omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Jonathan Ferguson (pilot). Jonathan Ferguson (1915 – 1974)  was an Irish electrical technician who worked as a scientific civil servant in the Ministries of Aircraft Production and Supply.  During the Second World War, he flew aircraft with the Air Transport Auxiliary.  In 1958, he had sex reassignment surgery.

Early life
Ferguson was born in Lurgan on 30 October 1915 to Edward and Jessie Robertson Ferguson (née Fyfe) on 30 October 1915, and was first educated at Lurgan High School and College. He then studied electrical engineering at technical colleges while working as a demonstrator for electricity boards in Northern Ireland and England. He then joined British Thomson-Houston to work on switchgear and, from there, became a technical assistant at the Ministry of Aircraft Production. Ferguson joined the Women's Engineering Society (WES) in 1940, joining the Council in 1947 and staying involved until the late 1950s. Ferguson represented WES on the Scholarship panel for the Amy Johnson Memorial Scholarship which was set up to support young women to further their flying careers.

Second World War
Ferguson had joined the Civil Air Guard and learnt to fly with them. In May 1943, he joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and flew warplanes for the RAF as a ferry pilot until October 1945, logging about a thousand flight hours. Ferguson reached the rank of Second Officer in the ATA and, after the war, was commissioned as a Pilot Officer in the Women's RAF Volunteer Reserve.

Personal life
In 1958, Ferguson announced that he had undergone sex reassignment surgery and his birth certificate had been updated so that he would henceforth be known as Jonathan Ferguson. He said "I want to get this done in as dignified a way as possible". His mother Jessie Ferguson made a statutory declaration on 7 January 1958 in support of her son. He was then a Chief Experimental Officer in the Ministry of Supply, working on aircraft research and development and the change did not affect his position.

Later career 
In the mid 1960s, Jonathan Ferguson was in charge of a civilian group of around twenty ex-pilots who wrote and produced Aircrew Manuals, (previously known as Pilot's Notes) in conjunction with test establishment pilots and RAF staff. He referred to his life before transitioning as "when I wore a skirt".

Jonathan Ferguson died in 1974 after falling from a domestic ladder.

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1915 births
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Air Transport Auxiliary pilots
British aviators
British women aviators
British women in World War II
Transgender military personnel
Transgender pilots
Women's Engineering Society
Transgender men from Northern Ireland
20th-century LGBTQ people from Northern Ireland
Germán Bannen. Germán Bannen Lay (25 May 1928−14 October 2019) was a Chilean engineer and politician. He was Urbanism National Prize in 2003.

Bannen developed well part of his professional trajectory as an urban advisor for the Municipality of Providencia, a middle-high class commune of Santiago, the capital city of Chile. He taught lessons at the Pontifical Catholic University School of Architecture and Urbanism, where he trained a large number of generations of architects together with his wife Liliana Lanata Macchi.

Biography
Bannen entered the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) to study a BA in architecture, a career that ended at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV), where he obtained his degree in 1956. At the PUCV, he was part of its first generation of architects. Later, Bannen specialized his acknowledgments in Urban Development at the Center for Ekistic Studies in Athens, Greece (1972).

From 1962 to 1988, Bannen was an urban planner and director of the Department of Urban Development of the Municipality of Providencia. Similarly, from 1973 to the 2010s, he was director of the CORMU Providencia Society. On the other hand, Bannen also was the national director of the College of Architects of Chile (1992−1996) and advisor on urban areas matters of the aforementioned municipality (1989−2015).

In the scholar sphere, Bannen began as a workshop professor at his second alma mater, the PUCV (1956−1958). Then, in 1974, he was hired by the PUC to taught lessons. In 2001, he taught at the University of La Serena and the Federico Santa María Technical University, also from Valparaíso.

After a lifetime of contributions to urbanism, the training of other professionals, and various achievements, Bannen died on 14 October 2019 aged 91.

Urban works

 Park of the Escultures.
 Nueva Providencia Avenue.
 Balmaceda Park Literary cafe.
 Bustamante Park Literary cafe.
 Club Providencia.
 Remodelation of Pocuro Avenue.
 Pedro de Valdivia Square.

Awards
 Award from the 1974 College of Architects for the Nueva Providencia project.
 Award from the 1980 Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning to the Municipality of Providencia for his work in the field of urban development.
 1995 Alfredo Johnson Award (awarded by the College of Architects).
 1997 Pan American Federation of Architects Award.
 Appointment as Emeritus Professor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (1998).
 2003 National Urbanism Award.

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1928 births
2019 deaths
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso alumni
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile alumni
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
Academic staff of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Academic staff of the University of La Serena
People from Santiago Metropolitan Region
Chilean architects
Ekolot KR-010 Elf. The Ekolot KR-010 Elf is a Polish mid-wing, single-seat motor glider, produced by Ekolot of Krosno. It is the successor to the Ekolot JK 01A Elf. It was designed by Jerzy Krawczyk. It employs flaperons.

Specifications (KR-010 Elf)

See also

References

External links

Polish sailplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Ekolot aircraft
Krysta Svore. Krysta Marie Svore (born 1979) is an American computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. She is the Technical Fellow and Vice President of advanced quantum development for Microsoft Azure Quantum.

She previously led the Azure Quantum software team (formerly the Quantum Architectures and Computation group at Microsoft Research) for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, developing Azure Quantum and bringing the first quantum computers to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Formerly she served as the Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Quantum Software. Beyond quantum computing, she has also worked on research in machine learning.

Education and career
Svore is originally from the Seattle, Washington area. She majored in mathematics at Princeton University, and became intrigued by the possibilities of quantum computing through a junior-year seminar on cryptography given by Andrew Wiles, in which she learned of the ability of quantum computers using Shor's algorithm to break the RSA cryptosystem.

She completed her Ph.D. in 2006 at Columbia University, with highest distinction, under the joint supervision of Alfred Aho and Joseph F. Traub. Her dissertation was Software Tools and Failure Thresholds for Reliable, Scalable, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation.

She joined Microsoft Research in 2006, initially working on problems in machine learning but later focusing more heavily on her work with quantum computing.

Svore also serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee and the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee for U.S. Department of Energy.

Recognition
Svore was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023, "for advancing the development of software architectures and empowering quantum scientists through leadership to design practical and impactful algorithms".

In 2022, Svore was elected as a fellow of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for "advancing the field of computing through the development of new programming languages and algorithms for quantum computing, including pioneering work on arithmetic and machine learning operations on quantum computers, and for foundational contributions to the integration of machine learning into the development of scalable methods for web search."

She was named one of the 39 Most Powerful female engineers by Business Insider in 2018.

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1979 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Princeton University alumni
Columbia University alumni
Microsoft Research people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Javad Owji. Javad Owji (; born 24 July 1966) is an Iranian oil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Petroleum of Iran from 2021 to 2024.

Early life and education
Owji was born in Shiraz in 1966. He received a bachelor's degree in oil engineering from Petroleum University of Technology in Ahvaz.

Career
From 1980 Owji worked in the oil-related public offices. He was the deputy oil minister and the head of the National Iranian Gas Company from 2009 to 2013 during the last term of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He also served in various oil-related posts, including chairman of the board of supervision of production and gas refineries and vice chairman of Petro Mofid Oil and Gas Development Holding. Owji was nominated by President Ebrahim Raisi as oil minister on 11 August 2021. On 25 August Owji was confirmed by the Majlis with 198 to 70 with 18 abstentions. He succeeded Bijan Namdar Zangeneh in the post.

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20th-century Iranian engineers
21st-century Iranian engineers
21st-century Iranian politicians
1966 births
Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company
Living people
Oil ministers of Iran
Politicians from Shiraz
Petroleum University of Technology alumni
Petroleum engineers
Hudong Chen. Hudong Chen () is a physicist.

Chen was affiliated with the Bartol Research Institute, and later worked for Exa Corporation. He was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, "[f]or contributions to fundamental fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence theory, pioneering work in discrete many-body systems and Lattice Boltzmann representations, and industrial applications and practical numerical methods based upon these ideas."

Chen, senior director, Simulia Research and Development Technology, Dassault Systèmes, Waltham, Massachusetts is elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to lattice Boltzmann simulation of turbulent flows and applications to automotive and aerospace industries in 2023 (NAE Class 2023).

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century physicists
Dartmouth College alumni
21st-century physicists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Alessandro Volta Power Plant. The Alessandro Volta Power Plant was a 3600 MW polycombustible thermal power plant located in the municipality of Montalto di Castro and owned by Enel.

It was commissioned in 1989 near the unfinished Montalto di Castro Nuclear Power Station of which it used part of the site and the sea water intakes already built.

It was decommissioned in 2019 and scheduled for disposal and is being negotiated for conversion into data centers for IT companies.

Construction 
The plant consists of four 660 MW steam units that can be fired by either dense fuel oil or natural gas, and eight small 120-125 MW Nuovo Pignone (125MW) and Fiat (120MW) turbogas units paired in a combined cycle with the steam units.

It is the most powerful thermal power plant in Italy but is relatively underutilized (about 3000 hours per year out of a theoretical maximum of 8760), due to the high cost of fuel.

Emissions 
In 2009, the plant emitted one million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, fully offset by the purchase of approximately one million CERs.

Specifically, in order to gain possession of the necessary CERs, Enel has invested in a project in China that involves the destruction of tons of trifluoromethane (also known by the abbreviation HFC-23, it is a very dangerous greenhouse gas). In this way, providing on the one hand the removal of greenhouse gases in China, it comes into possession of credits that allow it to emit an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide in Italy.

See also 
 List of power stations in Italy
 Electricity sector in Italy

References 

Power stations in Italy
Alessandro Volta
Arthur Hauspurg. Arthur Hauspurg (August 27, 1925 – February 19, 2003) was an American businessman who was the chairman of Consolidated Edison.

Biography 
Hauspurg was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He received his B.S. from Columbia University School of Engineering in 1943 before serving in the Navy from 1943 to 1946. He returned to Columbia and received a M.S. in electrical engineering in 1947. Hauspurg was a member of the Tau Beta Pi honor society.

As chief engineer of the American Electric Power Corporation, he was named to the federal commission investigating the Northeast blackout of 1965. In 1969, he joined ConEdison as vice president for system planning and electrical engineering and he was responsible for research and development.

In 1973, he rose to senior vice president and became president and COO of ConEdison in 1975. In 1981, he became CEO and chairman in 1982. He retired from both positions in 1990 and was replaced by Eugene R. McGrath. He was credited for improving the company's transmission system and updating its control center.

Hauspurg served on the boards of New York City Partnership and the Central Park Conservancy. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1976, for "[c]ontributions and research in UHV and HVDC transmission and in the field of complex interconnected power systems reliability." In 1979, he received the Thomas Egleston Medal from the Columbia University School of Engineering for distinguished achievement in engineering or applied science.

He died on February 19, 2003, at a family reunion in Barbados at 77 years old.

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1925 births
2003 deaths
Consolidated Edison
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
American electricians
American chief executives of energy companies
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Brooklyn Technical High School alumni
Navy 44 (M&R). The Navy 44 (M&R) is an American sailboat that was designed by McCurdy & Rhodes for the US Navy for sail training at the United States Naval Academy and built in 1985.

The design was originally built by the manufacturer as the Navy 44, but is now usually referred to as the Navy 44 (M&R) or Mark I to differentiate it from the unrelated 1963 Alfred E. Luders designed Annapolis 44 which it replaced and the David Pedrick Navy 44 Mark II design which superseded it.

Production
The design was built by Tillotson Pearson in the United States, with 20 boats built, all of them in 1985.

Design
The Navy 44 is a training keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a rig, a raked stem, a reverse transom, a skeg-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed fin keel. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the standard keel. It is fitted with a Westerbeke diesel engine for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for seven people, with two single berths in the bow cabin, two straight settee berths and two pilot berths in the main cabin and an aft cabin with a single berth on the starboard side. The galley is located on the starboard side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is L-shaped and is equipped with a three-burner stove, an ice box and a double sink. A navigation station is opposite the galley, on the port side. The head is located on the port side of the companionway.

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links

Keelboats
1980s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts 
Sailboat type designs by McCurdy & Rhodes
Sailboat types built by Pearson Yachts
United States Naval Academy
SATCOMBw. SATCOMBw is the German Bundeswehr's satellite communications system. The system was introduced in 2008; the current "Stage 2" has been in operation since the end of 2011, the system is based on the two communications satellites. The system is operated by Airbus Defense and Space. In 2022 the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag released the funds for the extension of the operator contract with Airbus as part of a 25 million euro proposal until 2028.

System 

Images, videos and speech as well as other data can be transmitted with the system. The requirements for establishing a communication connection via SATCOMBw are comparatively complex: a ground station with a mirror that is at least 2.4 m in size must be set up. The Bundeswehr uses deployable ground stations, some are mounted on trailers. The data capacity is 2 Mbit/s per chanel, encypytet by SitLink of Rohde & Schwarz.

The two Satellites COMSATBw-1 and COMSATBw-2 are at a fixed position on 66°East and 34°West providing Ku-Band and C-Band abilities. Ku-Links are fixed to connect Germany, C-Band Links has a global illumination. For additional capacity, the Bundeswehr leases Intelsat channels.

The ground control is maintained by the German Armed Forces Satellit Ground Station in Weilheim and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

The successor project SatComBw 3 has already been launched and, according to the current planning status of 2022, should be available in 2029.

References

Command and control
Communication Systems of Bundeswehr
Micronaut (framework). Micronaut is an open source JVM-based framework for building lightweight microservices.

It is designed to avoid reflection, thus reducing memory consumption and improving start times. Features which would typically be implemented at run-time are instead pre-computed at compile time.

It was created by Graeme Rocher, who also created the Grails framework. In June 2020, Rocher co-founded the Micronaut Foundation, which aims to "advance innovation and adoption of Micronaut". Micronaut is continually developed and maintained by Object Computing Inc.

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External links

Software frameworks
Java virtual machine
Software using the Apache license
Sanket Goel. Sanket Goel (born 31 December 1977) is an Indian Professor working with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana. He is the Principal Investigator of MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics (MMNE) Lab and Founding Director of Cleome Innovations Pvt. Ltd. Currently, he is also serving as a Dean where he spearheads Research and Innovation activities across all the campuses of BITS Pilani.

Scientific contributions 

Goel's work focuses on MEMS, microfluidics, and nanoelectronics in diverse applications like sensing, energy harvesting, and storage. His most cited works include papers on sustainable fuel, laser-induced graphene, and biofuel cells, both enzymatic and microbial. He has over 210 journal papers, 90 conference papers and 20 book chapters. His team has filed 24 patents so far. He has edited two books, Microelectronics and Signal Processing: Advanced Concepts and Applications and Miniaturized Electrochemical Devices. His lab (MMNE Lab) and company focus on developing miniaturized smart sensors and energy harvesters for a variety of applications.

His group has also developed droplet microfluidic devices for diverse applications. and his team is also working on characterizing and optimizing solar cells for underwater applications and 3D printed devices for space applications.

His team has started developing IoT enabled devices for soil parameter monitoring, DNA amplification, and Nanomaterial Synthesis applications.

Goel has given more than 95 invited talk at various conferences, workshops, and public forums.

Honors and awards 
Goel has won several awards, honors and distinctions, including the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitational Fellowship (2021), Fulbright Fellowship (2015) and Dr C R Mitra Best Faculty Award by Prof V S Rao Foundation / BITS-Pilani (2021). In 2022, he has become the fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) and Institution of Engineers (IE).

Goel is with the editorial team of several journals including IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Applied Nanoscience, and Journal of Nanobiotechnology. Earlier, he was in the Editorial Board of IEEE Access Journal. He has also been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Sensors Council for a term of 2 years from 2024-2026.

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1977 births
Living people
People from Aligarh
University of Alberta alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
Ramjas College alumni
Indian academics
Indian scientists
Multifunctional furniture. Multifunctional furniture is furniture with several functions combined. The functions combined vary, but a common variant is to incorporate an extra storage function into chair, tables, and so forth, making them so-called storage furniture. It more efficiently uses up living space. Lack of space can be an important reason for choosing such furniture, but combination furniture is also seen in larger homes for more space-efficient utilization. Historically, furniture with transforming mechanisms was called "mechanical furniture".

Examples 
Some common examples of multifunctional furniture are:

 Chair-table, a table where the tabletop can be hinged to form the back of a seat to serve as a chair, if necessary
 Chest-chair, a type of chair where the seat doubles as the lid of a chest for storage
 Chest-table, a chest used as a table, with storage space underneath a hinged tabletop. Today more commonly seen as coffee tables, since people's legs do not usually rest underneath such tables.
 Coffee table with extra storage on their underside is a type of multifunctional furniture
 Daybed, a combination furniture which can be used as a bed, for sitting, or for rest and relaxation in common rooms
 Lambing chair, a type of unchair commonly with storage under the seat in form of a drawer
 Monks bench, a table/bench
 Ottoman, a stool where the seat often is hinged with a hollow inside which can be used for storage
 Pull-down bed, a folding bed that is hinged on one end so that it can be stored vertically against a wall or inside a cupboard
 Recliner, a chair which can be folded out to a near supine position for sleeping
 Storage bed, a bed with built in storage
 Sofa bed, a sofa where the seating area can be pulled or folded out to form a bed for sleeping
 Storage bench, a bench where there is storage beneath the seat
 Step chair and onit chair (the latter has an ironing-board mode)

See also 
 Hidden compartment
 Modern furniture
 Overhead storage, space-saving storage that frees up floor space and utilizes room volume
 :Category:Mechanical furniture
 :Category:Portable furniture

Literature 
 Møbler i Norge (1976) by Trond Juul Gjerdi

References

External links 
 "kombinasjonsmøbel" at DigitaltMuseum
 Small spaces need smart solutions - Designing furniture for small spaces, in connection with human wellbeing. Kristoffer Thøgersen, Department of Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Furniture