omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology is a postgraduate-only  public university established in 2021. The establishment of the university was aimed at meeting the shortage of highly skilled engineers, needed in the country and the region, to drive Kenya into an industrialized nation by 2030.

Location
The university is under development on a  plot of land in Konza Technology City, in Machakos County, close to the county's borders with Makueni County and Kajiado County. This is approximately , by road, south-east of the central business district of Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, along the Nairobi–Mombasa Road.

Overview
The Government of Kenya, in collaboration with the county governments of Machakos, Makueni and Kajiado counties, and the Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA), plan to establish an advanced institute of science and technology. The institute is planned to be an all-postgraduate research public university.

After competitive bidding, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology won the bid to design the university curriculum. A consortium of two Korean architectural and engineering firms of "Samoo" and "Sunjin", won the bid to design and construct the university campus. Those contracts were signed in November 2018.

Construction and funding
Construction is funded by a KSh10 billion (US$72 million) loan from the Export–Import Bank of Korea to the Kenyan government. The facilities are expected to be ready in 2021, with the first intake of 200 postgraduate students starting classes in 2022.

Academics
The university will start with six initial departments:

 Mechanical Engineering
 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 ICT Engineering
 Chemical Engineering
 Civil Engineering and
 Agricultural Biotechnology.

See also
 KAIST
 Education in Kenya

References

External links
 KAIST seals the deal for Kenya KAIST project As of 2 December 2018.
 Kenya, South Korea set to sign pact for Sh10bn Konza City university As of 30 May 2016.

Universities and colleges in Kenya
Machakos County
Universities and colleges established in 2021
2021 establishments in Kenya
Educational institutions established in 2021
Science and technology in Kenya
Education in Kenya
Technology-critical element. A technology-critical element (TCE) is a chemical element that is a critical raw material for modern and emerging technologies, resulting in a striking increase in their usage. Similar terms include critical elements, critical materials, energy-critical elements and elements of security.

Many advanced engineering applications, such as clean-energy production, communications and computing, use emergent technologies that utilize numerous chemical elements. 
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) created the Critical Materials Institute to address the issue. In 2015, the European COST Action TD1407 created a network of scientists working and interested on TCEs, from an environmental perspective to potential human health threats.

A study estimated losses of 61 metals to help the development of circular economy strategies, showing that usespans of, often scarce, tech-critical metals are short.

List of technology-critical elements 

The set of elements usually considered as TCEs vary depending on the source, but they usually include: 

Seventeen rare-earth elements

The six platinum-group elements

Twelve assorted elements

Elements such as oxygen, silicon, and aluminum (among others) are also vital for electronics, but are not included in these lists due to their widespread abundance.

Applications of technology-critical elements

TCEs have a variety of engineering applications in fields such as energy storage, electronics, telecommunication, and transportation. These elements are utilized in cellular phones, batteries, solar panel(s), electric motor(s), and fiber-optic cables. Emerging technologies also incorporate TCEs. Most notably, TCEs are used in the data networking of smart devices tied to the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation.

Environmental considerations

The extraction and processing of TCEs may cause adverse environmental impacts. The reliance on TCEs and critical metals like cobalt can run the risk of the “green curse,” or using certain metals in green technologies whose mining may be damaging to the environment.

The clearing of soil and deforestation that is involved with mining can impact the surrounding biodiversity through land degradation and habitat loss. Acid mine drainage can kill surrounding aquatic life and harm ecosystems. Mining activities and leaching of TCEs can pose significant hazards to human health. Wastewater produced by the processing of TCEs can contaminate groundwater and streams. Toxic dust containing concentrations of metals and other chemicals can be released into the air and surrounding bodies of water.

Deforestation caused by mining results in the release of stored carbon from the ground to the atmosphere in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2).

See also
Conflict resource
List of elements facing shortage
Rare-earth element
Strategic material
Renewable energy#Conservation areas, recycling and rare-earth elements

References

Sets of chemical elements
Scarcity
History of technology
Natural materials
Minerals
Mineral group. In geology and mineralogy, a mineral group is a set of mineral species with essentially the same crystal structure and composed of chemically similar elements.

 
For example, the amphibole group consists of 15 or more mineral species, most of them with the general unit formula , where A is a trivalent cation such as  or , B is a divalent cation such as , , or , and C is an alkali metal cation such as , , or .  In all these minerals, the anions consist mainly of groups of four  tetrahedra connected by shared oxygen corners so as to form a double chain of fused six-member rings.  In some of the species, aluminum  may replace some silicon atoms  in the backbone, with extra B or C cations to balance the charges.

List of groups

 Alunite group
 Amphibole group
 Aragonite group
 Arsenic minerals
 Blodite group
 Calcite group
 Cancrinite group
 Clay minerals group
 Descloizite group
 Dolomite group
 Epidote group
 Feldspar group
 Feldspathoid
 Garnet group
 Hematite group
 Humite group
 Ilmenite group
 Langbeinites
 Mica group
 Pyroxene group
 Rutile group
 Serpentine group
 Smectite group
 Sodalite group
 Spinel group
 Tetradymite group

See also
 Mineral
 Mineral variety

References
Impossible Engineering. Impossible Engineering is a television series produced for Discovery's Science Channel in the US, UKTV's Yesterday in the UK, RMC Decouverte in France, Societe Radio-Canada's Ici Explora in Canada, SVT in Sweden, Discovery Italy in Italy as well as with other broadcasters around the world. The first episode was released in April 2015.

Each episode focuses on one modern-day engineering achievement, with historical segments about the engineering pioneers who helped pave the way for present-day engineers. Each one-hour-long programme details how giant structures, record-beating buildings, and the world's most cutting-edge ships, trains, and planes are built and work using 3D graphics, archives, and specially shot footage.

As of January 2020, five series of Impossible Engineering have been produced. In addition, two series of a spin-off called Impossible Railways in most territories and Impossible Engineering: Extreme Railroads in the US have been produced.

The series is produced by British independent production company Twofour Broadcast.

Episodes of Impossible Engineering 
This is a listing of every episode of Impossible Engineering broadcast by UKTV to date. The episode titles shown here are the titles that UKTV use and are listed on their website. Other broadcasters may have different titles for each episode.

Series 1 
Series 1 premiered in April 2015.

Series 2 
This series premiered from March 2017 in the US.

Series 3 
This series premiered from January 2019 in the US.

Series 4 
This series premiered from January 2020 in both the US and the UK. In the US this series was split down into smaller series and broadcast throughout the year.

Series 5 
Series 5 came out in 2020.

Series 6

Series 7

Episodes of Impossible Railways

Series 1

Series 2

References 

Documentary television series about technology
2015 British television series debuts
Science Channel original programming
UKTV original programming
Television series by ITV Studios
Spa Road Works. Spa Road Works at Inchicore was the major constructor of trams and buses for Ireland during its years of operation from 1882 to 1977.

History
The Spa Road Works were founded by William Martin Murphy, founder of the Dublin United Transport Company (DUTC), in 1882 to construct trams.  In 1905 the works became the sole supplier of trams for the Dublin tramways.  As the twentieth century progressed the omnibus began to take over from tramways in Dublin, and Spa Road Works migrated into bus production.

The factory moved from DUTC to CIÉ ownership in 1945.  Buses continued to be built on Leyland chassis until problems arose in the 1970s.  From about 1973 CIÉ leased the factory to Van Hool McArdle, a joint venture of Van Hool and Thomas McArdle of Dundalk, who initially continued to build Leyland Atlanteans.

Following closure in 1977 tools and equipment were moved to the Bombardier-GAC factory set up in Shannon which produced buses from 1980 until 1986.

Output

Trams
The trams built as the works for Dublin were noted for being among the finest running trams anywhere with designs distinctive to Dublin.

Buses
 Spa Road constructed over 800 Leyland Titans between the 1930s and 1961.
 Leyland Atlantean, 602 of these rear engined buses were constructed at Dublin and replaced front-engined rear loading buses throughout the capital.

References

Manufacturing companies established in 1882
Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1977
Defunct rolling stock manufacturers
Railway workshops in Ireland
1882 establishments in Ireland
1977 disestablishments in Ireland
Sherita Ceasar. Sherita T. Ceasar is the Senior Vice President of Technology Environment and Strategy for Comcast Communications and has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1988. She was the first African American president of the Society of Women Engineers, a position she held from 1999 to 2000.

Education 
Sherita Ceasar grew up on the south side of Chicago, attending a technical college preparatory school. She earned a Bachelor of Science in 1981 followed by a Masters of Science in 1984, both in Mechanical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois.

Career 
Ceasar began her career in the defense department at Northrop Grumman. She then moved to work at Motorola from 1988 to 1996, working in component design, manufacturing, quality, and building pagers. As Director of Manufacturing, Ceasar was the highest-ranking black female engineer at Motorola's Paging Products Group, which had over 10,000 associates globally. In 1996 she started at Scientific-Atlanta as Vice President of Quality, where she was the highest ranking African American. Ceasar then worked as vice president and general manager of the Georgia branch of Charter Communications, before starting as Vice President of the product engineering, cross platform and engineering services of Comcast in 2007. She became Vice President of National Video Deployment Engineering for Comcast in 2011, leading the development of services such as the X1 remote, cloud DVR, and building infrastructure of the cloud.

Awards 
In 1994, Ceasar won the Black Engineer of the Year Special Recognition Award. In 1997, she won the Women of Color Technology Award, sponsored by Career Communications Group during Baltimore's Bicentennial Celebration. She also received the Society of Women Engineers' Distinguished New Engineer of the Year, and the Julia Beveridge Award for her support of the Illinois Institute of Technology. She was inducted into the Women in Technology Hall of Fame in 1999. She also served as president of the Society of Women Engineers from 1999 to 2000, becoming the first African American to hold the position. In 2003, Ceasar won a Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) TAMI Award for launching master courses on advanced digital services. In 2014, she won the Women in Technology Award.

References 

American telecommunications engineers
African-American women engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
African-American engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
21st-century African-American women
Presidents of the Society of Women Engineers
Philip Moriarty. Philip Moriarty (born 1968 in London) is an Irish physicist and professor of physics at the University of Nottingham. He is known for his work on nanostructures and his collaboration with Brady Haran on the YouTube video series Sixty Symbols.

Education and career
From 1990 to 1994, Moriarty attended the School of Physical Sciences of Dublin City University, where he received his doctorate in 1994 in physics. Until 1997, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the field of physics at the University of Nottingham. He became a lecturer in the Department of Physics until 2003. Since 2005 he has been Professor of Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham.

Moriarty is one of the collaborating members of the Sixty Symbols Internet video series. Brady Haran asks scientists about a physics symbol (e.g. Ψ) in each episode, and then he and the community of Sixty Symbols discuss it and a related topic. In 2016 Haran, Michael Merrifeld and Moriarty were awarded the Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics. The citation was "for innovative and effective promotion of the public understanding of physics through the Sixty Symbols video project."

Moriarty is the author of When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11: Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal. This book was shortlisted for Physics World’s Book Of The Year 2018. He also wrote Nanotechnology for Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series.

Selected papers

References

External links
 Faculty website
 Personal Blog
 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/against-the-grain-i-didn-t-become-a-scientist-to-help-companies-profit-788328.html

20th-century British physicists
21st-century British physicists
1968 births
British expatriates in Ireland
Living people
Alumni of Dublin City University
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Scientists from London
Irish physicists
Lih-Ling Highe. Lih-Ling Highe (born  1968) is an English mechanical engineer. She works for Bechtel and her major projects have included the redevelopment of St Pancras International station. Her most influential colleague at Bechtel was Ailie MacAdam. Highe is now project manager for the changes to the Tottenham Court Road station for Crossrail.

Education 
Highe is an alumna of St Paul's Girls' School, having studied there from 1984 to 1986. She has a degree in mechanical engineering  from University College London, where she was one of four women in a class of 54.

Career 
Highe's first job after graduating from university was for a mechanical seals company in Singapore. She then worked as a process systems engineer at Bechtel in petrochemical plant design. During this time she was involved in many international projects, including India's Jamnagar Refinery (the largest oil refinery ever built at the time of its completion in 2000). After a 14-month secondment in Houston, USA, Highe returned to London to work in project controls, producing bids for oil, gas and chemical sector contracts.

Highe initially worked as a civil engineer on the High Speed 1 rail project in a primarily risk management role. She later became a field engineer on the project, working on St Pancras International station. After this project, Highe began working on the Crossrail project, first as a cost engineer and then as an interface manager. She is currently the project manager for the new Tottenham Court Road station for the London Underground Elizabeth Line and was featured in this role in the documentary The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway in 2019.

Personal life 
Highe's father and two siblings are also mechanical engineers. She has two children. She is married to Philip Highe, also an engineer.

References 

Crossrail
British railway civil engineers
British women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Nature Machine Intelligence. Nature Machine Intelligence is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio covering machine learning and artificial intelligence. The editor-in-chief is Liesbeth Venema.

History 
The journal was created in response to the machine learning explosion of the 2010s. It launched in January 2019, and its opening was met with controversy and boycotts within the machine learning research community due to opposition to Nature publishing the journal as closed access. To address this issue, now Nature Machine Intelligence gives authors an option to publish open access papers for an additional fee, and "authors remain owners of the research reported, and the code and data supporting the main findings of an article should be openly available. Moreover, preprints are allowed, in fact encouraged, and a link to the preprint can be added below the abstract, visible to all readers."

Abstracting and indexing 
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 25.898, ranking it 1st out of 144 journals in the category "Computer Science, Artificial intelligence" and first out of 113 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications".

References

External links 
 Official website

Nature Research academic journals
Machine learning
Artificial intelligence journals
Academic journals established in 2019
English-language journals
Electrical Products Corporation. The Electrical Products Corporation (EPCO) was a major producer of electric signs, especially neon signs, in the western region of the United States.  Electrical Products Corp. was established in Los Angeles, incorporated on November 7, 1912.  By 1923, EPCO had acquired the rights to the neon patents of neon light inventor Georges Claude and began the manufacture of neon lighting and signs.  In 1962 it was acquired by the  Federal Sign and Signal Corporation.

External links
 "The neon sign maker that lit up California", LACurbed, Feb 15, 2019

References

Signage
Signage
Frederick Opare-Ansah. Frederick Opare-Ansah (born September 5, 1968) is an Electrical Engineer and Ghanaian politician who is a member of the Fourth and Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana representing the Suhum Constituency in the Eastern Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Early life and education 
Opare-Ansah was born on September 5, 1958. He hails from Amankokrom-Akuapem, a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana. He graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1994.

Employment 
Opare-Ansah worked as the managing director of Third Rail (Ghana) Limited. He is an Engineer by profession.

Political career 
Opare-Ansah is a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). He is a member of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana. He first became a member of the Parliament of Ghana representing  Suhum (Ghana parliament constituency) in January 2005 after emerging winner of his constituency polls in the 2004 Ghanaian general election in December. 

He had a run of 4 consecutive terms in office represented his constituency in the 7th Parliament of Ghana. where he was the Chairperson of the Communications committee and was also a member of the committees on Finance and Business. In the 5th parliament of the 4th parliament of Ghana he was the Minority Chief Whip.

After losing his bid to become the general secretary of the New Patriotic Party in July 2022, he was appointed by the flagbearer and current vice president of Ghana, Mahamudu Bawumia as the campaign manager.

Elections 
Opare-Ansah represented the Suhum constituency as the Member of Parliament for the 5th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. He was elected on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party by obtaining 17,461 votes out of the 38,577 total valid votes cast, equivalent to 45.3% of total valid votes cast. He was elected over Jacob Kwaku Arkoh of the People's National Convention, Samuel Fleischer Kwabi of the National Democratic Congress, Francis Darby Kobena Inkoom of the Convention People's Party, Matilda Garbrah an independent candidate. These obtained 0.75%, 41.02%, 0.77% and 12.20% respectively of total valid votes cast.

He lost the New Patriotic Party parliamentary elections in 2021 to Kwadjo Asante with 272 votes out of 666 votes cast.

In March 2022, he declared his intention to run for the general secretary position of the New Patriotic Party. He however polled 50 votes and lost the elections in July 2022 to Justin Koduah.

Personal life 
Opare-Ansah is a Christian. He is married.

References

Ghanaian MPs 2017–2021
1968 births
Living people
New Patriotic Party politicians
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology alumni
Ghanaian MPs 2009–2013
Ghanaian Christians
21st-century Ghanaian engineers
People from Eastern Region (Ghana)
Ghanaian MPs 2005–2009