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China National Electric Engineering Company. China National Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 中国电力工程公司 | abbr. CNEEC) is a state-owned engineering company.  A specialized engineering services contractor; the company focuses in the areas of Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC), Consultation, Operation & Maintenance and Rehabilitation in infrastructural and clean energy solutions for various industrial projects. CNEEC is an international engineering company, which has been listed in the top 225 International Contractors by USA's ENR.

China National Electric Engineering Company operates in Pakistan as through its wholly-owned subsidiary CNEEC Pakistan which has been a competitive contractor in Pakistan's energy sector, having completed over 12 construction projects, including power plants and power grids across the country. The company has actively participated towards building the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a 3,000-km long route linking the Kashgar city of China to a Gwadar Port in Pakistan. Along the way, the two countries are constructing networks of highways, railways and industrial parks, with a combined investment of $62 billion. Under the frame of CPEC, The electric company built the first industrial park, the Rashakhai Special Economic Zone (SEZ), planned to cover an area of 4.04 km2. Not only the transport route but also a package of extended solutions; the economic zone aims to become a home for hi-tech innovation companies and a hub for trade and logistics, further promoting the Pak-China Relations with Economic Stability of the local economy and people.

The electric company has been contracted to build a 233 MW power plant in the Sabal Province of East Malaysia. The $310-million coal-fired power station project in Malaysia was represented to be the first collaboration of a Chinese state-owned company with the Malaysian electric utility company, TNB. 

CNEEC was one of the two companies to be sanctioned by World Bank Group for 18 months, in October 2020 for fraudulent practices in Zambia.

In June 2023, CNEEC was sanctioned by Asian Development Bank (ADB) for 24 months, due to fraudulent practices in one of its projects.

References

External links 

 Global Website
Government-owned companies of China
Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Sharon L. Wood. Sharon L. Wood is an American structural engineer who was formerly executive vice president and provost of the University of Texas at Austin.

Biography
Wood is the descendant of three generations of civil engineers, and began her interest in engineering at age eight when she visited a construction site with her father. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1982, and has a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, which she earned with the support of a Tau Beta Pi fellowship.

The University of Illinois hired her as a faculty member directly after she completed her doctorate, and she remained there as a faculty member for ten years before moving to the University of Texas in 1996. She was named dean in 2014, after a year as interim dean.

She was the first woman at the university to chair the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, and the first woman to become dean of engineering. Her accomplishments as dean include significantly increasing the number of women both among the faculty of the school and in its students.

Recognition
She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 "for design of reinforced concrete structures and associated seismic instrumentation for extreme loadings and environments". She is also a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which gave her their Alfred Noble Prize in 1993 and their Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Award in Education in 2018.

The University of Virginia named Wood their distinguished alumna for 2018. Hart Energy and their Oil and Gas Investor magazine gave Wood their Pinnacle Award in 2020.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American structural engineers
American women engineers
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Civil Engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American women academics
21st-century American women
Don Gunasena Athukorala. Don Gunasena Athukorala (25 May 1924 - 22 February 2024) was a civil engineer who was a founding member of the State Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka, where he later served as the Deputy General Manager in 1970, and later the Chairman in 1977. In recognition of his contributions, Don Gunasena was made an Honorary Life Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka in January 1971.

Education 
Don Gunasena received his early education from St. John's College and Sri Sumangala College in Panadura. He further had his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of London in 1950, and obtained his membership into the Institution of Civil Engineers, London (MICE) in 1955.

Career 
After his education in London, Don Gunasena worked as an engineer for Willment Brothers Limited. He left for Scott Wilson Group in 1952, where he was the Design Engineer. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1954, and joined the Department of Industries as an Assistant Engineer.

Don Gunasena was among the engineers who established the State Engineering Corporation (SEC), which was approved by the Parliament in January 1962, and became the Deputy General Manager to A. N. S. Kulasinghe who was the Chairman.

With the arrival of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka to run the Ministry of Housing and Construction and the subsequent politicization of the SEC, Don Gunasena departed to the United Kingdom. In the UK he joined Sir William Halcrow & Partners. 

Don Gunasena returned to Sri Lanka and joined the Mahaweli Development Board (MDB)and was involved in the design and construction of the Polgolla Dam and Bowatenna Dam. In 1977, he returned to SEC as the Chairman.

With the enactment of the Mahaweli Authority in 1979, Don Gunasena was appointed as Director Head Works. He managed some of the most notable engineerings works in the country including the Polgolla, Randenigala, Victoria, Kotmale, and Rantembe Dams and related hydroelectric power stations. He retired in the mid-1990s with a view towards migrating to Australia in 1999. In his retired life he authored a book Buddha's Principle of Relativity: Mind-Body Stress, and was published in 2018.

Family and personal life
Don Gunasena was born on 25 May 1924 to Don Hendrik and Dona Catherina Athukorala. He married Irangani Seneviratne in August 1957, and had three children. In January 1999, he migrated to Sydney, Australia with his wife.

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1924 births
2024 deaths
Sri Lankan civil engineers
Sri Lankan emigrants to Australia
People from Panadura
Li Guanxing. Li Guanxing (; 14 January 1940 – 1 December 2020) was a Chinese nuclear material engineer who served as president of the CNNC North Nuclear Fuel Element Co., Ltd. between 2001 and 2004. He was chairperson and party chief of Chinese Nuclear Society from 2008 to 2018. He was a delegate to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography
Li was born in Shanghai, on January 14, 1940. He entered Tsinghua University in January 1956, majoring in nuclear material at the Department of Engineering Physics, where he graduated in January 1962. Then he did his postgraduate work at the university.

In January 1967, he was dispatched to Metallurgical Research Institute of the CNNC North Nuclear Fuel Element Co., Ltd., one of the five largest state-owned entities in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. After the Chinese economic reform, in January 1982, he became a visiting scholar at the Ohio State University on government scholarships. He returned to China in January 1984 and that same year was promoted to become deputy director of the institute. He was chief engineer in December 1990, and held that office until December 2000. In January 2001 he was promoted to become its president, a position he held until April 2004. After retirement, he served as honorary general manager.

He died of illness in Beijing, on December 1, 2020, aged 80.

Honors and awards
 1999 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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1940 births
2020 deaths
Tsinghua University alumni
Engineers from Shanghai
Physicists from Shanghai
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Delegates to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Natale Capellaro. Natale Capellaro (22 December 1902 – 26 February 1977) was an Italian mechanical designer of mechanical calculators and honoris causa engineer, best remembered for the successful Olivetti mechanical calculators he designed, such as models Divisumma 14, Divisumma 24 and Tetractys.

He began his career in 1916 as an apprentice in the assembly line at Olivetti and was noticed for his mechanical ingenuity. Since 1935 he collaborated with the calculator design department.

Nominated head of calculator design in 1943, he directed the MC 14 project, a new line of electro-mechanical printing calculators replacing the early models by Olivetti. The first product launched in the new line was an adding machine (Elettrosumma 14) in 1946, then a multiplier machine (Multisumma 14) and a four-operation machine (Divisumma 14) were presented in 1947 and 1948 respectively, all with exterior aspect design by Marcello Nizzoli. The Divisumma 14 model was remarkable being the first mechanical calculator on the market with the ability of both dividing and computing a negative difference, and being the first ten-key four-operation machine with printing ability.

Beginning around 1950, Capellaro directed yet another successful project in the MC 24 line of calculators, with exterior aspect design again by Marcello Nizzoli. Launched in 1956, the Divisumma 24 model from this line sold over a million units over its lifetime, marking the golden age of Olivetti in the calculator market. An adding machine (Elettrosumma 24 Duplex), a multiplier machine (Multisumma 24), and an advanced calculator by the name Tetractys were also part of the line.

Capellaro was appointed General Technical Director at Olivetti in 1960 and was awarded honoris causa a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Bari in 1962. He moved to a position in the Executive Board in 1964, and his long-time main collaborator Teresio Gassino became director of research and development. In 1966 he resigned from Olivetti and worked as a consultant for the company until 1969.

See also 

Mechanical calculator
Olivetti Divisumma 14
Olivetti Divisumma 24
Olivetti Tetractys

References

External links 

 Storiaolivetti - Macchine da calcolo (in Italian) a brief history of Olivetti electro-mechanical calculating machines.
 Laboratorio Museo Tecnologicamente (Ivrea) (in Italian) Museum and Laboratory holding a permanent exposition of Olivetti machines.

Italian designers
Olivetti people
Mechanical calculators
1902 births
1977 deaths
Pearl Sullivan. Pearl Sullivan (1961 – November 28, 2020) was a Malaysian Canadian engineer and the former Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, the first woman to hold the position.

Early life and education 
Sullivan was born in 1961 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and immigrated to Canada in the 1980s. 
She graduated from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, now part of Dalhousie University, in 1985 with a master's degree in Metallurgical Engineering. Following her time in Halifax, Sullivan completed a PhD in materials engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1990. Her doctoral studies were supervised by Anoush Poursartip.

Academic career 
Shortly after completing her studies she accepted a position at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1991. Sullivan returned to Canada in 1994 after taking a position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, where she was twice awarded the university's Faculty Merit Award for Excellence. Sullivan joined the University of Waterloo in 2004 as a professor of mechanical engineering. She served as Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering from 2006 until January 2012. In 2012 Sullivan was named the Dean of Engineering, becoming the first woman to hold the position at Waterloo. She held the role until December 2019.

Awards 
Professor Sullivan was a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Death 
Sullivan died on November 28, 2020, of cancer. At the time of her death she had been dealing with the illness for 12 years.

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Canadian engineers
Malaysian emigrants to Canada
2020 deaths
1961 births
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Dalhousie University alumni
University of British Columbia Faculty of Applied Science alumni
Standard E1. The Standard E1 was a motorized freight tricycle, produced from 1939 to 1945 by the Standard vehicle factory of Wilhelm Gutbrod, Germany. It was an identical construction of  the Tempo E 400 by Tempowerk Vidal & Sohn, built from 1938 to 1948, the design was taken as Hitler's "Standard Three-wheeler Delivery Van" (Einheits-Dreirad-Lieferwagen). It had a simple chain drive from gearbox and engine  to the front wheel below. This simple construction with a lifted center of gravity was less stable when cornering. So far former vehicle designs by Gutbrod had the engine and gearbox located behind the rear axle as an underfloor engine.

During World War II, manufacturers were obliged by the Nazi regime dictatorship to produce weapons and accessories as well as military equipment for the war. Only a few manufacturers were allowed to continue production of civil vehicles. It was the last freight tricycle built by Gutbrod. The coachbuilder Rometsch was forced to produce field kitchens, competitor Borgward produced military vehicles and least after the war the freight tricycle production was continued by its successor model.

Further reading
 Werner Oswald: German Cars: 1920 - 1945, Motorbuch Verlag, 2019,

References

Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Vehicles introduced in 1938
Kawanishi K-6. The Kawanishi K-6 was a passenger-carrying biplane floatplane, built in Japan in the 1920s. The sole example took part in an around Japan flight then flew as a transport with Japan Aviation.

Design and development

Kawanishi's first floatplane design was the K-5, which though foreseen as Japan's first successful large seaplane transport turned out to lack the power to take-off carrying any significant load. As no more powerful engine than the  Maybach Mb.IV was available, the K-5's development was abandoned late in 1922. Instead, Eiji Sekiguchi designed a new, smaller, lighter aircraft with the same engine. This, the K-6, was informed by the latest control and stability research from Göttingen. It was completed in November 1923 and was intended to be used by Kawanishi's Nippon Koku KK (Japan Aviation Co. Ltd)

The K-6 was a two bay biplane with fabric covering over a wooden structure. Its equal span wings were rectangular in plan out to rounded tips and braced together without stagger by parallel pairs of interplane struts. The pilot's open cockpit was between the wings, close behind the upright, water-cooled Maybach. The K-6's two passengers were in a separate cockpit behind him, originally  open but later enclosed under multi-panel glazing faired smoothly into the upper rear fuselage. The latter was flat sided and remained deep to the tail; its surface served to stabilize the aircraft in yaw and there was no conventional fixed fin. The K-6 had a straight-edged, round-topped rudder, hinged on the extreme fuselage and cut-away for elevator movement, which was unusual in projecting only below the fuselage. Its tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage and braced to the lower fuselage longerons with pairs of parallel struts.

The sides of its flat-surfaced floats met at bow and stern. Each float had a shallow step under the trailing edge. They were held under the fuselage on fore and aft struts to the lower longerons.

Operational history

Soon after completion it was decided that instead of immediate commercial use the K-6 should be part of the Around Japan Flight, an event sponsored by Nippon Koku KK and the Daimai Tonichi Shimbun newspaper. Some modifications followed: the passenger seats were replaced with extra fuel tanks, the engine radiator was moved, shallow fins were added on the tailplane undersides together with outrigger floats under the wing. Normally well above the water, these limited roll when afloat. The July 1924 flight began and ended at Osaka and covered . The K-6, flown by Yukichi Goto with flight engineer Minezo Yonesawa, covered the route in eight days, though flying for only 33 hr 48 min.

On 2 December 1924 the K-6 won the seaplane category in the competitive Round Ise Bay event, covering three circuits totalling  in 6 hr 30 min. After that the K-6, with passenger seats reinstalled, was returned to transport duties. No more were built as Kawanishi's attention turned to its successor, the K-7.

Specifications

References

K-6
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1930s Japanese civil utility aircraft
Seiuemon Inaba. Seiuemon Inaba (1925-2020) was a Japanese roboticist who was the founder and honorary chairman of FANUC. Inaba was born in 1925 in Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Inaba played a key role in the development of the robot industry.

In 1992, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering achievements in numerically controlled machine tools and factory automation and contributions to engineering research and education.

Inaba died on October 2, 2020, at the age of 95.

Biography 
 1946: Bachelor of Engineering from University of Tokyo
 1946: Joined Fujitsu
 1956: Introduced efficient and accurate servo control methods for numerical control
 1965: Ph.D. in engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology
 1972: Founded and served as Executive Director of Fujitsu Fanuc, which later becomes FANUC Corporation
 1975: Served as first President of FANUC
 1995: Honorary Chairman of FANUC

Awards and honors 
 2005: IEEE Robotics and Automation Award

References

1925 births
2020 deaths
Japanese roboticists
Albin 57. The Albin 57 is a Swedish trailerable sailboat that was designed by Rolf Magnusson as a coastal cruiser and first built in 1977.

The boat's designation is its metric length overall in decimetres.

Production
The design was built by Albin Marine in Sweden between 1977 and 1981, with about 400 boats completed, but it is now out of production.

Design
The Albin 57 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fibreglass, with wood trim. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, wire standing rigging and a single set of swept spreaders. The hull has a raked stem, a plumb transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a swing keel. It displaces  and carries  of ballast.

The boat has a draft of  with the swing keel extended and  with it retracted, allowing ground transportation on a trailer.

The boat is normally fitted with a small outboard motor for docking and manoeuvring.

The design has sleeping accommodation for four people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and two straight settees in the main cabin. The galley is located at the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove. There are hull-mounted rectangular ports on both sides of the boat.

For sailing the design may be equipped with a symmetrical spinnaker of . It has a hull speed of .

Operational history
At one time the boat was supported by a class club that organized racing events, Albin 57 Owners Association, but it seem to be no longer existent.

See also
List of sailing boat types

References

External links
Video: Sailing an Albin 57

Keelboats
1970s sailboat type designs
Sailing yachts
Trailer sailers
Sailboat type designs by Rolf Magnusson
Sailboat types built by Albin Marine
Aviotehas. Aviotehas (1927–1939 named as Aviotöökoda) was a military unit and a company which dealt with constructing and repairing of military aircraft, based at Lasnamäe, Tallinn in Estonia.

Between 1927 and 1930, Aviotehas was part of the military unit Lennuväerügement.

Aircraft

References

Aircraft manufacturers
Aviation in Estonia
Tallinn
BAE Systems PHASA-35. The BAE Systems Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35) is a High-Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by BAE Systems in collaboration with Prismatic. Designed as a cheaper alternative to satellites, the aircraft can be used for surveillance, border control, communications and disaster relief with a potential ability to stay airborne for up to 12 months. Developed in less than two years, the aircraft carried out its first flight in February 2020 and further trials are currently ongoing.

Development
PHASA-35 was originally designed and developed by engineers who had previously worked on the Zephyr HAPS drone for Qinetiq. When Qinetiq sold Zephyr to Airbus Defence and Space in 2013, these engineers left and formed their own company, named Prismatic, to develop a rival aircraft. Development of PHASA-35 consequently began in 2018, in collaboration with BAE Systems, and a first flight was scheduled for 2019. Prior to this, a quarter-scale model, named the PHASE-8, completed a successful first flight in 2017. In September 2019, BAE Systems acquired Prismatic as a subsidiary. After less than two years in development, the PHASA-35 made its maiden flight on 17 February 2020 at the Woomera Test Range in Australia with support from the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and Australian Defence Science and Technology Group. Further trials commenced and, in October 2020, the aircraft carried out an endurance trial whilst carrying a sensor payload. The trials saw the aircraft operating 72 hours whilst in a simulated environment of harsh stratospheric conditions.

In January 2021, BAE Systems announced plans to carry out a flight demonstration in the United States after acknowledging “strong growing interest” in the aircraft from across the U.S. Department of Defense and federal agency customer base.
By December 2024, it had flew for 24h and reached more than  from Spaceport America in New Mexico, targeting operational activity by 2026.

Design
The aircraft is a solar-electric HALE UAV designed as a cheaper alternative to satellites and is able to carry out a range of tasks, including border protection, maritime and military surveillance, disaster relief and communications. It is powered by the sun during the day, before switching to battery power during the night and can potentially stay airborne for 12 months. Featuring long-life battery technology, ultra-lightweight solar cells, a  wingspan and a weight of , the aircraft is designed to operate in the stratosphere.
It has a payload capacity of 15kg.

See also
 Solar-powered aircraft

References

Solar-powered aircraft
Unmanned military aircraft of the United Kingdom
High-altitude platform stations
BAE Systems research and development
High-wing aircraft
Twin-engined tractor aircraft
PHASA-35
Aircraft with conventional landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 2020
Aircraft with jettisonable landing gear