omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Li Ping (geologist). Li Ping (; 20 March 1924 – 10 September 2019) was a Chinese geologist and earthquake engineer. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Li Ping was born on 20 March 1924 in Dawu County, Hubei, Republic of China. He entered National Central University in 1943, and became a faculty member after graduating in 1947.

In 1954, Li was transferred to teach at Harbin Institute of Military Engineering. After 1959, he worked at the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which later became part of the China Earthquake Administration. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Peking University and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li's research focus was earthquake engineering. He conducted earthquake risk analysis for many major projects, including the Three Gorges Dam, the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, the Ertan Dam, and the Danjiangkou Dam. He published over 50 academic papers, more than 10 monographs, and over 80 research reports. He won more than 10 national and ministerial science and technology awards. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Li died on 10 September 2019 in Beijing, aged 95.

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1924 births
2019 deaths
Chinese civil engineers
20th-century Chinese geologists
Earthquake engineering
Engineers from Hubei
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
National Central University alumni
Academic staff of the National Central University
Academic staff of Peking University
People from Xiaogan
20th-century Chinese engineers
Wu Minsheng. Wu Minsheng (; August 1946 – 7 September 2019) was a Chinese mechanical engineer. He served as Dean of Tsinghua University and President of Fuzhou University (2002–2010).

Biography 
Wu Minsheng was born in August 1946 into a farming and fishing family in Pingtan County, Fujian, Republic of China. He entered the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1965, and became a faculty member after graduating in 1970. He later studied in Germany and earned a Doctor of Engineering degree from RWTH Aachen University.

Wu was a pioneer in weld seam tracking technology in China. He published more than 100 research papers and several monographs. He taught for nearly fifty years, and was appointed Dean of Tsinghua University in 1993. He later served as Vice President of Tsinghua Graduate School and the first President of Tsinghua's Shenzhen graduate school.

In August 2002, Wu was appointed President of Fuzhou University. During his tenure of almost eight years, he worked to raise funds and enhance the prestige of the university. Under his leadership, the university's research funding multiplied from less than 20 million yuan in 2002 to more than 100 million by 2007. He retired from the position in May 2010.

Wu died in Fuzhou on September 7, 2019, at age 73.

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1946 births
2019 deaths
Chinese mechanical engineers
Educators from Fujian
Engineers from Fujian
Academic staff of Fuzhou University
People from Fuzhou
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Tsinghua University alumni
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
SAERT. Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Rehabilitation in Tigray (SAERT) was a parastatal organisation in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It was established in 1995 for "policymaking, design and construction of dams and canals, and the maintenance of dams and water distribution systems". SAERT was funded jointly by the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with the Regional Government of Tigray sharing project financing in kind. It started as a project but it was later established as a commission (co-SAERT). The first project manager was Leul Kahsay who later became deputy commissioner. Abay Tsehaye was the first commissioner appointed by the Regional government.

Initially, SAERT planned on small-scale irrigation projects in the Region through constructions of 500 earthen micro-dams in ten years. In the first year construction work started at four sites: Gum Selasa dam near Adi Gudem, Korir dam near Wukro, Dura dam near Aksum and Meskebet dam near Adi Daero. After evaluating the resources required for the construction of each dam and realizing that the goal was too large, the plan was changed to concentrate on drought-prone districts of Atsbi Wenberta, Enderta, Hintalo Wajirat and Saharti Samre. By 2003, SAERT had only constructed 54 dams. Due to several factors, many of the ponds and reservoirs became inoperable; those that remain suffer from heavy siltation and seepage.

In the Ilala and Kalamino Basins, SAERT constructed dams at Hashenge, Mai Serakit, Da Zeb'oy, Arato, Gereb Shegal, Sewhi Meda, Era Quhila, Gereb Awso and Addi Hilo. Also constructed was Addi Akhor, Addi Qenafiz, Gereb Segen (Hintalo) and Ginda'i.

Other earthen dams and reservoirs constructed by SAERT include Addi Amharay, Addi Gela, Addi Shihu, Betqua, Dur Anbesa, Era (reservoir), Filiglig, Gereb Awso, Gereb Bi'ati, Gereb Mihiz, Imbagedo and Inda Zib'i.

References 

History of agriculture in Ethiopia
History of the Tigray Region
1995 establishments in Ethiopia
Organizations established in 1995
Ethiopia and the United Nations
Agriculture companies of Ethiopia
Maya Ackerman. Margareta Ackerman is a Belarussian-American computer scientist known for her research in cluster analysis and algorithmic composition of music. She is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Santa Clara University, and the founder and CEO of algorithmic music firm WaveAI.

Early life and education
Ackerman was born in Gomel, USSR. She moved with her family to Afula, Israel in 1990, when she was seven years old, and five years later moved again to Canada. She was a student of computer science at the University of Waterloo, earning a bachelor's degree in 2006, master's degree in 2007, and Ph.D. in 2012. Her dissertation, supervised by Shai Ben-David, was Towards Theoretical Foundations of Clustering.

Academic career
After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, San Diego, Ackerman joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2014. She moved to San Jose State University in 2016, and to Santa Clara University in 2017.

Contributions
Ackerman is the co-creator of ALYSIA, an artificially intelligent system for creating pop music tunes. She founded the company WaveAI in 2017 to commercialize this technology.

She is also the author of Running from Giants: The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Child, a self-published book about her grandfather, a Polish-born holocaust survivor.

References

External links
Home page

Living people
1980s births
Year of birth uncertain
Russian computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Waterloo alumni
Florida State University faculty
San Jose State University faculty
Santa Clara University faculty
American computer scientists
Russian women computer scientists
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
American women academics
Sibel Adalı. Sibel Adalı is a Turkish-American computer scientist who studies trust in social networks and uncertainty in decision-making. She is a professor of computer science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and associate dean for research at Rensselaer.

Education and career
Adalı graduated in 1991 from Bilkent University, with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and information science. She went to the University of Maryland, College Park for her graduate studies in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1994 and completing her Ph.D. in 1996. Her dissertation, Query Processing in Heterogeneous Mediated Systems, was supervised by V. S. Subrahmanian.

She became a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996.

Book
Adalı wrote the book Modeling Trust Context in Networks (Springer, 2013).

Personal
Adalı maintains a web site of Turkish poetry, with translations into many other languages.

She is the sister of electrical engineer Tülay Adalı.

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American academics
21st-century American educators
21st-century American women scientists
American computer scientists
American academics of Turkish descent
American women computer scientists
Bilkent University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Turkish computer scientists
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Jane Ammons. Jane Chumley Ammons (born 1953) is an American industrial engineer known for her research on supply chain engineering and on the recycling of industrial goods, including carpet. She is the former chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, the former president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a professor emerita at Georgia Tech.

Education and career
Ammons was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech, in 1982. Her dissertation, A Generation Expansion Planning Model For Electric Utilities, was supervised by Leon McGinnis, and concerned generation expansion planning.

After completing her doctorate, she remained in industrial engineering at Georgia Tech as a faculty member, the department's first faculty member to be a woman. She was president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers for 2009–2010. When she was named chair of industrial engineering at Georgia Tech in 2011, she became the first woman to chair an engineering department at Georgia Tech. She retired in 2014.

Recognition
Ammons was selected to become a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 2003. She won the inaugural WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in Operations Research and Management Science in 2005. In 2014 she was given the top honor of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award.

References

External links
Home page

1953 births
Living people
American industrial engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Georgia Tech alumni
Georgia Tech faculty
American women academics
Human Lost. is a 2019 Japanese 3D animated science fiction film based on Osamu Dazai's 1948 novel No Longer Human and it is Polygon Pictures' first production not to get a Netflix release.

Plot
In the year 2036, breakthroughs in medical technology have led to a system of nanomachines internally implanted in all humans that can reverse illness, injury and even death. But if a person severs their nanomachines from the system, they mutate into monstrous creatures known as "Lost". Yozo, Masao and Yoshiko are now "applicants" with special powers over the Lost.

Cast

Production
Katsuyuki Motohiro is serving as supervisor. Fuminori Kizaki will direct the film at Polygon Pictures. Tow Ubukata is writing the scripts. Yūsuke Kozaki is designing the characters, and Kenichiro Tomiyasu is in charge of concept art.

Casting
The cast of film was revealed via teaser on YouTube. The film stars Mamoru Miyano, Kana Hanazawa, Takahiro Sakurai, Jun Fukuyama, and Miyuki Sawashiro.

Release
The film premiered at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It was released by Funimation on October 22, 2019, in the U.S. theaters and on November 29, 2019, in Japan, While in Canada, it was released as a television film.

Home media
In Japan, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 20, 2020.

In the United States, the film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 25, 2020, with an English dub.

Reception
The film won the Axis: The Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation award as a Special Mention at the 2019 Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival.

Notes

References

External links
 Human Lost Official Website 
 Funimation's Human Lost Website
 
 

2019 anime films
2019 films
Anime films based on novels
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro
Films set in 2036
Funimation
Japanese animated science fiction films
Polygon Pictures
Toho films
2019 science fiction films
Films directed by Fuminori Kizaki
Films scored by Yugo Kanno
Simulation of Urban MObility. Simulation of Urban MObility (Eclipse SUMO or simply SUMO) is an open source, portable, microscopic and continuous multi-modal traffic simulation package designed to handle large networks.
SUMO is developed by the German Aerospace Center and community users. It has been freely available as open-source since 2001, and since 2017 it is an Eclipse Foundation project.

Purpose
Traffic simulation within SUMO uses software tools for simulation and analysis of road traffic and traffic management systems. New traffic strategies can be implemented via a simulation for analysis before they are used in real-world situations. SUMO has also been proposed as a toolchain component for the development and validation of automated driving functions via various X-in-the-Loop and digital twin approaches.

SUMO is used for research purposes like traffic forecasting, evaluation of traffic lights, route selection, or in the field of vehicular communication systems.  SUMO users are able to make changes to the program source code through the open-source license to experiment with new approaches.

Projects
SUMO was used in the following national and international projects:

 AMITRAN, a  assessment methodology achieved by ICT applied to the transport sector via intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
 COLOMBO
 CityMobil, a project for integration of automated transport systems in the urban environment. Completed in 2011.
 DRIVE C2X
 iTETRIS
 Soccer traffic data collection from the air during the 2006 FIFA World Cup football championship
 VABENE project to improve safety at mass events.

See also
 Intelligent transportation system
 Traffic optimization
 Traffic estimation and prediction system

References

Notes

External links 
 SUMO website 
 SUMO Documentation
 Repository on GitHub

Traffic simulation
Transportation engineering
Free simulation software
RP-Eisenbahn. RP Eisenbahn GmbH (RPE) is a railway infrastructure manager founded in 1998. The company is based in Wachenheim an der Weinstraße, Germany.

History
RP Eisenbahn GmbH was founded in April 1998 by two private shareholders. The company's activities began in 1999 with the reopening of decommissioned railway lines in the Hunsrück and Palatinate regions.

In 2000, the approximately 31 km long Freiberg-Holzhau railway in Saxony was leased from Deutsche Bahn AG and was completely renovated during a 6-month line closure. While the Deutsche Bahn previously only used one train per direction every two hours and required a travel time of over 60 minutes, the modernization made it possible to reduce the travel time to 40 minutes, so that rail transport is now offered at hourly intervals with the same number of vehicles and without the need for additional personnel. Instead of 54 million Deutsche Mark, as assumed by the DB, the modernisation was achieved with 15 million Deutsche Mark.

In spring 2001, RP Eisenbahn GmbH founded Regio Infra Service Sachsen GmbH together with the Chemnitzer Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (CVAG).

TÜV certificate
The company is certified by TÜV Rheinland in accordance with the ISO 9001:2015 testing standard.

Network

Rhineland-Palatinate
The route length in Rhineland-Palatinate is 23 kilometres: 
 Donnersberg Railway
 Heimbach (Nahe)–Baumholder railway (since September 2006)

Saxony
The route length in Saxony is 34 kilometres: 
 Freiberg (Sachs)–Holzhau (since May 2000)
 Berthelsdorf–Großhartmannsdorf railway (since May 2000)

References

External links
 

Railway infrastructure managers
Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines. The Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines, Inc. abbreviated as ASEP is an organization of structural engineers of the Philippines affiliated with the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers.

Background
ASEP was established in 1961 to promote the advancement of Filipino civil engineers in the field of structural engineering. The publication of the National Structural Code of the Philippines (NSCP) and the referral codes of the Philippine National Building Code were published by the organization.

Advocacy
ASEP exists in the advancement of structural engineering in the Philippines as well as upholding ethical values in the promotion of national and international professional collaboration with governments, industry and the academe.

The organization specifically lobbies on legislation of the Philippines in the national and local levels.

Notable publications

 National Structural Code of the Philippines
 National Building Code of the Philippines
ASEP Steel Handbook

References

Professional associations based in the Philippines
Civil engineering professional associations
Structural engineering
Regio Infra Service Sachsen. Regio Infra Service Sachsen GmbH (RISS) is a railway infrastructure manager and a railway company (EVU) founded in 2001. The shareholders are Chemnitzer Verkehrs AG (CVAG) and RP-Eisenbahn GmbH (RPE). The company is based in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany.

History

Regio Infra Service Sachsen was founded on 5 July 2001 as a railway infrastructure company (EIU) for the Chemnitz Model.

The connection between Chemnitz and Stollberg had already been planned in advance as a pilot line according to this concept. Already on December 15, 2002, the scheduled electric train service with Regio light rail vehicles of the City-Bahn Chemnitz could be started there. Further lines in the Chemnitz area were simultaneously prepared for preliminary operation with diesel railcars.

A special feature of the RISS network is the Freiberg-Nossen line (Zellwaldbahn). This line is currently only used for freight traffic and for special trips with historical trains. A resumption of local rail passenger transport is not planned there.

The Neuoelsnitz–Lugau railway line, which was closed to traffic in 2010 and operationally closed in 2015, was put out to tender by RISS for sale to third parties in July 2017. The investments for the recommissioning of the line were estimated at a total of 380,000 euros. As no other EIU took over the line, it was closed down and subsequently de-dedicated.

Network
 Stollberg–St. Egidien (since February 2002) (19,4 km)
 Hainichen–Niederwiesa (since October 2002) (17,115 km)
 Stollberg–Chemnitz Süd (since September 2002) (21,1 km)
 Nossen–Freiberg (since November 2005) (24,000 km)
 Zwotental–Adorf (Vogtl) (since January 2018) (11,514 km)

Further network 
 Neuoelsnitz–Lugau (until 2017)

References

External links
 

Railway infrastructure managers
George Francis Grimwood. George Francis Grimwood LRIBA (1874 - 15 Jan 1938) was an 20th-century engineer and architect based in Nottingham.

History

He was born in 1874 in Cardiff, the son of Dennis Grimwood (1833–1904) and Harriet Fellows (b. 1847)

He was articled to William Henry Dashwood Caple in Cardiff from 1889 to 1893, and afterwards remained as his assistant.

He became an engineer and architectural assistant in the Borough Engineer's department of Cardiff Corporation in 1893 and in 1899 he was employed in the Birmingham Corporation Architects' Department.  He commenced independent practice in 1904 in Monmouth, based at Atheneum Buildings, Monmouth and was Borough Surveyor. In 1910 he became a Licenciate of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He married Elizabeth Bertha Hoddell, younger daughter of Philip Hoddell of Lewstone, Whitchurch, Herefordshire, on 31 October 1907 at St Swithin's Church, Ganarew, Herefordshire.  They had one son, Philip Francis Grimwood (1912–2004)

He became an Engineer and Surveyor in Beeston, Nottinghamshire around 1917. and later practiced as an architect with offices on Parliament Street in Nottingham.

Later in life they lived at 12 Park Street, Beeston.

He died on 15 January 1938 at Ruthin Castle, Denbighshire. He was cremated in Birkenhead Crematorium. He left an estate valued at £2,353 3s 2d ().

Works
Bungalow, Lavender Grove, Beeston 1923
15 Devonshire Avenue, St John's Grove, Beeston 1923
15-17 Melrose Avenue, Beeston 1924
Bungalow, 14 Hope Street, Beeston 1924
Bungalow, 18 Louis Avenue, Beeston 1924
Bungalow, Manor Avenue, Beeston 1924
30-32 Queen's Road, Beeston 1924
34-36 Queen's Road, Beeston 1924
Billiards Hall, Villa Street, Beeston 1928
Bungalow, Meadow Road, Beeston 1929
29 Meadow Road, Beeston 1929
Bonington Theatre, 98 Nottingham Road, Arnold, Nottingham 1929 (enlargement)
Shops, Lilac Crescent, Beeston 1936
Houses, Long Lane, Attenborough 1937

References

20th-century Welsh architects
Architects from Nottingham
1874 births
1938 deaths
Engineers from Cardiff
Architects from Cardiff
Foster Neville Woodward. Foster Neville Woodward FRSE FRIC (1905–1985) was a 20th-century British chemist involved in the creation of chemical weapons in the Second World War.

Life
He was born on 2 May 1905 the son of Foster Woodward. He studied chemistry at the University of London.

In 1930 he joined the Sutton Oak Chemical Defence Research Establishment on Reginald Road in St Helens, Merseyside. This establishment was Britain's primary poison gas manufacturer, making large quantities of mustard gas. The 20-acre site was impossible to hide, and despite attempts at secrecy the plant was known as the "Poison Gas Works" or the "Magnum" (its former name). It had transformed from the Magnum Steelworks to the United Kingdom Chemical Products Company in 1915, and had first begun work on chemical weapons. A loophole in the wording of the Third Geneva Convention in 1925 (relating to chemical weapons) allowed countries to produce such products for research or defence purposes. The company was therefore named to cover this pretence.

He created a variant of mustard gas calle "HT" or "Runcol". In 1932 he left and was replaced by Prof Robinson. He returned in 1937 as head of research. At the outbreak of war in 1939 they were placed under the control of the Ministry of Supply, under the control of Leslie Hore-Belisha. In 1940 most poison gas production was relocated to Rhydymwyn in North Wales, but Sutton Oak continued as the primary research establishment. A programme of expansion and modernisation began. Prof James B. Conant visited the facility in 1942, to offer American advice. A continuing high accident rate at the facility was blamed on individuals not following safety procedures, but underlying safety protocol was clearly poor in terms of minimising health risk to workers.

Research includes creation of the deadly German poisons, sarin (GB) and ethyl sarin (GE), which always required a doctor present whilst handling. Creating around 50 kg of these toxins per week, production clearly exceeded the needs of pure research, but it is unclear why such high amounts were created.

In 1949 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edmund Hirst, Edmund Percival, William Murdoch Cumming and Sir Patrick Ramsay Laird.

In 1949 Woodward saw the relocation of most of the Sutton Oak nerve agent process to Nancekuke airfield near Redruth in Cornwall.

In 1956 he was created a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

From 1956 to 1971 he was director of the Arthur D. Little Research Institute in Inveresk, east of Edinburgh. He was also chairman of Biotech Consulting Ltd.

He died on 3 May 1985, the day after his 80th birthday.

Publications

Memoirs of a Peripatetic Technologist (1985)
Structure of Industrial Research Associations (1965)

Family

In 1932 he married Elizabeth Holme Siddall.

References

1905 births
1985 deaths
British chemists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh