omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Dorte Hammershøi. Dorte Hammershøi is a Danish professor at the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University. She works in the field of human sound perception, with special reference to electro-acoustic applications, including audiometric calibration, oto-acoustic emissions, hearing damage, spatial hearing, and measurement of noise sources close to the ear.

Education 
Hammershøi received her Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with specialization in biomedical engineering from Aalborg University in 1989. In 1995, she was awarded a PhD in acoustics for her work on binaural techniques.

Awards and Grants 
Over the years, Hammershøi has received several awards and grants. She has been the grant holder of three EU collaborations, of which one (FP7 BEAMING) concluded in 2014. In 2016, she was presented with the AES Board of Governors Award.

References 

Living people
Academic staff of Aalborg University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Aalborg University alumni
Thomas Garm Pedersen. Thomas Garm Pedersen is a Danish professor in physics and nanotechnology at Aalborg University. His research concerns the nanostructure of materials.

Pedersen's research has resulted in a large research project regarding the development of more efficient solar power cells with silicon-based materials and nanostructures.

In 2004,  Pedersen received the Danish Optical Society Award for “Excellent contributions to modelling of optical and electronic phenomena”.

Education 
In 1993, Pedersen graduated with a M.Sc. in engineering with specialization in optics. Three years later, he received a PhD degree in physics. Since 1998, Pedersen has been employed at Aalborg, where he received a professorship in 2010.

References 

Living people
Academic staff of Aalborg University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Lars Bo Ibsen. Lars Bo Ibsen is a Danish professor in engineering at Aalborg University. His research revolves around soil mechanics and bearing capacity to develop foundations of wind turbines for off-shore use.

Ibsen developed the monopod bucket foundation, which allows the placing of large wind turbines on soft seabed without harming the wildlife and environment.

At Aalborg, Ibsen is head of research of the Geotechnical Engineering Research Group that focus on “the geotechnical and hydraulic aspects related to offshore wind turbines, in particular regarding the design and development of foundations and models for the determination of forces from ocean waves and current.”

References 

Living people
Academic staff of Aalborg University
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rachel Thomson. Rachel Clare Thomson  is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Pro Vice Chancellor of Teaching at Loughborough University. She is known for her expertise  in measuring and predicting the behaviour of materials for high temperature power generation, as well as the development of higher education and research programmes.

Education 

Thomson read the Natural Sciences Tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge (BA 1989, MA 1992). In 1992 Thomson subsequently completed her PhD in Materials, also at the University of Cambridge, on the composition of carbide supervised by Harshad Bhadeshia and funded by National Power and the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC).

Research and career 

After Thomson received her PhD she continued to work in Cambridge as a postdoctoral research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, before moving to a lectureship in the Department of Materials at Loughborough University in 1995. In 2002, she was promoted to a Personal Chair (i.e. full Professor) and in 2006, she became Director of the Materials Research School. Her career at Loughborough progressed further as in 2011 she became Head of Department, in 2015 she became Dean of the School of Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering, and from 2016, Thomson has been the Pro Vice-Chancellor of teaching. Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Awards and honours 

Her awards include:
 2018 East Midlands Inspirational Female Leader of the Year and Outstanding Woman in Science, Technology, Engineering and mathematics (STEM) – East Midlands Women's Awards (EMWA).
 2018 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
 2009 Elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
 2005 Rosenhain Medal, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining 
 2003 Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
 1994 E.W. Mueller Outstanding Young Scientist Medal, 42nd International Field Emission Symposium

Selected publications

References 

Living people
British materials scientists
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Alumni of Darwin College, Cambridge
Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Female fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
British women engineers
21st-century British women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
GÖKTUĞ. GÖKTUĞ is a Turkish program by TÜBİTAK-SAGE to develop four variants of air-to-air missiles that are to be launched from F-16s as well as future Turkish indigenous TAI Hürjet and TAI TF Kaan and combat aircraft from other nations such as CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder. The program intends to produce Turkey's first indigenous air-to-air missiles. Merlin (Bozdoğan) is short-range infrared homing missile and Peregrine (Gökdoğan) is a beyond-visual-range active radar homing missile. Other projects include ramjet-powered a beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile and very-short-range miniature air-to-air missile for use by helicopters.

The Merlin and Peregrine missiles were successfully flight-tested in 2018. These missiles are planned to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAM, respectively, on Turkey's crewed warplanes, and are planned to be integrated on Bayraktar AKINCI and Bayraktar Kızılelma, indigenously developed Turkish UCAVs. Both Merlin and Peregrine missiles entered inventory in 30 July 2024.

Merlin (Bozdoğan)

Peregrine (Gökdoğan)

Skykhan (Gökhan) 

The development of an air-to-air missile powered by a ramjet engine was officially announced in August 2021. The director of the TÜBİTAK SAGE Gürcan Okumuş stated the completion of more than 100 tests that carried the firing of the new ramjet engine.

References 
 

Air-to-air missiles of Turkey
Post–Cold War weapons of Turkey
Resident engineer. In general, a resident engineer is a person who works at or from the clients' side of a project. He or she possesses a high degree of technical and social skills. One of the main goals of the designated role is to foster knowledge transfer. The role exists across various industries with historic roots in the construction business.

Construction 
A resident engineer is a specific construction occupation. It often describes an engineer employed to work from site for the client or the design engineer. The duties include supervision of and issuing of instructions to the contractor and to report regularly to the designer and/or client.  The role was common historically and was also defined in the Institution of Civil Engineers Conditions of Contract and FIDIC contracts.  It is not a defined role in the commonly used and more modern NEC Engineering and Construction Contract in which similar roles are named as the client's "project manager" and "supervisor".

Rail 
According to Caltrain Standard Manuals "Resident Engineer's Manual", the resident is "the individual designated to administer construction management matters on specific contracts, with authority delegated by the Agency’s Project Manager."

See also 

 Construction management
 Virtual team
 Distributed development

References 

 
Engineering occupations
AVIC Advanced Heavy Lifter. The Advanced Heavy Lifter is a large helicopter project currently being developed by Aviation Industry Corporation of China.

Development 

In 2009, Avic projected a  civil Advanced Heavy Lifter (AHL), likely also useful to the Chinese military.
In 2014, the 6,000 kW (8,000 hp) Chinese WZ-20 was reportedly selected.
In 2015, the joint project with Russian Helicopters grew to , with a seven blade main rotor and a  ceiling.
In 2016, Avic took control, leaving Russian Helicopters as a supplier, presumably of the transmission.
In 2018, maximum weight grew again to .

China is currently independently developing the helicopter with Russia providing certain components; AVIC hopes to produce 200 of such helicopters.

Design 

The  takeoff weight and a  MTOW allow for a  internal payload or a  external one.
AVIC targets a range of 800 km (432 nmi), a cruise of 270 km/h (146 kn) and a  ceiling.
Design targets are closer to the Sikorsky CH-53K than the  MTOW Russian Mil Mi-26.
The  CH-53K is the largest US helicopter.

Specifications

See also

References

Further reading 
 

2010s Chinese civil utility aircraft
2010s Chinese helicopters
Proposed aircraft of China
Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Fellowship of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (abbreviated as FIMMM) is an award granted to individuals that the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) judges to have made "significant contribution or established a record of achievement in the materials, minerals, mining".

Applications
Applications for fellowships are open to both members and non-members of the IOM3.  Applications must be supported by two letters of recommendation from current fellows of the IOM3 and have known the applicant for a minimum of 2 years.

Examples of fellows include Harshad Bhadeshia, Rachel Thomson, Derek Fray, Robert Baker, Jason WA Robinson, Serena Best, Ruth Cameron, and Allan Matthews. Honorary fellows include Mark Miodownik and Sue Ion. Fellows are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FIMMM.

See also 

 :Category:Fellows of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

References

Fellows of learned societies of the United Kingdom
Academic awards
Hoda ElMaraghy. Hoda ElMaraghy  (; born 1945) is an Egyptian-Canadian professor and director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Center at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario which she founded together with her husband Prof. Waguih ElMaraghy in July 1994. In 1994, she was the first woman to serve as dean of engineering at a Canadian university. She is also the first Canadian woman to obtain a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. She was appointed as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in manufacturing systems in 2002. She has published more than 450 articles. She received the order of Ontario in 2015.

Personal life
She was born as Hoda Abdelkader ElGammal () to a father from Alexandria and a mother from El Mahalla El Kubra. ElMaraghy family of her husband is the same family of Mustafa al-Maraghi, the former rector of Al-Azhar.

Career
ElMaraghy got a Bachelor's with Honours in mechanical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. She got a Master's and Ph.D. both in mechanical engineering from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 1972 and 1976 respectively. She was a Professor and founding Director of the Flexible Manufacturing Systems Centre at McMaster University until joining the University of Windsor as the Dean of Engineering in 1994. Her research on flexible manufacturing has helped manufacturers around the world adapt and respond to market changes.

References

External links
Hoda ElMaraghy on ResearchGate

1945 births
Cairo University alumni
Academic staff of University of Windsor
Members of the Order of Ontario
Egyptian emigrants to Canada
Canadian mechanical engineers
Living people
McMaster University alumni
Canada Research Chairs
Members of the Order of Canada
People from Windsor, Ontario
135 Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers. 135 Geographic Squadron Royal Engineers is the only unit in the Army Reserve to support 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic), a Royal Engineers regiment of the British Army. The squadron, formed originally in 1948, is a Joint Force Command specialist Royal Engineer unit that provides geographic support to all elements of UK Defence; particularly to Army headquarters, formations and units. The Squadron forms the 4th Sub-Unit within the Regiment assisting in delivering this capability.

The squadron consists of an HQ and two troops:
 Squadron HQ (Ewell, Wyton)
 338 Troop (Reading)
 339 Troop (Ewell)

History
On 5 October 1948 135 Survey Engineer Regiment was formed with squadrons in Thame, London, Chessington and Southampton. Under a major organisation in April 1967, the regiment was reduced to squadron size and re-titled 135 Field Survey Squadron RE consisting of a squadron HQ, 337, 338 and 339 troops all based at Ewell. The squadron's role was changed to reinforce the Geographic branch at HQ British Army Of the Rhine (BAOR) working closely with 14 Geographic Squadron of 42 Engineer Regiment. In June 1986 the Squadron was re-titled 135 Independent Topographic Squadron RE with an additional troop (340 Troop) to carry out the role of map supply. To mark the new the title the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors presented a new unit flag. In 2000 the squadron was re-titled to 135 Independent Geographic Squadron (Volunteers). On 1 April 2014 the squadron officially became part of 42 Engineer Regiment (Geographic) and subsequently changed its name to 135 Geographic Squadron (Reserves). The Regiment became a hybridised Unit composed of both Regular and Reserve Squadrons.

The squadron operates the Bulk Replication, Tactical Map Distribution Point and Forward Map Distribution Point vehicle systems as part of the Field Deployable GEOINT (FDG) capability.

The squadron also has a positioning survey role and regularly deploy on survey tasks.

Since 2001, a total of 38 soldiers from 135 Geo Squadron have deployed on 53 operational tours in 7 operational theatres.

Freedoms
  1949: Epsom and Ewell, Surrey.

References

External links
 

Squadrons of the Royal Engineers
Magali Vaissière. Magali Vaissière was Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications at the European Space Agency (ESA), from 2008 until 2020. She was responsible for the agency's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications System (ARTES).

Vaissière was also head of the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), located at Harwell, Oxfordshire.

Biography 
Vaissière was born on 15 July 1957  in Montpellier (Hérault). After studying as an engineer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Telecommunications de Paris (Telecom Paris Tech), she obtained a Master of Science from Stanford University. She also has an Executive MBA from the Centre de Perfectionnement aux Affaires.

After graduating, Vaissière worked for Thomson-CSF Radars for nine years then for EADS-Astrium Satellite for 15 years.

Awards 

 2007: Prix Irène-Joliot-Curie in the category in Women in Companies
 2008: Knighted in the Legion of Honour for services to telecommunications 
 2017: UK Space Personality of the Year 
 2018: Sir Arthur Clarke Award in the category Space Achievement by Industry/Project Individual
 2018: Forbes The World's Top 50 Women in Tech

References 

1957 births
European Space Agency personnel
Stanford University alumni
Living people
French telecommunications engineers
20th-century French women engineers
21st-century French women engineers
20th-century French engineers
21st-century French engineers
William Bindon Blood. William Bindon Blood (20 January 181731 January 1894) was an Irish civil engineer.

Life

He was born on the family estate in Cranagher, near Ennis in County Clare, to Bindon Blood (1775–1855) and his second wife Harriet Bagot (1780–1835).

His father moved to 22 Queen Street in central Edinburgh in 1829.

Bindon Blood went to secondary school in Edinburgh before returning to Ireland and earning a BA (and Gold Medal) in mathematics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) in 1838.  That degree had been introduced in 1835, and engineering wasn't introduced at TCD until a few years later.

His career was spent as an engineer, first on railways in the south of Scotland starting in 1840.  Later, he was employed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as a civil engineer during the construction of the Great Western Railway in England, ending the decade as resident engineer on the Birmingham & Oxford Railway Company.

From 1850 to 1860 he was the professor of civil engineering at Queen's College Galway, taking over from Thomas Drane, the inaugural professor who had only remained in the job for a few months.  There he carried out innovative mathematical analyses of stresses in continuous girders with multiple beams, supported by scale models which confirmed his theories. This work was credited in the design of the Boyne Viaduct in Drogheda, whose central span alone was 269 feet long, the longest in the world when this railway bridge was completed in 1855 Queen's University, Ireland awarded him DSc (honoris causa) in 1882.

W. Bindon Blood was also a landlord and a Justice of the Peace.  He died of acute bronchitis, at Cranagher, in 1894, having survived three assassination attempts a few years earlier.

Family
In 1841 in Hobkirk, Scotland, he married Margaret Stewart (1820–1849), daughter of Robert Stewart of Hawthornside, Roxburgh. They had 4 children, the oldest being Sir Bindon Blood, who had a long and distinguished career in the British Army.   Following Margaret's early death in 1849, and his return to Ireland and taking up of the Queen's College Galway professorship in 1850, W. Bindon Blood remarried, in 1855, this time in Dublin to Maria Augusta Persse (1830–1860), daughter of Robert Henry Persse and Katharine Isabella Seymour. The couple had 2 children, Maria also dying by age 30.

He was a pioneer in the early days of cycling, and patented a popular lightweight 'Dublin tricycle' in 1876.

References

Irish civil engineers
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Academics of the University of Galway
Irish cyclists
19th-century Irish engineers
Engineers from County Clare
1817 births
1894 deaths
People from Ennis
Wu Jianchang. Wu Jianchang (; 2 June 1939 – 19 November 2018) was a Chinese materials engineer, metallurgist, and politician who served as vice-minister of Metallurgical Industry in the 1990s.

Biography
Born in June 1939, Wu graduated from the University of South China. He was an engineer in the General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals from September 1964 to April 1984. Wu joined the newly established China Non-ferrous Metals Industry Corporation in 1984, becoming vice-general manager in April 1984 and general manager in August 1994. He was vice-minister of Metallurgical Industry between December 1997 and March 1998. He was vice-president of China Iron and Steel Industry Association (CISA) in 1999, and held that office until April 2011. He became honorary president of China Non-ferrous Metals Industry Association in April 2011, and served until his death.

Personal life
In 1973 Wu married Deng Lin (), the eldest daughter of Deng Xiaoping. Their son, Wu Mengmeng (), was born in 1974.

References

1939 births
2018 deaths
Chinese metallurgists
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan
Engineers from Hunan
People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan
University of South China alumni
Family of Deng Xiaoping
People from Changsha
KORKUT. The KORKUT is a Turkish all-weather-capable 35 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) developed by Aselsan.

Designed to replace the aging M42A1 Duster systems of the Turkish Armed Forces, each Korkut system comprises one command and control vehicle and three weapons platforms. Each weapon platform carries a twin 2×35 mm Oerlikon KDC-02 cannon, manufactured under licence by MKEK. Each weapons system can fire up to 1,100 rounds a minute up to a range of 4 km. The command and control vehicle has an effective radar range of 70 km. The Weapon System Vehicle and Command-and-Control Vehicle configurations designed under the Korkut Project are based on the FNSS ACV-30 and is fully amphibious and have the capability of propelling themselves in deep water and rivers.

The Turkish Armed Forces has ordered 40 weapons systems, deliveries are scheduled to complete in 2022.

Ammunition
The cannons can fire different types of 35×228 mm ammunitions including Aselsan made ATOM 35mm airburst ammunition.

ATOM 35mm airburst ammunition ejects tungsten pellets at a predetermined distance. It is a smart ammunition which has a base fuse. Together with the ability of precise time counting and the capability of being programmed during firing by taking muzzle velocity into consideration automatically sets the fuse to detonate the round as it approaches a pre-set distance from the target.  Whilst a single pellet is too small to do major damage in itself, the accumulation of damage from multiple strikes is designed to destroy wings and control surfaces, sensors and aerodynamics, causing the target to crash. According to Aselsan, the ammunition is resistant against electromagnetic jamming.

See also 
35 mm Oerlikon GDF

Comparable systems 
Flakpanzer Gepard
K30 Biho
M247 Sergeant York
Marksman anti-aircraft system
PZA Loara
Skyranger 35
Tunguska-M1
Type 95 SPAAA
Type 87 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun
ZSU-23-4 Shilka

References

35 mm artillery
Armoured fighting vehicles of Turkey
Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapons
Post–Cold War weapons of Turkey
Military vehicles introduced in the 2010s
Aselsan products
Alexandre Lavalley. Alexandre-Théodore Lavalley, (October 9, 1821 – July 20, 1892) was an engineer and French politician. Paul Borel and Lavalley were contractors of the Suez Canal Company who designed, built, and operated the dredging machines that finished excavation of the Suez Canal from 1864 to 1869 after the use of forced labor was disallowed.

Biography

Education
Alexandre Lavalley finished his preparatory studies in Tours, entered the École Polytechnique and left after studying military engineering in 1842. 
He resigned his commission and spent a few years in England, where he became a mechanic and acquired practical knowledge about machinery.

Engineering career

Upon returning to France, he joined Ernest Goüin & Cie, a company that built locomotives, where he was trusted to manage the locomotive plants. He also designed lighthouses on the Black Sea, created a tunnel boring machine in Lithuania, and created a machine to dredge ports in Russia. Paul Borel and Lavalley were hired as subcontractors by the Suez Canal Company to finish the excavation of the Suez Canal. They were responsible for the design, construction, and operation of the dredging machines that finished the excavation from 1864 to 1869 after the use of corvee labor was disallowed by the Ottoman administrator of Egypt, Ismail. In 1876, he obtained a concession to work on the port of Pointe des Galets in Réunion and to build a railroad linking the port to the interior of the island.

In 1881, the British railway entrepreneur Sir Edward Watkin and Lavalley were in the Anglo-French Submarine Railway Company that conducted exploratory work on both sides of the English Channel. On the English side a  diameter Beaumont-English boring machine dug a  pilot tunnel from Shakespeare Cliff. On the French side, a similar machine dug  from Sangatte. The project was abandoned in May 1882, owing to British political and press campaigns asserting that a tunnel would compromise Britain's national defences. These early works were encountered more than a century later during the TML project.

Politician
Lavalley was elected on January 25, 1885, as a Senator representing Calvados. He sat in the left of the Senate, but voted with the majority for the new military law and for the colonial policies. He was absent during the vote for the breakup of the French Crown Jewels. Finally, Lavalley voted for the reestablishment of district elections (February 13, 1889), for a draft of the Lisbonne Law that would have restricted the freedom of the press, and against the procedure of the Senate against the general Georges Ernest Boulanger.

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Sources

Notes and references 

1821 births
Engineers from Geneva
1892 deaths
French engineers
École Polytechnique
Recipients of the Legion of Honour
Senators of Calvados (department)
Suez Canal