omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Wescorp Energy. Wescorp Energy is a Canadian company which provides technology for separating water from oil which it claims is significantly more effective than previous technologies.

Mark Norris, a former Alberta Cabinet Minister of Economic Development under Premier Ralph Klein, is the company's chairman.

Oil/Water separation
WesCorp developed and patented a new method of separating oil from production wastewater and re-injecting the water into drilled oil wells. As a by-product, the separated oil could be added to total production. As of August 2008, this testing phase was reported as complete and the new process has begun entering mainstream oil production.

The cleaner water can be injected to improve pressures in the reservoir without blocking the well. The company states that its process can reduce operating costs for a well by reducing the number of fracs (well servicing events) a year from 10 to five.  Also, about 40 barrels of oil can be recovered from a 2,000-barrel-per-day facility.

The conventional technology used today to remediate water leaves oil contamination of 0.5% to 3%. Wescorp claims its technology can improve that to .005% (50 parts per million).

See also
API oil-water separator
Pollution
Wastewater
Industrial wastewater treatment
Industrial water treatment

References

External links

Oil companies of Canada
Companies based in Calgary
Techmeme. Techmeme is a technology news aggregator. The website has been described as "a one-page, aggregated, filtered, archiveable summary in near real-time of what is new and generating conversation".

Overview

Gabe Rivera was a compiler software engineer at Intel before launching tech.memeorandum on September 12, 2005. After working on tech.memeorandum for a year, it was renamed to Techmeme. The website is funded entirely by Rivera, and has no investors.

Website
Techmeme uses an algorithm to order stories by importance, which depends on several factors that include the number of links to the story's web page and how old the story is. "Anti-gaming" efforts have been made to lower the effect that a high number of links can have on a story if the links were created in a short period of time, or by a small number of people. The website has a Techmeme Sponsors Program which accepts payment in exchange for a dedicated section for sponsors. A search engine was added to the website on May 20, 2008, which searches all archived stories that have appeared on the website as a full headline. Two weeks later, a "prospective search feature" was added to Techmeme, which allows users to subscribe to future search results and receive notifications when a headline matches their search pattern.

The team and technology behind Techmeme also powers media news aggregator Mediagazer, political aggregation site Memeorandum, baseball aggregation site Ballbug, and celebrity gossip aggregator WeSmirch.

Technology
Techmeme works by scraping news websites and blogs, and then compiles a list of links to the most popular technology-related news of the day, which is continuously updated. The stories selected are chosen primarily by an automated process. The service is fed a list of websites, and then it finds other websites that are similar to these to find similar news stories and to keep the focus on technology news. Once the website finds sources that provide a good source of technology news, they are added to Techmeme's database so that it can track them for future updates. In December 2008, the original automated process was supplemented by two human editors—Megan McCarthy and Omer Horvitz—who manage the mix of headlines. Three additional editors were added in November 2009, Rich DeMuro, Lidija Davis and Mahendra Palsule. Rivera has suggested that website owners get linked to by other web pages when possible because it increases the chances that Techmeme will find their website.

References

Further reading
 "Techmeme Offers Tech News at Internet Speed". The New York Times. Retrieved July 12, 2010.
 Meet The Man Whose Site Mark Zuckerberg Reads Every Day. Warzel, Charlie. BuzzFeed.  Retrieved March 21, 2017.
 "With Briefing, The Information muscles in on news aggregators like Techmeme". poynter Retrieved October 4, 2017

External links

News aggregators
American technology news websites
Internet memes
Internet properties established in 2005
Michael E. Thomas. Michael Edward Thomas (May 10, 1937 - November 23, 2018) was a university administrator and professor of industrial engineering, and was the acting president of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994. Thomas was instrumental in the restructuring of Georgia Tech's colleges during the administration of John Patrick Crecine. Thomas was also instrumental in the creation of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Thomas also served as president of INFORMS and was elected a fellow of INFORMS and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He was named an honorary alumnus of Georgia Tech in 2000. He received INFORMS' 1995 George E. Kimball Medal.

See also

Biography of Michael E. Thomas from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

References

External links
 

2018 deaths
Presidents of Georgia Tech
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
1937 births
Discovery (synth). Discovery is a software synthesizer VSTi and Audio Units plugin designed and distributed by discoDSP originally released on February 10, 2003. On September 4, 2008, discoDSP released a version for Linux marking the first commercial VSTi plugin available on Linux platform. Discovery is also available for Windows and Mac OS X.

By design Discovery is a subtractive synthesizer with 4 voices (2 oscillators each). It has built in arpeggiator, selection of filters including formant filters, monophonic and polyphonic operation. It is also comes bundled with extensive collection of presets and is able to import Clavia Nord Lead presets.

Works seamlessly in Synapse Audio Orion & Orion Platinum, Apple Logic Audio & GarageBand, Cockos Reaper, Renoise and Ableton Live virtual studio environments.

References

External links 
 discoDSP Discovery homepage
 discoDSP Discovery Pro homepage

Software synthesizers
Yahya Rahmat-Samii. Yahya Rahmat-Samii (; born August 20, 1948) is the Northrop Grumman Chair Professor in Electromagnetics at the electrical engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches and conducts research on microwave transmission and radio antennas. Rahmat-Samii received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1970 from the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Master of Science in 1972 and the Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering in 1975 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UCLA in 1989, he was a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

He has made innovations in satellite communications antennas, personal communication antennas, wearable and implanted antennas for communications and biotelemetry, and antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications. He is the director of the UCLA Antenna Research, Analysis and Measurement Laboratory.

Awards and honors
IEEE Electromagnetics Award (2011)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2008)
Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (2007)
International Union of Radio Science Booker Gold Medal (2005)
Foreign Member of The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (2001)
Honoris Causa Doctorate, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain (2001)
IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1999)

Books
 2008: (with F. Yang) Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering, Cambridge University Press.
 2006: (with J. Kim) Implanted Antennas in Medical Wireless Communications, Morgan and Claypool Publishers.
 1999: (with E. Michielssen as editors) Electromagnetic Optimization by Genetic Algorithms, Wiley, NY.
 1995: (with D. Hoppe) Impedance Boundary Conditions in Electromagnetics, Taylor & Francis, Washington, DC.

See also
List of members of the National Academy of Engineering (Electronics)

References

1948 births
Living people
People from Rasht
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
American electronics engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Iranian electronics engineers
Microwave engineers
American telecommunications engineers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
MECON (company). MECON Limited, formerly known as Metallurgical & Engineering Consultants (India) Limited, is a central public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Steel,  Government of India.  The company was established in 1959 as the Central Engineering and Designing Bureau (CEDB) of the Hindustan Steel Limited (HSL), the first public sector steel company in India.

References

External links
Official website
SteelPRO Group

Government-owned companies of India
Companies based in Jharkhand
Engineering companies of India
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1959
Ministry of Steel
1959 establishments in Bihar
Wright F2W. The Wright F2W was an American racing aircraft built by Wright Aeronautical Corporation for the US Navy.

Development and design
The F2W was ordered by the US Navy to enter in the 1923 Pulitzer Trophy. Wright built the aircraft primarily of wood, covered in fabric, and was powered by the Wright T-3 Tornado engine. The first F2W flew for the first time on 2 August 1923.

Operational history
During the Pulitzer Race, the first F2W ran out of fuel and crashed. The second F2W, which carried twice as much fuel, finished third at 230.06 mph (370.25 km/h). It was later converted into a floatplane as the F2W-2 to take part in the 1924 Schneider Trophy race. During testing it was very unstable, and on its only flight, on 11 October 1924, crashed into the Delaware River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when the tremendous torque of the Tornado engine flipped it onto its back while attempting to land. The pilot, badly injured, extricated himself from the wreckage.

Operators

United States Navy

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography
 

F2W
1920s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1923
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Wright XF3W Apache. The Wright XF3W was an American racing aircraft built by Wright Aeronautical for the United States Navy.

Development and design
After the U.S. Navy declared its preference for radial engines, Wright developed the P-1 Simoon. To demonstrate the engine, the F3W was designed to carry it. The F3W was a single-seat biplane, with a steel tubing fuselage and wood wings, covered by fabric. Designed to be a carrier-based fighter and powered by the Simoon engine, its performance was poor. After the Navy took delivery of the aircraft, they installed a rival company's engine, the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial. The aircraft was redesignated XF3W, and flew with the new engine for the first time on 5 May 1926.

Operational history
The Navy used the XF3W as a test bed for the Pratt & Whitney engine until 1930, during which time the aircraft set a number of records. On 6 September 1929, the XF3W piloted by Apollo Soucek set the world altitude record for seaplanes of ; on 6 April 1930, Soucek set the landplane altitude record of . The XF3W was also fitted with a single centreline float to evaluate the concept of basing floatplanes on battleships.

Specifications

References

External links

1920s United States fighter aircraft
XF3W
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1926
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with fixed conventional landing gear
Carrier-based aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Floatplanes
Macchi M.B.320. The Macchi MB.320 was an Italian cabin monoplane designed and built by Macchi. Only a small number were built.

Design and development
The MB.320 was built using experience gained from the company's previous aircraft, the MB.308.  The MB.320 was a low-wing cabin monoplane with retractable tricycle landing gear and powered by two wing-mounted  Continental E185 engines.  It had room for a pilot and five passengers.

Operational history 
The prototype MB.320, registered I-RAIA, was first flown on 20 May 1949.  The aircraft flew well, but was expensive to buy with only a small domestic market for the type and only a small number were exported.  Three aircraft were sold to East African Airways for use as feederliners.

Variants 
MB.320
Six-seat monoplane powered by two  Continental E185 engines.  Eight built
VEMA-51
Proposed license-built variant to have been produced in France by SFCA.  Not built.

Specifications (Macchi MB.320)

References

Citations

Bibliography
 
 

M.B.320
1940s Italian civil utility aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1949
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Macchi M.B.323. The Macchi MB.323 was an Italian single-engine basic training monoplane designed and built by Macchi. No orders were placed and only a prototype was built.

Design and development
Designed as a basic trainer to complement the M.416 in Italian military service, the MB.323 first flew in 1952. It was a single-engine, low-wing cantilever monoplane powered by a nose-mounted Pratt & Whitney Wasp radial engine and a retractable tailwheel landing gear. It had two tandem cockpits covered by a sliding one-piece canopy. The type was evaluated against the Fiat G.49 which was preferred by the air force and the MB.323 did not enter production.

Operators

Italian Air Force operated two aircraft for evaluation test

Specifications

See also

References

 
 

M.B.323
1950s Italian military trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1952
Aircraft with retractable conventional landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Ali H. Sayed. Ali H. Sayed (born São Paulo, Brazil, to parents of Lebanese descent) is the dean of engineering at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), where he teaches and conducts research on Adaptation, Learning, Statistical Signal Processing, and Signal Processing for Communications. He is the Director of the EPFL Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has authored several books on estimation and filtering theories, including the textbook Adaptive Filters, published by Wiley & Sons in 2008.
Professor Sayed received the degrees of Engineer and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1992.

Awards and honors
 Sayed was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for contributions to the theory and applications of adaptive signal processing.
 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education (2005).
 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2005).
 Kuwait Prize in Basic Sciences from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (2003).
 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2001) for contributions to adaptive filtering and estimation algorithms.

His papers have received several awards: 
 2005 Co-author for "Young Author Best Paper Award" of Waleed M. Younis from the IEEE Signal Processing Society (together with Naofal Al-Dhahir).
 2002 "Best Paper Award" from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (together with Thomas Kailath).
He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2003–2005) and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2006–2007).

Books
 Ali H. Sayed, Adaptive Filters, Wiley, NJ, 2008 ().
 Ali H. Sayed, Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering, Wiley, NJ, 2003 ().
 Thomas Kailath, Ali H. Sayed, and Babak Hassibi, Linear Estimation, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 2000 ().
 Thomas Kailath and Ali H. Sayed, editors, Fast Reliable Algorithms for Matrices with Structure, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 ().
 Babak Hassibi, Ali H. Sayed, and Thomas Kailath, Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and H∞ Theories, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), PA, 1999 ().

External links 
 UCLA Adaptive Systems Laboratory homepage
 UCLA Electrical Engineering Department homepage

References

Living people
Brazilian emigrants to the United States
Brazilian people of Lebanese descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from São Paulo
University of São Paulo alumni
Stanford University alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Parnall Scout. The Parnall Scout, unofficially nicknamed the Zeppelin Chaser, was a British fighter prototype of the 1910s. It was the first fighter design from Parnall.

Development
Parnall began work on a single-seat anti-airship fighter aircraft in 1916 based on the designs of A. Camden-Pratt, initially intended to meet an aircraft specification from the Admiralty. A large, wooden two-bay staggered biplane, it was finished and initially tested in late 1916.

Operational history
The Scout reportedly flew twice in late 1916 under Admiralty testing; however, it was found to be heavy, slow, and unsafe. As such it was returned to Parnall in the same year and no further development progressed.

Specifications (Scout - estimated)

Notes

References

Further reading

 

Scout
1910s British fighter aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1916
Physicalization. Physicalization of computer hardware (the opposite of virtualization), is a way to place multiple physical machines in a rack unit.
It can be a way to reduce hardware costs, since in some cases, server processors cost more per core than energy efficient laptop processors, which may make up for added cost of board level integration.  While Moore's law makes increasing integration less expensive, some jobs require much I/O bandwidth, which may be less expensive to provide using many less-integrated processors.

Applications and services that are I/O bound are likely to benefit from such physicalized environments.  This ensures that each operating system instance is running on a processor that has its own network interface card, host bus and I/O sub-system unlike in the case of a multi-core servers where a single I/O sub-system is shared between all the cores / VMs.

See also
 Physical-to-Virtual

References

External links
 
 
 

Cloud computing
Aviation Maintenance Technician. Aviation Maintenance Technicians (AMT) are an enlisted rating of the United States Coast Guard. They inspect, service, maintain, troubleshoot and repair aircraft engines, auxiliary power units, propellers, rotor systems, power train systems, and associated airframe and systems-specific electrical components. They service, maintain and repair aircraft fuselages; wings; rotor blades; fixed and movable flight control surfaces; and also bleed aircraft air, hydraulic and fuel systems. AMTs fill aircrew positions such as flight engineer, flight mechanic, loadmaster, dropmaster, Aircraft Ground Handling, Flight Deck Handling, sensor-systems operator and basic aircrewman.

Duties
AMTs are stationed at Coast Guard Air Stations throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. AMTs maintain Lockheed HC-130, HC-27J Spartan, CASA HC-144A Ocean Sentry, Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk and Eurocopter HH-65 Dolphin aircraft.

Training
The five-month course covers basic aircraft-maintenance fundamentals. Other advanced courses cover specific aircraft systems and provide troubleshooting skills. The advanced courses are taught at the Aviation Technical Training Centers in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, for all but the HC-130 aircraft. The Coast Guard also uses commercial training for advanced courses. An AMT may apply for the Aviation Maintenance Technology Program, which provides personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to fill billets requiring a high level of technical expertise. The program provides up to two years of full-time college attendance to achieve a minimum of an associate degree in aeronautical technology.

Qualifications
Algebra, geometry, electronics and machine shop are typical courses for those seeking a rating as an AMT. Candidates must pass a flight physical and qualify for a security clearance.

References 

United States Coast Guard job titles
 
Aviation licenses and certifications
United States Coast Guard Aviation
University of Radom. Kazimierz Pułaski University of Radom is a Polish public university in Radom. It was the biggest university of the former Radom Voivodeship. The university was established in 1950 as a School of Engineering of General Technical Organization. For more than 50 years its name was often changed. The University of Technology and Humanities in Radom comprises 8 faculties, 4 of which are of technical profile: Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Transport and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science, Technology and Design, and Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, whereas Faculty of Art, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Philology and Pedagogics, and Faculty of Health Sciences and Physical Culture represent the Humanities. Students may choose from 27 degree courses (27 undergraduate and 12 graduate) and more than 100 specializations (majors). Many of them are unique in Poland.  The university also provides 6 doctoral programmes (economics, fine arts, transport, electrical engineering, mechanics and mechanical engineering and machine building ). The ECTS system is fully implemented and used in each Faculty. Thus, students of the university have the possibility to study abroad at different European universities within the 3 Erasmus Programme. The study period at a foreign university is fully recognized at the Technical University of Radom. The university also accepts foreign students within the Erasmus Programme, too. Students can join students organizations, self-government, any of 36 student scientific associations, sports clubs and the horse-riding club.

Faculties and courses
Faculty of Materials Science, Technology and Design
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Transport and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Philology and Pedagogy
Faculty of Health Sciences and Physical Culture

Academic authorities
Rector - Prof. Zbigniew Łukasik, Ph.D., D.S.
Vice-Rector for Didactics and Students - Prof. Mirosław Luft, Ph.D., D.S.
Vice-Rector for Research - Prof. Zbigniew Kosma, Ph.D., D.S.
Vice-Rector for Human Resources Development and International Cooperation - Prof. Sławomir Bukowski, Ph.D., D.S.
Chancellor - Mariusz Początek, M.S.
Vice-Chancellor - Queaestor (Chief Accountant) - Anna Towarek, M.A.

References