omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Matthias Kleiner. Matthias Kleiner (born 24 May 1955) is a German engineer and professor for forming technology at Technical University Dortmund. He served as president of the Leibniz Association from 2014 to 2022 and as president of the German Research Foundation from 2007 to 2012, where he played an instrumental role in a number of international and interdisciplinary research projects. Kleiner currently serves as advisor to industrial companies such as on the board of advisors of Siepmann. He is the recipient of a Leibniz Prize.

Early life and education 
Kleiner was born on 24 May 1955 in Dortmund, Germany. He completed his Abitur in 1974 at Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium and studied mechanical engineering at Technical University Dortmund from 1974 to 1982. Until 1987, he worked as scientific assistant, at the institute for forming technology while completing his PhD.

Career 
Between 1994 and 1998, Kleiner served as C4-professor at the newly founded Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus and was also a member of the founding rectorate. Since 1998, he works as professor for forming technology at the Technical University Dortmund and since 2004 as head of the Institute for Forming Technology. Between 2000 and 2002, he was the dean at the mechanical engineering faculty.

From July 2005 to December 2006, Kleiner served as vice-chair and from January 2007 to December 2012 as chair (president) of the German Research Foundation succeeding Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker. In July 2014 he succeeded Karl Ulrich Mayer as president of the Leibniz Association. In 2022, he resigned and Martina Brockmeier took-over his position. Kleiner is a member in various academic and scientific organizations which include; acatech, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2006) and Academia Europea. Since 2015, he serves as an executive director of the university board of Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main.

He is also a member of several advisory boards such as Siepmann or the Werner Siemens Foundation.

Personal life 
Kleiner is married to pastor Christine Burkhardt Kleiner and has five children.

Literature

Author 

 Dynamisches Beulverhalten neuartiger Feinblechwerkstoffe, EFB Hannover, 1998 (in German)
 Der Einsatz von Mehrprofessor-Steuerungen in der Umformtechnik am Beispiel des Walzrundens, VDI Publishers, Düsseldorf, 1987 ( (dissertation) (in German)

Publisher 

 Flexible manufacture of lightweight frame structures; Trans Tech, Zürich 2006 (), co-authors; Jürgen Fleischer, Marco Schickorra and Michael Zäh
 Umformtechnik: Ideen, Konzepte, Entwicklungen; Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag für Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eberhard von Finckenstein, Teubner Publishers, Stuttgart, 1992 () (in German)

Awards 

 Leibniz Prize (1997)
 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010)
 Honorary Doctorate of Leuphana University of Lüneburg (2021)

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Living people
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Why Women Don't Code. "Why Women Don't Code" is an essay by University of Washington computer science lecturer Stuart Reges, published in Quillette in June, 2018. The essay, addressing gender disparity in computing, became "one of the most read" items posted in Quillette in 2018 after a link to it was tweeted by Jordan Peterson.

Reactions and analysis
A response by professor Barbara Oakley was printed in The Wall Street Journal. A response by professor Mark Guzdial was published on the Communications of the ACM blog. A response to the essay written by professor Anna Karlin was posted in Medium and reprinted by the Computing Research Association. The essay was listed by Politico among other "'dangerous' ideas" that made Quillette "the voice of the intellectual dark web". 

In 2021, an Associated Students of the University of Washington senator cited the existence of the essay in putting forward a demand that students be able to convene a jury to remove university teaching staff if the jury finds material they publish discriminatory. The senator said Reges violated conduct codes by citing "research on universal sex differences" in the essay, and expressing the conclusion "that systematic oppression is not the cause of the tech field's boy's club mentality".

The essay was assigned reading in a 2023 University of Notre Dame course "Ethical and Professional Issues", and recommended reading for a 2022 UC Davis course "Ethics in an Age of Technology".

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 (originally published in Medium Aug 15, 2018)

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Oswald Longstaff Prowde. Oswald Longstaff Prowde (1882 - 5 November 1949) was an English civil engineer, particularly associated with irrigation projects, dams and other water-related projects.

Early life and education
Prowde was born in Melsonby in Yorkshire, the eldest son of Dr Edwin Longstaff Prowde, originally from Sunderland. He was educated at Pocklington School and in 1901 went to St John's College, Cambridge. He studied mechanical sciences under Sir Alfred Ewing, graduating with honours in 1904.

Career
In 1905, he travelled to Egypt to work with the Cairo-based Government Irrigation Service as Surveyor of Contracts in Gharbia. He later became involved in using water for hydroelectric power generation, taking charge of the first heightening of the Aswan Low Dam. He was also resident engineer on the Gezira irrigation scheme, which included the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile (he was awarded the Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1927 for his paper on this project). Prowde worked with Sir Murdoch MacDonald (an advisor to the country's Ministry of Public Works) on the development of the Aswan scheme and in 1927 became a partner in MacDonald's firm, Sir M MacDonald & Partners. He was engaged in the second heightening of the Aswan Dam, which continued through to 1933.

Later projects included work on land reclamation projects in Greece and Spain, the Brora hydroelectric projects in Scotland, and the River Great Ouse Flood Protection works and Whitehaven Harbour - both in England.

He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1926 Birthday Honours, and also received the Egyptian Orders of Ismail, the Nile and Medjidieh.

He died in a London nursing home on Saturday 5 November 1949, and was buried in St Mary Magdalene's churchyard in Faceby, a few miles from his Yorkshire birthplace.

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1882 births
People educated at Pocklington School
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
English civil engineers
1949 deaths
Nuria Llombart. Nuria Llombart Juan is an electrical engineer who studies quasioptics, antennas for terahertz radiation, and their applications including 3D imaging and submillimeter astronomy. Educated in Spain and Germany, she works in the Netherlands as a professor in the Department of Microelectronics at the Delft University of Technology.

Education and career
Llombart earned a master's degree in 2002 and a Ph.D. in 2006 from the Technical University of Valencia, including study as a visiting student at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.

During her doctoral studies, she worked in the Security and Safety Institute of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in The Hague. After postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology from 2007 until 2010, and as a Ramón y Cajal fellow in optics at the Complutense University of Madrid from 2010 until 2012, she returned to the Netherlands in 2012, taking a position at the Technical University of Delft. She became a full professor there in 2018.

Recognition
Llombart was the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society Lot Shafai Mid-Career Distinguished Achievement Award, "for her original contributions to terahertz antennas and quasi-optical systems, academic leadership, and proven role model for women in antenna engineering". She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to millimeter and submillimeter wave quasi-optical antennas".

References

External links
Terahertz Sensing group, TU Delft

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Women electrical engineers
Technical University of Valencia alumni
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RAIC Labs. RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Delafield, Wisconsin.

History 

RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, was founded in 2019 by Corey Jasksolski, a National Geographic explorer and fellow. After creating a 3D digitization of a living Sumatran Rhino using a custom imaging system he built, Jaskolski wondered whether synthetic data could be used to train AI. While RAIC Labs doesn't sell synthetic data, its software uses generative capabilities associated with synthetic data.

In 2021, RAIC Labs developed Rapid Automatic Image Categorization, or RAIC, a computer vision software which performs classification and detection on photography, video, and satellite imagery without data labeling. 

RAIC is notable for its use of human collaboration with an unsupervised AI model, which allows for iteration upon the algorithm in real-time. RAIC has been described as "ChatGPT for satellite imagery," since it uses transformers to understand imagery in a way somewhat similar to how ChatGPT understands human language.

In May 2023, satellite imaging company Planet Labs announced an official partnership with RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, through which they would sell RAIC insights for defined areas of interest within Planet data.

RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft in August 2023. Elements of the partnership included selection for Microsoft's Pegasus Program and access to one million hours of GPU cloud computing via Microsoft Azure.

2023 Tracking the Chinese balloon 

On 11 February 2023, RAIC Labs, formerly Synthetaic, used its RAIC product to detect a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon in archival Planet Labs data. RAIC's demonstrated ability to quickly analyze Earth observation imagery at scale was deemed novel and a potential "game-changer" by experts including Arthur Holland Michel and Hamed Alemohammad.

RAIC Labs / Synthetaic's work tracking the balloon formed the basis for a New York Times visual investigation, which credited RAIC for providing the precise coordinates of the balloon at twelve different points during its journey.

Balloons over East Asia

Later that year, BBC news magazine program  Panorama reported additional Chinese surveillance balloons detected over Japan and Taiwan. Security correspondent Gordon Corera cited Synthetaic's RAIC as a tool in their investigation and interviewed Jaskolski.

2023 Mapping the Israel–Hamas war 

RAIC Labs worked closely with CNN to provide detections of craters in geospatial data to map the war. Working with the American and International teams, RAIC was able to detect more than 500 impact craters over 123 meters in diameter, for their report: ‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows

Funding 
In February 2024, Synthetaic raised $15 million in Series B funding.

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American companies established in 2019
Artificial intelligence companies
Computer vision software
Software companies based in Wisconsin
Software companies established in 2019
Technology companies of the United States
Patricia J. Culligan. Patricia J. Culligan is the Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and a professor of Civil Engineering. She is a former Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, and also served on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She specializes in Geo-environmental Engineering, with an emphasis on water management and resources. Her most recent work is focused on issues related to urban sustainability.

Academic career and research 
In 1994, Culligan started as an assistant professor in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. In 2003, she joined the faculty of Columbia University's Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, first as an associate professor, then promoted to full professor in 2005. At Columbia, Culligan served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs for the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, was the inaugural associate director of Columbia University's Data Science Institute, and also served as the Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Culligan was also a faculty member of Columbia University's Earth Institute. In January 2020, Culligan was appointed dean of Notre Dame College of Engineering.

Culligan has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals and conferences, as well as multiple books, book-chapters and other technical articles. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and is a Fellow of the British Institute of Civil Engineers. She is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng) with the UK Engineering Council. In 2021, she was awarded the H. Bolton Seed Medal for expanding the boundaries of geo-environmental and sustainability engineering.

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Columbia University faculty
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Renault Rafale. The Renault Rafale is a mid-size crossover SUV that has been produced by the French manufacturer Renault as a coupe SUV since 2024. Built upon the Renault–Nissan CMF-CD platform, it shares about 75 percent of its parts and design features with the SUV Espace and Austral models.

Codenamed 'DHN', the vehicle is the second coupe SUV produced by the brand after the Arkana compact crossover. In Renault's lineup, the vehicle is positioned between the Arkana and the slightly larger Espace VI.

The Rafale is named after the C.460 Rafale monoplane introduced in 1934 by the Caudron-Renault aviation company, although the name was also used more recently on the Dassault Rafale fighter jet.

Overview 
The vehicle is  long, meaning it belongs to the British D-segment size segmentation, and has full hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains.

The Rafale received a new plug-in hybrid powertrain with  and all-wheel drive by installing an electric motor at the rear. Despite being smaller than the Espace, the Rafale is still considered the flagship for the brand. The Renault Rafale E-Tech full hybrid version has an autonomy of 1,100 km with a full tank of petrol, according to WLTP data.

Powertrain 
Available in both full-hybrid and plug-in hybrid options, the full-hybrid model includes an engine and one traction motor at the front axle  for a FWD layout (combined output of ). An additional electric motor run only as a generator produces . 

The PHEV model adds an electric rear axle (100 kW) for an AWD layout. The motors create a combined output of  and .

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Rafale
Cars introduced in 2023
Mid-size sport utility vehicles
Crossover sport utility vehicles
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Hybrid sport utility vehicles
Partial zero-emissions vehicles
Flagship vehicles
Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology. The Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by UPM Press of University of Putra Malaysia. The journal focuses on issues pertaining to science and engineering. The editor-in-chief is Luqman Chuah Abdullah (Universiti of Putra Malaysia).

History
The journal was part of the journal Pertanika, which was established in 1978. In 1993 this journal was split into three more specialized ones: Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, and Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
CAB Abstracts
EBSCO databases
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 0.6.

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English-language journals
Multidisciplinary scientific journals
University of Putra Malaysia
Bimonthly journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals
Pentaoxidane. Pentaoxidane is an inorganic compound of hydrogen and oxygen with the chemical formula . This is one of the most unstable hydrogen polyoxides.

Synthesis
 The compound is prepared as a byproduct of trioxidane production.
  has also been synthesized by reaction among peroxy radicals at low temperature.

References

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Oxides
Polyoxides
Oxoacids
Evangelos Liakos. Evangelos Liakos (born February 11, 1989) is a Greek mechanical engineer, politician, and Member of Parliament for New Democracy.

Biography 
He was born on February 11, 1989, in Athens and grew up and resides in Aspropyrgos, Attica. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens, where he obtained his degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Production Organization and Business Administration. He holds a postgraduate degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business in Applied Economics and Finance. He has worked in the private sector as a business consultant, and he maintains his own Technical Office in Aspropyrgos.

Political career 
During his student years, he was actively involved with DAP-NDFK. In 2016, he founded the Political Academy of ONNED, where he also served as director. In 2015, he participated in the national elections as a New Democracy candidate for the Attica Region. At the age of 29, he was elected Member of Parliament for West Attica with New Democracy in the 2019 elections, being the youngest member of this composition of the Greek Parliament. On July 18, 2019, he was elected Secretary of the Parliament.

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National Technical University of Athens alumni
Living people
Greek engineers
1989 births
People from Aspropyrgos
Greek MPs 2019–2023
Greek MPs 2023–
New Democracy (Greece) politicians
Global Human Settlement Layer. The Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) is a project from the European Commission that creates global geographical data about the evolution of human habitation on Earth.  This in the form of population density maps, built-up maps, and settlement maps. This information is produced using new geographic data mining tools and knowledge and analytics based on empirical data.

The GHSL processing framework uses a range of data, including census data, archives of fine-scale global satellite imagery, and voluntarily provided geographic information. Data is processed automatically to produce analytics and knowledge that methodically and objectively describe the existence of people and developed infrastructure. The GHSL maps human presence on Earth, sourcing information from 1975 and up to 2030.

Background
In 2010–2011, the JRC Directorate E "Space, Security & Migration" developed the initial version of the GHSL concept, which was used to create the Atlases of the Human Planet. The JRC is currently supporting GHSL activities through its scientific working plans and is collaborating with the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) and the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS) to develop a routine and operational monitoring system.

References

External links
Official Website
World Population Density Interactive Map of urban settlements stretching from Washington to Boston
GHSL at developers.google.com

Satellite imagery
Global Human Settlement Layer
Global Human Settlement Layer
European Commission projects
Population ecology
Demography
Data mapping
Shelly Miller. Shelly Lynn Miller is an American mechanical engineer who is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research investigates indoor air quality and urban air pollution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller studied the spread of COVID-19 and how to minimize the spread of coronavirus.

Early life and education 
Miller grew up in Southern California. She has said during her childhood there were days when smog prevented her attending school due to poor air quality.  She studied applied mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, then moved to the University of California, Berkeley for her graduate degrees, where she specialized in civil and environmental engineering. Her doctoral research considered the characterization of indoor air pollutants generated by people inside buildings.

Research and career 
Miller moved to the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was made a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow and she studied air quality in schools and in communities. She used citizen science and monitoring stations to collect data on air quality in various environments, work which was awarded an Environmental Achievement Award from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Her research investigated indoor air quality and urban air pollution. She has studied how filtration and germicidal irradiation impact indoor air quality, and how to optimize the design of such systems to maximize the benefits to human health. She has developed characterization techniques to understand indoor environmental quality inside homes and how heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) impacts the transmission of infectious diseases.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller researched the spread of coronavirus. In particular, she looked to understand ways to reduce transmission with ventilation and filtration. She designed new HVAC systems to reduce airborne transmission. She was awarded the Robert L. Stearns Alumni Award for her leadership during the pandemic. Miller used this experience to call for better indoor air quality. She was awarded the 2022 Distinguished Research Lectureship.

Selected publications

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American mechanical engineers
20th-century American engineers
20th-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American women engineers
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Harvey Mudd College alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Bich-Yen Nguyen. Bich-Yen Nguyen is a Vietnamese electronics engineer specializing in advanced materials and technologies for integrated circuits. Educated in the US, she works in France as a senior fellow for Soitec, working on silicon on insulator technology.

Education and career
Nguyen is the daughter of a South Vietnamese soldier who died when she was young, leaving her family poor. Despite this hardship, her mother continued to send her to a boarding school, and then to the University of Texas at Austin in the US for her university education. While she was there, the Fall of Saigon in 1975 left the rest of her family as refugees, and she helped them resettle in the US. She graduated in 1977, with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.

After working briefly for the city of Austin, Texas, she began working for Motorola in 1980. Her work there included the development of the multiple-independent-gate field-effect transistor (MIGFET), as well as CMOS technology. As head of advanced transistor development activities at 2004 Motorola spinoff Freescale Semiconductor, she participated in the Crolles Alliance, an international collaboration on CMOS that extended from 2002 to 2007. She was hired by Soitec as a substrate design engineer in 2007.

Recognition
Before leaving Motorola, Nguyen was a Motorola Distinguished Innovator and Dan Noble Fellow. She was one of the winners of the 2004 Women of Color Technology Awards. Her work as a vice president of Soitec was highlighted in the 2010 video production Paris by Night 99, honoring successful Vietnamese expatriates worldwide.

She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to silicon on insulator technology".

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Vietnamese engineers
Electronics engineers
Women electrical engineers
University of Texas at Austin alumni
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