omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Chukwuemeka Woke. Chukwuemeka Woke (also known as Emeka Woke) is a Nigerian engineer and politician of the People's Democratic Party. He has served as chairman of the Emohua local government area in Rivers State. In June 2015, former Governor Ezenwo Wike appointed him as the Chief of Staff of Rivers State Government. He was nominated as a commissioner designate in June 2023 and was subsequently sworn in as commissioner for special projects under the administration of Siminalayi Fubara. He resigned on May 9, 2024, and was appointed Managing Director/CEO of the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority. On May 22, 2024, he was re-assigned as Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, assuming office on June 10, 2024.

Controversies 
The state arrested Woke for leading a squad in two sport utility vehicles that followed and opened fire on Dakuku Peterside.

See also
List of people from Rivers State

References

Engineers from Rivers State
People from Emohua
Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party politicians
Chiefs of staff of Rivers State
Mayors of places in Rivers State
Living people
First Wike Executive Council
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sharon Ashbrook. Sharon Elizabeth Marie Ashbrook (born 26 January 1975) is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of St Andrews.
Her research is focused on the application of multinuclear solid-state NMR spectroscopy techniques as well as the combination of these techniques with first-principles calculations to investigate structure, order and dynamics of solid state materials.

Other areas of interest include microporous framework materials, high pressure minerals and the encapsulation of nuclear waste with ceramics.

Education and career
Ashbrook studied Chemistry at Hertford College in Oxford in 1997 and then remained in Oxford to study for her DPhil. Ashbrook then moved to a postdoctoral research post at the University of Exeter. Later Ashbrook was then awarded a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

Ashbrook has published over 110 papers in the area of structure and disorder in the solid state, using NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations.

Honours and prizes 
Her work has garnered awards and prizes for her research using solid-state NMR spectroscopy and first-principles calculations to uncover the structure of materials and their chemical reactivity.

 Faraday Division Mid-Career Bourke-Liversidge Award (2021) from the Royal Society of Chemistry.
 Corday-Morgan Prize (2015) from the Royal Society of Chemistry
 Makdougall Brisbane Medal (2012) from the Royal Society of Edinburgh
 Marlow Award (2011) from the Royal Society of Chemistry
 Harrison Prize (2004) from the Royal Society of Chemistry

In 2017, Ashbrook was awarded the Suffrage Science Award after her work on the "Academic Women Now" booklet about academic women in Scotland.

Professional activities 
Ashbrook was elected a Member of the RSE Young Academy of Scotland (2011), the Institute of Physics, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and the Ampere Board of Trustees (2016-2020). She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Chemistry. She also regularly organises outreach programs with local schools through her role as the Vice-Chair of the Tayside Local Section of the Royal Society of Chemistry and as a RSE Fellow.

References

Living people
Academics of the University of St Andrews
British women chemists
Scottish women chemists
21st-century Scottish chemists
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
21st-century Scottish women scientists
21st-century Scottish educators
1975 births
21st-century Scottish women educators
Arthur Hawkins. Sir Arthur Ernest Hawkins   (10 June 1913 – 13 January 1999) was an English mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Lympley Stoke, Bath, Somerset and educated at the  Great Yarmouth High School. He joined the CEGB and was heavily involved in the 275 kV and 400 kV Supergrid in the department of the Transmission Project Group. He married Laura Judith Tallent Draper in Marylebone Middlesex 1939. At the inception of the first 2000 MW power station West Burton in 1969 Arthur was then in charge of the CEGB Midlands Region based in Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands. He was made chairman of the CEGB in 1972 preceded by Sir Stanley Brown and proceeded by Glyn England in 1977. In June 1976 he was knighted as Chairman of the CEGB.

After retirement he served as a director with the Community of St Andrew Trust at Lincoln's Inn, London. He was survived by his son Andrew Hawkins and daughter Ruth Hawkins. Lady Hawkins died in 2020 at the age of 104.

After privatisation of the industry in 1991 commentators made the link to the lack of British energy policy to the days of the CEGB  ‘Oh for the glory days of Sir Arthur Hawkins and the Central Electricity Generating Board. I never thought I'd say that about an organisation that seemed, at the time, to embody the very worst aspects of post-war corporatism and central government planning. But compared with the abject chaos into which British energy policy has descended since privatisation, the absolute rule of the CEGB seems a paragon of virtue.’

References

1913 births
1999 deaths
English electrical engineers
Knights Bachelor
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Heat Wave (2009 American film). Heat Wave  is a film in the action / adventure genre directed by Rex Piano. It is about a heat wave that threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert.

Plot
There is an unexplained sudden rise in temperatures. A scientist has to put her theories into practice and come up with a solution to prevent what could be the inevitable. She is in a race against time to find the source of a heat wave. Otherwise, Los Angeles County could turn into lifeless desert. A greedy giant corporation that is also out to make millions of dollars is a feature in the film. The lead role of Dr. Kate Jansen is played by Jamie Luner. Other cast include Barbara Niven, Cole S McKay, David Storrs, Greg Evigan, Lynn Milano, Richard Tanner, Robert R. Shafer, Ted Monte and Tom Poster.

Background
It was released on January 9, 2009. The story was written by Jody Wheeler and Paolo Mazzucato. It was directed by Rex Piano, who had also directed Blind Injustice in 2005. It was produced by Charles Arthur Berg and distributed by Regent Releasing /here! Films. It is also known as City on Fire.

Cast
 Jamie Luner as Dr. Kate Jansen   
 Greg Evigan as Ed Dobbs
 Ted Monte as Oliver Wilton 
 Barbara Niven	as Governor Carol Quinlan 
 Robert R. Shafer as Roy Rogan 
 Jake Thornton	as Dr. Charles Covington 
 Natalie Salins as Dana Wu
 Richard Tanner as Morty
 Lynn Milano as Ms. Grier 
 David Storrs as Tony
 Tom Poster as Clive Williams
 Cole S. McKay	as Brucker

References

External links
 

2009 films
2000s English-language films
Shintetsu 6500 series. The  is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu) in Japan since May 2016.

Design
The trains were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Kobe. Based on the earlier 6000 series trains also built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, they have stainless steel bodies with three pairs of sliding doors per side.

Formation
The trains are formed as three-car sets as follows, with two motored driving ("Mc") cars sandwiching a non-powered trailer ("T") intermediate car.

The two motored cars each have one PT7162-A single-arm pantograph.

Interior
Passenger accommodation consists of longitudinal bench seating. LCD passenger information screens above the doorways provides information in four languages: Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean. Each car includes a wheelchair space.

History
Details of the new order were announced in June 2015. The first set, 6501, entered service on 21 May 2016.

Fleet/build details
The individual build histories for the fleet are as follows.

References

External links

 Kobe Electric Railway press release 

Electric multiple units of Japan
Transport in Kobe
Train-related introductions in 2016
1500 V DC multiple units of Japan
Kawasaki multiple units
Scientific Data (journal). Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Nature Research since 2014. It focuses on descriptions of data sets relevant to the natural sciences, medicine, engineering and social sciences, which are provided as machine-readable data, complemented with a human oriented narrative. The journal was not the first to publish data papers, but is one of a few journals whose content consists primarily of data papers. The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.

References

External links 
 

Nature Research academic journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
Academic journals established in 2014
Multidisciplinary scientific journals
English-language journals
Continuous journals
Alpha Unmanned Systems. Alpha Unmanned Systems is a privately owned Spanish company based in Madrid, dedicated to the design, development and production of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs). Additionally, the company provides integration of flight control systems and payloads for ISTAR missions and non-military tasks.

History
Alpha Unmanned Systems, SL is a privately held independent company based in Madrid, Spain. Founded in 2014 by Juan Luque, Alvaro Escarpenter and Eric Freeman, the Alpha team includes aeronautical engineers, electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, UAV pilots and business professionals.

Alpha is led by Eric Freeman and Alvaro Escarpenter. The company offers solutions such as a ground control station, communications, and control software.

Applications
The Alpha 800 Helicopter is capable of performing the following missions:

Military Missions
 Intelligence gathering
 Communication relay
 Public safety missions
 Target acquisition 
 “Over the hill” surveillance

Civil
 Fire assessment
 Border patrol 
 Surveillance and inspection
 Electric Transmission line inspection

References

Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers of Spain
Manufacturing companies based in Madrid
Unmanned helicopters
Spanish brands
Aerospace companies of Spain
Eagles Wing Scout. The Eagles Wing Scout is an American powered parachute that was designed and produced by Eagles Wing Corporation of Normandy, Tennessee. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.

The aircraft was introduced in 1999 and production ended when the company went out of business in 2005.

Design and development
The Scout was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a  parachute-style wing, single-place accommodation, tricycle landing gear and a single  Zenoah G-50 engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft carriage is built from a combination of bolted aluminium and 4130 steel tubing. Inflight steering is accomplished via foot pedals that actuate the canopy brakes, creating roll and yaw. On the ground the aircraft has lever-controlled nosewheel steering. The main landing gear incorporates spring rod suspension.

The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot and baggage is .

Specifications (Scout)

References

Scout
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Powered parachutes
Eagles Wing Corporation. Eagles Wing Corporation (sometimes styled as Eagles-Wing, Corp.) was an American aircraft manufacturer based in Normandy, Tennessee and later Morrison, Tennessee. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of powered parachutes in the form of ready-to-fly aircraft for the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules.

The company seems to have been founded about 1999 and gone out of business in 2005.

The company marketed one aircraft model, the single-seat Eagles Wing Scout, although a two-seat model was under development since 2003. The two-seat model appears to have never been produced, except one prototype.

Aircraft

References

External links
Company website archives on Archive.org

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Ultralight aircraft
Powered parachutes
Lanchester petrol-electric car. The Lanchester petrol-electric car is a prototype motor vehicle, designed in 1927 by Frederick W. Lanchester of the Lanchester Motor Company in his workshop in Birmingham, England. It is now on display in Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum.

The term "petrol-electric" denotes that the car was a hybrid vehicle, with both a petrol engine, at the rear, and an electric motor. The latter was used for starting, reversing, and when extra power was needed, for example for climbing hills. When travelling at speed, under petrol power, the electric motor acted as a generator, charging the battery. The car has no clutch or gearbox. The body and suspension are both made of wood.

The design never went into production. After it had been driven for only , Lanchester abandoned the project.

References 

Experimental vehicles
Prototypes
Hybrid vehicles
1927 in science
1927 in England
2015 Louisiana floods. The 2015 Louisiana flood took place in the United States for several weeks in June 2015. The areas in Louisiana affected by the Red River flood included Caddo Parish, Bossier Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Rapides Parish, and the cities of Coushatta, Alexandria, and Shreveport. The flood caused numerous road closures throughout Shreveport. Response teams such as the Louisiana National Guard were deployed in order to fill and place sandbags at residences that were under flood warning.

The Red River reached its highest level in over 70 years, cresting in most of the affected areas at around 6–9 feet over the flood levels. At 4 PM on June 9, the river reached its maximum height of 37.14 feet.

The most recent US Army Corps of Engineers study to characterize the flood patterns of the Red River was released in 1990, when the river last flooded. There are no current plans for another study.

Although many advances have been made towards flood protection in Louisiana, flooding is inevitable; the changing course of the river(s) will continue no matter how high the levees are built. The Mississippi River flood history shows that the river has a pattern of major flooding once every decade or so.

References

Floods in Louisiana
2015 floods in the United States
2015 in Louisiana
Communicant Semiconductor Technologies. Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG was a company based in Frankfurt (Oder), Eastern Germany, that aimed to mass-produce integrated circuits based on a carbon-doped silicon-germanium (Si-Ge:C) technology. The technology was developed by a local institute founded during the Communist era, Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP).

History

Communist era
IHP was founded as  Institut für Halbleiterphysik (tr. Institute for Semiconductor Physics), on December 22, 1983, from the research part of its parent organization, Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder) (HFO, tr. "Semiconductor Factory in Frankfurt (Oder)"), then the largest IC factory in East Germany. HFO itself was founded in 1959. On the eve of reunification the plant had 8000 employees.

After German reunification in 1990
After German reunification, HFO lost its customer base in the Soviet bloc. Efforts were made to adapt, but it shrank from 8,000 to 100 people and finally closed in July 2002. However, IHP remained healthy and continued to receive research funding and to develop new technology. It received an English name Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics and kept the original initialism. Its staff won patents for a method where carbon doping prevents performance-killing boron diffusion. The new federal government invested to bring economic development and to mitigate unemployment. IHP and Communicant became part of one such project. The Si-Ge:C technology from IHP and its productization at Communicant targeted wireless Internet applications. Investors included Intel, the Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority, and Deutsche Bank. Despite the earlier bursting of the dot.com bubble, it secured the equivalent of $325 million in private equity in April 2002. But the plan stirred controversy and acquired opponents: Infineon (which had a competing Si-Ge factory in Dresden) opposed it. In April 2003, Infineon threatened to move from Germany to Switzerland, citing high taxes. Then in December 2003, the federal loan guarantees to cover 75 percent of the project's €1.3 billion cost did not materialize and Communicant shut down with the factory unfinished.

Aftermath
Infineon stayed headquartered in Munich, Germany. The failure of the project was the topic of detailed post-mortems. In November 2006, the Hamburg-based solar energy company Conergy bought the  site and built a production plant for solar cells and modules. As of 2009, around 450 people were employed there in a four-shift operation.

Literature 
 G. Valerius: Gleiche Chancen ungleich genutzt? : erwerbsbiographische Mobilitätspfade im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß zwischen 1990 und 1996 ; Studie zum beruflichen Verbleib einer ausgewählten Ingenieurgruppe des VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder). (= Arbeitsberichte. No. 98,2). FIT/ Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) 1998, .

External links 
 E-Mail-Aktion zur Brandenburger Chipfabrik. November 14, 2003, heise online

References 

Electronics companies of Germany
Companies based in Brandenburg
Companies of East Germany
Semiconductor companies of Germany
Scientific organisations based in East Germany
Southampton District Energy Scheme. The Southampton District Energy Scheme is a district heating and cooling system in Southampton, United Kingdom. The system is owned and operated by ENGIE.

History
In the 1980s the Department of Energy undertook a research and development programme to examine the potential of geothermal aquifers in the UK. However, after some initial success drilling a well in the Wessex Basin in 1981, it was deemed too small to be commercially viable. The project was abandoned by the Department of Energy, but Southampton City Council took the decision to create the UK's first geothermal power scheme. This was undertaken as part of a plan to become a "self sustaining city" in energy generation, promoted by City Council officer Mike Smith and council leader Alan Whitehead.

Pumping started in 1986 from the Wessex Basin aquifer at a depth of  and a temperature of . The system initially supplied only the Southampton Civic Centre, but was gradually expanded to serve over 1,000 residential properties, as well as the WestQuay shopping centre, the Royal South Hants Hospital, Solent University and the Carnival offices; and is part of an enlarged city centre district heating system that includes other combined heating, cooling and power sources.

By 2007 the system had  of pipes, and was producing 40GWh of heat, 22GWh of electricity and 8GWh of cooling per year.

By 2014 the system provided 7MW CHP, 2MW of geothermal power, and 1MW from biomass, saving 12,000tons CO2 per year.

See also

Geothermal power in the United Kingdom

References

District heating in the United Kingdom
District cooling in the United Kingdom
Southampton
Geothermal power stations in England
1986 establishments in England
Linda Petzold. Linda Ruth Petzold (born 1954) is a professor of computer science and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is also listed as affiliated faculty in the department of mathematics. Her research concerns differential algebraic equations and the computer simulation of large real-world social and biological networks.

Education
Petzold did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1974 and a doctorate in computer science in 1978 under the supervision of C. William Gear.

Recognition
Petzold was the first winner of the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software, for her work on DASSL, a system for the numerical solution of differential algebraic equations. In 2011 she won the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering.

She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 "for advances in the numerical solution of differential/algebraic equations and their incorporation into widely distributed software." She became a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2009 and of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2013; She is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

In January 2015 she was given an honorary doctorate by Uppsala University.

References

Further reading

External links
Google scholar profile

1954 births
Living people
American computer scientists
American mechanical engineers
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women computer scientists
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2011 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
20th-century American women mathematicians
21st-century American women mathematicians