omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Anil K. Bhowmick. Anil K. Bhowmick (born 1954) is a University of Houston professor known for contributions to polymer nanocomposites, thermoplastic elastomers, sustainability, adhesion, failure and degradation of rubbers and rubber technology.

Early life and education 

Bhowmick was born in 1954 in Kolkata, India.  He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 1974.  He completed his master's degree (M.Sc.) in 1976, and his doctoral (Ph.D.) degree in 1980 under advisor S. K. De at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His doctoral thesis treated the topic of vulcanization at high temperature.  He worked briefly at Dunlop India Ltd. before taking a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Polymer Science, at the University of Akron from 1981 to 1984.

Career 

Bhowmick returned to IIT Kharagpur as an assistant professor in 1984.  He achieved the rank of full professor in 1988. He headed the rubber technology program during two periods: 1990-1991 and 2005–2007.  In 2009, he was named a professor of eminence at IIT Kharagpur.  He was a visiting scholar at the London School of Polymer Technology in 1987 and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991–1992. He was head of the Rubber Technology Centre during 1990-91 and 2005–2007, and dean of sponsored research and industrial consultancy during 2000–2003 at IIT Kharagpur. He was named a professor of eminence at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2009. He was the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna until joining the University of Houston in 2019.

Bhowmick co-authored with University of Akron professor Howard L. Stephens the popular text Handbook of elastomers.

Bhowmick reported what is possibly the most complete set of measurements of the fatigue threshold for a number of elastomers.

Awards

 1997 winner of the George Stafford Whitby award of the Rubber Division, American Chemical Society
 2002 winner of the Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers award of the Rubber Division, American Chemical Society
 2019 - Fred Schwab Education Award of the Society of Plastics Engineers
 2022 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from ACS Rubber Division

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
Living people
1954 births
Vanja Brčić. Vanja Brčić is a Croatian amateur astronomer.

He is an IT specialist who runs a computer company and is involved in robotics. He was also a collaborator on the robotic telescope in Višnjan.

Together with Željko Anderić, Korado Korlević, Damir Matković, and Petar Radovan, Brčić contributed to the revival of the observatory in Višnjan after the crisis following the breakup of Yugoslavia.

The Minor Planet Center credits him with the discovery of two asteroids in 1995, both discovered in collaboration with Korado Korlević.

References 

Discoverers of asteroids
Croatian astronomers
Date of birth unknown
20th-century astronomers
Jessica Lai. Jessica Christine Lai is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the interaction of intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge.

Academic career

Lai is trained as a chemist, having completed a Master of Science in 2009 in chemistry with a thesis titled The Use of Nanostructured Calcium Silicate in Solar Cells at the Victoria University of Wellington. Lai completed her Doctor of Law in 2013 at the University of Lucerne, where she also conducted postdoctoral research. Lai was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. Lai then returned to New Zealand to join the faculty of the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.

Lai's research focuses on the interaction between Western intellectual property systems and indigenous knowledge, specifically Mātauranga Māori. She has investigated how the patenting system addresses problematic technologies such as a gene-related technology, and also examines law and feminism, knowledge theorisation and legal sociology. Lai has written publicly about issues such as country of origin labelling, the difference between a trade mark and a certification mark in regards to the 'Rainbow tick', and differences between men and women in STEM. 

In 2018 Lai and colleague Susie Frankel were awarded a Marsden grant on "Mission Creep” in the Pharmaceutical Industry and its Impact on Innovation and Health. In 2021, Lai was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for a project titled Patents and power: a critical analysis of knowledge governance.

Selected works

Authored and edited books

Journal articles

References

External links
 Closing the Gap: Obstacles Faced by Women in IP, webinar featuring Jessica Lai,  Maryam Khajeh Tabari, and Patricia Martone, 22 Nov 2023, via YouTube

New Zealand academics
New Zealand women academics
University of Lucerne alumni
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand chemists
New Zealand legal scholars
Recipients of Marsden grants
Amy Trappey. Amy J. C. Trappey (Chinese: 張瑞芬) is a Taiwanese industrial engineer specializing in information management, intellectual property analysis, asset management, and knowledge engineering. She is Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at National Tsing Hua University.

Education and career
Trappey studied industrial management at National Cheng Kung University, graduating in 1983, and moved to the US for graduate study. After a 1985 master's degree in quantitative business analysis at Louisiana State University, she completed a Ph.D. in 1989 at Purdue University.

After continuing at Purdue in a temporary position, Trappey became an assistant professor at Iowa State University in 1990. She returned to Taiwan in 1992 as an associate professor of industrial engineering at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in 1992. She was promoted to full professor in 1996, and  became founding director of the Electronic Business Center in 2003. She was named Tsing Hua Distinguished Professor in 2008. While continuing to hold her affiliation with NTHU, she also became dean of the College of Management and chair professor at National Taipei University of Technology from 2008 to 2011. Since 2017 she has directed the Advanced Manufacturing and Service Management Research Center at NTHU.

She has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers from 2003 to 2004, and of the International Journal of Electronic Business Management from 2003 to 2008 and 2012 to 2016. Since 2024 she is editor-in-chief of the journal World Patent Information.

Recognition
Trappey was named as an ASME Fellow in 2004. She is also a Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management, elected in 2009, and of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers, elected in 2014.

In 2009 the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers gave her their Industrial Engineering Medal for academic research.

Personal life
Trappey married Charles V. Trappey, an American, who emigrated to Taiwan with her and became a professor (now emeritus) of management science at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

References

External links
Electronic Business Laboratory, NTHU

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Taiwanese industrial engineers
Taiwanese women engineers
Women industrial engineers
National Cheng Kung University alumni
Louisiana State University alumni
Purdue University alumni
Iowa State University faculty
Academic staff of the National Tsing Hua University
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Chaka Project. Chaka Project (Amharic: ጫካ ፕሮጀክት) is an ongoing urban planning project and part of Addis Ababa City Corridor Project, known as Smart City Project launched on 21 May 2022. The project encompasses the construction of National Palace, residencies, resorts, artificial lake and renovation of forest in Yeka sub-city of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Landed over 503 hectare, the project incorporates roads stretched over 29 km. A contractor named "e-tollo" undertook the construction with 500 billion birr costing, becoming the second high investment project after the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.

Description 
The project was launched on 21 May 2022 to build new National Palace and transform forestry in Yeka sub-city, also known as Chaka which has been headed by the Prime Minister. It has leisure residencies and resort villages. Part of Smart City Project, Chaka Project is the second high-profile project after the construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, costing 500 billion birr.

Landed over 503 hectare, the project interlinked to roads stretched over 29 km, which is under construction with most are nearly completed. Newly featured element includes artificial lake, which is carried out by a contractor named "e-tollo".

References

2022 in Ethiopia
Urban planning in Ethiopia
Jane MacMaster. Jane MacMaster is a mechanical, aerospace and systems design engineer, and was Chief Engineer of Engineering Australia from 2020 to 2024.

Education 
MacMaster has a Bachelor of Engineering from Sydney University, graduating in 1993, with first class honours. She also has a Master of Arts in International Relations, from Deakin University (2010), is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2024).

Career 
MacMaster is a mechanical, aerospace, systems design engineer, working across the whole engineering lifecycle, design and systems engineering.

MacMaster is also a mentor for Science Technology Australia women in STEM programs.

MacMaster is also a director on the Board of the Australian Council of Professions. MacMaster has written about engineering in education.

Recognition & awards 
2023 - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

2017 - Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia.

1993 - University Medal, Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney.

References

External links 

 ATSE Fellows 
 Science Technology Australia Profile 

University of Sydney alumni
Deakin University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mechanical engineers
Australian women scientists
Australian women academics
Women engineers
Alfred Loedding. Alfred Christian Loedding (February 17, 1906 - October 10, 1963) was an American aeronautical engineer.  He was a pioneer in the development of solid-fuel rockets.

Early life
In 1928, Loedding was vice-president of the student flying club and was profiled for a model he made of Charles Lindbergh's plane The Spirit of St. Louis. In 1930, Loedding graduated from New York University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautical Engineering.  He received the school's Guggenheim award.  He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the air service.

Career
In 1937, he was employed by Bellanca Aircraft. He was profiled for his work on rocket planes. From  1938 to 1950, the Army Air Force, later US Air Force.  For three years he led the Jet Propulsion Lab at Wright Field.  He was involved in the development of solid-fueled rockets.  In 1939, he was involved in model plane contests, serving both as a judge and an award-winning participant.  In 1941, he accompanied Robert Goddard to Roswell army airfield for a test.  He later observed tests conducted by Jack Parsons and Aerojet.   Loedding was involved in Project Sign, the Air Force's nvestigation into flying discs or UFOs. He conducted a 1949 lecture at University of Pittsburgh.  In 1958, Loedding was profiled after being awarded a patent for a solid-fueled military rocket.  In 1959, he was profiled and photographed with a model he called a 'flying pumpkin seed'.

Loedding was instrumental to the development of air-to-air refueling systems.  Loedding died in 1963.  In 2013, his son Donald Loedding published a book that discussed his famous father.

References

1906 births
1963 deaths
Aeronautical engineers
20th-century American engineers
October 1987 Burma Airways Fokker F27 crash. On 11 October 1987, a Fokker F27 operated by Burma Airways crashed while en route to Pagan from Rangoon, Burma. The regularly scheduled domestic flight was carrying 49 passengers and crew. The aircraft struck a hillside south of Nyaung U Airport, killing everyone on board. It was the second fatal crash involving Burma Airways in four months.

Aircraft and flight
The accident aircraft was a Fokker F27 Friendship powered by two Rolls-Royce Dart 532-7R turboprop engines. It was manufactured in 1985 with the serial number XY-AEL. Prior to the crash, it had 3,958 of flight hours across 3,799 flights.

The routinely scheduled domestic flight from Rangoon to Pagan covered a distance of about . On the day of the crash, the plane carried 4 crew and 45 passengers. Among the 36 foreign nationals on board 14 were Americans; 7 Swiss, 5 British, 4 Australians, 3 Germans, 2 French and 1 Thai. Thirteen occupants, including the crew, and a baby, were Burmese nationals. Of the 12 American victims identified, least eight were residents of California; 2 each from New Orleans and Santa Fe.

Accident
About 10 minutes before the plane was expected to land, radio communication with the tower ceased. The plane crashed into a ridge at an altitude of  during its approach to Nyaung U Airport about  away. At the time, visibility was low due to heavy monsoon rain. Everyone on board was killed. According to a Rangoon radio report, the crash occurred after an in-flight fire near the village of Phanaung, while other news agencies said they could not establish if the fire occurred before or after the plane crashed. It was the second fatal crash involving Burma Airways in 1987; on 21 June, another Fokker F27 crashed after departing Heho, killing all 45 on board.

Aftermath
The accident aircraft's next scheduled destination after landing at Pagan was Mandalay. After it crashed, passengers expecting the flight traveled to the city via buses.

A spokesperson for the United States Department of State citing a Burmese investigation team at the crash site said there was "no evidence of an in-flight explosion, fire or sabotage." She added that the likely cause was a stall from attempting to land too early, and the pilots attempted to recover from but the aircraft lost power and crashed.

Due to the crash occurring outside the city area, accessibility was difficult as local residents reached the crash site before the police. The local residents began looting. The local police brough the bodies to the airport. According to an official at the United States Embassy in Rangoon, the bodies were in poor condition, most decapitated or had lost their hands, making identification difficult. The bodies of all 49 on board were retrieved, and a flight was arranged to transport the remains back to Rangoon on 12 October.

References

Aviation accidents and incidents in Myanmar
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1987
Myanmar National Airlines accidents and incidents
October 1987 events in Asia
Bagan
Accidents and incidents involving the Fokker F27
1987 in Burma
Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor. The Hypersonic Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) is a satellite-based sensor system being developed by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) along with the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) to address hypersonic threats. The product of the 2019 Missile Defense Review's (MDR) for further enhancement of the US national missile defense system, the HBTSS will provide quality intercept data to the GPI. Equipped with "Birth-to-death" capability, the HBTSS can track potential threats from their launch until interception. The HBTSS will ultimately be integrated into the broader set of satellite constellations being developed by the Space Development Agency (SDA).

The new satellite architecture itself, dubbed the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), will consist of seven layers: data tracking, transport, custody, battle management, navigation, deterrence, and support. The HBTSS will be a part of the tracking layer, whose goal is to "provide global indications, warning, tracking, and targeting of advanced missile threats, including hypersonic missile systems." It will work alongside SDA-developed Wide Field of View (WFoV) satellites with its Medium Field of View (MFoV) with the WFoVs cueing data to the HBTSS which will then provide more specific and quality target data, referred to as "fire control data," to linked ground-based interceptors. This combination of both MFoVs and WFoVs are crucial as normal radars may miss fast-moving advanced missile technologies such as the Russian-made Avangard and Chinese-made Starry Sky-2, which are Hypersonic Glide Vehicles (HGVs).

The current phase of the HBTSS program is in protype stage and lacks operational capability. The HBTSS program plans to launch two demonstration sensors into orbit by Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. The Missile Defense Agency have selected two military contractors - L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman - to design, build, and lastly demonstrate prototype satellites for the HBTSS in January 2021. Both were awarded with contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars. By December 2021, these prototype satellites had passed critical design reviews, meaning manufacturing can move forward.

In February 2024, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced the successful launch and trajectory insertion of six satellites, which include two prototypes of the HBTSS.

References 

Missile Defense Agency
L3Harris Technologies
Northrop Grumman
Omobayo Godwins. Omobayo Marvellous Godwins (born 19 July 1986) is a Nigerian engineer and politician who served as the deputy governor of Edo State from April 2024 to November 2024. He was appointed deputy governor following the impeachment of Philip Shaibu on 8 April 2024. He is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, and holds a B.Eng Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin.

Early life and education 
Godwins was born and raised in Akoko Edo Local Government Area. He completed his tertiary education at the University of Benin, earning a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Career 
Before entering politics, Godwins worked as an engineer, specifically as a Senior Maintenance Engineer at Dresser Wayne West Africa Limited, where he oversaw operations in the South-South region of Nigeria. He began his political career in local government politics.

Godwins ran in the 2023 House of Representatives election for Akoko Edo Federal Constituency under the Labour Party. After an unsuccessful run and a subsequent legal challenge, he joined the PDP and was later appointed as the Deputy Governor of Edo State.

As Deputy Governor, Godwins has stated his commitment to supporting the development of sports and other sectors in Edo State. His appointment has been acknowledged by his kinsmen in Akoko-Edo.

References 

Deputy governors of Edo State
21st-century Nigerian politicians
Living people
1986 births
People from Edo State
Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria) politicians
University of Benin (Nigeria) alumni
Nigerian engineers
Electrical engineers
Electronics engineers
21st-century Nigerian people
Edo State politicians
Bai Yilong. Bai Yilong (; 22 December 1940 – 9 May 2024) was a Chinese mechanist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography 
Bai was born in Xiangyun County, Yunnan, on 22 December 1940, while his ancestral home is in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang. His father Bai Rubi () was a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering, Beiyang University and once worked on the construction of the Yunnan–Burma railway in Yunnan. His mother Cang Chuanxian () graduated from Zhili Women's First Normal School. He had three older sisters. In 1958, he enrolled at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he majored in the Department of Modern Mechanics. He went to receive his master's degree from the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1966.

After graduation in 1966, Bai stayed at the Institute of Mechanics as an intern researcher. He moved up the ranks to become assistant researcher in 1979, associate researcher in 1982, and researcher in 1986. He was a visiting scholar at the Oxford University and Cambridge University from 1979 to 1981. In 1987, he was appointed deputy director of the Institute of Mechanics, and held that office until 1994. In 1998, he was proposed as president of the , a position he held until 2002.

On 9 May 2024, Bai died in Beijing, at the age of 83.

Honours and awards 
 1991 Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
 1992 State Natural Science Award (First Class)
 1993 State Natural Science Award (Second Class)
 1999 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
 1999 
 2002 Member of Academia Europaea
 2007 John Rinehart Award
 2010 Mathematical Science Award of the

References 

1940 births
2024 deaths
People from Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture
Scientists from Yunnan
University of Science and Technology of China alumni
Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Members of Academia Europaea
20th-century Chinese physicists
21st-century Chinese physicists
Members of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Methyl chlorate. Methyl chlorate is a hypothetical organic compound having a chemical formula CH3ClO3. It would be a methyl ester of chloric acid if it existed.  Attempts to synthesize it failed. No physical properties are known.

Properties

There is limited research on methyl chlorate but it is suspected to be a highly hazardous material. Potential properties include:
Flammability: Due to the presence of organic component (methyl group), methyl chlorate is likely flammable.
Explosive nature: Chlorate salts are well known for being shock-sensitive and prone to explosive decomposition under certain conditions. This makes methyl chlorate potentially explosive under pressure, shock, or exposure to heat.
Strong oxidizing agent: It is potentially a strong oxidizing agent.
Toxicology: Being a chlorate, it is suspected to be harmful if inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the skin.

References

Chlorates
Hypothetical chemical compounds
Methoxy compounds
Automotive Systems Developments. Automotive Systems Developments is a British manufacturer of automobiles.

Company history 
Bob Egginton founded the company in Leeds, Kent. He started producing automobiles and kits in 1983. The brand name is ASD. In total, more than 15 copies have been created so far. The company was also involved in Tripos R&D and CK Automotive, which also manufactured automobiles.

Vehicles 
The Minim was a mid-engine roadster. The basis was a steel chassis. A four-cylinder engine from the Mini powered the vehicle. Around six copies were made between 1984 and 1996.

The Hobo was released in 1987. It was similar to a Mini Moke and was also based on the Mini. Four copies were made by 1991.

Five replicas of the Aston Martin DBR1 based on the Jaguar XJ 6 and an unknown number of replicas of the Aston Martin DBR 2 were created, which were called Le Mans. ARA Racing from 2005 to 2006 and AS Motorsport since 2007 continued production under the ARA brand name.

The 250 corresponded to the Maserati 250 F. A four-cylinder engine from the Alfa Romeo Alfetta with a displacement of 2000 cm3 powered the vehicle.

There are also replicas of models from Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz.

References

External links 

 Allcarindex

Car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Kent
Kit car manufacturers
Companies established in 1983