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Sudair Solar PV Project. The Sudair PV IPP is a solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant located in Sudair Industrial City, Saudi Arabia.

Description
The Sudair Solar PV Project, a solar photovoltaic power plant, is in the final stages of commissioning in Sudair Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. This project forms part of the Public Investment Fund (PIF)'s initiative within the renewable energy sector and aligns with the Saudi Vision 2030 project, which aims to derive 70% of the country’s renewable energy by 2030. Additionally, it supports the objectives of the Saudi Green Initiative, which focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a circular carbon economy.

Overview 
When completed, the Sudair Solar PV Project will have a capacity of 1,500 MW, with the ability to supply power to approximately 185,000 households. The undertaking involves an investment of SAR 3.4 billion ($924 million) and forms part of Saudi Arabia’s broader renewable energy strategy, targeting 58.7 GW of clean energy by 2030.

Technology 
The Sudair Solar PV Project incorporates bi-facial solar panels with single-axis tracking technology to increase sun absorption and overall system efficiency. The project encompasses an area of 30.8 square kilometers, and comprises 4.5 million solar modules.

Impact 
The Sudair Solar PV Project is projected to annually offset an estimated 2.9 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, the initiative is expected to generate 1,200 jobs during the construction phase, and 120 permanent jobs during operation.

Development 
Led by a consortium of ACWA Power, Water and Electricity Holding Company (Badeel), and Saudi Aramco Power Company, the project was awarded in January 2021, construction of the project completed and commissioned partially in 2023, and is slated for full completion by 2024, expected to create over 4,000 employment opportunities.

See also

List of photovoltaic power stations
Photovoltaic power station
Sudair Industrial City

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Valery Bakalov. Valery Panteleyevich Bakalov () was a Soviet and Russian scientist, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, professor, specialist in communications, information and measuring technology, theory of electrical circuits, the rector of Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (1987–2005).

Biography
He was born on September 19, 1940, in Novosibirsk. In 1963 Bakalov graduated from the Radio Engineering Faculty at Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after V. I. Ulyanov.

For seven years the scientist worked in one of the special designing and technological bureau (Leningrad), as well as at SB AS USSR (Novosibirsk), where he worked on problems related to radio telemetry.

In 1971, he began worked at the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute of Communication (future Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics). From 1987 to 2005, Bakalov was the rector of this educational institution.

He died on June 21, 2021, and was buried at the Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery in Novosibirsk.

Activities
The researcher contributed to the development of the general theory and methods for optimizing information and measurement systems with a spatially distributed structure. He oversaw programs for the creation of radio telemtric complexes, which were subsequently introduced into various sectors of national economy, and he was also involved in the informatization of Siberia and Far East.

Bakalov was one of the founders of such a scientific direction as biotelemetry.

He authored more than 200 scientific works and inventions, including 6 monographs and 10 textbooks for higher education institutions, as well as more than a dozen textbooks on the theory of electrical circuits and radiotelemetry.

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20th-century Russian scientists
21st-century Russian engineers
Telecommunications engineers
Educators from Novosibirsk
Scientists from Novosibirsk
Burials at Zayeltsovskoye Cemetery
1940 births
2021 deaths
Wenyuan Xu. Wenyuan Xu () is a Chinese computer scientist specializing in computer security for wireless networks, embedded systems, and the internet of things. She is a professor in the College of Engineering of Zhejiang University, where she directs the Ubiquitous System Security Lab.

Education and career
Xu studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang University, graduating in 1998, and continuing for a master's degree in 2001. She completed a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in the US in 2007. Her dissertation, Defending Wireless Networks from Radio Interference Attacks, was jointly supervised by Wade Trappe and Yanyong Zhang.

She joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, becoming an associate professor there, before returning to Zhejiang University as a professor in 2013.

Recognition
Xu won the Chinese Young Women in Science Award in 2023. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to embedded systems for automobile security".

References

External links
Home page
Ubiquitous System Security Lab

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Zhejiang University alumni
Rutgers University alumni
University of South Carolina faculty
Academic staff of Zhejiang University
Fellows of the IEEE
Leigh-Ann Russell. Leigh-Ann Russell (born April 1975)  is a Scottish engineer. She has worked as an executive at BP, where was executive vice president of innovation & engineering until she resigned in 2024 to join the financial services firm BNY as head of engineering and CIO as part of their executive team.

Biography
Leigh-Ann Russell was educated at the University of Aberdeen, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. Her career in engineering began in the late 1990s, beginning as an executive at the service company Schlumberger. Russell joined the energy company BP, where she served as engineering manager and operations manager for the North Sea and as global vice president of technical functions. In June 2020, amidst supply chain issues during the COVID-19 pandemic, Russell publicly objected to the practice of mailing letters to companies demanding cost reduction, saying that waste reduction was a more productive alternative. Russell was promoted from head of procurement and supply chain management to senior vice president of procurement on 1 July 2020. On 1 March 2022, Russell was promoted to executive vice president of innovation & engineering; that position is equivalent to the roles associated with chief digital officer, chief scientific officer, and chief technology officer. She resigned from bp in 2024 to join financial services firm BNY as head of engineering and CIO as part of their executive committee.

Outside of engineering, she also serves as a non-executive director for the manufacturing company Hill & Smith.

Russell was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022. She was also made an honorary Professor of Practice at Queen's University Belfast in 2022. She is also a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Chartered Petroleum Engineer.

Russell is from Aberdeen.

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Living people
21st-century Scottish engineers
21st-century Scottish women engineers
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
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BP people
Schlumberger people
British businesspeople in the oil industry
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
British business executives
British women business executives
21st-century Scottish businesspeople
21st-century Scottish businesswomen
1975 births
Hernán Martínez. Hernán Martínez Torres (1 June 1942 – 28 December 2023) was a Colombian chemical engineer and politician. From July 2006 to August 2010, he served as Minister of Mines and Energy, under the administration of President Álvaro Uribe.

Biography
Martínez studied chemical engineering at Pontifical Bolivarian University (UPB) and then specialized in oil management at Northwestern University. For 16 years, he served as President of Intercor, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil for the development of the Cerrejón Zona Norte coal mining complex. He also served as President of ExxonMobil Colombia, Corporate Planning Manager of Esso Colombiana and member of the board of directors of the Universidad del Norte, in Barranquilla. Before assuming the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Martínez was a member of the board of directors of several companies in both the public and private sectors. 

Martínez represented the President of the Republic on the Board of the National Hydrocarbons Agency. He served as president of the Board of Directors of Cartón de Colombia. In addition, he belonged to the Boards of Directors of ISA, Traselca and Inversiones Suramericana.

Death
Martínez died on 28 December 2023, at the age of 81.

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1942 births
2023 deaths
People from Cartagena, Colombia
Colombian chemical engineers
Ministers of mines and energy of Colombia
Pontifical Bolivarian University alumni
Aeroflot Flight 8556. Aeroflot Flight 8556 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Sukhumi to Leningrad. It crashed 13 meters short of the runway on approach killing 13 passengers.

Accident 
At 12:45 Moscow time the aircraft began its descent from . During the descent the weather deteriorated and heavy rain and a cumulonimbus cloud were present, which was not transmitted to the crew. At 13:05 the plane was at around  when the descent rate was increased to 7.5 m/s and the aircraft slipped below the glideslope. At this time the controllers were replaced in a violation of procedure. The crew noticed they were below the glideslope so they increased engine-power and initiated a climb. The approach continued however and the rate of descent again reached 7 m/s. At an altitude of  the crew realized the danger and tried to stop the descent, but the aircraft struck the ground 13 meters short of the runway. The landing gear collapsed and the fuselage broke into three pieces.

Causes 
The approach was destabilized due to a number of factors. The actions of the crew were inconsistent and uncoordinated. There was no assistance from the approach controller in the final stages of the flight. The accident  could have been avoided had the pilots initiated a go-around once they realized the approach was unstable.

See also 
 Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1990s
 List of accidents and incidents involving the Tupolev Tu-154

References 

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1991
Accidents and incidents involving the Tupolev Tu-154
Aviation accidents and incidents in the Soviet Union
8556
Aviation accidents and incidents caused by pilot error
1991 in the Soviet Union
May 1991 in the Soviet Union
John Rubino. John Battista Rubino (26 June 1945 – 16 January 2023) was a prominent Western Australian businessman in the engineering and construction industry. After he emigrated from Sicily to Australia in 1966, Rubino co-founded the engineering company UGL, and later acquired Monadelphous, a company which he helped to revive.

Early life
Rubino was born on 26 June 1945, in Delia on the island of Sicily in Italy. He was a surveyor in Italy. In 1966, at 21 years old, Rubino emigrated to Western Australia.

Career
Embarking on his Australian career as a trade assistant, Rubino found a pivotal opportunity in 1970 when he became a sub-contractor on the Ord River Dam project, marking the commencement of his influential career in engineering and construction. Collaborating with fellow migrants John Trettel, Charlie Bontempo and Sam Castelli, Rubino played a crucial role in establishing UGL, a major player in the Australian contracting industry.

In 1987, UGL acquired a stake in Monadelphous, which faced receivership shortly after. Undeterred, Rubino, alongside his partners, embarked on salvaging their investment. Despite facing challenges during the early 1990s recession, Rubino assumed the role of managing director at Monadelphous. Rubino's leadership was initially panned to be temporarily, but lasted for over 30 years in the positions of chairman or managing director. Under his adept leadership, Monadelphous underwent revitalization, and by the 2010s was one of Australia's largest contracting companies.

Legacy
Rubino was featured in The West Australian's WA Rich List in 2012, and was recognised as one of the most influential Western Australian businesspeople in the newspaper's 2013 list of the 100 most influential.

Rubino retired from Monadelphous in October 2022 for health reasons, and died a few months later on 16 January 2023.

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Further reading

 

1945 births
2023 deaths
Australian businesspeople
Australian people of Sicilian descent
People from the Province of Caltanissetta
Cyril Stileman. Cyril George Stileman (9 September 1879 – 4 December 1943) was an English first-class cricketer and civil engineer.

The son of the civil engineer Francis Stileman, he was born at Barrow-in-Furness in September 1879. He was educated at The Abbey School in Beckenham and Burney's Academy in Gosport. He was a pupil with his father from 1899 to 1903, assisting him with the construction of railways and docks with the Furness Railway. He went to British India in 1903, where he was an assistant engineer with the Bombay Port Trust until 1910. From 1910 to 1918, he was the Port Trust's executive engineer, later becoming its deputy chief engineer for construction. Stileman was later employed by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, where was head of their Bombay office by 1926. 

Whilst in India, Stileman made one appearance in first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team against the Parsees at Poona in the 1905–06 Bombay Presidency Match. Playing in the side as a bowler, he took figures of 4 for 113 in the Parsees first innings. Batting twice, he was dismissed in the Europeans first innings for 5 runs by K. B. Mistry, while following-on in their second innings, he was dismissed for 8 runs by the same bowler. Prior to his move to India, Stileman played club cricket for Barrow Cricket Club, in addition to playing field hockey for Lancashire. Stileman later retired to England, where he died at Westminster in December 1943. His brother, Frederic, was also a first-class cricketer for the Europeans. The cricketer and sailor Charles Evan-Thomas was his brother-in-law.

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1879 births
1943 deaths
Cricketers from Barrow-in-Furness
English civil engineers
English male field hockey players
English cricketers
Europeans cricketers
Min Wu. Min Wu (, born 1974) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer and an expert in signal processing, digital forensics, digital watermarking, and steganography. She is Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor in Information Technology and Associate Dean for Graduate Affairs in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the former chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee, and the president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Education and career
Wu earned double bachelor's degrees in economics and in electrical engineering at Tsinghua University in 1996. She completed a Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2001, with the dissertation Multimedia Data Hiding supervised by Bede Liu.

She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park as an assistant professor in 2001. She was promoted to associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2011, and named as the Christine Yurie Kim Eminent Professor in 2022. She has been associate dean for graduate affairs in the A. James Clark School of Engineering since 2019.

Wu chaired the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee for 2012–2013, and served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine from 2015 to 2017. She is president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the 2024–2025 term.

Books
Wu is the coauthor of:
Multimedia Data Hiding (Springer, 2002)
Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing (Hindawi, 2005)

Recognition
Wu was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011, "for contributions to multimedia security and forensics". She was named as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2017, "for distinguished contributions to the field of signal processing, particularly for multimedia security and forensics". She joined the National Academy of Inventors as a fellow in 2019.

References

External links
Home page

1974 births
Living people
Chinese electrical engineers
21st-century Chinese women engineers
21st-century Chinese engineers
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Women electrical engineers
Tsinghua University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
CP Class 0400. The CP Class 0400, commonly called by the nickname Rolls Royce, refers to a type of railcar that was used by the Portuguese Railway Company and its successor, between 1965 and 2001.

History 
They entered service with the operator Portuguese Railway Company in 1965, having been built on the premises of the company Sorefame.

In 1994, the remodelling of the railcars in this series was already being planned in the Porto workshops of the Rail Equipment Maintenance Company, with various changes to the interiors and the replacement of the original engines with more recent ones manufactured by Volvo; it was also planned to build a prototype for the operator Portuguese Railway Company. They were refurbished there between 1994 and 1995 and underwent several changes; inside, the wooden dividers were made of glass and new curtains, seats and side panels were introduced, in different colours to the previous ones. One of the toilets was also removed in order to provide more seating, and the light sources were changed to produce more illumination. In the driving cabs, the colour scheme was also changed, and the seat for the co-driver was removed and a more ergonomic seat for the driver was added.

All the units in this series after being remodelled were integrated into the CP Class 0450 series, becoming extinct in 2001.

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Diesel multiple units of Portugal
Railway locomotives introduced in 1965
IdeaForge. ideaForge Technology Limited is an Indian unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) manufacturer established in 2007 in Mumbai, India.

In December 2023, ideaForge ranked 5th in the dual use category that is civil and defence as per the report published by Drone Industry Insights (7th in December 2022).

History 
ideaForge was established in 2007 in Mumbai by IIT Bombay graduates, Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh and Ashish Bhat.

In 2009, it launched its first autonomous micro unmanned aerial vehicles with a quadrotor configuration.

In July 2023, the company raised  from 31 anchor investors by allocating 37.92 lakh equity shares to anchor investors. It opened its initial public offering (IPO) with an Offer For Sale (OFS) of  comprised with ₹240 crore fresh issue and ₹327 crore by promoters and investors up to 48.69 lakh equity shares worth in BSE & NSE on 7 July 2023. The IPO gained a premium of 94% to the issue price of ₹1,296 on the opening day.

In 2024, the ideaForge partnered with Skylark Labs, a US based Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions company to integrate self-evolving drones AI capabilities for public safety and security applications. It will help drones autonomously detect and identify suspicious weapons, persons, vehicles, fires, and smoke in real-time.

Products and services 
The company manufactures drones for mapping, security, and surveillance applications assisting defence forces in conducting intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations along borders. The company majorly caters to the central armed police forces, armed forces, state police departments, forest departments, disaster management forces, and civil customers.

 DRDO Netra -  jointly developed by the Research and Development Establishment (R&DE)
 Switch UAV, Netra V4 UAV, Q6 UAV, Ninja UAV, Q4i UAV, and Ryno UAV products specialised with in extreme temperatures (-20°C to +50°C), marine environment, dusty weather conditions and high humidity.

Financials

Awards and recognitions 
In 2023, the company has indigenously developed Fixed-wing VTOL UAV - SWITCH UAV that can fly at diverse terrains and harsh environments, ranging from -30 °C to +55 °C for a variety of security and surveillance applications.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers
Indian brands
Manufacturing companies based in Mumbai
Indian companies established in 2007
Aircraft manufacturers of India
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2007
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Dudley's entropy integral. Dudley's entropy integral is a mathematical concept in the field of probability theory that describes a relationship involving the entropy of certain metric spaces and the concentration of measure phenomenon. It is named after the mathematician R. M. Dudley, who introduced the integral as part of his work on the uniform central limit theorem.

Definition 
The Dudley's entropy integral is defined for a metric space  equipped with a probability measure  . Given a set  and an -covering, the entropy of  is the logarithm of the minimum number of balls of radius  required to cover . Dudley's entropy integral is then given by the formula:

where  is the covering number, i.e. the minimum number of balls of radius  with respect to the metric  that cover the space .

Mathematical background 
Dudley's entropy integral arises in the context of empirical processes and Gaussian processes, where it is used to bound the supremum of a stochastic process. Its significance lies in providing a metric entropy measure to assess the complexity of a space with respect to a given probability distribution. More specifically, the expected supremum of a sub-gaussian process is bounded up to finite constants by the entropy integral. Additionally, function classes with a finite entropy integral satisfy a uniform central limit theorem.

See also 
 Entropy (information theory)
 Covering number
 Donsker's theorem

References

Entropy and information
Statistical theory
Oklahoma Museum of Flying. The Oklahoma Museum of Flying is an aviation museum located at Wiley Post Airport in Bethany, Oklahoma.

History 
Brent "Doc" Hisey, a neurosurgeon, acquired the P-51D Miss America from the Museum of Flying in 1992. The museum acquired a B-25 in 2013.

Collection 

 Aero L-39 Albatros
 Cessna L-19E Bird Dog
 Fokker E.III – replica
 North American TB-25J Mitchell
 North American P-51C Mustang
 North American P-51D Mustang
 North American T-28C Trojan

References

External links 
 Official website (archived)

Aerospace museums in Oklahoma
Museums in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma