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Harare Institute of Technology. Harare Institute of Technology (HIT)  is a Zimbabwean university offering courses mainly in technology.

History 
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) was established in 1988 as a National Vocational Training Centre (NVTC). Over time, it evolved into a Technical College offering courses in automotive, electrical, and mechanical engineering, producing artisans capable of operating and maintaining machinery in industry with little or no research or generation of new technology related knowledge.

HIT conducts research, design, manufacture, develop, incubate, transfer, and commercialize technology for all sectors of the economy.

HIT was granted degree awarding status in 2005 with the promulgation of the Harare Institute of Technology Act {Chapter 25:26}. Harare Institute of Technology is the hub of technology development and delivery of technology programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Programs offered are Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)Honours Degrees which include:
B.Tech Hons Electronic Engineering
B.Tech Hons Computer Science
B.Tech Hons Software Engineering
Bachelor of Pharmacy Honours (B.Pharm)
B.Tech Hons E-Commerce
B.Tech Hons Financial Engineering;
B.Tech Hons Chemical Process Systems Engineering; 
B.Tech Hons Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; 
B.Tech Hons Electronic Engineering; 
B.Tech Hons Biotechnology; 
B.tech Hons Food Processing Technology 
B.Tech Hons Information Technology; 
B.Tech Hons Information Security and Assurance

The University has the second School of Pharmacy after University of Zimbabwe.The Pharmacy programme at H.I.T is unique as it touches at the production and processing of drugs, as well as the clinical aspects of Pharmacy. The programme meets the WHO guidelines in the Health Sector The school of Pharmacy was established in 2011 after approval from the Ministry of Health and the Pharmacists Council of Zimbabwe (PCZ). The school Chairman of the School of Pharmacy currently is Professor Mazuru Gundidza, who is in the Pharmaceutical field and has over 32 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Notable alumni 
 Evan Mawarire (1996), pastor and democratic activist

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Universities and colleges in Zimbabwe
Technical universities and colleges
Buildings and structures in Harare
Education in Harare
1988 establishments in Zimbabwe
Educational institutions established in 1988
Homer J. Wood. Homer J. Wood was an engineer at Garrett AiResearch, who did pioneering work in gas turbine engines for aircraft applications. He won the Wright Brothers Medal in 1949 with Frederick Dallenbach for a paper discussing auxiliary turbines to supply pneumatic power for aircraft based on the Garrett GTC43/44 and GTP70 units. Wood went on to design the GTC85, one of the most widely used auxiliary power units in commercial and military aviation.

References 

Living people
American aerospace engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Airdrome Fokker DR-1. The Airdrome Fokker DR-1 is an American amateur-built aircraft, designed and produced by Airdrome Aeroplanes, of Holden, Missouri. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction and is available in two versions, a full-sized and a 3/4 scale replica.

The aircraft is a replica of the First World War German Fokker Dr.I Triplane, built from modern materials and powered with modern engines.

Design and development
The Airdrome Fokker DR-1 features a strut-braced triplane layout, a single-seat open cockpit, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its flying surfaces covered in doped aircraft fabric. Both aircraft kits are made up of twelve sub-kits. The dimensions and the engines recommended vary depending on which variant is being constructed. Building time for either version is estimated at 400 hours by the manufacturer.

Variants
Airdrome Fokker DR-1 Triplane - Full Scale Replica
This version has a standard empty weight of , a wingspan of  and is powered by a  Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Five had been completed by the end of 2011.
Airdrome Fokker DR-1 Triplane - 3/4 Scale Replica
This version has a standard empty weight of , a wingspan of   and is powered by a  Rotax 582 two-stroke or a  Volkswagen air-cooled engine. Twenty-seven had been completed by the end of 2011.

Specifications (3/4 scale DR-1)

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Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Replica aircraft
Lotsane Dam. The Lotsane Dam is a dam on the Lotsane River in Botswana completed in 2012.  Its purpose is to provide drinking water to local villagers and to support a horticultural project.

Description

The purpose of the dam is to provide a reliable source of drinking water to 22 villages in the Tswapong area, and to provide irrigation water for a  horticulture operation near Maunatlala.

The dam is an earth fill embankment  high and  long, with an ungated  long ogee crest spillway.
The reservoir has  active storage capacity.
The dam was built by Sinohydro Corporation at a cost of about US$100.7 million.
835 Botswana citizens and 138 Chinese were employed in construction.
The pipeline network to deliver the water will be  long when completed.

Construction

The engineering service contract for design review, procurement and consultancy during construction of the dam was given to SMEC Holdings of Australia.
The contract was awarded to Sinohydro of China in January 2009, with completion planned for October 2011.
In May 2010 the Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources warned that the water pipes from the Lotsane Dam to the villages would cut across some ploughing fields belonging to Maunatlala and Mokokwane residents, but said that the villagers would be compensated.
In August 2011 the deadline for completion was extended to December 2011.
As of February 2012 the dam was complete and starting to hold water, but did not yet have enough to start supplying the villages since there had not yet been any heavy rainfall in the catchment area.

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Dams in Botswana
Beochlich. Beochlich  (the Living Stone) is the name of a hydro electric project (taken from the burn of the same name) to the south-east of Loch Awe, and 9 km north-west of Inveraray.  The 6-metre high earth dam was built in 1998 and is owned by an ethical investment fund run by Triodos Bank.

See also
 List of reservoirs and dams in the United Kingdom

Sources

 "Argyll and Bute Council Reservoirs Act 1975 Public Register"

Reservoirs in Argyll and Bute
Daniel Bourn. Daniel Bourn was an English inventor, who took out a patent for a carding machine with rotating cylinders in 1748.

Though Bourn is thought likely to have had some association with Lancashire, at the time he received the patent he owned a Paul-Wyatt cotton-spinning mill at Leominster in Herefordshire.

References

Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
18th-century English businesspeople
English inventors
British textile industry businesspeople
Mauro Pezzè. Mauro Pezzè is an Italian computer scientist. He is a professor of the faculty of informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland where he had been the dean of the faculty of informatics from 2009 ti 2012. He is also a professor of software engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. He has been co-chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering. Mauro is the co-author of Software testing and analysis: process, principles, and techniques published by Wiley in 2007. Since 2019 he is professor of software engineering at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology. His research interests are mainly software redundancy, self-healing and self-adaptive software systems.

References

External links
 Mauro Pezzè
 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Information scientists
Software engineering researchers
Italian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca
Maeda 703. The Maeda 703 was one of the first indigenous Japanese gliders, a high performance single seat aircraft which first flew in 1940. Three were built, two with gull wing wings; one of these set a national endurance record in 1941.

Design and development

Gliding had attracted little interest In Japan until the mid-1930s, when a group of enthusiasts managed to fund a visit from Wolf Hirth. His tour of Japan with two gliders and a tow plane generated imports of German gliders, copies of them and eventually true Japanese designs. The Maede 703, built by Kenichi Maede, his engineering colleagues Kimura and Kurahara and with academic input from Hiroshi Sato from Kyushu Imperial College was one of the first of the latter.

The 703 was a wood-framed aircraft covered with a mixture of plywood and fabric. Its cantilever mid-mounted wing had a single spar and an associated D-box, skinned in plywood, formed the leading edge. The wing was fabric covered behind the spar. The leading edge was straight from root to tip, with slight sweep-back. From root out almost to half-span the wing tapered in plan only gently but further out, where the trailing edge was entirely formed by the aileron the wing tapered more strongly to a rounded tip. The NACA-derived airfoil provided a high maximum lift coefficient and small pitching moments and the wing had washout to avoid tip stall. There were Schempp-Hirth style airbrakes mounted on the rear of the spar in the central section, extending above and below the wing. On the first two 703s the central sections were set with strong (6.5°) dihedral and the outer section with none, forming a gull wing. The third 703 had the same wing but with constant dihedral from root to tip.

The fuselage of the 703 was entirely ply skinned, tapering gently from a blunt nose to the tail. There, a small, ply skinned fin carried a largely fabric covered, rounded, wide chord, balanced rudder which extended down to the keel. The straight tapered tailplane, also largely fabric covered, was set forward of the fin and at the top of the fuselage, so the elevators required only a small cut-out for the rudder to move in. The pilot sat upright just ahead of the wing leading edge under a multi-piece canopy which merged into the aft fuselage. The 703 had no landing wheel but just a sprung skid from the nose to behind the cockpit, on the deepest part of the fuselage. It was assisted by a tail bumper.

Early tests, beginning in 1940 revealed good handling and performance.

Operational history

Development of the Maeda 703 was stopped by the spread of World War II to the Pacific, but not before Tadeo Kawabe had set a new national glider endurance record of 13 h 41 m in February 1941 in the second 703, A1606. In 1945 all gliders in Japan, along with most in Germany, were destroyed by Allied forces.

Specifications

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1940s Japanese sailplanes
Zbysław Ciołkosz. Zbysław Ciołkosz (23 March 1902 – 25 June 1960) was a Polish American aircraft designer, whose work includes the P.Z.L. 27, PWS-20, LWS-3 Mewa, RWD-11, LWS-6 Żubr, PWS-1, PWS-54, PWS-19, LWS-2, and PWS-52. He was with PWS and LWS, but emigrated to America in 1948, where his work at Piasecki Helicopter earned him the Wright Brothers Medal in 1953 with D. N. Meyers for a paper discussing the use of shaft turbines for helicopters.

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American aerospace engineers
Polish aerospace engineers
Polish emigrants to the United States
1902 births
1960 deaths
20th-century American engineers
Soft state. In computer science, soft state is state which is useful for efficiency, but not essential, as it can be regenerated or replaced if needed. The term is often used in network protocol engineering.

It is a term that is used for information that times out (goes away) unless refreshed, which allows protocols to recover from errors in certain services. The term was coined by David D. Clark in his description of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) internet protocols.

While in general less efficient than well-designed "hard state" protocols when tuned for a particular network regime, soft state protocols behave much better than hard state protocols in an unpredictable network environment such as the Internet.

References

External links 
 "Soft" and "Hard" State

Network architecture
Outsize cargo. Outsize cargo is a designation given to goods of unusually large size. This term is often applied to cargo which cannot fit on standardized transport devices such as skids (pallets) or containers. This includes military and other vehicles.

In some cases, the cargo may be carried on the exterior atop a large cargo aircraft, such as the Space Shuttle or Buran-class spacecraft.

See also 

 Boeing Dreamlifter
 Airbus Beluga / Airbus BelugaXL
 Antonov An-225 Mriya
 Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
 Aero Spacelines Pregnant Guppy
 Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy
 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft
 Myasishchev VM-T

References

Packaging
Freight transport
Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation. Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation is a journal published by Now Publishers. It publishes survey and tutorial articles on all aspects of electronic design automation. The editor-in-chief is Radu Marculescu (Carnegie Mellon University).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Inspec
 EI-Compendex
 Scopus
 CSA databases
 ACM Digital Library

External links 
 

Engineering journals
Now Publishers academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Foundations and Trends in Networking. Foundations and Trends in Networking is a journal published by Now Publishers. It publishes survey and tutorial articles on all aspects of networking.

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Inspec
 EI-Compendex
 Scopus
 CSA databases
 ACM Digital Library

External links 
 

Engineering journals
Now Publishers academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision. Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision is a journal published by Now Publishers. It publishes survey and tutorial articles on all aspects of computer graphics and vision. The editor-in-chiefs are Brian Curless (University of Washington), Luc Van Gool (KU Leuven) and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research).

Abstracting and indexing 
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
 Inspec
 EI-Compendex
 Scopus
 CSA databases
 ACM Digital Library

References

External links 
 

Computer science journals
Now Publishers academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Otto Kässbohrer. Otto Kässbohrer (26 January 1904 – 20 June 1989, Ulm) was a German entrepreneur and vehicle manufacturer. In 1951 he designed and constructed one of the first chassisless buses.

Life
Kässbohrer started his apprenticeship in 1919 in the Karl Kässbohrer Fahrzeugwerke vehicle factory which had been established by :de:Karl Heinrich Kässbohrer, his father, in 1893. His apprenticeship was formally completed when he received his qualification certificate in 1922. That same year, on 26 December, his father died, and Kässbohrer took control of the business together with his brother, Karl, who was studying for an engineering qualification at the time.

The firm employed 20 people at this stage, and was already specializing in public transport vehicles. In 1928 Kässbohrer purchased an Ulm coach building firm called Neuner & Thieme which had run into difficulties. He decided to specialize in producing buses, trailers and vehicle bodies.

Twenty years later Otto Kässbohrer found time to marry his wife, Kathi Kemnitz. 1948 was also the year in which he was nominated chairman of the politically powerful VDA (Automotive Industry Association).

In 1951 he succeeded in building one of the first chassisless buses, under the name Setra (SElbst-TRAgend / Self-supporting). At this time monocoque bodied cars, inspired by the pre-war Opel Olympia, were beginning to appear, and applying equivalent structural approach to motor coaches was a logical extension of this development in the auto industry. Just two years later, at the 1953 Frankfurt Motor Show, Setra presented Europe’s first articulated bus, with space, it was claimed, for 170 passengers. A feature of the Setra buses that was unusual at that time was their rear-mounted engines, which made it possible to incorporate relatively low floors and doors along most of the length of the passenger cabin. But later designs also became available featuring high floors, with space below the passenger deck for luggage and, on long distance coaches, other enhancements such as drivers’ bunks and passenger toilets. Already in the 1950s Setra delivered the first three-axle, high-deck buses, the “Silver Eagle” and the “Golden Eagle” in North America

In 1973 his brother and co-director, Karl Kässbohrer, died, and Otto Kässbohrer took on the sole leadership role.
Four years later he funded a window, known as the Fenster der Erfüllung (Window of fulfillment) in the local cathedral, and in 1978 Ulm recognized his contribution to the city’s success, honouring him with a medal for service to the city.

In 1982 chairmanship of the firm passed to Kässbohrer’s nephew. Two years later, in 1984, he led the creation of the Otto Kässbohrer Foundation, a charitable foundation whose objectives included providing support for employees who had, through no fault of their own, fallen on hard times. In January 1989, on his 85th birthday, he received the Albrecht Berblinger Award, and six months later, on 20 June, he died.

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1904 births
1989 deaths
German automotive pioneers
Businesspeople from Baden-Württemberg
Engineers from Ulm
Chips, Manchester. Chips is a residential apartment building, alongside the Ashton Canal, in New Islington, Manchester, England. Historically part of Ancoats, the building is part of an urban renewal project, New Islington Millennium Village in east Manchester which has been led by Urban Splash.

Chips is a nine-storey building and was designed by the architect Will Alsop, founder of Alsop Architects. The structural engineers were Civic Engineers. Tom Bloxham of Urban Splash requested that the building be away from "mundanity", and came up with Chips with Alsop.

In January 2018, Chips failed a Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service risk assessment and the cladding on the building was found to have "non fire retardant" written on it.

Background
Chips is part of the New Islington regeneration project east of Manchester city centre.

References

External links

Chips at Urban Splash

Will Alsop buildings
Apartment buildings in England
Residential buildings completed in 2009
Residential buildings in Manchester
Department of Energy (Tamil Nadu). The Department of Energy of state of Tamil Naduis one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu. The department was established in 1993 and is responsible for the production and distribution of energy.

Objective
The department is responsible for the production and distribution of power. It enables power production from various resources and distribution of the same through various agencies and undertakings.

Power production, distribution and transmission 
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) is the nodal agency of power generation and distribution. It includes two undertakings: Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) and Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANS). , the average daily consumption is 15,000 MW with 40% of the power generated locally with the remaining 60% met through purchases. , the state was the fourth largest power consumer with a per capita availability of 1588.7 Kwh. , the state has the third highest installed power capacity of 38,248 MW with thermal power being the largest contributor with more than 10,000 MW.

New and renewable resources 
, 54.6% of power is generated from renewable resources. Tamil Nadu is the only state with two operational nuclear power plants at Kalpakkam, the first fully indigenous nuclear power station in India and Kudankulam, the largest nuclear power station in India and generates nearly one-third of the total nuclear power generated in the country. Tamil Nadu has the largest established wind power capacity with over 8,000 MW mostly based out of two regions, Palghat Gap and Muppandal, one of the largest operational onshore wind farms in the world. Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency is the nodal agency for power generation from new and renewable resources and facilitates power generation from such sources in house-holds and small scale industries.

Safety and inspection 
The department of electrical inspection was established in 1903 as a part of Tamil Nadu Public Works Department and was formulated as a separate department in 1993. It is responsible for the ensuring the safety of electrical installations and infrastructure across the state.

Financing 
Tamil Nadu Power Finance and Infrastructure Development Corporation is the nodal agency responsible for managing the funds for facilitating the construction and maintenance of electrical infrastructure.

See also 
 Government of Tamil Nadu
 Tamil Nadu Government's Departments
 Ministry of Power (India)
 Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (India)

References

External links 
 Official website of the Tamil Nadu energy department
 Official website of Government of Tamil Nadu

1993 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Government agencies established in 1993
Tamil Nadu state government departments
Government agencies for energy (India)
Energy in Tamil Nadu
Electronic beam curing. Electronic Beam curing (EBC) is a surface curing process in the manufacture of high pressure laminate (HPL) boards. The process applies color to a single sheet of Kraft paper which is adhered to a HPL board in such a way that it will keep its color durably while remaining scratch-resistant. Unlike other HPL creation methods, EBC does not use heat.

The EBC machine used in the curing process gives the finished HPL boards a surface that is both color-fade resistant and has a high resistance to damage. The process works by first mixing color pastes to the desired color and then applying it to a single sheet of kraft paper. This substrate is then put in the EBC machine together with a protective foil. In the machine this sheet is then shot with electrons at such high velocity that the color impregnated paper hardens almost instantly. After being stored in a temperature-controlled room for a short duration the sheets are ready to be adhered to unfinished HPL boards in a process called dry forming.

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Composite materials
Curing agents