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Aerial Service Mercury Senior. The Aerial Service Mercury Senior, Aerial Mercury Senior or just Mercury Senior was a US biplane mailplane designed to operate at night between New York City and Chicago. A different, smaller, lower wing improved its performance for daytime flights. One was built and used by the United States Post Office Department.

Design and development

The Mercury Senior was a single bay biplane without stagger and with dihedral only on the lower wing. Both wings were rectangular in plan out to blunted tips and had constant, thick sections; they were built around twin spruce and plywood spars and fabric covered.  The upper wing was held over the fuselage by a pair of N-form cabane struts. The interplane struts were in parallel pairs, assisted by the usual wire cross-bracing.  There were externally interconnected ailerons on both upper and lower wings.

The novel feature of the Senior was the choice of lower wing: two were available, one with a shorter span than the upper wing and one with a longer span. The latter increased the total wing area by about 27% and decreased the wing loading by 19%. Lower wing loadings decrease aircraft speeds, so the longer span set provided lower night landing speeds at the price of reduced cruising speed.

The fuselage of the Senior was a welded steel tube frame, its forward part covered with light metal and the rear with plywood. Externally it was flat-sided with rounded upper decking. A  Liberty L-12 water-cooled V12 engine in the nose drove a two-bladed, steel Curtiss propeller. Its honeycomb radiator was ahead of the engine, which had long exhaust pipes on both sides of the fuselage to take the emissions past the pilot. His open cockpit was well behind the trailing edge of the wing. Up to  of mail was stored in the space between engine and cockpit.

The rear surfaces of the Senior were large, with a rectangular, strut-braced tailplane mounted on top of the fuselage carrying elevators hinged at the end of it. Its wire-braced, tall, broad, rounded fin had a straight-edged unbalanced rudder which, like the elevators, overhung the extreme tail.

The Senior's landing gear was fixed and conventional with wheels, well apart, on a single axle held on two V-struts; the forward struts of the Vs contained shock absorbers. An angled, flexible tailskid, with another small shock absorber between its ends, projected beyond the extreme tail.  For night landings a pair of searchlights in streamlined housings were attached below the lower wings, under the feet of the interplane struts.

Operational history
The sole Senior flew for the first time in 1925 and was used by the Post Office until 1928.

Operators

 United States Post Office Department

Specifications (night flight configuration)

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1920s United States mailplanes
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1925
Ward Winer. Ward O. Winer is an American engineer, currently the Regents' Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education and ASME. 

He received his B.S. (1958) and M.S. (1959) degrees from the University of Michigan and his PhD (1964) from the University of Cambridge in the Cavendish Laboratory.

He was awarded the Tribology Gold Medal from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in 1972. He received the Mayo D. Hersey Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1986. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. He received the International Award from the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers in 1997. He is a member of the Distinguished Advisory Board for the International Tribology Council.

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Clément Fayat. Clément Fayat (1931/32 – 3 July 2022) was a French billionaire entrepreneur, who founded Fayat Group at the age of 25. At his death, his net worth was estimated at US$1.2 billion.

Fayat was the son of a bricklayer, and left school at 15 to become a construction apprentice. He founded the civil engineering company Fayat Group when he was 25, and it is now France's largest privately-held construction and civil engineering company, with more than 21,000 staff in 170 countries.

Fayat was married and lived in Saint-Émilion, France. He had two sons, Jean-Claude et Laurent. In 2020, together with his sons, he created the Fayat Foundation.

Fayat died in July 2022, at the age of 90.

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2015–16 RPI Engineers women's ice hockey season. The Rensselaer Engineers represented Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in ECAC women's ice hockey during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I women's ice hockey season. The Engineers had their best season since 2010.

Offseason

October 1:Jordan Smelker ('14) was named a member of Team USA for the 4 Nations Cup, heldfrom November 4 to 8 in Sundsvall, Sweden.

Recruiting

2015–16 Engineers

Schedule

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Awards and honors

Lovisa Selander, G, Third Team ECAC All-Star

Lovisa Selander, G, ECAC All-Rookie Team

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RPI Engineers women's ice hockey seasons
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Heidi Nepf. Heidi Nepf is an American engineer known for her research on fluid flows around aquatic vegetation.

Education and career 

Nepf has a B.S. from Bucknell University (1987) and an M.S. from Stanford University (1988). Nepf earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Stanford University in 1992 with a dissertation titled "The production and mixing effects of Langmuir circulations". Following her Ph.D., Nepf was a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and then joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. As of 2021, she is the Donald and Martha Harleman Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In 2018, Nepf was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the citation reads:

Research 

Nepf is known for her research on the flow of water around aquatic vegetation. In 1999, she developed a model describing how aquatic plants convert kinetic energy into turbulent energy. She has furthered this research by examining the flow of water around plants and characterizing sediment flow through coastal marshes and mangroves. Using artificial seagrass beds, Nepf and her graduate student Judy Yang determined that turbulence is a good predictor of sediment flow through a seagrass bed. Nepf and another graduate student, Jiarui Lei, used similar artificial seagrass reefs to quantify the dissipation of energy by seagrass and their results indicate seagrass can protect coastlines that are vulnerable to erosion. Nepf's research on water flow around logjams informs river restoration projects by theoretically describing the flow of water around wood placed into a stream. Nepf has also worked on fluid flows in urban regions, specifically on how capturing storm water can be used to control urban flood damage.

Selected publications

Awards 

 MacVicar Fellow for "excellence in teaching and innovation in education", Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001)
Distinguished alumni, Bucknell University (2013)
Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2018)
Hunter Rouse Hydraulic Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (2019)

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Admir Masic. Admir Masic is a scientist, currently an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research involves characterization of complex biomineralized and archaeological structural materials with the objective of inspiring the design of more sustainable and durable building materials.

Early life 
Masic was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and became a teenage refugee in Croatia during the Bosnian War in 1992. While in Croatia, he enrolled as a nonmatriculating student at a technical high school. He displayed a strong performance in chemistry while in school, and as a result, was eventually approved to receive a high school diploma. With the help of generous sponsors, he continued his higher education at the University of Turin. While in Turin, he co-founded the company, Adamantio srl, which works to preserve ancient cultural heritage. Masic has a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Turin, and is currently Associate Professor at MIT.

Research interests 
Masic is the principal investigator for the Laboratory for Multiscale Characterization and Materials Design at MIT. His research is focused on the topics of chemomechanics, the multiscale characterization of biological and antiquity-inspired materials, and the design of new building materials that are more durable and more sustainably produced than today's common construction materials.

Initiatives 
While at MIT, Masic has served as the faculty founder for the Refugee ACTion Hub (ReACT), which has three primary goals: "community engagement within MIT and beyond; the development of a certification system for displaced learners; and an outreach effort to connect with broader audiences."

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Arup Chakraborty. Arup K. Chakraborty is an American engineer, focusing in biophysics, computational modeling and infectious disease, currently the Robert T. Haslam Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and formerly the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

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Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance candidates in 2024 Indian general election
India MPs 2024–2029
Dennis McLaughlin. Dennis McLaughlin is an American engineer, currently the H.M. King Bhumibol Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education
B.S.E.E. 1966, Purdue University
M.S.E. 1967, Princeton University
Ph.D. 1985, Princeton University

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Patrick Jaillet. Patrick Jaillet  is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include online and data-focused optimization.

Jaillet was elected to the 2013 class of Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. He gave the Wasserstrom Lecture at Northwestern University in 2014, the Warren Lecture at the University of Minnesota in 2008, and the Tow Lecture at the University of Iowa in 2008.

Education
Jaillet received a PhD from MIT in 1985.

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Harry Hemond. Harry F. Hemond is an American engineer, focusing on environmental chemistry and wetland chemistry. He is currently the William E. Leonhard Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education 
Hemond received a Bachelor of Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Arts from Connecticut College.

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Moshe Ben-Akiva. Moshe E. Ben-Akiva (born 1944) is an Israeli-American engineer currently the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been awarded honorary degrees by University of the Aegean, Royal Institute of Technology, University of Antwerp and Université Lumière Lyon. His research is centered on transportation demand.

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Israeli engineers
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Ali Argon. Ali Suphi Argon (19 December 1930 – 21 December 2019) was a Turkish-American engineer, and the Quentin Berg Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career
Argon, son of M.A. Suphi Argon from a high-ranking Ottoman military and civil service family and Margarethe née Grosche from Berlin, attended school in Turkey. In 1948, he began studying mechanical engineering at Purdue University, gaining a B.S. degree in 1952. This was followed by the S.M. (Scientiae Magister) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1953. At MIT with Egon Orowan, he turned to materials science and engineering and received his D.Sc. doctorate. 

For the next two years he worked at the High Voltage Engineering Corporation in Burlington, Massachusetts on Van de Graaff particle accelerators for research and medical applications. In 1959, he returned to Turkey to do his military service, also holding a lectureship at the new Middle East Technical University in Ankara. In 1960, he returned to MIT as an assistant professor, becoming professor there in 1968, Quentin Berg Professor in 1982 and Quentin Berg Professor Emeritus in 2001. 

His experimental and theoretical material science research contributed significantly to the elucidation of the physical processes of plastic deformation and fracture of metals, alloys, ceramics, glass, polymers and composite materials. In 1972, he was a visiting professor of polymer physics at the University of Leeds and in 1992 a visiting scientist with the Humboldt Research Award at Peter Haasen's Institute for Metal Physics at the University of Göttingen. He was also a visiting scientist at Stanford University in 1992.

Argon was married to Xenia née Lacher and had two children, the astrophysicist Alice and the environmental biologist Kermit.

Honours and awards
 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1976)
 Inducted a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1987)
 Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1989)
 Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1998)
 Staudinger - Durrer - Prize of ETH Zurich (1999)
 Heyn  Memorial medal of the German Society for Material Science (2004)
 Honorary Doctor from Purdue University (2005)

Publications
 Frank A. McClintock, Ali S. Argon Mechanical Behavior of Materials Addison-Wesley 1966 
 U. F. Kocks, A. S. Argon, M. F. Ashby Thermodynamics And Kinetics of Slip - Progress In Materials Science volume=19 1975 pages 1–281
 Ali S. Argon Strengthening Mechanisms In Crystal Plasticity Oxford University Press 2007 
 A. S. Argon The Physics of Deformation and Fracture of Polymers Cambridge University Press 2013

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Based on a translation of the German Wikipedia article Ali S. Argon

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Academics of the University of Leeds
Anette Hosoi. Anette E. "Peko" Hosoi is an American mechanical engineer, biophysicist, and mathematician, currently the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering and associate dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Contributions
Hosoi's research interests include fluid dynamics,  unconventional robotics, and bio-inspired design. One of her projects developed a robot that moved like a snail by extruding artificial snail slime and rippling over it.
She has also studied how razor clams turn sand into quicksand while digging themselves in,
and designed wetsuits using materials that mimic the thermal insulation properties of otter fur.
She is the founder of a sports engineering program at MIT, which she started in 2011 after frustration at the performance of her cross-country bicycle on a downhill bicycling course.

Early life, education, and career
Hosoi was given her nickname "Peko" by her Japanese grandmother, because of her resemblance to Peko-chan, a girl depicted on the packaging for Fujiya Japanese candy.
She studied physics at Princeton University and completed her doctorate in physics at the University of Chicago in 1997, under the joint supervision of Todd F. Dupont and Leo Kadanoff.

She came to MIT in 1997 as an instructor of mathematics. After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and taking as a position as an assistant professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College in 2001, she returned to MIT as a regular-ranks faculty member in 2002.
She has held a joint appointment in the mathematics department at MIT since 2010.
At MIT, she has also been involved in mentorship of women in engineering, and became the first woman there to be given an associate chair position in mechanical engineering.

Anette also appeared in two episodes of Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman; "Gearing Up for Getting Ruff's Goat", and  "Eureka is Not a Brand of Dog Food".

Awards and honors
In 2012 Hosoi became a fellow of the American Physical Society "for her innovative work in thin fluid films and in the study of nonlinear interactions between viscous fluids and deformable interfaces including shape, kinematic and rheological optimization in biological systems". She delivered the G.K. Batchelor Lecture for 2009 on "Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion". She is the recipient of the 2018 Stanley Corrsin Award from the American Physical Society, which recognizes a particularly influential contribution to fundamental fluid dynamics, for her work on nectar-eating bats.

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External links
 Home page
 

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K. Dane Wittrup. K. Dane Wittrup is an American engineer who is the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor in Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. His research has made advancements in protein engineering and biopharmaceutical engineering.

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Carl V. Thompson. Carl V. Thompson is an American engineer currently the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Education
SB, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT, 1976
SM, Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1977
PhD, Applied Physics, Harvard University, 1982

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Krystyn Van Vliet. Krystyn J. Van Vliet (born June 21, 1976) is vice president for research and innovation at Cornell University and a faculty member in the Cornell University College of Engineering, where she has a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering. Her research lab specializes in material chemomechanics, the coupling between chemistry and mechanics at material interfaces.

Education 
Van Vliet received her Sc.B. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Brown University in 1998. While an undergraduate at Brown, she suffered grave head injuries in a car accident, and fought successfully to regain her memory, judgment, speech and other communication skills.

Van Vliet earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002.

Career 
Van Vliet joined the faculty at MIT in 2004 and was named MIT's associate provost in 2017. She became MIT's first associate vice president for research in 2021. She joined Cornell University as vice president for research and innovation in February 2023.

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Hanshin 8000 series. The  is a commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Hanshin Electric Railway in Japan since 1984.

Formation
, nineteen six-car sets (numbered 8211 to 8249) are in service, formed as shown below, with car 1 at the Umeda end. Four cars are powered.

Cars 2 to 5 each have one lozenge-style pantograph.

Four sets break the numbering rule as shown above; sets 8213, 8221, 8523 and 8235, due to random cars from random sets being inserted into these four sets to replace cars scrapped due to heavy damage from the quakes, along with the insertion of some new-build cars in these sets.

Set 8213
All six cars are original-build cars.

Set 8221
All six cars are original-build cars.

Set 8523
Set 8523 contains one new-build car, 8523, and a car sourced from the prototype set, 8201 (renumbered 8502). 8502 still retains its original appearance.

Set 8235
Set 8235 contains two new-build cars, 8336 and 8536, while the rest of the cars are original-build.

Interior
Passenger accommodation consists of 2+2 transverse seating in some cars and longitudinal bench seating in others.

History

The 8000 series was built by Mukogawa Sharyo to replace aging rolling stock on Hanshin lines. A prototype set, 8201, was built in 1984 based on the 3901 series set 3905. 11 sets were damaged during the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake; 15 cars spanning across all 11 sets were heavily damaged by the quakes and were scrapped. There were no sets with all six cars scrapped due to heavy damage by the quakes, and as such, the remaining cars from those sets were randomly inserted into various sets, with additional newly built cars.

Refurbishment
From 2002 to 2015, the entire fleet of 8000 series sets underwent a period of refurbishment. Changes included a new color scheme resembling that of later 9300 series cars, the replacements of longitudinal bench seats in some cars with transverse seating, LED headlights and LED destination boards. The first set to undergo refurbishment, 8211, was returned to service on 11 April 2002. The last set to undergo refurbishment, 8239, was returned to service in October 2015.

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 Hanshin Electric Railway train information 

Electric multiple units of Japan
8000 series
Train-related introductions in 1984
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Mukogawa Sharyo rolling stock