omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Broadlands Dam. The Broadlands Dam (also known as the Broadlands Hydropower Project by the developers) is a  run-of-the-river hydroelectric complex  currently under construction in Kitulgala, Sri Lanka. The project is expected to be completed in 2020, and will consist of two dams, and a power station downstream.

With an estimated annual generation capacity of , the facility will be the country's last major hydroelectric project, due to the exhaustion of island-wide hydropower potential. Construction of the project was ceremonially inaugurated by the   at the auspicious time of 11:01 on .

Approximately  project funding was met via credit arrangements made with the Chinese government, with the rest borne via a loan from the local Hatton National Bank. The construction contract of the project was granted to the China National Electric Equipment Corporation (CNEEC).

Dams and reservoirs 
The primary gravity dam measuring  in height and  in length is being constructed across the Maskeliya Oya at Kitulgala, and will supply water to the power station via a  penstock measuring  in diameter.

A secondary gravity weir, measuring  and  in height and length, is also to be built in the vicinity, over the nearby Kehelgamu Oya, to provide additional hydroelectric capacity. The weir, to be called the Kehelgamu Weir, will create a catchment area of , and will provide additional head to the penstock of the main dam via a  tunnel.

The penstock from the main dam will feed a power station consisting of two  turbines, each of  and a rated discharge of .

See also 
 Electricity in Sri Lanka
 List of dams and reservoirs in Sri Lanka
 List of power stations in Sri Lanka

References 

Hydroelectric power stations in Sri Lanka
Dams in Sri Lanka
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams under construction
Buildings and structures in Nuwara Eliya District
Gravity dams
Claud M. Davis. Claud M. Davis (August 23, 1924 – May 5, 2020) was an American engineer, inventor, and employee of the IBM Corporation at Poughkeepsie, New York. He was known for his contributions to the development of the IBM System/360 and the development of air traffic control systems.

Biography 
Born in Water Valley, Mississippi, Davis received his BA in electrical engineering in 1950 at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, and his MA in applied mathematics in 1961 from Harvard University.

After graduating from Oklahoma State, Davis started working at IBM in Memphis, TN and was relocated to Poughkeepsie, New York as an engineer in the mid-1950s. In the late 1950s he was promoted to Staff Engineer. In the 1960s Davis received multiple patents and was among the small group of engineers working under Gene Amdahl and Fred Brooks who designed the architecture for the System/360. The IBM System/360 (S/360) was a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964 and delivered between 1965 and 1978. It was the first family of computers designed to cover the complete range of applications, from small to large, both commercial and scientific. The design made a clear distinction between architecture and implementation allowing IBM to release a suite of compatible designs at different prices.

In the 1970s at IBM Davis became project leader of the development of a computer-aided air traffic control system for the Federal Aviation Administration, which was originally specified at Lincoln Laboratory. In 1989 he retired from IBM after almost 40 years of employment.

He died in May 2020 at the age of 95.

Awards 
Over the years Davis has received several awards:
 1950. Eta Kappa Nu, Outstanding Senior Award
 1950. Outstanding Engineering Graduate, Oklahoma State (A&M)
 Three Outstanding Contribution Awards, IBM Corporation
 1983. IEEE Life-time Fellow awarded for "contributions to the architecture and development of a large fault-tolerant computer system for air traffic control" 
 1990 Elmer A. Sperry Award with Richard B. Hanrahan, John F. Keeley, and James H. Mollenauer for "the conception, design, development and delivery of the Federal Aviation Administration enroute air traffic control system." 
 1993. IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for "leadership in the pioneering development of computer-aided air traffic control systems."

References

External links 
 IEEE Lifetime Fellow Claud M. Davis shares his experience architecting the System/360

1924 births
2020 deaths
21st-century American engineers
Harvard University alumni
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
Oklahoma State University alumni
People from Water Valley, Mississippi
LabWare. LabWare, Inc. is an American developer of laboratory informatics software, such as laboratory information management systems, electronic laboratory notebooks and laboratory data analytics. It is a Delaware corporation, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware.

History

The company was founded in 1987 by Vance Kershner, who is president and CEO. It has offices in 25 countries, with customers in ninety. The head office is in Wilmington, Delaware, with a training facility at Oberod Estate in Centreville. 

Pharmaceutical clients include Wyeth, Teva, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb; other users are in the food and beverage, forensics, nuclear power, environmental and water testing industries. The software is used to test for water, soil, food and air quality in the United States, Ireland, Australia, and South Africa. In 2021, CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a global, full-service contract research organization (CRO) announced their partnership with LabWare.

Körber, a global technology company, and LabWare announced in 2023 the integration of LabWare LIMS and Körber's manufacturing execution system, PAS-X, for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry.

LabWare and Mettler Toledo announced a plug-and-play software integration to enhance laboratory productivity by seamlessly connecting LabWare LIMS with Mettler Toledo instruments in 2024.

LabWare uses Visual Smalltalk Enterprise to develop its products and in October 2014, LabWare joined the Pharo Consortium. In January 2024, the Cuis Smalltalk community announced that Labware supports their efforts.

Acquisitions 
In March 2022, LabWare acquired CompassRed, a data analytics firm.

Awards

LabWare won the Scientific Computing and Instrumentation’s Readers’ Choice Award in the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) category each year between 2000 and 2008. LabWare LIMS won a Frost & Sullivan Product Quality Leadership Award in 2004, and the company won Frost and Sullivan's European Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Company of the Year Award in 2008. In 2016, LabWare was honored by the Delaware Bioscience Association as their company of the year. MYTECHMAG added LabWare to their list of Top Oil & Gas Tech Solution Providers in 2021.  The Center for Business Analytics at Drexel University LeBow College of Business recognized LabWare as an honoree of the 2023 Drexel LeBow Analytics 50 Awards.

References

External links
Official Site

Software companies based in Delaware
Research support companies
Companies based in Wilmington, Delaware
Software companies established in 1987
Software companies of the United States
Edward H. Sussenguth. Edward H. Sussenguth Jr. (October 10, 1932 – November 22, 2015) was an American engineer and former IBM employee, known best for his work on Systems Network Architecture (SNA). He was also a contributor to the architecture of IBM's Advanced Computer System (ACS).

Biography 
Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Sussenguth received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in 1954 from Harvard University, a Master of Science (M.S.) in electrical engineering in 1959 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1964 from Harvard.

After he served at the United States Navy as an officer in the Pacific Fleet, Sussenguth joined IBM in 1959. Sussenguth started in 1959 in the Research Division in the development of formal language descriptions.

This work led to Sussenguth meeting Kenneth E. Iverson and Adin Falkoff. Iverson had developed a formal notation, which was documented in a book A Programming Language. It was the original version of the programming language APL. Chapter 2 of A Programming Language had used Iverson's notation to describe the IBM 7090 computer. In early 1963, Falkoff, later joined by Iverson and Sussenguth, proceeded to use the notation to produce a formal description of the IBM System/360 computer then under design. The result was published in 1964 in a double issue of the IBM Systems Journal, thereafter known as the "grey book" or "grey manual". The book was used in a course on computer systems design at the IBM Systems Research Institute.

In 1965, Sussenguth joined the IBM Advanced Computer Systems project (ACS-1) to work on high performance computers. In 1970, he became Director of Architecture and Planning in the new Communications Systems Division, where he turned his attention to networking and high speed communications. In the last year before his retirement in 1990, he was appointed first President of the IBM Academy of Technology, which he held for a year.

Sussenguth was an advisor to the National Bureau of Standards and a visiting professor at some universities. He was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and received multiple awards and honors, including: in 1981, an IBM Fellowship for "technical leadership in the development of system network architecture"; in 1988, the Data Communications Interface Award; in 1989, the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal; in 1992, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (computer science).

Publications 
Sussenguth has authored and co-authored multiple publications, including:

References

External links 
 National Academy of Engineering (NAE): Dr. Edward H. Sussenguth

1932 births
2015 deaths
21st-century American engineers
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
IBM employees
People from Holyoke, Massachusetts
Fellows of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Systems Network Architecture
Jack M. Sipress. Jack M. Sipress (born April 9, 1935) is an American electrical engineer, former employee of Bell Labs, known for his contributions to the development of submarine communications facilities.

Biography 
Sipress studied Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he received his BS in 1956, his MS in 1957 and his PhD in 1961.

After graduation Sipress joint Bell Labs, where he was supervisor involved in the development of the T-carrier digital transmission systems. During the 1960s he received multiple patents. At Bell Labs from 1976 to 1978 he was involved in the development of satellite systems. In 1978 he turned his attention to fiber-optic communication in submarine applications. Late 1980s he was Director of the Undersea Systems Laboratory and in the 1990s chief technical officer and senior vice president of research.

Sipress received several awards and honors. In 1975 he was elected IEEE Fellow for his "contributions to the development of pulse-code modulation systems." He received the IEEE Communication Society Armstrong Technical Achievement Award in 1988; the C&C Prize in 1991; and the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal in 1994. In 1998 he was elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics) for his contributions to "the development and implementation of international communications facilities via undersea lightwave cables."

Selected publications 
 Irwin Dorros, Jack M. Sipress, and Fred Waldhauer. "An experimental 224 Mb/s digital repeatered line." Bell System Technical Journal 45.7 (1966): 993-1043.
 Sipress, Jack M. "Undersea communications technology." AT&T technical journal 74.1 (1995): 4-7.

References

External links 
 NAE Website - Dr. Jack M. Sipress
 Jack Sipress Global History Network

1935 births
Living people
American electrical engineers
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellows of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Joseph T. Threston. Joseph Thomas (Joe) Threston (born ) is an American Navy systems engineer, known for his contributions to the development of the Aegis Combat System.

Threston started his career in 1959 at Hughes Aircraft Company in the Guided Missile Laboratory, as entry-level engineer he participated in the further development and production of the Falcon Missile system, that the United States Air Force used since 1956. In the 1960s he joined RCA Corporation, where he made significant contributions to the development of the Aegis Combat System. After RCA was acquired by General Electric in 1986 Threston became General Manager of the Naval Systems Department. His department was part of GE Aerospace businesses, which was sold to Martin Marietta in 1992, and became part of Lockheed Martin in 1995. From General manager and president of manufacturing Threston became company president.

Threston received several awards and honors. In 1991 he received the Harold E. Saunders Award from the American Society of Naval Engineers; and in 1995 he received the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for his "leadership of the design, development and production of the AEGIS ship combat system."

Selected publications 
 Threston, Joseph Thomas. "Enhanced carrier operations through use of an/spy-1 radar system ." Naval Engineers Journal 89.1 (1977): 31-38.
 Threston, Joe . "Managing the Future—The expanding role of systems engineering in a high-technology society," JCVI Engineer. Vol. 28. No. 4 (July August 1983)
 Threston, Joseph T. "The American Society of Naval Engineers takes great pleasure in presenting: The Harold E. Saunders Award for 1991." Naval Engineers Journal 104.4 (1992): 70-71.
 Threston, Joseph T. "The AEGIS Weapon System." Naval Engineers Journal 121.3 (2009): 85-108.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American engineers
1930s births
Living people
Lockheed Martin people
Martin Marietta people
Jørgen Henrich Rawert. Jørgen Henrich Rawert was a (16 August 1751 – 14 July 1823) was a Danish architect. He created the masterplan for the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 in his capacity of city architect and was also involved in many building projects, mostly of townhouses, often collaborating with Andreas Hallander.

Early life and education
Rawert was born in Christiania, where he became a cadet from the Military and Mathematical School in 1783. In 1775, he enrolled with the engineering troops in Copenhagen and moved to Denmark where he studied architecture under Caspar Frederik Harsdorff at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts between 1776 and 1778, winning both the small and large silver medals. In 1779 and 1791 he unsuccessfully competed for the large gold medal which would have won him a travel scholarship.

Career
He was a Second Lieutenant with the engineering troops from 1778 to 1786 and from 1783 a titular professor. In 1786, he returned to Christiania to serve as a teacher in mathematics at the Military and Mathematical School. His achievements as a designer are Norway is limited to the pulpit in the church in Skien and a few tombs and memorials.

In 1790, he returned to Copenhagen to assume a position as implementing architect for the city (Stadskonduktør). He was a key figure in the rebuilding of Copenhagen after the Great Fire of 1795 and again after the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.

Works
 
Rawer's works in Copenhagen include a number of townhouses on Kronprinsessegade, two buildings on Sankt Annæ Plads, a building on Ved Stranden and Wildersgade Barracks:
 Kronprinsessegade 20  (1805–1806, with Andreas Hallander)
 Kronprinsessegade 26 (1805–1806) 
 Kronprinsessegade 28 (1805–1806)
 Kronprinsessegade 30 (1806–1807)
 Kronprinsessegade 46-46a-e  (1805-07 - s.m. Andreas Hallander)
 Sankt Annæ Plads 5 (1796) 
 Sankt Annæ Plads 11 (1801)
 Ved Stranden 18 (1796, attribution)
 Wildersgade 60a-e-62 / Bådsmandsstræde 6 / Overgaden Neden Vandet 49a-c-51a-b  (1802 - s.m. Andreas Hallander) - Wildersgade Kaserne

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18th-century Norwegian architects
1751 births
1823 deaths
Architects from Copenhagen
Bonomi BS.17 Allievo Cantù. The Bonomi BS.17 Allievo Cantù () was a single seat training glider, designed and built in Italy in 1934 and widely used by flying clubs.

Design and development

The BS.17 was intended to complement the earlier and successful BS.16 primary glider by providing the enhanced performance required to take new pilots to qualifications beyond the A certificate.  It used the wings and central support structure of the BS.16 and shared many smaller parts and fittings, but had a new, conventional fuselage in place of the primary's platform, together with different wing struts and empennage.

The BS.17's wings were, like those of the BS.16, rectangular in plan apart from clipped aileron tips. Mounted without dihedral, the two separate wings were built around a pair of spars, one close to the leading edge with plywood covering forward from it around the edge forming a torsion-resistant D-box. Behind it the wing was fabric covered. Centrally, the wings were supported over the fuselage on the same cross braced trapezoidal structure used originally on the BS.16 and later on several other Bonomi gliders.  The wings were braced with an asymmetric, faired wooden V strut on each side, attached to the lower fuselage and running to the wing spars at about mid-span.
  
Its fuselage was a simple rectangular cross section wooden structure skinned with plywood. The single seat, open, unscreened cockpit was immediately below the leading edge. The landing skid was mounted on the front end of a curved, deep, covered frame on the fuselage underside, separating from it aft and rubber sprung well clear towards its end. The fuselage tapered rearwards, where there was a small tail bumper. The tail was different from that of the BS.16; although the same triangular tailplane and parallel chord, cropped tipped elevators were used, they were mounted on top of a low, straight edged fin. A new, large, balanced, angular rudder, hinged at the extreme tail extended down to the keel, operated in a cut-out between the elevators.

Operational history
The Allievo Cantù was well received by Italian gliding clubs, who used it to take novice pilots to their B certificate and gain experience above that level. More than one hundred were sold.

Specifications

References

1930s Italian sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1934
Vilnius College of Technologies and Design. Vilnius College of Technologies and Design () or VTDK is a Lithuanian state institution of higher education

VTDK  is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Lithuania, with approximately 2,000 students and 200 professors

History 
The college was established in 1954.  In 2008, the Vilnius Technical College () merged with the Vilnius College of Construction and Design (), creating VTDK.

Overview 
VTDK consists of three faculties: the Civil Engineering Faculty, the Technical Faculty and the Design Faculty. The college offers 15 full-time study programs, partial studies through exchange programs, as well as informal study courses and training.

VTDK maintains close cooperation with many Lithuanian and foreign partners, takes part in various international projects, and is a member of the Universities of Applied Sciences network (UASnet) and the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASCHE).

Study programs 
VTDK  offers 15 full-time study programs, partial studies through exchange programs, as well as informal study courses and training. Program duration is 3 years (6 semesters) and students receive a professional bachelor's degree upon graduation.

Civil Engineering Faculty

 Engineering Systems of Buildings
 Geodesy and Cadastre
 Transport Logistics
 Civil Engineering

Technical Faculty

 Technical Maintenance of Automobiles
 Electrical and Automation Engineering
 Mechanical Technologies Engineering
 Railway Transport Engineering
 Transport Information Systems
 Renewable Energy
 Car Electronics

Design Faculty

 Technology of Photography
 Multimedia Design
 Graphic Design
 Interior Design

Facilities
VTDK  has the following facilities:
  50 laboratories
  9 libraries
  5 drawing rooms
 The TOYOTA technical training center
  The language learning center
  The distance learning center
  Sport facilities
  Dormitories

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Universities and colleges in Vilnius
Engineering universities and colleges
Technical universities and colleges in Lithuania
DreamHammer. DreamHammer is a San Diego–based software company that provides advanced drone management software for enterprise customers.

History

Its first product, Ballista, is an OS for drones and allows one person to simultaneously control multiple drones of any type. It features a plug and play architecture that can be integrated into any unmanned system. Ballista has been licensed to government agencies, including the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office (PEO) Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons.

On July 3, 2013, DreamHammer announced it was partnering with Lockheed Martin to use the company's software for integrated command and control of Lockheed Martin's unmanned aerial vehicles.
Lockheed and the Pentagon have worked with DreamHammer to create the software which works with boats, planes or trucks.
DreamHammer has spent $6.5 million to develop the software.

References

External links
 DreamHammer site
 "Drones in the USA: The Battle for the Civilian Market". MainStreet
 "Pentagon Recruiting Software Developers for Drone ‘App Store’". National Defense
 "DreamHammer goes Ballista for multi-vehicle control software". Unmanned Daily News
 "DroneOS: How To Take Control Of The Country's Growing Robot Army". Forbes
 "Why Amazon's Going Up in the Air". Businessweek
 "Windows for drones? One start-up is dreaming big". CNBC

Companies based in Santa Monica, California
American companies established in 2000
Software companies based in California
Software companies of the United States
Silje Lundberg. Silje Ask Lundberg (born 13 April 1988 in Oslo) is a Norwegian environmentalist and chairperson of Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature (Friends of the Earth Norway). She is a former leader of Nature and Youth. She grew up in Harstad in Northern Norway. Prior to her leadership, she has been deputy chairman and been working for other environmental organisations, such as ZERO and Bellona Foundation.

References

1988 births
Living people
People from Harstad
Norwegian environmentalists
Nature and Youth activists