omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
SNCAC NC.271. The SNCAC NC.271 was a French experimental aircraft built by SNCAC in the late 1940s, as a 1:2.5 scale model of the proposed SNCAC NC.270 jet bomber, featuring swept-back wings, using SNCASE SE-161 Languedoc N0.31 F-BCUT as a launch platform.

Variants
NC.270 A proposed jet bomber, to have been powered by two Rolls-Royce Nene turbojet engines. Development was curtailed in June 1949 with the liquidation of the Aerocentre combine.
NC.271-01A 1:2.5 scale NC.270 glider research aircraft; first free flight on 28 January 1949.
NC.271-02 A powered version of the NC.271, fitted with a  Walter HWK 109-509A liquid-fuelled rocket engine; development was abandoned with the collapse of Aérocentre.

Specifications (NC.271-01)

References

Bibliography
 Buttler, Tony. X-Planes of Europe II: Military Prototype Aircraft from the Golden Age 1946–1974. Manchester, UK: Hikoki Publications, 2015. 
 

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1940s French experimental aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1949
Katsuhiko Ariga. is a Japanese chemist specializing in nanotechnology and self-assembly. He was educated at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where he defended his PhD in 1990 and later worked as assistant professor. Since 2004 he carries out research at the National Institute for Materials Science, and teaches at the University of Tokyo, where he is a full professor. Ariga is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2013) and an editor of the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

Selected publications
According to the Web of Science Ariga published five articles with more than 700 citations each:

References

External links

 Brief Conversations with Katsuhiko Ariga on YouTube: 
 What is nanoarchitectonics? 
 What makes a good paper? 
 Direction of nanoscience in the coming years 
 What do you find exciting in materials science research?

1962 births
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Japanese chemists
Living people
Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
Ding Yi (businessman). Ding Yi (; June 1927 – 5 March 2019) was a Chinese electrical engineer and business executive. He established the state-owned Dongfang Electric Corporation in 1984 and served as its general manager for ten years.

Biography 
Ding Yi was born in June 1927 as Xu Weiwen (), in Penglai, Shandong, Republic of China. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he joined the Communist resistance in April 1944, and changed his name to Ding Yi.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ding entered Tsinghua University in 1950. In 1951, he was sent to study in the Soviet Union, together with Li Peng (later Premier of China) and Zou Jiahua (later Vice Premier). After graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Technology in 1957, he worked at Harbin Turbine Factory in Northeast China, and was later promoted to deputy chief engineer.

In 1967, Ding was transferred to Sichuan as part of the Third Front Movement, and served as chief engineer, and later head of the .

During the reform and opening era, Ding was tasked with reorganizing Dongfang Turbine Factory and establishing Dongfang Electric Corporation in March 1984. He served as the first general manager and chairman of the company for the next ten years. Under his leadership, Dongfang developed into one of the world's largest electrical engineering companies. By the time of his retirement in 1994, Dongfang was ranked as the world's 120th largest engineering contractor.

During the Great Sichuan earthquake of May 2008, the original Dongfang Turbine Factory in Hanwang, Sichuan was severely damaged. The earthquake killed many Dongfang employees and caused economic damages estimated at 2.7 billion yuan. At the time, Ding was hospitalized in Beijing for medical treatment. When Dongfang Electric began rebuilding the factory in Deyang in August, Ding donated more than 200,000 yuan of his savings to the company to help with reconstruction. Over more than 10 years, he also donated over 100,000 yuan to support college students from poor families.

Ding died on 5 March 2019 at Huaxi Hospital in Chengdu at the age of 91.

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1927 births
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People from Penglai, Shandong
Businesspeople from Yantai
Chinese electrical engineers
Chinese company founders
Chinese chief executives
Tsinghua University alumni
Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology alumni
Chinese expatriates in the Soviet Union
Engineers from Shandong
David Kear (geologist). David Kear  (29 October 1923 – 5 March 2019) was a New Zealand geologist and science administrator. He served as director-general of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1980 to 1983.

Early life and education
Born in London on 29 October 1923, Kear was educated at Sevenoaks School in Kent. He went on to study at Imperial College London from 1941 to 1944, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in engineering in 1944. After serving as a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy between 1944 and 1947, he returned to Imperial College for further study from 1947 to 1948, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree. He later received a PhD from the University of London in 1963. The title of his doctoral thesis was Geology of the Te Akau District, West Auckland, New Zealand, and its regional implications.

In 1948, Kear married Joan Kathleen Rose Bridges in Maidstone, Kent, and the couple went on to have three children.

Career
Kear worked at the New Zealand Geological Survey (NZGS) from 1948 to 1974. He was district geologist at Ngāruawāhia between 1949 and 1958, and at Auckland from 1958 to 1965. He served as chief economics geologist from 1963 and 1967, and was director of the NZGS from 1967 to 1974.

In 1974, Kear was appointed assistant director-general of the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research from 1974, and as director general from 1980 to 1983, when he retired.

Kear wrote more than 125 scientific papers and books on New Zealand and Western Samoan geology and volcanology. He served as vice president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 1975 to 1979, and president of the Geological Society of New Zealand from 1959 to 1960.

Honours
Kear was elected a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 1964, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1973. In the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kear was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Later life and death
In retirement, Kear lived in Ōhope, In 2009, he was one of six New Zealanders who signed an open letter from 141 international scientists to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, skeptical of the available evidence for anthropogenic global warming and challenging the UNFCC and the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference to provide further evidence to support the scientific consensus on climate change.

Kear died in Auckland on 5 March 2019, having been predeceased by his wife, Joan, in 2013.

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1923 births
2019 deaths
Scientists from London
People educated at Sevenoaks School
Alumni of Imperial College London
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
British emigrants to New Zealand
20th-century New Zealand geologists
People associated with Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Starck AS.90 New Look. The Starck AS.90 New Look was a sports aircraft built in France in the early 1950s.

Design and development
The AS.90 New Look was a mid-wing monoplane of all-wood construction, for engines of .

Variants
AS.90-01Powered by an  Aubier-Dunne V.2D; first flown on 11 June 1950.
AS.90-02(F-PGGB), powered by a  Ava 4A-00; first flown on 19 November 1955 and destroyed in an accident on 31 July 1960.
AS.90 Super New look A redesign of the AS.90 in the early 1980s, with a new wing section and slightly increased dimensions, powered by contemporary low-powered aircraft engines, such as the Citroën Ami 6 conversion delivering .

Specifications (AS-90.01)

References

1950s French aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1951
Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems. Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems (IIAP) () is a scientific research institution of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. In 1957 it was founded as Computing Center of NAS of Soviet Armenia and Yerevan State University. The Institute of Informatics and Automation Problems is a leading research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in the field of applied mathematics, computer science and the introduction of computing technologies in various fields of science and technology.

It was founded in 1957 as the Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and Yerevan State University.

The first Director IIAP was the mathematician Sergey Mergelyan.

At the beginning of the 50s, the main research areas of the Institute were computer science and applied mathematics. Soviet Armenia was one of the key centers of computing and research activities of the Soviet Union in the field of industrial computing, software development, etc.
The Institute became the founder of various modern areas of applied mathematics. Many scholars worked in the Computing Center in diverse research fields of cybernetics and applied mathematics.  
Among them were Sergey Mergelyan, Ashot Petrosian, Rom Varshamov and Igor Zaslavski.

Since 1963, the Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems has published the journal "Mathematical Problems of Computer Science".

The title of institute was changed after the collapse of Soviet Union. IIAP carried out master's degree school.

In 1994, the Armenian Scientific and Research Computer Network (ASNET-AM) was developed, created and operated at IIAP. It serves more than 65 networks of scientific and educational organizations operating in different regions of Armenia.

In 2004, the Institute launched a supercomputer "Armklaster".

It was planned to create a National Supercomputer Center at the Institute on 2015.

Currently, the institute is actively cooperating with EU organizations in the direction of supporting knowledge-intensive small enterprises.

References and notes

External links 
 Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems Official website
 Official website
 CSIAM

Research institutes in Armenia
Pages with unreviewed translations
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Research institutes established in 1967
1967 establishments in the Soviet Union
Copper telluride. Copper telluride may refer to:

Weissite, a mineral, Cu2−xTe
Rickardite, a mineral, Cu7Te5 (or Cu3−x (x = 0 to 0.36)Te2)
Copper(I) telluride,  Cu2Te
Copper(II) telluride, CuTe, which occurs as the mineral vulcanite
Copper ditelluride,  CuTe2
Tellurium copper, copper alloy with tellurium

See also
Kostovite, a rare telluride mineral containing copper and gold, AuCuTe4
Copper sulfide
Copper selenide
Isabelle Barratt-Delia. Isabelle Barratt-Delia (née Gulia; born 1938) is the first recorded female Maltese architect of the 20th century.

Early life and education 
Barratt-Delia was born in Malta in 1938. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, St Julian's. In 1961, she graduated as an architect and civil engineer from the Royal University of Malta in Valletta, now known as the University of Malta.

Career 
Barratt-Delia worked at Mortimer and de Giorgio Architects for a short period of time, before leaving for Canada. She worked for the Canadian Exhibition Commission between 1962 and 1964 and participated in fairs in New York City, Milan, Frankfurt and Sydney.

Personal life 
Barratt-Delia met Peter Barratt, an architect and urban planner, while working at Mortimer and de Giorgio Architects. They married in 1961 and moved to Canada.

References 

1938 births
20th-century Maltese architects
Women architects
Maltese emigrants to Canada
Living people
Wellfield Botanic Gardens. Wellfield Botanic Gardens, located in Elkhart, Indiana, United States, is a  botanical garden and a working source of hydropower and drinking water. It is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization funded by private donations, earned revenue, memberships, and grants.

Main Street Well Field History

A source of drinking water since at least 1885, the Main Street Well Field site was constructed in the early 1900s and serves as the primary water supply for Elkhart residents.

Groundwater contamination resulting from industrial manufacturing runoff was identified at the site in 1981. Over the following decade, Superfund measures were put in place to correct these issues to the satisfaction of the EPA and state authorities. There are currently 15 active wells that continue to be monitored.

The Wellfield Botanic Gardens

In 2002, the Rotary Club of Elkhart conceived of the gardens as a community service project to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rotary International. Modeled after the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the goal was to create a community asset that served locals and tourists alike, preserving the natural habitat and contributing positively to the local economy.

The project was officially handed over to the Wellfield Botanic Gardens Board of Directors in 2005 and construction began in 2006. Budgeted at approximately $11 million, construction was planned to take place in 7 phases over 10 years.

The well field land remains the property of the City of Elkhart, and Wellfield Botanic Gardens signed a 99-year lease in 2005 to operate the not-for-profit botanic garden.

Garden Collections
Wellfield Botanic Gardens features over 20 individual gardens including an English-style garden, a waterfall garden, and an "Adventure Path" for children.

The Conversation Garden Walkway trail includes memorial pavers that can be purchased in memory of a loved one or to commemorate a special event.

The Quilt Garden is updated yearly with flowerbeds and greenery designed to represent a quilt square. It is one of 17 quilt gardens in the northern Indiana Amish Country Heritage Trail.

The Japanese-style Island Garden, slated to open in fall 2019, is being constructed under the guidance of Japanese garden expert Sadafumi Uchiyama and features boulders weighing up to .

See also
 List of botanical gardens and arboretums in Indiana

References

Botanical gardens in Indiana
Elkhart, Indiana
Rotary International
Heartland Petrochemical Complex. Inter Pipeline's Heartland Petrochemical Complex is a $3.5-billion project in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta which will produce recyclable plastics from the province's propane. With its anticipated completion in 2021, Inter Pipeline's complex would be Canada's "first integrated propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene facility." The Complex is expected to create 2,300 jobs in construction and facility operations.

Background
Inter Pipeline's Complex Project is supported with up to $200-million in future royalty credits under the Alberta government's Petrochemicals Diversification Program. In March 2019, Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development said that ISED would be investing $49 million towards the Complex as part of their "$1.6-billion plan to support jobs and workers in Canada’s oil and gas sector."

Technology

Central to the project is the 97-metres high propylene-propane splitter weighing over 800 tonnes.

Environment
Environmentalists opposed the proposed plant along with Pembina Pipeline Corp.’s $4.5-billion petrochemical proposed "integrated propane dehydrogenation plant and polypropylene upgrading facility", a joint venture with Kuwait's Petrochemical Industries Co, in Sturgeon. They say that "very little plastic is recycled in Canada — almost 90 per cent winds up as litter or in landfills". Notley said that "upgrading hydrocarbons at home instead of shipping raw product into the United States allows the province to ensure it has among the lowest emitting petrochemical producers in the world."

Notes

References

Petrochemical industry
David Dewhurst Medal. The David Dewhurst award is a bronze medal bestowed by Engineers Australia and is the most distinguished accolade within their biomedical engineering discipline. It is named in honour of David John Dewhurst  (1919 - 1996), an outstanding Australian biophysicist and biomedical engineer who performed pioneering work in the area of the cochlear implant.  The award was inaugurated in 1994 as the Eminent Biomedical Engineers Award and its first winner was David Dewhurst. Following his death in 1996 the award’s name was changed to the David Dewhurst Award as a permanent memorial.

Recipients 
 1996 Keith Daniel,  Nucleus Ltd.
 1997 Peter C. Farrell,  ResMed
 1998 George Kossoff, CSIRO
 1999 Richard Kirsner, La Trobe University
 2000 Klaus Schindhelm, University of NSW
 2001 Alex Watson, Premier Biomedical Engineering Pty Ltd
 2002 Barry Seeger
 2003 Laurie Knuckey
 2004 Mark Pearcy
 2005 John Southwell
 2006 John Symonds
 2007 Geoffrey Wickham,  Telectronics
 2009 Andrew Downing, Flinders University 
 2010 Alexander McLean
 2011 Graham Grant
 2012 David Burton, Compumedics
 2013 Nigel Lovell, University of NSW 
 2014 James F. Patrick, University of Melbourne 
 2015 Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide 
 2016 Karen Reynolds, Flinders University
 2017 Walter John Russell, University of Adelaide
 2018 Christopher Bertram, University of Sydney
 2019 Alan Finkel, Office of the Chief Scientist (Australia)
 2020 Michael Griffiths
 2021 Leo Barnes, TUV SUD GmbH
 2023 Ed Skull

See also

 List of engineering awards
 List of prizes named after people
 List of medicine awards

References

Australian science and technology awards
Engineering awards
Awards established in 1996
MV Indies Trader. The MV Indies Trader is a surf exploration vessel, which took part in Quiksilver's Crossing from 1999-2005, and is known as the most iconic vessel in modern surfing.

The Rader 
Richard ‘Rick’ James designed the Rader (now Indies Trader) as well as 150 of Australia’s most iconic vessels. He graduated University of Queensland’s Bachelor of Naval Architecture program. It was owned first by Dave Barnett, a New Zealander raised in Fiji, using it for marine salvage jobs, the primary function of the boats large cargo hold and crane.

Extension and renaming 
After diving a big wreck and finding controversial treasure, Dave Barnett decided to sell the boat to one of his crew, Martin Daly. When it was sold to Martin, it was renamed Indies Trader to keep the Rader name intact and avoid the bad luck of renaming a boat. Using the same designer, Rick James, it was cut in half and extended by 6 feet.

Surf Discovery 
The boat is credited with discovering many surf breaks, including One Palm Point and being the first boat in the Mentawai Islands. The boat stumbled upon Lance Knight a couple weeks after he arrived by canoe, and named the surf break after him, Lance's Right. Captain Daly and the Indies Trader have discovered more surf breaks than anyone in human history.

The Quiksilver Crossing 
Supported by the United Nations, Quiksilver organized a seven year trip around the world, discovering new surf breaks, as well as checking on the coral health around the globe. The Crossing has been called one of the most groundbreaking moments in surf history.  The voyage took them to 56 countries and 26 states and four territories, they discovered more than 115 new surf breaks, as well as going over 160,000 nautical miles, the equivalent of circumnavigating the world 8 times.

References 

Boats
Rebecca Mpagi. Brigadier Rebecca Mpagi, is a Ugandan military officer and Aircraft Maintenance Engineer, who serves as the Director of Personnel and Administration in the UPDF Air Force. She is credited as the first female in Uganda to qualify as a military aircraft maintenance engineer.

Background and education
Mpagi was born in the Buganda Region of Uganda circa 1956, to Yunia Nakibuuka Mpagi and Charles William Mpagi. She was the 11th born out of 14 children. She attended Kasanje Primary School before transferring to Jungo Junior School, in Wakiso District, where she completed her primary schooling.

She studied at Nabisunsa Girls' Secondary School for her O-Level studies. She then completed her A-Level education at Kololo High School, where she obtained a High School Diploma, in 1974.

She studied at Kianda Secretarial College, Nairobi, graduating with a Diploma in Secretarial Studies. In 1978, she was admitted to the East African Civil Aviation Academy in Soroti, graduating as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer,  in 1982. She has taken a number of military courses and training in guidance and counselling.

In 2019, Mpagi was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Zoe Life Theological Collège, based in Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States.

Career
Her first job was as a secretary at the lawyer's office in the Eastern Ugandan city of Mbale. However, the lawyer who employed her was murdered during the Uganda–Tanzania War (October 1978 until June 1979), which removed Idi Amin from power. That is when she enrolled in flight school.

She joined the National Resistance Army in 1986. After basic training, she gradually rose through the ranks, from Second Lieutenant (1988), Lieutenant (1990), Captain (1999), Major (2002) and Lieutenant Colonel (2008). As of June 2012, she was the Director of Women's Affairs at the Directorate of Women's Affairs at UPDF Headquarters, at Mbuya, a suburb of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. Since then, she has been promoted to a full Colonel and assigned as Director of Personnel and Administration at the UPDF Air Force, based in Entebbe.

On 28 March 2020, she was promoted from the rank of Colonel to that of Brigadier.

Family
Mpagi is a mother of four daughters.

See also
 Proscovia Nalweyiso
 Flavia Byekwaso
 Edith Nakalema
 Annette Nkalubo
 Christine Nyangoma
 Naomi Karungi

References

External links
Celebrating women who broke the gender barrier: Colonel Rebecca Mpagi: First female military pilot at Uganda People’s Defence Forces As of 7 March 2019.

1956 births
Living people
Ganda people
Ugandan aviators
Women military aviators
Ugandan generals
People from Central Region, Uganda
East African Civil Aviation Academy alumni
People educated at Nabisunsa Girls' Secondary School
Ugandan women
Wanda Lau. Wanda Lau is a writer and architecture critic living in Washington, D.C. She is the editor of technology and practice for Architect Magazine and Architectural Lighting, publications of Hanley Wood Media.

Education 
Lau earned her B.S. in civil engineering from Michigan State University. She also holds an S.M. in building technology from MIT, and an M.A. in journalism from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Criticism and journalism 
At Architect Magazine, Lau writes and edits technology-driven stories, and oversees the publication's R+D Awards. She is also the occasional host of the publication's podcast. In addition to her work for Architect Magazine, Lau has written for Men's Health, ASID Icon, and University Business.

A selection of her work appears below:
 "AIA Guides for Equitable Practice Offer More Than Workplace Strategies," Architect Magazine, March 1, 2019 
 "Podcast: What Is a Smart City? Listen to Three Experts Debate," Architect Magazine, February 14, 2019 
 "KieranTimberlake to Launch Roast, an App for Architects to Conduct Post-Occupancy Evaluations," Architectural Lighting, November 1, 2017 
 "A Look Behind ESI Design's Interactive Media Wall at Terrell Place," Architectural Lighting, August 1, 2016

References 

Architecture writers
Architecture critics
Women magazine editors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Michigan State University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni