omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Denis Chevrier. Denis Chevrier (born 8 June 1954) is a retired Formula One engineer who was the head of engine operations for the Renault F1 team from 2002 to 2007.

Career 
Chevrier graduated with a degree in mechanical design and production. After joining the national engineering school in Metz, the Frenchman began his career as a motorcycle technician in classes up to 125 cm³ and 250 cm³.

As a motorsport enthusiast, however, he always remained open to other disciplines. At Renault-Sport he worked from 1984 as a racing engineer for the Tyrrell Formula 1 team. Chevrier experimented with the possible uses of racing engines. After a year-long excursion into Renault's World Rally Championship project, he concentrated again on Formula 1. In his ten years at Williams F1, he won four world titles with four different drivers: Nigel Mansell in 1992, Alain Prost in 1993, Damon Hill in 1996 and Jacques Villeneuve in 1997.

As operations manager of the engines for Mecachrome / Supertec, he kept his area of responsibility after Renault's comeback as a works team in Formula 1 in 2002. At the end of 2007 Chevrier left the French outfit and was replaced by Rémi Taffin.

References

External links
 Profile at grandprix.com

1954 births
Living people
Formula One engineers
Renault in Formula One
John F. Plumb. John F. Plumb (born 1970/1971) is an American aerospace engineer, politician, and United States Navy Reserve captain who served as the first assistant secretary of defense for space policy. He was previously the chief of government relations at The Aerospace Corporation. In 2016, he unsuccessfully ran as the Democratic Party candidate for the 23rd congressional district in New York.

Education 
Plumb was born in Jamestown, New York. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree in physics. He later earned a Master of Science degree in physics and a PhD in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Career 
Plumb has served in both active and reserve duty as a submarine officer. After graduating, Plumb was commissioned in the United States Navy in 1993 and, in 2000, he moved to the United States Navy Reserve. He holds the rank of captain and serves as the commanding officer Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Undersea Warfare Operations Headquarters.

Plumb has worked for more than 25 years at various positions in the White House, the Pentagon, and the United States Senate. From 2004 to 2009, he worked under Colorado Senator Ken Salazar first as a congressional science and technology fellow, then as a legislative assistant. He worked for the United States Department of Defense from 2009 to 2013 on nuclear, missile defense, and space policy. In 2013, he started working for the National Security Council as director of defense policy and strategy.

Plumb left the National Security Council in 2015 to run as the Democratic Party candidate for the 23rd congressional district in New York, challenging the Republican incumbent, Tom Reed. He lost to Reed by 42,466 votes.

After losing the election, Plumb then worked for RAND Corporation as a senior engineer. In August 2020, he was hired by The Aerospace Corporation as the chief of government relations.

Biden administration
On July 29, 2021, Joe Biden nominated Plumb to serve as the first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy. He testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 13, 2022, where he agreed that the space traffic-management mission of the Space Force should be transferred to a civil agency. He was confirmed by voice vote on March 1, 2022.

References 

1970s births
Living people

Year of birth uncertain
Politicians from Jamestown, New York
University of Notre Dame alumni
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
American aerospace engineers
New York (state) Democrats
Candidates in the 2016 United States elections
United States National Security Council staffers
United States Navy captains
United States Navy reservists
RAND Corporation people
United States Assistant Secretaries of Defense
Biden administration personnel
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
Engineers from New York (state)
Eghbal Hamidy. Eghbal Hamidy (; born 1 August 1960) is an Iranian aerodynamic engineer. He was technical director and aerodynamics expert for several Formula 1 (F1) teams in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Career 
Hamidy was one of the very few Iranian engineers working in F1. He graduated from Imperial College in London, majoring in aeronautical engineering (undergraduate and post-graduate) and vehicle dynamics for his doctoral program in the late 1980s.

He started his career in the Williams team in 1989 as an aerodynamicist. During his time at Williams he worked with Patrick Head, Enrique Scalabroni and Adrian Newey. He stayed in the team until the end of 1995. His best achievement was when he helped Nigel Mansell (1992), Alain Prost (1993) and Damon Hill (1996) to World Champion titles and the Williams team to constructor's Championship Titles in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1996. In 1996 he left for the Stewart GP team.

At Stewart GP, Hamidy served as chief Aerodynamicist working with Alan Jenkins. At that time, he was known as an expert in designing great cars on wet tracks, because every time there was a rainy race condition, Stewart GP's appearance was always stunning. His first car at Stewart GP, SF01, came second in Monaco Grand Prix piloted by Rubens Barrichello. 

Even when he left for Arrows in 1999, Hamidy's influence was felt on Stewart. Rubens Barrichello recorded pole in France and Johnny Herbert recorded victory at the Nürburgring.

In the team led by Tom Walkinshaw, Hamidy earned the reputation as an expert in designing fast cars on the low-downforce style circuit. This is evidenced by the speed of Jos Verstappen in the 2000 Austrian Grand Prix, the 2000 Italian Grand Prix, and finally the 2001 Austrian Grand Prix.

He moved to Jordan in early 2001. He helped with the development of Jordan's EJ11 and EJ12. Unfortunately his spell at the Jordan team was not successful and led to his departure in early 2002.

Currently, he owns an engineering consultancy business, named EHE Limited.

References

External links 
 Eghbal Hamidy - Jordan information site

1960 births
Living people
Formula One designers
People from Shiraz
Iranian engineers
Polaris 26. The Polaris 26 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by William H. Tripp Jr.  as a cruiser and first built in 1960.

The Polaris 26 is very similar to Tripp's 1963 Sailmaster 26 design.

Production
The design was built by Werf Gusto in the Netherlands, starting in 1960 and imported into the United States by Seafarer Yachts. It was later produced by Seafarer Yachts in their factory in Huntington, New York, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Polaris 26 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig with wooden spars. The hull has a spooned, raked stem; raised counter, angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed, modified long keel, with a cutaway forefoot and a retractable centerboard. It displaces .

The boat has a draft of  with the centerboard extended and  with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water or ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is fitted with an inboard engine for docking and maneuvering.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settee berths in the main cabin around a drop-leaf table. The galley is located on both sides of the companionway ladder. The head is located centered in the bow cabin, underneath the "V"-berth.

The design has a hull speed of .

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Photo of a Polaris 26 sailboat

Keelboats
1960s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by William H. Tripp Jr.
Sailboat types built by Seafarer Yachts
Sailboat types built by Gusto Shipyard
IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss 7. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Hugo Boss 7 was designed by VPLP, Alex Thompson Racing and Gurit and launched in August 2019 after being built by Carrington Boats based in Hythe, England. The boat contained a number of innovative features and was the first IMOCA to have a fully enclosed cockpit.  The hull form was also optimised for the semi-foiling nature of the class.

Names and Ownership 
Hugo Boss 7 (2019-2021)

 Skipper: Alex Thomson
 Sail No.: GBR 99

Construction of the boat started under the name Rockliffe Bill III

Hublot (since 2021)

 Skipper: Alan Roura 
 Sail No.: SUI 7

Racing Results

References 

2010s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by VPLP
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat types built in the United Kingdom
Cross-entropy benchmarking. Cross-entropy benchmarking (also referred to as XEB) is a quantum benchmarking protocol which can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy. In XEB, a random quantum circuit is executed on a quantum computer multiple times in order to collect a set of  samples in the form of bitstrings . The bitstrings are then used to calculate the cross-entropy benchmark fidelity () via a classical computer, given by 
,
where  is the number of qubits in the circuit and  is the probability of a bitstring  for an ideal quantum circuit .  If , the samples were collected from a noiseless quantum computer. If , then the samples could have been obtained via random guessing. This means that if a quantum computer did generate those samples, then the quantum computer is too noisy and thus has no chance of performing beyond-classical computations. Since it takes an exponential amount of resources to classically simulate a quantum circuit, there comes a point when the biggest supercomputer that runs the best classical algorithm for simulating quantum circuits can't compute the XEB. Crossing this point is known as achieving quantum supremacy; and after entering the quantum supremacy regime, XEB can only be estimated.

The Sycamore processor was the first to demonstrate quantum supremacy via XEB. Instances of random circuits with  and 20 cycles were run to obtain an XEB of .  Generating samples took 200 seconds on the quantum processor when it would have taken 10,000 years on Summit at the time of the experiment. Improvements in classical algorithms have shortened the runtime to about a week on Sunway TaihuLight thus collapsing Sycamore's claim to quantum supremacy. As of 2021, the latest demonstration of quantum supremacy by Zuchongzhi 2.1 with , 24 cycles and an XEB of  holds. It takes around 4 hours to generate samples on Zuchongzhi 2.1 when it would take 10,000 years on Sunway.

See also 

 Boson sampling

References 

Quantum information science
Quantum computing
IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss 6. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Hugo Boss 6 was designed by VPLP, Guillaume Verdier and Alex Thomson Racing and launched in 2015 after being built by Green Marine based in Hythe, England.

Names and Ownership 
Hugo Boss 6 (2015-2020)
 Skipper: Alex Thomson
 Campaigning for the 2016–2017 Vendée Globe 

11th Hour Racing-Alaka'i (2020-2022)
 Skipper: Charlie Enright
 Training boat for 2023 The Ocean Race 

Guyot Environment (since 2022)

 Skipper: Benjamin Dutreux
 Sail No.: FRA 09
 Campaigning for the 2024-2025 Vendee Globe

Racing results

References 

2010s sailing yachts
Sailing yachts designed by VPLP
Sailboat type designs by Guillaume Verdier
Vendée Globe yachts
Volvo Ocean Race yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat types built in the United Kingdom
IMOCA 60 L'Occitane. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht L'Occitane en Provence, FRA 2, was designed by Sam Manuard and launched on the 31st January 2020 after being assembled by Black Pepper Yachts based in Nantes, France. Pauger Composites in Hungary did the hull moulding. 

The boat was the last to be completed for the 2020 Vendée Globe but the hull moulds were then used for Initiative Coeur 4 and OceansLab.

Design 
This is the first IMOCA 60 of the designer and the builders and incorporates a lot of thinking of the designer on Mini 6.5 and Class 40 yachts. It is the first SCOW-design hull and had a different approach to the foil configuration than other designs, the main difference being the ability to retract the foils.

IMOCA 60 L’Occitane is the sistership to Oceans Lab and Initiatives-Cœur 4.

Names and Ownership 
Jack In The Box (name during development)

L'Occitane en Provence (2019-2021)

 Skipper: Armel Tripon
 Sail No.: FRA 2

Bureau Vallée 3 (since 2021)

 Skipper: Louis Burton
 Sail No.: FRA 2

Racing Results

References 

2020s sailing yachts
Sailboat type designs by Sam Manuard
Sailboat types built in France
Sailboat types built in Hungary
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sheikh Kamal Textile Engineering College, Jhenaidah. Jhenaidah Textile Engineering College is an undergraduate public engineering college located in the Jhenaidah district of the Khulna division of Bangladesh. The college offers four year BSc Engineering degree under Bangladesh Textile University. In the 2017–18 academic year, the college started its academic activities in BSc Engineering in Textile Engineering.

History 
Sheikh Kamal Textile Engineering College was named after Sheikh Kamal (5 August 1949 – 15 August 1975) was the eldest son of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former President of Bangladesh. Kamal was an organizer of the Mukti Bahini guerrilla struggle in 1971. Kamal was received a wartime commission in Bangladesh Army during the Liberation War of Bangladesh.

Academics 

JTEC offers a four-year B.Sc. in Textile Engineering under the affiliation of Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX). Concerned departments of the college are given below:

 Department of Yarn Engineering
 Department of Fabric Engineering
 Department of Wet Process Engineering
 Department of Apparel Engineering

Number of seats 

The number of seats for the four-year bachelor's degree in textile engineering program is given below.

Admission 

Admission into this college is competitive and needs a high academic attainment at the SSC and HSC examination. Selection of the student for admission is made through an admission test. Only Science Students can apply for the admission test. Admission circular is published in the national dailies, college website and website of the Department of Textiles (DOT),

Department of Textiles (DOT) offers 4 years of BSc in Textile Engineering Degree. A single examination was organized by Department of Textiles (DOT) for 8 textile engineering colleges under the affiliation of Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX).
Colleges which conduct exams together are: CTEC (2006), PTEC (2006), TECN (2007), SARSTEC (2010), JTEC (2016), DWMTEC (2018), SRTEC (2021) & SHTEC (2022)

The admission test is conducted on the basis of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ). Students have to answer Physics, Chemistry, Higher Math & English in the admission test.
Students can get admission in certain college based on merit list and college preference list.

Laboratory 
 Physics Lab
 Chemistry lab
 Computer lab
 Yarn Manufacturing Lab
 Fabric Manufacturing Lab
 Weight Processing Lab
 Fashion Design Lab

See also

 Education in Bangladesh
 Textile schools in Bangladesh
 List of colleges in Bangladesh

 Textile Engineering College, Chittagong
 Pabna Textile Engineering College 
 Textile Engineering College, Noakhali
 Shahid Abdur Rab Serniabat Textile Engineering College
 Dr. M A Wazed Miah Textile Engineering College
 Sheikh Rehana Textile Engineering College, Gopalganj
 Sheikh Hasina Textile Engineering College, Melandaha, Jamalpur

References

Colleges in Khulna Division
Education in Jhenaidah District
Textile schools in Bangladesh
Technological institutes of Bangladesh
Colleges affiliated to Bangladesh University of Textiles
Ian Pocock. Ian Randell Pocock (born 16 August 1958) is a British engineer.

Career 
Pocock studied mechanical engineering and completed his PhD studies at the Cranfield Institute of Technology. Developed the potential of an active suspension system for Jaguar Cars. At Cranfield, he was a consultant engineer for the Benetton team. After receiving his doctorate in 1990, he joined Reynard Motorsport to work as a development engineer on a planned Formula 1 project. In 1991, he worked as a development engineer at Ligier. The following year he joined Ferrari Design and Development, where he worked until 1995, when he was transferred to Maranello to be head of chassis research and development. In 1999, he moved to Honda Racing Developments where he became head of Vehicle Science. This project was canceled following the death of Harvey Postlethwaite. He moved to Pi Research, and in August 2001 he became director of engineering.

He became director of engineering for Jaguar in 2003, but retired in early 2005 after the team was acquired by Red Bull.

References

External links
 Profile at grandprix.com

1958 births
Living people
Formula One engineers
Jaguar in Formula One
George C. Schaeffer. George Christian Schaeffer (December 8, 1814 – October 4, 1873) was an American engineer, chemist, and librarian.

Schaeffer was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and attended Columbia University, where his father served as a professor. As an engineer, he worked under David Bates Douglass from 1833 to 1836 in surveying and constructing the Croton Aqueduct, and from 1837 onwards served as an editor (and later sole owner) of the American Railroad Journal. He was the chief librarian of the Columbia University Libraries from 1839 to 1847, when he was appointed the chair of the Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and Geology department of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He resigned after five years to become the principal examiner of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Later, he would serve as the chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Georgetown University (1854–1858), the a professor of the science of agriculture, including chemistry and its application to the arts, geology, and mineralogy at the Maryland Agriculture College, later known as the University of Maryland, College Park (1859–1861), and the chair of the Chemistry, Physics, and Natural History department at Columbia. During the American Civil War, Schaeffer worked under the engineering department of the Union army, surveying land for George B. McClellan during the Peninsula campaign in 1862, and was personally consulted several times by Abraham Lincoln for his surveying expertise. Following the war, he was appointed Librarian of the Patent Office and of the Copyright Library, resigning in 1873. He would die later that year.

References 

Columbia College (New York) alumni
1814 births
1873 deaths
American civil engineers
Columbia University faculty
Columbia University librarians
Georgetown University faculty
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Centre College faculty
Bruno Thürlimann. Bruno Thürlimann (6 February 1923 in Gossau, St. Gallen - 29 July 2008 in Meilen) was a Swiss civil and structural engineer, and professor at ETH Zurich. He served as president of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering from 1977 to 1985, and was an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was the recipient of the International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in 1997.

References 

1923 births
2008 deaths
Swiss civil engineers
Swiss engineers
20th-century Swiss educators
21st-century Swiss educators
Sendje Hydroelectric Power Station. Sendje Hydroelectric Power Station is a  hydroelectric power station under construction in Equatorial Guinea. The power station is under development by the Government of Equatorial Guinea, with funds borrowed from the Development Bank of Central African States (BDEAC). The engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for this project is Duglas Alliance, a Ukrainian multinational engineering and construction company.

Location
The power station is located at the village of Sendje (Senye), across the Weller River, approximately  southeast of the city of Bata, on the country's mainland.

Overview
The power station is designed with maximum generation capacity of 200 megawatts, derived from four Alstom turbines, each rated at 50 megawatts. When fully operational, the power station's energy will be distributed to the main urban centers on the mainland, including Bata, Mbini, Kogo, Añisok, Mongomo and Ebebiyin. This power station together with the 120 megawatts Djibloho Hydroelectric Power Station, form the "backbone" of the country's hydroelectric energy capacity.

Construction costs and funding
The construction budget is reported to be €467 million (US$531 million). The cost was met by the government of Equatorial Guinea, with partial funding in form of a loan of €122 million (US$137 million), provided by BDEAC. Construction began in 2012 and was expected to conclude in 2020.

Benefits
When fully operational, this power station will increase national generational capacity to 590 megawatts. It will add 1,042 GWh to the national electric output, in form of "clean renewable energy", increasing access to grid-power, reducing the cost of electricity in the country and promoting national economic growth.

See also

List of power stations in Equatorial Guinea

References

External links
 Route Marker Showing Bata And Senye With Map

Power stations in Equatorial Guinea
Hydroelectric power stations in Equatorial Guinea
IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss 2. The IMOCA 60 Class yacht Hugo Boss 2 was designed by Group Finot and launched in the 2007 after being built by Jason Carrington/Neville Hutton in Lymington, England.

Names and Ownership 
Hugo Boss 2 (2007-2009)

 Skipper: Alex Thomson

Energa (2012-2013)

 Skipper: Zbigniew Gutkowski

La Compagnie du Lit – Boulogne Billancourt (2016-2017)

 Skipper: Stéphane Le Diraison

Time For Oceans (2018-2021)

 Skipper: Stéphane Le Diraison

Gentoo Sailing Team (since 2022)

 Skipper: James Harayda
 Sail No.: GBR 88

Racing Results

References 

2000s sailing yachts
Sailboat types built in the United Kingdom
Vendée Globe yachts
IMOCA 60 yachts
Sailboat type designs by Groupe Finot
Cathy McClay. Catherine Isabel McClay  is the Head of Futures at the National Grid. She is focussed on the energy transition and decarbonisation. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019 and appointed Order of the British Empire in 2021.

Early life and education 
McClay grew up in Northern Ireland and went to Limavady_Grammar_School. She applied to study electrical engineering after a recommendation from her teacher, and eventually attended Imperial College London. In 1990, she was appointed President of the City and Guilds College Union, the first woman to hold such a responsibility. She was a doctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she studied ways to improve the efficiency of cage induction motors. After graduating, McClay returned to Imperial College London, where she worked as lecturer.

Research and career 
McClay started a career in industry in 1999. She first joined Edison Mission Energy, where she worked on business modelling and strategy. In 2006 she moved to British Energy. She joined EDF Energy in 2009. At EDF, McClay was responsible for portfolio management. In 2015 McClay was appointed Head of Commercial at National Grid.

McClay worked on systems operation at the National Grid. In particular, McClay works on future markets and the transition to zero carbon. She was interested in demand side response (DSR), which provides electricity to people as and when they need it. She believes this approach can provide power at times it is more abundant and clean. McClay was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019.

In 2019, McClay moved to Sembcorp as Optimisation Director, where she focussed on flexible asset operation in the British market.

Awards and honours 
 2016 Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering
 2022 Order of the British Empire

References 

British women engineers
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Academics of Imperial College London
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of Imperial College London
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)