omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
SOR EBN 10,5. SOR EBN 10,5 is an electric bus produced since 2010 by Czech bus manufacturer SOR. Its development was initiated in late 2008 and 2009, with a supplier of electrical equipment, Cegelec, which further uses subcontractors.

Design  
Elektrobus is based on a city bus SOR BN 12, from which it took over from the chassis shortened by about 1.5 m rear overhang. The vehicle has two axles and three doors, its length is 10 370 mm and a width of 2 525 mm. The bus battery (180 lithium-ion cells with a total capacity of 300 Ah) lasts up to 110-180 kilometers away and recharges from the mains voltage of 400 volts and can be recharged full cycle for 8 hours or shortened so "quick" for 4 hours. Recharging of the bus may take less time and can be modified even runway turn pads.

See also 

 List of buses

Buses of the Czech Republic
Buses manufactured by SOR
Critter Crunch (Robotics Competition). The Critter Crunch is a table top combat robot competition that takes place annually at the
MileHiCon science fiction convention.  Established in 1986 with the first competition held in 1987, it is widely accepted as the first combat robot competition.

 preceding the Robot Wars TV series by more than decade.

History

The competition was proposed by the Denver Mad Scientists club and organized by member Bill Llewellin.
In the months before the 1987 convention the club produced a set of rules which were distributed without copyright restriction, allowing other organizations use or extend them for their own competitions.

The first competition was held on a hotel table. The original rules prohibited damaging the surface. There were several competitors including a remote control dune buggy, a mechanical device under a steel mixing bowl, and a little yellow remote control Corvette that could only go forward or backwards and turn. The first competition was won by the Corvette.

The last revision to the official rules was on 15 Feb 2003.  By then the rules had evolved to include mention of radio controls, attacking control systems, limiting the number of operators to one, and codifying two part critters loss conditions

References

Robotics events
Robotics competitions
Robot combat competitions
Newark Energy Center. The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey. Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 it began commercial operations in May 2015. It is situated on a  brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River. It was originally built as a joint venture between Hess Corporation and Energy Investors Fund, and it was taken over the latter in 2014.

The facility comprises two General Electric (GE) 07FA.05 combined cycle combustion turbine generators (CTGs), two heat recovery steam generators (HRSG) each equipped with duct burners, one steam turbine generator (STG), one 12-cell wet mechanical draft cooling tower, and ancillary equipment. The facility will use waste water from the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission, eliminating the need to use fresh water. NAES Corporation provides operations and maintenance; Direct Energy handles energy management services. The plant consists of 23 full-time staff members. It will sell its energy and capacity into the PJM Interconnection capacity market regional grid.

See also
List of power stations in New Jersey
Essex County Resource Recovery Facility
Bayonne Energy Center

References

External links 
The Environmental Justice Community, Represented by EELC, Settles Appeal Opposing Air Pollution
Newark Energy Center Vote Postponed; $23 Million in Limbo

Natural gas-fired power stations in New Jersey
Essex County, New Jersey
Energy infrastructure completed in 2015
Passaic River
Power stations in Newark, New Jersey
2015 establishments in New Jersey
1943 RAF Hudson crash. The 1943 RAF Hudson crash was an aerial accident that killed two people. The aircraft crashed in a forced landing attempt near RAF St Eval, Cornwall, England, following engine failure.

Aircraft
FH168 was a Lockheed Hudson IIIA (a lend-lease A-29-LO serial no 41-36969 and c/n 414-6458), operated by No. 38 Wing RAF, based at RAF Netheravon. On 19 May 1943, it was en route from RAF St Eval to RAF Gibraltar when it crashed and burned  south of St. Eval. The aircraft was unable to maintain height due to one engine failing, and the load it was carrying.

Casualties
Air Commodore Sir Nigel Norman, on his way to the Middle East for an Airborne Forces Planning Conference, died as a result of the crash. The only other airman killed in the crash was Pilot Officer (Obs) Arthur Rotenberg, who is buried in St Columb Major Cemetery.

Rescue
The surviving crew and passengers were rescued by two nearby farm workers – William Richards and Eddie Thomas – and a nearby member of the Royal Observer Corps, George Gregory. In 1945, Gregory was awarded the British Empire Medal for his brave actions during the rescue of the crew.

References

Further reading
 

RAF Hudson crash
Aviation accidents and incidents in England
Accidents and incidents involving Royal Air Force aircraft
RAF Hudson crash
RAF Hudson crash
RAF Hudson crash
Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex. Grinnell Company-General Fire Extinguisher Company Complex is a historic factory complex located at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It was built in 1929–1930, and consists of a two-story office building and massive tall, one-story Grinnell manufacturing building.  The office building is a reinforced concrete structure, with a brick veneer, a flat roof, and a parapet capped in concrete coping.  The manufacturing building has a poured concrete slab foundation, brick veneered walls, a steel framing system consisting of I-beam piers and heavy Pratt truss roof, banks of continuous, steel sash windows, and large, sawtooth monitors. The complex was built for the largest manufacturer of automatic sprinklers and other fire protection products in North America.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

References

Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Industrial buildings completed in 1930
Buildings and structures in Charlotte, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Tyco International
1930 establishments in North Carolina
Brick buildings and structures in North Carolina
Worldwide Ultralite. Worldwide Ultralite Industries was an American aircraft manufacturer. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft in the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules. Formed in the early 1980s, the company was out of business by the 1990s.

The company produced three simple ultralight designs, the Worldwide Ultralite Clipper, the Worldwide Ultralite Skyraider S/S and the Worldwide Ultralite Spitfire, which was derived from the Phantom X1. After the demise of Worldwide Ultralite, the Spitfire design was produced by Don Ecker and later Air Magic Ultralights of Houston, Texas

Worldwide Ultralite was noted for its marketing of the aircraft at trade shows, such as EAA AirVenture. They employed scantily-clad models to attract attention to the aircraft, a tactic not normally employed at aircraft trade shows.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Good Building Design and Construction in the Philippines. The Good Building Design and Construction in the Philippines is a handbook developed in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), UNDP Regional Center in Bangkok, and the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

The handbook aims to provide comprehensive information to house owners, designers, builders, and building monitors to teach principles of good design and construction in natural hazard-prone areas such as the Philippines.

Main authors
Robin Willison, a Civil Engineer and a consultant for Disaster risk reduction has written the handbook and provided photographs through experience in tragedy recovery during impacts of hazards in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Olaf Neusser, is a disaster risk consultant for GTZ and has provided support for the assessment of building culture in Leyte and Samar through the effects of local catastrophe in the area.

Analogy of good building structure

As the Philippines lies within the Pacific Ring of Fire where earthquakes and eruptions are more likely to occur as well as being at the edge of the Pacific Ocean where violent storms are likely to develop, proper construction philosophies and strategic location must be assessed so it can resist external forces.

Foundation
The book has given a detailed identification of proper house foundation and ground classification to ensure it is not liquefaction prone.

Structure
Principle of coherent structure and the importance of the presence of structural columns to support the walls and roof structure in the event of environmental hazards such as ravaging floods, strong winds and earthquakes.

Roof truss tying
Roof trusses must be welded to purlins and tied using extruding column steel reinforcements. to ensure it is fixed properly to the columns and will not fly off during strong winds.

Proper location
The proper location has been discussed in the handbook to ensure that the ground below is sturdy enough to support the weight of the structure. It must be composed of bedrock and must not be landfilled and is away from slopes and river beds.

Construction materials
Broken rough rocks and fine sand must be used and must be free from external sediments as they may affect the strength of the concrete mix.

References

External links
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction
National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council of the Philippines
Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board of the Philippines

2008 non-fiction books
Design books
Philippine books
Handbooks and manuals
Construction standards
Urban planning in the Philippines
United Nations Development Programme
Standards of the Philippines
School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa. The School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa or ETSEIAT (in Catalan Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeries Industrial i Aeronàutica de Terrassa) is a public institution of higher education founded in 1904 and part of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). It is located in Terrassa, about 1 hour from Barcelona, Spain.

Studies

Bachelor
 Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering
 Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Technology Engineering
 Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering

Master
 Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering
 Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering
 Master's Degree in Management Engineering (taught in English)
 Master's Degree in Engineering of Automatic Systems and Power Electronics

PhD
 Mechanical Engineering, Fluids and Aeronautics
 Thermal Engineering
 Textile and Paper Engineering
 Optical Engineering
 Electric Energy Systems

Main figures
 19 UPC Basic Unities present
 2437 students
 310 teaching and research staff
 73 administration and services staff
 27 classrooms dedicated to teaching
 9 classrooms with PCs

External links
 Website of ETSEIAT
 Website of UPC

Engineering universities and colleges in Spain
Education in Barcelona
Universities in Catalonia
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Stanley Brown (engineer). Sir Frederick Herbert Stanley Brown  (9 December 1910 – 1997) was an English mechanical and electrical engineer.
Born in Birmingham and educated at the King Edward's School, Birmingham he then went on to the University of Birmingham where he graduated with a first class honours degree in electrical engineering in 1932. In 1937 he was involved in the design and development of Hams Hall B power station. He joined the CEGB in 1958 upon its inception and in September 1959 he was appointed deputy chairman. On 1 January 1965, he succeeded Christopher Hinton as chairman of the CEGB and was followed by Sir Arthur Hawkins in 1972. In the 1967 Birthday Honours, he received his knighthood for services to the electricity supply industry.

References

1910 births
1997 deaths
English electrical engineers
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Knights Bachelor
Date of death missing
Antoine Magnan. Antoine Magnan (; 13 June 1881 – 5 March 1938) was a French zoologist and aeronautical engineer who studied the flight of insects and birds for possible lessons to apply to powered flight. He is best known for a remark in his 1934 book Le Vol des Insectes ("Insect Flight") that insect flight was impossible.

Life and work

Magnan was born in the central 7th arrondissement of Paris on 13 June 1881. He qualified as a doctor of medicine and of science, and received the diploma of superior studies in zoology. He became a professor of animal mechanics applied to aviation at the Collège de France (from 1929 to 1938), and the director of the experimental morphology laboratory and the aviation laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He was responsible to the ministries of Education, Agriculture and the Interior.

Insect flight

The following passage appears in the introduction to Le Vol des Insectes:

This translates to:

Magnan refers to his assistant, the mathematician and engineer André Sainte-Laguë as the source of the calculations mentioned.

Works

 Le tube digestif et le Régime alimentaire des Oiseaux. Hermann, 1911.
 Le Poids des tectrices chez les oiseaux carinatés. Imprimerie Nationale, 1912.
 Les caractéristiques des oiseaux suivant le mode de vol: leur application a la construction des avions. Masson, 1922.
 Le vol des oiseaux: directives que l'on peut en tirer pour l'aviation. G. Roche D'Estrez, 1922.
 Pour voler à voile: études expérimentales sur le vol à voile des oiseaux avec l'application à l'aviation (extraits de L'air). G. Roche D'Estrez, 1923.
 "L'Énergie interne du vent et le vol à voile". Revue generale des sciences pures et appliquees, 28 Feb 1925, v.36, pp. 101–11.
 L'Accélérographe H.M.P.: Son application à la mesure des accélérations en vol. With E. Huguenard and A. Planiol. 1926
 Essai de Théorie Du Poisson. With André Sainte-Laguë. Services Techniques de l'Aéronautique, 1929.
 Les caractéristiques géométriques et physiques des poissons avec contribution à l'étude de leur équilibre statique et dynamique, Volumes 1-2. Masson, 1929.
 Hodographes et polaires d'avions, 1930.
 Étude des trajectoires et des qualités aérodynamiques d'un avion par l'emploi d'un appareil cinématographique de bord. With André Sainte-Laguë. E. Blondel La Rougery, 1932.
 "Sur le poids relatif des muscles moteurs des ailes chez les insectes." With C. Perrilliat-Botonet. C. R. Acad. Sci. v.195, pp. 559–561.
 Cinématographie jusqu'à 12000 vues par seconde avec application à l'étude du vol des insectes. Hermann, 1932.
 Sur l'excédant de puissance des oiseaux. Hermann, 1933.
 Le Vol des Insectes ("Insect Flight"). Volume 1 of Locomotion chez les animaux ("Locomotion in Animals"), Hermann, 1934.

References

1881 births
1938 deaths
French entomologists
French aerospace engineers
20th-century French zoologists
Rotec Engineering. Rotec Engineering was an American aircraft manufacturer, founded in 1977 by William Adaska and located in Duncanville, Texas. Adaska had worked as an aeronautical engineer for Bell Helicopter and the French helicopter manufacturer, Aérospatiale prior to starting Rotec.

Rotec Engineering specialized in the design and manufacture of ultralight aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction and ready-to-fly aircraft under the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company's most successful line was the Rotec Rally that was designed by Adaska as a motor glider in 1977 and praised by reviewers for its sound engineering and low price. The Rally series was produced in several models in large numbers, including the Rally 2 in 1979, 2B, the Rally 3 two place in 1981 and the aerobatic Rally Sport in January 1983. The design was continually improved through the early 1980s. The Rally line established the company one of the most successful ultralight manufacturing concerns of that period. The company offered a "buy five get one free" plan, whereby purchasers could order five aircraft, four for their friends and get their own aircraft at no cost.

The follow-on Rotec Panther was initially aimed at the US Experimental - Amateur-built category, but later lightened by installing a smaller cockpit fairing to give it an empty weight of , allowing it to be flown as a US FAR 103 ultralight.

The company seems to have gone out of business after the 1984 introduction of the Panther.

Aircraft

References

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Marilyn Jorgenson Reece. Marilyn Jorgenson Reece (September 8, 1926 – May 15, 2004) was an American civil engineer, and the first woman to be licensed as a civil engineer by the state of California. She designed an innovative interchange in the 1960s that handled fast moving traffic in Los Angeles. The interchange is now named after her.

Early life 
Marilyn Jorgensen was born on September 8, 1926, in Kenmare, North Dakota, to Virgil and Marion Jorgenson. She was born of Danish descent.

Education 
She attended Shakopee High School in Minnesota, graduating in the class of 1944 as the salutatorian.

She received a degree in civil engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1948. Following graduation, she moved to California, and began working for the State Division of Highways. In 1954 she became the first woman to be a registered civil engineer in the state of California.

Career 
Among the many many projects that she supervised, her most celebrated work is the iconic interchange between the 10 and the 405 freeways in Los Angeles, California. This interchange was designed to accommodate traffic moving at high speeds, and represented the forefront of traffic engineering in its day, opening in 1964. For this work she was awarded the Governor's Design Excellence Award from Pat Brown, and in 2008, this interchange was named in her honor.

Personal life 
She was married to Alvin Reece who also worked as a civil engineer for Caltrans. They had two daughters, Kirsten Reece Stahl (who became a civil engineer) and Anne Reece Bartolotti.

She died on May 15, 2004, in Hacienda Heights, California, and was survived by her husband and their two daughters.

References 

1926 births
2004 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Transport engineers
People from Kenmare
People from North Dakota
Python Bridge. Python Bridge, officially known as High Bridge (Hoge Brug), is a bridge that spans the canal between Sporenburg and Borneo Island in Eastern Docklands, Amsterdam.

History 
It was built in 2001 and won the International Footbridge Award in 2002. The bright red bridge spans 90 meters and was designed by Adriaan Geuze of the architectural firm West 8.

Uniqueness 
The bridge only carries pedestrians.

The visually similar Lage Brug (Low bridge) is nearby. It is similar but without the high elevation, which allows cyclists to ride over it.

This bridge was also made famous by the Storror parkour team. The team used the bridge to do a hanging challenge and used a rope to swing off of.

References 

Bridges completed in 2001
Pedestrian bridges in the Netherlands
Steel bridges in the Netherlands
Bridges in Amsterdam
Tourist attractions in Amsterdam
GEK Terna. GEK Terna Holding Real Estate Construction (Genikós etaireía Kataskevastikí)() is a large Greek conglomerate which is listed on the Athens Exchange. Its construction branch Terna is one of the leading enterprises of its sector in Greece.

GEK Terna's electric utilities branch Terna Energy lately focused on the production and transmission of renewable energy. Through its subsidiary Heron S.A., it is also involved in the construction and operation of thermoelectric power generation fueled with natural gas as well as the supply of Electricity and Natural Gas to consumers. Terna Energy is listed separately on the Athens Exchange ( ).

Company
The company was formed when former competitors GEK and TERNA merged in 1999. Until 2008, GEK was the name of the holding with TERNA being its operational branch. The Athens-based company has been listed at the Athens Exchange since 1969 and belongs to the 25 companies forming the FTSE/Athex Large Cap index. In 2013, U.S. investment firm York Capital Magagement bought a 10% share of the company.

Rail privatization bid
Following the Greek government-debt crisis, GEK Terna showed interest in the planned privatization of Greek state-owned railway carrier TrainOSE. Together with the state-owned railway companies of Russia and France, RZD and SNCF, and Romanian private railway carrier Grup Feroviar Roman, it placed a joint bid for TrainOSE and the Hellenic Company for Rolling Stock Maintenance (Rosco), currently held by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund. Following the January 2015 legislative election, the new SYRIZA-led administration however put the decision under review.

See also

 Energy in Greece

References

Sources

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Construction and civil engineering companies of Greece
Conglomerate companies of Greece
Renewable energy companies of Greece
Companies based in Athens
Energy companies established in 1969
Renewable resource companies established in 1969
Conglomerate companies established in 1969
Companies listed on the Athens Exchange
Companies in the FTSE/Athex Large Cap
Greek brands
Greek companies established in 1969
G. K. Bharad Institute of Engineering. G. K. Bharad Institute of Engineering is a degree-awarding institution situated near Rajkot, Gujarat, India. It is affiliated to Gujarat Technological University in Ahmedabad and approved by the All India Council for Technical Education. It has departments of information technology, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, and civil engineering.

Departments
Information Technology
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Electronics & Communication

Engineering colleges in Gujarat
Education in Rajkot
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Gujarat
Nanostrain. Nanostrain was an EU-funded project (EMRP IND54) to characterise piezoelectric materials for future fast digital switch designs.

The switching may only need a much lower voltage and be faster with lower power consumption than CMOS.

Calculations suggest that small PiezoElectronic Transistors (combining piezoelectric and piezoresistive materials) could need much less energy to switch and allow clock speeds of 30 GHz (10 times current CMOS), with a hundred times less power than today’s devices.

Nanostrain consortium
The consortium includes many European national institutes and industrial partners, including IBM.

Progress and results
Nanostrain was initially funded for 3 years, and included 6 work packages. Some results were reported in 2014.

A final report was published in July 2017, work continues in the EMPIR ADVENT project.

See also

References

External links
EMRP Nanostrain project at XMaS - for PiezoElectronic Transistor, includes video presentation and interview
EMRP project IND54 Nanostrain featured in New Scientist and The Telegraph Aug 2015 - links to traditional news coverage

European Union and science and technology
Research projects