omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Conrad Burke. Conrad Burke is an Irish physicist and entrepreneur.

Early life and education 
Born in Dublin and raised in Bray, County Wicklow, Burke attended school in Greystones. At third-level, he received a BSc in physics from University College Dublin in 1989 and an MSc in physics from Trinity College Dublin. He also attended the London Business School. He left Ireland in the late 1980s.

Career
Burke began his career in 1989 as a research engineer at NEC Corporation's Central Research Laboratories in Japan. He then joined AT&T in 1992, working in engineering, marketing and product management roles. In 1999, Burke took responsibility for Lucent Technologies' integrated network modules business before joining a startup, OMM, developing optical switching subsystems. In early 2003, he became a venture partner at US venture capital firm, Sevin Rosen Funds. 

In 2005, after working as senior vice-president of worldwide sales at optical components manufacturer Bookham (today Oclaro), Burke founded Innovalight, which developed silicon ink for proposed use in solar energy technology. He was the president and CEO until August 2011, when DuPont acquired the company for an undisclosed sum, although the company raised $60m. He was then general manager of DuPont Innovalight, based in Silicon Valley. For three years, Burke served on the board of SolarPower Europe - the European solar industry association.

Burke is co-founder and managing partner of MetaVC Partners, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. In July 2021, he co-founded a fund to back start-ups working with metamaterials. The fund, which was backed by Bill Gates and former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold, made early investments in telecommunications company Mangata Networks and in Neurophos, which uses metamaterials to build optical processors.

Awards 
Burke has been a recipient of the Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2022, he received the UCD Alumni Award in Science.

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1966 births
People from Bray, County Wicklow
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Living people
Scientists from County Wicklow
Businesspeople from County Wicklow
Dewoitine HD.780. The Dewoitine HD.780 was a prototype French fighter-floatplane designed and built from 1938–40. It was a single-seat, single-engined aircraft based on the Dewoitine D.520 land-based fighter. A single example was built but was abandoned unflown, and was scrapped.

Design and development
In 1938, the French Navy issued a requirement (C1-A75) for a fighter floatplane that could be launched from catapults aboard battleships and cruisers to give fighter protection for the fleet out of range of shore-based fighters. The new fighter would replace the Loire 210, twenty of which had been ordered in 1937, which were yet to enter service. Two designs were evaluated by the French Navy, one from Potez (the Potez-CAMS 170), and one from Émile Dewoitine's design bureau, the Dewoitine HD.780. The Potez design progressed no further than a full-scale mock-up, but construction of a prototype of the Dewoitine fighter started at the Bagnères-de-Bigorre factory of the railway engine manufacturer Soulé in November 1939. 

The HD.780 was based on Dewoitine's D.520 landplane fighter. Its fuselage closely resembled that of the D.520, with the radiator moved from the ventral position of the D.520 to under the nose, to avoid spray from the aircraft's floats during take-off and landing. The inverted gull wings were entirely new, and were fitted with full-span slotted fowler flaps, which extended under the fuselage. The wings were designed to fold for storage aboard ship, with the wing-folding mechanism powered by compressed air. Two floats were attached to the wings by streamlined pylons. The HD.580 had an enlarged horizontal tail and fin compared with the D.520. A Hispano-Suiza 12Y-51 engine, slightly more powerful than the 12Y-31 of the D.520 and fitted with a supercharger rated to give more power at low altitude, powered the HD.580. Armament was a single engine-mounted 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.9 cannon, with two 7.5 mm Darne machine guns mounted in the wings.

The prototype was completed in April 1940, but did not fly, with the French Navy now wanting carrier-based fighters, ordering two prototypes of a carrier-based landplane derivative, the HD.790 and adopting the D.520 as a land-based fighter, while the Soulé factory concentrated on the D.550 derivative of the D.520. The unflown HD.780 prototype was scrapped after the Armistice of 22 June 1940 when France surrendered to Germany. The two HD.790 prototypes were unbuilt.

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Low-wing aircraft
Floatplanes
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Unflown aircraft
Single-engined piston aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Amanda Morris. Amanda Morris is an American chemist who is the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellow and professor of inorganic and energy chemistry at Virginia Tech. Her research considers next-generation materials for catalysis and light-harvesting. She was elected chair of the American Chemical Society Gay and Transgender Chemists and Allies committee in 2021.

Early life and education 
Morris was an undergraduate at Pennsylvania State University. She moved to Johns Hopkins University for doctoral research, where she worked alongside Gerald Meyer. In 2009, Morris joined Princeton University and the laboratory of Andrew B. Bocarsly.

Research and career 
Morris makes use of photo-electrochemistry to understand new materials for renewable energy. She has created photosynthetic systems for solar harvesting. Morris has proposed metal–organic frameworks as light harvesters and high surface-area catalysts. Metal organic frameworks are stable solid state organic-inorganic hybrid materials. The high surface areas mean that they can improve their catalytic activity. Her early research looked to understand how to control the optical and electronic properties of metal organic frameworks. She studied how electrons were transported through metal organic frameworks, and how to design MOFs that showed efficient photo-induced charge transport.

Morris served as co-chair of the Virginia Tech LGBT Staff Caucus, where she led efforts to expand the university's non-discrimination clause to protect people from gender minorities. She also led efforts to install gender inclusive restrooms and use preferred names on university records. Morris was the first academic advisor of oSTEM at Virginia Tech. She was elected chair of the American Chemical Society Gay and Transgender Chemists and Allies (GTCA) committee in 2021. She was made head of the department of chemistry in 2022. Beyond her own research, she uses her laboratory to enhance the curriculum of the Roanoke City Public Schools.

Awards and honors 
 Jimmy W. Viers Teaching Award
 Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellow
 Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow
 Inter-American Photochemical Society Young Investigator Award
 John C. Schug Research Award
 Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
 NSF CAREER Award Recipient
 Presidential Principles of Community Award
 College of Science Diversity Award
 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women chemists
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Pennsylvania State University alumni
21st-century American chemists
Virginia Tech faculty
21st-century American women scientists
Avrom I. Medalia. Avrom Izak Medalia (3 February 192320 June 2002) was a Cabot scientist known for contributions to understanding electrical conductivity and dynamic properties of carbon black filled rubbers

Education 
Medalia was a graduate of the Boston Latin School.  In 1942, he received the A.B. degree in chemistry from Harvard University.  He then studied synthetic rubber and emulsion polymerization under I. M. Kalthoff at the University of Minnesota, receiving a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1948.

Career 
Medalia's first post-academic position was with the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1949 to 1952. He was associate director of sponsored research at Boston University from 1952 to 1955.  He started at Cabot in 1956 and continued there until his retirement in 1984.  At Cabot, he held various positions in research and management. 

His most cited work concerned the effect of carbon black on the dynamic properties of rubber, in particular the Payne effect.  He also did highly influential work on the electrical conductivity of carbon black filled rubber.

In 1978, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Plastics and Rubber Institute. He was the 1987 recipient of the Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award.

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1923 births
2002 deaths
Polymer scientists and engineers
20th-century American engineers
Harvard University alumni
Boston Latin School alumni
Sydney Green & Sons. Sydney Green & Sons was a civil engineering contractor from Oxfordshire in England, which built sections of British motorways, notably the M2 in Kent, M5 and the M40, mostly in the Home Counties.

History
It was formed by Colonel Sydney W. Green OBE on 19 February 1948.

The company floated on the London stock exchange in January 1959.

The company was bought on Monday 6 November 1967 for around £2.8m, and operated as a subsidiary.

In 1973, the company made a £904,000 loss, and the parent company withdrew from civil engineering.

Structure
It held annual general meetings in Henley-on-Thames, where it was headquartered.

Construction
 A14 (former A45) - it was awarded a £2m contract on Tuesday 16 March 1971 for the Trimley bypass of the A45, by East Suffolk County Council
 M2 - the contract was awarded on Monday 12 June 1961 for the 26-mile motorway, where it built part of the £1,106,408 Section 1, as part of a consortium
 M4 - Heathrow Spur to Langley, four miles, £3.2m, with Cubitts, as a consortium, opened December 1964
 M40 - as part of a consortium of two other contractors, it was offered the contract of £4,749,822 on Monday 29 June 1964 for the first eight miles of the A40(M) in Buckinghamshire, now the M40, where work started on 1 July 1964, to last 28 months, and on Tuesday 12 January 1971 it was awarded a £290,274 contract to build the Knaves Beech Interchange junction 3 on the M40 at Loudwater, Buckinghamshire, near the Loudwater Viaduct
 M5 - awarded the contract of £5.5m on Thursday 5 June 1969 for six miles of the motorway from Brookthorpe to Eastington, Stroud in Gloucestershire, to take two years in partnership with Costain Group
 Fleet services on the M3, construction began in February 1972, opening in June 1973

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British companies established in 1948
British companies disestablished in 1973
Companies based in Oxfordshire
Construction and civil engineering companies of England
Construction and civil engineering companies disestablished in the 20th century
Henley-on-Thames
Libai Huang. Libai Huang () is a Chinese-American chemist who is a professor at Purdue University. She is interested in unravelling the structure-property relationships of next-generation solar materials.

Early life and education 
Huang earned a doctorate BS from Peking University in 2001 and a PhD from University of Rochester in 2006. Her doctorate developed ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy of single-wall carbon nanotubes. Huang then joined Argonne National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow.

Research and career 
Huang joined the faculty at Purdue University. In 2011, she was a Kavli Foundation Fellow. Her research considers the development of ultrafast, spatially resolved spectroscopies to understand charge transport in the active layers of solar cells. She has developed ultrafast spectroscopic probes that can be combined with optical microscopes to achieve nm-resolution high frequency temporal information, so-called ultrafast nanoscopy. When it comes to imaging the active layers of solar cells, Huang has studied exciton formation and charge transport at femtosecond timescales. She tracked the hot carriers that form in perovskite solar cells, and showed that they can travel hundreds of nanometers (lasting around 100 picoseconds) before decaying as heat. In singlet fission materials, Huang identified singlet-mediate triplet transport mechanisms, which can cause long-range triplet diffusion. She makes use of optical pump-probe techniques to understand two-dimensional materials.

In 2021, Huang joined a United States Department of Energy effort to develop new materials for quantum technology.

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Living people
Peking University alumni
University of Rochester alumni
Purdue University faculty
American chemists
American women scientists
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Li Dequn. Li Dequn (; 7 August 1945 – 5 September 2022) was a Chinese material scientist who was a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Li was born in Tai County (now Jiangyan District of Taizhou), Jiangsu, on 7 August 1945. Both his cousins  and Li Deren are also academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

In 1963, he was admitted to Tsinghua University, majoring in metal hot working process and equipment. After graduating in 1968, he was assigned to Lingwu Farm Tractor Repair Factory in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. In 1974, he was transferred to Qianjiang Machinery Factory in central China's Hubei and appointed leader of its Tooling Technology Group. After resumption of college entrance examination, in 1978, he entered Huazhong Institute of Technology (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology), and taught there after graduation. In 1986, he went to Cornell University in the United States to engage in research on computer simulation technology of injection mold forming process, and developed commercial two-dimensional cooling system software in AC-Tech company. He returned to China in 1986 and continued to teach at the Central China University of Science and Engineering (now Huazhong University of Science and Technology). He was promoted to associate professor in 1987 and to full professor in 1991. From January 1995 to December 1995, he was a visiting scholar at the Material Processing Department of Nanyang Technological University. He became dean of the School of Materials (now School of Materials Science and Engineering) in 2001, and served until 2006.

On 5 September 2022, he died from an illness in Wuhan, Hubei, at the age of 77.

Honours and awards
 2002 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the development and application of plastic injection molding process simulation system
 2007 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the simulation technology of material forming process and its application
 2010 State Natural Science Award (Second Class) for the study on composite structure, injection molding process and mechanical failure behavior of plastics
 2015 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
 2018 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the preparation and shape control technology of mold (core) laser sintering materials for integral casting of complex parts
 2019 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class) for the intelligent control technology and equipment for plastic injection molding process

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1945 births
2022 deaths
People from Taizhou, Jiangsu
Engineers from Jiangsu
Tsinghua University alumni
Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni
Academic staff of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
DQS (disambiguation). DQS can refer to:

 Data Quality Services, a business intelligence service for Microsoft SQL Server
 DQS Holding GmbH, a German company providing assessments and certifications of management systems and processes (Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Zertifizierung von Qualitätssicherungssystemen). (Not to be confused with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität or DGQ)
 de Quervain syndrome, a mucoid degeneration of two tendons that control movement of the thumb and their tendon sheath
 Ducati Quick Shift, a gear shift system used on the Ducati 848 and Ducati SuperSport which allows for upshifts without using the clutch lever for faster acceleration
 dQS, the derivative of quantity supplied (QS), a term used in quantity adjustment in market supply analysis within economics
Marvin Adams. Marvin L. Adams is a nuclear engineer and computational physicist. Since April 2022, he has served as Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the Biden administration.

Education
Adams received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of Michigan in nuclear engineering and his B.S. degree from Mississippi State University.

Career
From 1986 until 1992, Adams worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a physicist. From 1992 until 2022, he was a Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the Texas A&M University.

He is currently a member of the stockpile assessment team of the Strategic Advisory Group for the U.S. Strategic Command, the National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control, and the Predictive Science Panel for LNLL and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He is also chairman of the Mission Committee and member of the Science, Technology, and Engineering Committee. Adams served in various roles for the U.S national security.

In September 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Adams to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Two months later, President Biden announced the nomination of Adams to become deputy administrator for defense programs at the National Nuclear Security Administration. The nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 6, 2022, and Adams was sworn in on April 11, 2022.

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Living people
Nuclear engineers
University of Michigan alumni
Mississippi State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Biden administration personnel
Waszp. The Waszp is an Australian, single-handed, hydrofoiling sailboat that was designed by Andrew McDougall as a one-design racer for youth and adults, and first built in 2016.

The design was named 2017 Best One-Design in Sailing World's Boat of the Year Awards.

Production
The design has been built by McConaghy Boats of Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia since 2016 and remains in production. 750 boats had been built by May 2019 and more than 1,000 by 2022.

Design
The Waszp is a racing sailing dinghy, with the hull built predominantly of infused epoxy. It has a free-standing catboat rig, a concave plumb stem, a vertical transom, an aluminum frame-mounted, transom-hung, hydrofoil rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable, aluminum, hydrofoil daggerboard. It has folding hiking wings and displaces . The design crew weight is .

The boat has a draft of  with the daggerboard and rudder extended while not foiling and  for launching with the daggerboard and rudder both retracted.

For sailing the design is equipped with variable angle hiking wings to adjust to skill level. There are also three different sail and mast combinations for smaller or less experienced sailors, with areas of ,  and .

The Waszp can start to hydrofoil in  of wind, sustain hydrofoiling in as little as  of wind and can reach a top speed of .

The Waszp is similar to the developmental Moth class, but as a one-design class with aluminum foils it is half the price and thus appeals to a wider group of sailors.

Operational history
The design is an accepted one-design class in the United States. US Sailing, describes it as "a singlehanded, one-design foiler. Designed by Andrew McDougall, the Waszp offers affordable foiling on a robust boat. The class has a place for everyone; there is a large contingent of sailors who race the boat at a high level while other sailors keep the boat at their local yacht club and go for a rip around the bay!"

The first regatta held in the US was in January 2017, at the Upper Keys Sailing Club in Florida and attracted eight boats and sailors.

A February 2017 review in Sail1Design noted, "the Waszp and the Moth are similar in their concepts, but for a couple reasons, the Waszp hits a market of different dinghy sailors. First, the Waszp is half the price of the Moth, you can buy a brand new Waszp in the US for $12,500. Unlike the Moth the Waszp is a one design class. With the Waszp you have adjustable wing angles allowing you to adjust for your skill and for storage. The Waszp comes with retractable alloy foils making it an easy boat to launch. With a free standing rig, you can rig up quickly and have a much easier time getting back into the boat after capsizing."

See also
List of sailing boat types

Similar sailboats
Moth (dinghy)

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Dinghies
2010s sailboat type designs
Catboats
One-design sailing classes
Sailboat type designs by Andrew McDougall
Sailboat types built by McConaghy Boats
Nigerian LNG train 7. Nigeria LNG Train 7 is an expansion under construction at the Nigeria LNG Terminal in Bonny Island, Nigeria. It is one of the most ambitious construction projects in Nigeria, second only to the nearly completed Dangote refinery.

Current situation 
Owner and operator of the terminal is Nigeria LNG (NLNG), a joint venture between Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shell Gas, Total, and Eni.

At this moment (2022), the terminal has six operational LNG processing facilities, four 84,200m³ LNG storage tanks, four 65,000m³ cooling tanks, and three 36,000m³ condensate storage tanks. Furthermore, the terminal consists of a common LNG processing fractionation plant, a common condensate stabilization plant, two LNG export jetties, 23 dedicated LNG ships, a materials off-loading jetty, and ten gas turbine generators with a combined capacity of more than 320MW. In the current situation, the terminal produces 22Mtpa of LNG and 5Mtpa of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and condensate per annum (Mtpa).

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has increased international demand for natural gas in 2022. This is increasingly promoting Nigeria's role as an alternative supplier.

Scope 
The seventh LNG processing unit adds a production capacity of 4.2Mtpa and supporting infrastructure with an 84,200m³ storage tank, a 36,000m³ condensate tank, and three gas turbine generators at the terminal. New wells and pipelines will supply additional feed gas to the LNG facility.

Train 7 will also reduce bottlenecks of the existing six trains. This should increase the processing capacity by 3.4Mtpa.

Capacity increase, new jobs 
Upon completion, the Nigeria LNG Train 7 project will increase the NLNG Terminal production capacity by 35% from the current 22mtpa to 30mtpa. The estimated costs are approximately US$6.5bn.

According to managing director Tony Attah, the Train 7 project will create 52,000 jobs. 12,000 of these jobs would be created through direct employment; 40,000 people would be indirectly employed by the project. The total investment would be about over $10 billion.

Current state 
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Wabote, announced in August 2022, that the Train 7 project is 30 percent complete.

Outlook 
Earlier, in May 2022, Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, estimated, that the Train 7 project will be completed within four years.

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Rail transport in Nigeria
Transportation in Rivers State