omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Nyayo Car. Nyayo Car was a project by the Kenyan government to plan and manufacture Kenyan cars. The project was initiated in 1986 when then president Daniel arap Moi asked the University of Nairobi to develop the vehicles.

Five prototypes were made, named Pioneer Nyayo Cars and they attained a speed of 120 km/h. The Nyayo Motor Corporation was established to mass-produce these cars. However, due to lack of funds, the car never entered into production.

The Nyayo Motor Corporation was later renamed Numerical Machining Complex Limited, manufacturing metal parts for various local industries. The car became a synonym for the many white elephants that signified the government of the day.

References

External links 
 African Cars : The Nyayo Pioneer
 Govt To Revive Nyayo Car Project - Mars Group Kenya
 Numerical Machining Complex Ltd

Cars of Kenya
Cars introduced in 1986
Car manufacturers of Kenya
Wireless Power & Communication. Wireless Power & Communication is a company that has developed a patented technology for wireless transmission of power. Transmission of several hundred watts and efficiency of up to 95% makes this technology unique. The technology has been implemented in offshore products used both in hazardous areas and subsea.

WPC was founded by Geir Olav Gyland in 2003 and is based in Kristiansand, Norway. The main focus of WPC is licensing and integration of technology for wireless transmission of power to all kinds of products.

The company was in 2008 nominated by Innovation Norway to Reodorprisen.

In 2010 the TX40 and CX40, Ex approved torched and charger based on inductive charging, was nominated ONS 2010 Innovator.

See also

Inductive charging
Inductive coupling
Near field
Wireless energy transfer

References

External links 
 Wireless Power & Communication
 Reference
 Ifokus
 Innovation Norway

Wireless energy transfer
Electronics companies of Norway
Journal of Applied Polymer Science. The Journal of Applied Polymer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering  polymer science. The journal covers all applications of synthetic and renewably sourced polymers, including batteries and fuel cells, organic electronics, biomedical implants and drug delivery, coatings and packaging. It also covers composites, blends, elastomers, films and membranes, fibers, emulsions and latices, degradation of polymers, block co-polymers, hydrogels, foams, nanostructured polymers, as well as innovative synthesis and processing techniques. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.125.

References

External links

Academic journals established in 1959
Chemistry journals
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology (BMMB) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. The journal was established in June 2002 and is currently edited by Gerhard A. Holzapfel and David Nordsletten. It publishes research articles about theoretical, computational, and experimental studies in the fields of biomedical engineering, biomechanics, and mechanobiology.

Impact factor 
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the 2022 impact factor of BMMB is 3.5

Scope 
The journal focuses on original research articles that investigate mechanical and/or biological phenomena at different levels of biological organization. Its scope includes cellular mechanobiology, interactions with other processes including growth and repair, diagnostic or therapeutic applications, and models of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.

Editors-in-chief 
The current editors-in-chief are Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Graz University of Technology) and David Nordsletten (University of Michigan; King's College London). Past editors-in-chief include: 
 Peter Hunter (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Oxford),
 Larry Taber (Washington University in St. Louis), and 
 Jay D. Humphrey (Yale University).

References

External links 
 

Biomedical engineering journals
Bimonthly journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
English-language journals
Publications with year of establishment missing
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. The Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers theory and practice in all areas of wikt:intelligent systems and robotics. It is published by  Springer Science+Business Media and the editor-in-chief is Kimon P. Valavanis (University of Denver).

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in PsycINFO, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.3. The founding editor-in-chief was Spyros G. Tzafestas, who continued his editorship until his retirement in 2006.

References

External links

Robotics journals
Academic journals established in 1988
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Microsystem Technologies. Microsystem Technologies is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It covers research on electromechanical, materials, design, and manufacturing aspects of microsystems and their components. The editors-in-chief of the journal are B. Michel (Fraunhofer IZM, Berlin, Germany) and B. Bhushan (Ohio State University).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.195.

References

External links 
 

Engineering journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1994
English-language journals
Carolyn Meyers. Carolyn Winstead Meyers is the former president of Jackson State University. Meyers, a native of Newport News, Virginia, earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Howard University. She earned a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Tech in 1979, and a doctorate in chemical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1984. She completed post doctoral work at Harvard University.

Early career
Meyers held the position of steam generator and systems analyst for General Electric. She has also held faculty and administrative positions at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta University Center Corporation, and National Science Foundation.

She served as provost, vice chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, where she was also a tenured professor in the College of Engineering. She was the Associate Dean of Research for the Georgia Tech College of Engineering.

Later career
On February 3, 2006, Meyers was named as President of Norfolk State University, and she assumed her duties on July 1, 2006. As president, Meyers raised more funds than any previous president in the history of the institution, including an anonymous donation of $3.5 million just last year. Additionally, under her leadership, Norfolk conducted more research than at any other time in its history.

On November 3, 2009, Meyers was announced as one of three finalists as the president of Morgan State University. Meyers resigned her position as president of Norfolk effective June 30, 2010.

On November 22, 2010, Meyers was named as the next president of Jackson State University.

Awards and honors
Meyers has been inducted into the Georgia Tech Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni, Sigma Xi honor society, Phi Kappa Phi honor society, and Tau Beta Pi honor society. She is also the recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph A. Teetor Award, and the National Society of Black Engineers' Golden Torch Award.

She was named an ASME Fellow in 1993.

Personal life
Meyers is the parent of three adult children and the grandmother of three.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
Georgia Tech alumni
Harvard University alumni
Howard University alumni
Jackson State University faculty
Presidents of Jackson State University
Presidents of Norfolk State University
People from Newport News, Virginia
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Members of Phi Kappa Phi
RAF 4. The RAF 4 is a British air-cooled, V12 engine developed for aircraft use during World War I. Based on the eight–cylinder RAF 1 it was designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory but produced by the two British companies of Daimler and Siddeley-Deasy. The RAF 5 was a pusher version of the same engine.

Turbocharger
A turbocharged experimental version of the RAF 4, the RAF 4d, was developed using a Rateau exhaust-driven turbocharger. The engine was test-flown in a R.E.8, but the turbocharging experiments were abandoned after the turbine failed on 4 May 1918.

Variants
RAF 4
1914 - Prototype engine, 140 horsepower (104 kW).
RAF 4a
1917 - Main production variant, 150 horsepower (112 kW). 3,608 built.
RAF 4d
1916 - 180 horsepower (134 kW), experimental supercharger installation. 16 built.
RAF 4e 
1917 - 240 horsepower (180 kW), strengthened cylinders and enlarged valves.
RAF 5
1915 - 150 horsepower (112 kW), pusher version with fan-cooling.
RAF 5b
170 horsepower (127 kW), increased bore version of RAF 5.

Applications

RAF 4

Armstrong Whitworth F.K.8
Bristol F.2 Fighter
Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.12
Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7
Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8
Siddeley-Deasy R.T.1
Vickers F.B.14

RAF 5
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.4

Engines on display
A preserved RAF 4a engine is on public display at the Science Museum (London).

Specifications (RAF 4a)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 
 Hare, Paul R. The Royal Aircraft Factory. London: Putnam, 1990. 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

1910s aircraft piston engines
V12 aircraft engines
Smallpeice Trust. The Smallpeice Trust is a British charity that provides programmes to promote engineering careers to young people aged 10 to 18 through residential courses, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) days, STEM clubs and STEM teacher training days.

Cosby Smallpeice (died 1977), a pioneering engineer and inventor of the Smallpeice lathe, founded the trust, following the market flotation of his company Martonair. Dr Smallpeice invested his energy and part of his personal fortune to set up the Trust to ensure that industry could benefit from his proven design and engineering philosophies “Simplicity in design, economy in production”.

The trust is governed by eminent non-executive trustees and members from a range of engineering, industry, educational and professional bodies.

In the academic year ended July 2011, The Smallpeice Trust reached out to 17,495 young people through 35 different subsidised 3 to 5 day residential courses  in a range of engineering disciplines, 1-day in-school STEM days and STEM clubs. The trust has also trained 1,280 teachers to enhance their delivery of STEM in the classroom through its teacher training days.

The trust maintains a strong interface with industry, education and professional bodies that help to support, promote and develop the courses. Through these relationships the trust can provide tailored or specialised courses.

The trust awards most of its annual Arkwright Engineering Scholarships supporting students in A Level or Standard Grade standard/vocational studies at its office in Leamington Spa, England.

References

External links 

Twitter feed/posts
Facebook page

Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Educational foundations based in the United Kingdom
Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Funding bodies in the United Kingdom
Beaver pipe. Beaver pipes are a non-destructive flow devices, a way of controlling beaver activity in an ecosystem. The process of building beaver pipes is quite simple, and often serves as a permanent way to prevent beavers from damming water.

Enzo Creek Nature Sanctuary
Managers of the watershed of the Enzo Creek Nature Sanctuary experienced the all too common problem with beavers: their tenacious desire to dam water. The water level at Enzo Creek Nature Sanctuary had been growing year after year, impacting the fauna in Hunt Marsh, an  wetland which serves as both a waterfowl nesting area and refuge.  Managers physically removed the dams from Enzo Creek, the only outlet to the watershed; however, beavers would quickly work to rebuild them.  Lethal removal of beavers from the marsh was contrary to the mission of the sanctuary, so the non-lethal method of beaver pipes was approved and adopted.

Overview
The construction of these beaver pipes at Enzo Creek Nature Sanctuary was a two-day project for one person and involved the following steps:
 Slowly lower the water level behind the dam. 
 Insert pipes across the notch. 
 Allow beavers to complete the project.

References

External links
 Beaver Damage Control and Management Information
 http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/psicc/leadville/Beaver-Document.pdf

Beavers
Rodents and humans
Wildlife conservation
Hughes Europe. Hughes Europe is an operating and sales organization for Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) with its facilities in Germany, Great Britain and Italy.

These facilities are mainly used to provide Internet access to organizations and other institutions via satellites and traditional terrestrial connections.

Hughes Europe develops, installs, manages and maintains company communications networks. It provides broadband internet access and Managed Network Solutions for companies of all sizes across a broad range of industries, including the automobile, retail, energy (oil and gas), financial services, industrial, information technology, telecommunications and lottery sectors.

Broadband services and solutions
Under the HughesNet name brand, Hughes Europe offers Managed Network Services and Managed Digital Media Solutions. These include:

Terrestrial and satellite-based broadband networks
Hybrid broadband networks
Backup solutions
Broadband internet access
Digital signage
Business IPTV (company communications and interactive employee training)
IP Multicast services for data transmission via satellite

Hughes Europe broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU standards organizations, including IPoS/DVB-2, RSM-A and GMR-1

History 
Hughes Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS).

The firm begun as a 50/50 joint venture between Hughes and Olivetti in 1996 and was referred to as Hughes-Olivetti Telecom. In 1998, Hughes purchased all of Olivetti’s shares and renamed it HOT Telecommunications, which was subsequently rolled into Hughes Europe as a single operating entity in 2003.

HughesNet Broadband Solutions and Services 
HughesNet products and services are sold throughout Europe both directly and via a network of value added resellers.

Management 
Christopher Britton – Managing Director, Hughes Europe

See also 
 Hughes Network Systems
 HughesNet
 SPACEWAY

Notes

External links/References 
 Comsys VSAT report, 10th edition 2007
 Hughes Europe

Howard Hughes
Telecommunications companies of Germany
Honda U3-X. The Honda U3-X is an experimental self-balancing one-wheeled personal transporter shown in 2009.

History

It was unveiled by Honda's CEO on September 24, 2009, and it was announced that it would be shown at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Time magazine called it one of the 50 best inventions of 2009.
In April 2010, Honda engineers did a short demonstration of two of the devices in Times Square, New York City.
In May 2010, Honda representatives demonstrated the U3-X at the Honda Collection Hall in Motegi, Tochigi, Japan

Honda presented the Honda UNI-CUB, a successor to this device at Osaka Motor Show 2013.

Design and operation
Honda developed the U3-X with technology originally developed for ASIMO the bipedal human robot project. Honda states that the "U" stands for unicycle and for universal. It weighs  and travels at , a similar speed to the Toyota Winglet. 
Honda U3-X is a compact experimental device that fits comfortably between the rider's legs, to provide free movement in all directions just as in human walking - forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. It uses Honda Omni-Traction (HOT) drive system to permit it to move in any lateral direction. The system uses multiple small diameter motorised wheels connected inline to form one large diameter wheel. Rotating the large diameter wheel moves the U3-X forward and backward, while rotating the small diameter wheels moves it side-to-side. Combining these movements causes the U3-X to move diagonally.

It has not been announced yet whether the vehicle will be offered for public sale. The price is not announced yet.

Specifications
Honda stated the U3-X key specifications as follows:

 Length 
 Width (stowed) 
 Height (stowed) 
 Weight < 
 Top speed 
 Drive system:  Omni Traction Drive System
 Battery type: Lithium-ion battery
 Operation time:  ≈ 1 hour

See also
Toyota Winglet
Segway PT

References

Further reading

External links

Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Device in NY, indoor and outdoor demonstrations, April 2010.

U3-X
Electric concept cars
Robotics at Honda
One-wheeled balancing robots
Personal transporters
RAF 2. The RAF 2 was a British air-cooled, nine-cylinder radial engine developed for aircraft use just prior to World War I; it was designed and built by the Royal Aircraft Factory.

Applications
Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.8

Specifications (RAF 2)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

Aircraft air-cooled radial piston engines
1910s aircraft piston engines
RAF 3. The RAF 3 is a British liquid-cooled, V-12 engine developed for aircraft use during World War I. Based on the eight–cylinder RAF 1 it was designed by the Royal Aircraft Factory but produced by the two British companies of Armstrong Whitworth and Napier & Son. The RAF 7 was a high compression version of the same engine.

Variants
RAF 3
1914 - Prototype engine, 200 horsepower (150 kW).
RAF 3a
1914 - Main production variant, increased bore, 260 horsepower (194 kW).  29 built by Armstrong Whitworth, 260 built by Napier & Son.
RAF 7
300 horsepower (224 kW) high compression version with high-lift camshafts.

Applications
Airco DH.4
Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.7

Specifications (RAF 3a)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Gunston, Bill. World Encyclopaedia of Aero Engines. Cambridge, England. Patrick Stephens Limited, 1989. 
 Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .

1910s aircraft piston engines
V12 aircraft engines
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company. Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company was an early pioneer in the manufacturing of architectural wrought and cast iron building components.

Historical significance
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company was founded by Eugene Tetzlaff in 1893 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company was originally a blacksmith shop, but later, it became a manufacturer of wrought and cast iron. 

During World War II, Flour City produced aluminum bridge pontoons and aircraft parts. 
In 1945, Henry J. Neils, first president of the Flour City Ornamental Iron Works Company, began production of aluminum boats. The first aluminum boat produced by Flour City subsidiary, Alumacraft, came off the production line in 1946. Hupp Corporation bought Alumacraft from Flour City, in 1960.

Later history
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works, later known as Flour City Architectural Metal Works, continued its production of ornamental and architectural metal products. In the early 1990s, Flour City became a part of Flour City International, Inc., and its headquarters moved from Minnesota to Tennessee.

List of Buildings with Flour City Ornamental Iron
 The Department of Veterans Affairs Building, Washington, DC
 Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL
 John Adams Building, Washington, DC
 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
 Nissen Building, Winston-Salem, NC
 The Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL

List of Buildings with Flour City Architectural Metals, Mpls, MN & Johnson City, TN
 Key Towers, Cleveland, OH
 Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH
 The Palace Hotel, New York, New York
 Warner Bros. Office Building, Los Angeles, CA
 The Vista Hotel (attached to the World Trade Center in New York, New York)
 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 Trump World Tower, Manhattan, NY
 New York Hospital (The FDR Building), New York, NY
 Boston Federal Courthouse, Boston, MA
 320 Park Avenue (Mutual of America), New York, NY
 660 Madison Avenue (Barneys New York), New York, NY
 565 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
 601 Lexington Avenue (Citigroup Center), New York, NY
 US Air/LaGuardia Airport East End Terminal, Queens, NY
 Metrotech "A" (Brooklyn Union Gas Co. - BUGCo), Brooklyn, NY
 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
 Citicorp Court Square, Long Island City, NY
 IBM Complex, Somers, NY
 Allied Bank Tower (First Interstate Bank), Dallas, TX
 Jacob Javits Convention Center (Smoke Wall), New York, NY
 O'Hare Airport (United Airlines Terminal, Chicago, IL
 Equitable Insurance Building, New York, NY
 Society Bank Tower, Cleveland, OH
 Library Square, Los Angeles, CA
 Daniel Moynihan Courthouse, Manhattan Southern District, NY
 Four Seasons Hotel, Brickell Ave, Miami FL

References

External links
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works catalog
The 1935 Flour City Ornamental Iron Works strike 
Photos
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works at the Hennepin County Library
Flour City Ornamental Iron Works at the Minnesota Historical Society 

Manufacturing companies based in Minneapolis
Manufacturing companies established in 1893
1893 establishments in Minnesota
Nanostictis. Nanostictis is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Stictidaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1954 by Danish lichenologist Mogens Skytte Christiansen, with Nanostictis peltigerae assigned as the type species.

Species
Nanostictis caucasica 
Nanostictis christiansenii 
Nanostictis confusa 
Nanostictis heterodermiae 
Nanostictis nephromatis 
Nanostictis peltigerae 
Nanostictis pluriseptata 
Nanostictis pseudocyphellariae 
Nanostictis stictae

References

Ostropales
Ostropales genera
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 1954