omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
USCGC Richard Snyder. USCGC Richard Snyder (WPC-1127) is the 27th  cutter built for the United States Coast Guard. She is the first of her class to be home-ported in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

Design

Like her sister ships, Richard Snyder is designed to perform search and rescue missions, port security, and the interception of smugglers.  She is armed with a remotely controlled, gyrostabilized 25 mm autocannon, four crew served M2 Browning machine guns, and light arms. She is equipped with a stern launching ramp that allows her to launch or retrieve a water-jet propelled high-speed auxiliary boat without first coming to a stop.  Her high-speed boat has over-the-horizon capability, and is useful for inspecting other vessels and deploying boarding parties.  She is designed to support her crew of 24 for missions of up to five days over distances of almost .

Operational history

Richard Snyder was delivered to a Coast Guard base in Key West for her sea trials on February 8, 2018.  She was commissioned on April 20, 2018 at her home port in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.

Namesake

In 2010, Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the United States Coast Guard's most senior non-commissioned officer, proposed that all 58 cutters in the Sentinel class should be named after enlisted sailors in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services, who were recognized for their heroism.  In 2015 the Coast Guard announced that Richard Snyder, who was awarded a Silver Star for attacking Japanese ground forces during an amphibious assault on the island of Biak, would be the namesake of the 27th cutter.

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Sentinel-class cutters
Ships of the United States Coast Guard
2018 ships
Ships built in Lockport, Louisiana
Birkha Bawari. The Birkha Bawari is a stepwell located in Jodhpur, India. The structure is to designed to conserve water for use by the city of Jodhpur, and is built in the style traditional Indian stepwells. It was designed by Indian architect Anu Mridul and was paid for by the Essgee Group, a real estate firm based in Jodhpur.

Design history 
Stepwells were constructed to capture and hold rainwater for agricultural and domestic use. The water reserves stored by stepwells aided in conserving water during long periods of drought. Throughout its history, the city of Jodhpur was supplied with water from over 50 stepwells. However, the introduction of low cost pumps and pipes rendered stepwells obsolete, and none were built after the 19th century.

The Brikha Bawari was designed in the style of older stepwells. The stepwell was designed at the behest of the Essgee Group, a Jodhpur-based real estate firm, which envisioned a modern stepwell as a source of water for a new housing development it was constructing. The firm contracted Anu Mridul to design the modern stepwell. Construction on the building was finished in 2009, after which the stepwell began to be used as a water reservoir. Mridul was awarded the All India Stone Architecture Award in 2009 for his design.

The stepwell is built of red sandstone, and is capable of holding 17.5 million liters of rainwater. The stepwell currently provides water for the Umaid Heritage Housing Township, a housing development built by the Essgee Group.

References 

Stepwells in Rajasthan
Buildings and structures in Jodhpur
Australian Defence Force Helicopter School. The Australian Defence Force Helicopter School (ADFHS) was an Australian Defence Force unit responsible for training helicopter pilots. It was formed in 1990 and disbanded in 1998.

History

The school was established at RAAF Base Fairbairn in Canberra in January 1990. While it formed part of the Australian Army's Training Command, more than half of the members of the Royal Australian Air Force's No. 5 Squadron (which was previously responsible for helicopter pilot training) were transferred to the school when the squadron was disbanded in December 1989.

As of April 1990, the ADFHS was equipped with Eurocopter AS350 Écureuils which were used to train Australian military pilots as well as Bell UH-1 Iroquois which were used to train members of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force and other militaries as part of Australia's Defence Cooperation Program. Trainee Australian pilots were posted to the school after completing basic flight training at No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF. The ADFHS then provided these pilots with initial helicopter training. After gaining their wings at the ADFHS, Army pilots completed their training at the School of Army Aviation in Oakey, Queensland.

In May 1991 it was announced that the ADFHS was to be relocated to Oakey. This transfer did not occur, however.

In 1998 a review of the ADF's helicopter training arrangements recommended that the ADFHS be disbanded. The Australian Government accepted this recommendation. That year, the Army elements of the unit became the Army Helicopter School and the Royal Australian Navy elements were relocated to HMAS Albatross near Nowra, New South Wales. The Army Helicopter School was transferred to Oakey in 2001.

Initial helicopter training for ADF members was re-centralised in January 2018, when the Joint Helicopter Aircrew Training School opened at HMAS Albatross. This unit is responsible for training pilots for both the Army and Navy.

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Citations

Works consulted

Aviation units and formations of the Australian Army
1990 establishments in Australia
1998 disestablishments in Australia
Military units and formations established in 1990
Military units and formations disestablished in 1998
Networked flying platform. Networked flying platforms (NFPs) are unmanned flying platforms of various types including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones, tethered balloon and high-altitude/medium-altitude/low-altitude platforms
(HAPs/MAPs/LAPs) carrying RF/mmWave/FSO payload (transceivers) along with an extended battery life capabilities, and are floating or moving in the air at a quasi-stationary positions with the ability to move horizontally and vertically to offer 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) cellular networks and network support services.

Deployment configurations
There are following two possible NFPs deployment configurations:

 Deployment configuration 1: NFPs are expected to complement the conventional cellular networks to further enhance the wireless capacity, expand the coverage and improve the network reliability for temporary events, where there is a high density of mobile users or small cells in a limited/hard to reach area or in a remote region where infrastructure is not available and expensive to deploy, e.g., sports events and concert gatherings
 Deployment configuration 2: NFPs can be deployed for unexpected scenarios, such as in emergency situations to support disaster relief activities and to enable communications when conventional cellular networks  are either damaged or congested. In addition, owing to their mobility, NFPs are expected to deploy quickly and efficiently to support cellular networks, enhance network quality of service (QoS) and improve network resilience under emergency scenarios

NFPs can be manually (non-autonomously) controlled but mainly designed for autonomous pre-determined flights. NFPs can either operate in a single NFP mode where NFPs do not cooperate with other NFPs in the network, if exists or a swarm of NFPs where multiple interconnected NFPs cooperate, collaborate and perform the network mission autonomously with one of the NFPs designated as mother-NFP

References

External links 
 BT Drone flights to connect Isle of Lewis with mainland
 Qualcomm Technologies releases LTE drone trial results
 Intel testing drones over AT&T LTE Networks, Verizon starts 5G Trials with Samsung
 Project Skybender: Google's secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed

Wireless networking
Telecommunications
Radio technology
Ernő Wilczek. Ernő Wilczek (sometimes spelt Vilczek; 6 May 1883 in Kaposvár – 13 May 1950 in Budapest) was a Hungarian engineer. He graduated from the Budapest University of Art and Design in 1905 and then worked for several companies, in France and England, as a distributor of electric generators. From 1910 to 1933, he worked at the Ganz Works, first as a machine engineer, later as the head of the engineering department. He was an associate of Titus Bláthy. In 1920, he won the Zipernowsky jubilee award for his scientific and technical activities. He specialized in standardization. From 1938 he was chairman of the Standards Committee and from 1949 he was deputy director of the Hungarian Standards Institute. He was editor of the journal Elektrotechnika from 1919 and later became editor-in-chief. His studies were published in domestic and foreign journals.

Publications
 Data for the theory of DC turbine generators, Budapest, 1916
 Electricity Pocketbook, Budapest, 1936
 Second edition of the Electricity Manual by Mihály Gohér and András Lenkei, Budapest, 1943

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1883 births
1950 deaths
20th-century Hungarian engineers
Harvey Newquist II. Harvey P. Newquist is an American athlete and computer manufacturing executive. Newquist was the first manufacturing vice president of minicomputer manufacturer Data General.

Early life and education 
Harvey Paul Newquist was born July 29, 1932, in Racine, WI, the fourth of five sons of Harvey Newquist and Mabel Hartmann. He attended Marmion Military Academy and graduated from DeKalb High School in DeKalb, IL in 1950. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1954. Competing for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish track and field team, he won three ND monograms and established six school records in hurdles, of which three still remain. He was an NCAA Championship finalist and qualified for the hurdle events in the 1952 and 1956 U.S. Olympic Team tryouts. He was mentioned in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities.

Career 

Newquist's industrial management career included General Electric in Utica, NY where he led aerospace programs and the development of the existing U.S. Navy E3A aircraft. At the 3C-Honeywell firm in Framingham, MA, he produced minicomputers and simulators for the NASA Apollo Program. From 1968 to 1973, he led the manufacturing and field service operations at Data General Corporation. His work on minicomputers is featured in the Oral History collection of the Computer History Museum.

Awards and honors 
Newquist led the team responsible for the 1987 Papal Visit to Phoenix, AZ, and was awarded the papal medal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by John Paul II for his service to the Church.

Personal life 
Newquist married Patricia Starr on October 12, 1957, with whom he had eight children. They include writer HP Newquist and musician Jimmy Newquist.

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Engineers from Arizona
American business executives
American Roman Catholics
University of Notre Dame alumni
Living people
1932 births
S-Net. S-Net is a worldwide inter-satellite communications network consisting of four satellites and being operated by Technische Universität Berlin.

Description
The project has the goal to investigate and demonstrate inter-satellite communication technology within a distributed and autonomously operating nanosatellite network. All satellites are equipped with a S-Band radio emitter and receiver, which not only enables communication with the ground-based control center but also allows for communication between the individual satellites. The number of satellites in the network was set to four as this number represents the best cost-benefit-ratio. With four satellites, a total of six independent communication links are possible, while only three are possible with three satellites. Moreover, four is the lowest number that enables multi-hop communication.
The satellites are powered by solar cells and batteries and have a planned lifetime of one year. 
Future applications of the technology may be more effective monitoring of global issues like climate change, disaster management, maritime systems monitoring and even enable satellite constellations for high-bandwidth internet access.

Launch
The four satellites were successfully launched on a Soyuz-2.1A rocket from Vostochny Site 1S in Russia on 1 February 2018. The launch was originally scheduled for 22 December 2017, however due to the failure of a Soyuz-2.1B rocket, Roscosmos decided to delay the mission. The spacecraft were released into orbit at an altitude of approximately 580 kilometers at an interval of 10 seconds. The launch represents the tenth mission of the TU Berlin, sending a total of 16 satellites to space.

See also
2018 in spaceflight
Iridium satellite constellation

References

External links
TU-Berlin Website

Spacecraft launched in 2018
2018 in Germany
Technische Universität Berlin
Satellites of Germany
Sanjay Patel (filmmaker). Sanjay Patel is an Indo-Canadian filmmaker mostly known for his 2017 film Union Leader which was screened at the 48th International Film Festival of India in 2017. He also directed the  award winning short film If You Love Your Children in 2014. Patel is the author of the book The Future of Oil.

Biography 
Patel studied chemical engineering in India. He worked in a chemical plant in Gujarat for around seven years prior to moving to Canada in 2000. 
Patel, without any formal study of filmmaking, directed and produced his first short film called If You Love Your Children in 2014 receiving multiple awards and nominations since its release. In 2012, he published his first book titled The Future of Oil.

Filmography

References

External links
 

Living people
Film directors from Gujarat
Film directors from Alberta
Screenwriters from Gujarat
Canadian people of Indian descent
Film producers from Gujarat
1971 births
People from Fort McMurray
Asian-Canadian filmmakers
MÁV Class V40. The MÁV Class V40 was an electric locomotive of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) and the first production electric locomotive using the Kandó system. It had a wheel arrangement of 1'D1' or 2-8-2 and a single Metropolitan-Vickers traction motor driving through side rods.

Overview
Power for the electrification of railway traffic in Hungary could be extracted most economically from the nationwide 50 Hz electricity grid. Therefore, Kálmán Kandó developed his eponymous drive system, which is based on single-phase AC overhead lines and three-phase traction motors. The conversion of the current for the traction motor is provided by a rotary phase converter. The system was demonstrated on a test locomotive from 1923 and, from 1932 to 1935, the route from Budapest to Hegyeshalom was electrified at 16 kV, 50 Hz. The first electric locomotives on the line were of the MÁV V40 class. They were mixed-traffic locomotives with a top speed of 100 km/h. A total of 29 locomotives of this class were used on the said route. In the 1960s, the traction current system in Hungary was converted to 25 kV, 50 Hz and the Kandó locomotives were withdrawn.

Preservation
V40.016 is preserved in the Hungarian Railway History Park, Budapest, after standing for years at Budapest East Railway Station.

Technical features

The single-phase alternating current taken from the overhead line was converted into three-phase current by the phase converter and supplied to a single Metropolitan-Vickers traction motor which was a 48-pole asynchronous motor.  The phase converter provided four fixed speeds (25,50,75 and 100 km/h) and intermediate speeds were obtained using a liquid rheostat.

Final drive was through a Kandó triangle with one arm connected to an auxiliary idling shaft to minimise unwanted vertical forces. The locomotive was built on a rigid frame. Two of the driving axles had side play, which was controlled by Krauss-Helmholtz bogies.

Other Kandó locomotives
The experimental Kandó locomotive was MÁV Class V50, built 1923. Its wheel arrangement was E or 0-10-0.  A freight version of the Class V40 was also built. This was the Class V60, built 1932, which had a wheel arrangement of F or 0-12-0.

References

Electric locomotives of Hungary
1′D1′ locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Hungary
Railway locomotives introduced in 1932
Róisín Owens. Róisín Owens is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research investigates new engineering technology for biological applications with a focus on organic bioelectronics, developing electroactive materials that can be used between physical transducers and soft biological tissues.

Education and early life
Owens is from Glasnevin in Dublin. She earned a bachelor's degree in Natural Sciences with a focus on Biochemistry at Trinity College, Dublin in 1998. She completed her PhD at the University of Southampton with a thesis, The BipA global regulator interacts with ribosomes.

Career and research 
She moved to Cornell University to work as a postdoctoral researcher on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the department of Microbiology and Immunology with David Russell. Owens worked at Agave BioSystems in New York between 2005 and 2007. She then joined the lab Moonsoo Jin, developing ICAM-1 of rhinovirus therapeutics.

Owens won a Marie Curie Reintegration Grant. The project resulted in a novel biosensor for enteric pathways. In 2009 Owens joined Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, where she was appointed to Professor and Head of Department in 2016. Owens began working in bioelectronics after a discussion with her husband, "I was a biologist specializing in infectious diseases, and he was an expert in physics and materials science ... this was how we came up with this new project together, combining biology and electronics". In 2014 she took a sabbatical at the University of Thessaloniki.

She was the Principal Investigator (PI) for a major European Research Council grant, Exploitation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Use in Biological Ionsensing in 2010. In 2015 Owens won a €150,000 proof of concept grant from the European Research Council. In 2016 she won a European Research Council Consolidation grant.

In 2017 Owens joined the University of Cambridge. She is Principal Editor for Biomaterials, MRS Communications. She serves on the advisory board of the Wiley-Blackwell Advanced BioSystems and Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Awards and honours
Owens won the Suffrage Science award in 2019, nominated by Rylie Green.

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Living people
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
People from Glasnevin
Irish biochemists
Women biochemists
Irish women chemists
21st-century Irish chemists
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from Dublin (city)
21st-century Irish women scientists
Ross E. McKinney. Ross E. McKinney is an American scientist and professor of environmental engineering.  He is best known for his contributions to the biological engineering of wastewater treatment.

McKinney was a member of faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he moved to the University of Kansas to begin the program in environmental engineering.  Before he retired in 1993, McKinney held the first NT Veatch Distinguished Professorship of Civil Engineering.

McKinney was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977 for contributions to the development of biological wastewater treatment processes and to the advancement of the environmental engineering profession.

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Environmental engineers
Living people
University of Kansas faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Year of birth missing (living people)
FS Class E.360. The FS Class E.360 were electric locomotives of the Italian State Railways (FS), using three-phase alternating current, built for the operation of the Valtellina line. They were ordered by Rete Adriatica (the Adriatic Network) and were originally numbered RA 361–363. Italian railways were nationalized in 1905 and they then became FS E.361-363 They were leased to Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 1906 and returned to Italy in 1907.

Overview
The locomotives were built for the Valtellina Railway, a 106 km long line with many tunnels and curves. Hungarian engineer Kálmán Kandó electrified the line in the early 1900s using high voltage three-phase alternating current.

Lease to SBB
The three locomotives were leased to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) between 1906 and 1907 for the purpose of operating in the Simplon tunnel. The testing of the Simplon line was carried out on 25 January 1906 by a train pulled by a steam locomotive. On the following 26 April, the first test with an electric locomotive was carried out. The choice of the three-phase system was made by Swiss railway technicians after the visits they made to the Italian lines of the Valtellina. The Swiss had no three-phase locomotives of their own at the time so they asked for, and obtained on hire from the newly constituted Italian State Railways, the three new locomotives E.361, 362 and 363. The locomotives gave excellent service on the Simplon line, hauling over 10 trains a day. The only problem was with the current collectors. The original Ganz collectors did not collect current reliably so they were replaced by Brown-Boveri collectors.

Return to Italy
Locomotive E.363 returned to Valtellina in May 1907 and E.361 and E.362 respectively in October and November of the same year.

See also 
 RA 34, the original Bo+Bo 'gearless' locomotives supplied for the Valtellina line

References

Further reading

 Renzo Pocaterra: Lokomotiven. Kaiser, Klagenfurt, 2006, 
 Hans Schneeberger: Die elektrischen und Dieseltriebfahrzeuge der SBB, Band I: Baujahre 1904–1955. Minirex, Luzern 1995, 

1′C1′ locomotives
E.360
Three-phase AC locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Italy
Railway locomotives introduced in 1905