omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Paul Bechly. Paul Lorin Bechly (born 1958) is an American chemical engineer known for his work in the development of an environmentally-oriented perfluorocarbon gas policy for DuPont and other industries. He currently works in the financial industry.

Education 

Bechly graduated in 1980 from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering. He began working in the financial industry in 1993, and earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2000, a Master of Science in Financial Services from The American College in 2008, and a Doctor of Business Administration from Wilmington University in 2018.

Career 

Bechly worked within the fluorochemicals business of DuPont from 1980 to 1993, where he served in roles including R&D, engineering, distribution, sales, marketing, product management, and production. Based upon his research activities at DuPont, he has been elected to a full membership at Sigma Xi. Bechly joined Dean Witter in 1993. As of 2021, he was an active member of the financial industry in Greenville, Delaware,  and a Governance Fellow with the National Association of Corporate Directors. Bechly conducts private independent research through Azeas Consulting. He is currently a First Vice President at Morgan Stanley.

Perfluorocarbon gas issue 
Bechly was awarded the DuPont Chemicals Environmental Excellence Award in 1992 for "Leadership in the Development of an Environmentally Responsible Perfluorocarbons Policy for DuPont". Bechly led a team of scientists to study and provide data on sources greenhouse gases, their atmospheric effects, and options for control. These efforts led to a consensus among allied industries to proactively develop responsible environmental policies regarding the chemicals. His professional works are maintained by the Hagley Museum and Library in Delaware.

In recognition of his work at DuPont on the Perfluorocarbon Gas Issue, Bechly was selected as the 2020 recipient of the Mensa Education & Research Foundation "Intellectual Benefits to Society Award".

See also 

 Perfluorinated compound
 Fluorinated gases

References

External links 

 Paul L Bechly papers (Accession 2723), Hagley Museum and Library
 Mensa Foundation page for Paul Lorin Bechly

1958 births
Living people
Cornell University alumni
American chemical engineers
DuPont people
American environmentalists
CFA charterholders
Mensans
20th-century American writers
21st-century American writers
People from Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington University alumni
Bio 360 Life Sciences Park. Bio 360 Life Sciences Park is a Biotechnology and Life Sciences park in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, India. Established in 2013, by the Government of Kerala, the Phase I of the park is spread over . An additional  of land is being undertaken by the government of Kerala as the Phase 2 development of the park.

The park focuses on incubation, R&D and manufacturing in the fields of life sciences, biotechnology, nanotechnology. bioinformatics, biomedical devices and pharmaceuticals. Bio 360 is  on National Highway 66 at Thonnakkal,  from Trivandrum International Airport. Similar industrial parks like Technopark is  and Technocity is  from Bio 360 and 30 Km from Vizhinjam International Seaport Thiruvananthapuram

Institutions
Bio 360 Life Sciences Park houses the Bioscience Research and Training Centre (BRTC) of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU). BRTC do research into disease prevention and immune systems in animals. KVASU is also planning to start an Animal Research Facility as part of the BRTC. The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) is planning to  establish a bio-medical equipment unit for research and production of bio-medical equipment.

Institute of Advanced Virology, Kerala
The Institute of Advanced Virology, Kerala established by the Kerala Biotechnology Commission (KBC) is a  project hosted in the park. The institute will offer academic discipline, including PG diploma and Ph.D. in virology.
The Virology Institute includes high-end research facilities to study viruses and viral infections. The institute will also have 9 laboratories with Biosafety Level 3 and Biosafety level 2 facilities. The bio safety level 3 (BSL-3) laboratory will be upgraded to Biosafety level 4 subsequently. The institute will have facilities for the development of novel antiviral drugs, vaccines and molecular diagnostic tools. The institute would also house a unit of the Global Virus Network.

See also
Technopark, Trivandrum
Technocity, Thiruvananthapuram

References

External links
Bio 360 official website
KSIDC official website

Organisations based in Thiruvananthapuram
Science and technology in Thiruvananthapuram
2013 establishments in Kerala
Kevin R. Slates. Kevin Robert Slates (born 1959) is a retired Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.

Early life and education
Slates is a native of Pewaukee, Wisconsin. He attended Marquette University, earning his bachelor's degree in 1982. Slates holds an M.S. degree in environmental engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and has completed the Advanced Management Program at the Fuqua School of Business of Duke University.

Career
Slates received his commission in 1982. His duties would include commanding Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Three, deployments to serve in the Gulf War and as part of the Kosovo Force, being stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and being assigned to Naval Facilities Engineering Command and the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations. 

He retired in 2015. Awards he received during his career include the Legion of Merit.

References

1959 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
People from Pewaukee, Wisconsin
Marquette University alumni
Military personnel from Wisconsin
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
United States Navy personnel of the Gulf War
Fuqua School of Business alumni
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
United States Navy rear admirals (upper half)
Great Kite. The Great Kite () was a wooden machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo realized it between the end of  the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th Century. Drawings of parts and components of this machine can be found in the Codex on the flight of birds, which however lacks the overall description of the machine itself. Some drawings within the same codex suggest that it was created in similarity with flapping flight. However, this was hardly possible to perform given the available technologies, thus Leonardo developed a machine for mainly a gliding flight. The machine is named after the animal from which Leonardo took inspiration to realize the flying machine, the Kite.

In-Media Appearances
The Great Kite makes an appearance in Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
The Great Kite appears as a Lego set released in 2025.

See also 
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci
 Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci

Note 

Leonardo da Vinci projects
BTB E2E. The BTB E2E, also known as F 2/2 and De 2/2, were a pair of Swiss electric locomotives operated by Burgdorf Thun Bahn (BTB) in the early twentieth century.  They are the oldest three phase locomotives designed for full service operation that have been preserved. The locomotives were built by Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) and Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) and entered service in 1899. They were powered by two  750V AC electric motors which drove two axles. A two speed gearbox enabled the locomotives to travel at  and , the latter for passenger transport. The gearbox was later upgraded, raising the speed to . Relegated to secondary duties when more powerful designs were introduced, the locomotives provided valuable service until 1930.

Description

Constructed in Switzerland by a collaboration between Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), who provided the mechanics, and Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM), who contributed the electrics, the two E2E locomotives were introduced to pull goods on the BTB. They were equipped with two 19-pole electric motors with a one hour rating of  which powered a common shaft mounted on an auxiliary frame. Power was transmitted via a countershaft and coupling rods to two axles to power four driving wheels. The railway operated at 750V three phase AC, which was transmitted to the locomotive via a roof-mounted pantograph and overhead wires. The locomotives were equipped with a 100 V circuit for lighting, heating and other auxiliaries.

The E2E had a wheelbase of  and a total length of . Weight in service was . A driving cab with simple controls, including air brakes, was fitted to one end of the superstructure. A two speed gearbox, switchable when the locomotive was stationary, was fitted. The lower gear allowed a maximum speed of  on a slope of 25 ‰ drawing a load of . The higher gear was designed for the locomotive to travel at up to .

The gearbox proved to be problematic and was revised by SLM in 1900. Later, the gearing was changed to allow for a higher speed of .

Service
The locomotives started operating on the railway between 1899, initially designated E2E. At first, they were used mainly for freight services, but the higher gear speed also allowed the locomotives to be used for passenger operations. With the introduction of more powerful locomotives, they were relegated to secondary duties. In 1902, they were redesignated F 2/2; subsequently they were reclassified as De 2/2 in 1922. Despite their obsolescence and the limitation of the two fixed speeds, the simple engine design proved reliable and the locomotives provided good service. After just over thirty years in service, they were retired in 1930.

Preservation
Both locomotives have been preserved as the first three-phase locomotives in full-service operation. No. 1 is part of the collection of the Deutsches Museum at Freilassing Locomotive World. No. 2 is housed at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne.

References

Citations

Bibliography
 
 
 

Electric locomotives of Switzerland
Preserved electric locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Switzerland
Railway locomotives introduced in 1899
Travelers Weather Research Center. The Travelers Weather Research Center (1954-1961) was the world's first privately-owned research institute for the scientific study of weather. It pioneered the use of statistical methods, mathematical models, and computers to improve weather forecasting techniques, and was the first to state weather predictions in terms of probabilities ("20% chance of rain").

The Travelers Weather Research Center was established by J. Doyle DeWitt, president of the Travelers Insurance Company, to more accurately estimate weather phenomena with relation to property damage, crop losses, and accidents. In 1955, the center hired Dr. Thomas F. Malone from MIT to direct the center and oversee its long-term planning and research. Malone served as the center's director until 1957, and its research director from 1957-1964; he remained with the Travelers until 1970. Under Malone's direction, the center won the 1958 Gold Medal from the New York Board of Trade for its research. In the same year, he chaired a national committee that created "Preliminary
Plans for a National Institute for Atmospheric Research", which resulted in establishment of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

In 1961, the Travelers Weather Research Center was subsumed into a new Travelers subsidiary, The Travelers Research Corporation, in anticipation of forthcoming federal regulations controlling air quality. In 1969, the subsidiary was incorporated as the Research Corporation of New England, also known as TRC, which continues to this day.

References 
 "The Travelers Weather Research Center", Weatherwise, December 1954, page 159.
 "National Weather Research", New Scientist, September 25, 1958, page 902.
 "Thomas F. Malone (1917–2013)", Eos, American Geophysical Union, Vol. 94, No. 50, 10 December 2013, page 486.
 TRC Solutions (history)

Meteorological research institutes
Scott R. White. Scott Ray White (February 14, 1963 – May 28, 2018) was an American engineer.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri on February 14, 1963, and raised in Harrisonville, Missouri, White obtained a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri Institute of Science and Technology. He continued his studies at Washington University in St. Louis and Pennsylvania State University, where he earned a master's in mechanical engineering and doctorate in engineering mechanics, respectively. White began teaching at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1990, and was eventually named Donald B. Willett Professor in Aerospace Engineering. In 2013, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Award.

He died of ocular melanoma at the age of 55 on May 28, 2018, and is survived by his wife and colleague Nancy Sottos.

Research 
Scott White Google Scholar Profile

Autonomous Materials Systems Research Group

Legacy 
Two funds were created to honor and remember Scott White. These two funds, The Scott R. White Aerospace Engineering Professorship and The Scott R. White Aerospace Engineering Visionary Scholarship are respectively dedicated to advancing the body of knowledge and research in the field of autonomous materials and supporting undergraduate research. More information on these funds can be obtained via the University of Illinois Department of Aerospace Engineering - Giving.

References

1963 births
2018 deaths
Deaths from cancer in Illinois
Deaths from uveal melanoma
American materials scientists
American mechanical engineers
Humboldt Research Award recipients
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
Missouri University of Science and Technology alumni
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
Grainger College of Engineering faculty
People from Kansas City, Missouri
People from Harrisonville, Missouri
Aldar. Aldar may refer to:

Aldar Properties, a real estate development, management and investment company with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Aldar Tsydenzhapov, a conscript seaman of the destroyer Bystry of the Russian Pacific Fleet who was the only fatal victim of a fire that broke out on the destroyer on 28 September 2010. 
Akiva Aldar (born 1945), Israeli author and columnist

See also
Aldar Headquarters building, first circular building of its kind in the Middle East, located in Al Raha, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dar (disambiguation)
Eldar (disambiguation)
Aldara (disambiguation)
Eva Håkansson. Eva Håkansson is a Swedish mechanical engineer and lecturer at the University of Auckland. In 2014 she became the world's fastest woman on an electric motorbike.

Early life and education 
Håkansson grew up in Sweden. She studied Business Administration and Environmental Science at Mälardalen University College. Her father, Sven Håkansson, used to build motorcycles and her mother was the family mechanic. In 2007 she converted a motorcycle into an electronic bike with her father and the ElectroCat became the first registered e-bike in Sweden. In 2007, whilst writing a book about motorcycles and electric vehicles, she called Bill Dube to ask for the permissions to use a photograph of his electric bike. She became part of the team that created the KillaCycle, and married the creator Bill Dubé eighteen months later. In 2010 she delivered a TEDx talk at the University of Denver, where she discussed environmentally friendly ways to race quickly. She completed a PhD in corrosion at the University of Denver in 2016.

Research and career 
In 2014 Håkansson broke the land speed record at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials in the custom-built KillaJoule. KillaJoule was the fastest electric motorcycle in the world. She was one of the faces of the Johnnie Walker campaign in 2015 alongside Jenson Button and Jude Law. In 2016, Håkansson broke the land speed record at the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials, achieving .

Håkansson teaches engineering design at the University of Auckland. In 2017 she reached  in the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials. She is now working on the Green Envy motorcycle. Green Envy uses computer-aided design and a 1,000 horsepower motor. She has been building the motorcycle in New Zealand, and plans to debut it in 2019.

References 

Swedish engineers
Swedish mechanical engineers
University of Denver alumni
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Land speed record people
Mälardalen University College alumni
Zero Mile metro station. Zero Mile Freedom Park is an elevated metro station on the North-South corridor of the Orange Line of Nagpur Metro in the city of Nagpur, Maharashtra. It is named after the nearby Zero Mile Stone which was built in 1907 to mark the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. The station was opened on 21 August 2021.

Design
The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation (now Mahametro) launched a global competition on 5 June 2015 inviting bids for the Zero Mile and Sitaburdi metro stations. Twenty-three architecture firms submitted designs in response. The metro authority shortlisted 13 firms for the detailed design stage, and eventually requested four firms to submit designs. A panel of architects appointed by the authority to pick the winning design, and the preliminary design of the winning entry was unveiled by the metro authority in May 2016.

The Zero Mile station is a 20-storey building with two basements. The building's facade is made of locally-sourced glass and stone. It is located on a 12,000 square metre plot of land on Wardha Road. Mahametro completed the demolition of a two-storey building of the fisheries department that was previously located on the site in January 2018. 

The station is equipped with 8 escalators, 10 lifts, and also features multi-level parking with a capacity to accommodate 244 cars. Apart from the metro station and related facilities, the station building also contains hotels, restaurants, commercial places, offices, and a banquet hall. Zero Mile station also provides connectivity with the heritage walk around the Zero Mile Stone and Shaheed Smarak monuments. Also located near the station are an amphitheatre and a survey museum that will display the results of surveys conducted during the British Raj.

A Potain Tower Crane was utilized to speed up construction of the station.

Station layout

Entry/Exit

See also
 Nagpur
 Maharashtra
 List of Nagpur Metro stations
 Rapid transit in India

References

Nagpur Metro stations
Railway stations in India opened in 2021
Concrete hinge. Concrete hinges are hinges produced out of concrete, with little or no steel in the hinge neck, which allows a rotation without a significant bending moment. The high rotations result from controlled tensile cracks as well as creep. Concrete hinges are mostly used in bridge
engineering as monolithic, simple, economic alternative to steel hinges, which would need regular maintenance. Concrete hinges are also used in tunnel engineering. A concrete hinge consist of the hinge neck, which has a reduced cross section and of the hinge heads, which have a strong reinforcement.

History and guidelines 
Freyssinet invented the concrete hinges.
Leonhardt introduced guidelines in the 1960s which are still used till the 2010s.
Janßen introduced the application of concrete hinges in tunnel engineering.
Gladwell developed another guideline for narrowing cross sections, which predicts a stiffer behaviour than the Leonhardt/Janßen-model
Marx and Schacht translated Leonhardts guidelines for the first time in the nowadays used semipropablistic safteyconcept.
Schlappal, Kalliauer and coworkers introduced for the first time both limit caces (service-limit-states (SLS) and ultimate-limite-states (ULS)).
Kaufmann, Markić und Bimschas did further studies on concrete hinges.

Stresses, rotational capacity, bearing capacity 

Due to triaxial compression, strength in the neck region is much higher than for uniaxial compression, because lateral expansion is restricted.
Eurocode 2 suggests for typical dimensions a compressive strength equal to about twice of the unixalial compressive strength. 
Also the concrete hinge neck has no, or almost no reinforcement, but the concrete hinge heads need a dense reinforcement cache, because of tensile splitting.

Literature 
 Fritz Leonhardt: Vorlesungen über Massivbau - Teil 2 Sonderfälle der Bemessung im Stahlbetonbau.  [Concrete hinges: test report, recommendations for structural design. Critical stress states of concrete under multiaxial static short-term loading Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1986, , S. 123–132. (in German)
 VPI: Der Prüfingenieur. Ausgabe April 2010, S. 15–26, (bvpi.de PDF; 2,3 MB). (in German)

References 

Bridge design
hinge
ESSA-7. ESSA-7 (or TOS-E) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA).

Launch 
ESSA-7 was launched on August 16, 1968, at 11:31 UTC. It was launched atop a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. The spacecraft had a mass of  at the time of launch. ESSA-7 had an inclination of 101.72°, and an orbited the Earth once every 114.9 minutes. Its perigee was  and its apogee was .

References

Spacecraft launched in 1968
Weather satellites of the United States
Television Infrared Observation Satellites
Raygun Gothic Rocketship. The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is a retro-futurist art sculpture in the shape of a giant rocketship. It was created by Bay Area artists Nathaniel Taylor, Sean Orlando, and David Shulman.

The exhibit stands 40 feet tall and weighs 13,000 pounds. The ship was built with 3 walkable decks. The interior is divided into the Engine Room & Life-Sciences Bio Lab, Crew Quarters & Navigation, and the upper Flight Deck and pilot chair. The interior includes artistic details such as captured "alien specimens" and a zero gravity bed. Creating the rocket required the work of 85 artists, engineers, fabricators, scientists and computer engineers.

The creators described the art as "a future-rustic vision of yesterday’s tomorrow". A San Francisco newspaper said it "offers a retro-futuristic, highly-stylized vision of space travel".

The Rocket was originally created as an art installation for the 2009 Burning Man Festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. In 2010 it was moved and featured at a Yuri's Night celebration at NASA Ames Research Center, as well as a second appearance at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Later in 2010 the Rocket was moved and installed as a temporary art exhibit at Pier 14 in San Francisco. It remained standing in San Francisco for 14 months.

Today, the Rocketship is permanently installed on the site of the former Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, which was redeveloped in the 1990's into a new Denver, master-planned community known as the Lowry Neighborhood. The rocket sits atop a custom-built kiosk which houses the Rocket Ice Cream Shop. The Rocket installation is part of the 
historic Hangar 2 adaptive re-use project, which is now a retail center and is also adjacent to the historic Hangar 1, which houses the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.

Special Notes 
The artists who created the Raygun Rocket might not have been aware of it, but this sculpture is the perfect incarnation of the rocket in the children's science fiction novel The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its sequels.

References

External links

 http://www.raygungothicrocket.com/

Retrofuturism
Sculptures in Nevada
Burning Man
Outdoor sculptures in Colorado
Outdoor sculptures in San Francisco
Tourist attractions in Denver
Rocket sculptures