omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Kimberly L. Foster. Kimberly L. Foster (née Passerello, formerly Kimberly L. Turner) is an American mechanical engineer specializing in microelectromechanical systems including stick-slip phenomena, biomimetic adhesives, parametric oscillators, and microsensors. She is dean of science and engineering at Tulane University, where she is also a professor of physics and engineering physics and (by courtesy) of biomedical engineering.

Education and career
Foster is originally from Michigan, and studied engineering at Michigan Technological University, where her father Chris Passerello was a faculty member. She graduated in 1994, taking only three years for her degree. Originally planning to become a veterinarian, she continued in engineering after obtaining a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at Cornell University, in theoretical and applied mechanics.

She joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999, and served as chair of the department of mechanical engineering there from 2008 to 2013. She moved to Tulane as dean in 2018.

Recognition
Foster was named an ASME Fellow in 2014, "for her major contributions in the area of micro-electro-mechanical-systems" and "extensive service to her professional community".

In 2021, Michigan Technological University named Foster to their Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics Academy.

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Living people
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21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
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Tulane University faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
FE2 Hydroelectric Power Station. The FE2 Hydroelectric Power Station is a 36 megawatts hydroelectric power station in Gabon. Construction of this dam began in 2010. Due to lack of adequate funding, work was abandoned in 2013. In 2018, after a five-year hiatus, Tebian Electric Apparatus Stock Limited (TBEA), a Chinese independent power producer (IPP), in collaboration with the Gabonese Strategic Investment Fund, indicated their intention to invest €180 million into the development of FE2 HPP. The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to the China Gezhouba Group Company (CGGC). The energy off-taker is Société d'Énergie et d'Eau du Gabon (SEEG), the national electricity utility company of Gabon.

Location
The power station is located across the FE2 waterfall on the Okano River, southeast of the town of Mitzic, in Okano Department, in Woleu-Ntem Province, in northern Gabon. Mitzic is located approximately  south of the city of Oyem, the provincial headquarters. This is about  by road, northeast of Libreville, the largest city and national capital of Gabon.

Overview
The design of the power station calls for a run-of-the-river station with a hydraulic head of . Three vertical Francis type turbines, each rated at 12 MW, will provide capacity of 36 megawatts. Other related infrastructure developments include a new substation, an evacuation transmission line, a workers' camp and access roads to the site.

It is expected that the off-taker of the energy generated here will be the national electricity utility parastatal company, SEEG. The power is intended for distribution to the city of Libreville, the national capital, to Ndjolé, in the Abanga-Bigne Department of Moyen-Ogooué Province and to the province of Woleu-Ntem.

Recent developments
As of December 2020, the Government of Gabon was still seeking funding to complete the construction of FE2 Hydroelectric Power Station, whose annual energy output is calculated at 240 GWh annually.

 Aristide Ngari is the Director General, Ministry of Energy, Government of Gabon.

See also

List of power stations in Gabon
Kinguélé Aval Hydroelectric Power Station

References

External links
 Gabon: FE2 hydro scheme resumes construction As of 13 May 2016].

Power stations in Gabon
Woleu-Ntem Province
Hydroelectric power stations in Gabon
Plug-in electric vehicles in North Dakota. , there were 266 electric vehicles (not including plug-in hybrid vehicles) registered in North Dakota. , 0.44% of all new light-duty vehicles sold in the state were electric.

In 2022, North Dakota was ranked by Forbes Advisor as the best state in the United States for electric vehicle ownership.

Government policy
, the state government does not offer any tax incentives for electric vehicle purchases.

Charging stations
, there were 58 public charging stations in North Dakota.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed into law in November 2021, allocates  to charging stations in North Dakota.

, the state government recognizes I-29 and I-94 as "alternative fuel corridors" with plans for charging stations to be built every .

By region

Bismarck–Mandan
, there were two public charging stations in the Bismarck–Mandan metropolitan area.

Fargo
, there were around 20 public charging stations in Fargo.

References

North Dakota
Road transportation in North Dakota
Foreign Dredge Act of 1906. The Foreign Dredge Act of 1906 is a United States federal statute that requires dredges operating in US waters to be built in the United States, and to be owned and chartered by US citizens. Dredges violating the act are subject to seizure by and forfeiture to the US government.

Origin 
The original intention of the law was to protect and foster America's shipbuilding industry to enable it to compete with established foreign shipbuilders. A dredging project to repair the town of Galveston, TX, after the 1900 Galveston hurricane raised concerns that sand exported on foreign-owned barges might be taken out of the country, effectively stealing US soil, which provided the initial motivation for the bill that would become the Foreign Dredge Act. A more central motivation emerged, which was to protect the US shipbuilding industry from foreign competition.

Current impact and criticism 
Two countries, the United States and China, prohibit foreign dredging, and 15% of countries surveyed by the Transportation Institute have restrictions on dredging. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Government Accountability Office state that lack of dredging capacity and high costs are the cause of a 15-year delay in dredging the 10 most important US ports to accommodate post-Panamax depths.  The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute claim that the Foreign Dredge Act is anti-competitive, and that it impairs America's ability to expand its ports by limiting its supply of dredging ships.  Gregory Tosi argues that, for example, the Port of Corpus Christi loses $50 billion of oil exports per year due to a lack of dredging capacity to improve the port.

90% of global dredging contracts are currently won by one of four Belgian and Dutch dredging companies Jan De Nul, Van Oord, Boskalis, and DEME, which are generally ineligible to compete for US contracts.

Proposed legislative changes 
Senator Mike Lee has proposed the DEEP Act, which would repeal the Foreign Dredge Act and create a new nationwide permitting process to expedite dredging permitting.  He has also introduced more constrained versions of the bill, the Port Modernization and Supply Chain Protection Act, that would repeal the Foreign Dredge Act's cabotage requirements, allowing international dredges to operate in the USA. 

The SHIP IT Act, introduced by Congresswoman Michelle Fischbach and Congressman Byron Donalds would allow vessels from NATO member countries to engage in dredging in the United States; the Cato Institute notes that "Four of the largest dredging companies in the world are located in NATO members, with each possessing more hopper dredgers than the entire U.S. dredging fleet combined."  Lee has introduced a bill with similar purposes in the Senate, the Allied Partnership and Port Modernization Act.

References 

United States federal admiralty and maritime legislation
Dredging
1906 in American law
Bukit Timah Truss Bridge. The Bukit Timah Truss Bridge is a former railway bridge going over Bukit Timah Road and Dunearn Road in Bukit Timah, Singapore.

History
Following the diversion of the Singapore Railway from Bukit Panjang railway station onwards, the Bukit Timah Truss Bridge was constructed at the seventh mile of Bukit Timah Road, just before Bukit Timah railway station, in 1932. By 1995, the bridge was not well-maintained, having become heavily rusted, with several bolts having already fallen off, despite the bridge's frequent usage. The bridge fell into disuse following the closure of the Singapore Railway in 2011 and was gazetted for conservation in late 2015 or early 2016.

In February 2021, decorations were hung up on the bridge for Chinese New Year. In March, railings were added to the bridge, ballast stones were added to either sides of the track, and rust was removed from the bridge.

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Buildings and structures in Singapore
1932 establishments in Singapore
Bridges in Singapore
Eileen Boardman. Eileen Clement Boardman ( – October 11, 2018) was an American statistician and solar energy scientist whose research included the use of statistical principles in measuring the performance of solar energy systems. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University, and served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

Life and career
Boardman was born , and grew up in Pennsylvania. She earned a bachelor's degree from Bucknell University, and a master's degree from Rutgers University.

She was affiliated with the department of statistics at Colorado State University beginning in the early 1970s, and became an instructor for their introductory statistics courses in the 1970s and 1980s, also teaching in mechanical engineering and business. Returning to graduate study, she completed a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Colorado State University in 1986, with a dissertation applying statistical quality measures to solar power. She became the first woman at Colorado State to earn this degree. After completing her doctorate, she became a statistical consultant, naming her firm Boardman Associates.

She survived a bout of breast cancer in 2004, and died on October 11, 2018, of pancreatic cancer.

Recognition and legacy
Boardman became president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 1982.

Colorado State University maintains a student award named for Boardman, the Thomas J. and Eileen C. Boardman Statistical Consulting Award.

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1942 births
2018 deaths
American statisticians
American women statisticians
People associated with solar power
Bucknell University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Colorado State University alumni
Colorado State University faculty
Scientists from Pennsylvania
Rainer Haag. Rainer Haag (born 1968) is a German chemist and Chair Professor of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. He conducts research together with his working group on preventing aggressive pathogens and viruses from entering the body's cells using nanotechnology. He heads a team composed of biochemists, physicians, biologists and physicists.

Life
Born in Darmstadt in 1968, Rainer Haag was interested in the mysteries of science from an early age and found valuable support at home. His chemistry teacher at the Darmstadt Justus-Liebig-Gymnasium - a doctorate in chemistry - strengthened and promoted this interest. After graduating from high school with an advanced course in chemistry, Rainer Haag studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he received his preliminary diploma in chemistry in 1989. Three years later he received his main diploma from the Georg-August University in Göttingen, and three years later he received his doctorate there with the distinction summa cum laude. Research stays in Belgium and Israel as well as postdoctoral stays at the University of Cambridge (England) and Harvard University Cambridge (USA) led Rainer Haag deeper and deeper into the world of polymeric nanostructures. Even during these years of training, he received impressive awards and honors for his outstanding achievements, ranging from acceptance into the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes to the Hans von Wartenberg Prize from the Chemical Institute in Göttingen and the award from the Chemical Industry Fund for fast and very successful work studies are enough. In 2001 he received the ADUC-Habilitanden-Prize 2000 from the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) and a little later the Reimund-Stadler-Prize from the specialist group for macromolecular chemistry of the same society.

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1968 births
Living people
21st-century German chemists
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
University of Göttingen alumni
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
German physical chemists
European Research Council grantees
Studienstiftung alumni
Bodil Jönsson. Bodil Agneta Jönsson (born September 12, 1942, in Helsingborg) is a Swedish physicist and author, who is professor emeritus at the Department of Rehabilitation Technology at Lund University since 1993. Between 1999 and 2019, she has authored about 20 books. She received H. M. The King's Medal in the 8th size in 1997, and was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013.

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1942 births
Living people
Swedish physicists
Swedish writers
Swedish women physicists
Academic staff of Lund University
Edward Kook. Edward F. Kook (1903–1990) was an American stage lighting engineer who helped to develop the art form, receiving a Special Tony Award for his contributions in 1952. He was a lecturer in it at two Ivy League universities, Columbia University and Yale School of Drama, and was president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology from 1975 to 1977.

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1903 births
1990 deaths
American lighting designers
Columbia University staff
Yale University staff
Gribo–Popoli Hydroelectric Power Station. The Gribo–Popoli Power Station, also Gribo Popoli Power Station, is a hydroelectric power station under construction across the Sassandra River, in Ivory Coast. This renewable energy power station is owned and is under development by the Government of Ivory Coast, through its wholly owned subsidiary, CI-Energies, the national electricity utility parastatal company.

With partial funding from the Exim Bank of China, the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract was awarded to Sinohydro, the Chinese hydropower engineering and construction company. CI-Energies is the expected off-taker of the energy generated here. Construction is reported to have started in 2021, with commissioning anticipated in 2024.

Location
The power station lies across the Sassandra River, about  downstream of Soubré Hydroelectric Power Station, outside the city of Soubré. Soubré is located in the Soubré Department of the Nawa Region in the Bas-Sassandra District, in southwestern Ivory Coast. This is approximately , by road, northwest of Abidjan, the financial capital and largest city in the country.

Overview
This power station is one of three hydroelectric power stations 
on the Sassandra River, downstream of the Soubré Hydroelectric Power Station. These three dams, when completed, are expected to add a total of 508 MW to the national generation capacity, according to the Ivorian authorities. The dams are Gribo-Popoli HPP: 112 megawatts, Boutoubré HPP: 150 megawatts and Louga HPP: 246 megawatts.

The work at this site includes: (a) building an earth filled dam measuring  in length (b) six spillway gates (c) an above-ground powerhouse with a total installed capacity of 112 MW (d) a 225kiloVolt switchyard (e) two  overhead (single circuit) high voltage evacuation transmission lines connecting this power station to the  225kV Soubré–San Pedro high voltage power line (f)  of permanent access roads.

Construction costs and funding
The estimated cost for the dam and power plant is reported as US$308 million. The Exim Bank of China has lent US$287 million, with the balance contributed by the Ivorian government as equity investment. The table below lays out this information in tabular form.

Other considerations
This power station will increase the national generation capacity by 112 MW of clean energy and will help to propel the county towards 6 Gigawatts of installed capacity by 2030, that the Ivorian government is aiming at.

See also

 List of power stations in Ivory Coast

References

External links
 Approximate Location of Gribo Popoli Hydropower Station As of 3 May 2022.

Nawa Region
Bas-Sassandra District
Corsair 24. The Corsair 24, also called the Corsair F-24, is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by Ian Farrier as a racer-cruiser. The boat was produced in two versions, the centerboard-equipped Mark I and the daggerboard Mark II.

The Corsair 24 is a development of the Farrier F-24.

Production
The design was built by Corsair Marine in the United States, starting in the early 1990s as the F-24. The name was changed to the Corsair 24 in 2000 when Farrier left the company and some minor changes made to the design. Production ran until 2003, with 200 Mark II boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design

The Corsair 24 is a recreational trimaran, built predominantly of fiberglass with a fractional sloop rig and folding bowsprit. The hull and the folding outriggers have nearly-plumb stems and  reverse transoms. The main hull mounts a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller with an extension. It has foam flotation to make it unsinkable. The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for two adults and two children, with a small double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and quarter berths in the main cabin. A cabin "pop-top" adds some headroom when open. A galley is optional, as is the portable head. The cabin was described by Darrell Nicholson in a Practical Sailor review as "cramped and limited".

For sailing downwind the design may be equipped with an asymmetrical spinnaker of .

The design has a hull speed of .

The Mark I has a centerboard, a fixed mast and a displacement of . 

The improved Mark II model has a daggerboard, a rotating mast and a displacement of . The Mark II has a draft of  with the daggerboard down and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water, beaching or ground transportation on a trailer with the outriggers folded.

Operational history
A 2018 review by Drew Frye in Practical Sailor said of the Mark I, "whether you’re downsizing from a cruising cat, or upsizing from the family Hobie, the F-24 offers the sports car of youthful dreams, on a budget. Is it worth paying three times as much as you would for a 24-foot mono-hull with more room? Not if you’re looking for cabin space and need an enclosed head. On the other hand, if fun sailing is the goal, the dollar-to-grin ratio is very high. Market demand is dependable and you will get your money back. It’s not the best beginners boat."

In a 2019 review for Practical Sailor, Darrell Nicholson described the Mark II as, "flat out fast and well built, but compared to a monohull (and you've heard this before), expensive and cramped down below."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Related development
Farrier F-22

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Trimarans
1990s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Ian Farrier
Sailboat types built by Corsair Marine
Light Blade. Light Blade (, Lahav Or) is a laser-based air defense system intended to intercept airborne devices such as incendiary balloons, incendiary kites, and miniature UAVs such as quadcopters, and RAM (rocket, artillery, and mortar) threats. When first deployed in 2020, it was the first laser air defense system in the world.

Development
Development was driven by the need for a cheaper missile defense alternative to the Iron Dome. 

The system is based on research involving engineers from Ben-Gurion University, the Israel Police, and the Research and Development Directorate of the Israel Defense Forces. Israel Border Police commission Yaakov Shabtai oversaw the system's development. It was officially revealed in 2019, with a claimed effective range of 2 kilometers. Cost per interception is approximately US$3.50; cost per interception by Iron Dome was estimated at $100,000–150,000 in 2020.

Operational history
Light Blade was deployed operationally for the first time in August 2020 by Israel Border Police in response to the launch of incendiary devices, such as explosive-laden balloons from parts of the Gaza Strip, that caused brush fires in southern Israel. The Sky Spotter system had been developed to spot and track balloons and kites and direct firefighters to their landing spots without delay, but there had been no way to intercept balloons. Light Blade succeeded with almost 100% of interceptions, but because of its short range balloons sent by Hamas from other areas of the Gaza Strip were not intercepted.

See also

DragonFire (UK, range classified)
Iron Beam (Israel, range  7 km (4.3 mi))

References

Emergency management in Israel
Military lasers
Israeli inventions
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 2019
Flying Frenchman (disambiguation). Flying Frenchman is a nickname.

(The) Flying Frenchman may also refer to:

 Cosmic Wind Flying Frenchman, an aircraft; see List of aircraft (Co–Cz)
 "The Flying Frenchman", a solo recital performed by Andrew Ling
 The Flying Frenchman, a bronze sculpture by César Baldaccini in Hong Kong

See also

 Flying Dutchman (disambiguation)
List of Ingenuity flights. The NASA helicopter Ingenuity on Mars made the first powered controlled flights by an aircraft on a planet other than Earth. It first flew on April 19, 2021, after landing on February 18 attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover. Ingenuity weighs  and is  tall. It is powered by six lithium-ion solar-charged batteries. It was built and operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a field center of NASA. Ingenuity was designed to fly five times in 30 Mars sols (31 Earth days), but operated far above expectations, making its 72nd and final flight on January 18, 2024 (UTC),  Mars sols ( Earth days) after its first flight. Its rotor blades were damaged on the last flight's landing, causing NASA to retire the craft. Mission engineers determined that Ingenuity’s navigation system could not provide accurate data during the flight over featureless terrain, resulting in an off-balance hard landing.

List of flights

Data sources:"m20 heli waypoints" NASA

Flight totals at end of mission

Flight records

Flight path

See also 
 
 Atmosphere of Mars 
 Dragonfly – Robotic rotorcraft mission to Saturn's moon Titan, planned launch in 2028
 Exploration of Mars
 List of artificial objects on Mars
 List of firsts in aviation

References

Citations

Status reports

External links 
 Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstrator. (PDF) – The key design features of the prototype drone.
 
 Perseverance route map — including the flight tracks of Ingenuity
 Explore Mars

2020 in the United States
2020 robots

Missions to Mars
NASA space probes
Space probes launched in 2020
2021 on Mars