omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Diann Brei. Diann Erbschloe Brei is an American mechanical engineer whose research focuses on smart materials and piezoelectric actuators. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.

Education and career
Brei is the daughter of Richard "Ross" Erbschloe (1925–2005), an aircraft pilot for the US Air Force who later became a founding faculty member of the statistics department at the United States Air Force Academy and the Arizona Commissioner for Postsecondary Education. She majored in computer systems engineering at Arizona State University, graduating in 1988, and continued at Arizona State for a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, which she completed in 1993. Her dissertation, The Development of a Polymeric Piezoelectric Bimorph Microactuator Based Macroactuator for an Artificial Hand, was primarily advised by James Blechschmidt, but lists Joseph Davidson as its official doctoral supervisor.

She joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1994, and in 2018 was named chair of the university's program in Integrative Systems + Design. She also co-directs the Collaborative Research Laboratories, a joint research program of the university with General Motors.

Recognition
Brei was named as an ASME Fellow in 2011, "for her pioneering work and impact in the field of adaptive materials-based actuators and systems". She was the 2018 winner of the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award, the 2019 winner of the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2022 winner of the ASME Machine Design Award, "for outstanding contributions in novel device design and for supporting engineering science, as well as for mentoring and building communities in the field of smart materials and structures". She became the first woman to win the award since it was founded in 1958.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Arizona State University alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
FME (software). FME, also known as Feature Manipulation Engine, is a geospatial extract, transformation and load software platform developed and maintained by Safe Software of British Columbia, Canada.  FME was first released in 1996, and evolved out of a successful bid by the founders of Safe Software, Don Murray and Dale Lutz, for a Canadian Government contract to monitor logging activities.

Software 
The base product is FME Form (formerly FME Desktop); this is a standalone software package with an interface that enables the user to graphically build workflows for data translation, automation, and format and coordinate conversion.  FME Flow (formerly FME Server) is an 'on premise' solution that permits on demand server based instantiations of tailored FME workflows.  FME Flow Hosted (formerly FME Cloud) is similar to FME Flow however is hosted 'as needed' in the AWS Cloud.

FME data transformation workflows typically consist of a combination of the following 'building blocks':
 Readers to input from single or multiple data sources in a variety of formats or databases.
 Transformers to manipulate, transform and analyse the data.
 Writers to output the data in a number of different formats.
Any number of readers, writers and transformers can be used in an FME workflow.  A further tool is the Data Inspector, which can present spatial workflow results in a cartographic display.

The ArcGIS Pro software can use the FME engine and workflows as part of the data interoperability extension.  In 2015 the FME software was integrated with the What3Words geolocation system.

Use Base 
As of November 2022, FME has an estimated 0.32% of the total data integration software market.  The Information Technology, governmental, utilities, and oil and gas sectors form the largest organisational user base.  Examples of the use of FME include routing for emergency fire response, backend data quality management and sub-surface modelling for infrastructure projects, CAD to GIS file conversions, and BIM data extraction for indoor navigation.

Criticism and Reviews 
FME is considered a comprehensive platform for BIM data exchange and support of spatial data.  Reviews indicate it is strong in the analytic, conversion and interoperability areas, flexible in scope, with a strong user community.  However, the cartographic capability is considered poor, interactive editing tools are absent, and the licensing costs are seen as significant. In January 2024 JMI Equity obtained a minor share of Safe Software. Safe Software wants to triple the net annual revenue in the next five years.

See also

References 

GIS software
1996 software
Extract, transform, load tools
Todd Millstein. Todd Millstein is an American computer scientist. He is Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Department at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Millstein grew up in suburban Maryland, outside of Washington D.C. Millstein received his A.B from Brown University in 1996, where he was advised by Paris Kanellakis and Pascal Van Hentenryck. He attended the University of Washington for graduate studies, graduating with an M.Sc. and PhD in 2003. At UW, he was advised by Craig Chambers.

His research focus primarily spans software verification and reliability. He has published more than 100 original
technical research papers, including best paper awards at OOPSLA, PLDI, and SIGCOMM. He received the 2011 Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for his 2001 paper "Automatic Predicate Abstraction of C Programs".

Millstein joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. He was appointed chair of the department in 2022, having previously served as vice chair for graduate studies.

References

External links 

 

Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer scientists
Scientists from Maryland
Brown University alumni
University of Washington alumni
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Living people
RV Bay Hydro II. RV Bay Hydro II (S5401), sometimes rendered as R/V Bay Hydro II, is an American oceanographic research vessel in non-commissioned service in the fleet of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since 2009. She is registered as NOAA S5401.

Design  
Bay Hydro II is a hydrofoil-assisted catamaran. At  in length (sources disagree), she is one of the smallest research vessels in the NOAA fleet. Her twin  engines are rated at 2,300 rpm each and give her a maximum speed of .

Bay Hydro II has a  moon pool in her main deck amidships through which she can deploy a sonar on a retractable strut.  She also has two hull-mounted Airmar M42 dual-frequency transducers and an Interocean survey winch for use in towing side-scan sonar equipment.

In addition to her sonars, Bay Hydro II has an A-frame davit rated for , a  HVAC system, a  fresh water capacity, a full galley, and crew accommodations.

Construction  
Bay Hydro II was ordered in early 2008 from Kvichak Marine Industries in Seattle, Washington. and completed in September 2008. After her delivery to NOAA, her christening ceremony took place on 15 April 2009 at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. During the ceremony, she received a cannon salute from the sloop-of-war , a museum ship moored in the Inner Harbor.

Operations and service history 

Bay Hydro II is based at the NOAA facility at Solomons, Maryland. She conducts hydrographic survey and environmental protection research operations in the Chesapeake Bay. Upon her christening in April 2009, NOAA noted that her surveying capabilities were the state of the art at the time, and gave NOAA a capability to gather data to create highly accurate nautical charts, including data well on changes in dredged channels, and to respond rapidly to requirements to collect information on new hazards to navigation created by hurricanes, ice, and shipwrecks. Her activities in the Chesapeake Bay support safe navigation to a number of large ports, including Baltimore, Maryland; Wilmington, Delaware; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and ports in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

NOAA also uses Bay Hydro II to evaluate new hydrographic survey techniques and for outreach to elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities.

See also
 NOAA ships and aircraft

References

External links 
Video "Bay Hydro II dedication" on YouTube

Ships of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ships built in Seattle
2008 ships
Bernardo Lassaletta. Bernado Lassaletta Perrín (20 August 1882 - 12 March 1948) was a Spanish industrial engineer, professor and footballer who played as a forward for FC Barcelona between 1901 and 1903.

Biography
He was an industrial engineer, professor of general metallurgy and electrical technology at the School of Industrial Engineers in Barcelona and professor of mathematics at the School of Directors of Electrical Industries. In 1910 he become the head of the testing laboratory of the company Siemens Schuckert Indústria Elèctrica SA in Catalonia. In 1921, Lassaletta joined the Barcelona  as a full academician, and there he presented numerous papers and works.

As a young man, he played football with FC Barcelona between 1902 and 1904. Together with the likes of Joan Gamper, Luis de Ossó, Udo Steinberg, and Carles Comamala, he helped Barça win the Copa Barcelona, netting a total of 5 goals in the tournament that was later recognized as the fourth edition of the Catalan Championship.

In 1923 he was part of the entourage that welcomed Albert Einstein on his visit to Catalonia, invited by the Commonwealth of Catalonia, whom he accompanied during his visit to the Poblet Abbey, together with his wife Elsa and Ventura Gassol and Rafael Campalans. On 6 March 1923, Einstein was nominated as a corresponding member of the physical sciences section of the Academy by Lassaleta, the mathematician Ferran Tallada, and the physicists Ramon Jardí and Tomas Escriche i Mieg, in a ceremony at the Barcelona's Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Honours
FC Barcelona
 Copa Barcelona
 Champions: 1902–03

References

1882 births
1948 deaths
Spanish men's footballers
FC Barcelona players
Men's association football forwards
Sportspeople from Barcelona
SASTRA-CNR Rao Award. SASTRA-CNR Rao Award is an award instituted by SASTRA University, a private and deemed university in the town of Thirumalaisamudram, Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu, to honor excellence in chemistry and material science, the two areas in which  C N R Rao has made great, important and substantial contributions. The Award was instituted in 2013 and the first award was presented jointly to Suresh Das the then Director of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram and Sourav Pal, the Director of National Chemical Laboratory, Pune on 28 February 2014. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh and a citation.

Awardees

See also

SASTRA Ramanujan Prize

References

Science and technology awards
Indian science and technology awards
Awards established in 2013
S. Unnikrishnan Nair. S. Unnikrishnan Nair is an Indian aerospace engineer presently serving as the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). He is known for his works in the field of launch vehicle design, Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE), and Human Spaceflight Programme. Prior to his directorship of VSSC, he was Director of Human Space Flight Centre, Bengaluru.

Early life and education 

S. Unnikrishnan Nair was born to Sreedharan Nair, who was an employee at the Kottayam Survey Office, and Rajamma.

Nair received his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mar Athanasius College of Engineering affiliated to Kerala University, ME in Aerospace Engineering from IISc, Bengaluru, and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai.

Career
Nair joined VSSC in 1985. He is currently the director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. 

He was holding the additional charge of the director at the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology during the year 2022 to 2024.

Personal life
S. Unnikrishnan Nair is married to Jaya G Nair, a former Computer Engineer at VSSC. The couple have two daughters.

Awards and honors 
 ISRO Team Excellence Award for his contributions to SRE.

References 

Indian space scientists
People from Kottayam
Indian Space Research Organisation people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
IIT Madras alumni
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Retopology. Retopology (or retopo) is a step in the 3D modeling process where an object's polygonal mesh is modified or recreated to obtain a cleaner layout while maintaining nearly the same physical shape of the model. Owing to its complexity, retopology is currently a mostly manual process but tools exist to assist 3D artists with the workflow. Automated and semi-automated retopology algorithms are an active field of research; state-of-the-art techniques provide good results in some, but not all, cases. Most organically-shaped models, especially those that are animated or used in real-time applications, must be created with clean topology to deform properly (if skeletal animation is employed), render with smooth and accurate shading, and avoid excessive polygon counts that can reduce performance.

Retopology plays an important role in numerous industries such as animation, gaming, visual effects, virtual reality, and 3D printing. In animation and gaming, retopology ensures that characters and assets deform smoothly during movement, allowing for realistic and believable animations. In visual effects, it enables the creation of high-quality models with optimal geometry for seamless integration into live-action footage, while in 3D printing it is used to optimize models for efficient printing processes.

References

3D computer graphics
James Price (civil engineer). James Price (6 February 1917 – 22 September 2005) was a Welsh civil engineer, mathematician, author, and poet. Price was the chief resident engineer on several large-scale engineering projects, including the M1 and M3 motorways, and an internationally acclaimed poet.

Education
Price was a national scholar studying engineering mathematics. In the summer higher exams of 1935, he was ninth in the county. Price graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1938 with a Bachelor of Engineering. He joined the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1942 at the age of 25, following examinations he had taken pre-emptively in the summer of 1940. At the same time, Price was recommended for promotion to  assistant civil engineer (A.C.E.). In 1942, he became a Master of Engineering.

Career
From 1956 to 1957, Price was employed by Nigerian Railways.

Price was chosen as the chief resident engineer on the first section of the M1, working with Sir Owen Williams KBE and minister for transport Harold Watkinson. The opening took place on 2 November 1959 and prompted a visit by King Charles III, then Prince of Wales.

In the early 1960s, Price took up the position of senior resident engineer for the leading British electrical engineering consultancy engineers Merz & McLellan, who had started a scheme in the interest of reclaiming land owned by the London Brick Company in Peterborough. This became known as the Peterborough Dust Disposal Scheme.

From 1967 to 31 December 1968, Price was the resident engineer for the Tilbury Grain Terminal, which was completed on schedule. From 1 January 1969, he served as chief resident engineer for the first M3 motorway contract in Surrey County in 1969.

Memberships and honours
Price was a member of The Poetry Society, the Welsh Academy, the South and Mid-Wales Association of Writers, the Engineering Council, the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

In 1997, Price received an Editors Choice Award from the National Library of Poetry (USA).

Personal life
Price married Mary Eluned Williams on 27 May 1939. They had two sons (Newton and David) and two daughters (Linda and Christine).

Works

Engineering
1951–1959 – M1 Motorway phase one
1956–1967 – M1 Motorway phase two
1961 – Peterborough Dust Disposal Scheme
1967–1968 – Tilbury Grain Terminal
1969–1974 – M3 Motorway phase one
1971 – A30 road
1974 – M3 Motorway phase two

Publications
1990 – Price's Progress: The Tortuous Journey of a Roving Civil Engineer
1994 – Passages in paradise
Little Book of Poems

References

1917 births
2005 deaths
People from Flint, Flintshire
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Transport engineers
Welsh civil engineers
20th-century Welsh writers
20th-century Welsh poets
English-language poets
Welsh male poets
Fellows of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Next generation corvette. Next Generation Corvette (NGC) are a planned class of eight anti-surface warfare (AsuW) corvettes for the Indian Navy. Under this programme, the Indian Navy intends to acquire advanced ships armed with anti-ship or land-attack missiles like BrahMos. Ships in this class will feature advanced stealth features like a low radar cross section (RCS), infrared, acoustic and magnetic signatures. On 6 June 2022, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) under the Ministry of Defence cleared the acquisition proposal of the 8 Next-generation corvettes worth  for the Indian Navy.

According to a report on 2 May 2024, Next Generation Corvettes will be fitted with indigenous marine diesel engines which will be developed under the 'Make-I category'. The development and manufacturing of the engines will probably be carried out by Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd and Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE). The upgrade of two of Brahmaputra class frigates would probably be the first to have these indigenous diesel engines. Orders for around thirty diesel engines would be issued after the engine's successful development.

See also 

 Future of the Indian Navy

Notes

References

Corvette classes
Corvettes of the Indian Navy
Morrow 1-L. The Morrow 1-L was a prototype tandem-seat trainer produced by the Morrow Aircraft Corporation. It employed plastic impregnated wood in its construction.

Design and development
Morrow Aircraft factory designed and built the Model 1-L tandem two-seat trainer for Civilian Pilot Training Program. Morrow Aircraft used a plastic bonded plywood construction for the body and was powered by a Lycoming O-435 engine. The Model 1-L  was also called the Victory Trainer. The factory was at the Municipal Airport, San Bernardino, now Norton Air Force Base. Designed by Edgar Schmued who also worked on the North American P-51 Mustang. The Victory Trainer prototype was built, but not used for the World War II effort. The Victory Trainer wing and tail resembled that of the P-51 Mustang, so the plane was called the Little Mustang by some.

The aircraft was officially tested by Vance Breese in front of an audience of American and British military officials on 1 November 1941. Construction on a static test as well as a second airworthy airframe began a few weeks later. Following completion, the aircraft was flown to Purdue University Airport, where it was tested by Purdue University students.

Specifications (Morrow 1-L Victory Trainer)

See also

References

Further reading

 
 
 

1940s United States civil trainer aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1941
Highly Innovative Fuels Australia. Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF) Australia is a carbon neutral synthetic fuel development program operated by German automaker Porsche AG and international eFuel company HIF Global. The program was announced in April 2022, with the announcement of the first manufacturing and research plant in the state of Tasmania coming in July of that year, said plant is set to open in 2026.

References

 
Volkswagen Group
Alternative fuels
Renewable fuels
Synthetic fuels
2022 establishments in Australia
Australian companies established in 2022
Companies based in Tasmania
HIF Global. Highly Innovative Fuels Global, often shortened to HIF Global is an international electrofuel company founded in 2016 by Chilean-Peruvian company AME and backed by German automaker Porsche AG.

History
In 2020, HIF announced their Haru Oni demonstration plant located in the Magallanes Region of Chile. R&D projects involving carbon neutral liquefied gas (eGL) began at the plant in 2021 with production set to begin in May 2022.

Siemens Energy AG announced its partnership with the company in 2020.

In April 2022, HIF Australia announced its first facility, located in Tasmania, and is set to open in 2026. The project is the first of its type in Australia.

See also
 HIF Australia
 Porsche
 Siemens Energy AG

References 

Alternative fuels
Renewable fuels
Synthetic fuels
Léanord. Léanord (Laboratoire d'Electronique et d'Automatisme du Nord) was a French computer brand, founded in 1960 at Haubourdin, near Lille. It was a subsidiary of Creusot-Loire and started to develop computers in the late 1970s.

The first machines, called Picolog 8, Picolog 80 and Picodidac 80 were based on Intel 8008, 8080 and 8085 microprocessors and designed for automation and machine code learning.

Léanord's first microcomputer was the Silex, released in 1978. Based on a licensed Apple II motherboard with a MOS 6502 running at 1Mhz and 32Kb RAM, the machine was expensive for the time (costing 29,000 Francs) and came with SILBasic (a BASIC interpreter), SILPascal (a Pascal interpreter) and SILDOS (a disk operating system). It had an 8-inch floppy disc drive and came in a 54x35x59 cm box, that also included the keyboard and monitor.

In 1979 Léanord released the Sil'z, similar in appearance to the Silex but CP/M compatible. It was powered by a Zilog Z80 at 2.5 MHz, had 64 Kb of RAM, 80x24 character monochrome display, two 5'' 1/4 320Kb disc drives, two RS-232c ports (for printer and modem), and measured 54x33x57 cm.

It was followed by the Sil'z II in 1981 (adding a Western WD1795 controller for extra floppy disc drives) and Sil'z III in 1982. In 1983, the Sil'z IV was released, with a different design featuring a separate keyboard and monitor and adding a hard drive.

The Sil'z 16 was released in 1983 with relation to the Computing for All government program, featuring the Nanoréseau, a small network based on the RS422 standard, and developed in connection with Lille university. This machine came with a Intel 8088 CPU running at 4.77Mhz, 128 Kb of RAM, MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and Microsoft Basic.

Later machines were PC compatible. The Challenger Elan series, released in 1986, were 16-bit ISA backplane machines with 8086, 8088, 80286 and 80386 processors.

In 1989 Léanord merged with Intertechnique, being eventually absorbed by Siemens-Nixdorf.

Models 

 Picolog 8 - Intel 8008, 1977
 Picolog 80 - Intel 8080, 1977
 Picodidac 80 - Intel 8085, 1979
 Silex - Licensed Apple II motherboard, MOS 6502 @ 1Mhz, 32Kb RAM, 1978
 Sil’z  - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M, 1979–1980
 Sil’z II - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M 2.2, 1981
 Sil’z III - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M 2.2, 1982
 Sil’z IV - Zilog Z80 @ 2.5 MHz, 64 Kb RAM, CP/M, Separate keyboard and monitor, hard drive, 1983
 Sil’z 16 - Intel 8088 @ 4.77Mhz, 128 Kb RAM, MS-DOS, CP/M-86, Nanoréseau network machine, based on the ProtoPC from Future Computers, 1983
 Challenger Elan - First backplane PCs, 8086, 8088, 80286 and 80386, 1986

See also
 Computing for All, a French government plan to introduce computers to the country's pupils

References 

Computer companies of France
History of computing in France
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
Computer science education in France
Computing for All