omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
William Prager Medal. The William Prager Medal is an award given annually by the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to an individual for "outstanding research contributions in either theoretical or experimental Solid Mechanics or both". This medal was established in 1983. The actual award is a medal with William Prager's likeness on one side and an honorarium of US$2000.

William Prager Medal recipients 
 1983 –	Daniel C. Drucker
 1986 –	Rodney J. Clifton
 1988 –	James R. Rice
 1989 –	Richard M. Christensen
 1991 –	John W. Hutchinson
 1994 –	George J. Dvorak
 1996 –	Zdenek P. Bazant
 1998 –	John R. Willis
 1999 –	Kenneth L. Johnson
 2000 –	L. Ben Freund
 2001 –	Jan D. Achenbach
 2002 –	Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
 2004 –	Salvatore Torquato
 2006 –	Alan Needleman
 2007 –	Graeme Walter Milton, University of Utah, Expertise: Composites, Metamaterials
 2008 –	Richard D. James, University of Minnesota, Expertise: Quasicontinuum theory, Ferroelectric materials, Phase transformations
 2009 –	Alan Wineman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Expertise: Viscoelasticity, Polymers
 2010 –	Raymond W. Ogden, University of Glasgow, Expertise: Nonlinear elasticity, Elastomers
 2011 –	Ted Belytschko, Northwestern University, Expertise: Computational mechanics, Finite element method
 2012 –	Zhigang Suo, Harvard University, Expertise: Fracture mechanics, Electroactive polymers
 2013 –	George J. Weng, Rutgers University, Expertise: Micromechanics, Composites, Phase field models, Nanocomposites
 2014 –	Robert M. McMeeking, University of California, Santa Barbara
 2015 –	Huajian Gao, Brown University
 2018 –	Lallit Anand, MIT
 2019 –	Horacio Espinosa, Northwestern University
 2020 –  K. Ravi-Chandar, The University of Texas at Austin
 2021 –	Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Expertise: Biomechanics, Constitutive equation, Mechanobiology
 2022 –  Vikram Deshpande,  University of Cambridge Expertise: Micro-architected solids, Plasticity, Mechanobiology
 2023 –  Norman Fleck,

See also

 List of mechanical engineering awards
 Mechanician

References

External links 
 [Society of Engineering Science ]

Mechanical engineering awards
Awards established in 1983
Computerize. Computerize or computerization may refer to: 

 Equipping with a general purpose computer, embedded computer, or computer system
 Equipping something with or the usage of software
 Business process reengineering that converts a manual process into one done by a computer
 Digital transformation of a service or business
 Inputting data (computing) into computers
 Digitizing information for computers
 Creating computer-generated content

See also
Automation
British Rail Class 801. The British Rail Class 801 Azuma is a class of electric multiple unit (EMU) built by Hitachi Rail for London North Eastern Railway. The units have been built since 2017 at Hitachi's Newton Aycliffe Manufacturing Facility and have been used on services on the East Coast Main Line since 16 September 2019. As part of its production, the Class 801 units were ordered as part of the Intercity Express Programme and are in the Hitachi AT300 product family, alongside the closely related Class 800 units. LNER have branded the units as the Azuma, just like on their Class 800 units.

Background and design

As part of the UK Government's Intercity Express Programme, the Class 801 units were to be built as replacements for the InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 sets which were the main trains used for services on the Great Western Main Line (GWML) and the East Coast Main Line (ECML) at the time. Differing from the Class 800 units, which they were built alongside, the Class 801 units were designed as purely electric multiple units, but with one diesel engine fitted to a single coach of each unit for emergency use. The Class 801 units were to enter service for both Great Western Railway and London North Eastern Railway but due to delays in the electrification of the GWML, it was announced in June 2016 that 21 nine-car (801/0) sets that were going to enter service with GWR would instead be converted to bi-modal operation. As a consequence, all of these sets were re-classified as 800/3 units and the Class 801 units only see operation on the ECML. However, GWR do have the option to convert all of their Class 800 units to electric-only operation by removal of the diesel engines should it be exercised, in which case they would be re-classified as a Class 801 unit.

Operations 

The first service to be operated with Class 801 units ran on 16 September 2019, with a pair of 801/1 five-car units operating several services between Leeds and London King's Cross, as well as one return trip between King's Cross and Newark Northgate. Three further pairs of five-car units entered service through the rest of September.

The nine-car Class 801/2 units were introduced on 18 November 2019, between King's Cross and Edinburgh. This allowed a cascade of Class 800/1 units onto services between King's Cross and Aberdeen, which in turn allowed LNER to withdraw its InterCity 125 sets from that route.

Fleet details

Illustrations

Named units

References

High-speed trains of the United Kingdom
Hitachi multiple units
Train-related introductions in 2019
25 kV AC multiple units
Passenger trains running at least at 200 km/h in commercial operations
Gdecouv'R 582. The Gdecouv'R 582 is a French ultralight trike, designed by Jean-Michel Geay and produced by Gdecouv'R of Fontaine-lès-Dijon. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly aircraft.

Design and development
The designer was a former employee of Cosmos ULM before that company went out of business. His new company, Gdecouv'R, started out as a parts manufacturer supplying Cosmos owners, before he developed his own aircraft, based on Cosmos designs.

The aircraft was designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight category, including the category's maximum gross weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high wing, weight-shift controls, a two-seats-in-tandem open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, with its double surface wing covered in Dacron sailcloth. Its standard equipment  span La Mouette wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin-cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 582 engine. The aircraft has an empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload is .

A number of different wings can be fitted to the basic carriage, including those produced by La Mouette.

Specifications (582)

References

External links

2000s French sport aircraft
2000s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
EL/M-2238 STAR. The EL/M-2238 3D-STAR is a multi-purpose air and surface-search naval radar system developed by IAI Elta for medium-sized ships like corvettes and frigates. STAR is an acronym of Surveillance & Threat Alert Radar.

Design and description 
It is a 3D multi-beam and multi-mode fully coherent pulse Doppler search radar which functions in the S band (2-4 GHz). It can perform both surface and aerial search simultaneously. It is designed to support anti-air and surface-gunnery systems. The antenna in the Doppler sensor has a planar array for 3D multi-beam operations and a vertical array of strip radiators. It has programmable signal processing and is stabilized within a roll and pitch of 20 degrees. It comes in three variants - a larger dual-face version, a medium version and a small single-face version.

Operators 
The radar is installed in ships of the following navies:

Godavari-class frigates
Shivalik class frigates

Endurance-class landing platform dock

Mariscal Sucre class frigate - Installed while upgrading the first two ships Mariscal Sucre (F-21) and Almirante Brión (F-22). Installed on the stub mast.

See also 
EL/M-2080 Green Pine
EL/M-2248 MF-STAR

References 

Sea radars
Military radars of Israel
Elta products
Eringen Medal. The A. C. Eringen Medal or Eringen Medal  is an award given annually by the Society of Engineering Science (SES) to an individual "in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science".  This award was established in 1976.  The actual award consists of a medal and an honorarium.

Eringen Medal recipients
Source:
 1976 –  Lofti Zadeh
 1977 –	A. Cemal Eringen, Samuel C. C. Ting
 1978 –	Raymond Flory
 1979 –	Ian Sneddon
 1980 –	Edward Teller
 1981 –	Joseph B. Keller
 1982 –	Harold Grad
 1983 –	R. Byron Bird
 1984 –	Kenneth G. Wilson
 1985 –	Bernard Budiansky
 1986 –	Paul M. Naghdi
 1988 –	George Herrmann
 1989 –	J. Tinsley Oden
 1991 –	James K. Knowles
 1992 –	Ray W. Clough
 1993 –	Fazıl Erdoğan
 1994 –	Charles F. Curtiss
 1995 –	Satya N. Atluri
 1996 –	Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar
 1998 –	Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
 1999 –	Michael F. Ashby
 2000 –	E. Kroner
 2003 –	Gerard Maugin
 2004 –	K. R. Rajagopal
 2005 –	Cornelius O. Horgan
 2008 –	Subra Suresh
 2010 –	Robert O. Ritchie
 2011 –	Ares J. Rosakis
 2012 –	David M. Barnett
 2013 –  Guruswami Ravichandran
 2014 –  John A. Rogers
 2016 –  Gang Chen
 2017 –  Xiang Zhang
 2019 –  Evelyn Hu
 2020 –  Thomas J.R. Hughes
 2021 –  Ellen Arruda
 2022 –  Catherine Brinson
 2023 –  Glaucio Paulino
 2024 –  Julia R. Greer

See also

 List of engineering awards
 List of mechanical engineering awards
 Mechanician

References

External links 
 Society of Engineering Science 

Mechanical engineering awards
Awards established in 1976
American science and technology awards
Engineering awards
Dysprosium acetylacetonate. Dysprosium acetylacetonate is a chemical compound of dysprosium with formula Dy(C5H7O2)3(H2O)n.

Preparation and properties 

Dysprosium acetylacetonate can be prepared by reacting dysprosium or dysprosium hydride with acetylacetone. Dy(acac)3·EtOH·0.5Hacac (where Hacac represents acetylacetone) can be obtained by electrolysis of dysprosium cathode in ethanol solution of acetylacetone, which can be heated to generate Dy(acac)3 through Dy(acac)3·EtOH. It is a colorless solid. Its anhydrous form is stable in dry atmosphere and it forms a hydrate in humid air. It can form Dy(acac)3·2CH3OH and Dy(acac)3·CH3OH·CH3CN in a methanol solution of acetonitrile.

Applications 

Dysprosium acetylacetonate can be used to catalyze the addition reaction of norbornene and carbon tetrachloride. The dihydrate has been characterized by X-ray crystallography.

References 

Dysprosium compounds
Acetylacetonate complexes
Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre. Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (also known as Quantum Nano Centre, or simply QNC) is a research and development laboratory for quantum information science and nanotechnology at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The facilities are shared by the Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing, the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Nanotechnology Engineering program at the University of Waterloo.

History 

Construction of the QNC began on June 9, 2008; it was officially opened on September 21, 2012.
Funding for the $160 million building was made possible by a $100 million donation from Mike Lazaridis (co-founder of Research In Motion, which has since rebranded as BlackBerry),
a $25 million grant from the government of Canada as part of Canada's Economic Action Plan, and a mixture of private donations and university funds.

Building 

The Quantum Nano Centre is 285,000-square-foot (25,650-square-metre) in size. It includes classrooms for instructional teaching and laboratories for research and development. The facilities operate with control for vibration, humidity, electromagnetic radiation, and temperature. Cleanroom facilities are constructed upon a separate building foundation to keep vibrations at less than a micron.

The QNC is composed of two main buildings designated for the Waterloo Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN). The building for IQC is designed with outer windows of varying reflectivity to symbolize quantum superposition while the building for WIN features a hexagonal honeycomb lattice structure inspired by the hexagonal carbon structure of nanotubes. These two buildings are joined together by a six-story central atrium. The building also features convertible rooms called "mind spaces" to accommodate collaborative activities including conferences, public lectures, and meetings.

See also 

 Institute for Quantum Computing
 Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology
 Quantum information science
 Nanotechnology
 Mike Lazaridis

References 

2012 establishments in Ontario
University of Waterloo buildings
University and college buildings completed in 2012
LIBSVM. LIBSVM and LIBLINEAR are two popular open source machine learning libraries, both developed at the National Taiwan University and both written in C++ though with a C API. LIBSVM implements the sequential minimal optimization (SMO) algorithm for kernelized support vector machines (SVMs), supporting classification and regression.
LIBLINEAR implements linear SVMs and logistic regression models trained using a coordinate descent algorithm.

The SVM learning code from both libraries is often reused in other open source machine learning toolkits, including GATE, KNIME, Orange and scikit-learn.
Bindings and ports exist for programming languages such as Java, MATLAB, R, Julia, and Python. It is available in e1071 library in R and scikit-learn in Python.

Both libraries are free software released under the 3-clause BSD license.

References

External links
 LIBSVM homepage
 LIBLINEAR homepage
 LIBLINEAR in R

C++ libraries
Data mining and machine learning software
Free statistical software
Java (programming language) libraries
National Taiwan University
Software using the BSD license
Taiwanese inventions
British Dam Society. The British Dam Society was established in London, UK, in 1965 and is a learned 'Associated Society' of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a registered charity in England and Wales (No. 1113476).

BDS aims to advance public and professional understanding of technical subjects relating to the planning, design, construction, maintenance, operation, safety, environmental and social issues that are involved with dams and reservoir projects. It holds a biennial conference and lecture (the Geoffrey Binnie Lecture), publishes a journal Dams & Reservoirs, and acts as the United Kingdom national committee of ICOLD.

It also provides expert commentary on dam-related safety issues; for example, in 2012, it expressed concern to Defra about the timetable for the registration, inspection and risk assessment of UK reservoirs.

References

External links

Dam-related organizations
Dams in the United Kingdom
Institution of Civil Engineers
Organizations established in 1965
Professional associations based in the United Kingdom
1965 establishments in the United Kingdom
James Forrest (engineer). James Forrest (30 November 1825 – 2 March 1917) was Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers from 1856 to 1896.
Forrest was born in Westminster, London. At the age of 17, in 1842, he became apprenticed to engineers Edward and John Manby before later moving on to work for Thomas Grainger.

In 1850 he was contracted to assist Charles Manby catalogue the library of the Institution of Civil Engineers.  Forrest edited the library catalogue published in 1851. He was briefly Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society of Arts before returning to the Institution of Civil Engineers in June 1856 as Assistant Secretary. In 1859 he was made Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Forrest lived at 37 St. Michael's Grove in London during his career. He died in 1917 at his home in St. Leonard's-on-Sea.

The James Forrest Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers was established in his honour upon his retirement in 1896.

References

1825 births
1917 deaths
People from Westminster
Alastair Paterson. Alastair Craig Paterson  CBE, FREng (15 January 1924 – 20 July 2021) was a British civil engineer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was the 124th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1988 to November 1989 and President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1984 to 1985.

Career
After graduating from the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1944, Paterson joined the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and reached the rank of Major.  He completed his service in 1948 having gained the position of Deputy Assistant Director Mechanical Engineering (North Burma and China).

In 1948 Paterson joined Merz & McLelland in Esher, then Aberdeen.  In 1958 he left to join Taylor Woodrow working with Frank Gibb on nuclear power station projects.

He became a partner of F R Bullen in 1960 and founded their Glasgow office. He was involved in the structural engineering of the Aberdeen School of Art. In 1966 he moved to London becoming Senior Partner and worked on projects such as Dungeness B power station and Aber Swing Bridge, Carnaerfon.

He became Chairman of the British Consultants' Bureau in 1976. He was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers from 1984 to 1985, and President of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1988 to November 1989.

Paterson died in Chichester in July 2021 at the age of 97.

References

1924 births
2021 deaths
Alumni of the University of Strathclyde
Engineers from Glasgow
Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Scottish civil engineers
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers officers
British Army personnel of World War II
Military personnel from Glasgow
British Geotechnical Association. The British Geotechnical Association is a learned 'Associated Society' of the Institution of Civil Engineers, based in London, England, and a registered UK charity (No. 284131). It provides a focal point for organisations and individuals interested in geotechnical engineering.

Activities include annual lectures (notably the Rankine Lecture named after William Rankine, an early contributor to the theory of soil mechanics, and the Géotechnique Lecture), monthly meetings, an annual conference, and a magazine: Ground Engineering.

The BGA is the UK member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM).

History

Before 1948, the ICE had a committee on soil mechanics and foundations and a British national committee of the then International Society of Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE). In October 1948, the ICE's council decided to form a British national society of the ISSMFE. It was established as an unincorporated association, the British Geotechnical Society, in early 1949, and held its first formal meeting, chaired by W.K. Wallace, in October 1949. During 1949 ICE also took on responsibility for publishing the journal Géotechnique.  It became a registered charity in 1981, and became the BGA in June 2000.

See also
 Rankine Lecture
 Géotechnique Lecture

References

External links
BGA Official Website

Professional associations based in the United Kingdom
1949 establishments in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 1949
Geotechnical organizations
Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation. The Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation (NESD) is a student-run organization where students are selected to go to Washington, D.C. to meet with key policymakers and discuss the issues facing nuclear energy, policy, education, and research.  Traditionally the Delegation has been composed only of nuclear engineering students, but over the years, the Delegation has broadened to include nuclear related disciplines as well.  Recently, the Delegation has also had an interest in areas including non-proliferation, environmental science, national security, nuclear exports, and health physics.

History 
The NESD started in 1994 when a group of students went to Washington, D.C. to oppose cuts to funding for research reactors in the FY 1995 budget.  This funding was reinstated as a direct result of the efforts of the Delegation, and group has been returning to Washington ever since.

References

External links 
 

Nuclear energy in the United States
Star Monoplane. The Star Monoplane was an early British aircraft built by the Star Engineering Company of Wolverhampton.  A tractor configuration monoplane resembling the French Antoinette aircraft, its most remarkable feature was the arrangement of the rear control surfaces. It was exhibited at the Aero Exhibition at Olympia in London, in 1910.

Design and development
The Star Monoplane had  an uncovered triangular section fuselage of wire-braced ash, with the wings attached to the upper longerons and the pilot seated  behind the trailing edge of the wing. The fuselage divided into two sections aft of the cockpit for ease of transportation. The parallel-chord wings had rounded ends and wing warping control, the wires leading to a single king-post above the wing and to the ends of the undercarriage struts, which bore twin skids, carrying two wheels on a sprung axle. The tail surfaces consisted of a cruciform arrangement of four elongated triangular surfaces starting halfway down the fuselage, ending in raked ends bearing the outer pivots of the moving surfaces, each of which was an elongated diamond shape resembling a Malay kite. These could be used conventionally as rudders and elevators or alternatively operated as linked opposing pairs, so that their operation would cause the aircraft to roll to one side or the other. It was powered by a 30 hp (22 kW) Star engine driving a 6 ft  8  in (2  m) Clarke propeller.

Trials of this arrangement were not satisfactory and, during 1911, the aircraft was extensively modified. The lower fin and moving surface was removed and the remaining surfaces' controls altered to produce the conventional arrangement of rudder and elevators. The wings were reduced in span by 5 ft (1.5 m) and the tailwheel was replaced by a skid. It was also fitted with a new  Star engine.

Specifications (Final form)

References

Single-engined tractor aircraft