omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
AnnMarie Thomas. AnnMarie Thomas is a mechanical engineer, author, blogger, and advocate for early engineering education. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001) and went on to attain both
an M.S. (2002) and Ph.D. (2006) in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Additionally, she has her certification in Sustainable Design from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2012). She is currently associate professor in the School of Engineering, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship, and the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her research interests include engineering pedagogy and education for PK-12 students, design for aging populations, as well as synthetic jet propulsion.

Thomas is the founder and director of the Playful Learning Lab at the University of St. Thomas, where she leads students in exercises to understand the “playful side of engineering.” She has also developed Squishy Circuits, an initiative to engage children in exploring electronics using play dough. This initiative outlines the process of making conducting and insulating dough and how to build circuits from these materials. Speaking of the project Thomas said, “It’s been really fun since we put them up where they have gone.
We had a mom in Utah who used them with her kids, science researchers in the UK, curriculum developers in Hawaii. So I’d encourage you all to grab some play dough and start playing. We don’t usually think of our kitchen as an electronics lab and little kids as circuit designers, but maybe we should.” She describes engineering as a “fine art,” and maintains that a positive attitude toward the possibilities for women in engineering is essential in creating a greater gender balance in the field.

Thomas is the author of a book, Making Makers: Kids, Tools, and the Future of Innovation, published by Maker Media Press in 2014. She has presented at a number of conferences and through Ted talks on inspiring young scientists (with play and other kinds of making). On her blog AnnMarie Thomas- Making Makers she has written about the challenges she has faced as a woman and mother working in engineering.

References

Living people
American mechanical engineers
MIT School of Engineering alumni
California Institute of Technology alumni
Minneapolis College of Art and Design alumni
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sergei Mitrofanov. Sergei Petrovich Mitrofanov (; 25 September 1915 – 24 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of industrial engineering.

Career 
He graduated from the Technical School of Precise Mechanics and Optics in 1933 and Institute of Precise Mechanics and Optics with a specialisation in Precise Mechanics in 1939.

From 1939 until 1951, he had been working in LOMO and occupied positions of Engineer, Head of Technical Office, Head of the Production, Senior Technologist. Lived through Siege of Leningrad, awarded Order of the Patriotic War in 1992.

He was the creator of Group Components Processing Method.

Over the 1951 to 1961 period, he took significant part in the political work. He became The First Secretary of Communist Party District Committee. In 1954, he received position of Science and Engineering Secretary of Communist Party District Committee.

From 1961, Sergei Mitrofanov took an important part in LITMO live. He had been occupying the Rector position from 1961 till 1974. Also, he was the Head of the Tool Engineering Department (1961–89). In 1962, he was elected professor of the Tool Engineering Department.

He received PhD degree in Technical Science in 1953 and became Doctor of Sciences in 1961. He became Chief Scientist of USSR Ministry of the Defence Engineering (1962). He also became Academician of Saint Petersburg Engineering Academy in 1992. He was also awarded degree of Honoured Master of Sciences and Engineering. He is an author of more than 20 monographs.

The most important scientific results:
 S. P. Mitrofanov, Science basis of Group Components Processing Method 
 S. P. Mitrofanov, Yu. A. Gulnov, D. D. Kulicov Automatization of Technological Processes in Serial Production (), Moscow, 1974.
 S. P. Mitrofanov, Yu. A. Gulnov, D. D. Kulicov ECM Usage in Production Technology (), Moscowm 1981.
 S. P. Mitrofanov, D. D. Kulikov, O. N. Milayev, B. S. Padun, Technology of Flexible Production Schemes Preproduction (), St. Petersburg, 1987.

Awards and honors 

 Order of Lenin (1957)
 Lenin Prize (1959)
 Order of the Badge of Honour (1967)
 Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class (1992)
 Order of Honour (2000)

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1915 births
2003 deaths
Engineers from Saint Petersburg
Academic staff of ITMO University
Recipients of the Lenin Prize
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia)
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the October Revolution
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Russian engineers
Soviet engineers
Hoffmann (automobile). The 1951 Hoffmann is a three-wheeled car created by Michael Hoffmann, a shop foreman from Munich.  

Only one Hoffmann was ever made; it is currently part of the collection at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Design

The car is notable for its plethora of unconventional and often user-hostile design elements. These include:

Windows that are raised or lowered with a strap that the user pulls, and held in place with eyelets and pegs
Suicide doors and a driving position that make ingress and egress extremely difficult
A starter awkwardly placed by the driver's right hip
A fuel filler tube which goes from the roof, directly through the cabin of the car
Front wheels that are farther apart than the length of the wheelbase
A linear rather than H-shaped shift pattern with a neutral between each gear
The rear wheel is placed immediately behind the driver, with a large portion of the car behind it
Rear-wheel steering
The combination of the previous two features mean that the car has an extremely high tendency to slew.
An engine located on the same pivot as the rear wheel steering mechanism, so that the engine moves with the wheel when the car is steered
Rearview mirrors positioned so that they are perfectly blocked by the A-pillar
Two-stroke engine, which requires engine oil to be continuously mixed into the fuel supply
Single-cylinder engine, which causes greater vibration than multi-cylinder engines
Rear-mounted engine that is dependent on air cooling, but the lack of a fan causes overheating when idling

References

External links
Jalopnik article on the car

Cars introduced in 1951
Cars of Germany
Leigh Creek Energy. Leigh Creek Energy is an Australian company which is developing an in-situ coal gasification (ISG) project at Leigh Creek, South Australia. It was renamed from Marathon Resources in September 2015.

Leigh Creek Energy Project
Leigh Creek Energy holds petroleum licences over the Leigh Creek Coalfield, a large coal deposit which spans approximately seven kilometres at Leigh Creek. The company's flagship Leigh Creek Energy Project intends to produce gas at the site of the former Leigh Creek coal mine and develop a fertiliser production facility using waste gas streams and produce ammonium nitrate fertiliser for use by Australia's farming sector and for export. The LCEP will also generate electricity via gas turbines to supply power to the project and Leigh Creek township.

History
Project planning commenced in 2011, and an exploration license was obtained by the company in November 2014. 

On 12 April 2018, Leigh Creek Energy received approval for its Statement of Environmental Objectives to run a in-situ coal gasification trial at Leigh Creek. The company successfully ran the pilot project and produced syngas for a period of 4 months and analyzed the sample gas quality.

The in-situ coal gasification trial was completed during April 2019 and the site will be monitored for the next 3 years to prove that there are no environmental concerns with the process.

References

External links
Company website

Companies based in Adelaide
Companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Synthetic fuel companies
Bénirail. Bénirail is the concessioned railway system of Benin.  It is being rehabilitated by the Bolloré Group.

The project includes complete replacement of the track and the rehabilitation of the stations at Cadjèhoun Saint-Jean, Godomey, Cococodji and Pahou.

A passenger service to be called Blueline using second hand coaches from Switzerland's Zentralbahn is due to start in late 2015. Bénirail will purchase BB204 diesel locomotive  and Nippon Sharyo coaches from Indonesia.

Suburban 
 Cotonou - economic capital
 Cadjehoun
 Saint-Jean
 Godomey
 Cococodji
 Pahou
 Sémé
 Stage 2
 Sémé
 Porto Novo - capital

Country 
 Cotonou
 Parakou (000 km)
 Niamey, Niger (574 km)

International 
A metre gauge network of 2500 km is proposed to link the following countries:
 Côte d’Ivoire
 Burkina Faso
 Niger
 Benin 
 Togo

See also 
 Railway stations in Benin
 Suburban railways in Africa

References 

Rail transport in Benin
TSS Sambur (1925). TSS Sambur was a cargo vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1925.

History

TSS Sambur was built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson as one of a pair of new cargo vessels, the other being TSS Roebuck, and launched in 1925. She was put to work on freight services between the Channel Islands and Weymouth.

in June 1940 she was sent with her sister ship Roebuck to Saint-Valery-en-Caux to assist in the evacuation of the 51st Highland Division.  However, by the time they arrived the Germans were already in control of the port and both ships were damaged by gunfire. Subsequently she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for work as a barrage balloon ship in the River Thames and English Channel. In 1942 she was renamed Toreador. She returned to railway service after the war and resumed operation at Weymouth in September 1945  and in 1948 was taken over by British Railways.

She was scrapped in 1964.

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1925 ships
Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Ships built on the River Tyne
Ships of the Great Western Railway
Ships of British Rail
Lincoln Wallen. Lincoln Wallen is a British computer scientist and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Framestore. He is the former CTO of Improbable and DreamWorks Animation.

Wallen received a first-class degree in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University in 1982. He also holds a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Alan Bundy. He was subsequently an academic at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. 

Wallen later moved into industry, working for the publisher Electronic Arts (EA), where he was CTO of EA Mobile, a business he helped to grow to create a $180 million business over three years. He then served as CTO for the online publishing business of EA internationally. Finally, Wallen joined the Californian film animation company DreamWorks, initially as Head of Research and Development from 2008 and later promoted to the position of CTO in 2012.

References

External links
 Lincoln Wallen on LinkedIn
 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
English computer scientists
British expatriates in the United States
American chief technology officers
Electronic Arts employees
DreamWorks Animation people
British chief technology officers
Alumni of Grey College, Durham
Nejla Moalla. Nejla Moalla Harrouch, born on 23 April 1963, is an engineer and a Tunisian politician. She occupied the position of Minister of Trade and Handicrafts from January 2014 until February 2015. Her successors are Ridha Lahouel for Trade and Selma Elloumi Rekik for Handicrafts.

Biography

Education 
She received her high school diploma in 1981 (Math - Science section) with honors in secondary school Carthage Presidency.Between 1981 and 1983, she went to study in preparatory classes for engineering schools at Louis-le-Grand high school in Paris (France). In 1985, she obtained an engineering degree at the Ecole Polytechnique of France and in 1987 at the National School of Mines in Paris.

Professional career 
In 1988, she became an analyst in the department of Industrial Affairs of Paribas Bank in Paris, and in 1989, analyst in charge of investment companies at Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie - BIAT.
Between 1990 and 1994, she was CEO of the companies Mehari Djerba Beach and Mehari Tabarka Beach.From 1994 until 2006, she worked again for the BIAT as director of budget and management control, then as head of the credit department from 2006 to 2008, coordinator of trades redesign project of the information system between 2008 and 2012 and as manager of the department of project management and coordination of trades between 2012 and 2013.

After her position in the government, Nejla Moalla was nominated as CEO of BIAT Insurance.

Political career 
In January 2014, she was nominated Minister of Trade and Handicrafts in the government of Mehdi Jomaa.

Personal life 
Nejla Moalla is married and has three children. Her father is Mansour Moalla; who occupied several ministerial posts during the time of Habib Bourguiba.

References 

Tunisian engineers
École Polytechnique alumni
Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
1963 births
Living people
Debasish Ghose. Debasish Ghose (born 16 May 1960) is a professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science. He is believed to have initiated work on cooperative control in India, having pioneered research on Intelligent control and multi-agents.  He founded the first mobile robotics lab in India i.e. Mobile Robotics Laboratory at IISc in 2002. He is known for his early work in swarm intelligence, distributed computing and game theory. His primary research is in Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles,  although, current interest is in Computational intelligence i.e. Machine Learning for Aerial Robotics.

Formerly, he has served as chair of the Department of Aerospace, IISc (2012–15) and convener of the Space Technology Cell (STC), ISRO-IISc. 

He was a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles for nearly 4 years.

Education 
 1990 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD in Electrical Engineering), Indian Institute of Science. His specialization is in applied maths (game theory).
 1984 Masters in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science
 1982 BSc (Engg), Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

Academic research
Ghose's research is in the field of intelligent-control and swarms of autonomous systems. He has been working in dynamic game theory, distributed computing, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems and robotics. The research group has close collaborations with eminent researchers and academic departments in countries such as the US, Israel, UK, Singapore, South Korea, Germany, Japan.

He has served in the editorial boards of prestigious international journals and conferences (e.g. IEEE Transactions, Proceedings of IMechE). He has been senior member of several National core technical review committees for critical projects under DRDO, ISRO, NAL etc. He is a senior fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.

Recently, he has been named as one of the top two percent scientists in the world according to a study done by researchers at Stanford University and appearing in the journal Plos Biology (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918&type=printable).

Mobile Robotics Lab (GCDSL/MRL) 
Ghose, along with his student K.N. Krishnanand, developed Glowworm swarm optimization and with Animesh Chakravarthy popularized the collision-cone approach

The alumni of the lab have gone on to work on various notable research projects in academia and industry.

Recently, there's been a push for Learning-based  projects in the lab, thus increasing collaboration with applied ML (Machine perception) groups in Industry.

References

Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Indian aerospace engineers
Living people
1960 births
Kryukiv Railway Car Building Works. Kriukiv Railway Car Manufacturing Plant (; KVBZ) is a large industrial company in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives and multiple unit trains.

History 
The foundation for the first buildings of the Krukiv Railway Car Manufacturing Plant was laid in 1869. As for 1900 there have been working 400 workers, who provided repairs for 120 freight and 20 passenger cars per month.

In 2013, Kryukov Carriage Works was ranked 10th in the rating of high-tech machine building enterprises in Ukraine in terms of management innovations. The main program of the plant's work is the development and production of mainline passenger and freight cars of various types, trucks, spare parts, wheel sets, railway wheels, subways, road construction equipment, escalators, etc.

In January-June 2018, the plant increased freight car production by 69% compared to the same period in 2017. In quantitative terms, this growth is 706 freight cars more, up to 1,728 units.

In July 2018, PJSC Ukrzaliznytsia held a tender for the purchase of 53 new passenger railcars worth UAH 2.6 billion, which was won by Kryukiv Railcar. Under the terms of the tender, the plant is to deliver the cars to Ukrzaliznytsia by July 1, 2019: 21 compartment cars, 20 SV-type compartment cars, 11 cars with a train manager's compartment, and 2 compartment cars for international passenger transportation. 

As a result of the tender, the company is to manufacture six DPKr-3 diesel trains in 2018-19, consisting of three cars - an intermediate non-motorized 63-7084A, a head motorized 63-7083A and a head motorized 63-7083A-01 equipped to carry passengers in wheelchairs. The cost of one train is UAH 176.97 million. The trains are to be delivered to the Ternopil Motor Car Depot of the Lviv Railways regional branch.

Production

Passenger
High speed interregional train EKr-1 Tarpan
High speed interregional train DPKr-2
High speed interregional train DPKr-3
Passenger coaches 779 series
Passenger coaches 788 series

Products for Metro
Front metro car mod. 81-7021
Intermediate metro car mod.81-7037
Intermediate metro car mod.81-7022
Front metro car mod. 81-7036

Military vehicles
 I-52 Mine layer vehicle

Formerly
 GSP 55
 PMM 2M

Metalworks

Gallery

References

External links 

Kriukiv Railway Car Building Works official website (eng.)

Rolling stock manufacturers of Ukraine
Ukrainian brands
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1896
Kremenchuk
Economy of Kremenchuk
Buildings and structures in Poltava Oblast
Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union
Manufacturing plants in Ukraine
1896 establishments in the Russian Empire
Reflex (building design software). Reflex was a 3D building design software application developed in the mid 1980s and - along with its predecessor Sonata - is now regarded as a forerunner to today's building information modelling applications.

History
The application was developed by two former GMW Computers employees who had been involved with Sonata. After Sonata had "disappeared in a mysterious, corporate black hole, somewhere in eastern Canada in 1992," Jonathan Ingram and colleague Gerard Gartside then went on to develop Reflex, bought for $30 million by Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) in July 1996.

PTC had identified the architecture, engineering and construction market as a target for its parametric modelling solutions, and bought Reflex to expand into the sector. However, the fit between Reflex and PTC's existing solutions was poor, and PTC's Pro/Reflex gained little market traction; PTC then sold the product to another US company, The Beck Group, in 1997, where it formed the kernel of a parametric estimating package called DESTINI.

Around the same time, several people from PTC set up a new company, Charles River Software (renamed Revit Technology Corporation in 2000, later (2002) bought by Autodesk). Leonid Raiz and Irwin Jungreis obtained from PTC a non-exclusive, source code development license for Reflex as part of their severance package. In the words of Jerry Laiserin: "While Autodesk Revit may not contain genomic snippets of Reflex code, Revit clearly is spiritual heir to a lineage of BIM 'begats' — RUCAPS begat Sonata, Sonata begat Reflex, and Reflex begat Revit."

In a 2017 letter to AEC Magazine, Jungreis said:
"After receiving several hours of instruction in the software architecture of Reflex from Reflex developers, we decided not to use it as our starting point because of several important differences at the very foundations of the software. At that point, we put it aside and never looked at it again. ... Revit was not based on Reflex. No code from Reflex was used...."

However, Ingram, in his 2020 book Understanding BIM: The Past, Present and Future, shows much of the functionality of Reflex is duplicated in Revit. A 2022 account of the history of BIM by Kasper Miller asserts: "Reflex and Revit shared a myriad of features — so much so that it is fairly clear where the Revit team found much of its inspiration".

References

Sources

Data modeling
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided design software
Building information modeling
Alexander Cleghorn. Alexander Cleghorn FRSE MICE IESS (1859–1922) was a Scottish engineer and shipbuilder. He served as President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1917–1919.

Life

He was born in Fife in 1859 and educated in St Andrews. He then studied both engineering at the University of Edinburgh and naval architecture at University of Glasgow.

He then began an apprenticeship with the Govan firm of Robert Napier and Sons. In 1897 he moved to Barclay Curle & Co as their engineering manager. He then entered the prestigious Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in 1905 as Engineering Director.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1913. His proposers were Sir Archibald Denny, George Alexander Gibson, James Geikie and Cargill Gilston Knott.

He retired in 1920, and died in Glasgow on 4 May 1922.

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1859 births
1922 deaths
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
People from Leuchars
Scottish shipbuilders
Scottish engineers
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Govan
Alumni of the University of Glasgow
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Fellows of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland