omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Eleanor Stride. Eleanor Phoebe Jane Stride  is a Professor of Biomaterials at St Catherine's College, Oxford. Stride engineers drug delivery systems using carefully designed microbubbles and studies how they can be used in diagnostics.

Education 
Stride completed her Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in the Ultrasonics group at University College London. She had planned to work for Aston Martin. Whilst there became interested in using ultrasound for imaging microbubbles, and was awarded a Royal Society Brian Mercer Innovation Feasibility Award.

Research and career 
Stride was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering lectureship at University College London, where she explored ultrasound for drug delivery. Microbubbles in the bloodstream created a strong ultrasound echo, which allows doctors to trace where the blood is flowing. Whilst at University College London she collaborated with the Wellcome Collection. She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Challenging Engineering Award in 2011. That year she joined the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering in 2011. She is a Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford. The award allowed her to develop new agents for targeted drug delivery, which allowed clinicians more control in transporting and releasing medical therapeutics. Stride encapsulates deactivated drugs in 'carriers' which can be navigated around the body to a target. She also explored how her novel agents interacted with cells and tissue. Her research could be used to deliver chemotherapy. She has several patents for the creation and imaging of microbubbles. She created the spin-out company AtoCap. AtoCap focussed on the treatment of chronic infections.

Stride was appointed full Professor in 2014. By using custom-designed magnetic arrays, the Stride group have managed to trap particles in tissue several centimetres deep. She demonstrated that it is possible to load oxygen into microbubbles to improve Sonodynamic therapy. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Public engagement and diversity 
In 2016 Stride was named one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4. She features on a number of YouTube videos with the Royal Institution. She created a revision series with BBC bitesize.

Awards 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Stride was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to engineering.

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Living people
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Biomedical engineers
British women engineers
Alumni of University College London
Fellows of St Catherine's College, Oxford
21st-century women engineers
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
V-cableway. The V-cableway is a gondola cableway with a shared base station at Grindelwald; it has one route to  Männlichen and another to Eigergletscher railway station. It was built by Jungfraubahn AG.

Project
The project had two aims. Firstly it was to replace the Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway, which dated from 1978, with a larger capacity gondola service which would reduce journey times to Männlichen by 12 minutes. Secondly it was to reduce the travel time to Jungfraujoch via direct connection–the Eiger Express–from a new station on the Berner Oberland Bahn at Rothenegg to Eigergletscher railway station.

Construction started in the summer of 2018, and the CHF 400m project was completed in 2020.

Completed projects
 Grindelwald Terminal new station
 Eiger Express
 Männlichen
 Eigergletscher Station expansion

References

Bernese Oberland
Gondola lifts in Switzerland
Grindelwald
Transport in the canton of Bern
Proposed transport infrastructure in Switzerland
Javier Jiménez Espriú. Javier Jiménez Espriú (born 31 July 1937) is a Mexican academic and former Secretary of Communications and Transportation of Mexico. He is the former head of the engineering school at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was Under Secretary of Communications and Technological Development of the Secretariat of Communications and Transport when Miguel de la Madrid was president (1982-1988). Additionally, he was the CEO of Mexicana de Aviación, what was once one of the largest Mexican airlines, from 1994 to 1995.1

He was appointed the Secretary of Communications and Transportation by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in December 2018.

During his term, Espriú has been heavily involved in the controversial decision by President López Obrador to cancel the construction of the new Mexico City Texcoco Airport. He alleges the decision to cancel construction was because of financial constraints and not because of corruption, as López Obrador alleges.

References

1937 births
Living people
Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Secretaries of communications and transportation of Mexico
Cabinet of Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Haima M6. The Haima M6 is a compact sedan produced in China since 2013 under the Haima brand replacing the Haima 3 or Haima Family compact cars.

Overview 
The Haima M6 debuted on the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show in April 2013 as a pre-production model with the official market launch in April 2015. The Haima M6  front is suspected to be similar in design as the Opel Insignia A / Mk I(G09).

The Haima M6 is powered by the same engine unit as the Haima M5, which is 1.5-litre turbo inline-four engine producing 163 hp and 220 nm, mated to a six-speed manual transmission or a CVT.

2016 facelift
A minor facelift was launched shortly after in 2016 with the pricing of the Haima M6 ranging from 69,800 yuan to 102,800 yuan.

References

External links 

 Haima official website
 Haima series website 

Haima vehicles
Compact cars
Sedans
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2013
Cars of China
Silylidyne. Silylidyne is a chemical substance occurring as a molecule found in stars and probably existing in interstellar space, or as a monolayer on the surface of solid silicon. The SiH molecule is a radical, and can be made experimentally by striking an electric arc to silicon on a low pressure hydrogen gas.

Surface
As a surface layer, silicon hydrides form when the silicon is cleaned with hydrofluoric acid. These hydrides decompose to SiH when heated to 750 K. Other ways to coat a silicon surface in hydrogen is via reaction with atomic hydrogen, or hot silane. A (111) crystal face will become covered in the pure monohydride, but other faces on a silicon crystal will also have the dihydride and trihydride groups.

Group
The silylidyne group, not to be confused with silylidyne, is a ≡SiH group that is bonded with a triple bond. The hydrogen can be substituted by other groups to make a more generic family of silylidynes. It is known as a ligand on molybdenum.

Natural occurrence
Silylidyne in space was first noticed in sun spots in 1933. Later on it was found on the solar disk, photosphere, and in cool stars. Mira variable stars of type M or S may have emission lines of SiH. In even cooler brown dwarfs and planets, SiH is not found, but instead silicon takes form as silicon monoxide at low pressures, and SiH4 at high pressures. Minute amounts of SiH as a transient species may be found in these bodies as SiO and SiH4 react with water.

Properties
The Si-H bond strength is 80 kcal/mol.

Spectrum
The most prominent spectral band is due to A2Δ → X2Π transitions. Higher level excited states are the B2Σ− and C2Σ+, D2Δ, E2Σ+.

The life time of the molecules in the A state is 530 nanoseconds. They decay to the X ground state.

References

Silanes
Neil McArthur (businessman). Neil McArthur (born 1956/1957) is a British businessman, the founder of Opal Telecom, former MD of TalkTalk Technology, and now head of group innovation for TalkTalk.

Early life
McArthur was born and grew up in Carr Road, Irlam, the son of a steel worker at the former Irlam Steel Works, and a librarian.

McArthur earned a degree in engineering from the University of Essex. He is a fellow of the Institutes of Engineering and Technology and a fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Career
McArthur began his career as an engineering apprentice at British Nuclear Fuels in 1972, later earning a BSc in Computer and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Essex. In 1981, McArthur co-founded Thurnall PLC, an engineering business focused on control systems for various industries. As the nuclear industry declined in the mid-1990s, he pivoted the company's focus.

McArthur's most significant impact came in the telecom sector. He founded Opal Telecom in the 1980s and was its CEO. In 2002, he led Opal's merger with Carphone Warehouse to create TalkTalk, where he ran the technology division for eight years.

In 2018, McArthur became CEO of FibreNation, a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) startup backed by TalkTalk. Under his leadership, FibreNation was acquired by CityFibre in March 2020 for £200 million.

Honours and appointments
In 1992, he was awarded an MBE for his services to engineering. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex.

McArthur is a member of the advisory board of the University of Essex Business School, chairman and a trustee of the Hamilton Davies Trust charity and chairman of the Manchester Tech Trust. He is also a member of the University of Manchester's board of governors. In 2024, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

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Living people
1950s births
British company founders
Alumni of the University of Essex
TalkTalk Group people
People from Salford
Dana Skelley. Danielle Skelley OBE MBA BEng CEng MICE FCIHT, known as Dana, is Managing Director of Grain of Sand Consulting Ltd. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business she was Director of Strategy and Operational Excellence at Skanska. She is a Council Member of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation. She was Director of Asset Management at Transport for London.

Early life and education 
Skelley was born and raised in London. She studied civil engineering at Kingston University, graduating in 1987. She was the only woman in her class of 150 civil engineers.

Career 
Skelley is a Chartered Civil Engineer. She became chartered whilst working on the refurbishment of heritage bridges. She became more interested in the business side of engineering, and completed a Master of Business Administration at the University of Bradford. She was appointed as Head of Consultancy Services at Wandsworth Council in 1989. She joined Transport for London in 2000 as Principal Engineer for the City of London. In 2006 she was promoted to Chief Engineer and became Head of the London-wide Road Network. That year she was named Surveyor and Institution of Civil Engineers Municipals Engineer of the Year. Skelley was made Director of Roads in 2008 and led a team of 500 engineers. At Transport for London, Skelley was responsible for a £4 bn road modernisation plan, which included preparing the capital for the 2012 Summer Olympics, almost all of the Thames crossings and strengthening the Hammersmith flyover. She led a team of 500 engineers. She worked with FM Conway and Arizona Chemical to create environmentally friendly roads for London. She partnered with Costain Group to refurbish the A40 road. Skelley was a judge at the 2012 Institution of Engineering and Technology Young Woman Engineer of the Year award.

Skelley is a champion for making efforts to engage young people with engineering. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 New Year Honours, "For services to Transport in the UK". She was included in the inaugural Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering in 2016. In July 2017 Skelley joined Skanska. In 2017 Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation announced that Skelley had been appointed to the board of trustees. She appeared on their podcast celebrating International Women in Engineering Day. She gave the Worshipful Company of Paviors annual lecture at Imperial College London in 2017.

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Transport for London
Engineers from London
Alumni of Kingston University
British civil engineers
Alumni of the University of Bradford
British women engineers
Uskside Foundry. Uskside Foundry in Newport, Wales was the home of Uskside Engineering, or Uskside Engineering and Rivet Co. Ltd.

Gwent Archives holds records for the company from 1889 to 1974.

In 1889 Uskside Engineering & Rivet Co. Ltd. supplied the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company of the United States of America with "Stevens Improved Patent Fuel Presses", also known as Stevens underground engines.

John Hughes worked at the Uskside Foundry in the 1840s before going on to found his own business and eventually the New Russia Company Ltd, and thus Donetsk.

Notes

Foundries in the United Kingdom
UAV FAP. The UAV FAP is an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by CIDEP of the Peruvian Air Force. It primarily serves military reconnaissance and disaster response purposes.

History
In 1993, the Project Research and Investigation Center (CIDEP) of the Peruvian Air Force was established to create a simulation system for the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly. The technology used to develop the simulations was eventually adapted over the turn of the 20th century toward UAV development.

On 13 March 2008, a prototype of the UAV FAP was introduced to the public. In 2010, the first UAV flights occurred.

Uses
The UAV FAP serves primarily for military reconnaissance and intelligence purposes. Some UAV FAP variants are solely used for training purposes. The UAV FAP can also be used during disaster situations to survey areas from above.

Variants
UAV FAP Mk1
UAV FAP Mk2
UAV FAP Mk3
UAV FAP Mk4 "Quinde"
UAV FAP Mk5 "Ricuk"
UAV FAP Mk6 "Amaru"

References

Airborne military robots
Unmanned aerial vehicles of Peru
Yves Moreau. Yves Moreau is a Professor of Engineering at KU Leuven. Moreau was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.

References

Living people
Belgian bioinformaticians
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
Victor Peng. Victor Peng (; born 1960) is a Taiwanese-American technology executive and the president of Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD. He was the CEO of Xilinx, an American technology company that supplies programmable logic devices before it was acquired by AMD.

Career 
Peng began his engineering career at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1982. Then, from 1996 to 2008, he held several executive positions successively at Silicon Graphics, MIPS Technologies, Tzero Technologies, ATI and later AMD. He joined Xilinx in January 2008 and returned to AMD in 2022.

From 1998 to 2004, Peng led the development of graphics processing units (GPUs) and multimedia products at MIPS Technologies. He joined ATI in 2005 before it was acquired by AMD. Then, he was corporate vice president of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering at AMD. He also led AMD's central silicon engineering team supporting graphics, console game products, CPU chipset and consumer business units. Peng was also corporate vice president of the graphics products group (GPG) silicon engineering at AMD until 2008.

Peng successively held several C-level executive positions at the Programmable Products Group at Xilinx. He was responsible for the development and delivery of Xilinx programmable platforms including silicon and enabling technologies. He led the Programmable Platforms Development from November 2008 until April 2012. The following year, Peng was the company senior vice president of programmable platforms group. From July 2014 to April 2017, Peng was senior vice president and general manager of products at Xilinx, Inc. He was chief operating officer at Xilinx from April 2017 and was appointed member of the board of directors in October of the same year. On January 29, 2018, he was appointed the fourth company CEO and succeeded Moshe Gavrielov as part of an official succession plan. In February of 2022, Peng rejoined AMD as president, Adaptable and Embedded Computing Group with AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx. On July 22, 2024 AMD announced that Peng will retire from president position on August 30, 2024.

Peng received a Bachelor of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. He holds four U.S. patents about engineering apparatus and methods from his work at Act-Rx Technology Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation.

References

External links 
 Official page
 Victor Peng Biography

21st-century American businesspeople
American people of Taiwanese descent
American chief executives of manufacturing companies
1960 births
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Cornell University alumni
American technology chief executives
Chief executives in the manufacturing industry
AMD people
Businesspeople from Taipei
Old Growth (New/Now). Old Growth (New/Now) is a large scale exterior public art installation by architect and artist Alison Wright. It is located opposite to the Culver City Metro Station.

Electric poles and cross arms support 56 pieces of glass. Historic images from the archives of Southern California Edison and the Culver City Historical Society are placed on one side of the glass. The glass panels on the other side form a Douglas Fir tree, a type of tree that wood utility poles originated from. Unlike typical utility poles, these 40’ tall poles are not connected by power lines.  The glass panels are backlit by solar energy via solar panels.

References

Further reading

American contemporary art
Outdoor sculptures in California
2017 sculptures
Art in California
Art in Greater Los Angeles
Culture of Los Angeles
Installation art works
Buildings and structures in Culver City, California
Scroggs The Last Laugh. The Last Laugh was a prototype tailless dart-shaped aircraft built in 1929 by Roy Scroggs in the US. Designed as a lifting body, it was based on an earlier 1917 delta-winged patent.

It underwent flight testing but the design was not developed further.

Origin
Roy Scroggs was a tailor living in Eugene, Oregon, US. He sought to develop an airplane that would bring safety, economy and STOL performance to everyday flying, and patented his first low-aspect-ratio delta design in 1917.

His unconventional ideas were rejected by aeronautical experts and he received much ridicule for his persistence. When he finally built a full-size machine in 1929, his chosen name, The Last Laugh, reflected his faith in his invention. The Handley Page HP.115 of 1961, designed to test the Concorde wing plan at low speeds, had a very similar Delta leading edge angle of swept.

Design
Shaped like a long, narrow delta with the nose cut off, the aircraft was conceived as a lifting body, having a deep trapezoidal kite-section fuselage which tapered in proportion to the high-mounted, low aspect ratio wing. The fuselage thus formed a deep keel which provided both lift and directional stability. The original delta-winged design of 1917 proved impractical and the nose had to be drastically cut back to provide adequate mounting for an engine and propeller.

The structure was primarily of welded metal tubing with fabric covering. Twin main undercarriage wheels were located on struts immediately behind the engine, lifting the forward fuselage well clear of the ground. With the wings level the rear fuselage almost reached the ground and was fitted with a small tailskid.

The aircraft was powered by a 90 hp Curtiss OX-5 engine driving a two-bladed propeller.

The enclosed cockpit was located well aft in the wider part of the fuselage and initially had only two small side windows for vision. These were much increased in size before flight testing began. Aft of it the fuselage tapered more sharply to an angular tail with no separate fin. 

A split rudder was fitted for lateral control, with each half attached to the fuselage at its widest and deepest point. Elevon control surfaces were also fitted on the wing trailing edge.

Modifications during flight testing included the addition of twin rudder surfaces, mounted aft of the fuselage on short struts.

Career
The Last Laugh was registered in the US as NC10648. 

It is claimed to have risen to about 10 ft (3 m) in flight.

Following initial flight tests he filed for a new patent on its design in July 1930.

The machine was damaged during attempted flight trials at Eugene Municipal Airport when it missed the  taxiway and tipped over.

Its registration was cancelled in 1934.

Specifications

References

Notes

Bibliography
 "Revolutionary Type of Aircraft Constructed by Roy Scroggs, Local Man", Eugene Guard, 28 August 1929, p.12. (Pay download)

Lifting bodies
Homebuilt aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Tailless aircraft
1920s United States experimental aircraft
Aircraft with conventional landing gear
Unflown aircraft
Rational thermodynamics. Rational thermodynamics is a school of thought in statistical thermodynamics developed in the 1960s.
Its introduction is attributed to Clifford Truesdell,  and Walter Noll.
The aim was to develop a mathematical model of thermodynamics that would go beyond the traditional "thermodynamics of irreversible processes" or TIP developed in the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
Truesdell's "flamboyant style"  and "satirical verve" caused controversy between "rational thermodynamics" and proponents of traditional thermodynamics.

References

Clifford A. Truesdell, Rational Thermodynamics: A Course of Lectures on Selected Topics, Springer, (1969, 2nd ed. 1984).
Ingo Müller, Tommaso Ruggeri, Extended Rational Thermodynamics, Springer (1998),  doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-2210-1.

See also
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Thermodynamics
Robert Duffy (programmer). Robert Allen Duffy is an American video game programmer who has been working for id Software since 1999. In 1999, Duffy created the map editor for Quake III Arena. Since 2013, Duffy has been serving as the chief technology officer of id Software.

Credits
Robert Duffy's programming work consists mostly of id Software titles, ports of classics like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D are ported over to their respective platforms by other developers.

References

Living people
1963 births
American video game programmers