omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Andrea Hodge. Andrea Maria Hodge is a Colombian-born materials scientist and academic leader. She is the Department Chair of the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at University of Southern California, and the Arthur B. Freeman Professor and Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. She is a leader in engineered nanomaterials research, with a focus on synthesis of micro- and nanoscale structures and structured grain boundaries.

Early career and education 
Hodge pursued undergraduate studies in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and completed her Ph.D. in 2002 in material science at Northwestern University under the mentorship of Julia Weertman. She worked as a postdoctoral scholar, and then staff scientist, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2002 until 2007.

Research 
Hodge's oversees the Hodge Materials Research Group, and her academic research efforts on nanoporous gold is most well known and cited.

Academic leadership 
Hodge has engaged in a variety of academic advisory appointments and STEM outreach activities. She is on the board of advisors for the mechanical engineering department at the University of California, Riverside, and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. Hodge's is the 2020 recipient of the Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award, which recognizes her efforts towards improving education and educational leadership in materials science and metallurgy.

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Nanotechnologists
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Women chemical engineers
CF-18 Demonstration Team. The CF-18 Demonstration Team was the flight demonstration team of Royal Canadian Air Force's 1 Canadian Air Division. The team flew the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet fighter aircraft at airshows internationally to showcase air combat manoeuvring. The team consisted of a demonstration pilot, three safety pilots, eight technicians (two teams of four, each servicing demonstrations on either the east or west sides of the country), a public affairs officer. The livery design of the team changed every year to highlight new military milestones or ideas. The team's members were selected from all divisions of the RCAF. The team's 2024 demonstration pilot was Captain Caleb "Tango" Robert. 

On November 22nd, 2024, the RCAF stated that the CF-18 Demonstration Team would not be making a return in the following years due to the new air modernization initiative, instead choosing to fly regular CF-18 aircraft at certain airshows in Canada.

References

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Royal Canadian Air Force
The Wonderful World of Chemistry. The Wonderful World of Chemistry is a 1964 industrial musical revue by Michael Brown. Regular performances were a feature of the DuPont Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

The extravaganza of mid 20th century American material optimism extolled the virtues of DuPont products such as nylon, mylar, and corfam, featuring characters such as the Happy Plastic Family. The production was an early example of a multimedia production, as the players interacted with actors in film clips in parts of the show, this requiring split-second timing for the actors to remain in sych with the films.

The 28-minute show, which was presented live 42 times a day by six different casts (with two running simultaneously in separate theaters) also traced the history of chemistry from Ancient Greece forward, and also featured players wearing high-end designer clothes made of DuPont fabrics (designers included Oleg Cassini, Ceil Chapman, and Donald Brooks).

The original production was directed as well as written by Michael Brown, with musical direction by Norman Paris and choreography by Hugh Lambert, Dorothy Love, and Buddy Schwab. Elliot Unger and Elliot produced the films, and animation was done by Ernest Pintoff.

The soundtrack was released by DuPont in 1964 on 7" vinyl, credited to the Norman Paris Quintet & Orchestra with backing vocals by the David Carter Singers.

No revivals are known to have been staged since the original run.

Musical numbers
 "E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company"
 "With Antron And Nylon..."
 "The Happy Plastics Family"
 "We're Gonna Have Shoes"
 "Better Things For Better Living"

References

External links
The Wonderful World of Chemistry at the Hagley Digital Archives

1964 musicals
Sponsored plays and musicals
1964 New York World's Fair
DuPont
Reedmergnerite. Reedmergnerite is a borosilicate mineral named in honor of Frank S. Reed and John L. Mergner. It is approved by the International Mineralogical Association but was first described prior to the association's formation, first published in 1955. Although it is approved, it got grandfathered, meaning the name reedmergnerite is still believed to refer to a valid species. Reedmergnerite has a synthetic potassium analogue.

Properties 
Reedmergnerite is a member of the feldspar group. It grows along bedding laminations as authigenic crystals, as a stubby prismatic to platy crystals. It is wedge-shaped usually, and it may have jagged terminations. Crystals grow in aggregates, and a singular crystal's size can reach up to 10 cm. It is isostructural with low albite. It does not exhibit anisotropy. The mineral has been synthesized using gels. The procedure occurred hydrothermally. The gels that were used in the synthesis contained a 10% weight excess of silicon dioxide. While the pressure and the temperature were constant, the degree of boron and silicon order increased with time, though both lower water content and pressure decrease the rate of ordering. The mineral's ordering behavior occurs to be insensitive to the co-existing fluid's composition.

Environment and mining 
Although it has three type localities, the most important of those is at Joseph Smith No. 1 well in the United States. The associated minerals at the type locality are eitelite, searlesite, crocidolite, leucosphenite and shortite. It happens to occur in dolomitic shale mostly. However, it can also occur in brown dolomitic rock and black oil shale as well.

References

Triclinic minerals
Borosilicates
Tan Jiubin. Tan Jiubin (born 5 March 1955) is a Chinese engineer who is a professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Biography 
Tan was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, on 5 March 1955. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1982, a master's degree in 1987, and a doctor's degree in 1991, all from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Tan taught at his alma mater since 1982, what he was promoted to associate professor in 1991 and to full professor in 1995. In 1996, he became a visiting scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Honours and awards 
 1997 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Third Class)
 1999 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2002 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2005 State Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class)
 2006 State Technological Invention Award (First Class)
 2013 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 2016 State Technological Invention Award (Second Class)
 27 November 2017 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)

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Takachar. Takachar is a limited company based in Boston as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  It is developing torrefaction reactors, which will cook agricultural waste to create biochar or biocoal – a modernised form of charcoal burning.  The target market is India, where traditional methods such as stubble burning create large amounts of smoke and have been a significant cause of air pollution.

The company was formed in 2018 by founders Vidyut Mohan and Kevin Kung. 

Takachar creates a sustainable bottom-up system that reduces pollution while supplying alternatives to fossil fuels, with the added benefit of creating a new revenue stream for farmers. By 2020, the company had converted 3,000 tons of biomass waste that would otherwise have been burned.

In 2021, the company won an Earthshot prize in the "Clean our Air" category, as its process and products are expected to reduce the amount of waste that is burnt in the open air.

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Drying processes
Fuel production
Climate change in India
Minister of State for Industry. The Minister of State for Industry is a mid-level role in the Department for Business and Trade and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero of His Majesty's Government. It has been held by Sarah Jones since 8 July 2024.

Since 2024, the Minister has belonged to two government departments.

Responsibilities 

Responsibilities of the Minister of State for Industry in DBT include:

(DBT Responsibilities)
advanced manufacturing
automotive
aerospace
defence
consumer goods
chemicals and plastics
construction
infrastructure 
maritime and shipbuilding
steel
materials and critical minerals
Industrial Development Advisory Board

(DESNZ Responsibilities)
Office For Clean Energy Jobs
green finance
green jobs and skills
carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS)
carbon leakage
hydrogen
industrial decarbonisation and emissions trading, including fuel switching, business and commercial buildings decarbonisation
energy sector supply chains
green growth sectors
clean energy investments
mineworkers’ pensions

List of Ministers

Minister for the Investment Security Unit

Following the reorganisation of government departments in February 2023 the minister in charge of the Investment Security Unit was moved from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to the Cabinet Office.

The Investment Security Unit is responsible for identifying, addressing and mitigating national security risks to the UK arising when a person gains control of a qualifying asset or qualifying entity as set out in the National Security and Investment Act.

Ministers

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Business and Trade
Department for Business and Trade
Elizabeth A. Holm. Elizabeth A. Holm, Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering, is chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan. Her research focus is computational materials. She worked at Sandia National Laboratories for 20 years before joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 2012. She is a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and Fellow of ASM International. She was the 2013 President of the society. She is internationally known for her theory and modeling work on microstructural response, interfaces, carbon nanotubes, and additive manufacturing.

Education 
Holm received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1987. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a Master of Science in Ceramics in 1989, before returning to the University of Michigan dual Ph.D.s  in materials science and engineering and scientific computing in 1992.

Research and career 
Holm performs research on microstructural evolution in complex polycrystals employing computational materials science tools. She has bridged length scales from molecular dynamics at the atomic scale to Monte Carlo and phase field methods at the mesoscale to finite element at the continuum scale. Her research areas include theory and modeling of microstructural evolution in complex polycrystals, physical and mechanical response of microstructures, and machine learning to predict rare events. She makes novel use of machine vision and machine learning.

Awards and recognition 

 2002 Fellow of ASM International
2013 President of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
2019 Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
 2020 The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society Alexander Scott Distinguished Service Award

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Women materials scientists and engineers
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Fellows of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
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20th-century American women scientists
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21st-century American women scientists
21st-century American academics
Electroimpact. Electroimpact is an aerospace engineering manufacturer founded by Peter Zieve in July 1986 and based in Mukilteo, Washington.

History
Electroimpact was founded by Peter Zieve in July 1986 in Seattle, Washington after he invented low voltage electromagnetic riveting as a doctorate student at the University of Washington. At the time, the company was based on Blakely Street. The first machine was sold to Northrop Grumman, and later the company sold machines to Boeing and Textron Aerostructures. In 1992, Electoimpact moved its headquarters to Mukilteo, Washington, where it is one of the largest employers in the city. The company is a major supplier for Boeing and Airbus. The company operates on five continents and maintains a 100-employee location in the United Kingdom which primarily supports the assembly of Airbus planes.

Controversies
In 2015, Peter Zieve told employees that he would bring a $1,000 check to any wedding he attended, and until 2016, any employee who got married while working at the company received a $1,000 bonus payment, despite a state law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of marriage. Employees are also given bonus payments for births of children.

Electroimpact has also been criticized for its lack of diversity. In June 2016, the United States Department of Labor reported that 94.5% of the company’s 474 engineers were white. Only three percent of engineers at the company are women. Additionally, Peter Zieve has been accused of Islamophobia, harassment, and of fostering a hostile work environment on multiple occasions. In April 2016, Zieve's anti-muslim comments resulted in the Muslim community calling for a boycott of Electroimpact.

In March 2017, Electroimpact was criticized for its refusal to hire Muslims. According to a complaint filed by the Attorney General of Washington, Bob Ferguson, CEO Peter Zieve "asked for a photo of all job applications and then screened out anyone who said they were Muslim or who he believed to be Muslim based on their name, photograph or national origin". In 2016, an employee objected to an anti-Muslim statement sent by Zieve to the company email list and was told to leave the company. Electroimpact agreed to pay a civil rights settlement of $485,000, that Peter Zieve would no longer take part in hiring for non-management positions or review employee complaints, and that the company would not base compensation on marital status.

Awards
 Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance "Aerospace Company of the Year" (2014)

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John Anderson (Scottish engineer). Sir John Anderson FRSE KB (9 December 1814 - 28 July 1886) was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for revolutionising the production of armaments at the Royal Arsenal.

Career

He was born in Woodside, Aberdeen on 9 December 1814 the son of John Anderson (d.1814), an Aberdeen merchant, and his wife, Helen Hosie. His father died just before his birth. He was educated at Brae School in Woodside. He was apprenticed as an engineer at age 14 under his stepfather Irvine Kempt.

In 1842 on the recommendation of David Napier he was given a position as a foreman at Royal Woolwich Arsenal. He rose to the position of Chief Inspector of munitions then in 1856 set up his own factory making shells to supply the Crimean War.

In 1870 St Andrews University awarded him a Doctor of Laws (LLD). He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1878.

In 1871 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His proposer was Thomas Croxen Archer.

He died at St Leonards-on-Sea on 28 July 1886 and was buried in the churchyard of the Kirk of St Nicholas in central Aberdeen.

Family

In 1840 he was married to Eliza Norrie (1815-1893).

Publications

Strength of Materials and Structures (1872)

Awards

1871 - Honorary doctor of laws from the University of St Andrew
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Officer of the Legion of Honour
Commander of the Order of Franz Joseph
1878 - Knight Bachelor
1881 - Freedom of the City of Aberdeen

Legacy

Anderson gave £6,000 for the establishment of a public library in Woodside (now part of Aberdeen).

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1886 deaths
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OPEN100. OPEN100 is a project that claims to provide open-source blueprints to build nuclear power plants. Its stated goal is to reduce the cost and duration of nuclear reactor construction and increase the nuclear power supply 100-fold by 2040 to aid in the decarbonization of the global economy. It was developed by Bret Kugelmass and the Energy Impact Center, a non-profit organization founded by Kugelmass that advocates for clean energy solutions to climate change.

Overview

OPEN100 was first announced in February 2020 by Bret Kugelmass and the Energy Impact Center (EIC). Open-source blueprints for the construction of a nuclear power plant were uploaded to the project's website soon after the announcement. Those blueprints contained designs for a power plant with a 100-megawatt pressurized water reactor. The OPEN100 plans aim to standardize nuclear power plant construction to increase speed and cost-effectiveness, allowing plants to be built in under two years for a cost of $300 million. New plant construction would likely face regulatory hurdles in practice, however.

The EIC developed the plan in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy national laboratories and other entities to help increase nuclear power capacity 100-fold by 2040 in an effort to curb and reverse the effects of climate change. In July 2021, it was announced that Transcorp Energy in Nigeria would begin implementing the OPEN100 model to build the country's first nuclear power plants.

References

External links
Official website
Energy Impact Center

Pressurized water reactors
Small modular reactor
Nuclear power in the United States
Open design
RADCAL. RADCAL (short for RADar CALibration Satellite) was a radar calibration satellite launched and operated by the United States Air Force. It was active from June 1993 until it stopped communicating in May 2013.

Design

Construction 
RADCAL was built by Defense Systems Inc. as United States Air Force Space Test Program payload P92-1. It was built under a one-year contract-to-launch and cost $10 million.

Components 
Payload included two C Band transponders (operating at the same frequency as space-detection radars), a Doppler beacon that transmitted at 150 and 400 MHz, and a pair of modified Trimble Inc. TANS Quadrex Global Positioning System receivers. The receivers were used to determine the satellite's orbit as a reference for calibrating space detection radars. It also carried the Small Satellite Power System Regulator, an experiment testing improved battery charging on solar panel-equipped vehicles.

Mission

Launch 
RADCAL launched into polar orbit at 23:30:00 UTC on 25 June 1993 from Vandenberg Air Force Base's Space Launch Complex 5. The launch vehicle was Scout S217C.

Operation 
RADCAL was used to calibrate ground-based space tracking radars: they would track it and compare their estimated position to its true position. By the end of its operational lifetime, it was one of only two functional radar performance monitoring satellites (along with DMSP F-15) and was actively used by a number of civilian and military organizations. Its GPS receivers were used in experiments to determine its attitude in space. It was the first satellite to use a GPS to determine its attitude. RADCAL was designed to last for three years, but remained operational until May 2013.

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2021 Mekelle airstrikes. On 18 October 2021, the Ethiopian Air Force conducted two airstrikes on the city of Mekelle in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War. 3 children were killed in the strikes.

On 20 October, there were new air strikes targeting inhabited areas of Tigray's capital city. A large enterprise, Mesfin Industrial Engineering, was also targeted.

Airstrikes continued on 21 and 22 October; the latter was nearby Mekelle University main campus, and Mekelle Airport and coincided with the landing time of a UN humanitarian flight. As a consequence, the UN cancelled further humanitarian flights to Mekelle.

Attack 
The first airstrike struck near a cement factory on the outskirts of Mekelle killing 3 children according to a local hospital. The second strike hit the city center near the Planet Hotel damaging the hotel and nearby buildings including Mesfin Industrial Engineering, killing one engineer. Nine people were injured.
Bombs are launched from high altitudes, by fear of the TDF aerial defence and often miss their targets. In case of the humanitarian flight, the aim of organising a bombing raid at that very moment, might have been to induce the aerial defence into error and possibly shoot down the incoming civil aircraft. Fortunately, Mekelle Airport control tower could inform the pilots timely so that the flight returned to Addis Ababa without damage.

Aftermath   
The airstrikes were first denied, then later admitted by the Ethiopian government. The Ethiopian Press Agency said the airstrikes hit media and communications equipment used by Tigrayan forces. Tigrayan spokesman Getachew Reda said the airstrikes were targeting civilians noting that Monday, the day of the attack, is market day in Mekelle and the second airstrike hit a nearby market. Billene Seyoum, spokeswoman for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said. “Civilians and civilian areas were not part of the target.”

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