omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Norah Patten. Norah Patten is an Irish aeronautical engineer and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) advocate from Ballina, County Mayo. Patten was selected to potentially become the first Irish person in space as part of a mission on board Virgin Galactic's second generation of spacecraft. This mission, known as Delta, is proposed to take place in 2026/2027.

Early life and education 
Patten was born in Ballina, County Mayo. She attended St. Mary's Secondary School, and has been fascinated by space since visiting NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Cleveland, Ohio when she was 11 years old. She designed rockets for her junior certificate art project. She visited NASA on several occasions as a teenager and opted to study Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Limerick. Patten completed a work placement at Boeing during her undergraduate degree program and continued her education at the University of Limerick, where she obtained a doctorate in Aerodynamics in 2011. She completed a work placement in Bell Labs during this time.

Patten participated European Space Agency supported Alpbach Summer School in 2008 and graduated from the International Space University Space Studies Program in 2010.

Career 
Patten worked as a lecturer and project manager at University of Limerick before joining the Irish Composites Centre as the communications and outreach manager in 2012. Patten initiated and managed "The Only Way is Up" project, which sent Ireland's first student experiment to the International Space Station in 2014, through a commercial agreement with NanoRacks.

She was awarded an International Astronautical Federation Emerging Space Leaders Grant and was a panellist on the Next Generation Plenary in 2015 . Patten has been selected as department and team project chair at the International Space University on a number of occasions and was elected as a member of the voluntary global faculty of the International Space University in 2016. Patten was the first Irish participant at Project PoSSUM and has completed high-g flights, hypoxia training, aviation egress training and spacesuit testing and evaluations.

Communication and outreach 
Patten is an advocate for STEM education. She has appeared on several national television shows including Virgin Media One, Ireland AM and several radio programs, including on Today FM. She has given several keynote speeches and worked with Irish companies to promote STEM initiatives. Patten was among Limerick's Top 40 under 40 featured in Image as part of the "Changemakers" series in 2018.

Patten created "Planet Zebunar", a STEM product for children that is she has described as "inclusive, non-gender specific and offer[ing] an immersive experience" using both "offline and online technologies", including augmented reality.

References 

Living people
Aeronautical engineers
Women space scientists
People from Ballina, County Mayo
Year of birth missing (living people)
Engineers from County Mayo
Alumni of the University of Limerick
21st-century Irish engineers
21st-century Irish women engineers
Simegnew Bekele. Simegnew Bekele Aynalem (; 13 September 1964 – 26 July 2018) was an Ethiopian civil engineer who served as chief project manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project as well as three other similar dam projects in Ethiopia. He was considered the "public face" of the dam project.

Biography
Simegnew was born in 1964 in the small town of Maksegnit located in Begmeder Province. He completed a course at the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) technical training center in 1986. He taught at the institution for a while after graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering from Addis Ababa University in 1997. He served as deputy project manager for the Gilgel Gibe I and the project manager for the Gilgel Gibe II dams. In 2011 he was designated as head of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Project Office (GERDPO), since the start of its construction in 2011. In 2015 the Tigrai Online e-magazine named him as its person of the year.

Death
On the morning of 26 July 2018, Simegnew was found shot dead in his Toyota Land Cruiser in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa. Speaking at a press conference, Ethiopian Federal Police Commissioner Zeynu Ummer said that he had been found with a Colt gun in his right hand and a bullet wound behind his right ear, however foul play has been suspected. Simegnew had been scheduled to give a press conference on the progress of the dam later that day, following comments by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed that construction could take up to ten more years, far more than previous projections. He was the public face of the dam being built near the country's western border with Sudan that, when completed, would be Africa's largest.

Simegnew's death is the second of a high-profile company official at around that time. In May, gunmen ambushed and killed Deep Kamara, the country manager for Nigeria's Dangote Cement, alongside two others in the Oromia region outside Addis Ababa. Simegnew's death sparked protests in Addis Ababa, with marchers demanding justice for what they assumed was his assassination. Tens of thousands of people gathered in Meskel Square and along Menelik II Avenue to witness his funeral procession on 29 July. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reacted to the news, saying he was "saddened and utterly shocked" by the engineer's death. On 7 September, police investigation reports suggested that Simegnew committed suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Conspiracy theories relating to his death circulated by some skeptics who promote anti-governmental rhetoric, whether he was killed by government agent or TPLF's recruiter.

See also 
 Assassination of Girma Yeshitila

References 

1964 births
2018 deaths
Ethiopian engineers
Addis Ababa University alumni
Deaths by firearm in Ethiopia
20th-century Ethiopian people
21st-century Ethiopian people
Gladys Ngetich. Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich (born c.1991) is a Kenyan engineer, and a Rhodes scholar, pursuing a doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the Babaroa Excellence Award.

Background and education
Ngetich was born in Amalo Village, Nakuru County. She attended Lelaibei Primary School in Olenguruone. She studied at Mercy Girls' Secondary School in Kericho. She was admitted to the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering, in 2013.

In 2015, Ngetich joined the University of Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship to pursue a doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering. In 2016, she earned a Tanenbaum Fellowship, an annual fellowship awarded to Rhodes scholars for a multifaceted program in Israel. In 2018, Ngetich was named a Skoll World Forum Fellow for the work she is doing in Kenya to empower girls and women. She also tutors engineering undergraduate students at Oriel College.

Achievements/Awards
In 2018, Ngetich was credited with a patent in collaboration with Rolls-Royce Plc. Her research work has been in BBC Science and the Oxford Science Blog and Medium. She received the ASME IGTI Young Engineer Turbo Expo Participation Award, for her paper at the 2018 Annual American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) conference.

Ngetich is the co-founder of the ILUU, a Nairobi-based non-profit that aims to inspire girls and women.

In September 2018, Business Daily Africa named Ngitech among its "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018". In 2019 she started investigating sustainable space science using a Schmidt Science Fellowship. As of 2023, she is involved in satellite and rocket fuel research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

See also
 Frannie Léautier
 Emily Orwaru
 Josephine Wapakabulo

References

External links 
 Brief Video Presentation by Gladys Ngetich, PhD. Published on 14 November 2019.

21st-century Kenyan women scientists
21st-century Kenyan scientists
Aerospace engineers
Women aerospace engineers
Mechanical engineers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology alumni
Kalenjin people
People from Nakuru County
1991 births
Living people
21st-century Kenyan women engineers
21st-century Kenyan engineers
Kalenjin women
Daikin Texas Technology Park. The Daikin Goodman Texas Technology Park (initially called the Comfortplex) is a major factory and office building in Waller, Texas, United States near Houston.  Opened in 2017 as the manufacturing, logistics, and engineering center for Daikin's American subsidiary Goodman, the plant makes heating and air conditioning products sold under the Goodman, Amana, and Daikin brands (Daikin, Sekai).

With a footprint of 4.23 million square feet (393,000 square meters) under a single roof, the DTTP is the third largest factory in the United States (behind the Tesla Factory and the Boeing Everett Factory) and the fifth largest in the world.

References

External links 
Comfortplex homepage
Comfortplex Twitter page
Cooling Post coverage
Houston Business Journal coverage
Houston Chronicle coverage
Community Impact coverage
How to apply

Videos 
Daikin Campus Tour
Daikin Texas Technology Park

Science parks in the United States
Waller County, Texas
Daikin
Salt Water Barrier (Delaware River). The Salt Water Barrier was a proposed project on the estuary of the Delaware River, which was projected in the late 1950s to convert the lower reaches of the Delaware into a freshwater lake. The barrier was proposed as a  high dam near New Castle, Delaware,  long, equipped with locks for the passage of shipping to Wilmington and Philadelphia. A study for the project was authorized by Congress in 1958, with engineering evaluations and public hearings by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The prime purpose of the project was to develop the lower river as a source of drinking water for communities along the lower river. Objections to the barrier included concerns about the oyster industry, shipping constraints, increased shoaling, ice formation, and most importantly, the possibility of trapping pollutants above the barrier. The project was found to be technically feasible, but not economically practical. It was not included in the final Delaware River Basin Report of 1962, which proposed reservoirs higher in the Delaware River basin, and no further action was taken.

Description
The impoundment was to be located just upstream of the eastern terminus of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, south of New Castle, so that the canal could remain at sea-level. Studies examined problems of ship passage, which would necessitate a system to flush the locks with pumped water to prevent salt water contamination. The study indicated that in the absence of regular tidal flushing there would be a buildup of pollutants in the impoundment that would render the fresh water reservoir unusable. 

The barrier itself was proposed as a low dike built using hydraulic fill, armored against storms with concrete paving. An overflow spillway was to be set in a section of concrete structure, adjacent to four navigation locks that could accommodate vessels of more than  draft.

A  diameter tunnel was proposed to carry water from an intake structure near New Castle at a depth of about  for  in populated areas, or in a cut-and-cover trench in rural areas over  to Hoopes Reservoir above Wilmington. Costs were projected in 1960 to be about $345,000,000 for the barrier, and between $35,000,000 and $45,000,000 for water tunnels. Costs for an alternative intake from the reservoir behind the existing Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River were estimated to be between $140,000,000 and $170,000,000. Annual costs were estimated in the same proportion as the differences between the projects.

See also
 Reber Plan, a similar proposal for San Francisco Bay

References

Delaware River
United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed dams
Huanghai Landscape V3. The Huanghai Landscape V3 or Huanghai Qisheng V3 (黄海 旗胜V3), also known as the Huanghai NCV before production, is a mid-size crossover SUV produced and sold by SG Automotive (曙光汽车) under the Huanghai Auto (黄海) marque.

Overview

The Huanghai Landscape V3 was revealed during the 2010 Beijing Auto Show with the actual production version launched during the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show with a price range from 105,800 yuan to 119,800 yuan.

Powertrain
The Huanghai Landscape V3 is offered as either a 4×2 or 4×4. Engine could be had with a 2.0 liter engine, a 2.4 liter engine and a 2.5 liter diesel engine. The 2.4 liter engine has 105kw and 200nm, and a top speed of 160km/h.

Design controversies
The styling of the Huanghai Landscape V3 was especially controversial as the exterior design is a complete copy of the second generation Lexus RX luxury crossover.

References

External links 

 SG Automotive official site

Landscape V3
Crossover sport utility vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Front-wheel-drive vehicles
Cars introduced in 2011
2010s cars
Cars of China
Nissan Land Glider. The Nissan Land Glider is an electric concept car presented by the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.

The Land Glider, a narrow-track vehicle, looks and feels like a mixture between a car, a motorcycle, and an airplane. The rear-view mirrors have been replaced by cameras and monitors. Inside, the traditional steering wheel is replaced with something similar in appearance to an aircraft's yoke control. Riding on a motorcycle-inspired Tandem architecture, the Land Glider and its tires can lean up to 17 degrees in turns. Power comes from two electric motors connected to lithium-ion batteries mounted underneath the floor. The Land Glider features a non-contact charging system that enables it to be recharged at any wireless charging station.

References 

Land Glider
Electric concept cars
Quadricycles
Áine Brazil. Áine Brazil is an Irish engineer.

A chartered engineer, Brazil is a fellow of Engineers Ireland and vice chair of Thornton Tomasetti, a New York engineering firm. A graduate of the University of Galway, Brazil won the award for International Engineer of the Year at the Engineers Ireland Excellence Awards in 2014. She was conferred with a Doctor of Engineering (honoris causa) by NUI Galway in June 2015.

Brazil was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for her leadership in the design of innovative buildings and contributions to engineering literacy.

References

External links
 
 
 https://connachttribune.ie/tag/aine-brazil/
 https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/people/aine_brazil/
 http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2017/06/20/aine-brazil-thornton-tomasetti-engineer/
 http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2018/07/24/world-renowned-galway-engineer-aine-brazil-honoured-concern-worldwide/
 http://www.nui.ie/college/docs/citations/2015/nuig/Brazil_Aine.pdf
 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/realestate/a-shoulder-for-buildings-to-lean-on.html

Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Galway
21st-century Irish architects
Irish businesspeople
Irish engineers
People from County Galway
20th-century Irish people
21st-century Irish people
Powerhouse (video game). Powerhouse is a video game developed and published by Impressions for the PC.

Gameplay
Powerhouse is a simulation in which the player runs a power utility, and must compete to be the first to establish a regional electrical infrastructure.

Reception

Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "Looking at the mind-boggling array of charts and graphs in the game will provide some answers, but when all is said and done, making those decisions is up to you, and that's where the real fun in this economic simulation lies." Noting the game's steep learning curve, Computer Game Review concluded, "Strategy gamers should get a charge from it, others might get shocked."

Reviews
PC Gamer Vol. 2 No. 9 (1995 September)
Computer Gaming World (Oct, 1995)
PC Games - Aug, 1995
PC Player - Aug, 1995

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1995 video games
Business simulation games
Impressions Games games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Windows-only games
SOCAR Gas Processing Plant. SOCAR Gas Processing Plant is a natural gas and gas products processing factory that joined to the structure of State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) with regard to the presidential decree dated October 7, 2009. The factory carries out the production of natural gas, natural gas liquids, natural gasoline, gas condensate, heavy condensates, dry gas, commercial butane and commercial propane-butane mixture. The plant is situated in Lokbatan settlement, Baku. The director of the Gas Processing Plant is Agshin Pashayev.

History 
In 1958, "GIPROAZNEFT" institute, which operated in the former Soviet period, designed the Gas Processing Plant. The first and second building phases were completed, respectively, in 1961 and in 1963-1964. During the first phase, three units were put into operation with other all supporting facilities. The units were unit 3 contains gas-gasoline separator equipment, natural gasoline stripping and gas condensate processing unit 4. The gasoline-gas separator equipment in unit 2 and unit 1 were established during the second phase.

The initial design of the plant was capable to process 4.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. The annual processing capacity increased to 6.5 billion cubic meters as a result of the reconstruction works in 1986. During the reconstruction works two gas measuring points were constructed. At the same time, underground gas pipelines were laid over trestles and underwater pipes replaced with surface pipelines. Two measuring plants “high-pressure output of gas” and “total output of gas” were built in 2003-2004. In 2009 additional line of the “total output of gas” plant was established.

Trends in gas processing 
Since early 2017, the volume of recovered natural gas after processing in the Plant was 1.68 billion cubic meters. Statistics reveal that 63% of the annual natural gas processing capacity of the plant was used. Besides, more than eleven thousand tons of naphtha and 7500 tons of technical butane were processed and 4600 tons of technical butane were transferred to Azerikimya Production Union. There is an agreement between Gas Processing Plant and Azneft Production Union. According to this contract, the plant processes gas of Azneft SOCAR and transfers producing gas to Azerigas.

See also 
 Azerbaijan International Operating Company
 Caspian International Petroleum Company

References 

Industry in Azerbaijan
Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan
Oil and gas companies of Azerbaijan
1958 establishments in Azerbaijan
Dutson Bombing Range. Dutson Bombing Range is a bombing range operated by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), located in Victoria. The facility is located near the town of Sale and RAAF Base East Sale.

On August 15, 1962, four Vampire aircraft of the Red Sales display team crashed in the vicinity of the range while doing aerobatics practice. All six men aboard the aircraft were killed instantly.

The site ceased to be used as an active bombing range in 2000.

It has been used as a live firing site for the Australian Army as late as 2010.

In 2018 it was announced that the company DefendTex would construct a facility to manufacture and test propellants and explosives at the range.

See also

List of Royal Australian Air Force installations

References

Military installations in Victoria (state)
Bombing ranges
Royal Australian Air Force bases
Raicam Industrie. Raicam Industrie S.r.l. is an Italian multi-national group of OE automotive component and Aftermarket manufacturers, making clutches, brakes and hydraulic actuators.

History
The company was founded in Manoppello, in eastern Italy, in 1982, by Nicola Di Sipio.

In 1995 a new challenge arrived: the design and the production of friction material for brake discs; it started from the taking over of the company Permafuse, located in Turin.

In 2005 Raicam enlarged its products range by taking over AP Automotive Products SrL, a company for the design, development and manufacturing of clutches; also in 2009 it took over AP Driveline Technologies Ltd, today named Raicam Clutch Ltd.

In 2008 for the first time Fiat 500 was assembled with Raicam clutches and brakes.

In 2015 Raicam has extended in the Asian market by setting up the first R&D centre in India, in order to support the local car manufacturing industries; in 2016 the Indian plant started its production for supplying the OE local market.

28 March 2018 – Raicam has completed the acquisition of the Hydraulic Actuator Business from Valeo. This acquisition includes the entire Passive Hydraulic Division of Valeo, with all the Human Resources, Intellectual Property, Manufacturing Sitesat Mondovì in Italy, Gemlik in Turkey and Nanjing in China. In India, Raicam will carry on the former local Passive Hydraulic Business of Valeo in its Sanand Site, which is already operative.
Raicam, by integrating the division acquired in its organization, has now the capabilities and the resources to design and manufacture the entire clutch and actuation system and to facilitate the industrialization of the active hydraulic actuators.

Products
 Brakes
 Clutches
 Hydraulic actuators

Structure
The company is headquartered in Manoppello in the Italian region of Abruzzo, east of the Autostrada A25 and on the SS5. It has around 1.000 employees and 7 manufacturing plants in Italy, Turkey, India and China. It turns over around 180 million euros.

It has a technology centre in Bruzolo.

United Kingdom
The company has a small prototype development facility in Redditch, Raicam Clutch Ltd, on the Moons Moat North Industrial Estate, off the A4023 north of UK-NSI; but is mainly a test centre with a limited R&D department. This company (formerly Automotive Products or AP) was bought by Raicam in 2009, and moved from Leamington Spa in 2017.

References

Italian companies established in 1982
Auto parts suppliers of Italy
Automotive motorsports and performance companies
Brakes
Clutches
Companies based in Redditch
Companies based in the Province of Pescara
Manufacturing companies established in 1982
Lastex. Lastex is a type of elastic yarn that was introduced in the 1930s and was primarily used for swimwear, brassieres, girdles and corselettes. It consists of a rubber core surrounded by wool, rayon, silk or cotton threads. It was invented and distributed by the Adamson Brothers, a company owned by the US Rubber Company. It entered the market in 1931.

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Yarn
Rubber products
Synthetic fibers
1931 in technology
1931 in the United States
Clothing industry