omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology. Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology  (USTH; ), founded in 1947, used to be a specialist school on mining technology. After developments in decades, it is now a multi-disciplinary university with its main disciplines engineering, management, social science, and natural science.

History

In 1947, a mining school was found in Jixi, which was the first mining school in northeast China.
In 1954, the school was incorporated with Hegang Mineralogy School, and named as Jixi Mineralogy School.
In 1958, Jixi Mineralogy College with Bachelor education was found based on Jixi Mineralogy School.
The college was renamed as Heilongjiang Institute of Mineralogy in 1981, and Heilongjiang Institute of Science and Technology in 2000.
In 2001, the institute starts a new campus in Harbin, and in 2003 the main campus moved from Jixi to Harbin.
In 2013, the institute was renamed as Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology.
In October 16, 2014, the Heilongjiang provincial people's Government and the State administration of work safety to build the Heilongjiang University of science and technology agreement signing ceremony was held in the University of science and technology in Heilongjiang.

Colleges and departments
 School of Mining Engineering
 School of Electrical Control Engineering
 School of Electrical Information Engineering
 School of Mechanical Engineering
 College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering
 School of Safety Engineering
 School of Material Science and Engineering]
 School of Civil Engineering
 School of Computer and Information Engineering
 School of Humanity and Social Science
 College of Science
 School of Management
 Economic College
 College of Foreign Languages

Partnerships
Heilongjiang University of Science and Technology has established international partnerships with universities and colleges from Russia and Canada. Particularly close partnerships are maintained with the following universities
 Far Eastern Federal University
 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
 Douglas College

References

Universities and colleges in Harbin
Tedeschi E.T.186. The Tedeschi E.T.186 was a simple, single seat training glider built in Italy and first flown in 1947.  Only one was constructed.

Development

The single example of the E.T.186 training glider was built to Enzo Tadeschi's design by seven students of the Modena Aeronautical Association.  It was a simple, wood-framed aircraft, covered with a mixture of plywood and fabric.  Its high single spar wing was mounted over the fuselage on a pedestal and braced to the lower fuselage with a single faired metal strut on each side.  The wing was unswept and had constant chord, ending in rounded tips.  Ailerons occupied about half the span and the outer wing had 2° of washout to delay the stall over them.

The E.T.186 had a deep sided hexagonal fuselage covered in plywood forwards and fabric aft.  Its cockpit was just ahead of the wing leading edge, placing the pilot's head against the front of the central pedestal; the glider could be flown with an open cockpit or alternatively from under a perspex canopy.  The fuselage tapered rearwards, where a tapered, round tipped tailplane mounted on top of the fuselage carried separate  balanced elevators.  A small fin placed over the elevators mounted a full, balanced, rounded rudder; all the tail control surfaces were fabric covered.  The main undercarriage of the E.T.186 was a combination of a short, sprung skid reaching from the nose to the wing strut attachment point and a fixed monowheel immediately aft, at about mid-chord.  The underside of the rudder was protected by a rounded tail bumper.

The E.T.186 was first flown on 21 October 1947.  It was tow-launched behind a jeep at the airfield of the Aero Club of Reggio Emilia.

Specifications

References

1940s Italian sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1947
P. S. Manisundaram. P. S. Manisundaram (December 9, 1927 – October 26, 2013) was an Indian educationist and pioneer of computer science education.

Early life and education 
He was born in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. He did a master's degree in civil engineering at Nova Scotia University, Canada, in 1958.

Career 
After completing master's degree studies in civil engineering at Nova Scotia University, Canada, in 1958, he returned to Tamil Nadu and started his career as a lecturer at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. He was the first principal of the Regional Engineering College (currently the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli), Tamil Nadu. He became the first vice chancellor of the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, when the university was created in 1982. Manisundaram was associated with many universities and educational institutions in India and around the world. He was conferred Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa) by Dalhousie University (Formerly Technical University of Nova Scotia), Halifax, Canada in 1984. He died in Chennai, India, on October 26, 2013.

References

1927 births
2013 deaths
Indian expatriates in Myanmar
Indian educators
Academic staff of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Loyola College, Chennai alumni
Palle Bruun. Palle Bruun (10 May 1873 – 21 October 1910) was a Danish hydraulic engineer who designed the fishing harbour in Skagen in the north of Jutland.

Biography
The son of Captain Carl Bruun, Bruun was born in Holmen, Copenhagen. After matriculating from Herlufsholm School in 1891, he completed his studies at Copenhagen's Technical University in 1898, immediately being commissioned to work for the Danish Board of Maritime Works (Vandbygningsvæsenet) where he was assigned to work in Esbjerg Harbour in 1899. From 1904, his responsibilities covered the design of harbour facilities in Skagen in the north of Jutland which were completed in 1907. In this connection, he studied the harbours in the Faroe Islands, draughting a report on his findings. In 1906, together with J. Munch-Petersen and H.P. Meden, in 1906 he was awarded a prize from the technical association for a study regarding the protection of Møns Klint from the effects of the sea.

By 1910, Bruun had become a close friend of the Skagen Painters, especially Anna Ancher with whom he corresponded over several years.

References

1873 births
1910 deaths
20th-century Danish engineers
Harbour engineers
Engineers from Copenhagen
People from Skagen
Koichi Sasada. Koichi Sasada is a Japanese computer scientist and a Ruby core committer. Formerly a member of Matz's team at Heroku, he will continue development on the Ruby interpreter. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo from 2008 to 2012. He was responsible for the development of YARV.

References

Japanese computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Microlab. Microlab Inc. is a global audio electronics manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China that specializes in the research, development, and production of multimedia speakers, AV speakers, and peripheral products. It was founded in 1998, as a joint venture between Shenzhen Microlab Technology Inc. and International Microlab Blue Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.

Products
Some of the company's products include FineCone speakers, Portable iPod/iPhone docks, Multimedia Speakers, General stereo speakers, the TMN Series, home theatre systems, the Soundbar Series, and the PURE Signatory Series. It is also a producer of headphones.

References

External links
 

Audio equipment manufacturers of China
Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
1998 in Shenzhen
Edward Gardiner. Edward Gardiner (1825–1859) was an American civil engineer and architect. He co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and served as its first vice president. Five years later, he became one of the 13 founders of the American Institute of Architects.

Early life
Gardiner was born in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts.  He was the second son of William Howard Gardiner (1797–1880) and Caroline Perkins (1800–1867).  His father was a prominent Boston lawyer.

His paternal grandfather was Rev. John Sylvester John Gardiner (1765–1830) and his maternal grandfather was slave-trader Thomas Handasyd Perkins, in 1823.

Career
Gardiner co-founded the American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects and served as its first vice president.  Five years later in 1857, he was one of the 13 founders, along with Richard Upjohn and Richard Morris Hunt, of the American Institute of Architects.

Gardiner was known for his debate with Henry C. Dudley over the issue of architectural competitions.

Personal life
In 1849, he married Sophia Harrison Mifflin (1822–1889), the daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (née Davis) Mifflin, all of Philadelphia. Together, they lived in New Rochelle, New York and were the parents of five children, including:

 William Howard Gardiner (1851–1906), married Helena Lawrence Baird (1852–1925) in 1873, with whom he had three children.  In 1890, he married Tita Butler, daughter of Joseph Butler of Castle Rhebbin, in Kildare, Ireland, and granddaughter of the last Duke of Ormond and Lord de Courcy, of Kingsale.
 Eugenia Gardiner.
 Edward Gardiner II (1854–1907), a biologist who married Jane G. Hooper, daughter of Nathaniel Hooper, on April 6, 1895.
 Elizabeth Gardiner (1856–1937), a prominent social reformer who married Glendower Evans (d. 1886), a Harvard Law School educated lawyer who entered the practice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in 1882.

Gardiner died in Chicago, Illinois of a fall from his horse, in 1859. After his early death, his family relocated to Brookline, Massachusetts with his father where they "grew up as poor relations of a very aristocratic family."  Two years later, his widow moved the family to Boston where the children attended private schools.

References

1825 births
1859 deaths
Architects from Boston
Engineers from Massachusetts
19th-century American architects
Founder of American Institute of Architects
Xerox Escape Sequence. Xerox Escape Sequence or XES is a page description language (PDL) developed by Xerox corporation and introduced with their 2700 laser printers in 1982.  XES offers similar capabilities to Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL), which first appeared in 1984.  XES is supported by most Xerox laser printers including the 2700. 3700, 4011, 4030, 4045, 4197, 4213, 4235, and 4700.

XES is sometimes known as UDK, from User Defined Key, the character which introduces the printer command, usually the escape character (ESC).

References

External links
 Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Programmer Reference

Computer printing
Page description languages
Escape Sequence
Central Dredging Association. The Central Dredging Association (CEDA), founded in 1978, is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental, professional society for the dredging industry. It provides an independent forum for people involved in activities related to dredging and marine construction in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East, and aims to generate and disseminate impartial knowledge and information about dredging in these regions. It is one of three dredging associations that together form the World Organisation of Dredging Associations (WODA).

Its British section is a learned 'Associated Society' of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers.

History
CEDA was launched at the 8th World Dredging Congress in Amsterdam in November 1978. By 2008 its membership (predominantly scientists, academics, engineers and practitioners) had grown to represent over 40 countries.

Activities
CEDA organises events including international conferences, seminars and technical meetings, site visits and training courses; in November 2013, it organised the CEDA Forum in Rotterdam. It also produces publications including conference proceedings with peer-reviewed papers, and provides technical and scientific advice.

References

Organizations established in 1978
1978 establishments in the Netherlands
Dredging
Trade associations based in the Netherlands
Maritime organizations
Thomas Haynes Upton. Thomas Haynes Upton  (2 June 188925 October 1956) was an Australian civil engineer. Hailing from Melbourne, Awarded an exhibition, he entered Ormond College in 1906 and studied civil engineering at the University of Melbourne (B.Sc., 1910; M.Sc., 1912; B.C.E., 1912; M.C.E., 1919).  Upton learned his trade in England as a consulting engineer designing bridges and buildings before returning to Australia to work for the Country Roads Board. He served as a sapper for the Royal Navy during World War I and was then commissioned as lieutenant in the Royal Engineers until being wounded and evacuated in February 1916. He returned to the front a year later before being wounded a second time and sent to the rear lines as a staff officer and acting captain. Three times mentioned in dispatches, he was discharged in 1919 and awarded the Order of the British Empire.

Personal life 
Returning to the Victorian Country Roads Board following a brief stay in the United States, Upton worked for ten years on the roadways of Victoria. He designed a bridge at Geelong that spanned the River Barwon. Marrying Jessie Toon Smith in 1921, he also began lecturing at local universities. He was widowed, however, in 1922, and married Irene Dodgshun in 1925 after moving to Sydney. He was heavily involved in modernising the road systems of New South Wales and working for the State Department of Transport. He moved to the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage & Drainage Board in 1935, and worked there until the outbreak of the Second World War whereupon he designed dockyards for the Royal Australian Navy. After the way he helped design the Warragamba Dam until his retirement in 1955.

Awarded honorary doctorates from both the University of Melbourne and University of Western Australia, Upton was also given several honorary titles in local church organisations for his services to them.

Death 
Upton died 25 October 1956 of a coronary occlusion.

References

Engineers from Melbourne
Australian civil engineers
Australian people of World War I
Royal Navy personnel of World War I
Royal Engineers officers
Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
1889 births
1956 deaths
Sydney Water
Gerhard Damköhler. Gerhard Damköhler (16 March 1908 – 30 March 1944) was a German chemist. From 1936 to 1944, Damköhler was the head of chemical reaction engineering at the Institute of Physical Chemistry in Göttingen. Damköhler numbers are named after Damköhler, as is the Gerhard Damköhler medal awarded by the German Association of Chemical and Process Engineering (DVCV).

Biography

Gerhard Damköhler was born on 16 March 1908 in Klingenmunster in West Central Germany, the son of a physician. Following the usual primary and gymnasium education, he enrolled in the summer of 1926 at the University of Munich to study chemistry with A. Sommerfeld, graduating five years later summa cum laude with a doctor of philosophy for a dissertation entitled "Individuality of the Osmotic Behavior of Alkalihalogenides." He remained at the university for three more years as a grant supported research fellow, during which time he began to display a marked ability for developing and applying analytical methods to practical problems in chemical engineering. This work attracted the notice of Arnold Eucken, the director of Göttingen University's Institute of Physical Chemistry, who offered Damköhler a position as an assistant that he took up in December 1934. Damköhler took his own life on 30 March 1944. Part of the reason was the political pressure put on him to contribute to the Luftwaffe's jet engine development program.

Personal life

Damköhler was described as a highly intelligent man who worked "25 hours a day". He was married for seven years and had no children.

Published work
 The Effect of Turbulence on the Flame Velocity in Gas Mixtures

References

External links 
 Gerhard Damköhler medal winners and guidelines for the award 

1908 births
1944 deaths
20th-century German chemists
German fluid dynamicists
1944 suicides
Suicides in Germany
Williams-Cangie WC-1 Sundancer. The Williams-Cangie WC-1 Sundancer is an American homebuilt biplane racing aircraft that was designed by Art Williams and Carl Cangie and built by Ralph Thenhaus in 1974. Plans were at one time available from Williams' company, the Williams Aircraft Design Company of Northridge, California. Only one was built.

Design and development
The WC-1 Sundancer features an unusual biplane layout, with the upper wing just below the cockpit canopy and the lower gull wing mounted at the bottom of the fuselage. The wings are joined by a single interplane strut. It has a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. The fuselage was derived from the Bushby Midget Mustang.

The aircraft is made from aluminum sheet, with the fuselage flush riveted stressed skin. Its  span wing has no flaps. The engine used was the  Lycoming O-290-D2 powerplant.

The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

On its first flight the WC-1 set a national class record of .

Operational history
Only one example was built. It was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in 1974.

The WC-1 was raced by pilot Sidney White and won the biplane class at the Reno Air Races. It also won five more class races in 1974.

Aircraft on display
San Diego Air & Space Museum – sole example

Specifications (WC-1 Sundancer)

References

External links
Photo of the WC-1 in the San Diego Air & Space Museum
Photo of the WC-1 in the San Diego Air & Space Museum

Williams-Cangie WC-1 Sundancer
1970s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Sesquiplanes
Homebuilt aircraft
Racing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1974
Thomson TO8. The Thomson TO8 is a home computer introduced by French company Thomson SA in 1986, with a cost of 2,990 FF. It replaces its predecessor, the Thomson TO7/70, while remaining essentially compatible.

The new features of the TO8, like larger memory (256KB) and better graphics modes (powered by the Thomson EF9369 graphics chip), are shared with the other third generation Thomson computers (MO6 and TO9+).

The TO8 has a tape drive and Microsoft BASIC 1.0 (in standard and 512 KB versions) on its internal ROM, and there is an optional external floppy drive. Graphics were provided by the Thomson EF9369 chip, allowing the display of 16 colors from a palette of 4096.

More than 120 games exist for the system. 

An improved version, the Thomson TO8D, includes a built-in 3.5" floppy drive.

References

External links
 Thomson TO8/O8D at Old-Computers.com
  Émulation du Thomson TO8 sous MESS, site of Antoine Miné

6809-based home computers
Thomson computers
Computer-related introductions in 1986
Thomas Witten. Thomas Witten is an American theoretical physicist working in the field of soft matter physics.

Biography
Witten received his doctorate in physics in 1971 from the University of California, San Diego.
He is currently the Homer J. Livingston Professor in the James Franck Institute at the University of Chicago.
He is known in particular for his work on diffusion-limited aggregation, crumpled sheets and coffee rings.
His current research interests include polymers, complex fluids and granular materials.
He cowrote the "Structured Fluids: Polymers, Colloids, Surfactants" () together with Philip Pincus.

In 2002 he received the American Physical Society Polymer Physics Prize and he is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2010 he held the Lorentz Chair at Leiden University.

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American physicists
American theoretical physicists
University of Chicago faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of California, San Diego alumni
Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant. The Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant is a run-of-the-river project located near the town of Besham in the Shangla District of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is situated on the Khan Khwar River, a right bank tributary of the Indus River. It is approximately 265 km from the federal capital of Islamabad and 350 km from the provincial capital of Peshawar.

The total electricity generation capacity of the Khan Khwar project is . There are two vertical Francis turbine units of 34 MW and one unit of 4 MW installed at the Khan Khwar Hydroelectric Station, with an average annual generation capacity of 595 million units (GWh) of cheap electricity. These turbines are manufactured by the Dongfang Electric Machinery Co. Ltd. The project was completed by the technical assistance of Chinese corporations (Sinohydro Corporation via a consortium with China Water Resources Beifang Investigation, Design and Research Co. Ltd).

Construction of the Khan Khwar Hydropower Plant commenced in April, 2003, and was completed in April, 2012. The power house commenced commercial operations in November, 2010. The project was officially inaugurated on the 14 July, 2012, by the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf. The total cost of the project was about PKR 10.73 billion, out of which PKR 5.049 billion accounted for the foreign exchange component.

Dam:Type: RCCLength: 112 m.Height: 46 m.Design discharge: 29 cusecsDesign head: 244 m.

See also 

 List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
 List of power stations in Pakistan
 Satpara Dam
 Allai Khwar Hydropower Project
 Gomal Zam Dam

References 

Dams completed in 2012
Energy infrastructure completed in 2012
Dams in Pakistan
Hydroelectric power stations in Pakistan
Run-of-the-river power stations
Dams in the Indus River basin
China–Pakistan relations
Dams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Williams W-17 Stinger. The Williams W-17 Stinger is an American homebuilt racing aircraft that was designed for Formula One Air Racing by Art Williams and produced by his company, Williams Aircraft Design of Northridge, California, introduced in 1971. The aircraft was at one time available in the form of plans for amateur construction, but only one was ever constructed.

Design and development
The W-17 Stinger features a cantilever mid-wing, a single-seat enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from sheet aluminum in a monocoque structure. The wings are all-wood, with laminated spruce spars. Its  span wing employs a NACA 64008 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 64010 at the wing tip. As the Formula One rules require, the engine is a  Continental O-200A powerplant.

The W-17 has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

Operational history
Only one example of the W-17 Stinger was registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in 1971.

The sole example was raced at the Reno Air Races by pilot John P. Jones in 1973 and captured second place.

Aircraft on display
Planes of Fame Air Museum - sole example built

Specifications (W-17 Stinger)

References

External links
Photo of the Williams W-17 Stinger

W-17 Stinger
1970s United States sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Mid-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Racing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1971