omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
David Harvey (structural engineer). David Harvey  is a British structural engineer who emigrated to Canada in 1982 to work as a bridge engineer in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Early life and education 
Harvey was born in Gloucestershire, England, and read civil engineering at the University of Bristol.

Career 
After graduating in 1969 Harvey joined Owen Williams to design highways. He moved to Freeman Fox in 1971 and one of his first jobs was check the temporary works for the Milford Haven Bridge. After researching orthotropic bridge decks at the University of Bristol he worked on the Ogmore Viaduct, the San Fernando to Princess Town Highway in Trinidad the Assafar Motorway in Kuwait and the River Hayle Viaduct in Cornwall. In 1981 he joined Associated Engineering in Vancouver which at that time was developing its bridge design capability. This led Harvey to designing low-volume road bridges in remote regions using industrial-style methods under design/build contracts. This work included some milestone industrial bridges including the Athabasca River Bridge for Suncor Energy, the McKay River Bridge, the Iguana Creek submersible bridge in Belize and specialized bridges to carry some of the world’s largest moving loads. He also worked on many highway bridges for the Province of British Columbia, including the 2009 Pitt River Bridge. He has lately worked on restoration of heritage bridges particularly the Alexandra Bridge (Trans-Canada), and the City of Vancouver’s Burrard Bridge and Granville Street Bridge. 
Harvey was the 86th President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2006-07 and the first to be living and working in Canada.

Awards and honours 
R.A. McLachlan Memorial Award, 2009 – Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia

Selected projects 
King George Flyover, Surrey, BC
Nine Mile Canyon Bridge Rehabilitation, Boston Bar, BC
Athabasca River (Suncor) Bridge, Fort McMurray, Alberta
McKay River Bridge, Fort McMurray, Alberta
Iguana Creek Bridge, Belize
Pitt River Bridge, Port Coquitlam, BC
Alexandra Bridge (Trans-Canada) restoration, Spuzzum, BC
Burrard Bridge restoration, Vancouver, BC.

References

External links
  Institution of Structural Engineers
 Structural Engineers Association of British Columbia

1947 births
Living people
People from Gloucestershire
English emigrants to Canada
British bridge engineers
Presidents of the Institution of Structural Engineers
British structural engineers
Cal/EPA Building. The Cal/EPA Building is a 25-floor, 372 ft commercial office skyscraper in Downtown Sacramento that serves as the headquarters for the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA). It also known as the Joe Serna Jr. Building, named to honor the late mayor of Sacramento, Joe Serna Jr. Built in 2000, the building stands 372 feet tall and sits across the street from Cesar Chavez Plaza and Sacramento City Hall. It has a daily population of 3,500. It is recognized by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as one of the most energy-efficient high-rise office buildings in the United States, with a score of 96 out of 100. In 2003, it was recognized by Energy Star as the most energy-efficient high-rise in the nation. Solar panels are installed that generate electricity soundlessly for the building.

See also 

 California Environmental Protection Agency
 List of tallest buildings in Sacramento

References 

Office buildings completed in 2000
Skyscraper office buildings in Sacramento, California
Government buildings in California
SEAT IBL. The SEAT IBL is a concept car which was first shown at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show by Spanish car manufacturer SEAT. It is a four-door saloon that was intended to showcase the styling of future SEAT models, and featured a plug in hybrid powertrain. The design was expected to influence the next generation Exeo, which never made it to production however. The IBL was displayed with 20-inch alloy wheels.

References

IBL
The Solar Generation. The Solar Generation: Childhood and Adolescence of Terrestrial Photovoltaics is a 2018 book by Philip R Wolfe published by John Wiley & Sons and the IEEE. It describes the early years of the solar power sector, covering in particular the years between 1973 and 1999.

The author's foreword says this was a period when solar power was "discounted as an irrelevance", but he "confidently predicts that it will be the world's largest energy source" within his lifetime.

The book covers specifically solar photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial uses. It does not deal with space applications of solar cells, nor solar thermal energy including CSP.

Book Volumes and Chapters 

The book is presented in three parts:

Part I: A biography of terrestrial photovoltaics 

This part tells the story of the period from various perspectives; research and technology, industrial development, applications of solar generation, economics and the geo-political context.

It has chapters entitled:
 Origins of terrestrial solar power;
 What is photovoltaics?;
 Terrestrial solar applications;
 Photovoltaic research;
 PV business and markets;
 Economics of solar generation;
 Solar industry participants;
 Geo-politics of the early solar sector; and
 The next generation

Part II: Encyclopaedia; People, organisations, events 

Central to this section is a 'Who's Who' of the leading participants in the early solar sector:

 Profiles of sixty-six leading pioneers of the time. In total over 200 people are mentioned.
 Profiles of forty-two companies active in the early PV sector; together with thirteen leading research institutions; and ten national and international agencies. Nearly 100 others are also mentioned.

Part II also includes compendia enumerating specific records and achievements in research and technology; national and international policies towards the sector; prizes, awards, conferences and expositions.

Part III: Dictionary; References, glossary and indexes 

This very comprehensive reference section includes Acknowledgements; Citations; Bibliography; Glossary and Indexes

See also
Solar photovoltaics
Solar Power
Renewable energy commercialization
List of books about renewable energy

References

External links
The Solar Generation at Wiley

Books about energy issues
Renewable energy commercialization
Lampich LS-16. The Lampisch LS-16 was a Hungarian training glider of mixed construction. It was flown but not granted a Certificate of Airworthiness.

Design and development

In 1939 Árpád Lampich designed a single-seat club trainer constructed from wood, steel sheet and steel tubes. Its wing, which was mounted on top of the fuselage, was rectangular in plan out to angled, blunted tips and built around a wooden I-beam spar at about 25% of the chord, assisted by an auxiliary spar near the trailing edge. The latter was a steel cylinder for about half the span, extended outboard with steel pates on which the constant-chord ailerons were mounted. The ribs were wooden ahead of the main spar but light alloy plate behind. The wing was internally braced with diagonal steel tubes and fabric-covered. Externally, it was braced on each side with a steel tube strut from the lower fuselage longeron to the main spar at about 40% span.

The fuselage was a steel tube structure which from the wing rearwards had four longerons forming a parallelogram section, deeper than wide. There was additional cross-bracing under the wing and a low, shelf-like forward projection to carry the wooden-framed open cockpit, placed just ahead of the wing leading edge, and the nose. A rubber-spring landing skid ran from the nose to just aft of the wing strut attachment point. Aft, the fuselage tapered to a conventional tail with a blunted rectangular horizontal tail on its top. Its fin was small and hinged a flat-topped, quadrilateral rudder that reached down to the keel and worked in a cut-out between the elevators. The fabric-covered tail was constructed from steel tubes and light alloy plates. Below it there was a faired, sprung tail skid.

The LS-16 first flew in 1939 but it failed to receive a Certificate of Airworthiness, its structure being judged too weak and too flexible.

Specifications

References

Aircraft first flown in 1939
1930s Hungarian sailplanes
High-wing aircraft
AB 23. The AB 23 (Abwurfbehälter) was a cluster bomb used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.

Design
The body of the AB 23 was constructed of mild sheet steel with four fins welded to the rear of the container. The AB 23 was composed of two longitudinal halves and was internally divided by two sheet metal discs held in place by steel rods. The front compartment held six bombs while the rear compartment held seventeen bombs. The two halves of the container were held together by a shear wire which passed through a steel anvil, in the lower part of the fuze pocket. When the fuze was triggered, the wire was sheared by a small exploder under the fuze. The case then opened allowing the bombs to fall out. By removing the sheet metal discs it could also be used to drop strips of metal coated paper for disrupting enemy radars. The AB 23 was painted dark green and there were two longitudinal red stripes running the length of the tail fins.

The AB 23 could be configured for two different payloads:
23 x SD 2 anti-personnel mines.
Metallic foil chaff.

See also 
 List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II

References

World War II aerial bombs of Germany
Thulin H. The Thulin H was a Swedish reconnaissance/bomber plane built in the late 1910s.

Design and development
The Thulin H was a five-seat biplane powered by three engines, one tractor and two arranged in separate nacelles in pusher form. It was designed to take off and land on water. The Type H flew in August 1917 and passed tests, but the end of World War I obviated the need for a large reconnaissance bomber floatplane. Enoch Thulin offered the Thulin H to the civilian market for use as a transport plane, but no orders were placed.

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References

Biplanes
Three-engined aircraft
1910s Swedish aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1917
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Susan Trolier-McKinstry. Susan Trolier-McKinstry is an American materials scientist. She is the Steward S. Flaschen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, Director of the W. M. Keck Smart Materials Integration Laboratory, and co-director of the Nanofabrication facility.

Education 
Troiler-McKinstry obtained her Bachelor of Science in Ceramic Science and Engineering from Penn State University. She went on to earn her PhD in Ceramic Science at Penn State University in 1992 while working with Professor Robert E. Newnham.

Research and professional activities 
Trolier-McKinstry carries out research in the area of electroceramics, including work on dielectric and piezoelectric thin films. Her research has applications in CMOS electronics and MEMS devices. She has developed materials applicable in tunable filters, sensors, and actuators, among other technological applications.

Troiler-McKinstry became a fellow of IEEE in 2009 after serving as the President of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society from 2008–2009. She is also a fellow of the American Ceramic Society and an academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. Additional service includes a term as President of the Ceramics Education Council and serving on the Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society as Vice President in 2016 and President in 2017. In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She has served as an associate editor for multiple journals including IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and Applied Physics Letters.

Selected awards 
 National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship
 IEEE Ferroelectrics Achievement Award
 2015-2016 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society Distinguished Lecturer
 Ceramics Education Council Outstanding Educator Award
 American Ceramic Society Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars (2000)
 Outstanding Educator Award, Ceramic Educational Council

References

External links 

 Directory entry from Pennsylvania State University
 Research profile from Pennsylvania State University

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American materials scientists
American women ceramists
American women physicists
Fellows of the American Ceramic Society
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
SPIE
American women academics
21st-century American women
Kai-Mei Fu. Kai-Mei Fu is an American electrical engineer and physicist. They are an Associate Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington where they are the director of the Optical Spintronics and Sensing Lab.

Training, research, and notable achievements 

Fu received their A.B. in Physics at Princeton University (2000). They then went on to receive their Ph.D. (2007) at Stanford University with Yoshihisa Yamamoto. They  performed their postdoctoral training at the Information and Quantum System Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington in 2011.

Fu has been a longstanding expert on topics concerning defects in crystals. Their research largely considers how understanding defects in materials can be applied towards applications in sensing, alongside the design of photonic devices. While their group addresses a series of different materials, they are considered a leading researcher on single crystal diamond with impurities.

Their research interests include Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter Experiment and Quantum Information.

At the University of Washington, they are active in topics concerning undergraduate research and outreach. They are the co-founder of the UW Science Explorers program in Seattle.

Fu is a founding member of the Molecular Engineering and Materials Center at the University of Washington. Their team has also received recent funding in Quantum Information Science from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense via the Ab-Initio Solid-State Quantum Materials MURI program. Fu is also one of the organizers of the newly founded Northwest Quantum Nexus, a research and industry coalition in the Pacific Northwest Region for research in Quantum Information Science. At the University of Washington, they are also a member of the QuantumX focus initiative.

Awards and honors 
 NSF CAREER Award (2012)
 Cottrell Scholar Award (2015)
 UW College of Engineering Junior Faculty Award (2015)
 Optica Fellow (2023)

Notable publications

References 

American electrical engineers
American women physicists
American physicists
Living people
Princeton University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
Richard D. Robinson (engineer). Richard D. Robinson is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.

Education
Robinson grew up in Indianapolis and discovered science and engineering through a National Science Foundation program in eighth grade.
Robinson obtained his BS and MS in mechanical engineering at Tufts University and his PhD in Applied Physics 2004 at Columbia University.

Academic career
Richard Robinson joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley as a Lawrence Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry and Materials Science in the group of Paul Alivisatos, 2004-2008. In July 2008, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University as an assistant professor.
In 2016, Robinson spent time at the Institute of Chemistry at Hebrew University on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Research
Robinson works on size-, shape-, composition-, and surface-controlled nanoparticle synthesis, and nanoparticle assembly, and nanoparticle assembly for electronic and catalytic applications.
Robinson's work was featured in the Cornell Chronicle, Physics Today, and R&D. In addition, Robinson has received many awards and distinctions for his research, such as the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award, Fulbright Scholar, and the R&D 100 Award for his work on nanocrystal solar cells.

As of Spring 2024, his publications have received 11,418 citations, and his h-index is 36.

Honors and awards
Robinson received an NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award in 2012.

References

External links
 
 
 

Living people
African-American engineers
Cornell University faculty
Columbia University alumni
Tufts University School of Engineering alumni
21st-century American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century African-American people
A. D. Carmichael. Archibald Drummond Carmichael (24 February 1859 – 14 November 1915) was a Scottish industrial chemist and mining engineer who made important advances in processing mine tailings to recover valuable metals.

History
Carmichael was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, and educated in Glasgow. He studied chemistry under Professor Dittmer at the Andersonian College ("The Place of Useful Learning"), and gained experience at city analysts Wallace, Tatlack, and Clarke. He worked at Charles Tennant's "St Rollox" laboratories adjacent the Monkland Canal for 14 years, rising to the level of chief technical chemist.

In 1889 left for Victoria, Australia, where he found employment with Felton, Grimwade & Co and with the Australian Explosives and Chemical Company.

He joined the Metals Extraction Company, and was sent to Broken Hill with metallurgist Askin Nicholas to troubleshoot one of Junction North mine's processes. 
In 1894 he joined Broken Hill's Block 10 Company as assayer, then in October 1896 joined "The Proprietary" (BHP). Around this time he began experimenting with ways of converting refractory zinc sulphide to the oxide.

In 1901, he worked with Leslie Bradford in developing the Carmichael–Bradford desulphurisation process for conversion of sulphide ores to their oxides prior to smelting, which enabled recovery of valuable metal from the great piles of tailings at the mines, and the manufacture of sulphuric acid, leading to the founding of the Zinc Corporation.

They floated the Carmichael-Bradford Desulphurising Co. in 1908 to manage international patents; apart from BHP little interest was shown and the company was wound up in 1912.

Carmichael immigrated to the United States in 1914 with his wife, Rosa. He died the following year at his home in New York City after a sudden bout of acute indigestion.

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1859 births
1915 deaths
British metallurgists
Australian metallurgists
Australian chemical engineers
Scottish emigrants to Australia
Scottish emigrants to the United States
SB 1000. The SB 1000 (Spezialbombe) was a luftmine (aerial mine) used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

History 
The SB series of bombs were high-capacity bombs intended to create the largest lateral blast effect,  in contrast to most other German bombs, which were armor-piercing, cluster bombs, fragmentation or incendiaries.  Since the SB series was not designed to pierce armor or to create fragments, the casings were very light and the ratio of charge to weight was high at 73%, while most general-purpose bombs were up to 50%.

Design 
The SB 1000 had a welded sheet metal body with either a drawn or welded steel nose piece.  The nose piece was threaded and was streamlined to reduce drag while the bomb was attached to the aircraft.  The SB 1000 had no base plate and was filled through the nose with a central exploder tube which ran through the center of the bomb from the fuze pocket to the nose.  The tail of the SB 1000 was constructed of drawn steel and had four fins inside a circular strut.  The SB 1000 was suspended horizontally by an H-type lug or trunnions if carried by dive bombers. It was filled with a mixture of RDX biscuits within a Trialen 105 matrix, a mixture of 15% RDX, 70% TNT and 15% aluminium powder.  Due to its thin case and powerful explosives, the SB 1000 was vulnerable to enemy gunfire.

See also 
 List of weapons of military aircraft of Germany during World War II

References

External links

World War II aerial bombs of Germany
Paul Schmitt P.S.7. The Paul Schmitt P.S.7 (company designation of B.R.A.H. (Bomber Renault Aile Haute) - High wing Renault bomber) was a French World War I two-seat biplane bomber that dispensed with the novel variable incidence wing used on prior designs.

Design
The P.S.7 was an oversized, three bay biplane, developed from the preceding Paul Schmitt Aerobus. Each wing bay was divided by addition braces in the same manner as the SPAD VII so as to look like a 6 bay biplane. Its fuselage consisted of a fabric-covered wooden frame, while the flying surfaces were similarly constructed. The engine was mounted on a metal mount, covered with metal panels and equipped with a frontal radiator. The pilot and observer were placed behind the wings, while the fuel and oil tanks were located ahead of the pilot, directly behind the  Renault 12Fb engine.

The undercarriage was built of tubular steel, the wheels attached to a fixed horizontal axle. The armament consisted of a synchronized machine gun for the pilot and a second machine gun for the observer. Mountings for 150 kg bombs were mounted under the wings.

Operational history
The "Groupe de bombardement 3" (GB.3) - a bomb squadron of the four Escadrilles PS.125-128, which operated on the Western Front was equipped with the aircraft. The aircraft of the last delivery series, which went to the Escadrille PS.128, received an undercarriage with four wheels to improve the ground handling.

At the time of delivery to the escadrilles of the Aéronautique Militaire, the PS-7, constructed in 1915, was already obsolete. Their low speed made the slow and lumbering craft an easy target for enemy antiaircraft guns and fighters. Re-equipping with the more powerful 265 hp Renault engine could not sufficiently alleviate these shortcomings. The P.S.7 were therefore mainly used as a night bomber against long-range targets such as railroad stations and supply depots, as on 13./14. April 1917 against the railway stations in Marl and Crécy-sur-Serre and on 2 May against a German airfield near Saint-Quentin.

The oversized aircraft proved to be so difficult to control that accurately hitting targets was extremely difficult. In addition, the engine proved to be unreliable, so that the operational strength of the squadron temporarily dropped to only twelve machines. The crews now often took with them another Lewis machine gun and additional ammunition for defense, which further reduced the bomb load to 90 kg. Only on the express command of the High Command were further attacks by the squadron carried out. The last major attack was carried out on October 20, 1917. After that, more long-range missions due to the threat of German fighters and enemy anti-aircraft artillery was no longer possible. The remaining PS-7 GB.3 were replaced by January 1918 in the front line by Sopwith 1½ Strutter and Breguet 14s and transferred to training units.

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Bibliography

1910s French bomber aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1915
Paul Schmitt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft