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BEAMA. BEAMA, formerly the British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, is a trade association for energy infrastructure companies in the United Kingdom.

History
The organisation was established in 1902 as the National Electrical Manufacturers' Association before changing its name to the British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association in 1911.

The first director was Daniel Nicol Dunlop, also chairman of the first World Power Conference (now the World Energy Council) in 1924.
 
A collection of the organisation's records for the period 1905 to 1986 is held in the Modern Records Centre of the University of Warwick covering the subjects of trolley buses, electric welding, electric railroads, the electric industries, and the training of electrical  engineers.

Activities
BEAMA lobbies on behalf of energy infrastructure companies in the United Kingdom.

Selected publications
 
 The Electrical Industry of Great Britain (1929)

See also
 Hugh Quigley

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1902 establishments in the United Kingdom
Trade associations based in the United Kingdom
Business organisations based in London
Electrical engineering organizations
Clean Energy Institute. The Clean Energy Institute (CEI) is a research institute at the University of Washington. Founded in 2013, the institute maintains several facilities across the university's Seattle campus and supports renewable energy technology research, education, entrepreneurship, and outreach. The institute is under the direction of Daniel T. Schwartz.

History and operations 
The Clean Energy Institute is based in the Molecular Engineering and Sciences building at the University of Washington's Seattle campus. It was founded in 2013 with a $6 million grant from the state of Washington for the purposes of supporting solar power and energy storage research and development. This includes research projects led by the university's own academic labs, private companies, and the government.

The institute's primary research facility is the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds (WCET), which opened in 2017 and was funded by an additional $8 million state grant approved by governor Jay Inslee. Located next to University Village near the main campus, the  facility allows both academic and private sector users to rent lab space, utilize testing equipment, and consult staff for assistance in their research projects. Equipment at the WCET include battery device testers, solar simulators and solar cell testers, a systems integration lab where users can test devices under real-time or simulated power grids to evaluate energy generation and storage strategies, and a roll-to-roll printer which GeekWire described as "one of the most advanced roll-to-roll systems in the world."

The institute also maintains the Research Training Testbed, which is located in the Nanoengineering and Sciences Building on the university's main campus.

Research 
The Clean Energy Institute's main research areas include battery and solar photovoltaic technology as well as grid management. The institute has supported projects relating to perovskites, which have often focused on improving the material properties of thin-film perovskite cells as well as exploring the use of high-throughput manufacturing processes for producing such devices.

Future expansion 
In 2018, the state of Washington allocated $20 million to construct a new  building on the west side of the UW's Seattle campus called the Center for Advanced Materials and Clean Energy Technologies (CAMCET). The CAMCET building will ultimately house the Clean Energy Institute and the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds as well as the Northwest Institute for Materials Physics, Chemistry, and Technology, and it will include lab and office space for research and collaboration. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2020, and the building is expected to open by the year 2023.

References

External links 
 Clean Energy Institute

University of Washington
Energy research institutes
2013 establishments in Washington (state)
Renewable energy in the United States
Research institutes established in 2013
Ted Lismer. Edward Lismer (1883 – 1947) was a British trade unionist and political activist.

Ted was born in Sheffield, the eldest son of Edward Lismer, a draper and his wife Harriett. His brother was Arthur Lismer who became a prominent artist in Canada.

He became a mechanical engineer and in about 1902 joined the Steam Engine Makers' Society.  In 1905, he joined the Independent Labour Party, but he was part of the minority who left in 1911 to join the British Socialist Party, resigning from this group in 1914.  He became increasingly involved in trade unionism, and in 1912 was elected to the executive of the Sheffield Trades and Labour Council.

During World War I, Lismer was elected as the president of the Engineering Trades Amalgamation Committee, which sought to bring together shop stewards from across the engineering trades.  This body was later renamed as the Sheffield Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committee, and he worked closely with J. T. Murphy to establish the movement on a national basis, linking up with the Clyde Workers' Committee and other local organisations to form the Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committees.  In 1917, the Sheffield committee organised a major strike, in protest at the conscription of workers who had volunteered for munitions work in the factories.  The strike spread nationwide, and led to meetings of 20,000 workers in Sheffield alone.

Lismer was a founder of the Sheffield branch of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in 1920, and was also elected as vice chair of the Sheffield trades council.  The following year, he was elected as the organising secretary of the new British Bureau of the Red International of Labour Unions, frequently working from Manchester.  He was removed from this post in 1922, but instead became the organising secretary of the party's Sheffield district, and was placed on the Control Commission of the CPGB.  In 1924, he moved to Manchester, but retained links with Sheffield, and was arrested there during the 1926 UK general strike.

Lismer entered an extramarital relationship, and in response, the CPGB removed him from his posts.  He moved to Chelsea, and became active in the local Labour Party, while remaining broadly supportive of communism, and active in International Class War Prisoners Aid.  He visited the Soviet Union, but otherwise lived in obscurity until his death in 1947.

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1883 births
1947 deaths
Communist Party of Great Britain members
Trade unionists from Sheffield
Henri Vidal (engineer). Henri Vidal (10 February 1924 in Draguignan - 29 November 2007 in Porquerolles) was a French civil engineer, known for the invention, in 1963 of Terre Armée or reinforced earth also known as Mechanically stabilized earth.

Vidal entered the École Polytechnique in 1944 and graduated from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1949. Vidal had the hope of becoming an architect, and so he enrolled at the fine arts school, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris while continuing to work as an engineer in the maintenance department Électricité de France.

After graduating from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1961, he opened an architectural practice the same year, while continuing to work as an engineer at Fougerolles. As an architect, he collaborated with  to design the Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain in Nice., as well as his property at Domaine de la Courtade in Porquerolles, which now houses the Carmignac Foundation.

After five years of establishing the theory for his process and of experiments on scale models, he filed the patent for reinforced earth in 1963.

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French, architect and civil engineer Mr. Henri Vidal, pictured during his press conference

1924 births
2007 deaths
French civil engineers
Yu Pufan. Yu Pufan (; 1923 – 27 June 2019) was a Chinese computer pioneer. He invented the earliest dot matrix printing method for Chinese characters in 1962 and developed then China's fastest computer in 1964, which was used in the explosion of China's first nuclear bomb. He served as Vice President of East China Institute of Computer Technology.

Biography 
Yu was born in 1923 in Ningbo, Zhejiang, Republic of China. He graduated from the Department of Physics of the University of Shanghai in 1945.

In December 1959, Yu developed Type-103, the first vacuum tube computer in Shanghai. In August 1962, he invented the earliest dot matrix printing method for Chinese characters, and was awarded China's first National Invention Award by Mao Zedong and Nie Rongzhen.

In 1964, Yu developed the J-501, then China's fastest vacuum tube computer capable of performing 50,000 calculations per second. It was used in astronomy, meteorology, and especially in the explosion of China's first nuclear bomb in the same year.

Yu was a committee member of the predecessor of the China Computer Federation from 1962 to 1966. He also served as Vice President of East China Institute of Computer Technology.

On 27 June 2019, Yu died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai at the age of 96.

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1923 births
2019 deaths
Scientists from Ningbo
Chinese computer scientists
University of Shanghai alumni
20th-century Chinese inventors
Rock analogs for structural geology. This is a compilation of the properties of different analog materials used to simulate deformational processes in structural geology. Such experiments are often called analog or analogue models. The organization of this page follows the review of rock analog materials in structural geology and tectonics of Reber et al. 2020.

Materials used to simulate upper crustal deformation 

These materials need to exhibit brittle deformation upon failure as well as elastic and viscous deformation before failure.

Materials that simulate upper crustal deformation

Dry granular materials

Materials used to simulate deformation of the lower crust and mantle 

Various fluids are used to simulate deformation of the lower crust and mantle, such as: linear, non-linear, and yield stress fluids.

Materials used to simulate deformation of the middle crust

Composite Model Materials 

Composite materials combine phases with different physical properties. A common composite mixture contains dry granular materials and fluids. These analog materials have been used:

 Sediment transport (Parker et al., 1982) using low viscosity fluids
 Dynamics in the middle crust (Mookerjee et al., 2017; Reber et al., 2014) employing high viscosity fluids  
 Stick-slip dynamics (Higashi and Sumita, 2009; Reber et al., 2014)  
 Strain softening and hardening processes (Panien et al., 2006)

The most commonly used granular materials in composite mixtures are:

 Sand  
 Glass beads  
 Acrylic discs  
  

Common fluids used in composite mixtures are:  
 Carbopol  
 Silicone
 Wax, which can behave as a brittle or viscous material depending on the melting temperature (Mookerjee et al., 2017)

Visco-elasto-plastic model materials 
Visco-elasto-plastic deformation exhibits a combination of elastic, viscous, and plastic deformation at the same time. Various asphalts and bituminous materials demonstrate visco-elasto-plastic deformation but they are rarely as modeling materials (McBirney and Best, 1961).Common modeling materials demonstrating complex rheology are;

 Carbopol (Piau, 2007; Shafiei et al., 2018)
Kaolinite clay (Cooke and van der Elst, 2012)

References 

Structural geology
Earth sciences
Deformation (mechanics)
Wang Qidong. Wang Qidong (; 27 September 1921 – 29 July 2019) was a Chinese materials scientist, educator, and politician. A pioneer in the field of materials science and engineering in China, his research was focused on high-speed steel and hydrogen storage materials. He served as Vice President of Zhejiang University and Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang People's Congress.

Early life and education 
Wang was born on 27 September 1921 in Huangyan, Zhejiang, Republic of China. His father, Wang Jin (王琎; 1888–1966), was a renowned chemist who served as chemistry chair and acting president of Zhejiang University. Wang attended Shanghai High School and experienced Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1937, during which he suffered a life-threatening disease.

After graduating from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Zhejiang University in 1943, he was hired by the university as a faculty member. In 1947, he was awarded a government scholarship to study in the United States. He earned his master's degree from Stanford University in 1948, and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1951, both in mechanical engineering.

Career
After returning to China in 1951, Wang spent his entire career teaching at Zhejiang University. In the 1950s and 1960s, he served as Chair of the Department of Metallurgy and Vice Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 1978, Zhejiang University established China's first Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Wang was appointed its first chair. He concurrently served as Vice President of Zhejiang University from 1978 to 1984. He retired in 2010.

Wang was a pioneer in the field of materials science and engineering in China, with research focuses on high-speed steel and hydrogen storage materials. He published almost 400 research papers, of which 280 are included in the Science Citation Index. He held 18 patents and won multiple national and provincial prizes.

Wang joined the China Democratic League (Minmeng) in 1953. He was a member of the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Central Committee of Minmeng, and served as Chairman of Minmeng's Zhejiang Provincial Committee. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Fifth to Eighth Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress, and a delegate to the 9th National People's Congress.

Personal life
In 1946, Wang married Zhang Sucheng ().

Wang died in Hangzhou on 29 July 2019, at the age of 97.

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1921 births
2019 deaths
Chinese materials scientists
Scientists from Taizhou, Zhejiang
Engineers from Zhejiang
Zhejiang University alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Academic staff of Zhejiang University
Delegates to the 9th National People's Congress
Members of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress
People's Republic of China politicians from Zhejiang
Educators from Taizhou, Zhejiang
People from Huangyan District
Chinese expatriates in the United States
Eleni Stroulia. Eleni Stroulia is a Greek and Canadian computer scientist whose research concerns artificial intelligence, social computing, smart buildings, the internet of things, and software engineering for real-world applications. She is a professor of computing science at the University of Alberta, where she has been a McCalla Professor and the holder of the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management.

Education and career
Stroulia was born in Larissa, and graduated from the University of Patras in 1989. She completed her Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1994.
At the University of Alberta, she helped found Ada's Team, a support group for women and people from other disadvantaged groups among computing students.
She held the NSERC/AITF Industrial Research Chair in Service Systems Management from 2010 to 2016.
She was named one of nine McCalla Professors for 2018–2019.

Research
Her research has included work on algorithms recognizing depression from recordings of people's voices, and the use of virtual reality to assist older people with in-home exercise. She is also associated with the Far-Play project for augmented reality research at the University of Alberta.

References

External links
Service Systems Research Group at the University of Alberta

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
University of Patras alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
People from Larissa
Lars Nielsen (engineer). Lars Nielsen (born 1955) is a Swedish engineer.

Nielsen pursued graduate study at Lund University, where he completed a master's degree in engineering physics in 1979, followed by a doctorate in automatic control six years later. He has taught at Linköping University since 1992, where he was appointed Sten Gustafsson chair in vehicular systems. Nielsen was the 2013 recipient of the Håkan Frisinger Award, a prize of the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.

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1955 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish engineers
21st-century Swedish engineers
Lund University alumni
Academic staff of Linköping University
Engineering academics
Pare Keiha. Pare Areta Keiha  is a New Zealand academic whose research is in the areas of Māori development, corporate governance, competition law and policy, and intellectual property law. He is Māori, of Whānau-a-Taupara / Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki and Rongowhakaata descent, and as of 2019 is a full professor, pro vice-chancellor and dean at the Auckland University of Technology.

Academic career

After a 1988 PhD titled 'Bipolar cells for electrowinning lead from molten lead chloride'  at the University of Auckland, Keiha moved to the Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor.

Keiha is a member of the Trademarks Māori Advisory Committee and Chair of the Patents Māori Advisory Committee 

Keiha is a past-member of the Legal Services Agency Board, and a past trustee of the Te Whanau-A-Taupara Trust. Keiha is on the board of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga

In the 2008 New Year Honours, Keiha was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order, for services to business, education and Māori.

Selected works 
 Zapalska, Alina M., Dallas Brozik, Helen Dabb, and Pare Keiha. "Teaching Maori students business issues: an experiential approach." Education+ Training 44, no. 3 (2002): 138–143.
 Keiha, P. A., and Paul Moon. "The emergence and evolution of Urban Māori Authorities: A response to Māori urbanisation." (2008).
 Keiha, Pare, and Paul Moon. "New Zealand in the mid-1960s: A Nexus of Culture, Economics, and Ethnicity." Te Kaharoa 9, no. 1 (2016).

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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Zealand Māori academics
University of Auckland alumni
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Academic staff of the Auckland University of Technology
Companions of the Queen's Service Order
David R. Kaeli. David R. Kaeli is an American computer scientist and Northeastern University College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been cited over 18,000 times. His research involves the design and performance of high-performance computer systems and software.

Early life 
Kaeli received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Rutgers University. He worked for 12 years at IBM before moving to academia. His is presently a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. He is also an honorary professor at City University of London.

Kaeli presently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization. He has served two terms as the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA).  He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.

Selected research
Kaeli, David R. and Emma, Phillip G. "Branch history table prediction of moving target branches due to subroutine returns" 1991 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 34-42.
Kaeli, David R., et al. Heterogeneous computing with OpenCL 2.0. Morgan Kaufmann, 2015.
Ubal, Rafael, et al. "Multi2Sim: a simulation framework for CPU-GPU computing." 2012 21st International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), IEEE, 2012.
Jang, Byunghyun, et al. "Exploiting memory access patterns to improve memory performance in data-parallel architectures." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 22.1 (2010): 105-118.
Sridharan, Vilas and Kaeli, David R. "Eliminating microarchitectural dependency from architectural vulnerability." 2009 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 117-128.

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21st-century American engineers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Northeastern University faculty
American electrical engineers
Computer engineers
Rutgers University alumni
Syracuse University alumni
IBM employees
Fellows of the IEEE
American computer scientists
Date of birth missing (living people)
Chōsen Railway Class 660. The Class 660 was a class of steam tender locomotives with 2-6-2 wheel arrangement operated by the Chōsen Railway (Chōtetsu) in colonial Korea.

Description
With the completion of the Ryesong River bridge in 1932, the importance of Chōtetsu's Hwanghae Line grew significantly, and by 1935 the company was looking at the possibility - unusual for a narrow-gauge railway - of running limited express trains on the line between Gyeongseong and Haeju. Tests were conducted in 1935 with a Class 630 locomotive, in which it was found that speeds of  could safely be reached (the engine's drivers, with a diameter of , reached a rotational speed of 400 rpm).

As a result of the tests, Chōtetsu ordered a 2-6-2 tender locomotive with a driver diameter of  to pull express trains at  through Hwanghae Province. Designated Class 660, six were built at the end of 1937 by Kisha Seizō (road numbers 660-662, works numbers 1490-1492) and Nippon Sharyō (road numbers 663-665, works numbers 501-503) of Japan.

Postwar
After the Liberation and partition of Korea, these locomotives were divided between the Korean State Railway of North Korea and the Korean National Railroad of South Korea. None are known to survive.

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Locomotives of Korea under Japanese rule
Locomotives of North Korea
Steam locomotives of South Korea
Railway locomotives introduced in 1937
2-6-2 locomotives
Kisha Seizo locomotives
Nippon Sharyo locomotives
Narrow gauge steam locomotives of Korea
Chōsen Railway