omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
2009 Korba chimney collapse. The 2009 Korba chimney collapse occurred in the town of Korba in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh on 23 September 2009. It was under construction under contract for the Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (BALCO). Construction had reached  when the chimney collapsed on top of more than 100 workers who had been taking shelter from a thunderstorm. At least 45 deaths were recorded.

Incident and rescue 
Plans specify a  chimney for the construction of a thermal power plant by Balco, which is owned by Vedanta Resources. The incident happened during extreme weather conditions involving lightning and torrential rainfall. Workers sought shelter from the rain in a nearby store room, and a lightning strike at approximately 16:00 brought the chimney down on top of them.

A rescue attempt was initiated following the collapse. Ongoing rain obstructed efforts to retrieve the trapped workers. At least seven of the wounded were hospitalised. A Gannon Dunkerley & Co Ltd employee was allegedly lynched by angry workers; his corpse was located near the scene. It was originally thought he had fallen from the chimney, but wounds indicate he was attacked.

Reaction 
An investigation is ongoing to determine the cause of the collapse. Balco initially did not discuss the incident at length, stating only that "[t]here is an accident and some people are injured"; claiming to be too busy with the rescue effort to make a longer statement. The state government believes that Balco had been "overlooking security aspects". District superintendent of police, Ratanlal Dangi, described it as "a massive accident". Rs.100,000 (US$2084) in compensation will be granted to relatives of each of the dead.

In November 2009, the project manager from GDCL was arrested, as well as three officials from Vedanta Resources which manages Balco. Later the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur observed that the materials were of substandard quality and technically faulty in design. NIT also concluded that there was improper water curing and that soil at the site was not up to code. Additionally, supervision and monitoring was found to be negligent. On 11 January 2010, as a result of these findings, three senior officials of Sepco, the Chinese company contracted to build the chimney, were arrested and are being held without bail.

Litigations 

The 2009 Korba Chimney Collapse case was headed by Judge Mahadev Katulkar. On 26 November 2009, he rejected bail pleas of BALCO officials, including Vice-President and AGM[clarification needed] of BALCO. He then sent the pair into judicial custody. Later, on 18 January 2010, Katulkar rejected the bail pleas of three Chinese nationals who were contracted by SEPCO to build the power plant by BALCO.

See also 
 List of chimneys
 List of structural failures and collapses

References

External links 
 Official site of Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd

Construction accidents
History of Chhattisgarh (1947–present)
Korba Chimney Collapse, 2009
Korba Chimney Collapse, 2009
Chimney collapse
Korba, Chhattisgarh
September 2009 events in India
Vedanta Resources
Chimneys
Sterlite Energy. Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) is an energy company focused on development and operation of power plants in India. SEL is a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources PLC.

Projects

Jharsuguda, Odisha

Sterlite Energy Limited is developing Sterlite Jharsuguda Power Station 2400 MW coal-fired thermal power project in Jharsuguda, Odisha. The project will develop 4 units of 600MW each.

Talwandi Sabo Power Project
SEL is developing the 1980 MW Talwandi Sabo Power Project at village Banawala, Mansa-Talwandi Sabo in District Mansa.  Punjab. This is also a coal-fired thermal power production project with 3 units of 660 MW each. Now as per the new agreement between Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) and Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL), SEL is to add one more unit of 660 MW to the upcoming thermal project of 1980 (3x660) MW at Talwandi Sabo in Mansa district. Talwandi Sabo Power Ltd (TSPL) will make the first unit of 660 MW to be operational by the end of 2012 and other two units 2x660 by the end of 2013. Sterlite Energy Ltd (SEL) was selected as the developer of the project based on the Tariff Based International Competitive Bidding Process (Case-2) on BOO basis for supply of 100 per cent power to Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) for 25 years as per the guidelines of Government of India. Power Purchase Agreement and other related agreements were signed between TSPL and PSEB on 1 September 2008 and the ownership of Talwandi Sabo Power Limited was transferred to Sterlite Energy Limited (SEL) on that date.

References

Companies based in New Delhi
Electric power companies of India
Vedanta Resources
2001 establishments in Delhi
Indian companies established in 2001
Altiport. An altiport is an aerodrome for small airplanes and helicopters, situated on or within mountainous terrain. Altiports are generally characterized by having a runway with an atypical slope to fit in the local topography. Ultimately, this slope helps aircraft decelerating when landing and assists acceleration during takeoff. High altitude results in less lift available to aircraft wings, which requires aircraft to achieve higher speed at takeoff and landing. Such airfields with unusual physical characteristics are frequent in regions such as the French Alps, Himalayan regions, as well as Pacific islands.

Definitions
According to International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Document 9150: STOLport Manual: "An altiport may be defined as a small airport in a mountainous area with a steep gradient runway, used for landing up the slope and for take-off down the slope, thereby making use of only one approach/departure area."

According to the former French Technical Instruction on Civil Aerodromes (ITAC) of 2000, an altiport is specifically designed for serving mountainous regions. It features a steep runway that has a single approach / departure path. The runway ends with a section that has a lower slope, as well as an apron with aircraft stands. An altisurface is defined as a graded area that is not an aerodrome but that can be used as a steep runway with a single approach / departure path.

List of altiports

Notes

References
Gilles Saint-Paul. Gilles Saint-Paul (born 8 February 1963) is a French economist at Paris School of Economics. He also is a scientific advisor to the Economic Studies Directorate at the French Ministry of the Environment. His main interests include the political economy of unemployment and how information technology affects wage inequality.

Career
After receiving engineering degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1985 and the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées in 1987, Saint-Paul graduated with a master's degree in applied mathematics from Paris-Dauphine University. Saint-Paul earned his Ph.D. in economics in 1990 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Olivier Blanchard and Michael Piore.

He taught economics at ENSAE ParisTech from 1990 to 1997 and at Pompeu Fabra University from 1997 to 2000. He is a professor at Paris School of Economics since 2006. He also holds the title of Global Professor of Economics at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Work
He has published four books and authored numerous articles in the top journals including a number path breaking contributions on the political economy of labour market reform. He is a CEPR Research Fellow and has been Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme since 2001.

Awards
He received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award awarded by the European Economic Association in 2007.

References

External links
  Gilles Saint-Paul's personal website

1963 births
Living people
20th-century  French  economists
21st-century  French economists
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
École Polytechnique alumni
Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University
Academic staff of the Toulouse School of Economics
Academic staff of the Paris School of Economics
Academic staff of New York University Abu Dhabi
Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure
Corps des ponts
Labor economists
Excelan. Excelan was a computer networking company founded in 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Inder Singh and Navindra Jain. Excelan was a manufacturer of smart Ethernet cards, until the company merged with, and was acquired by Novell in 1989. The company offered a line of Ethernet "front end processor" boards for Multibus, VMEbus, Q-Bus, Unibus, and IBM AT Bus systems. The cards were equipped with their own processor and memory, and ran TCP/IP protocol software that was downloaded onto the cards from the host system. Excelan offered software like LAN Workplace that integrated the cards into a variety of operating system environments, including many flavors of UNIX, RSX-11, VMS, and DOS. The hardware and software were sold under the EXOS brand. In 1987, Excelan also acquired Kinetics, a small networking company that manufactured and sold a variety of Ethernet networking products for Apple Macintosh environments, most notably an AppleTalk-to-Ethernet gateway called the FastPath. 

Excelan also manufactured and sold Ethernet network analyzer products, the first being the Excelan Nutcracker, followed later by the Excelan LANalyzer.

See also
 Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS

References

Companies based in San Jose, California
Companies established in 1982
Networking companies
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
1982 establishments in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
International Association of Elevator Consultants. The International Association of Elevator Consultants, formerly National Association of Vertical Transportation Professionals, is an association of elevator consultants. The group states that it was formed to share information and ideas, network, and weed out the under-qualified individuals claiming to be elevator consultants.

Forums
The IAEC holds a forum every year, sometimes with international speakers. The next annual IAEC Forum, Forum 2023, will be held May 22–26, 2023 in Las Vegas, NV.

Membership
Professional membership is only open to individuals and firms from the consulting segment of the elevator industry. Individuals and companies who sell or install elevators are allowed to join as Associate Members.

See also
 International Union of Elevator Constructors

References

External links

Trade associations based in the United States
Elevators
EMD SD32ECO. The EMD SD32ECO is a  C-C diesel-electric locomotive rebuilt by Electro-Motive Diesel. It is primarily the application of a conversion kit to an existing EMD SD60-type locomotive. This involves replacing the existing 710G3A V16 prime mover with an EPA Tier-II-compliant 710G3A-T2 turbocharged V12 engine, with electronic fuel injection. Many of the donor SD60's major components and subsystems are recycled, and are recertified as equal to new. However, the locomotive's control system is all new.

Owners
Starting in 2012, twenty eight Union Pacific SD60Ms were sent to Electro Motive Diesel for this rebuild and are in revenue service as UP 9900-9927. SD59MX is the Union Pacific designation for this type.

BNSF sent 3 SD45-2 locomotives to be rebuilt as SD32ECOs. Unlike UP's SD59MX, BNSF's SD32ECOs retain the appearance of an SD45-2. So far, 3 have been completed as BNSF 1350-1352.

UP SD59MX Features
The SD59MX is remanufactured from the carbody and major mechanical and electrical subsystems of an EMD SD60M "donor". The EFI-equipped 710 engine, however, is all new as are the engine and locomotive control systems. Union Pacific is the first Class I railroad to order them. The engine control system is adaptable to both minimum emissions and minimum fuel consumption modes, depending upon their assignment.

Appearance
The external appearance of the converted locomotive is sometimes altered by application of a flared radiator section, similar to the SD70M-2 and SD70ACe Tier-II, and similar to late model SD70M and SD70MAC locomotives in appearance. The recently converted locomotives (including UP 9905 and 9906, seen recently at the CSRM; and others up to at least UP 9924) have also had the SD70M-2/SD70ACe-style safety fuel tanks applied.

References

Other References:
 Railfan & Railroad Magazine, October 2009, page 22

Diesel–electric locomotives of the United States
C-C locomotives
SD32ECO
EPA Tier 2-compliant locomotives of the United States
Rebuilt locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Hezekiah Bissell. Hezekiah Bissell (February 27, 1835 – June 23, 1928) was a nineteenth century American railroad engineer, civil engineer, and railroad maintenance of way manager for a number of railroads in the Northeastern United States, including the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts, and the Boston & Maine. 

Bissell was also part of the effort to build the Union Pacific railroad to Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. Bissell was present at the Golden spike ceremony on May 10, 1869, connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. Bissell was also in the Russell and Savage photographs of the same date

Early life and career
Bissell was born on February 7, 1835, at East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut  to John Bissell (1796-1872) and Elizabeth McKnight Thompson (1800-1887). He was a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College. Bissell first married Alice Hughes (1847-1905) in 1875 and they had three children, Paul Andrews Bissell (1876-1963), John Hughes Bissell (1878-1943) and William Norton Bissell (1878-1977). Alice died in 1905 and Bissell remarried in 1910 to Sigrid Johansen (1878-1918).

Civil War
In April 1861, Bissell enlisted in the Union Army  as part of the 1st Connecticut Infantry Regiment for ninety days. He re-enlisted in the 25th Connecticut Infantry Regiment in November 1861 as a first lieutenant Company "G" in and saw in Louisiana including the Siege of Port Hudson until it was mustered out of service in 1863.

Post bellum career

Union Pacific Railway Company
Bissell worked as a surveyor on the Union Pacific Railway from 1864–1869, under Ogden Edwards. In 1868 he supervised the construction of the Dale Creek Bridge in southeastern Wyoming, a challenging feat of engineering at that time. The bridge was the highest bridge along the Union Pacific built to cross the chasm between Sherman Summit in the Laramie Mountains west of Cheyenne and the Laramie Plains.

Bissell remained with the project until its completion at Promontory Point and the Golden Spike event on May 10, 1869.Bissell was also in the Russell and Savage photographs of the same date 

In 1904, Bissell was elected a director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Death and interment
Bissell died on June 23, 1928, at Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California. He is interred at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California.

Sources 

American railway civil engineers
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni
1835 births
1928 deaths
Williams F121. The Williams F121 (company designation WR36-1)
is a small turbofan engine designed for use in the AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow anti-radiation cruise missile.

Development and design
The F121 engine had a rare set of design parameters as it is designed to be used only once. As a cruise missile engine, it was designed to have a long shelf life (be able to sit around unused for long periods of time) and then operate when needed for several hours. It was designed to power the AGM-136 Tacit Rainbow, which was to be a stand-off anti radiation missile. Its first flight was on July 30, 1984. The AGM-136 program was canceled several years later.

Another unique feature of the engine is that it was started with an explosive cartridge because it couldn't start while still mated to its aircraft.

In the late 2000s, the engine was being used by the Naval Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to test fuel performance and additives.

Specifications

See also

References

 

1980s turbofan engines
F121
Low-bypass turbofan engines
Mark Allen (software developer). Mark Allen is an American software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen used UCSD Pascal to develop a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal in 1979.

Later, Allen developed a number of well-received video games for the Apple II, including Stellar Invaders, Sabotage, and Pest Patrol. Sabotage, in particular, became a classic Apple II game and sparked numerous clones such as Paratrooper. One such clone, Parachute, was preloaded software on early iPods that had displays.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer programmers
University of California, San Diego alumni
M-Power. m-Power is a low-code development platform that uses a point-and-click interface to create enterprise web applications. M-Power is developed with open source languages such as CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Applications created by m-Power run on any database or platform that supports Java. In addition to low-code development, m-Power also includes business intelligence and business process automation capabilities.

History
m-Power’s predecessors date back to 1983, when mrc developed the mrc-Query Series. The mrc-Query Series was originally built to enable business people at all levels to become independent of programmers. However, it developed a following with programmers and developers because it automated much of the tedious syntax work they faced on a daily basis.

In 1987, mrc developed the mrc-Productivity Series. The mrc-Productivity Series provided web development, rapid application development, and real-time reporting capabilities in one package. Additionally, it was a “trainable” code generator, meaning users could teach the mrc-Productivity Series which language to develop applications in, as well as their own coding standards and syntax.

The mrc-Productivity Series, however, was limited to the DB2/400 database. In an effort to branch out beyond the AS/400 market, mrc trained the mrc-Productivity Series how to generate Java code.  Using the newly trained mrc-Productivity Series, mrc developed m-Power in 2004.

Awards
 IBM Star Stream Application Award (1996) - The international Star Stream Application competition is designed to showcase the most outstanding AS/400 application solutions developed by IBM business partners worldwide.
 Midrange Systems Buyers Choice Award (1998) - The Buyers Choice Awards is an annual competition open to all third-party vendors of IBM midrange computing products and services.
 AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE Product Excellence Award (2000) - Voted Best Product in the AS/400-based Application Development category in the 2000 AS/400 Technology SHOWCASE Product Excellence Awards.
 Apex Award for Application Development (2004) - Editors' Choice winner in the Application Development Systems category.

See also
 Google Web Designer

References

External links
Web Design

Web development software
Edward F. Crawley. Edward F. Crawley (born September 7, 1954) is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Engineering Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His teaching and research focuses on Space Systems, Systems Architecture and Systems Engineering. He serves as the co-chair of NASA Exploration Technology Development Program Review Committee and formerly served as the Co-Director of the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program at MIT.

In 1998, Crawley was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to control-structure interaction and its applications on Earth and in space, and to the international space program. In 2011, Crawley was elected as a foreign member into the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

From 2011 to 2016 he was President of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Skolkovo innovation center. He was on leave from MIT since 2011 and planned to return after leaving the Skolkovo office.

Prof. Crawley earned his S.B. (1976) and an S.M. (1978) in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an Sc.D. (1981) in Aerospace Structures from MIT. Prof. Crawley was the founding co-director of the MIT System Design and Management graduate program and also the CDIO.

References

Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
NASA people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
MIT School of Engineering faculty
1954 births
Donald Burmister. Donald M. Burmister (1895 – May 15, 1981) was a professor of civil engineering and a pioneer in the field of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering.

Career 
Donald Burmister served as faculty member at Columbia University for 34 years, beginning in 1929. He was a consultant on the foundation design for many notable construction projects including the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Verazanno-Narrows Bridge, Tappan Zee Bridge, first New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, and reconstruction of the White House in 1950.

Burmister authored over 35 research papers, particularly influential on the subjects of pavement design and soil classification. He developed a solution to calculate stresses and displacements in a two layer pavement system in 1943, and went on solve the problem for a three layer system in 1945. Prior to his solutions, engineers relied on equations by Joseph Valentin Boussinesq to calculate stresses and displacements in pavement, but these equation proved to be inaccurate in layered pavement systems. Tests have shown that for most pavements, the Boussinesq equations result in stresses larger than those measured and displacements larger than those measured. Burmister's layered solutions were a significant advancement in the practice of pavement design.

Burmister developed a soil classification system in 1950 that is still widely used today. The Modified Burmister classification system is based on grain size and plasticity, but differs from the Unified Soil Classification System in that it includes nomenclature to describe the soil's texture, color, mineralogy, and geological origin.

Legacy
In honor of his legacy, the Burmister Lecture has been held annually since 1999 at Columbia University to showcase recent advancements in geotechnical engineering.

References

American soil scientists
1895 births
1981 deaths
Columbia University faculty
Sumitomo Precision Products. Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.  is an integrated manufacturer of aerospace equipment, heat exchangers, hydraulic controls, wireless sensor networks, sensors, micro-electronics technology, and environmental systems. The aerospace division supplies its products to aerospace industries worldwide, including Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer.

History
Formerly a division of Sumitomo Metal Industries, the aerospace business was spun off as Sumitomo Precision Products in 1961.

Products & Services
 Landing gear
 Aircraft propellers
 Jet-engine coolers
 Heat exchangers (for LNG, etc.)
 Hydraulic actuators
 Microelectromechanical systems and semiconductor production equipment
 Wireless Sensor Networks
 Foundry
 MEMS sensors
 Ozonizers

External links
Official Site
Silicon Sensing Systems
SPP Technologies Co., Ltd.
Sumitomo Precision USA, Inc

Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange
Manufacturing companies of Japan
Aircraft component manufacturers
Technology companies established in 1961
Sumitomo Group
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Japanese companies established in 1961
Aerospace companies of Japan