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Cheng Fubo. Cheng Fubo (; born September 1970) is a Chinese executive and politician, currently serving as chairman of the China North Industries Group Corporation Limited. He is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

Early life and education 
Cheng was born in Bishan District, Chongqing, in September 1970. In 1988, he enrolled at Nanjing Aeronautical Institute (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), where he majored in industrial management engineering. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1992 in his senior year.

Career 
After graduating in 1992, Cheng was assigned to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Company, where he served in several posts, including intern, dispatcher, deputy sector chief, leader of the Preparation Group for the No.16 Workshop, party secretary and deputy manager of the Civil Aircraft Manufacturing Company, production commander and deputy chief engineer, chairman of trade union, deputy party secretary and deputy general manager, vice chairman, and finally chairman and party secretary.

In January 2018, Cheng was transferred to Shanghai and appointed deputy general manager of the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd.

Cheng got involved in politics in June 2000, when he was named vice governor of Shaanxi. In December 2021, he was admitted to member of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. In January 2022, he became head of the Organization Department of the CCP Shaanxi Provincial Committee, but having held the position for only eleven months.

In December 2022, Cheng assigned to the similar position in the coastal province Guangdong.

On 30 April 2024, Cheng was made chairman of the China North Industries Group Corporation Limited.

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1970 births
Living people
Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumni
Vice-governors of Shaanxi
People's Republic of China politicians from Chongqing
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Chongqing
Delegates to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Yu Baocai. Yu Baocai (; born January 1965) is a Chinese executive who served as president of the China Petrochemical Corporation between 2021 and 2024.

Early life and education 
Yu was born in Ningxiang County (now Ningxiang), Hunan, in January 1965. In 1987, he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology, where he majored in political economics.

Career 
After University in 1987, Yu was assigned to the Daqing Petrochemical Plant. There, he was in turn a technician, an assistant engineer, a deputy director, deputy factory director of the Chemical Fiber Plant, factory director of the Acrylic Factory, and finally deputy general manager and deputy party secretary. 

In September 2003, Yu was transferred to the Lanzhou Petrochemical Company and appointed deputy party secretary and general manager.

Yu was deputy general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation in September 2008 and became a director in May 2011.

Yu was chosen as deputy general manager of the China Petrochemical Corporation in July 2018, and rose to become president in November 2021. His assignment ended in April 2024. He still stayed at the company and serves as a senior vice president.

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Arnold Stancell. Arnold Stancell is an African American chemical engineer and scholar known for his contributions to petrochemical research.

Early life and education
Arnold Stancell was born on November 16, 1936 in Harlem, New York. His parents were Francis Stancell and Maria Lucas. His father was a musician and his mother was a seamstress who raised him as a single parent. Stancell went to Stuyvesant High School and attended City College of New York. In 1958, he earned a B.S. in chemical engineering with the honor of magna cum laude. He became a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and in 1962 became MIT’s first African American Ph.D. graduate in chemical engineering.

Career
In 1962, Stancell secured a position as a researcher at Mobil Oil Company where he worked until 1970. His focus was new plastic and chemical products. His research resulted in receiving eleven patents. Stancell continued his research when he began teaching at MIT and founded a program to study plasma reactions at surfaces. In 1971, Stancell had the opportunity to accept a tenured professorship, but chose to go back to Mobil Oil Company. In 1976, as vice president of Mobil Plastics, he was instrumental in marketing a plastic film alternative to cellophane. Other positions that Stancell held in his career were vice president of the London-based Mobil Europe Marketing and Refining in 1982 and vice president of oil and natural gas Exploration and Production in 1989. After his retirement from Mobil Oil Company in 1993, he began teaching chemical engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1994 and received the title of Turner Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2001. He retired from Georgia Tech in 2004.

Stancell received several acknowledgements which include the Career Achievement Award of City College of New York, the Professional Achievement Award of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Award for Chemical Engineering Practice. He was recognized as Black Engineer of the Year in 1992, and selected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He became a board member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2009. He received an appointment to the Governing Board of the National Research Council in 2010. Stancell collaborated with the US Department of Interior after the 2010 BP oil spill and was appointed to the National Science Board by President Barack Obama in 2011.

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1936 births
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American chemical engineers
People from Harlem
City College of New York alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
African-American engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
21st-century African-American scientists
20th-century African-American scientists
Kelsey Hatzell. Kelsey Hatzell is an American materials scientist who is a professor at Princeton University. Hatzell studies new materials for sustainable technologies, with a focus on next-generation energy storage. She is interested in the nanoscale phenomena responsible for battery failure.

Early life and education 
Hatzell studied economics at Swarthmore College and mechanical engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She moved to Drexel University for her doctoral research, where she studied flowable electrodes for water and energy technologies with Yury Gogotsi. Her research involved electrochemistry, materials and colloidal science to create new electrode structures. She developed carbon-based and manganese oxide materials for scalable solid-state energy storage systems. After graduating, she moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where she developed soft and hard x-ray techniques to understand the properties of polymers.

Research and career 
Hatzell was appointed an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. Hatzell joined Princeton University in 2021. Her research considers new materials for sustainable technologies, with a focus on solid-state and redox flow batteries. She is particularly interested in why batteries fail. She identified that irregularities in electrolytes impacted the movement of ions, which could cause battery failure if the ions all migrated to particular locations. Hatzell has created inorganic membranes for high energy density batteries and grid storage.

Hatzell has developed strategies to minimize the costs of direct air capture systems, which generally require energy-intensive operating protocols to reduce the impact of carbon emissions and remove them from the atmosphere. These systems conventionally rely on heat or pressure changes to release captured carbon dioxide into storage (e.g. solvents heated to high temperatures). Hatzell developed an ion-exchange resin, which efficiently capture carbon dioxide at low humidity and release it at high humidity – without the need for high temperatures.

Awards and honors 

 2015 Drexel Office of Graduate Studies Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
 2020 Sloan Research Fellowship
 2020 Scialog Fellow
 2021 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2021 POLiS Award of Excellence
 2022 NASA Early Career Achievement Medal
 2023 Alfred Rheinstein Faculty Award
 2023 Office of Naval Research Award
 2024 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Selected publications

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Pennsylvania State University alumni
Drexel University alumni

American women scientists
Agnes Muszyńska. Agnieszka Muszyńska (October 10, 1935 – March 20, 2024) was a Polish-American mechanical engineer specializing in rotordynamics and the vibrations of rotating machinery.

Early life in Poland
Muszyńska was born in Warsaw on October 10, 1935. She earned a master's degree from the Warsaw University of Technology in 1960, including two years of study at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and a Ph.D. in 1966. She completed a habilitation in 1977 through the Polish Academy of Sciences.

From 1961 to 1980, Muszyńska worked as an associate professor in the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, including two years in the mid-1970s as a visiting researcher at the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon in France.

Emigration to US and later life
In 1980, she emigrated to the US. After working as a visiting researcher at the University of Dayton in Ohio, she took a position in 1981 as a senior research scientist for the Bently Rotor Dynamics Research Corporation in Minden, Nevada. From 1985 to 1989 she also held a part-time affiliation as an associate professor of engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno.

She continued to work for Bently until 1999, and founded a consulting business, A. M. Consulting, in 2000.

She died on March 20, 2024.

Selected publications

Recognition
Muszyńska received the Gold Cross of Merit of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1975. In 1998 the president of Poland named her a professor of technical sciences, the highest-level academic degree in Poland.

She was named as an ASME Fellow in 1994, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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1935 births
2024 deaths
Polish mechanical engineers
Polish women engineers
American mechanical engineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Warsaw University of Technology alumni
University of Nevada, Reno faculty
People from Warsaw
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2024 Bangladesh heatwave. The 2024 Bangladesh heatwave is a significant climatic event and affecting the South Asian nation of Bangladesh. Characterized by extremely high temperatures that have reached up to 42°C (108 F), 1 6 degrees more than the annual average, the heatwave has led to nationwide school closures, impacting an estimated 33 million children's education. The heatwave, which is sweeping over several northern and southern districts of Bangladesh, is considered one of the most intense since records began in 1948. The event has been  attributed to climate change and linked to other man-made causes, including rapid urbanisation, forest clearance, shrinking water bodies, and increased usage of air conditioning. This heatwave marks the second consecutive year that Bangladesh has been forced to close schools due to extreme heat.

History 
The 2024 Bangladesh heatwave represents a continuation of a disturbing climatic trend in the region. Historical data indicates an increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Bangladesh over the past few decades. The 2023 Asia heat wave, which led to nationwide school closures, was the first of such severity in the country’s recorded history. The current heatwave, surpassing its predecessor in intensity, has further underscored the escalating climate crisis in the region. The repeated occurrence of such extreme weather events has prompted scientists to investigate their correlation with global warming and local environmental changes. The 2024 heatwave, therefore, is not an isolated incident but part of a broader pattern of increasing temperatures and extreme weather events that have been affecting Bangladesh and the larger South Asian region.

School closure 
Ex-Education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, ordered the schools to remain open in the excessive heatwave. Nowfel has faced extreme mixed opinions from all teachers, students and parents. On the other hand, the supreme court of Bangladesh has ordered schools to shut down on Apr 29, 2024 (Monday) until Thursday.

Ending 
During the last weeks of the heatwave, it rained a couple of times and the temperature started to go back to the normal.

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2024 heat waves
2024 in Bangladesh
Laurel Kuxhaus. Laurel Kuxhaus is an American biomechanical engineer whose research focuses on the mechanics of soft and hard tissues in joints such as the elbow and ankle, and the effects of injuries on those joints. She is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering at Clarkson University.

Education and career
Kuxhaus was a double major in engineering mechanics and music as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, where she graduated in 2001. After a 2003 master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, she completed a Ph.D. in bioengineering in 2008 at the University of Pittsburgh. Her doctoral dissertation, Development of a feedback-controlled elbow simulator: design validation and clinical application, was jointly advised by Jeffrey S. Vipperman and Mark Carl Miller.

At Clarkson University, she has directed the Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory since 2009. After a leave from Clarkson to serve as an ASME Congressional Fellow in Bioengineering in the office of congressman Dan Lipinski, and then as a program director at the National Science Foundation from 2019 to 2023, she was promoted to full professor in 2023.

Recognition
Kuxhaus was named as an ASME Fellow by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2017. In 2024 she became a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, "for advancements in musculoskeletal biomechanics, medical device design, technology transfer, education and pedagogy, public policy, and work within government".

References

External links
Faculty profile
Orthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory

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American bioengineers
American women engineers
Women mechanical engineers
Michigan State University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Pittsburgh alumni
Clarkson University faculty
United States National Science Foundation officials
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Galactic 07. Galactic 07 was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which launched on 8 June 2024. It was the final launch of Unity.

It was the seventh commercial spaceflight and twelfth overall spaceflight for American aerospace company Virgin Galactic.

The passengers included Tuva Cihangir Atasever, the second astronaut from Turkey.

Crew 
Galactic 07's crew included four private passengers and two Virgin Galactic employees.

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SpaceShipTwo
Aviation history of the United States
Suborbital human spaceflights
Private space missions
Space tourism
2025 in spaceflight
Silvia Giordano. Silvia Giordano Cremonese is an Italian computer scientist. She works in Switzerland as professor of complex and pervasive networks and head of the Networking Laboratory at SUPSI, the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

Education and career
Giordano earned a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) in 1987, from the University of Pisa in Italy. After working in Pisa for the National Research Council of Italy, she moved to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre in 1991. From 1995 to 1998 she was a doctoral student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. After completing her doctorate, she continued at EPFL as a faculty member from 1999 until 2003, when she moved to her present position at SUPSI. She also chairs the IFIP Working Group 6.3 on the Performance of Communication Systems.

Research
Giordano's early research concerned routing and performance analysis for ad hoc networks, including Body area networks, underwater acoustic communication, and edge computing. A more recent line of research, highlighted in her keynote speech at the 35th International Teletraffic Congress on Networked Systems and Services, involves tracking disinformation on social media, and studies the effectiveness of regulation in safeguarding privacy and preventing disinformation.

Recognition
Giordano has been a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery.

References

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Italian computer scientists
Italian women computer scientists
University of Pisa alumni
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne alumni
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Academic staff of SUPSI
Lifting beam. The lifting beam (also known as traverse, spreader beam) is a steel beam that is attached to the hook of the crane in order to spread the slings from one end of an elongated load (like a wall panel) to another. The bottom of the beam has multiple connection points for hanging the load.

The lifting beams are used in multiple cases:
 lifting an asymmetrical load. Without a beam, it might be hard to strap the load so that its center of gravity is exactly below the hook;
 handling a long load with a single-hook crane. Sufficient spread between the slings prevents the load from slipping out;
 increase the headroom: slings cannot be stretched close to the horizontal direction, so attaching them directly to the hook requires a minimum distance from the hook to the load. When the lifting beam is used, the slings can be shorter, providing more vertical clearance during lifting;
 if the attachments of the load are on its vertical sides, the slings have to go over the edges of the load, which can damage these edges. A lifting beam allows attaching slings to the side lugs without touching the edges;
 the top of the beam can have two attachment points at the ends thus allowing two cranes to share the load.

See also 
 Container spreader

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Lifting equipment
Caterpillar 3116. The Caterpillar 3116 is a turbocharged 6.6L inline 6-cylinder diesel engine manufactured by Caterpillar and first introduced in 1988. was the predecessor to the Caterpillar 3126 in 1998. The Caterpillar 3116 was also used as a marine engine. The 3116 ran up to 330 HP.

Applications
Medium Duty Trucks including the Ford F600-F750, Chevrolet Kodiak/GMC TopKick, Peterbilt and Kenworth medium duty and Freightliner Business Class,
Buses especially school buses, including the Thomas and Blue Bird on  Ford B-Series and Freightliner FS-65 chassis

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Diesel engines
Caterpillar Inc.
Straight-six engines
Internal combustion piston engines
Products introduced in 1988
Inovance. Inovance () is a publicly listed Chinese company that engages in the manufacture and sale of electrical equipment that includes industrial automation control products and robotics.

It is currently the largest industrial automation company in China as well as its second largest domestic producer of industrial robots.  Founded by a group of former Huawei engineers,  the company has been dubbed "Little Huawei" in the industry.

Background 

Inovance was founded in April 2003 by Zhu Xingming and several other engineers from Huawei. When the company was founded, it aimed to compete in the high-end market with foreign companies and never to fall into a price war with domestic companies.

On 28 September 2010, Inovance held its initial public offering and became a listed company on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Afterwards it expanded its product range from single frequency changers to other  industrial control products such as programmable logic controllers and servomechanisms.

Originally servicing the lower end market, the company gradually moved to take market share in the higher end market from European and Japanese incumbents.

According to a report by Deutsche Bank in 2017, Inovance stood to benefit heavily from the Made in China 2025 policy that would increased domestic industrial automation demand. At the time foreign companies still controlled 65% of China's industrial automation market.

In June 2021, Inovance announced it had secured a CNY2.1 billion private placement from twelve investors that included Hillhouse Investment, CITIC Securities, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS and AIA Group. The company planned to use the proceeds from it to acquire the remaining 49 percent stake in subsidiary Inovance Control Technology as well as expanding its output of automation control equipment, and developing smart software. Its stock price rose 7.9% after the announcement.

In January 2024, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology announced it teamed up with Inovance to launch a program to train senior engineers and a technology research institute for robotics.

In April 2024, Zhu stated the company hopes it would be able to challenge larger incumbents such as ABB and Siemens for a place in the top three largest companies in the sector globally within five years. He also stated he believe Chinese automation companies will keep global supply chains running and insulate them from protectionism as they try to expand overseas.

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2003 establishments in China
2010 initial public offerings
Chinese brands
Companies based in Shenzhen
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2003 in Shenzhen
Jason Parker (security researcher). Jason Parker is an American cybersecurity researcher known for uncovering dozens of critical vulnerabilities in government and legal software systems. Their work has exposed significant security flaws in court record systems, records request platforms, and voting systems, leading to increased awareness and remediation of these issues.

Career

Parker began their career as a software developer.

Notable Discoveries
Parker has discovered dozens of critical vulnerabilities in computer systems.

U.S. Court Record Systems
In late 2023, Parker began discovering vulnerabilities in court computer systems.

Parker has also discovered critical vulnerabilities in several electronic court filing platforms.

Records Requests Platforms
In 2024, Parker identified numerous vulnerabilities in widely used public records request platforms employed by state and local governments.

Voting System Involvement
In August 2024, Parker discovered a critical flaw in Georgia's voter registration cancellation portal. The flaw allowed individuals to submit a voter cancellation request without proper identity verification, using publicly available information. State officials quickly fixed the vulnerability after media outlets, including ProPublica and Atlanta News First, alerted the state to the issue.

Parker's discovery added to the list of vulnerabilities, found in Georgia's new voter registration system, leading to increased scrutiny of the platform.

Impact
Parker's work has brought significant attention to systemic security issues within government and legal systems, emphasizing the importance of robust cybersecurity measures. Their discoveries have led to increased scrutiny of these systems and prompted organizations to implement stronger security protocols. Following Parker's disclosures, many systems were updated without fanfare to address the security flaws; however, some entities, such as Florida's Lee County, threatened legal action against Parker.

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Computer security specialists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)