omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Amitav Mallik. Amitav Mallik is an Indian defence technologist and the founder director of the Laser Science and Technology Center, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India, known for his expertise in the defence system design and development. He is an advisor to the National Security Advisory Board of India and a former advisor of Defence Technology at the Embassy of India in Washington DC. Author of a book on defence technology, Technology and Security in the 21st Century: A Demand-side Perspective, and more than 50 technical papers and over 100 classified analysis documents on defence technology, Mallik was honored by the Government of India, in 2002, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award, the Padma Shri.

Books

See also

 National Security Advisory Board
 Defence Research and Development Organization

References

External links

Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
Living people
20th-century Indian physicists
Indian technology writers
Defence Research and Development Organisation
Year of birth missing (living people)
Stratix. Stratix is a brand of FPGA products developed by Intel's Programmable Solutions Group (former Altera). Other current FPGA product lines include e.g. Agilex, Arria and Cyclone families.

Stratix FPGAs are typically programmed in hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog, using the Intel Quartus Prime computer software.

Intel FPGAs have been used in automotive, optical imaging, memory, data processing, and computing applications.

References

See also
Virtex (FPGA)

Field-programmable gate arrays
Intel microprocessors
Reconfigurable computing
Justin Capră. Virgilius Justin Capră (22 February 1933 – 19 January 2015) was a Romanian engineer and inventor.

Biography
Born in Măgureni, Prahova County, he was trained as an aeronautical engineer. He claimed to have devised over a hundred inventions, although a search revealed only two patents in his name. Machines on which he worked included 72 fuel-efficient cars, 15 unconventional engines and seven aircraft. He reported that as early as 1949–1950, he built a motor that would respond to verbal commands. A 1955 two-wheel automobile, which he dubbed the Virgilius, used an airplane motor, reached 300 km/hour and weighed 250 kg. One of his cars, which he called the Soleta and which he modeled in 1973, was unusually small. It consumed 0.5 liters of gasoline per 100 km. Later, he continued developing prototypes for battery-powered motors, with a particular focus on increased efficiency and decreased weight.

Perhaps his most notorious claim is to have invented the jet pack. According to an interview he gave, he proposed this device to the Romanian Academy in 1956 and completed it in 1958. When the Academy declined to show interest, he offered it to the American Embassy, which was also uninterested. He was then jailed by the Communist regime for having approached the embassy. He claimed to have flown the device and received a patent in 1958. Although he later showed photographs of a device, he was unable to prove when he built it, whether he flew it or when the photographs were taken. He never explained how he learned to fly his device, how long he stayed airborne, how many times he flew it, or why there is no contemporary documentation of the flight.

Nevertheless, in Romania alone, his claim to have invented the jet pack is widely believed. While Capră undoubtedly built two jet pack-like devices, the second one dated from the mid-1960s, and he claimed that as the groundbreaking model. At the same time, he admitted his 1958 design did not work. Still, he claimed that an American design for a jet pack only appeared in 1962, four years after his own. However, one team from Bell Laboratories applied for a patent in 1960, while another, from Thompson Ramo Woolridge in Ohio, filed in 1958, the same year Capră said he filed in Romania. Despite the shakiness of Capră's assertions, it is widely accepted in Romania that at least one of his jet packs was flown before Bell's. Additionally, many Romanian sources on Capră state that "the Americans" stole his design. What likely transpired is that Capră' who had no independent evidence he built anything before 1967, saw the Bell model fly and copied it. This second model is in a museum in Bucharest, although he probably never flew it. Late in life, he began to state that he beat Bell by two years. A resident of Filipeștii de Pădure in his later years, he died in Ploiești.

Notes

References

1933 births
2015 deaths
People from Prahova County
Romanian engineers
Romanian inventors
IAI JUMPER. The JUMPER () is a self-contained missile launcher system that was developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. Each vertical launch hive (VLH) has 8 missiles with an integrated command & control unit.

The JUMPER system requires no operating crew and no special platform. The 1.4 x 1.4m and a height of 2m dimension vertical launch hive can be deployed on a truck, ship or ground. Missile guidance is by GPS or Inertial guidance system for pinpoint accuracy at ranges of up to . An optional laser guidance enhancement will enable the weapon to hit at even higher precision, enable limited 'man in the loop' capability and address moving targets. Each missile is 1800 mm long, has a 150 mm diameter and a weight of 63 kg.

The missile system could receive the location of enemy positions from unmanned air systems in the battlespace; and according to the received data, the JUMPER would launch a number of missiles. The missiles could give a variety of effects including minimal collateral damage. The system can be considered as an example of asymmetric warfare being used on a complex battlefield.

Specifications
Data from Israel Aerospace Industries
 Weight: 
 Diameter: 
 Length: 
 Range: 
 Motor: Two-phase rocket motor
 Overall dimensions: 1.4x1.4x2 m (length x width x height)
 Guidance: GPS/INS
 Datalink: Integrated command and control unit

References

External links 
Jumper Flyer

Israel Aerospace Industries missiles
Guided missiles of Israel
Proposed weapons of Israel
MLM products
Aeronautique Club de France. The Aeronautique Club de France (ACDF) is an aeronauts then airmen and airwomen French association created on October, 20th 1897 by Mr Saunier.

Turned into Flying Club, it is based on Meaux-Esbly airfield (ICAO: LFPE).

Notes

External links
 ACdF web site

Clubs and societies in France
Organizations established in 1897
1897 establishments in France
GE 289A Boxcab. The General Electric (GE) 289A Boxcabs were a series of electric locomotives built by General Electric during the 1920s which operated in Chile on the Sociedad Química y Minera until the railroad was closed down in 2015 following severe weather damage.

They ran on  gauge track and were powered through overhead wires running at 1.5 kV DC power.

Locomotives of this type are still in use in the 21st Century . and as of 2009, the railroad operated still operated seven locomotives of this type.  

The builder’s plate attached to the locomotives in Chile gives the following technical details on the units: Class B-B -134/134-E-4GE289A, operating on 1500 V DC power, built at the GE plant in Schenectady, New York, USA.

Gallery

References

General Electric locomotives
Bo-Bo locomotives
1500 V DC locomotives
Welner table. The Welner table is a medical examination table designed to facilitate accessibility for both patients and doctors with physical disabilities. It was designed by American obstetrician-gynecologist and disability rights activist Sandra Welner.

Welner's work with disabled women patients led her to invent the Welner table, a universally accessible examination table with a wider than usual range of adjustments in position and height, down to as low as  above floor level for easier transfers from a wheelchair. The table also serves the needs of disabled physicians by allowing a wider range of positions for performing examinations.

References

Further reading

External links
Welner Enabled - manufacturer of Welner tables

Medical equipment
Assistive technology
Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development. The Rivers State Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development (RSMWRRD) is a government ministry of Rivers State, Nigeria entrusted with the management of water resources and promotion of socio-economic development of rural areas in the state. The ministry was formed in 1995 and has its current headquarters in the city of Port Harcourt. According to its website, the ministry's mission is "to develop and manage sustainable water for people in line with the MDG goal of 100L per day per person for food (agriculture and fisheries), and for industry in Rivers State."

Mandate
To formulate water resource policies and monitor the implementation of such policies in the state.

To source, analyse, store and disseminate information on the water resource data in the state.
   
To establish, monitor and oversee water parastatals of the ministry – the Rivers State Water Board and the Rural Water and Sanitation Agency.

To initiate and implement water supply projects in all areas of the state.

To liaise with the federal government and international donor agencies on water supply and development for the benefit of the state.

To set standards, regulate, supervise and control the use of all water resources in the state.

Implementing and provision of water legislation/ by-laws.

Collection and evaluation of hydrological and sociological data.

Departments
The Ministry of Water Resources and Rural Development is structured into the following departments:
 Rural Development
 Planning Research and Statistics
 Finance and Accounting
 Water Supply and Quality Control
 Hydrology and Hydrogeology
 Dams and Reservoirs
 Administration

List of commissioners
Ibibia Walter (2015–2017)
Kaniye Ebeku (2017-2019)
Tamunosisi Gogo Jaja (2020-2022)
Kaniye Ebeku (2022 - Date)

See also
 List of government ministries of Rivers State
 Port Harcourt Water Corporation PHWC

References

External links
 Official website

Water Resources
Water ministries
Ministries established in 1995
1995 establishments in Nigeria
1990s establishments in Rivers State
Environment of Rivers State
Rivers
Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze. Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze is a supplier of electronic wire harnesses and components for the international automotive industry.
With its Headquarter in Wolfsburg, Germany, the company employs approx. 40,000 individuals in 14 countries.

Operations 

Among the customers are companies of the automotive industry, in particular the Volkswagen Group with the brands VW, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, SEAT, Škoda, Bugatti und Porsche. The product portfolio comprises wiring harness systems, main-, motor-, door-, seat-, and high-voltage wiring harnesses.
Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze accompanies vehicle projects from concept development through  production to the sequence-specific delivery of products to the customer also having a specific process and testing technology as well as its own sample and prototype construction facility.

History 

Sumitomo ElectricS Bordnetze SE is a member of the Sumitomo Electric Industries Group.
The group consists of some 340 subsidiaries, and affiliates in a wide range of sectors spread over more than 30 countries, mainly in Asia, North America and Europe.
In total, Sumitomo Electric Industries employs more than 200,000 people worldwide.

Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze was founded in 1986 as a joint venture between Volkswagen AG and Siemens AG, and given the name Volkswagen Bordnetze GmbH. 
In the beginning of the 1990s the first international locations were built up, among others in Turkey (1990), Poland (1992), Slovakia (1996). In 2003 the formation of the joint venture Changchun Volkswagen Bordnetze Co., Ltd. in Changchun/PRC followed entering the Chinese market for the first time.
In 2006 Volkswagen AG and Siemens AG were selling the Volkswagen Bordnetze GmbH, the company was acquired by Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. and Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd. and since has been operating as Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze.

References 

Auto parts suppliers of Germany
German companies established in 1986
German companies established in 2006
Sumitomo Group
Sweeping jet actuators. Sweeping jet actuators are a type of active flow control technology based on fluidic oscillators used to produce sweeping jets. The first use of fluidic oscillators in the form of sweeping jets for flow control was demonstrated by Raman et al., 1999.<Cavity Resonance Suppression Using Miniature Fluidic Oscillators, G. Raman, S. Raghu and T.J. Bencic' AIAA-99-1900, 5th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Seattle, WA, May 10–12, 1999> and later by several authors working in the area of flow control. Many organizations have been working on the use of such actuators for flow control.  Boeing, NASA and the University of Arizona Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, [Advanced Fluidics], Technische Universität Berlin are a few of them. They are slots built into the control surface of an airfoil that build on the same principles as that of blown flaps; that by actively blowing air over the surface of an airfoil the effective lift produced by it is increased.

Mechanism
The impetus behind the research into sweeping jet actuators lies in the realization that any vertical tail structure on an aircraft is a parasitic surface in level flight. The design specification that must be met by the vertical stabilizer of any multi-engined aircraft is that it be able to produce enough lift to counteract any thrust asymmetry that would come as a result of engine failure during rotation (takeoff); but in any condition that is not an emergency or where a yaw moment is not desired the vertical stabilizer will only contribute added weight and drag to the aircraft.

The jet nozzles (located directly upstream of the hinge around which the rudder moves) eject a subsonic stream of air that flows over the rudder and act to retain or reattach the boundary layer to the control surface as it is deflected beyond the incidence angle where natural flow would separate, generating as much as a 30-percent increase in the effective lift produced by the rudder.

History
As of January 2015 sweeping jet actuators have only seen experimental application and are not included as a design feature of any known aircraft.

See also
 Boundary layer control
 Blown flap
 Coandă effect
 High-lift device
 Circulation control wing
 Leading edge slot
 Boundary layer suction
 Vortex generator
 Aerodynamics
 Turbulator

References

Cavity Resonance Suppression Using Miniature Fluidic Oscillators, G. Raman, S. Raghu and T.J. Bencic, AIAA-99-1900, 5th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Seattle, WA, May 10–12, 1999

Boundary layers
Aircraft wing design
Lithium helide. Lithium helide is a compound of helium and lithium with the formula LiHe. The substance is a cold low-density gas made of Van der Waals molecules, each composed of a helium atom and lithium atom bound by van der Waals force. The preparation of LiHe opens up the possibility to prepare other helium dimers, and beyond that multi-atom clusters that could be used to investigate Efimov states and Casimir retardation effects.

Detection 
It was detected in 2013. Previously 7Li4He was predicted to have a binding energy of 0.0039 cm−1 (7.7×10−8eV, 1.2×10−26J, or 6 mK), and a bond length of 28 Å. Other van der Waals-bound helium molecules were previously known including Ag3He and He2. Detection of LiHe was done via fluorescence. The lithium atom in the X2Σ state was excited to A2Π. The spectrum showed a pair of lines, each split into two with the hyperfine structure of 7Li. The lines had wavenumbers of 14902.563, 14902.591, 14902.740, and 14902.768 cm−1. The two pairs are separated by 0.177 cm−1. This is explained by two different vibrational states of the LiHe molecule: 1/2 and 3/2. The bonding between the atoms is so low that it cannot withstand any rotation or greater vibration without breaking apart. The lowest rotation states would have energies of 40 and 80 mK, greater than the binding energy around 6 mK.

LiHe was formed by laser ablation of lithium metal into a cryogenic helium buffer gas at a temperature between 1 and 5 K. The proportion of LiHe molecules was proportional to the density of He, and declined as the temperature increased.

Properties 
LiHe is polar and paramagnetic.

The average separation between the lithium and helium atoms depends on the isotope. For 6LiHe the separation is 48.53 Å, but for 7LiHe the distance is much smaller at 28.15 Å on average.

If the helium atom of LiHe is excited so that the 1s electron is promoted to 2s, it decays by transferring energy to ionise lithium, and the molecule breaks up. This is called interatomic Coulombic decay. The energy of the Li+ and He decay products is distributed in a curve that oscillates up and down about a dozen times.

See also
 Helium compounds#Predicted compounds

References 

Helium compounds
Lithium compounds
Van der Waals molecules
Vivarail. Vivarail was a British rolling stock manufacturer, founded in 2012 and based in Southam, Warwickshire. Vivarail's main project was the conversion of retired London Underground D78 Stock into two new classes for National Rail services. It was led by former Chiltern Railways chairman Adrian Shooter; the American Railroad Development Corporation was a shareholder.

In November 2022, the company entered into administration. Assets of Vivarail have been purchased by train operating company GWR. GWR bought intellectual property, rolling stock and equipment relating to the development of high-performance battery and Fast Charge technology to continue Vivarail's work in these areas. The technology is due to be trialled between West Ealing and Greenford.

Diesel and battery units

In November 2014, Vivarail bought 156 driving motor cars and 70 carriages of ex London Underground D78 Stock which were being replaced by S Stock. The stated purpose of the Class 230 is to ameliorate a perceived shortage of affordable, modern rolling stock on Britain's regional rail routes, resulting from the slow pace of electrification.

Electric units

Other units retain their electric capability as they have been re-engineered into Class 484 units for use on the Island Line.

Demise
The company announced its intention to appoint administrators in November 2022, and entered administration on 1 December 2022. Its  trains were temporarily withdrawn from passenger service on the Marston Vale line by London Northwestern Railway the same day.

The business is currently being wound down and has ceased trading. 
In February 2023, assets including rolling stock and intellectual property rights were purchased by train operator GWR, which also employed nine Vivarail staff to continue the preparation of its Class 230 for trial. A number of assets were also purchased by incumbent operator Transport for Wales Rail in February 2023.

References

External links
Official website
Battery Powered Train | Fully Charged, Youtube

Companies based in Stratford-upon-Avon
Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Rolling stock manufacturers of the United Kingdom
2012 establishments in England
John M. Stopford. John Morton Stopford (September 16, 1939 – August 13, 2011) was a British organizational theorist, consultant, and Professor of the London Business School, and Head of its Strategic and International Management Area. He was known for his work on management of multinationals, corporate entrepreneurs, and competition.

Life and work 
Stopford obtained his engineering degrees on the job at Oxford and at MIT, and as a Ford Foundation Fellow obtained his PhD at Harvard Business School.

Stopford had started his career in the late 1950s in the Rotterdam docks. Back in the UK he became craft apprentice at Baker Perkins, a British engineering company based in Peterborough. In the late 1950s he moved to the US, where he participated in the Saturn 1 programme. Back in Europe in the 1960s he joined Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands and later in the UK. For some time he was managing director in Guyana for Booker McConnell, before he started his academic career at the Manchester Business School.

In 1971 Stopford moved to the London Business School, where he was Professor of International Business from 1974 to 2002, and founded and chaired the Strategic and International Management Area. He has been Visiting Professor at the Kiel Institute of World Economics in Germany and the Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. In the year 1995-96 he was  elected vice-president of the Academy of International Business.

Selected publications 
 Stopford, John M., and Louis T. Wells. Managing the multinational enterprise: Organization of the firm and ownership of the subsidiaries. Vol. 2. New York: Basic Books, 1972.
 Stopford, John M. The world directory of multinational enterprises, 1982-83. Vol. 1. London: Macmillan, 1982.
 Stopford, John M. and Susan Strange with John S. Henley. Rival states, rival firms: Competition for world market shares. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
 Baden-Fuller, Charles, and John M. Stopford. Rejuvenating the mature business: The competitive challenge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994.

Articles, a selection
 Fouraker, Lawrence E., and John M. Stopford. "Organizational structure and the multinational strategy." Administrative Science Quarterly (1968): 47–64.
 Stopford, John M., and Charles WF Baden‐Fuller. "Creating corporate entrepreneurship." Strategic management journal 15.7 (1994): 521–536.

References

External links 
 John Stopford at the Academy of International Business (AIB)

1939 births
2011 deaths
British business theorists
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Harvard Business School alumni
Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Academics of London Business School