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Kimberlee Kearfott. Kimberlee Jane Kearfott is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The American Nuclear Society recognised her notable contributions to the field of radiation protection in 2017.

Early life and education 
Kearfott studied engineering at St. Mary's University (Nova Scotia) before studying nuclear engineering at University of Virginia. She was awarded a doctoral degree (ScD) in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.

Research and career 
Kearfott's research interests lie across nuclear engineering, radiological sciences, and biomedical engineering. She is a professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, Biomedical Engineering.

In 2017, Kearfott was awarded the Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) for her "dedication to the education of students through formal course work, curriculum development, research, and publishing in the field of radiation protection with a specialization in radiation dosimeters, dose assessment, shielding and operational health physics". She had previously been awarded the ANS Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award in 1995.

, Kearfott also has nine patents, for which she is the primary inventor of three, and the sole inventor of five. The patents cover methods for detecting and measuring radiation.

In 1991, she received the Tetalman Memorial Award from the Society of Nuclear Medicine in recognition of her work as "an engineer, a scientist, a teacher, and an excellent public relations person between nuclear medicine and the society at large". In 2011, during the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Kearfott discussed her expertise on various public platforms.

She serves on the advisory board to the US Office of Environmental Management.

Selected publications 
 'Use of a geographic information system (GIS) for targeting radon screening programs in South Dakota', Journal of Radiation Research, 2016.
 'An affordable optically stimulated luminescent dosimeter reader utilizing multiple excitation wavelengths'. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, 2015.
 'Artifacts, anatomical and physiological variants, and unrelated diseases that might cause false-positive whole-body 131-I scans in patients with thyroid cancer'. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 2000.
 'A new approach to film dosimetry for high energy photon beams: Lateral scatter filtering'. Medical Physics, 1997.

References 

American nuclear physicists
Saint Mary's University (Halifax) alumni
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Women nuclear physicists
American women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American women
Henry Parkinson (railway engineer). Henry Waterworth Parkinson (died 1942) was a railway engineer in Australia and New Zealand.

Parkinson was a civil engineer who worked in New Zealand and New South Wales before coming to Queensland and joining the Queensland Railways Department. He supervised the erection of the now heritage-listed Burdekin River Rail Bridge at Macrossan (now Dotswood). Subsequently, he was the engineer for the section of the North Coast railway line from Paget Junction to Sarina and for the section of the Tablelands railway line from Atherton to Herberton. From 1913 he was engineer for the City of Rockhampton.

Parkinson died in Sydney aged 85 years.

The suburb of Parkinson in Brisbane was named after him in 1972.

References 

Australian railway civil engineers
People from Queensland
1942 deaths
1850s births
Masha Nazeem. Masha Nazeem is an Indian inventor was born and brought up from Nagercoil in Kanniyakumari district. In 2005 during her eighth grade she designed a hi-tech train toilet (hygienic drainage disposal system in trains) that gained her two national and one international awards.

Personal life
Nazeem was born in 1993 and was raised in Nagercoil in the Kanniyakumari district of India. Nazeem's father worked at the Treasury Office in Kanyakumari.

Education 
Nazeem attended St. Joseph’s Convent Higher Secondary School before pursuing a B.E in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at SSN College of Engineering. She later obtained an M.Tech in Power Electronics in SRM University, Chennai.

Career
In 2006 at age 12, Nazeem was honoured at the Indian Science Congress in Hyderabad for her invention of a drainage system for railways. In 2015, Nazeem was selected for the Entrepreneurship Development Training Programme in the United States. The next year, Nazeem was invited to be a guest speaker at the 103rd Indian Science Conference.

Currently, Nazeem is an innovation lead in GEMS New Millennium School, United Arab Emirates.

Awards and honors
 2009 - IGNITE National Award (II Prize)
2010 - IGNITE National Award (I Prize)
2015 - Two National and an International award.
2016 - Chief Minister's State Youth Award (women's category)
 2018 - National Youth Award (from the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports) - for contributions to science and technology

Inventions
Transparent testing tool kit for students
"Mechanical porter" (a luggage carrying system on wheels)
Burglar alarm
Underground conveyor belt system for transporting school bags

Hygienic Drainage Disposal System 
After hearing a speech from the Railway Minister that warned officials may face punishment if the stench in railway systems was not dealt with, Nazeem invented a high-tech train toilet system. The Hygienic Drainage Disposal System was presented to several railway officials and India's then-president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in 2005. Following Kalam's advice, Nazeem patented the invention.

Flameless seal-maker 
As a teenager, Nazeem witnessed her father melting lac over an open flame. Upon her realization that this was potentially dangerous, Nazeem sought to create a better way to safely heat lac for sealing. Nazeem invented and patented the flameless seal-maker that heats lac, wax or other seal-making materials using electricity. The flameless seal-maker was used at polling booths during the 2011 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

Masha Innovation Center
In hometown setup Masha Innovation Center, a research laboratory and workshop, the main this for it is providing free hands on training to help the young inventors to make their ideas to reality, through this  Innovation Center she bring lot students ideas in to lime light and convert them in to inventors.

References

External links
 Official website

Indian Muslims
Engineers from Tamil Nadu
Indian Tamil academics
People from Kanyakumari district
1993 births
Living people
Tamil Muslims
Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay. Leslie S. G. Kovasznay (14 April 1918, Budapest – 17 April 1980) was a Hungarian-American engineer, known as one of the world's leading experts in turbulent flow research.

Kovasznay earned in 1943 his doctorate in engineering at the Royal Hungarian Institute of Technology in the laboratory of Előd Abody-Anderlik in the faculty of mechanical engineering. After working from 1941 to 1946 at that Faculty, he spent a year at the Cavendish Laboratory working with Sir Geoffrey Taylor. From 1947 to 1978 Kovasznay was a faculty member of the Aeronautics Department organized by Francis H. Clauser (1913–2013) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In December he resigned from JHU to become a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Houston, where he remained in his professorship until his sudden death in 1980.

In the 1970s, he worked with Hajime Fujita on experimental studies of interactions between airfoils and wake turbulence and, with Chih-Ming Ho, on experimental studies of interactions between sound and turbulence.

He travelled widely, lectured at many universities and conferences, and made extended visits in France and Japan. He was the author or coauthor of more than 80 papers. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1955–1956. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1962.

Kovasznay married in 1944. Upon his death, he was survived by his widow and their daughter.

Selected publications
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See also
Kovasznay flow
Entropy-vorticity wave

References

1918 births
1980 deaths
20th-century American physicists
Aerodynamicists
Budapest University of Technology and Economics alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Fluid dynamicists
Hungarian aerospace engineers
Hungarian emigrants to the United States
20th-century Hungarian physicists
20th-century Hungarian inventors
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Musicians from Budapest
20th-century American inventors
University of Houston faculty
Bob Daimond. Robert Brian Daimond (1 May 1946 – 19 February 2020) was a British civil engineer best known for his knowledge of and contributions to the history of civil engineering, particularly the works of Thomas Telford and the bridges over the Menai Strait in North Wales.

Career
Daimond was born in Kent and brought up in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire. After studying civil engineering at the University of Dundee, he worked for Staffordshire County Council for six years before moving to North Wales to work for Gwynedd County Council as a county surveyor. Appointed director of highways in 1992, he retired in 2003. He was the North Wales branch chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in 2000 and chair of the North Wales branch of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation from 1994 to 1996.

After retirement he pursued his interests in the historical study of civil engineering by being the North Wales contact for the ICE's Panel for Historical Engineering Works. He also became a trustee of the Menai Bridge Community Heritage Trust in 2005 and was instrumental in setting up the Menai Heritage Bridges Exhibition in Menai Bridge, Anglesey. He became chair of the trust and later the treasurer.

During his time with the trust he used his knowledge of the Menai Strait bridges and their designers Thomas Telford and Robert Stephenson to develop guided tours of the bridges and school workshops about bridges and engineering. He published a self-guided tour in book form as A Walking Guide to the Menai Strait Bridges. He later published a comprehensive book about the history of the building and reconstruction of the Menai Suspension Bridge, Menai Suspension Bridge – The First 200 Years.

After moving to Wales he became fluent in Welsh and was inducted into the Gorsedd of the Bards at the 2017 National Eisteddfod of Wales at Bodedern, Anglesey. He was frequently interviewed on radio and television about the bridges and engineering in both English and Welsh.

References

External links 
Book Launch of "Menai Suspension Bridge - The First 200 Years", by Bob Daimond YouTube video of the book launch, featuring a lecture by Bob Daimond about the Menai Suspension Bridge

1946 births
2020 deaths
British civil engineers
Alumni of the University of Dundee
Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers
CABI Cattaneo. CABI Cattaneo is an Italian boat and submersible builder which primarily supplies the Special Operations Forces market. Due to the nature of their work they are extremely secretive.

History

CABI Cattaneo was founded in 1936 by Giustino Cattaneo and was involved in vehicle design and engineering before World War II. They have primarily supplied Italy's COMSUBIN Special Forces but they have also been active in the export market, albeit in absolute secrecy. In 2016 the company participated in an expo, Seafuture 2016, for the first time. From their inception they involved in the production of components for special operations craft, in 1936 they produced the engine components for the first MT explosive motorboats.

In 2018 the company unveiled their Deep Shadow swimmer delivery vehicle. It has a crew of two and a carrying capacity of four combat divers.

They are based in Milan, Italy.

Products

Tipo-C Chariot
The Tipo-C Chariot was introduced in 1954 for the Incursori.

Specifications
Length: 6.430 m
Hull diameter: 0.76 m 
Operating depth: 30 m 
Speed: 4.8 kn max, 2.3 kn cruising
Endurance: 26 nmi
Armament: limpet mines
Crew: 2+

BIR-58 
The BIR-58 swimmer delivery vehicle was introduced in 1958. It was named for Gino Birindelli and had a gasoline engine for surface running.

Specifications
Length: 6.45 m 
Hull width: 1.18 m 
Empty weight: 1.5 tonnes
Operating depth: 20 m 
Speed: 4.5 kn max, 3.5 kn cruising
Endurance: 40 nmi on batteries, 70 nmi with engine (surface)
Armament: limpet mines
Crew/PAX: 5

AE-90
Revealed to the public in 2023 after its retirement.

See also
Cos.Mo.S
Drass (company)

References

Manufacturing companies based in Milan
Defence companies of Italy
Shipbuilding companies of Italy
Italian companies established in 1936
Linda Schadler. Linda Sue Schadler is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, and acting provost and senior vice president at the University of Vermont. Her research investigates the mechanical, optical and electric behaviour of polymer composites. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and ASM International.

Early life and education 
Schadler grew up in Niskayuna, New York. Her father worked in metallurgy at General Electric and her mother was a biology professor at Union College. Schadler graduated top of her high school class.  She studied materials science at Cornell University and graduated in 1985. She moved to the University of Pennsylvania for her doctoral research, working on the micromechanical behavior of fiber / polymer composites.

Research and career 
After her PhD, Schadler was a postdoctoral researcher at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.  Schadler was appointed to the faculty at Drexel University in 1992. She moved to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1996, where she served on the faculty for twenty two years. In 2012 she was made Russell Sage Professor. Her research at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute included studies into polymer composites and other two-phase systems. She eventually became Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education. Schadler created a video called Molecules to the Max, which introduces the general public to materials science. She created the beta classroom, an experimental space for novel teaching, as well as a seed fund for pedagogical innovation.

In 2018 Schadler moved to the University of Vermont, where she was made Dean of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She was awarded a $5 million grant to create a database of polymer nanocomposites and metamaterials that will permit researchers to predict the properties of new materials. At Vermont Schadler looks to ensure scientists and engineers receive training in the humanities. In October 2024, Schadler became the acting provost and senior vice president of UVM, following Patricia Prelock's appointment as interim president of UVM.

Awards and honours 
 1994 National Science Foundation National Young Investigator 
 1997 ASM International Bradley Staughton Award
 1998 ASM International Fellow
 2011 Elected trustee of the ASM International
 2016 Elected a fellow of the Materials Research Society
 2019 Appointed to the MRS Board of Directors

Selected publications

Personal life 
Schadler is married to Tom Feist, with whom she has two children.

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Pennsylvania alumni
American materials scientists
University of Vermont faculty
Cornell University alumni
Askoll. Askoll EVA S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of two-wheeled electric vehicles for urban mobility. The Dueville based company produces e-bikes, electric scooters, components and kits. Askoll EVA is a subsidiary of Askoll Group, an Italian corporation specialized in manufacturing electric motors and drain pumps for washing machines, heating systems and other domestic appliances.

History
Askoll EVA was founded in 2014 after two years of preparing development within Askoll Group. First e-bike and electric scooter models were launched in 2015. In 2016, the company presented a prototype for an electric microcar (Askoll Elò). The parent company sold a part of its main business in order to fund the EV activities.

In 2017, Askoll EVA entered the French market with an own branch and received an order from Austrian Post. That year, the company stopped its micro car project, started a collaboration with Italian scooter sharing provider MiMoto and launched two modified scooter models for professional delivery purposes (eSpro).

In 2018, Askoll EVA went public (Alternative Investment Market AIM Italy). Furthermore, a partnership with Spanish scooter sharing provider Cooltra began. In 2019, a range of e-bike drive-trains for OEM markets was released.

In 2020, during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Askoll EVA had to suspend business operations for six weeks following a lockdown order by the Italian government. As a result of the pandemic, business plummeted dramatically in the first half-year of 2020 (sales down 62%). In summer 2020, Askoll EVA launched its NGS scooter models, an evolution of the eS models with new design, quieter drive and bluetooth connectivity.

Technology
 
 motor:- Askoll brushless electric motor, front- or rear-wheel drive (bikes)- Askoll brushless permanent magnet electric motor (scooters)
 batteries removable (bikes and scooters), lithium-ion cells (Samsung, Panasonic)
 power regeneration (scooters)
 transmission: belt drive (scooters)

Scooter models (specs)

1 according to ECE 168/2013 

Purpose-built models (delivery):

1 according to ECE 168/2013

See also

 List of Italian companies
 List of motorcycle manufacturers

External links 

 Askoll EVA website
 homepage of Askoll Group
 prototype of the never released micro car Askoll Elò during EICMA 2017 in Milan, Italy (YouTube video)

References 

Electric vehicle manufacturers of Italy
Scooter manufacturers
Motorcycle manufacturers of Italy
Cycle manufacturers of Italy
Electric cycle manufacturers
Italian companies established in 2014
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2014
Companies based in Vicenza
Italian brands
Chiara Daraio. Chiara Daraio is an Italian-American materials scientist and acoustical engineer. She is the G. Bradford Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology.

Contributions
Daraio's research develops new materials that combine intriguing chemical composition with a designed architecture at the micro- and macro-scales. Some of her contributions include a version of Newton's cradle that can generate "sound bullets"—sound waves focused tightly enough to disrupt matter; walls filled with ball bearings that can pass sound in only one direction; 3d-printed self-assembling rolling robots; solar panels for space missions made of a shape-memory polymer that unfolds in sunlight; and heat-sensitive artificial skin made out of pectin for both robotic and prosthetic uses. Her work has applications in soft robotics, medical devices, and vibration absorption.

Education and career
Daraio earned her undergraduate degree, or laurea, in mechanical engineering from the Marche Polytechnic University in 2001, and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering in 2006 from the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation, Design of materials: Configurations for enhanced phononic and electronic properties, was jointly supervised by Professors Sungho Jin and Vitali F. Nesterenko.

She joined the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) faculty in 2006, and has remained there since with a leave from 2013 to 2016, to take a chair of Mechanics and Materials at ETH Zurich. At Caltech, she was initially in the Aeronautics and Applied Physics department, where she was promoted to full professor in 2010; she then moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics in 2016. She currently serves as the G. Bradford Jones Professor in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science and serves as the Caltech Director of the NSF Center to Stream Healthcare in Place (C2SHIP).

Recognitions
In 2018, Daraio won the UC San Diego Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Alumna Award, "for outstanding achievements in mechanical metamaterials and materials science".

Daraio received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama in 2012.

She was elected as a Sloan Research Fellow in 2011.

In 2010, Popular Science recognized Daraio as one of its “Brilliant 10” and  she received an ONR Young Investigator Award.

She won the NSF CAREER award in 2009.

Daraio also won the Felice De Carli Medal of the Italian Metallurgical Society in 2006, and the Richard von Mises Prize of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik in 2008.

References

External links
Daraio Research Group

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American acoustical engineers
American materials scientists
Italian materials scientists
Women materials scientists and engineers
University of California, San Diego alumni
California Institute of Technology faculty
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Microtecnica. Microtecnica S.r.l. is a main Italian aircraft component company (hydraulics), now owned by UTC of America.

History
The company was founded in 1929. It supplies equipment for helicopters and regional jet aircraft, such as the AgustaWestland AW101, the NHIndustries NH90 and Agusta A129 Mangusta. It supplied hydraulic actuation systems for the Panavia Tornado, such as the air intake control system, which it designed with Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, and the auxiliary power unit.

Ownership
In April 2011 the company was bought for 330 million euros.

Products
 Flight control actuation hydraulic systems
 Aircraft environmental control systems

References

Aircraft component manufacturers of Italy
Electrical engineering companies of Italy
Manufacturing companies established in 1929
United Technologies
Omer Blodgett. Omer Blodgett (1917 – January 11, 2017) was a structural welder, educator, and the author of Design of Welded Structures and Design of Weldments. He was seen as an expert in his field, known for making complex issues simple and easy to understand and coining many phrases in use by structural welders. His two books are still considered foundational in structural welding.

Blodgett grew up welding. After college he worked for Globe Shipbuilding Company, learning how to troubleshoot and resolve welding issues. During World War II he supervised 400 welders who fabricated 29 all-welded oceangoing ships for the Federal Maritime Commission. He met James F. Lincoln there who invited him work for Lincoln Electric. Blodgett worked at Lincoln Electric from 1945, as a design consultant and also as a mechanical engineer, through 2009.

Awards
Blodgett received the A. F. Davis Silver Medal for his work in structural design in 1962, 1973, 1980 and 1983. He was recognized as one of the top 125 engineers of the past 125 years by Engineering News-Record in 1999. He won all three AISC awards: the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award (1983), the first Engineering Luminary Award (1997) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (1999).

Personal life
Blodgett was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Myron Omer Blodgett and Minnie Long (Foster) Blodgett, a family with a fleet of lake vessels, some of which they would occasionally live aboard. He worked as a welder in the family business during high school. He attended the University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgical engineering and a master's degree in mechanical engineering. He married Dorothy Bernice Sjostrom in 1949, and they had one son and three grandchildren.

References

1917 births
2017 deaths
Writers from Duluth, Minnesota
University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Engineers from Minnesota
Welders
20th-century American engineers