omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
S. M. Kamaluddin. S. M. Kamaluddin (, born 4 February 1943) is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. He is the chairman of Concord Group, a conglomerate in Bangladesh. The company operates mainly in four business areas, including construction, real estate, building materials, and entertainment and hospitality.

Early life and education 
Kamaluddin was born on 4 February 1943. He graduated in civil engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1964.

Career 
Kamaluddin contributed to Bangladesh's construction industry by establishing a construction company. He founded Concord Construction Co. as a small proprietorship company in 1972. The company's first work was rebuilding seven bridges on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway due to the damages from the 1971 Liberation War. In 1976, Kamaluddin converted Concord Construction Co. to Concord Engineers & Construction Limited. Since then, the company has completed projects including National Martyrs' Memorial, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, World Trade Centre in Chattogram, Comcentre in Singapore under his leadership. He introduced the theme park concept in Bangladesh with Fantasy Kingdom in Ashulia. It was the country's biggest theme park.

Kamaluddin is the founder life member of North South University's trustee board. He is also the founding president of the Korea-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

References

External links 

 The Engineers Limited
 Korea-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Bangladeshi businesspeople
1943 births
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology alumni
Living people
Kelin Kuhn. Kelin Jo Kuhn is an American electronics engineer known for her work on process variation and scale reduction, particularly in CMOS electronics. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.

Education and career
Kuhn graduated in 1980 from the University of Washington, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She went to Stanford University for graduate study, earning a master's degree and then completing her Ph.D. in 1985. In her doctoral work and her early academic career, she was a laser engineer; her dissertation, Research and Development of a High Average Power Photo-processing Laser System, was supervised by Robert L. Byer.

She returned to the University of Washington as a faculty member from 1987 until 1997, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. In 1997 she moved to Intel, where she became an Intel Fellow before retiring in 2014. While at Intel, her work involved in reducing the minimum dimension of CMOS circuits from 130 nm to 7 nm. On retiring, she joined Cornell as Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor from 2014 to 2015, and continues at Cornell as an adjunct professor.

Recognition
Kuhn was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2011. She was the 2012 recipient of the IEEE Paul Rappaport Award, and the 2016 recipient of the IEEE Frederik Philips Award, "for technical leadership in the development
and implementation of breakthrough CMOS technology".

She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023, "for technical contributions enabling development and integration of novel transistor devices".

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
American women electrical engineers
Laser researchers
Computer hardware engineers
University of Washington alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Washington faculty
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Matthew West (technologist). Matthew West (1953-2023) was a British technology expert. He was the technical lead of the UK digital twin project. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to information management in the 2021 New Year Honours.

Early life and education 
West studied chemical engineering at the University of Leeds. He completed his doctoral research on numerical modelling. After graduating, he joined Shell plc, where he worked as a refinery technologist in the Shell Haven refinery. From 1987, he switched focus to concentrate on information management. He introduced computerised strategies to better understand plant performance and was made responsible for environmental issues at the refinery.

Career 
West worked at Shell plc for most of his career, where he became an expert in ontology. He was interested in the use of ontology to address challenges of information management in large organisation. This involved the development of the computer – business interfaces and modelling data. West contributed to data standards (ISO 15926, ISO 8000, ISO 18876) focussed on data integration and data quality. West developed the data infrastructure for Shell's globalisation initiative, "Downstream One,". Downstream One looked to gain better and more accurate data on customer interactions, eliminating errors and simplifying business processes. It reduced the number of operating systems at Shell by 90%. 

West was made a visiting professor at the University of Leeds Keyworth Institute in 2001. In 2008. West took early retirement, and left Shell to make his own company, Information Junction. In 2016, he started working with the National Protective Security Authority for the Government of the United Kingdom. He was put in charge of the technical aspects of the National Digital Twin programme (NDTp), and helped the government to understand the importance of good quality information.

In 2021, West was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

Selected publications

References 

1953 births
2023 deaths
Alumni of the University of Leeds
BMW Vision Neue Klasse. The BMW Vision Neue Klasse is a concept car unveiled at the IAA Mobility 2023.

The design is an evolution of the i Vision Dee concept that debuted at CES 2023.

Overview
The Vision Neue Klasse is an electric concept car that previews the design of the next generations of BMWs.

The linear design of the body features a "shark nose" that is tilted forward, 21-inch "aerodynamic wheels", and automatic opening and closing doors that are activated by sensors. A new front fascia is adopted in which the headlights are placed inside BMW's traditional kidney grille, and the taillights have a design with depth and breadth, with 3D printed light elements.

The interior has a simple design, with no chrome plating or leather used, and features the "BMW Panoramic Vision" projected onto the entire windshield, a square center display, and multi-function buttons on the steering wheel that can be operated.

The Vision Neue Klasse is equipped with the sixth generation BMW "eDrive" system and a newly developed circular battery. This improves charging efficiency by up to 30% and driving range by up to 30%. Overall vehicle efficiency is also improved by up to 25%.

Vision Neue Klasse's production models will be manufactured at a new plant in Debrecen, Hungary, without the use of fossil fuels, and with a focus on low-CO2 emissions and secondary raw materials.

References

External links
https://www.bmw.com/ja/magazine/innovation/bmw-vision-neue-klasse-a-new-perspective-on-mobility.html
https://www.bmw.com/ja/magazine/design/bmw-vision-neue-klasse-a-new-view-of-the-world.html
https://www.bmw.co.jp/ja/more-bmw/concept-cars/vision-neue-klasse.html

Concept cars
Samir Saran. Samir Saran is a senior advisor at The Asia Group and the President of Observer Research Foundation (ORF). His research focuses on issues related to global governance, energy policy, climate change, and technology and media, and India's foreign policy.

Early life and education 
Saran completed his bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, India, and his master's in Media studies, from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Later, Samir got his doctorate degree from Global Sustainability Institute, UK.

Career 
Saran worked at Reliance Industries across various verticals including power, retail, fibre and petrochemicals, telecom, and media. He also served as a member of the Government-Industry panel on Intellectual property and Broadcasting regulation. Since early 1990s, he has been engaged in studying India's economic reform journey with regulators and policy makers.

Saran works with The Asia Group to analyse and provide strategic advice regarding geopolitics, technology, and economics. As president at Observer Research Foundation (ORF), he curates for the Raisina Dialogue in collaboration with Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). ORF is an Indian annual flagship event on geopolitics and geo-economics. Currently, he in-charge of forging new international partnerships and incubating young leaders networks.

Saran has authored four books, edited important journals and publications and written several academic papers and book chapters.

Political views 
Saran has publicly appreciated India's diplomacy with foreign countries under Modi government. He lauded union minister Amit Shah's vision on Internal Security calling it a 'desperate need and a defining driver' of India's International Engagement.  Applauding 2022 G20 Summit, Saran called 2023 a transformational diplomatic year for India. He called India poised to become the bank for the Global South with a GDP of $3.7 trillion and its global diplomacy, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Saran is a nationalist and very outspoken about India's ties with other nations, especially with China and the west. At a Delhi conference in 2024, he slammed UK Labour Party member Peter Mandelson for his "imperialist Putin" remark calling it ironic.

Bibliography

References

Living people
People from Delhi
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Indian male non-fiction writers
21st-century Indian male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
George Francklin Atkinson. George Francklin Atkinson (1822–1859), was a British artist and writer and an officer of the Bengal Engineers. His paintings depicted colonial life and military battles, mainly in India.

He was the son of James Atkinson who was also an artist, as well as a surgeon and a Persian scholar. Atkinson served with the Bengal Engineers between 1840 and 1859, and witnessed the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.

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1840 births
1859 deaths
Bengal Engineers officers
British painters
British writers
Javad Mokhbery. Javad Mokhbery (born 1952) is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Futek.

Early life and education
Mokhbery was born in 1952 in Iran and moved to England at the age of 19 to receive his early education. Later, 1974, he moved to Detroit, U.S. and attended Lawrence Technological University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1979.

Career 
After finishing his studies, he worked in Detroit and California for different sensor companies, contributing to projects such as the Discovery space shuttle. In 1985, he established Futek, initially focusing on cryogenic sensors for the Discovery space shuttle mission. Futek later created sensors for NASA's Curiosity rover, designed to function in the planet's low temperatures. These sensors monitored the rover's drilling arm, drilling force, and precision on the Mars surface. The rover landed in August 2012, and his company continues to collaborate with NASA on various projects, including the next-generation Mars rover's robotic arm, parachute sensors, and load cells for the International Space Station.

In September 2022, Mokhbery was honored in the LTU School of Engineering Hall of Fame. In November 2022, he participated as a candidate in the Laguna Niguel City Council election. Mokhbery supports the Saddleback College Foundation, Irvine Public Scholl Foundation, and Families Forward. In 2020, Lawrence Technological University established the Advanced Cybersecurity Computer Lab, made possible by a gift from Mokhbery.

Bibliography
 How Sensors and Load Cells Make Machines Smarter (2007)

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Living people
1952 births
Iranian emigrants to the United States
American businesspeople
American company founders
American philanthropists
Dimension time cost model. The dimension time cost model (DTC) is a creative problem-solving technique that analyzes a problem by maximizing its possible characteristics. Dimension can also encompass other physical characteristics such as temperature, brightness, mass, etc. The DTC model encouragaes creativity by reviewing a system at its potential minimal and maximal points.

The approach is based on the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ).

References

Creativity techniques
Problem solving
Plug-in electric vehicles in Nepal. Nepal leads with the newest car sales of electric vehicles in 2023 with 83% of new car purchases being electric. Nepal has witnessed significant growth in the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), fueled by a combination of favorable policies, rising environmental awareness, and cost-effectiveness. As of 2023, around 45,000 electric vehicles are operating in the country, with sales more than doubling in recent years. In the fiscal year 2022–23, Nepal imported 4,050 electric four-wheelers, marking a significant rise compared to previous years. The total market for EVs, including three-wheelers, has also expanded, with 6,914 electric three-wheelers imported in the same year. The sales ratio of EVs to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles now stands at an impressive 60:40, indicating the growing preference for EVs among consumers.

Why electric vehicles make sense in Nepal 
Several factors make EVs a highly attractive option in Nepal:
 Lower Import Tax: Electric vehicles benefit from a much lower import tax (about 10%) compared to ICE vehicles (238%). This makes EVs a more economical choice for consumers.
 Clean Energy Source: Nepal generates over 90% of its electricity from hydropower, making EVs a sustainable option that helps reduce the country's dependence on imported fossil fuels.
 Economic Savings: EVs are cheaper to maintain and operate compared to their fossil-fuel counterparts. An EV can cover 100 miles on just 30 kWh of charge, compared to higher fuel costs for traditional vehicles.

Challenges and policy roadblocks 
Despite these benefits, there are still challenges in Nepal's transition to electric mobility. The country faces a shortage of charging infrastructure, with around 250 charging stations currently installed. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has ambitious plans to expand this number by adding 500 more charging stations across the country. However, policy contradictions and fluctuating tax regulations continue to create uncertainty. In recent years, taxes on EVs have fluctuated, with higher taxes being imposed on high-end electric vehicles, although entry-level EVs still enjoy favorable tax rates.

Additionally, public awareness and availability of after-sales service remain areas of concern. Many potential buyers are hesitant due to "range anxiety" and concerns about the reliability of charging stations on highways, particularly in rural areas.

Public transportation and EVs 
Electric vehicles are also making inroads in Nepal's public transportation system. Several cities, including Kathmandu, Pokhara, and Nepalgunj, have introduced electric buses, and the Bagmati Province now mandates that all new taxis must be electric. Despite these positive developments, further investment in commercial EVs is needed to realize the full potential of electric public transport.

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Nepal
Road transport in Nepal
Catherine O'Sullivan. Catherine O'Sullivan is an Irish environmental engineer who is Professor of Particulate Soil Mechanics and Head of the Geotechnics Section at Imperial College London. She uses discrete element modelling to understand fundamental processes in sand and soils.

Early life and education 
O'Sullivan is from Ireland. She was an undergraduate at University College Cork, and started a master's degree in soil mechanics. She spent six months working in a geotechnical engineering consultancy. She was awarded a scholarship to complete a master's degree in geotechnical engineering completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she developed discrete element methods to model granular materials. After graduating she moved to University College Dublin, where she spent two years as a College Lecturer.

Research and career 
In 2004, O'Sullivan joined Imperial College London as a lecturer. She was promoted to Professor in 2017. Her research considers the behaviour of granular materials, including soil and sand.

In 2023, O'Sullivan became the first woman to be editor of the Journal of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering. She is enthusiastic about sustainability, and was involved with the development of a graduate course in geotechnical engineering for offshore renewables.

Awards and honours 
 2016 Shamsher Prakash Research Award
 2021 Imperial College London President's Awards for Teaching Innovation

Selected publications

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Living people
Alumni of University College Cork
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academics of Imperial College London
Environmental engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Diamond State Line. The Diamond State Line is a proposed Amtrak passenger rail service in the U.S. state of Delaware and the greater Delmarva Peninsula.

Background 
The proposal was considered by the Federal Railroad Administration as a part of the Corridor Identification and Development Program, which is a thorough planning and development program for creating new and upgrading existing inter-city passenger rail services in the United States.

The Federal Railroad Administration has allocated a $500,000 grant to the Delaware Transit Corporation to plan the schedules, route, and cost of the project. A route for this project hasn't been officially decided, however the line has been said to start from either Newark or Wilmington, go through the state capital of Dover, and end in southern Maryland at Salisbury or Berlin.

The route is primarily owned by Norfolk Southern Railway, a Class 1 U.S. freight railroad.

History 
In 1957, the Pennsylvania Railroad, would suspend all passenger rail services in Delaware, however for six months in 1965, a limited passenger service called the "Blue Diamond" would be ran on a trial basis on the proposed routes mainline. This route would not attract enough ridership to justify operating the service, as some riders claimed the schedule was the reason of the service's declining ridership.

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Proposed Amtrak routes
Proposed railway lines in the United States
Chen Qingquan. Chen Qingquan (Chinese: 陈清泉; pinyin: Chénqīngquán; January 14, 1937) is an expert in electric vehicles, electric drives, and intelligent energies. For his contribution to the development of electric vehicles in China, he received the title of “Father of Asian electric vehicles”.

Early life 
Chen Qingquan was born in Majestic City, Indonesia, on January 14, 1937. He says he developed an interest in electric cars during his childhood. Chen Qingquan's father ran a local bus company with a fleet of vehicles.

Chen graduated from the Beijing Mining Institute in 1957, pursued postgraduate studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 1957 to 1959, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Hong Kong in 1982. He received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from the Odesa Polytechnic University, Ukraine, in 1993, and an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree from the University of Loughborough, UK, in 2008.

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1937 births
Living people
20th-century Indonesian engineers
Tsinghua University alumni
Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
1858 in animation. Events in 1858 in animation.

Events
 April: John Gorham patented his Kaleidoscopic colour-top. This is a top on which two small discs are placed, usually one with colors and a black one with cut-out patterns. When the discs spin and the top disc is retarded into regular jerky motions the toy exhibits "beautiful forms which are similar to those of the kaleidoscope" with multiplied colours. Gorham described how the colours appear mixed on the spinning top "from the duration of successive impressions on the retina". Gorham founded the principle on "the well-known experiment of whirling a stick, ignited at one end" (a.k.a. the sparkler's trail effect). His device was based on the concept of the persistence of vision, a suggested explanation for motion perception in optical toys like the phenakistiscope and the zoetrope, and later in cinema.
Specific date unknown:  
The physicist Joseph-Charles d'Almeida published descriptions of two methods that he had successfully developed to project stereoscopic images. The first was an anaglyph method with red and green glasses, the second used the stroboscopic principle to alternately present each picture to the corresponding eye in quick succession. D'Almeida had started work on combining this method with the principles of the phenakistiscope.
In France, Joseph-Charles d'Almeida delivered a report to l'Académie des sciences. He described how to project three-dimensional magic lantern slide shows using red and green filters to an audience wearing red and green goggles. Subsequently, he was chronicled as being responsible for the first realisation of 3D images using anaglyphs.
The Hungarian engineer S. Pilcher introduced the Astrometeoroscope or Astrometroscope: a large slide that projected a lacework of dots forming constantly changing geometrical line patterns, compared with stars and meteors. It used a very ingenious mechanism with two metal plates obliquely crossed with slits that moved to and fro in contrary directions. Except for when the only known example was used in a performance, it was kept locked away at the Polytechnic so no one could discover the secret technique. When the Polytechnic auctioned the device, Picher eventually paid an extravagant price for his own invention to keep its workings secret.
The English American artist George Henry Burgess resumed his search for gold. Burgess followed the Fraser River Gold Rush in British Columbia, voyaging upriver by canoe. He sold one of his paintings to Governor James Douglas. Burgess returned with many sketches, which he then transferred to glass and exhibited by magic lantern show.

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Sources 

1850s in animation
1858 in mass media
1858 in the arts
Valkyrie (robot). Valkyrie, also known as R5, is a humanoid robot developed by NASA. Its design and development started in October 2012 at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. The primary objective was to create a robot capable of supporting future NASA missions, whether by performing tasks in advance of human arrival on other planets or by serving as an assistant to human teams during missions.

A prototype of the robot was completed in July 2013. Standing around 1.87 meters tall and weighing 129 kg, the robot features 44 degrees of freedom. Each of its two hands is equipped with a thumb and three fingers. Powered by three Intel Core i7 Express CPUs, it connects to external systems through Ethernet or WiFi. The battery provides roughly one hour of autonomous operation.

At the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials in December 2013, the participating Valkyrie robot failed to score any points, with a network problem being reported as the cause.

The robot was used in a simulation for the Space Robotics Challenge.

In mid-2015, NASA announced plans to provide two R5 robots to research teams. The competition was won by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Northeastern University, with each team receiving an R5 robot along with $500,000 in funding spread over two years.

References

External links 

 IEEE Spectrum (2013-12-10). Valkyrie: NASA's Superhero Robot. Retrieved 2024-09-10 – via YouTube.
 "Photos: NASA's Valkyrie R5 Space Robot in Pictures". Space.com. 2014-01-20. Retrieved 2024-09-10.

NASA
2013 robots
Humanoid robots
Humanoid space robots