omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Laurent Mekies. Laurent Mekies (born 28 April 1977) is a French engineer who currently works as the team principal of Racing Bulls in Formula One.

Career
Mekies graduated from Loughborough University after obtaining a master's degree from the École supérieure des techniques aéronautiques et de construction automobile in Paris. In 2000, he started his career at Asiatech in Formula Three before entering Formula One, working for Arrows. He switched to Minardi in the following years, where he worked as the race engineer for Mark Webber, Justin Wilson, Zsolt Baumgartner and Christijan Albers.

When the team was acquired by the Austrian energy drink maker Red Bull and renamed as Scuderia Toro Rosso at the end of 2005, he was promoted to be the team's chief engineer.

Mekies left the Faenza-based team to join the FIA in 2014 as safety director and was appointed F1 deputy race director in 2017. He moved to Scuderia Ferrari in September 2018 as sporting director. He has been in charge of the Track and Performance department since 2019. In January 2021, he was appointed as Deputy Team Principal and Racing Director of Scuderia Ferrari. 

On 27 July 2023, it was announced that Mekies would leave his job as Racing Director for Ferrari at the end of the week, not being in attendance for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps as a result. Diego Ioverno will take on part of Mekies' duties as sporting director. Mekies started his tenure as the Team Principal for RB Formula One Team (formerly Scuderia AlphaTauri) at the start of the 2024 season.

References

1977 births
Living people
Alumni of Loughborough University
Ferrari people
Formula One engineers
French automotive engineers
French motorsport people
Engineers from Tours, France
French expatriates in England
French expatriates in Italy
RB Formula One Team
Scuderia Toro Rosso
Operation Zenith. Operation Zenith was a demonstration of UAV (commonly known as drones) and ATM integration held at Manchester Airport on November 21, 2018. The event aimed to illustrate that "drones can be flown safely alongside manned aircraft in controlled airspace". A total of eight scenarios were demonstrated in real-time, including On Airfield Delivery, Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight (BVLOS) Infrastructure Inspection, and Commercial VLOS Operations.

The event was coordinated by Air Navigation Service Provider for the United Kingdom, NATS, and British Tech Start-Up, Altitude Angel. A total of 13 independent organisations also took part in the event as "delivery partners", including Vodafone, DJI and Frequentis.

It is regarded as one of the first live demonstrations of its kind and was considered to be the "most technically complex and comprehensive demonstration in the world so far of an UTM (Unmanned aircraft system traffic management) system".

In August 2019, Operation Zenith was a finalist in the CANSO Award of Excellence in ATM.

References 

Unmanned aerial vehicles of the United Kingdom
JUQUEEN. JUQUEEN was a Blue Gene/Q system supercomputer built by IBM. Financed by the Helmholtz Association and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from North Rhine-Westphalia, it was put into operation in 2012 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich as the successor to the JUGENE supercomputer.

JUQUEEN was the fastest computer in Europe and ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers. It was also one of the most energy-efficient systems in the world for its time and ranked 5th on the Green500 list. It consisted of 458,752 processor cores and had a maximum computing power of 5.9 petaflops.

JUQUEEN was used for several research projects, including the Human Brain Project.

JUQEEN was shut down in May 2018 after six years of operation and replaced by the successor JUWELS.

External links
Official website (archived)

References

IBM supercomputers
Supercomputing in Europe
Kabiru Bala. Kabiru Bala (born 7 January 1964) is a Nigerian professor, academic, construction engineer and the current vice chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

Early life and education 
Kabiru Bala was born on 7 January 1964, he was educated at Barewa College, Zaria before proceeding to Ahmadu Bello University where he bagged a bachelor's degree in building engineering and technology in 1985. He obtained his master's degree and PhD in the same institution. He has written 80 publications and has attended many international conferences.

Career 
Bala is the current vice-chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, having held numerous positions previously within the university.

References 

1964 births
Vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities
Nigerian engineers
Ahmadu Bello University alumni
Academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University
Living people
Juana Pereyra. Juana Pereyra (8 November 1897 - 16 December 1976) was a Uruguayan civil engineer, and one of the first women to graduate from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de la República.

Early life and education 
Juana Pereyra was born in Montevideo, Uruguay on 8 November 1897. At school she excelled at mathematics. After the initial opposition of her family and having to overcome the difficulties that women had to face in the professional fields of the time, she enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de la República, graduating with high marks with the title of Ingeniera de Puentes y Caminos (Engineer of Bridges and Roads) in November 1920, making her one of the first female engineers in South America.

Career 
Pereyra was a member of the Working Committee of the Consejo Nacional de Mujeres (the National Women's Council), which at that time was chaired by the feminist activist Paulina Luisi, the first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree in the country. In 1917, whilst still a student herself, Pereyra had started to teach mathematics and physics at the Universidad de Mujeres (Women's University). In 1924 Pereyra began working as a teacher of Bridge and Road engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de la República.

She later joined the technical team of the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad (National Roads Directorate), where she played a key part the teams working on significant projects such as the construction of the Centennial Bridge in Paso de los Toros in the department of Tacuarembó and bridge projects in Las Piedras, and in San Ramón over the Santa Lucia river. Her high-profile career led her to become a founding member of the Uruguayan Academia Nacional de Ingeniería (ANIU) from its foundation.

Juana Pereyra died in Montevideo on December 16, 1976.

Legacy 
Ing. Juana Pereyra Avenue in Montevideo was named in her honour.

References

External links 
Historia de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería ANIU

1897 births
1976 deaths
University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni
Academic staff of the University of the Republic (Uruguay)
Uruguayan civil engineers
20th-century Uruguayan engineers
Uruguayan women scientists
20th-century women engineers
Minami Yoda. Minami Yoda is an American mechanical engineer and the chairperson of mechanical engineering at Michigan State University. Her research concerns experimental fluid dynamics, with applications ranging from fusion power to nanofluidics, and including the measurement of fluid flows using the evanescent field.

Education and career
Yoda graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1985, and completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1989. Her dissertation, The instantaneous concentration field in the self-similar region of a high Schmidt number round jet, was supervised by Lambertus Hesselink.

After postdoctoral research at Technische Universität Berlin, she joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1995. At Georgia Tech, she was the principal investigator of the Fluids, Optical and Interfacial Diagnostics Lab. She served as chair of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics for 2019–2020.

Recognition
Yoda was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2008. She became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2012, after being nominated by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for outstanding contributions to experimental fluid dynamics and optical diagnostics and, specifically, for innovative contributions to the development of evanescent-wave illumination techniques to study flows in near-wall regions".

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Georgia Tech faculty
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
California Institute of Technology alumni
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Stanford University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women
Chen Zhaoyuan. Chen Zhaoyuan (; 1 October 1930 – 25 June 2020) was a Chinese engineer specializing in civil structural engineering and protection engineering. He was a member of the Chinese Civil Engineering Society (CCES).

Biography
Chen was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang, on 1 October 1930. In 1949 he was accepted by Shanghai Institute of Textile Technology (now Donghua University), where he majored in textile. He was admitted by Tsinghua University in 1950 and taught there when he graduated. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1953. In August 1957, he obtained a master's degree in civil engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign between April 1983 and April 1984. He was appointed director of the Department of Architecture in September 1984, serving until September 1988. He died of illness in Beijing, on 25 June 2020.

Autobiography

Honors and awards
 1997 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1930 births
2020 deaths
Scientists from Ningbo
Engineers from Zhejiang
Tsinghua University alumni
Donghua University alumni
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Chinese structural engineers
20th-century Chinese engineers
Chinese autobiographers
21st-century Chinese writers
20th-century Chinese male writers
Male biographers
21st-century male writers
Chinese expatriates in the United States
No. 49 Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive Wing. No. 49 Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive Wing () was established in 2016 at the SLAF Bandaranayake. The unit's first Commanding Officer was Squadron Leader (now Wing Commander) Nilendra Perera, who continues to hold this office. The wing is equipped with modern equipment required to counter chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosive threats.

History 
The unit was established in 2016 at the SLAF Bandaranayake. The No 49 Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive Wing came into action when a Sri Lankan Airlines aircraft took off from Bandaranike International Airport to repatriate Sri Lankan students from the Chinese province of Wuhan, affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak. The wing carried out decontamination operations of the aircraft fleet at the Bandaranayke International Airport during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Training 
Airmen are trained locally at SLAF Base Katunayake and also sent on overseas specialized training courses to countries such as Switzerland, Serbia, Norway, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Czech Republic, South Korea, and the United States.

References

External links 
 Sri Lanka Air Force
 Sri Lanka Air Force  Base Katunayake

Sri Lanka Air Force Wings
NBC units and formations
Enrico Cardile. Enrico Cardile (born 5 April 1975) is an Italian aerodynamicist who will commence work as chief technical officer for the Aston Martin Formula One team in . He previously worked for Scuderia Ferrari, where he took charge of the Aerodynamics Department and worked as the vehicle project manager.

Career 
Cardile obtained a degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Pisa in 2002. He spent a further three years at the university collaborating with Ferrari on an aerodynamic innovation project.
In 2005, he joined Ferrari on FIA GT Championship-related projects, overseeing aerodynamics. In 2016, he moved across to the Formula One team, working as Head of Aero Development, and was appointed as vehicle project manager in the following year.

In July 2024, Aston Martin announced that he had joined the team as chief technical officer and would commence work in .

References 

1975 births
Ferrari people
Formula One designers
Italian automotive engineers
Italian motorsport people
Living people
People from Arezzo
University of Pisa alumni
Forrest N. Iandola. Forrest N. Iandola is an American computer scientist specializing in efficient AI.

Career 
Iandola earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by Kurt Keutzer. As part of his dissertation he co-authored SqueezeNet, a deep neural network for image classification that is optimized for smartphones and other mobile devices.

Iandola and Keutzer went on to co-found DeepScale. The firm squeezes deep neural networks onto low-cost automotive grade processors for use in driver assistance systems. Tesla acquired DeepScale in 2019.

In 2020, he co-authored SqueezeBERT, an efficient neural network for natural language processing. In 2022, he joined Meta as an AI research scientist. His research at Meta includes the efficient AI models EfficientSAM and MobileLLM.

References

Further reading 
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Natural language processing researchers
American technology company founders
Tesla, Inc. people
Meta Platforms people
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Iseult Lynch. Iseult Lynch is an Irish chemist and Professor of Environmental Nanoscience at the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. Her research focuses on the safety of nanoparticles in the environment and their interactions with biological entities.

Early life and education 
Lynch is from Dublin, Ireland.  Her parents are Maura (Mary Catherine nee King) and Mark R. Lynch, and she has 3 siblings – Daire, Mark and Michelle.  Her father was posthumously awarded the 2019 IUPAC International Award for Advances in Harmonized Approaches to Crop Protection Chemistry from the IUPAC Division on Chemistry and the Environment.

She completed a BSc in Chemistry in 1995, a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2000 and went on to complete an MBA in 2012, all at University College Dublin.

Career 
She undertook her PhD in the Irish Centre for Colloid Science and Biomaterials, and then postdoctoral research, including a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, at Physical Chemistry 1, Lund University, before returning to University College Dublin to support the establishment of the Centre for BioNano Interactions, where she was a researcher and Strategic Research Manager until early 2013.  Lynch moved to the University of Birmingham in March 2013, joining the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. Her work centres on nanoplastics, which range in size from 1 – 100 nanometers (nm), and microplastics.

She specialises in the environmental health and safety implications of engineering nanomaterials and nanoscale plastic waste. She has investigated the impact of water pollution on daphnia (also known as water fleas), specifically looking at how these plastics enter their gut. Her research has demonstrated that daphnia release proteins that attach in a process known as adsorption, which changes how organisms interact with the nanoplastics.

Awards 

 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Cozzarelli Prize for best publication in Class I: Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 2007 
 Royal Society of Chemistry John Jeyes Award 2020
 Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Noack Laboratorien Outstanding Science Award 2021
 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2018
 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2022

Selected publications

References

External links

Living people
Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom
21st-century Irish chemists
Irish women chemists
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from County Dublin
21st-century Irish women scientists
Alumni of University College Dublin
SS Vorios Hellas. Vorios Hellas was a Hansa A Type cargo ship which was built as Sanga in 1944 by Lübecker Flenderwerke AG, Lübeck, Germany for Deutsche Afrika Linie, Hamburg . She was seized as a prize of war in 1945, passing to the Ministry of War Transport and renamed Empire Gatwick. She was allocated to Greece in 1947 and was renamed Vorios Hellas. She was sold to Hellenic Lines in 1948. She was sold and scrapped in 1974.

Description
The ship was  long, with a beam of . She had a depth of , and a draught of . She was assessed as , , .

The ship was propelled by a compound steam engine, which had two cylinders of  and two cylinders of  diameter by  inches stroke. The engine was built by Waggon- und Maschinenbau GmbH, Görlitz. Rated at 1,200IHP, it drove a single screw propeller and could propel the ship at .

History
Sanga was a Hansa A Type cargo ship built in 1944 as yard number 403 by Lübecker Flenderwerke AG, Lübeck, Germany for Deutsche Afrika Linie, Hamburg. She was completed in July 1944. Her port of registry was Hamburg.

In May 1945, Sanga was seized as a prize of war at Copenhagen, Denmark. She was passed to the Ministry of War Transport and  was renamed Empire Gatwick. The Code Letters GNMT and United Kingdom Official Number 180763 were allocated. Her port of registry was London and she was operated under the management of J T Salvesen Ltd., Leith.

In 1947, Empire Gatwick was allocated to Greece. The Greek government sold her in 1948 to Hellenic Lines and was renamed Vorios Hellas. She was one of two ex-German ships allocated to Hellenic Lines out of the five that they applied for - the other ship was the , Her port of registry was Piraeus and the Code Letters SVSL were allocated. With their introduction in the 1960s, Vorios Hellas was allocated the Lloyd's Register Number 5383691. She was sold in 1974 to Papageorgiou Bros, Piraeus. She was scrapped in April 1974 by Centas Celik, Gemlik, Turkey.

References

External links
Colour photograph of Vorios Hellas.

1943 ships
Ships built in Germany
World War II merchant ships of Germany
Steamships of Germany
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Merchant ships of Greece
Steamships of Greece
SHG Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000. The SHG Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000 (also known as S.H.G. Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000, commonly abbreviated as Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000, stylized in all-lowercase in its logo) is a first-generation PC-50x home video game console released in 1982 by Süddeutsche Elektro-Hausgeräte GmbH & Co. KG (SHG) only in Germany for 168 Deutsche Mark (DM).
The console has been manufactured by Radofin (Hong Kong).

The system comes with two detachable game controllers with one analog joystick and one fire button each. On the console, there are 10 buttons to select the games which came on cartridges. There is also a difficulty switch, an on/off switch and a start button on the housing of the console. There are two models of the console: The FS-1003 and the FS-2000. Both models have the name SHG Black Point.

It is the successor of the SHG Black Point Multicolor FS 1001, released in 1977, and SHG Black Point 10 Tele Sports FS 1002.

Technical specifications 

 Input devices: Two detachable analog game controllers and buttons on the console
 CPU: N/A
 RAM: N/A
 Power supply: 15 V, 120 mA (FS-1003)/9-11 V, 90 mA or 6 x 1.5 V batteries (FS-2000)
 Colors? Yes.
 Sound? Yes.

Games 

There are 7 or 8 games officially known to be released for the system which came on cartridges. Like the Palladium Tele-Cassetten Game and many other consoles, the SHG Black Point uses PC-50x cartridges. The games were sold for around 50 to 80 DM. (About 50 to 75 € in 2020.) The console itself did not contain a CPU or any RAM/ROM, but the cartridges contain one of the first generation console AY-3-8xxx chip. A cartridge with 10 different variations of Pong was included in the scope of delivery.

List of known cartridges 
 FS 1201 Zehn elektronische Fernsehspiele in Farbe (Ten Color Electronic TV Games)
 FS 1202 Grand Prix
 FS 1203 Motorradrennen (Motorcycle Race)
Seekrieg (Naval War)
 FS 1205 Panzerschlacht (Tank Battle)
 KS 1207 1000-Treffer-Spiel (1000 Hit Game)
Schützenspiel (Shooter Game)

References

External links 
 SHG Black Point FS 1003/FS 2000 on www.old-computers.com
 Website with images of the SHG Black Point
 Another website with images
 Commercial flyer
 Instruction manual
 SHG Black Point on MobyGames

Computer-related introductions in 1982
Home video game consoles
First-generation video game consoles
Products introduced in 1982
1982 in video gaming
Video gaming in Germany
Japanese destroyer Kusunoki (1945). was one of 23 escort destroyers of the Tachibana sub-class of the  built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during the final stages of World War II. She was used to repatriate Japanese personnel after the war until 1947. Mid-year the destroyer was turned over to Great Britain and subsequently scrapped.

Design and description
The Tachibana sub-class was a simplified version of the preceding  to make them even more suited for mass production. The ships measured  overall, with a beam of  and a draft of . They displaced  at standard load and  at deep load. The ships had two Kampon geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by two Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were rated at a total of  for a speed of . The Tachibanas had a range of  at .

The main armament of the Tachibana sub-class consisted of three  Type 89 dual-purpose guns in one twin-gun mount aft and one single mount forward of the superstructure. The single mount was partially protected against spray by a gun shield. The accuracy of the Type 89 guns was severely reduced against aircraft because no high-angle gunnery director was fitted. The ships carried a total of 25 Type 96  anti-aircraft guns in 4 triple and 13 single mounts. The Tachibanas were equipped with Type 13 early-warning and Type 22 surface-search radars. The ships were also armed with a single rotating quadruple mount amidships for  torpedoes. They could deliver their 60 depth charges via two stern rails and two throwers.

Construction and service 
Kusunoki (Camphor) was ordered in Fiscal Year 1943 under the Modified 5th Naval Armaments Supplement Program as part of the Matsu class, but the design was simplified to facilitate production and the ship was one of those built to the modified design. She was laid down on 9 November 1944 by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, launched on 18 January 1945 and completed on 28 April. Kusunoki was assigned that day to Destroyer Squadron 11 under the Combined Fleet for working up and was transferred to the Maizuru Naval District on 15 July. The ship was turned over to Allied forces at Maizuru at the time of the surrender of Japan and was stricken from the navy list on 5 October. The destroyer was disarmed and used to repatriate Japanese personnel in 1945–1947. Kusunoki was turned over to Great Britain on 16 July of the latter year and subsequently broken up.

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Tachibana-class destroyers
Ships built by Yokosuka Naval Arsenal
1945 ships
World War II destroyers of Japan