producer of projectile looms in the world.

In 2012, the three historic brands – Somet, Vamatex and Sulzer/ Sultex – changed name and re-branded as one unique Itema brand.

In February 2014, the company launched Itema Academy, a program to recruit and retain promising young people and recent graduates in collaboration with Confindustria Bergamo, and opened ItemaLab in March, a new research incubator in the Kilometro Rosso technology park, just outside Bergamo.

References

Companies based in Bergamo
Multinational companies headquartered in Italy
Textile companies of Italy
Italian companies established in 2012
Textile machinery manufacturers
Italian brands
Revmaster R-2300. The Revmaster R-2300 is a 4 stroke aircraft engine for Homebuilt aircraft

Design and development
The engine is based on the Volkswagen air-cooled engine. It is extensively modified for aircraft use. This modification consists of a quad CDI ignition (8 coils), new and enlarged #4 bearing, custom made crank shaft and cam shaft, custom made cylinder heads and other modifications. The engine is delivered completely assembled and test run from the factory (it is not delivered as a kit).

Applications
Thatcher CX5
Sonex Aircraft Onex

Specifications (variant)

References

External links
 http://www.revmasteraviation.com/

2010s aircraft piston engines