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College for Civil Engineers. The College for Civil Engineers in Putney, Southwest London, was one of the earliest educational establishments to teach civil engineering.

History
A private college, it was founded in 1839 and initially based in Gordon House in Kentish Town but was relocated to two riverside mansions, Putney House and The Cedars, in Putney in August 1840. Fully titled as the College for Civil Engineers and of General, Practical and Scientific Education, it was established under the presidency of the Duke of Buccleuch, for the purpose of affording sound instruction in the theory and practice of civil engineering and architecture.

At the time, the civil engineering profession tended to prefer pupillage routes and was sceptical about the quality of the engineers educational establishments produced. A lengthy 1840 article in The Civil Engineer and Architects' Journal (reproduced in Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Science, Arts, and Manufactures) condemned the College venture as "ridiculous" and a "clumsy imitation of the Polytechnic School" (presumably the Royal Polytechnic Institution, founded in 1838), before concluding:

The college was not a financial success and closed during the 1850s - sources variously suggest 1851, 1852 or 1857 - though local records suggest the college was demolished sometime before 1853.

Notable teachers
David T. Ansted (professor of geology, from 1845)
Oliver Byrne (professor of mathematics, 1839-1841)
Samuel Clegg (professor of civil engineering and architecture from 1849)
Sir Edward Frankland (chair of chemistry, c. 1847)
John Arthur Phillips (professor of metallurgy, 1848 to 1850)
Sir Lyon Playfair (professor of chemistry)

Notable students
Frederick Arnold
James B. Cook
Parkin Jeffcock
Sir Guilford Molesworth
Edward Selby Smyth
Henry Palfrey Stephenson
George Vesey Stewart
John Lorenzo Young

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Civil engineering organizations
1839 establishments in the United Kingdom
Engineering universities and colleges in the United Kingdom
1850s disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct universities and colleges in London
Putney
Claudio Baiocchi. Claudio Baiocchi (August 20, 1940 – December 14, 2020) was an Italian mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Pavia and since the 1990s he was a professor of mathematical higher analysis at the Sapienza University.

He worked on partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. In 1971 he applied his mathematical methods to a free boundary problem in the filtration of liquids through porous media with applications in civil engineering (by using the Baiocchi transform).

His later research dealt with, among other topics, the Collatz problem, cellular automata and Turing machines.

In 1970 Baiocchi received the Caccioppoli Prize. In 1974 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver. He was elected to the Accademia dei XL and the Accademia dei Lincei.

Selected publications
with V. Comincioli, E. Magenes & G. A. Pozzi: 

with Antonio Capelo: Variational and quasivariational inequalities. Applications to free boundary problems. Chichester/New York, Wiley 1984.
with G. Buttazzo, F. Gastaldi & F. Tomarelli: 
with F. Brezzi & L. D. Marini; 
as editor with Jacques-Louis Lions: Boundary value problems for partial differential equations and applications. Dedicated to Enrico Magenes, Elsevier-Masson, 1993
with F. Brezzi & L. P. Franca:

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Italian mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Pavia
Academic staff of the Sapienza University of Rome
Cellular automatists
Oliver Blume. Oliver Ingo Blume (born 6 June 1968) is a German executive and the CEO of the Volkswagen Group. Concurrently, he serves as the CEO of Porsche.

Personal life 
Blume was born in Braunschweig. After completing his secondary education in Braunschweig, he pursued a degree in mechanical engineering at the Braunschweig University of Technology.

In 1994, Blume successfully completed an international trainee program at Audi.

Career 
At the age of 28, Blume began working as a planner for body shop and paint operations at Audi. Three years later, he assumed responsibility for the body of the Audi A3, and two years after that, he was promoted to Executive Assistant for production at Audi. He earned his PhD in vehicle technology. Blume spent five years in production planning at SEAT and another five years with the Volkswagen brand.

In 2013, he joined the Porsche Executive Board, where he oversaw production and logistics.

Since 1 October 2015, Blume has served as the CEO of the Volkswagen subsidiary Porsche. He was appointed to this position by the company’s supervisory board on 30 September 2015, succeeding Matthias Müller, who became CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

Other activities
 Fraunhofer Society, Member of the Senate

References 

Living people
1968 births
German chief executives
Businesspeople from Braunschweig
Porsche people
Technical University of Braunschweig alumni
Aero Nord AIR. The Aero Nord AIR series is a family of French paramotors that was designed and produced by Aero Nord of Lorgies, and later Bénifontaine, for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single  RDM engine in pusher configuration with a 4:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller. The fuel tank capacity is . As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot.

The aircraft is built with a welded aluminium tubing propeller cage, which can be broken down into two or four sections for ground stowage. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Operational history
Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that the "machine shows good understanding of the market and skill in the production" and noted that the series has attracted "considerable attention".

Variants
AIR 1
Single place paramotor, with an empty weight of  and a single  RDM engine with a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.
AIR 2
Single place paramotor, with an empty weight of  and a single  RDM engine with a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.
AIR 3
Single place paramotor, with an empty weight of  and a single  RDM engine with a  diameter two-bladed wooden propeller.

Specifications (AIR 1)

References

AIM
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
Aero Nord. Aero Nord ULM (ultra-léger motorisé, ) was a French aircraft manufacturer based in Lorgies, and later in Bénifontaine. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European microlight category.

While no longer an aircraft manufacturer, the company continues as an ultralight aircraft  flight school using autogyros and ultralight trikes, as well as a dealer for Aeros products, with Frédéric Bastien as chief instructor.

In the mid-2000s the company manufactured a line of paramotors called the Aero Nord AIR. Reviewer Rene Coulon wrote in 2003 that the design "shows good understanding of the market and skill in the production" and noted that the series had attracted "considerable attention".

Aircraft

References

External links

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of France
Ultralight aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Autogyros
Paramotors
Freightliner Coronado. The Freightliner Coronado is a Class 8 conventional truck, intended for long haul and vocational use. It was introduced in January 2001, with production starting for the 2002 model year. It featured Cummins, Caterpillar, and Detroit engine options. That generation was discontinued in 2010 to make way for a second; however, the first generation remains available as a glider, referred to as the 122SD.

References

Coronado
Class 8 trucks
Vehicles introduced in 2001
Tractor units
Robert Dunbar. Robert Dunbar  (13 December 1812 – 18 September 1890) was a Scottish mechanical engineer. He designed the first steam-powered grain elevator in the world and the majority of the first grain elevators in Buffalo, New York City, and Canada.

Early life 

Dunbar was born in Carnbee, Scotland. His birth is recorded as 13 December 1812. His father was William Dunbar, a mechanical engineer who came from a family line of engineers. Dunbar immigrated with his family to Pickering, Ontario, while a boy of 12. He went to high school and college in Canada. He took an interest in mechanics and learned mechanical engineering.

Career 

Dunbar took charge of the shipyard  at Niagara, Ontario, in 1832. He renovated the docks and their machinery. Dunbar later settled in Black Rock, Buffalo, New York, in 1834. He associated himself with Charles W. Evans and constructed flourmills. With financing by entrepreneur Joseph Dart, Dunbar designed and built at Buffalo in 1842 the first steam-powered grain elevator in the world.

The invention had a profound effect on Buffalo and the movement of grains on the Great Lakes and around the world:

He built nearly all the grain elevators in Buffalo, which made the city one of the largest grain markets in the United States. Dunbar built and designed the majority of the first grain elevators in Canada and New York City. He constructed other grain elevators in Liverpool and Hull in England and in Odessa, Russia. He constructed grain elevators in many other grain shipping ports around the world. Dunbar's grain elevator innovations are still in use. Dunbar was a senior partner in a firm called Robert Dunbar & Son. They were grain elevator architects, engineers, and contractors. Dunbar became a wealthy man because of his innovations in grain elevators.

Family 
Dunbar married Sarah M. Howell on 26 August 1840. Two of his sons were William J. Dunbar and Robert Dunbar. A third son, George H. Dunbar, became proprietor of the Eagle Iron Works of Buffalo. He also had two daughters, Mary G. Dunbar and Emma G. Dunbar.

Death 
Dunbar died 18 September 1890.

Legacy 
He is known as "the father of the great grain elevator system."

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External links 

1812 births
1890 deaths
Canadian inventors
Canadian mechanical engineers
Scottish inventors
Scottish mechanical engineers
Mälar 22. Mälar 22 is a  sailboat class designed by Gustaf Estlander and built in about 150 copies.

History
The Mälar 22 designed by Gustaf Estlander won a design competition hosted by Mälarens Seglarförbund in 1929. The Mälar 22 was a response to the more and more expensive yachts built according to the Skerry cruiser rule.

See also
Mälar 25
Mälar 30

References

1920s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Finnish designers
Keelboats
Matt Wisniewski. Matt Wisniewski (born 1990) is an American artist and software engineer most known for creating and popularizing a style of digital collage.

Early life

Wisniewski was born and raised in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He attended Rochester Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science in 2012. He subsequently moved to New York City.

Career

Wisniewski achieved recognition in 2011 by combining images he found on Tumblr and FFFFOUND!. In 2015 he expressed a desire to work with his own photography more. By 2018 he had transitioned to primarily working with his own photography.

Wisniewski is colour blind.

Works

His 2014 work for W San Francisco was described as "Vibrant wall murals celebrate male and female forms against unique backdrops".

Album cover designs
 Mind Over Matter (2014)

Book cover designs
 L'Esprit de mes pères (2012). .
 Beloit Fiction Journal (2013).
 Borderlife (2016).

Publications
 Matt Wisniewski. New Statesman, 2013. With an essay by Ed Smith.
 Matt Wisniewski: Futur Couture #19. Harper's Magazine, 2013. With an essay by Charles Baxter.
 Matt Wisniewski. Economia, 2013.
 Matt Wisniewski. Financial Times, 2014. With an essay by Tara Loader Wiilkinson
 Matt Wisniewski. Landmark Magazine, 2015. With an essay by Justin Hill.
 Matt Wisniewski: Graphic #2. The Atlantic, 2016. With an essay by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.
 Matt Wisniewski: Fountain Collapse #1. Slice Literary Magazine, 2018. With an essay by Majda Gama.
 Matt Wisniewski. HuffPost, 2019. With an essay by Eve Fairbanks.
 Matt Wisniewski: Strange Matter. The Point, 2021. With an essay by S. G. Belknap.

References

External links
 
 [ Matt Wisniewski at Allmusic]

1990 births
Living people
21st-century American photographers
American collage artists
Elvstrøm 717. Elvstrøm 717 is a  sailboat class designed by Paul Elvstrøm and Jan Kjærulff and built in more than 50 copies.

History
The Elvstrøm 717 designed by Paul Elvstrøm and Jan Kjærulff was built by Nordship between 1976 and 1980.

References

1970s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Danish designers
Sailboat types built in Denmark
Keelboats
S 30 (keelboat). S 30 is a  sailboat class designed by Knud Reimers and built in about 300 copies.

History
The S 30 was designed by Knud Reimers for Göta Segelsällskap and Swedish Sailing Federation and produced by Fisksätra varv.

References

1970s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Swedish designers
Keelboats
Sailboat types built in Sweden
Maxi 77. Maxi 77 is a  sailboat class designed by Pelle Petterson and built in about 3,750 copies.

History
The Maxi 77 designed by Pelle Petterson was built by Mölnlycke Marin between 1972 and 1982.

References

1970s sailboat type designs
Sailboat type designs by Swedish designers
Keelboats
Sailboat types built in Sweden
Sailing yachts designed by Pelle Pettersson
J/70. J/70 is a trailerable,  American sailboat class designed by Alan Johnstone and first built in 2012.

Production 
The boat is built for J Boats by three builders, CCF Composites in the United States, J/Composites in Europe and J/Boats Argentina in South America. At least 1451 had been constructed by 2019.

Design
The J/70 is a small racing keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig, a transom-hung rudder, a retractable bowsprit and a lifting keel. It displaces  and carries  of lead ballast. The boat features a very large asymmetrical spinnaker with an area of , flown from the carbon fiber bowsprit.

Events

World Championship

European Championship

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

2010s sailboat type designs
Keelboats
Trailer sailers
Sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Alan Johnstone
Sailboat types built by J/Boats
Aerosport OY Spider. The Aerosport OY Spider is a family of Estonian paramotors that was designed and produced by Aerosport OY of Keila for powered paragliding. Now out of production, when the series were available the aircraft were supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Spider line was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules as well as European regulations. It features a paraglider-style wing, single-place accommodation and a single engine in pusher configuration with a reduction drive. The fuel tank capacity is . The basic design is built from  aluminium tubing, plus a nylon harness. The various models employ different engine, reduction drive and propeller combinations.

As is the case with all paramotors, take-off and landing is accomplished by foot. Inflight steering is accomplished via handles that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw.

Variants
Spider F33
Model with a single Hirth F33  engine, a 2.2:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider F33 BL
Model with a single Hirth F33  engine, a 2.7:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider M21Y
Model with a single Cors'Air M21Y  engine and a 2.48:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider M21Y BL
Model with a single Cors'Air M21Y  engine, a 2.6:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider PS2000
Model with a single PS2000  engine, a 2.5:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider Racket
Model with a single Radne Raket 120  engine, a 3.8:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller
Spider Solo
Model with a single Solo 210  engine and a 2.5:1 ratio reduction drive and a  diameter propeller

Specifications (Spider F33)

References

Spider
2000s Estonian ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Paramotors
TRX System. The TRX System, also known as Total Resistance Exercises, refers to a specialized form of suspension training that utilizes equipment developed by former U.S. Navy SEAL Randy Hetrick. TRX is a form of suspension training that uses body weight exercises to develop strength, balance, flexibility and core stability simultaneously. It requires the use of the TRX Suspension Trainer, a performance training tool that leverages gravity and the user’s body weight to complete the exercises. TRX's designers claim that it draws on research from the military, pro sports, and academic institutions along with experience gathered from the TRX designers themselves.

History 
In 2001, after 14 years as a SEAL Hetrick left the Navy and attended Stanford University where he earned his MBA. Hetrick first established his TRX system at the Krav Maga Fitness Club in San Francisco with US$350,000 from private investors who he met through connections via Stanford and the military.

On June 8, 2022, TRX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, blaming declining sales after the COVID-19 pandemic from increased competition from other fitness brands. The company listed itself for sale and would seek a buyer during the bankruptcy procedure. TRX continued to operate and sell its products normally during the bankruptcy procedure. On August 29, 2022, TRX was acquired by founder and former CEO Randy Hetrick out of bankruptcy.

Alleged benefits and criticism
Supporters of TRX Training claim that it can improve mobility and stability, increase metabolic results, build lean muscle, and develop functional strength. However, some analysts worry that the instability of suspension straps could possibly result in injury, especially for those with a history of joint or back injuries, or inadequate core strength. Fabio Comana, a research scientist at the nonprofit American Council on Exercise, states that suspension training may work for well-conditioned athletes and gym-goers who regularly train their core, however, it is potentially dangerous for those who haven’t built up their core.

References

External links
 How I Built This - TRX: Randy Hetrick

Weight training equipment
Exercise equipment companies
Exercise equipment
Exercise-related trademarks
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2022
Aerosport OY. Aerosport OY is an Estonian aircraft manufacturer based in Keila. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes and paramotors in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules and the European Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category.

The company produces lines of both powered parachutes and paramotors that are noted for their wide choice of engine, propeller and reduction drive combinations.

Aircraft

References

External links

Aircraft manufacturers of Estonia
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
Paramotors
Estonian brands
Gérard Cornuéjols. Gérard Pierre Cornuéjols (born November 16, 1950) is the IBM University Professor of Operations Research in the Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business and professor at Aix-Marseille University. His research interests include facility location, integer programming, balanced matrices, and perfect graphs.

Education and career
Cornuéjols graduated from École nationale des ponts et chaussées and earned his Ph.D. in 1978 from Cornell University under the supervision of George Nemhauser, with a dissertation concerning facility location.

He was editor-in-chief of Mathematics of Operations Research from 1999 to 2003.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002.

Books
Cornuéjols is the author of:
Combinatorial Optimization: Packing and Covering (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2001).
Optimization Methods in Finance (With Reha Tütüncü, Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Integer Programming (With Michele Conforti and Giacomo Zambelli, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 271, Springer-Verlag, 2014).

Awards and honors
In 1977, Cornuéjols was one of the winners of the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

In 2000, he won the Fulkerson Prize with Michele Conforti and Mendu Rammohan Rao for their work on algorithms for recognizing balanced matrices.

In 2009, the Mathematical Optimization Society gave him their George B. Dantzig Prize.

In 2011, he won the John von Neumann Theory Prize of INFORMS "for his fundamental and broad contributions to discrete optimization including his deep research on balanced and ideal matrices, perfect graphs and cutting planes for mixed-integer optimization".

In 2016, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to the theory, practice, and application of integer programming..

References

1950 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Cornell University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
American operations researchers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
John von Neumann Theory Prize winners