omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Dimitris Bertsimas. Dimitris Bertsimas is an American applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 2005, Bertsimas was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to optimization theory and stochastic systems and innovative applications in financial engineering and transportation.

Biography 

Bertsimas received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1985 and an MS and PhD in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Since 1988, he has been with the MIT faculty. His research interests include optimization, machine learning and applied probability and their applications in health care, finance, operations management and transportation. He has co-authored more than 250 scientific papers and five graduate level textbooks. He is the editor in Chief of INFORMS Journal on Optimization and former department editor in Optimization for Management Science and in Financial Engineering in Operations Research. He is the founding director of the Masters of Business Analytics at MIT. He is currently the Associate Dean of Business Analytics at MIT's Sloan School Management. He has supervised 81 doctoral students and he is currently supervising 25 others. He has been a serial entrepreneur in the areas of financial services, health care, education, machine learning and transportation.

Awards and honors 
 INFORMS Fellow.
 INFORMS Frederic W. Lanchester prize
 INFORMS von Neumann Theory Prize
 INFORMS President Award
 INFORMS Farkas Prize
 INFORMS Erlang Prize
 SIAM Optimization Prize.
 Member of National Academy of Engineering.

Textbooks

 Robust and Adaptive Optimization, 2022.
 Machine Learning Under a Modern Optimization Lens, 2019.
 The Analytics Edge, 2016.
 Introduction to Linear Optimization, 2008.
 Optimization Over Integers, 2005.
 Data, Models, and Decisions, 2004.

See also
 Optimization (mathematics)

References 

MIT School of Engineering alumni
MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Living people
Greek emigrants to the United States
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Athens
Hoffmann H38 Observer. 

The H38 Observer is an experimental design for an observation aircraft designed by Wolf Hoffmann, in Austria, in the early 1980s.

Design and development
At ILA 1984 in Hanover Wolf Hoffmann presented a mock-up for a new project based on the Hoffmann Dimona motor-glider, called Hoffmann Visonar, before being renamed.  The Observer's design aim was long endurance with minimal fuel burn, combined with extremely good vision from the cockpit.  To obtain this, the conventional tractor propeller is driven by a mid-mounted engine placed behind the two side-by-side seats.  This location for the power-plant was intended to leave the nose clear of obstruction.  Since the canopy glazing extends to the crew's feet, vision was expected to be far better than from a conventional aircraft, and not far from that from some helicopters.

The wings, rear fuselage and T-tail were identical to those of the Dimona, but with wing span increased.  A choice of two engine options was proposed and provisions for versions with extended range were made for both options.

The project was not realized due to financial dispute with his former Austrian partner Hoffmann Aircraft and subsequent failure of finding a manufacturer for the H38 (as well as for the H40).

Specifications (H38 Observer with L2000-EB1 engine)

References

1980s German sport aircraft
Hoffmann aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Unflown aircraft
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Amanda Phelan. Amanda Phelan is a New York-based creative who works across many disciplines and media as a director, producer, designer and textile engineer. Phelan's textile work is noted for a high level of technical virtuosity and advanced material fabrication research. Drawing on her shared passions for pattern, rhythm, visual and performing arts, her creative direction echoes a life-affirming spirit and strives to inspire and connect progressive audiences. She debuted her fashion label in September 2015 New York Fashion Week to critical acclaim. She is based out of Brooklyn, New York.

Early life and education
An accomplished dancer and artist, Phelan attended the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting before completing a degree in textiles. While at RISD, her degree focused on the engineering of both woven and knitted structures.

Career

Phelan started her professional career designing knitwear for Alexander Wang. As an emerging designer, Phelan has distinguished herself by her unusual performance based runway shows, and forward thinking textile fabrications. Her Fall 2016 Ready to Wear show was described as "thoughtful, progressive and daring". In interviews, Phelan has suggested that these events are a deliberate attempt to disrupt the standard presentation format, and introduce conceptual content aligned with her materials. She has also been noted for a high level of technical virtuosity and use of complex fabrics. Phelan's runway shows for New York Fashion Week to date have been collaborative performance based events with the Vim Vigor Dance Theater Company, and were hosted at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan's Lower East Side. In 2018, Phelan exhibited her first work at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Items: Is Fashion Modern? exhibition, which featured 111 items of clothing that have had a strong impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.

References

External links
Official website
Fall 2016 Runway Show
Phelan Runway Show archive, New York Magazine.

American fashion designers
American women artists
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women fashion designers
21st-century American women
Genplesite. Genplesite is a very rare tin mineral coming from the Oktyabr'skoe deposit in the Noril'sk area, Russia, which is known for nickel and platinum group elements minerals. Its chemical formula is Ca3Sn(SO4)2(OH)6•3H2O. Genplesite is a member of the fleischerite group, and it is a calcium and tin-analogue of fleischerite. It is hexagonal, with space group P63/mmc.

References

Sulfate minerals
Tin minerals
Calcium minerals
Hexagonal minerals
Minerals in space group 194
Kait Rhoads. Kait Rhoads (born 1968) is an American glass artist. She uses traditional Italian techniques as a base to create public art, sculpture, vessels and jewelry. The aquatic realm is the root of much of her work, the result of spending six years on a boat in the Caribbean in her youth. Since moving to the Northwest over two decades ago, her fascination extended from coral colonies to kelp forests. Aquatic life infuses her sculptures with animated forms, sparkling surfaces and faceted exoskeletons. Rhoads volunteers at the Seattle Aquarium, gaining inspiration and information on ocean ecology first hand on a weekly basis.

Education
Rhoads earned an Atrium Baccalalureate from Rollins College 1989, BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design 1993 and a MFA in Sculpture from Alfred University 2001. She received a Fulbright Scholarship for study of sculpture in Venice, Italy in 2001–2002.

Career
In 2014, her work was featured in the Morean Arts Center Chihuly Collection, a permanent installation of artwork by Dale Chihuly and other notable artists. Rhoads' work was noted for displaying the "creative possibility" of studio glass.
Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Glass, the Palm Springs Art Museum, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Seattle Art Museum, the Shanghai Museum of Glass and the Tacoma Art Museum.

She is the recipient of the Doug and Dale Anderson Scholarship and the Anne Gould Hauberg Award.

References

External links
 Official web site
  Kait Rhoads Design

American glass artists
American women glass artists
Living people
1968 births
21st-century American women artists
Rollins College alumni
Rhode Island School of Design alumni
Alfred University alumni
Zhang Lina. Zhang Lina (; 14 August 1940 – 17 October 2020) was a Chinese physical chemist. She graduated from Wuhan University in 1963. She was a Chinese polymer physical chemist, a professor at the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University. In 2011, she became the first female Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from Wuhan university. She was the editorial board member of Cellulose, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy and Acta Polymerica Sinica.

Scientific career 
Zhang Lina founded the Natural Polymer and Polymer Physics Research Group in 1993 and has been committed to fundamental and applied research of biomass resources and natural macromolecular material science. She solved the problem of the poorest soluble biomass macromolecule. The cellulose is a rich renewable resource on the earth, but the use of traditional manufacturing technology can harm the sustainable development of the environment. Zhang broke through the traditional method of polymer dissolution by heating and successfully dissolved cellulose and chitin using NaOH / urea solution at low temperature. Using Zhang's technology can reduce the generation of white pollution, and the materials generated using Zhang's technology can be completely degraded within a month. This technology makes the recycling of biomass wastes possible and renewable resources can be better utilized. Zhang pioneered new technology for low-temperature dissolution of polymers.

Achievements 
On March 27, 2011, Zhang Lina won 2011 Anselme Payen award as a professor of Wuhan University and the first Chinese won this award.

Zhang has published 530 papers, authored 16 books, and been granted nearly 100 domestic and international patents. 

In 2006, Zhang wrote book Natural polymer modified materials and applications.

In 2007, Zhang wrote book Natural Polymer Science and Materials.

In 2011, Zhang wrote book Environmentally friendly materials based on biomass.

In 2015, Zhang wrote book Cellulose Science and Materials.

References

1940 births
2020 deaths
Chemists from Fujian
Chinese women chemists
Chinese physical chemists
Educators from Fujian
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
People from Nanping
Physicists from Fujian
Wuhan University alumni
Academic staff of Wuhan University
20th-century Chinese chemists
20th-century Chinese scientists
20th-century Chinese women scientists
21st-century Chinese chemists
21st-century Chinese women scientists
Wills Wing Condor. The Wills Wing Condor is an American high-wing, single-place, hang glider that was designed and produced by Wills Wing of Santa Ana, California. Now out of production, when it was available the aircraft was supplied complete and ready-to-fly.

Design and development
The Condor was designed as a flight training glider specifically to introduce new pilots to hang gliding. As such it has a very large wing area, low wing loading, a stall speed of  and it is intended for use only under very light wind conditions. It was specifically intended for sale only to professional hang gliding instructors for teaching solo students during their early glider-handling lessons. It was designed to be easy to ground handle, launch and fly in very light winds from a shallow hill.

It is made from 7075-T6 aluminum tubing, with the control bar and kingpost made from 6061-T6 aluminum. The single-surface wing is covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its  span wing is cable braced from a single kingpost. The nose angle is 115°, wing area is  and the aspect ratio is 5:1. Pilot hook-in weight range is .

The sole model in the line, the Condor 330, is named for its wing area in square feet. It is DHV and HGMA certified.

Specifications (Condor 330)

References

External links
Official Manual for the Condor 330
Photo of a Wills Wing Condor 330

Condor
Hang gliders
Martha Stewart Leitch. Martha Stewart Leitch (June 27, 1918 – December 20, 2015) was a Canadian architect who graduated from the University of Toronto and later served as its Dean of Engineering.

Career
Preferring to be known as "Marty", Leitch graduated with a Bachelors in Architecture from the University of Toronto and attended University of Cambridge for advanced studies after being chosen as a Commonwealth Scholar. She achieved Professional Engineer standing while teach at the University of Toronto and eventually became Dean of Engineering where she was a mentored hundreds of students over the span of her career.

Leitch entered into a profession of architecture and construction that was traditionally difficult for women, however she was adamant in staying in these professions "come hell or high water". During her career, she founded a civil engineering firm with her husband, acted as a lecturer, assistant professor, and Dean at the University of Toronto, became a fellow at the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and was member of the Ontario Association of Architects.

References

1918 births
2015 deaths
Artists from Nova Scotia
People from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian women architects
Canadian women artists
University of Toronto alumni
20th-century Canadian architects
20th-century Canadian women
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Canadian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Jure Leskovec. Jure Leskovec is a Slovenian computer scientist, entrepreneur and associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He was the chief scientist at Pinterest and co-founder / chief scientist AI graph-ML startup Kumo.

Early life and education 
In 2004, Leskovec received a Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, researching semantic networks-based creation of abstracts, using machine learning; in 2008 he received a PhD in Computational and Statistical Learning from the Carnegie Mellon University.

After finishing his PhD, Leskovec worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University for a year. During this time, he was advised by Jon Kleinberg.

Research and career 
After his postdoctoral stint at Cornell University, Leskovec joined the faculty of Stanford University as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in 2009. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2016.

His general research area is applied machine learning and data science for large interconnected systems. His work focuses on modeling complex, richly-labeled relational structures, graphs, and networks for systems at all scales, from interactions of proteins in a cell to interactions between humans in a society. His research finds applications in a variety of settings including commonsense reasoning, recommender systems, computational social science, and computational biology with an emphasis on drug discovery.

Leskovec co-founded a startup called Kosei in 2014 that was acquired by Pinterest in 2015.

Awards and honors 
 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, 2011. 
 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 2012.
 Lagrange Prize, 2015.
 SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2023.

Select publications

References 

Living people
Slovenian computer scientists
Slovenian academics
Sloan Research Fellows
Stanford University faculty
University of Ljubljana alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Network scientists
Pinterest people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Schuylkill Yards. 
Schuylkill Yards is a $3.5 billion, masterplanned development project by Brandywine Realty Trust in West Philadelphia. The project was announced in a press conference in March 2016. The project is being designed in phases. Groundbreaking occurred in late 2017, and the first piece—a public park called Drexel Square—was delivered in June 2019.

Announcement
The project was announced on March 2, 2016, in a press conference by Drexel University president John Fry. This was followed by an announcement in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Usage and design
The development will include approximately  of residential, commercial, retail, green space, and laboratory spaces. 

The design reveals multiple public spaces, each with their own distinct characteristics. A 1.3-acre plot (previously the parking lot at One Drexel Plaza) became a vibrant elliptical lawn and the center of Schuylkill Yards.

If built, 3101 Market would be the second tallest building in Philadelphia, or the third tallest if 2901 Arch Street of the 30th Street Station District is built.

See also
 30th Street Station District
 List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia

References

Proposed skyscrapers in the United States
Urban planning
Multi-building developments in Philadelphia
Louis-Édouard Rivot. Louis-Édouard Rivot (12 October 1820, Paris – 24 February 1869) was a French metallurgist and mining engineer.

He received his education at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and from 1844, taught classes in general chemistry at the École des Mines. In 1853 he succeeded Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen as chair of docimasie (metallurgical analysis) at the École des Mines.

In his research as a metallurgist and mine engineer, his interests were in the practical, as well as in the scientific, aspects of the disciplines. During his career, he investigated mineral deposits and mining operations throughout France, and also in Styria, Transylvania, Hungary, Westphalia, Belgium, the Harz Mountains and a portion of northern Spain. In 1855 he published "Voyage au lac Supérieur" as a result of an expedition to the Lake Superior region in order to investigate its copper mines. In 1974 the book was translated into English by Don H. Clarke, being published with the title, "Voyage to Lake Superior".

Selected works 
 Mémoire sur la houillère, les mines et l'usine à zinc de Stolberg (Prusse Rhénane), 1846 – Treatise on the colliery, the zinc mines and factory at Stolberg (Rhenish Prussia).
 Description de la préparation mécanique des minerais de plomb dans le Ober-Harz, 1851 – Description involving the mechanical preparation of lead ores in the Upper Harz.
 Docimasie : Traité d'analyse des substances minérales à l'usage des ingénieurs des mines et des directeurs de mines et d'usines; 1861–66, 4 volumes – Docimasie: Analysis of mineral substances for use by mining engineers and managers of mines and factories. 
 Mémoire sur les filons de galène argentifère de Vialas, 1863 – On argentiferous galena veins at Vialas. 
 Nouveau procédé de traitement des minéraux d'or et d'argent, 1871 – New processing methods for gold and silver minerals. 
 Principes généraux du traitement des minerais métalliques : traité de métallurgie théoretique et pratique; 1871–73, 3 volumes – General principles for the treatment of metal ores : Metallurgy treatise, theoretical and practical.

References 

1820 births
1869 deaths
French metallurgists
Scientists from Paris
École Polytechnique alumni
Botali P.A.M.A.. The Botali P.A.M.A or Botali-du Rivau P.A.M.A. Type 1 was a very low power French single seat aircraft built in 1934 to a target price of 20,000 Francs.

Design and development
In order to meet a target price of 20,000 Francs set by the Air Ministry a decade before, Botali designed a 1930s version of the very low power light aircraft that competed in the Lympne light aircraft trials of the 1920s. Unlike the earlier aircraft, his design had an enclosed cabin and robust landing gear. His P.A.M.A. designation stood for planeur à moteur auxiliary, or motor glider.

Built in collaboration with du Rivau, the Botali P.A.M.A was a high wing, braced monoplane. In plan its two-piece wing was rectangular apart from rounded tips. It was built around two spruce and plywood box spars  apart and ply covered. The wings were wire braced on each side, with a pair of stout flying wires from the lower fuselage to the spars and thinner landing wires from a triangular steel tube cabane on the upper fuselage. Long ailerons, with a chord of only  occupied the entire trailing edge.

The fabric covered fuselage of the Botali was flat-sided, with four spruce longerons connected by spruce diagonal members. At the front two vertical frames defined the cabin and carried the engine bearings, braced by a rhomboidal frame to the wing leading edge. Its horizontal cylinder-shaped nose had the  air-cooled Poinsard flat twin attached to it externally. Immediately behind the engine, where the upper half of the fuselage was entirely glazed, was the  wide cabin, with two more windows aft. Access was via a starboard side door.  Behind the cabin the fuselage tapered, markedly in plan, to the tail.  This was conventional, with a triangular fin and rectangular rudder that reached to the keel. The tailplane and separate elevators were also rectangular in plan apart from a deep cut-out in the latter for rudder movement.

The Botali's landing gear was simple: on each side a wheel was mounted on the apex of three steel tubes, two from the lower longeron and a third to the nose framework about halfway up the fuselage. Dunlop balloon tyres provided shock absorbing deflections of more than . there was a long steel spring tailskid.

It was flown for the first time on 22 May 1934 by Pierre Pharabod at Toussus-Paris, who reported good handling. In December 1934 the P.A.M.A. Type 1 was successfully demonstrated at Orly by Cressaty, flying along with several other French light aircraft in very wet and windy weather; a Mignet Pou-de-Ciel took the honours. It was displayed at the 14th Paris Aero-Salon in the same month.

Specifications

References

1930s French sport aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1934
Motor gliders
Emsco B-8 Flying Wing. The Emsco B-8 was a two-seat, single-engine, low-wing, twin boom experimental aircraft designed by Charles F. Rocheville in 1930 while he was vice president of Emsco Aircraft Corporation, Long Beach, California.

Development
Rocheville sought for a safe, fool-proof airplane with exceptional range, endurance, and payload.  He intended to make a non-stop flight from Tokyo to Seattle with navigator Theo Lundgren, a distance of about . The aircraft, registered NX55W, first flew on 17 April 1930.

By June 1930 it had been fitted with a  Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior nine-cylinder radial engine. Development ended in November 1930 because of lack of funds and the B-8 was scrapped.

Design
Despite its name 'Flying Wing' the aircraft carried a twin-boom empennage with a single vertical fin.  The two crew sat in open tandem cockpits in a central nacelle with circular cross-section, initially with a  Continental A-70 in tractor configuration.  The nacelle ended in a jet-engine like 'exhaust' nozzle at its rear, which actually  was an intake to a boundary-layer bleed system driven by the engine which blew air through spanwise slots in the rear part of the 'Flying Wing' in an attempt to increase the wing's performance.  Another unusual characteristic of the design was its “reversed tricycle landing gear” with two main wheels under the front wing and a single aft wheel under the rear-end of the nacelle.

Specifications (Emsco B-8)

See also

References

External links

 Images of the Emsco B-8: , , 

Twin-boom aircraft
1930s United States experimental aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1930