omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Ning Lu. Ning Lu is an American-Chinese electrical engineer who is currently professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research specializes in electric power systems, and in modeling, scheduling, and controlling the load profile in smart grids, including the demand response of grid friendly household appliances, energy storage, and the integration of renewable energy sources into the grid.

Education and career
Lu studied electrical engineering at the Harbin Institute of Technology, graduating in 1993, and then worked for five years as a substation design engineer in Shenyang. Next, she went to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for graduate study in electric power engineering, earning a master's degree in 1999 and completing her Ph.D. in 2002. Her dissertation, Power System Modeling Using Petri Nets, was jointly supervised by Alan Desrochers and Joe H. Chow.

She became a research engineer at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working there from 2003 to 2012. In 2013 she returned to academia as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University; she was promoted to full professor in 2019.

She has also chaired several committees of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, and was the president of the North American Chinese Power Professional Association from 2011 to 2013.

Books
Lu is a coauthor of books including:
Energy Storage for Smart Grids: Planning and Operation for Renewable and Variable Energy Resources (VERs) (with Pengwei Du, Academic Press, 2015)
Demand Response in Smart Grids (with Pengwei Du and Haiwang Zhong, Springer, 2019)

Recognition
Lu was named an IEEE Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to load modeling and control methods for providing demand side grid services".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women engineers
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese women engineers
Harbin Institute of Technology alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
North Carolina State University faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Van der Waals integration. van der Waals integration is a physical assembly strategy, in which prefabricated building blocks are physically assembled together through weak van der Waals interactions. This concept was originally proposed in two-dimensional materials research community to construct 2D van der Waals heterostructures.

A key benefit of van der Waals integration is that it offers an alternative way to integrate highly disparate material systems with unprecedented degrees of freedom, regardless of their crystal structures, lattice parameters, or orientation. As this physical assembly method does not involve one-to-one chemical bonds between adjacent layers, the van der Waals integration approach can thus enable the creation of a wide spectrum of series of artificial van der Waals heterostructures and novel moiré superlattices through layer transfer. Highly disparate material systems with diverse functionalities can be integrated together with atomically clean and electronically sharp interfaces., eliminating the rigorous lattice matching and process compatibility requirements that applied epitaxy This approach has proven fruitful in 2D photonics, polariton physics, hetero-integrated photonics, and wearable optoelectronic applications.

References

Van der Waals molecules
Perkins Reluctant Phoenix. The Reluctant Phoenix is a British human-powered aircraft, designed and built in the 1960s by the British engineer Daniel Perkins. It was notable for being an inflatable delta-wing tailless design, and for being flown indoors.

Background 

Perkins was employed with the Ministry of Defense during the 1950s and 1960s and developed a number of inflatable structures; both for his employers and on his own account. In the late 1950s, he built three human-powered aircraft, all with inflatable wings, though none were successful.

The Reluctant Phoenix was Perkins' fourth design. It was a tailless delta-wing monoplane, with a pusher propeller fitted to the tailing edge of the rudder. The primary structure of the craft consisted of single aluminium tube running along the centre-line of the aircraft. To this were attached the undercarriage's steerable nosewheel, pedal cranks, the pilot seat, the control system, a tailwheel, and the tail fin. The remainder of the aircraft's structure consisted of the inflatable wing, which was made from polyurethane-coated nylon fabric. The aerofoil was symmetrical with a 20% chord thickness, with the wing being made up of 8 spanwise webs to form the profile. The pilot sat in a recumbent position, fully ensconced within the wing, with only his head being exposed above an opening in the upper surface of the wing. The drive mechanism consisted of a set of bicycle pedals driving a rope belt drive, over pulleys, through to the propeller drive shaft.  A set of handlebars, located underneath the pilot's knees, could be moved in three dimensions.  A set of elevons built into the trailing edge of the wing allowed for horizontal and lateral control. The all-flying rudder would be used for directional control. Photographs of the craft show that a pair of vertical wing-tip fins were later added to the craft.  It was reported that construction time involved 200 hours, and cost £200.

Due to no outdoor runaway being available, flight testing took place within the -long airship hangar at Cardington, Bedfordshire.

Its first flight took place on 18 July 1966. In all 97 flights were made, all with cyclist Mike Street as the pilot.  Most of the flights involved towed launches, but at least four were achieved under human-power alone. Take-off runs were in the order of . Flights attained an altitude of , with the longest distance covered being .

After flight testing was completed, the aircraft was placed in storage. After Perkins' death, the craft was transferred to Fred To, who went on to develop a larger inflatable tailless human-powered aircraft called the Phoenix.

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References

Human-powered aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Pusher aircraft
Inflatable aircraft
Tailless delta-wing aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
1960s British experimental aircraft
Aircraft with fixed bicycle landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 1966
Epperson Lagoon. Epperson Lagoon is a man-made tourist attraction located in Wesley Chapel, Florida, consisting of a  man-made lake and beach featuring clean, clear, purified water, and known as the first crystalline lagoon in the United States.  The lagoon features a beach, swim-up bar, water slide, climbing wall, kayak and paddleboard rentals, and an entertainment pavilion with a stadium-sized LED screen.  

The  body of water utilizes advanced systems and sensors to monitor water quality, including physicochemical indicators. The mechanical and hydraulic systems to clean and pump water are controlled through a cloud-based control center.  Water to fill the lagoon was purchased from the Pasco County government, and limited to a rate of  a day to prevent stress on aquifers or cause sinkholes from rapid depletion of the ground water table.

Epperson Lagoon is the central feature in a planned housing development consisting of approximately 1,500 homes; homeowners and daily use fees support the maintenance and management of the lagoon.  The lagoon is open to the general public for a daily use fee.

The lagoon is manufactured by Crystal Lagoons USA, headquartered in Dallas, Texas and Miami, Florida.

References

Swimming venues in Florida
Nano Pi. The NanoPi is a series of single-board computer produced by FriendlyElec.  Various versions of the board were released including the NanoPi M1+, NanoPi M3, NanoPi M4v2, NanoPi Neo3, NanoPi Neo4, NanoPi Neo Air, NanoPI R5C.

Background 
The NanoPi M1+ and Neo3 were reviewed as a smaller, cheaper, but less capable board than equivalent Raspberry Pi computers. The NanoPi 4 R6S have three ethernet ports.

Nano Pi computers have been used in experimental drones for disaster recovery and air quality monitoring.

References 

Single-board computers
DB HiTek. DB HiTek Co., Ltd. (), formerly Dongbu HiTek, is a semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company headquartered in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. DB HiTek is one of the major contract chip manufacturers, alongside TSMC, Samsung Electronics, GlobalFoundries, and UMC. It is also the second-largest foundry company in South Korea, behind Samsung Electronics.

History
Dongbu Electronics was founded as a memory chipmaker in 1997, but later was transformed into a foundry company in 2001. Dongbu Electronics acquired Anam Semiconductor's foundry operation from Amkor Technology for 114 billion South Korean Won (US$ 93 million) in 2002.

Dongbu HiTek was established in 2007 as a result of the merger between Dongbu Electronics and Dongbu Hannong Chemical, both of which are subsidiaries of Dongbu Group.  Dongbu HiTek changed its company name to DB HiTek when Dongbu Group was renamed DB Group in 2017.

See also
 List of semiconductor fabrication plants
 Foundry model
 Semiconductor fabrication plant

References

External links

 

Foundry semiconductor companies
Electronics companies established in 1997
South Korean companies established in 1997
Companies listed on the Korea Exchange
South Korean brands
Technology companies of South Korea
DB Group
Port Harcourt Water Corporation. Port Harcourt Water Corporation formerly part of the Rivers State Water Board is the principal supplier of water  and wastewater management throughout Rivers State. It is owned by the Rivers State Government.

Activities
The body is responsible for the provision of urban water supply and wastewater management for Port Harcourt and Obio/Akpor Local government area of Rivers State.

The Port Harcourt Water Corporation has developed a Water Supply Master Plan as a "Road Map" to solve the water scarcity problem in the state and ensure provision of water to homes in the state.

The governing body of the company was inaugurated by Governor Nyesom Wike in 2018 and Mrs Doris Daba Cowan was appointed as the chairman. PHWC became corporatized on the 12th Aug 2012, by the passage of the Rivers State Water Sector Development Law No. 7 of 2012.

The body has secured the Urban Water Sector Reform and Port-Harcourt Water Supply and Sanitation Project (UWSR & PHWSSP), and the Third National Urban Water Sector Reform Project (NUWSRP3) which is funded by the World Bank, African Development Bank and the Rivers State Government.

References

Water supply and sanitation in Nigeria
2012 establishments in Nigeria
Government agencies established in 2012
Water Corporation
HESA Simourgh. HESA Simourgh (Persian: هسا سیمرغ) is an Iranian light transport aircraft unveiled on 19 May 2022. The aircraft is a modified version of the Iranian IrAn-140 turboprop airliner (itself based on An-140) and is suitable for transporting goods or even troops.

Development 

According to Iranian official sources, the airplane is a modified version of the IrAn-140, which addresses some deficiencies of that design. According to pictures of the prototype Simourgh, there have been some changes to the wings, tail and fuselage compared to the IrAn-140 (the most notable difference being the cargo ramp added to the back of the aircraft).

The first prototype of this aircraft was first unveiled on 19 May 2022 by Iranian official news. According to military officials the plane was in the fast-taxi testing phase.

On 29 April 2023, a picture was published that showed the prototype version doing the fast-taxi test on the runway.

On 30 May 2023, Iranian Ministry Of Defense reported that the aircraft has successfully had its first flight.

Design

General characteristics 
As said earlier this aircraft is based on the IrAn-140 and shares lots of characteristics with it. The aircraft is 23m long, 25m wide (with wings) and 8m tall. It can carry 6 tons of cargo, has a range of 3900 km and has a max speed of 533 km/h. Simourgh is suitable for transporting cargo (Including 463L standard pallets, light vehicles and aircraft engines), evacuation of injured people (Able to carry 24 stretchers) or carry paratroopers. The minimum runway length needed for takeoff is 1450m and for landing is 900m.

Difference with IrAn-140 

Despite IrAn-140 which has trapezius-shaped wings, this aircraft has rectangular wings to give it more lift. Also the horizontal stabilisers went from V-shaped to completely horizontal. the back part of fuselage has also been modified. But the most notable difference is the cargo ramp added to HESA Simourgh.

Engine 
HESA Simourgh is powered by two TV3-117 turboprop engines (probably reverse-engineered and modified version).

Specifications

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References 

Simourgh
High-wing aircraft
Twin-turboprop tractor aircraft
2020s Iranian airliners
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Aircraft first flown in 2023
Halton Jupiter. The Halton Jupiter was a human-powered aircraft which established distance and duration records in the early 1970s.

Background
The aircraft was originally designed in 1963 by Chris Roper of Woodford, Essex. Construction by Roper, and others, continued through to 1968, when ill-health halted work. In 1969, a workshop fire partially destroyed the craft. In 1970, the remains were handed over to Flight Lieutenant John Potter, based at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire.

Development and description 
The aircraft was rebuilt at Halton, by an informal group of RAF staff and apprentices, led by Potter. Some 100 individuals were involved with the construction, contributing 4,000 hours towards it. The aircraft was substantially similar to that originally constructed by Roper et al, but with a number of detail changes.

The Jupiter was a single-place shoulder-wing monoplane, with a pylon-mounted pusher propeller. The wing's primary structure was a spruce and balsa spar, with the secondary structure being made up of balsa ribs spaced  apart. The wing had a constant chord centre section, with no dihedral, with the wing's outer panels having both taper and dihedral. Differential ailerons were incorporated into the outer wing panels. The fuselage was of the pod and boom type. The forward structure, used to support the pilot and the drive system, was made of steel tubing, with the rest of the fuselage being made of spruce and balsa. The pilot was placed in a conventional cycling position, and powered a pylon-mounted pusher propeller via a chain drive.  The undercarriage consisted of a single geared bicycle wheel. The empennage consisted of a fin and rudder, and an all-flying tail-plane. Lateral and directional control was through a horizontal control bar which could be pivoted in two dimensions, and pitch control was by a twist grip to the starboard side of the bar. The entire aircraft was covered in a silver Melinex plastic film, with the exception of the top forward section of the fuselage which is covered with a transparent film.

Due to RAF Halton having only grass airfields, the aircraft was transferred over to RAF Benson, South Oxfordshire to take advantage of the latter's paved runways. The Jupiter first flew on 9 February 1972, covering approximately . In a flight programme which continued through to the end of May 1972, and with Potter as a pilot, 60 flights were made. During that period, Potter amassed approximately 1 hour's worth of flying time.

On 29 May 1972, Potter flew a distance of , in a flight which lasted 1 minute 47.4 seconds.  This flight, which was officially observed, set new distance and duration records for a human-powered aircraft. Another, not officially observed, covered , and ended only due to the Jupiter having reached the end of the runway.

The aircraft is now in storage at the Foulton Halbard collection at Filching Manor, Wealden, East Sussex.

Specifications

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References

Human-powered aircraft
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Pusher aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1972
1970s British experimental aircraft
Aircraft with fixed landing gear
Nonmetal (disambiguation). Nonmetal may refer to:
Nonmetals in the periodic table or non-metallic elements, are elements that have high electronegativity and mostly lack distinctive metallic properties.
 Nonmetal, in astronomy, the two elements hydrogen and helium without metallicity.
 Nonmetallic material, all materials, both elements and compounds, which are not metals; the term is used in different ways depending on context.

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Charles P. Vick. Charles P. Vick is an American space historian and policy analyst, with a focus on Soviet, Russian, and Chinese space and ballistic missile systems.

Vick is a senior technical and policy analysis at GlobalSecurity.org.

Career
He earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in mechanical engineering technology from Old Dominion University in 1970. From 1971 to 1975 he worked as a consultant on the Soviet space program for the Congressional Research Service, followed by employments at Bechtel, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and the Federation of American Scientists. In 2003, he joined GlobalSecurity.org.

One of Vick's specialities are drawing reconstructions of secret space projects. In the early 1980s he was the first to publicly present his attempted drawings of the then still secret Soviet N1 and Proton rockets.  
He was also among the first to publish about Soviet Nuclear power satellites, and the potential usage of space-based radars to track submarines by their effect on surface waves.

In 1993 Vick and Apollo historian W. David Woods started an effort to publish the diaries of Vasily Mishin, who was the General Chief designer for the Soviet crewed lunar program from the mid-1960s to 1974.

References

Living people
1946 births
American aviation historians
Old Dominion University alumni
Bechtel
Trolleybuses in Petrozavodsk. The Petrozavodsk trolleybus system is the only existing trolleybus system in the Republic of Karelia of the Russian Federation and is one of the northern most trolleybus systems in the world. It is operated by the city-owned public transportation company "Gorodskoy Transport". As of April 2023, the network consisted of 6 lines, with 41 operational trolleybuses and 24 in storage.

History 
In 1934 the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Karelian ASSR Edward Gylling suggested creating a trolleybus system in the city but the plans were cancelled after the beginning of World War II.

The construction of the system began in 1947 but the launch was delayed by many years due to various problems.

The system opened on September 5, 1961, along route No. 1 "Tovarnaya Kontora - Kirov Square" and used ZiU-5 trolleybuses.

In 2004, the Trolleybus Administration was reorganized into OJSC "Trolleybus Department of the City of Petrozavodsk" and renamed to "Gorodskoy Transport" in 2010.

Up until 2008 new lines were being planned out but due to the lack of funding and manpower many of the lines were closed down.

Some of the lines had to be changed or closed down due to the lack of maintenance of the Soviet infrastructure.

Due to the lack of fuding "Gorodskoy Transport" often buys used trolleybuses from Moscow and Saint-Peterburg.

In 2023 a transport reform has started which seeks to increase the amount of active lines and upgrade the rolling stock.

Lines

The fleet

See also 

 List of trolleybus systems
 List of trolleybus systems in Russia

References 

Trolleybus systems by city
Public transport in Russia
Trolleybus transport in Russia
Jason Kyle (politician). Jason B. Kyle is an American engineer and politician serving as a member of the Utah House of Representatives for the 8th district. Elected in November 2022, he assumed office on January 1, 2023.

Early life and education 
Kyle was born and raised in Utah. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah.

Career 
From 2010 to 2017, Kyle worked for Varian Medical Systems as a manufacturing engineer, environmental manager, and safety manager. He joined the Varex Imaging Corporation as an environmental safety manager in 2017 and became a production manager in 2019. He was elected to the Utah House of Representatives in November 2022.

References 

Living people
Republican Party members of the Utah House of Representatives
University of Utah alumni
American chemical engineers
Engineers from Utah
People from Huntsville, Utah
People from Weber County, Utah
People from Holladay, Utah
People from Salt Lake County, Utah
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century members of the Utah Legislature
Ai-Chun Pang. Ai-Chun Pang () is a Taiwanese computer scientist specializing in mobile networks, edge computing, and the artificial intelligence of things. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of National Taiwan University.

Education and career
Pang was a student of computer science and information engineering at National Chiao Tung University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1996, master's degree in 1998, and Ph.D. in 2002. Her doctoral dissertation, Wireless Voice over IP, was supervised by Lin Yi-bing.

Since completing her doctorate in 2002, she has been a member of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University, where she is a full professor, and associate dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

As well, she co-founded startup company OmniEyes, Inc., in 2017.

Book
Pang is a coauthor of the book Wireless and Mobile All-IP Networks (with Lin Yi-bing, Wiley, 2005).

Recognition
Pang was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for 2018–2020. In 2020 she became the inaugural recipient of the Vehicular Technology Society's Women's Distinguished Career Award, recognized "for resource management and service development for mobile edge/fog networks". She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2021 class of fellows, "for contributions to resource management and service provisioning for mobile edge networks".

References

External links
Home page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Taiwanese computer scientists
Taiwanese women computer scientists
National Chiao Tung University alumni
Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
Fellows of the IEEE
Hartmann (disambiguation). Hartmann is a surname and given name.

Hartmann may also refer to:

Places
 Hartmann (crater) (Hartmann Crater), Farside, Moon; an impact crater
 3341 Hartmann (Asteroid Hartmann), a Main-Belt asteroid

Facilities and structures
 Hartmann House Preparatory School, Harare, Zimbabwe
 Hartmann College, Izzatnagar, Bareilly, India
 Hartmann Center for the Performing Arts, Peoria, Illinois, USA

Groups, companies, organizations
 Hartmann Aircraft Corporation, manufacturer of the Hartmann OW-5M
 Hartmann Group, German medical and care product company
 Hartmann Luggage, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; a leather goods manufacturer
 Hartmann Music, a musical equipment manufacturer

Other uses
 Hartmann pipelines on the VM/CMS operating system
 Hartmann's operation, a surgical procedure
 Hartmann's Solution, a solution for intravenous administration

See also

 S v Hartmann (1975), a South African court case
 Hartmann number (Ha), ratio of electromagnetic force to viscous force
 Hartmann Neuron, innovative synthesizer
 Meyer and Hartmann reaction in chemistry
 Hartmann mask, a telescope focusing tool
 Brødrene Hartmann, a Danish public corporation
 
 Hartman (disambiguation)
 Hardman (disambiguation)