omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Gordon Van Wylen. Gordon John Van Wylen (February 6, 1920 – November 5, 2020) was an American engineer and educator, known for his textbooks on thermodynamics. He served as the 9th president of Hope College from 1972 to 1987 and as the 8th dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering from 1965 to 1972.

Biography
Van Wylen was born in Grant, Michigan. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. 

He received a bachelor's degree from Calvin College, a master's degree from University of Michigan, and a doctorate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

In 1959, he published a textbook Thermodynamics, in which he stated a belief in "a Creator" in his summation of the second law of thermodynamics. “A final point to be made is that the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of increase in entropy have great philosophical implications. The question that arises is how did the universe get into the state of reduced entropy in the first place, since all natural processes known to us tend to increase entropy? ... The author has found that the second law tends to increase his conviction that there is a Creator who has the answer for the future destiny of man and the universe.”

He was chair of the Engineering Department at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1972. He was appointed president of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in 1972, serving until his retirement in 1987. He died of complications from COVID-19 in Holland, on November 5, 2020, at the age of 100, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Michigan.

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Jidong Cement. Tangshan Jidong Cement Co., Ltd.  is a Chinese cement manufacturing company, ranked the 6th largest manufacturer of cement in the world by Global Cement Magazine based on 2011 data.  The cement maker is part of the Jidong Development Group, a holding company with interests in machinery, real estate, and production of other construction materials.

Jidong expanded outside of China for the first time in 2010 when it entered into a deal to build a new cement plant in Limpopo, South Africa.  The US$221 million investment was funded by a consortium that included the China Africa Development Fund, Chinese commercial banks, and Nedbank, along with equity stakes by Continental Cement and Women Investment Portfolio Holdings.  In an interview with The Financial Times, Chen Ying, an executive of Jidong Development Group, explained that the investment was driven by his belief that Africa would progress and grow as fast as China.  Before the investment, in 2007 Jidong and Women Investment Portfolio Holdings, a black women empowerment themed fund, had already partnered up to deliver Dunshi branded cement in South Africa.  The new plant was enthusiastically welcomed by South African publication Moneyweb which predicted the new facility would "shake [the] industry to its foundations" because it would shatter the "old cement cartel".

References

Cement companies of China
Companies based in Hebei
Chinese companies established in 1994
Chinese brands
Mechanical power (medicine). In medicine, mechanical power is a measure of the amount of energy imparted to a patient by a mechanical ventilator.

While in many cases mechanical ventilation is a life-saving or life-preserving intervention, it also has the potential to cause harm to the patient via ventilator-associated lung injury. A number of stresses may be induced by the ventilator on the patient's lung. These include barotrauma caused by pressure, volutrauma caused by distension of the lungs, rheotrauma caused by fast-flowing delivery of gases and atelectotrauma resulting from repeated collapse and re-opening of the lung.

The purpose of mechanical power is to provide a quantity which can account for all of these stresses and therefore predict the amount of lung injury which is likely to be seen in the patient.

References

Respiratory therapy
Pulmonology
Emergency medicine
Medical equipment
Intensive care medicine
Lung disorders

There is no agreed upon equation for Mechanical Power.
Lee Hong-yuan. Lee Hong-yuan (; born 21 June 1956) is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of the Executive Yuan from 2012 to 2014.

Early life and education
Lee Hong-yuan was born in Taishan, Taipei County to a farmer family. His father Lee Teng-hui served as head of the district. Lee's younger brother is Lee Hung-chun. He obtained his bachelor's degree in hydraulic engineering from National Cheng Kung University. He then earned an M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1984) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa, where was inducted as a member of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy in 2008.

Upon graduation, Lee worked in the United States for two years before returning to Taiwan in 1986 to teach at National Taiwan University. Lee has also been a visiting professor at five universities in China and in the Netherlands.

ROC Interior Ministry

Personal life
Lee is married to Hui Hsin Lee and has four children.

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1956 births
Living people
Ministers of the interior of Taiwan
People First Party (Taiwan) politicians
Politicians of the Republic of China on Taiwan from New Taipei
Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
Taiwanese educators
FAW-GM Kuncheng. The FAW-GM Kuncheng (坤程) is a compact pickup truck that is developed as a joint venture between General Motors and First Automotive Works. The pickup is currently sold only in mainland China, the base price is RMB¥60,500(US$9,722.62) and the luxury model is RMB¥66,500(US$10,686.85)

Overview
The FAW-GM Kuncheng pickup is only available as a crew cab with the body being shared with the pre-facelift first generation Isuzu D-Max due to the GM connection. The powertrain is a domestic-sourced 2.2 liter gasoline engine from Chinese engine maker Xin’guang Huachen with a maximum output of 76kW and 193 nm, mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. A model powered by a 2.4 liter diesel engine is also available.

References

External links
fawgm.com
media.gm.com
faw-gm-kuncheng-pickup-truck

Pickup trucks
Trucks of China
2010s cars
Cars of China
Sameh Fahmi. Sameh Fahmi (born 14 August 1949) is an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as oil minister of Egypt for 12 years from 1999 to 2011.

Early life and education
Fahmi was born in Cairo on 14 August 1949. He has a twin brother, Hadi Fahmi. Sameh Fahmi holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, which he received from Cairo University in June 1973.

Career and activities
After graduation, Fahmi began to work at the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC). In May 1993, he became a board member and vice head of the EGPC in charge of planning and projects. In January 1997, he was appointed CEO and vice chairman of the Midor oil refining venture near Alexandria. In 1997, he began to serve as a board member of the Petroleum and Mining Chamber and of the Federation of Egyptian Industries. In August 1998, he was named a board member of the Alexandria Company for Petroleum Maintenance. He joined the National Democratic Party and became a member of its policy secretariat.

Fahmi was appointed oil minister to the cabinet led by the Prime Minister Atef Ebeid on 5 October 1999, replacing Hamdi Al Banbi in the post. Fahmi was also named the chairman of the Egyptian Gas Holding Company. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Egyptian holding company for petrochemicals (ECHEM) in 2002. A 15-year natural gas deal was signed by him and Israeli national infrastructure minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer in July 2005. In December 2010, he was appointed president of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. Although he retained his post in the cabinet led by Ahmed Shafik in the January 2011 reshuffle, he resigned from office due to the complaints of oil workers on 16 February 2011. His term ended on 21 February 2011, and he was replaced by Mahmoud Latif Amer as oil minister.

Controversy
After leaving office, Fahmi was investigated because of alleged wrongdoing. In April 2011, it was announced by the public prosecutor that he would be tried in relation to the charges related to a natural gas deal with Israel. He was arrested and held in custody on 21 April 2011. Fahmi was sentenced to 15 years in prison in June 2012 due to his alleged role in selling and exporting natural gas to Israel in 2005 at lower prices than market rates. He along with other officials was also fined about $2.3 billion.

In mid-March 2013, the court of cassation decided that Fahmi should be retried over the Egypt-Israel gas case. On 28 March 2013, he was released from prison since he stayed in prison longer than the maximum 18 months allowed for pre-trial detention. Specifically, he was jailed for 23 months.

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20th-century Egyptian engineers
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National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians
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Electric track vehicle system. An electric track vehicle system (ETV) is a conveyor system for light goods transport. The system uses independently driven vehicles traveling on a monorail track network, consisting of straight track elements, bends, curves and transfer-units for changing of travel direction. Vehicles in an ETV system transport payloads up to 50 kg both vertical and horizontal in buildings and manufacturing plants. ETV systems were primarily put on the market in the sixties by German company Telelift. Later additional companies like Siemens or Thyssen engaged in this business.

Application
Initially, electric track vehicle systems were designed for documents transport and mail distribution in office buildings and headquarters. Later, further applications were designed for hospitals, libraries, printing plants, retail stores and material handling in manufacturing plants.

Mainly transported goods are:
 Hospital: blood plasma, lab samples, pharmaceuticals, sterile utilities, patient records, x-rays and hospital consumables
 Library: books, newspapers, journals, media
 Headquarters, ministries, office buildings: documents, mail, parcels
 Printing plants: printing plates
 Retail stores: garment, shoes, jewelry, luxury goods
 Manufacturing plants: component parts, assemblies, tools

Electric track vehicle systems operate horizontal and vertical in one and the same vehicle per transport job. Conveying without transfer allows gentle transport of sensitive goods. Vehicle destination is usually typed into a touchscreen terminal at the station. The vehicles operate with a speed up to 1 m/s.

The modular design of Electric Track Vehicle systems allows wide spreading track networks. E.g., the ETV system in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris consists of 6.6 km tracks, 151 stations and 300 vehicles.

References

External links 
 ETV system at National Library of New Zealand

Material-handling equipment
SRAM G8. SRAM G8 is an internally geared hub for bicycles developed and manufactured by the American cycling component manufacturer SRAM Corporation. It entered production in 2013.

Development
Development of the product started in 2011, as a reaction to the Japanese corporation Shimano's introducing a competing product Alfine S700. The G8 was intended to replace the 9-speed SRAM i-Motion 9, which had been manufactured in SRAM's facility in Schweinfurt, Germany since 2005. In 2010, SRAM announced its new strategy to close down the factory in Schweinfurt, which had roots back to 1895. Allegedly, the facility continued to operate as an R&D- and service-center, although all manufacturing there ceased. In August 2012, SRAM announced its first product resulting from the new strategy, the G8.  In 2013, after just 22 months of development, SRAM announced that manufacturing was to commence at the new facility in Dali, Taiwan. The G8 is lighter in weight than the i-Motion 9, and the internal mechanism is much less complicated.

Features
 8 speeds, 259,7% overall range
 Even gear ratio increments (ratio range 0.609-1.581)
 Weight 2188 grams
 Coaster brake
 Disc Brake
 Freewheel
 36 spokes

References

Hub gears
SRAM Corporation
Products introduced in 2013
JGR Class 3900. The JGR Class 3900 was a type of  steam locomotive used on Japanese Government Railways. The locomotives were imported from Germany for the Abt rack system railway built in Karuizawa, Nagano.

See also
 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification

References

0-6-0T locomotives
Steam locomotives of Japan
1067 mm gauge locomotives of Japan
Scrapped locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1892
JGR Class 8150. The Class 8150 is a type of 2-6-0 steam locomotive used on Japanese Government Railways. The 8150 class were among the seven hundred locomotives built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in the United States for export to Japan.

See also
 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification

References

2-6-0 locomotives
Steam locomotives of Japan
1067 mm gauge locomotives of Japan
Baldwin locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1890
Andreas Gal. Andreas Gal is former chief technology officer at Mozilla. He is most notable for his work on several open source projects and Mozilla technologies.

Gal was born in Szeged, Hungary and grew up in Lübeck, Germany. During high school he worked on various open source AX.25 network stacks and designed a routing protocol for ham radio network nodes (INP3) that became widely supported by AX.25 network routers.

During his graduate studies at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg he was a codesigner of AspectC++, an aspect-oriented extension of C and C++ languages. He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His thesis introduced the concept of Tracing just-in-time compilation of high-level languages using trace trees.

Gal joined Mozilla in 2008 and built TraceMonkey, the first JavaScript just-in-time compiler in a web browser, only weeks before Google announced Chrome and the V8 JavaScript engine. After his work on TraceMonkey, Gal became the Director of Research at Mozilla. A notable research project he started was PDF.js, a PDF renderer in JavaScript and HTML5, which now replaces the Adobe PDF plug-in in Firefox.

In 2011, Gal co-founded the Boot to Gecko project, which later became Firefox OS.

In 2013, Gal was appointed the Vice President of Mobile Engineering of Mozilla.
In April 2014, Gal became the CTO of Mozilla. In June 2015 he left Mozilla, co-founding the Internet of Things start-up Silk Labs with two other members of the Firefox OS team (however, Silk Labs does not use Mozilla technologies). Also in 2015, Gal became an adviser at Acadine Technologies; a startup newly founded by Li Gong (former president of  Mozilla Corporation) which was to develop software based on Firefox OS. As of 2018, Gal is an employee of Apple Inc.

References

External links 
 Andreas Gal's Weblog

Living people
Mozilla developers
Mozilla people
Open source people
Free software programmers
1976 births
Chief technology officers
JGR Class 860. The JGR Class 860 was the first steam railway locomotive built in Japan. Some parts were provided by foreign manufacturers, but the compound  high-pressure and  low-pressure cylinders were constructed in Japan. The compound design reduced coal consumption by 15 to 20 percent, but the locomotive was difficult to handle, so no more of the type were built. The locomotive spent its last years on Sakhalin.

See also
 Japan Railways locomotive numbering and classification

References

2-4-2T locomotives
Steam locomotives of Japan
1067 mm gauge locomotives of Japan
Individual locomotives of Japan
Scrapped locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1893
Unified modeling language for interactive systems. Unified modeling language for interactive systems (UMLi) is a conservative extension of the unified modeling language for user interface design. UMLi was developed in the period between 1998 and 2002 as part of Paulo Pinheiro's Ph.D. Thesis at the University of Manchester. UMLi is based on model-based user interface development environments (MB-UIDEs), which provide the capability to design and implement user interfaces in a declarative and systematic way.

References

External links
 https://psemantica.com/umli/

Unified Modeling Language
Astravahini-class torpedo recovery vessel. The Astravahini class of torpedo recovery vessels are a series of naval auxiliary watercraft built by Goa Shipyard Limited and P.S. & Company for the Indian Navy. They are intended to recover practice torpedoes and mines, fired and laid by ships, submarines and aircraft. The vessels can stow two full-sized torpedoes on deck and two on a recovery ramp. 

The vessel A72 sank on 6 November 2014 during a routine exercise near Visakhapatnam after taking on water, with one sailor dead and four missing.

Ships in the class

Specification (A71 & A72)
Displacement: 110 tonnes
Speed: 11 knots
Dimension: 28.5 X 6.1 X 1.4 meters
Engine: 2 Kirloskar MAN 12 cyl. diesels, 2 props. 720 bhp
Crew: 13 total

See also
List of active Indian Navy ships
, a catamaran-hulled torpedo recovery vessel that replaced the Astravahini class

References

External links

A-71 Decommissioned

Training ships of the Indian Navy
Auxiliary training ship classes
Hamdi Al Banbi. Hamdi Al Banbi () (1935–2016) was an Egyptian engineer, businessman and politician who served as oil minister from 1991 to 1999.

Early life and education
Banbi was born on 7 August 1935. He was a graduate of Cairo University where he received a degree in petroleum engineering in 1959. In 1960 he attended the University of Moscow and obtained a master of science degree in economics of petroleum engineering. He received his PhD in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University in 1963.

Career
Banbi was an engineer by training. After returning to Egypt he began to work at the Eastern Petroleum Company as a production engineer and served there until 1966 when he joined the faculty of engineering at Al Azhar University. From 1968 Banbi worked at the Western Desert Petroleum Company (WEPCO) where he became its general directorate of operations. In 1977 Banbi became the chairman of the Gulf of Suez Petroleum Company (GUPCO) and remained in the post until 1988 when he was named as the chairman of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) where he served until 1991. 

Banbi was appointed oil minister of Egypt on 20 May 1991 and served in the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Atef Sedki. Banbi replaced Abdel Hadi Kandil as oil minister. Shortly after his appointment, Banbi modified oil pricing of Egypt and also, reshuffled officials at the ministry.

Banbi was also a member of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and won a seat in Shebin El Kom, provincial capital of the Monufia governorate, in the mid-term Shura Council elections held in June 1998. He also served as oil minister in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri. Banbi was in office until 5 October 1999. Sameh Fahmi succeeded him as oil minister.

After leaving office, Banbi became the coordinator of the energy committee for the national economics and production authority in Egypt. He was also the president of the Arab society for mining and petroleum and the Egypt's gas society. In addition he was a board member of the Egypt's engineering society. Banbi founded TAQA Arabia in 2006, and served as the chairman of the firm.

In 2009 Banbi was made a member of the Petroleum Engineering Academy of Distinguished Graduates at Texas A&M University.

Death
Banbi died on 11 August 2016.

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20th-century Egyptian businesspeople
20th-century Egyptian engineers
20th-century Egyptian politicians
21st-century Egyptian engineers
1935 births
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Texas A&M University alumni
Moscow State University alumni
Academic staff of Al-Azhar University
National Democratic Party (Egypt) politicians
Petroleum engineers
Petroleum ministers of Egypt
Members of the Shura Council
Dimitris Fotakis. Dimitris Fotakis () is associate professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the National Technical University of Athens. He is a prominent researcher in the field of algorithmic game theory.

Born and raised in Patras, he received a Computer Engineering Diploma (1994) and a PhD in Computer Science (1999) from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Greece. From September 2001 until September 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Algorithms and Complexity Group, Saarbrücken, Germany. Since February 2009, he has been a faculty member with the Division of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.

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Greek computer scientists
Living people
University of Patras alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
GridSpice. GridSpice is an open source cloud-based simulation package for the smart grid and incorporates code from MATPOWER and GridLAB-D. GridSpice models the interactions between all parts of the electrical grid including generation, transmission, distribution, storage and loads. GridSpace is free software released under the 3-clause BSD license.

See also

 GridLAB-D
 Open energy system models – listing a number of open source electricity and energy system modeling projects

External links
 TomKatCenter at the University of Stanford
 Google Code
 MATPOWER

Free simulation software
Koolhoven F.K.54. The Koolhoven F.K.54 was a Dutch single-engine, three-seat touring aircraft with a retractable undercarriage.  It flew shortly before the start of World War II and its development was abandoned after its first flight as attention turned to military aircraft.

Design and development

The F.K.54 was most notable as Koolhoven's first aircraft with a retractable undercarriage.  It was a high-wing monoplane; its wings tapered in plan and had rounded tips.  They were braced with a pair of near-parallel struts on each side between wing spars and the lower fuselage longerons, assisted by short jury struts.

The F.K.54's fuselage was flat-sided, with a 140 hp (104 kW) de Havilland Gipsy Major four cylinder inverted inline air-cooled engine in the nose driving a two blade propeller  A three-seat, glazed cabin was located under the wing, entered by a port side door. The rear fuselage continued aft at cabin roof height, tapering towards the tail.  The tailplane was mounted on top of the fuselage; the fin was straight-edged with a rounded top with a rudder that extended down to the keel. The novel undercarriage was hydraulically operated, the wheels lifting rearwards into the fuselage under the passenger seats.  Long, horizontally hinged curved doors then enclosed wheels and legs.

Operational history
The F.K 54 was built for Mr. Van 't Groenewoud, one of the auditors of NV Koolhoven Aircraft.  Though the registration reservation PH-APR was made in January 1937 the F.K.54 did not fly until around the autumn of 1938, delayed by Koolhoven's increasing concentration on warplanes.  These efforts also prevented the resolution of problems with the undercarriage retraction mechanism.  The F.K.54 was neglected and ultimately destroyed because of the war; it was lost to bombing on 10 May 1940 during the German invasion of the Netherlands.

Specifications

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F.K.54
1930s Dutch sport aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1938