omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Li Enliang. Li Enliang (or E.L.li) (; 1912–2008) was a Chinese civil engineer and educator. Li was a former Vice-president of Zhejiang University and former President of the Zhejiang University of Technology.

Life
Source:

Li was born in Xinning (新宁, current Taishan: 台山), Guangdong Province in 1912. Li received BEng in civil engineering from Zhijiang University (之江大学, also known as Hangchow University, which later was merged into Zhejiang University) in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Li did his further studies in the United States. Li obtained MSc from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1939. In 1941 Li obtained PhD from Cornell University.

Li went back to China after his study in the US, and was promoted to associate professor at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, and professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.

After 1949, Li was professor of civil engineering at Zhijiang University before the university was dissociated and merged into Zhejiang University. Li was transferred to professor of Zhejiang University, and was the Chair of its Department of Civil Engineering. Li was former Vice-president of Zhejiang University.

Li was the President of Hangzhou Institute of Engineering (). In Dec 1981, Li was pointed the President of the Zhejiang University of Technology, till Dec 1983.

Li died in Hangzhou on 28 July 2008, at age of 96.

References

External links
 Zhejiang University Archive: Memory of Hangchow University and the construction of Zhejiang University new campus (30 Apr 2007 reviewed)
 The golden old days of Zhejiang University

1912 births
2008 deaths
People from Taishan, Guangdong
Chinese civil engineers
Zhejiang University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Cornell University alumni
Academic staff of Zhejiang University
Presidents of Zhejiang University of Technology
Educators from Guangdong
Engineers from Guangdong
Immigration Bridge. The Immigration Bridge was a proposed footbridge in Canberra, the capital of Australia. It was proposed that it be built between the National Museum of Australia and Lennox Gardens on the south shore of the West Basin of Lake Burley Griffin, in the centre of the city. 

The non-profit organisation Immigration Bridge Australia (IBA) was promoting the bridge as a means of recognising the contributions immigrants have made to Australia and was seeking AUD22 million in donations from the public and between AUD10 million and AUD15 million from the Commonwealth Government for its construction. Initial concept plans for the bridge showed it as having a walkway twelve metres above the lake's surface supported by twelve pylons. IBA have claimed the original design was a "concept only" and a small number, or possibly zero, pylon bridge is a possibility. The proposal had proven controversial, and a Commonwealth Parliamentary inquiry into the bridge held during early 2009 received 20 submissions, most of which opposed the concept. The inquiry's final report recommended that the bridge be redesigned to take the needs of other lake users such as cyclists and sailors into account and that its site be moved if it is not possible to reach a compromise.

Many argue that the inclusion of a bridge within West Basin is inconsistent with Walter Burley Griffin's vision for the lake, however the inclusion of a bridge to Acton Peninsula is clearly visible in the winning design, although in a slightly different location to the concept design. 

The Immigration Bridge was abandoned on 30 March 2010 due to heritage and safety concerns. The project has already raised hundreds-of-thousands of dollars from the public. The proponents of the bridge are working on plans for a national immigration monument that will be located near the National Archives of Australia in the parliamentary triangle in Canberra, using the money already raised.

References 

Proposed bridges in Australia
Buildings and structures in Canberra
Transport buildings and structures in the Australian Capital Territory
SS Oregon. SS Oregon may refer to the following steamships:

  built for George Law.
  launched on 5 August 1848 by Smith & Dimon, New York for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
  built in Chester, Pennsylvania, once operated by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and wrecked off Alaska in 1906 without any loss of life
 , British passenger liner, sank 1886 (33 km) east of Long Island, New York
 , built as SS Quabbin; American-flagged tanker sunk by  on 28 February 1942
 , built as SS Anna E. Morse; British-flagged cargo ship damaged by  on 10 August 1942 and sunk by  later the same day
 , a former name for the training ship Empire State VI of the State University of New York Maritime College

See also
 
 
 , a Type C1-B ship; launched 29 November 1940 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation, sank in a collision on 10 December 1941

Ship names
Cormorant-class ship-sloop. The Cormorant class were built as a class of 16-gun ship sloops for the Royal Navy, although they were re-rated as 18-gun ships soon after completion.

Design
The two Surveyors of the Navy – Sir William Rule and Sir John Henslow – jointly designed the class. A notation on the back of the plans held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, states that the designers based their plan on the lines of the captured French sloop Amazon, captured in 1745.

The Admiralty ordered six vessels to this design in February 1793; it ordered a seventh vessel in the following year.  These ships were initially armed with sixteen 6-pounder guns, later supplemented with eight 12-pounder carronades (6 on the quarterdeck and 2 on the forecastle).  The 6-pounder guns were eventually replaced by 24-pounder carronades.

Twenty-four more ships of the same design were ordered in 1805–1806. However in this new batch 32-pounder carronades were fitted instead of the 6-pounder guns originally mounted in the earlier batch; the 12-pounder carronades were replaced by 18-pounders, and some ships also received two 6-pounders as chase guns on the forecastle.

Of this second batch one ship (Serpent) was cancelled and another (Ranger) completed to a slightly lengthened variant of the design.

Ships

Batch 1 (with 6-pounder guns)

 Note 1: Lynx caused an international incident in 1795 when she fired on .

Batch 2 (with 32-pounder carronades)

 Note 2: The initial contractor for Anacreon, Owen of Ringmore, Devon, went bankrupt in 1810, so work was transferred to Plymouth Dockyard.
 Note 3: The initial contractor for North Star and Hesper, Benjamin Tanner of Dartmouth, went bankrupt in 1807 and the two contracts were transferred to John Cock. 
 Note 4: Ranger was altered on stocks and completed to a slightly longer design, being 111¼ ft on the gundeck.

References 

British Warships in the Age of Sail: 1793–1817, Rif Winfield, Seaforth Publishing, 2007. 

 
Sloop classes
Mary Jackson. Mary Jackson may refer to:

People
 Mary Jackson (Richmond bread riot) (), organizer of the 1863 Richmond bread riots in Civil War Richmond, Virginia, in the Confederate States
 Mary Jackson (actress) (1910–2005), American television character actress
 Mary Jackson (engineer) (1921–2005), American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NASA
 Mary Jackson (artist) (born 1945), American fiber artist from South Carolina
 Mary Jackson McCrorey (1867–1944), born Mary C. Jackson, American educator and mission worker
 Mary Ann Jackson (1923–2003), American child actress
 Mary Ann Jackson (illustrator) (1819–1915), English botanical illustrator
 Mary Anna Jackson (1831–1915), widow of Confederate Army general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
 Mary E. Jackson (1867–1923), African-American female suffrage activist, YWCA leader and writer
 Mary M. Jackson (born 1966), United States Navy officer
 Mary Percy Jackson (1904–2000), English-born Canadian medical practitioner

Fictional characters
Mary Jackson (Coronation Street), in Coronation Street, played by Barbara Ashcroft
Mary Jackson, in the Stephen King novels The Regulators and Desperation

Other uses
Mary Jackson School, a senior high school in Keg River, Alberta, Canada
Mary W. Jackson Building, the official name of NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in the United States

See also
Robocup Rescue Simulation. Robocup Rescue Simulation is an education and research project intended to promote the development of robotic agents for search and rescue. The project was initiated in reaction to the Great Hanshin earthquake, which hit Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on 17 January 1995, killing more than six thousand people, most of them in the city of Kobe.

According to event organizers, "The intention of the RoboCup Rescue project is to promote research and development in this socially significant domain at various levels involving multi-agent team work coordination, physical robotic agents for search and rescue, information infrastructures, personal digital assistants, a standard simulator and decision support systems, evaluation benchmarks for rescue strategies and robotic systems that [can] all [be] integrated into comprehensive systems in future."

The RoboCup Rescue Simulation Project challenges teams of researchers to design virtual robots to solve various challenges, or to build real, autonomous robots, which are evaluated in specially designed rescue simulations.

The project is one of several competitions operated by RoboCup, which is best known for the Robot Soccer World Cup.

References

External links 
RoboCup-Rescue Official Wiki (since 2007)
RoboCup-Rescue Official Web Page (until 2018)

RoboCup
Emergency management in Japan

ja:ロボカップ#ロボカップレスキュー・シミュレーションリーグ
Red Lizard Software. Red Lizard Software was a privately held software vendor for static analysis tools.  The company was founded in 2009 as a spinout from the Australia research centre NICTA. It was headquartered in Sydney, Australia. In December 2015, the company was acquired by Synopsys and merged into the Coverity product line.

Products
Goanna was a static analysis tool for C and C++ source code. It provided a command line version ("Goanna Central") as well as an integration into Eclipse or Visual Studio called "Goanna Studio". Goanna was based on model checking techniques and performs an automated semantics code analysis for detecting quality as well as security software bugs.

References

Static program analysis tools
Hierarchical constraint satisfaction. In artificial intelligence and operations research, hierarchical constraint satisfaction (HCS) is a method of handling constraint satisfaction problems where the variables have large domains by exploiting their internal structure.

For many real-world problems the domain elements cluster together into sets with common properties and relations. This structure can be represented as a hierarchy and is partially ordered on the subset of a relation. The expectation is that the domains are structured so that the elements of a set frequently share consistency properties permitting them to be retained or eliminated as a unit. Thus, if some elements of a set satisfy a constraint, but not all, the subsets of the set are considered. In this way, if no elements of a set can satisfy the constraint the whole set can be discarded. Thus, structuring the domain helps in considering sets of elements all at a time and hence helps in pruning the search space more quickly.

References

Constraint programming
Arumugam Vijiaratnam. Arumugam Vijiaratnam (24 August 1921 – 18 February 2016) was the only Singaporean who represented his country in four sports — hockey, cricket, football and rugby — doing so from 1946 to 1956. He was the first Singaporean engineer. A top civil servant, Vijiaratnam represented Singapore at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games in hockey, where he was instrumental in the 6-1 rout of the United States.

Education
Born in Ipoh, Malaysia, Vijiaratnam studied in Victoria School in Singapore from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the first government scholars to demonstrate that sports and studies could be balanced successfully. He was awarded government scholarships to study engineering at Kuala Lumpur Technical College in 1941 and Brighton College of Advanced Technology in 1950 where he graduated with an engineering degree. He captained the hockey and cricket teams at the Brighton College of Advanced Technology.

Career
After he returned to Singapore in 1953, he worked for the Public Works Department until he was seconded to the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) in 1964. He played a key role in PSA's formation, helping to develop its containerisation programme, and rose to become its chief engineer. He worked in PSA for 17 years and was one of two key men who were instrumental in reclamation works for Changi Airport, a feat that drew mention in Singapore's founding father, Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story.  He later returned to PSA and retired from there as the director of engineering at the age of 75.

Vijiaratnam became the first Pro-Chancellor of Nanyang Technological University in 1992 and served until 2005. He was also chairman of Tamil Murasu for ten years from 1995, and served on the Presidential Council for Minority Rights from 1994 to 2001. He was also the first Asian to serve as vice-president of the Britain-based Institution of Structural Engineers.

Vijiaratnam died peacefully at his home in Maryland Drive, off Holland Road, in 2016. He left behind a son, Vijendran, and 3 daughters. His wife, Yogasoundary, died in 2011.

Book
A book about his life, "Engineered For Success", was launched in March 2016.

References

External links
 
 
 

1921 births
2016 deaths
Singaporean sportspeople of Indian descent
Singaporean people of Tamil descent
Singaporean male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Singapore
Field hockey players at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Ipoh
Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent
Malaysian people of Tamil descent
Malaysian emigrants to Singapore
Victoria School, Singapore alumni
Singaporean rugby union players
Singapore FA players
Singaporean cricketers
Singaporean Hindus
Men's association football players not categorized by position
Singaporean men's footballers
Soviet locomotive class FD. The Soviet locomotive class FD (; ) was a Soviet main freight steam locomotive type named after Felix Dzerzhinsky (; ). Between 1932 and 1942, 3213 FD series locomotives were built.

History 
The locomotive was created in connection with the industrialization conducted in the USSR. Planning took only 100 days, and typical construction time was 170 days. For certain features the design engineers referred to American practice in steam locomotive design. The first locomotive was built at the October Revolution Locomotive Factory in Luhansk, Ukrainian SSR (Luhansk, Ukraine) in 1931 and sent for a show to Moscow.

Tests, in which the locomotive performed well, were conducted in 1932. In that year the Luhansk October Revolution plant began mass production of FD20 locomotives. Over the course of production their construction got better steadily. From the beginning of the Great Patriotic war in 1941, production was interrupted only in 1942; four locomotives were built in Ulan-Ude, Russian SFSR. Total production was 2927 locomotives of FD20 and 286 locomotives of FD21. The two subclasses only differed in the type of superheater.

The locomotives of FD operated in areas with high turnover of goods. They worked on 23 of 43 railways in the USSR, including in Siberia and in the Urals. From middle of 1950, in connection with conversion to diesel engines and electric locomotives, the locomotives of FD began to be pushed aside from work. Also in 1958–1960 about 1000 locomotives were transferred to China, as China Railway class FD; some of these were subsequently transferred from China to North Korea, where the Korean State Railway numbered them in the 8500 series.

Gallery

See also
 Russian Railway Museum, St.Petersburg
 The Museum of the Moscow Railway, at Paveletsky Rail Terminal, Moscow
 Rizhsky Rail Terminal, Home of the Moscow Railway Museum
 Finland Station, St.Petersburg
 History of rail transport in Russia

References

Notes

Literature
 В.А. Раков. Локомотивы отечественных железных дорог 1845-1955. — 2-е, переработанное и дополненное. — Москва: «Транспорт», 1995
 Справочник по локомотивам железных дорог СССР. Главное управление локомотивного хозяйства МПС. Трансжелдориздат 1956
 Курс паровозов. Устройство и работа паровозов и техника их ремонта (под редакцией С.П. Сыромятникова), Трансжелдориздат (State Publishing House), 1937

External links

 
 

FD
2-10-2 locomotives
Luhanskteplovoz locomotives
Freight locomotives
5 ft gauge locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of China
Railway locomotives introduced in 1931
Locomotives of North Korea
List of equipment of the Swedish Army. This is a list of equipment of the Swedish Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, artillery, air defence and transport vehicles.

Vehicles

Main battle tanks

Infantry Fighting Vehicles

Armored personnel carriers

Utility vehicles

All-terrain vehicles

Command, control and communications vehicles

Military engineering vehicles

Trucks 

RMMV HX range of tactical trucks
 Scania PRT-range
 Scania P124 6x6 hook lift
 Scania P124 8x8 protected, hook lift
 Scania SBA111
 Volvo FMX
 Volvo FM12 6x6 hook lift
 Scania T144 (Dragbil 23T)

Indirect fire

Artillery

Mortars

Forward observer equipment

Counter-battery radars

Air defence systems

Missile systems

Anti-aircraft artillery

Small arms

Pistols

Submachine guns

Assault rifles

Precision rifles

Shotguns

Support weapons

Anti-armor

Explosives

Personal equipment

Camouflage

Helmets

Footnotes

References 

Swedish Army
Army equipment
Swedish Army
Military equipment of Sweden
Wetware (biology). The term wetware is used to describe the protocols and molecular devices used in molecular biology and synthetic biology.

Where biological components and systems are treated in a similar manner to software, and similar development models and methodologies are applied, the term 'wetware' can be used to imply an approach to their problems as 'bugs' and their beneficial aspects as 'features'. In this manner, genetic code can be subjected to Version Control Systems such as Git, for the development of improvements and new gene edits, therapeutic components and therapies.

Examples 
The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Wiki project Open Wetware (OWW) provides a resource for reagent, project and laboratory notebook sharing.

A somewhat related NSF consortium Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC) constructed and distributed wetware. It was succeeded in 2016 by the Engineering Biology Research Consortium.

References 

Molecular biology
Synthetic biology
Slotted optical switch. The slotted optical switch, sometimes known as opto switch or optical switch but not to be confused with the optical component, is a device comprising a photoemitter (e.g. LED) and a photodetector (e.g. photodiode) mounted in a single package so that the photoemitter normally illuminates the photodetector, but an opaque object can be inserted in a slot between them so as to break the beam. Associated circuitry is provided which changes state when the beam is interrupted. For example, the carriage of a computer printer may be fitted with a projection which interrupts the beam of a slotted switch when it reaches the end of its travel, causing circuitry to react appropriately. Another application of the slotted switch is in the type of computer mouse with a rotating ball. The ball measures distances moved by rotating orthogonal shafts which drive optical chopper wheels turning in the slots of slotted switches.

This device uses the same basic components as an opto-coupler, but is operated by manipulating the light path instead of the photoemitter input.

Illustrations and data on slotted optical switches are to be found in catalogues and manufacturers' data sheets.

References 

Optoelectronics
Slide plate. A slide plate is a linear bearing that may be part of the expansion joints of bridges, high temperature horizontal ducts of water-tube boilers and other mechanical or structural engineering applications. In each case one plate is fixed and the other slides on top as expansion or contraction occurs.

The plates provide a surface with a low coefficient of friction which can be attached to a supporting structure. This combination provides support while simultaneously allowing an object to move (slide) freely along the supporting surface. The plate may be of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE),TEF-MET, Lubrite or steel according to the application.

Multiple design variations are possible but the most common example of a slide plate (in structural applications) has glass-filled PTFE  bonded to a steel backing plate.  In these applications a two-part system is used which has an upper element with stainless steel surface face-down and bearing on a lower element with its PTFE steel backing surface face-up.  In most applications, the upper element is larger than the lower element by the amount of movement expected.  This has a two-fold advantage of maintaining a constant bearing area and preventing the lower surface from being exposed to dirt, grit or other contaminants throughout the range of motion.

Slides plates are arranged in a 'sandwich' formation, which is made of an upper slide plate and a lower slide plate component.

Commonly used in 
 Oil/gas/chemical industries
 Complex steel structures
 Post-tensioned concrete structures

See also 
 Plain bearing

References 

Bearings (mechanical)
Bridge components
Project Zero (disambiguation). Project Zero is the name of a team of security analysts employed by Google to find zero-day exploits.

Project Zero may also refer to:
 The experimental software development community in which new versions of WebSphere sMash are incubated
 AgustaWestland Project Zero, a VTOL technology demonstrator aircraft
 Project Zero, a Harvard project to study and improve education, initiated 1967 by Nelson Goodman
 Fatal Frame, a series of video games also known as Project Zero in Europe

See also
 Vision Zero