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Ernest R. Matthews. Prof Ernest Romney Matthews FRSE  FGS MICE (1873-1930) was a British civil engineer and expert on coastal erosion. In authorship he is known as Ernest R. Matthews.

Life

He was born in Hastings in Sussex on the southern English coast on 16 January 1873. He was the son of William Henry Matthews, the local chief coastguard and had a lifelong interest in the coast. He attended St Michael's School in Hastings.

He became Chadwick Professor of Municipal Engineering at University College, London and was also the Chief Drainage Officer for London.

In 1901 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Geikie, John Horne, Ben Peach and Cargill Gilston Knott.

In the First World War he had the unusual job of being in charge of trench sanitation, and oversaw the construction of latrines and drainage in France and Flanders. He was Mentioned in Dispatches.

He died on 6 November 1930.

Family

He was married to Bessie Barker.

Publications

Coastal Erosion and Protection (1913)
Planning from an Engineering Aspect (1912)

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1873 births
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Academics of the University of London
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Cummins Aeos. The Cummins Aeos is a concept electric-powered semi-truck tractor unit, an Urban Hauler Tractor, designed by Cummins. The vehicle is named after Aeos, the flying horse, one of four, of Greek mythology that pulled the chariot of the god Helios across the sky; and the Sun with it. It is the first fully electric heavy-duty truck revealed to the public, and the first electric model from Cummins. The aerodynamic semi truck body was designed by Cummins partner Roush Industries, while Cummins focused on the battery and driveline systems.

Specifications
The Aeos is an  short-haul day-cab two-axle Class 7 tractor unit (prime-mover). It is to have a 140 kWh battery pack that will allow a range of  when hauling the maximum load of . The Li-ion battery is to have a 1-hour recharge time. Additional battery packs could extend the range to . It is equipped with regenerative braking and low rolling resistance tires to maximize the range. An option for a range extender engine (the Cummins B4.5 or B6.7 motors) could be added for additional range. The big rig truck would have a gross vehicle weight rating of . Solar panels can be equipped onto the trailer to increase range.

Production
Production was slated for 2019, with OEM production partners, and not by Cummins itself. Cummins was said to provide battery and driveline systems to its production partners. As of March 2021, there is no mention of this vehicle on the Cummins website.

References

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Brynmor Jones (academic). Sir Brynmor Jones (25 September 1903 – 16 July 1989) was a Welsh-born Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull.

Brynmor Jones was born in North Wales and was educated at University College of Wales at Bangor (BSc in Chemistry, 1925) and at St John's College, Cambridge (PhD, 1933). He obtained a number of research fellowships at the Chemistry Department in Cambridge. He gained his first teaching post at the University of Sheffield in 1931, where he began research into liquid crystals. In 1947 he was appointed to a professorial chair in Chemistry at the University College Hull. A year later he was awarded the DSc higher doctorate. During his early years at Hull he was made Dean of Science, and later Deputy Principal. When the college achieved full university status in 1954, he became its Pro-Vice-Chancellor. In 1956, on the retirement of John H Nicholson, Jones was appointed Vice-Chancellor.

Brynmor Jones oversaw a period of rapid expansion of the University of Hull, with student numbers quadrupling during his time in office. He notably steered the university through a period of significant student unrest over the summer of 1968. In the same year he received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours List. Jones was a driving force behind the expansion of Hull University library, working closely with the university librarian Philip Larkin. The new library was opened in 1960; later, in 1967, it was named the Brynmor Jones Library in his honour. Jones received a number of honorary degrees. He retired in 1972.

References

Bibliography
Bamford, T.W. (1978) The University of Hull: the First Fifty Years, Published for the University of Hull by Oxford University Press.

1903 births
1989 deaths
Welsh scholars and academics
Vice-chancellors of the University of Hull
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Sheffield
Jan Anuszczyk. Jan Anuszczyk (born 1948 in Kraszew) is a Polish scientist and professor working in the technical disciplines of electrical engineering and power engineering and transport. He has been head of the Transport and Energy Conversion Department at the Institute of Electrical Power Engineering at Lodz University of Technology since 2007.

Career
He originates from the Institute of Electrical Machines and Transformers of Lodz University of Technology (now the Institute of Mechatronics and Information Systems). He is an expert in the fields of properties of ferromagnetic materials and magnetic circuits, electrical machinery (including wind generators), drive means of transport, and modeling and simulation of field phenomena in power systems and transportation.

He is the author of over 150 scientific publications and of 20 projects and unpublished studies on the above topics. He has supervised four doctoral students in technical sciences. He is an associate member of the Section of Electrical Traction at the Committee of Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Lodz University
He has been working for Lodz University of Technology since 1974, being employed in the following positions: 1974-1982 Senior Assistant, Assistant Professor 1982–1992, 1992-1995 Assistant Professor with the degree of Dr. assistant professor, 1995 associate professor. In 2011 he was awarded the title of professor.

Professional activity
In his professional activity he served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Lodz University of Technology (1996-2002) and director of the Educational Centre of TUL in Bełchatów (2002-2009). He was a member of the Council of Technology and Industrial Park in Bełchatów (2002-2008) and in 2002-2004 a member of the group of experts and the secretary of the assessment team of the Accreditation Commission of Technical Universities (KAUT) in the field of Electrical Engineering. As part of his scientific-organizational activity in Lodz University of Technology he was the coordinator of the interdepartmental Committee for the Multiannual Programme Project  "Railways to the Twenty-First Century" and for the Centre for Rail Transport CTS CETRANS.

He is a member of the Polish Society of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering, the Polish Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Lodz Scientific Society.

References

Bibliography
 

1948 births
Academic staff of Łódź University of Technology
Polish electrical engineers
Łódź University of Technology alumni
Living people
21st-century Polish engineers
20th-century Polish engineers
Bill Huang. Bill Huang () is a Chinese serial entrepreneur. He was the leader in China Mobile Research Institution in 2007. In 2015, Huang founded CloudMinds Inc.

Life and career 
Bill Huang graduated from Huazhong University of Science & Technology with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. After 2 years studying at the University of Illinois, he received master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Huang entered Bell Laboratories to work on researches in Asynchronous Transfer Mode in 1990. In 1994, he joined Unitech Telecom and became the co-founder of UTStarcom Holdings Corp. a year later. After that, Huang developed the operating system WACOS.

In 1996, Huang put forward the "Network is the Switch" soft switch concept. That same year, he co-established the International Soft switch Consortium (ISC) and developed the first mobile soft switch system in the world and the first carrier-class streaming media exchange and IPTV system.

With the aim to build a research and development center like Bell Labs, Huang joined China Mobile in 2007.

In 2012, Huang created the cloud-based robot system, an architecture for building intelligent robotics system. It contains the idea to split the robot into three parts, cloud, mobile network and terminal.

In 2015, Huang founded CloudMinds Inc., a cloud computing company.

Awards 
In 2007, Huang was listed on 100 Most Influential Persons in the Chinese Mobility Industry. In 2016, he received IEEE CQR Chairman's Award, which was the first time that a Chinese CEO to achieve so.

References 

Living people
Chinese businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
Huazhong University of Science and Technology alumni
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Chinese company founders
Vanderhall Motor Works. Vanderhall Motor Works is an American vehicle manufacturer based in Provo, Utah. It manufactures hand-made three-wheeled autocycles designed for sports driving, touring, commuting and city driving.

History

Vanderhall Motor Works was founded in 2010 by Steve Hall. Hall, who had been a CAD designer at Novatek, spent five years prototyping before offering his designs to the public.  His initial model was the Laguna: a three-wheel roadster that is federally classified as a motorcycle and passed final testing for NHTSA and EPA certification in 2016. In 2016, Vanderhall officially produced three autocycle models: Laguna, Laguna Sport Premium, and the Laguna Bespoke Motoring Experience. Each features a 1.4-liter, turbocharged GM Family 0 engine with a GM 6-speed automatic transmission.

On June 12 2023 Vanderhall Motor Works failed in an attempt to take the domain name vanderhall.com through the UDRP process. The respondent in this case registered the domain name in the year 2000 and the domain name matches the respondents surname, 'van der Hall'.

Models

Laguna

Vanderhall Motor Works announced in 2012 a two-seat vehicle, a kind of three-wheeled sports car that has been in production since 2016.

Venice

The Venice was presented in 2017 with ABS bodywork.

Edison 2

Electric version of the model Venice.

Venice Speedster

In 2018, Vanderhall announced a Speedster model at the annual Sturgis Rally.

Carmel

The 2019  Carmel is Vanderhall's latest  release.

Brawley

Quad motor electric off-roader.

Santarosa

Concepts

Yuma, extra cab pickup truck
Speeder, retro, sports reverse trike
Mammoth, EV snowcat
Laduna, 2-seat dune buggy
Catalina, retro, luxury speedboat
Balboa, café racer motorcycle
Indio, 3-wheel sports car

References

External links
 Official page

Three-wheeled motor vehicles
2010 establishments in Utah
American companies established in 2010
Companies based in Provo, Utah
Motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Utah
Open wheel cars
Mohammad Ali Naqi. Mohammad Ali Naqi is a Bangladeshi architect and the current Vice-Chancellor of Stamford University Bangladesh.

Education

Naqi passed his SSC and HSC in 1980 and 1982 subsequently. He completed his bachelor's in 1989 and masters in 2004 from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Career
Naqi started his career as a lecturer at Khulna University in 1991 and went on to become the head of the department. In 2006, he joined Stamford University Bangladesh as the chair of the Department of Architecture.

References

Living people
Academic staff of Khulna University
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Bangladeshi architects
Hassan Ziari. Hassan Ziari () is an Iranian highway engineer and conservative politician. He was a Tehran councillor from 2003 to 2007 and is a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology, where he earned his degrees.

Ziari headed Iranian Railways Company and the ex-officio vice minister of roads under administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

References

 Councillor profile
 

1961 births
Living people
Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran politicians
Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude politicians
Vice ministers of Iran
Iran University of Science and Technology alumni
Academic staff of Iran University of Science and Technology
People involved in scientific misconduct incidents
Tehran Councillors 2003–2007
Transport engineers
Kapitoil. Kapitoil is a 2010 novel by Teddy Wayne published by Harper Perennial.

Summary

In the summary of Michael K. Walonen,
Kapitoil recounts three months in the life of Karim Issar, a young Qatarian computer scientist/businessman who has traveled to Manhattan in October 1999 to work for an investment firm debugging its computer system in anticipation of Y2K. In short order Karim develops a program he names Kapitoil that allows high profit gain through predicting fluctuations in the oil futures market by clandestinely monitoring the language of news reports on the Middle East and using algorithms to anticipate how the perceptions of world events they generate will impact the market. The success of Karim’s program leads him to advance rapidly in his firm while a romantic relationship with a co-worker blossoms, but moral conflict encroaches when he is faced with the choice of selling the intellectual property rights to his boss or disseminating them freely through an academic paper suggesting the applicability of its predictive mechanism to dealing with outbreaks of disease in the developing world. The narrative ends with Karim choosing the latter course and boarding a plane back to Qatar, where he will study biology to help further his epidemiology project and work in the small store owned by his father, with whom he has had a strained relationship for some time.
Issar's liberation from the narrow world-views of neoliberal finance is achieved partly through his reading of The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

References

2010 American novels
Novels set in Manhattan
Novels about stock traders
HarperCollins books
Parallel force system. In engineering, a parallel force system is a type of force system where in all forces are oriented along one axis. An example of this is a see saw.  The children are applying the two forces at the ends, and the fulcrum in the middle gives the counter force to maintain the see saw in neutral position.  Another example are the major vertical forces on an airplane in flight (see image at right).

References

 
 

Force
Classical mechanics
Mechanics
Mechanical engineering
Nader Shariatmadari. Nader Shariatmadari (, 1960 – 3 August 2021) was an Iranian geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineer and conservative politician.

Biography
He was a Tehran councillor from 2003 to 2007 and was a professor at Iran University of Science and Technology. He did not seek reelection to the office.

Shariatmadari died from COVID-19 at age 61.

References
Notes

Sources
 Councillor profile
 

1960 births
2021 deaths
Politicians from Tehran
Tehran Councillors 2003–2007
Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran politicians
Iran University of Science and Technology alumni
Academic staff of Iran University of Science and Technology
University of Ottawa alumni
Geotechnical engineers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran
Samuel D. Gehman. Samuel Dwight Gehman (December 7, 1903 – June 1, 1992) was a Goodyear physicist noted for development of a modulus-based measurement of rubber's glass transition temperature.

Personal 

Gehman was born on December 7, 1903.  He died in Akron, Ohio, on June 1, 1992.

Education 

In 1922, he was one of eight sophomores selected for honors at the University of Pennsylvania.  He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1929 on the topic Reflection of Soft X-rays.

Career 

Gehman was recruited to Goodyear by Ray P. Dinsmore. He made influential studies of strain crystallization via x-rays, of rubber's dynamic properties, and of heat transfer in rubber. He managed physics research at Goodyear's research division and was renowned for developing the Gehman low-temperature twist test, which gave laboratories convenient and precise low-temperature stiffening measurements of rubber compounds.  He was an inventor of approximately 70 patents.

In 1972, Gehman was listed at 10th out of the 100 top contributors to the world's rubber literature published between 1932 and 1970.

Gehman retired in 1968 following 40 years with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

Awards and recognitions
1965 - Fellow of the American Physical Society
 1970 - Charles Goodyear Medal from the ACS Rubber Division

External links
 Audio interview with Samuel D. Gehman

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
1903 births
1992 deaths
Tire industry people
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company people
1967 British flying saucer hoax. The 1967 British flying saucer hoax was originally thought to be the unidentified landing of six 'spaceships' that occurred across Southern England on Monday, 4 September 1967.

A major police and army response followed the discovery of the 'spacecraft', which were  long,  wide and  deep, weighed  and emitted an electronic noise. The six craft were located along the 51st line of latitude from the Thames Estuary to the Bristol Channel, roughly equidistant from each another; one each at a new housing estate near Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Bromley golf course in south London, a horse paddock in Winkfield village (near Ascot), the village of Welford (near Newbury), in Berkshire, Chippenham in Wiltshire and on Dial Hill in Clevedon in Somerset.

The hoax was undertaken by aircraft engineering apprentices from the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough.

Planning and building the 'spacecraft'

The idea behind the hoax was planned in January 1967 as part of Farnborough college's upcoming Rag Week. The apprentices created their flying saucers in fibreglass halves and then covered them in metal with no aerials or portholes visible. Inside each saucer was placed electronic equipment that would make an eerie sound when the saucer was flipped over. Each saucer was also filled with a mixture of flour and water.

Groups of two or three then drove to the selected locations in the dead of night and carried the saucers into fields. Here they flipped the saucers over causing them to emit the electronic sound. They then left the field and headed back to Farnborough. None of the teams was detected.

Response from the authorities
When each of the saucers was later reported to the police each was cordoned off. The British army's southern command, several police forces, army bomb disposal units, RAF helicopters were all mobilised. The Ministry of Defence was informed and the army blew up the saucer found at Chippenham. The one on the Isle of Sheppey was removed by helicopter. Another was sent to the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston and one to the guided weapons division of the British Aircraft Corporation. When one of the saucers was drilled into, the mixture inside exploded, covering police officers in foul-smelling slime.

Revealing the hoax
The pranksters responsible were Christopher Southall and Roger Palmer, both aged just 21. The idea behind the hoax was to raise funds during the college's Rag Week. The hoax garnered extensive media attention - both in Britain and abroad. The apprentices did not think the hoax would create such a media storm but several were later interviewed on television. They revealed the hoax the same day as the saucers were found. No action was taken against the hoaxers and they raised £2,000 for charity.

References

External links
 Pictures of the hoax flying saucers

1967 in England
1967 hoaxes
September 1967 in the United Kingdom
1960s in Berkshire
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Trim drag. Trim drag, denoted as Dm in the diagram, is the component of aerodynamic drag on an aircraft created by the flight control surfaces, mainly elevators and trimable horizontal stabilizers, when they are used to offset changes in pitching moment and centre of gravity during flight. For longitudinal stability in pitch and in speed, aircraft are designed in such a way that the centre of mass (centre of gravity) is forward of the neutral point. The nose-down pitching moment is compensated by the downward aerodynamic force on the elevator and the trimable horizontal stabilizer. This downwards force on the tailplane (horizontal stabilizer and elevator combination) produces lift–induced drag in a similar way as the lift on the wing produces lift–induced drag. The changes (shifts) of the position of the centre of mass are often caused by fuel being burned off over the period of the flight, and require the aerodynamic trim force to be adjusted. Systems that actively pump fuel between separate fuel tanks in the aircraft can be used to offset this effect and reduce the trim drag. 

Fly-By-Wire flight control systems can completely eliminate trim drag at transonic speeds, and reduce it substantially at supersonic speeds by using the tail as a lifting body, adding to wing lift, at subsonic speeds, transitioning to pushing down against the wing as in conventional designs at supersonic speeds, and just at Mach 1 going completely neutral, providing no lift whatsoever in either direction. This not only eliminates trim drag but also slightly reduces induced drag when crossing the sound barrier.

References

Drag (physics)
Railway Track & Structures. Railway Track & Structures (RT&S) is an American trade journal for the rail transport industry, focusing on the fields of railroad engineering, communication and maintenance. It was founded in 1905 as Railway Engineering & Maintenance and is published monthly by Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation.

See also
 List of railroad-related periodicals

References

 Railway Track & Structures archive at HathiTrust

1905 establishments in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Rail transport magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1905
Magazines published in Connecticut