omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Pawan Kumar Goenka. Pawan Kumar Goenka is an Indian businessman, and the retired Managing Director of Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian multinational automobile manufacturing corporation headquartered in Mumbai, and the chairman of SsangYong Motor Company in Korea. He is currently the Chairman of INSPACE, a part of India's Space Program. He is also the present Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras.

Early life and education
Goenka did his schooling in  Shree jain Vidyalaya, Kolkata, and then earned his BTech in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur and PhD from Cornell University.  He attended a six-week Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.  He worked at General Motors R&D Centre in Detroit, U.S., from 1979 to 1993. Thereafter he joined Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., as general manager (R&D).

Career
Goenka joined Mahindra in October 1993 as the general manager, R&D. He was appointed as the chief operating officer for the automotive sector in April 2003. In September 2005, he became the president of the automotive sector and by April 2010 he was the president of the automotive and farm equipment sectors. "He was appointed to the post of Executive Director of Mahindra & Mahindra in 2013 and in April 2014, he took over the additional responsibility of the two wheeler business. In Nov 2016 Dr Pawan Kumar Goenka was elevated to the post of Managing Director of M&M."

Goenka is the past president of SIAM, Society of Automotive Engineers India, and ARAI Governing Council, and was a board member of National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC) from Aug.2013 to Aug.2014. He is also a national council member of CII, and chairman of board of governors of IIT Madras.
. In September 2021, Goenka was selected by the ACC as the chairperson of INSPACe.

Awards and honors
 2025: Padma Shri  
 Engineering Excellence Award 2012 from SAE India Foundation 
 CV Man of the Year 2012 by Apollo CV Awards 
 Man of the Year 2007 and 2011 by Autocar Professional 
 Fellow of SAE International  in 2004 
 Fellow of INAE (Indian National Academy of Engineers) in 2004
 Distinguished Alumni Award from I.I.T. Kanpur in 2004 
 Outstanding International Advisor Award by SAE in 1997
 Charles L. McCuen Achievement Award for the years 1985 & 1991
 Extraordinary Accomplishment Award from General Motors in 1986

Personal life
Goenka is married to Mamta Goenka who "volunteers her time to counsel cancer patients and help them receive proper treatment and post-operative care".

References

External links
 Mahindra & Mahindra 

1954 births
Living people
Cornell University alumni
Indian chief operating officers
IIT Kanpur alumni
Recipients of the Padma Shri in trade and industry
Ning Xiang. Ning Xiang () is a Chinese-American acoustical physicist, former Research Engineer of HEAD acoustics, and former Research Scientist of Fraunhofer Institut fuer Bauphysik, and of National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA). He is now Director and full professor of the Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He authored a textbook, Acoustics for Engineers, (Springer) with Jens Blauert, and edited Acoustics, Information, and Communication (Springer) with Gerhard Sessler, a memorial volume in honor of Manfred R. Schroeder in 2015. In 2017 he edited Architectural Acoustics Handbook (J. Ross Publishing).

He is an expert in architectural acoustics, and received the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 2014.

Xiang was born in Tianjin, China to Xiang Yang, a high school principal. He received his undergraduate education studying communication engineering from Tianjin University in Tianjin, China and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying acoustics and communication engineering under Jens Blauert from  Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Xiang is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to measurements and analysis techniques, and numerical simulation of sound fields in coupled rooms evidenced by his over 400 publications in journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.

With Jens Blauert he developed binaural scale-modeling since 1991. He developed a new method in 1995 using nonlinear regression for estimating reverberation times. With James Sabatier he successfully applied acoustic-to-seismic coupling in landmine detection. With Manfred R. Schroeder he developed a simultaneous dual channel measurement method using reciprocal maximum-length sequences (2003). He is a promoter of Bayesian analysis in acoustics.

Xiang was visiting professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in June 2013.

Books
Acoustics for Engineers (Springer-Verlag, 1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2009. 3rd ed. 2021)
Architectural Acoustics Handbook (J. Ross Publishing, 2017)
Acoustics, Information and Communication -- a Memorial Volume in Honor of Manfred R. Schroeder (with co-editor Gerhard Sessler, Springer-Verlag, 2015)

References

Chinese emigrants to the United States
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty
Acousticians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Tianjin University alumni
Ruhr University Bochum alumni
University of Mississippi alumni
Fellows of the Acoustical Society of America
Scientists from Tianjin
Socionext. is a system on a chip (SoC) company formed in March 2015 from former system LSI businesses of Fujitsu and Panasonic. It has about 2,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Yokohama, Japan. It was privately held by the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) (40%), Fujitsu (40%), and Panasonic (20%). After its founding, Socionext lost some of its top engineers to Acacia Communications in August 2016.

Socionext Europe is headquartered in Langen, near Frankfurt, with other locations in Munich, Maidenhead (UK) and Linz (Austria). The Design and Support Center is located in Munich, where the IP Development & Engineering Center is located in Maidenhead (UK).

Socionext America Inc. (SNA) is the US branch of Socionext Inc. headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company is a fabless ASIC supplier, specializing in a wide range of standard and customizable SoC solutions for automotive, consumer, and industrial markets.

On 1 January 2016, Socionext Inc. acquired the U.S. supplier Bayside Design Inc. (BDI) through Socionext America Inc.

In July 2018, Socionext signed a patent license agreement with Rambus to use its technology in memory controllers and security applications.

On 12 October, 2022, Socionext went public in an IPO to list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market.

On 29 May 2023, Socionext released the new SC1260 Series automotive radio frequency ranging sensors.

On 5 July, 2023, Socionext announced that the board of directors approved a secondary offering of shares of common stock of the company in the international markets. As a result, DBJ, Fujitsu, and Panasonic Holdings sold all of their shares (37.5% of total shares outstanding as of 31 March, 2023).

References 

Manufacturing companies based in Yokohama
Electronics companies established in 2015
Japanese companies established in 2015
Semiconductor companies of Japan
Fabless semiconductor companies
System on a chip
Fujitsu
Panasonic
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Former joint ventures
Warbirds and Wheels Museum. Warbirds & Wheels in Wānaka, New Zealand was a museum displaying military aircraft and early 20th century classic and vintage automobiles and motorcycles. It opened in 2011 and operated for ten years from premises located at Wānaka Airport on .

The museum was opened in December 2011 under an initiative by the Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust and three local businessmen to replace the former New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum.
After the death of one of the owners and the drop in international tourism as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum closed in September 2021.

Collection 
The museum had several military aircraft on static display, including a Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, a BAC Strikemaster Mk 88, a de Havilland Vampire FB5, a Hawker Hurricane Mk IIA (in airworthy condition), and a replica Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a.

Over time the emphasis shifted more towards classic and vintage automobiles and motorcycles. The museum was managed by a consortium of private car collectors from Wanaka and focused mainly on vehicles from the 1930s to 1950s. Specifically, the collection included several rare cars and examples of automobiles from before World War II, such as a meticulously restored 1934 Duesenberg Model J - the only one in the southern hemisphere, a 1935 Auburn Speedster 851 SC, a "one of two" 1918 Packard semi-collapsible Landaulet Fleetwood model from New York, and a handful of pre-World War I vehicles such as a 1907 Ford Model K.

Almost all of the cars were in working order and had current registrations and Warrants of Fitness, with some of them on loan by their private owners and used for rides. The displays were complemented by equipment and paraphernalia from the respective time periods, such as old petrol pumps and signs, and listed details and stories about the individual cars.

References

External links

Official website archives on Archive.org

Transport museums in New Zealand
Museums in Otago
Wānaka
Airdale Sportplane and Supply. Airdale Sportplane and Supply (also called the Airdale Flyer Company) was an American aircraft manufacturer, founded by Brett McKinney and based in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of light aircraft in the form of kits for amateur construction, as well as replacement aircraft parts.

The company was formed in 1999 after Avid Aircraft initially went out of business in 1998. Avid was restarted, but went out of business for the final time in November 2003. Airdale initially started making parts for Avid designs and later put the two-seat Avid Mk IV back into production. The Mk IV was further developed into the Airdale Backcountry by John Larsen, an aircraft initially called the Airdale Airdale. A conversion kit to modify Mk IVs to Backcountry standard is available. The company also produces an improved landing gear set for the Avid Mk IV design, called Bushgear.

At one time the company also produced the Avid Magnum as a kit aircraft.

As of mid 2017 the company was no longer trading.

Aircraft

References

External links

Defunct aircraft manufacturers of the United States
Companies based in Wisconsin
Oneida County, Wisconsin
Homebuilt aircraft
Suleyman Karaman. Suleyman Karaman (born 1956 in Refahiye, Erzincan) is a Turkish politician from the Justice and Development Party, who was a former General Manager and chairman of the Board of Directors of Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and Deputy General Manager of Istanbul transportation authority (IETT).

He was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the 2018, and again in 2023.

Career 
Between 1979 and 1981, he took part in prototype studies on engines, tractors and agricultural machinery at ITU. Until 1984, in addition to his doctoral studies, he taught technical drawing and machine knowledge courses as a research assistant. Between 1984 and 1994, he worked in the automotive sub-industry as business manager, deputy general manager and board member, respectively. During this period, he participated in the localization of imported parts and as a result of his efforts, he received the "Best Company Award in Localization" from the Automotive Industry Association together with the company he worked for.

In 1994, he was appointed as IETT Assistant General Manager. In this position, he took part in the introduction of modern buses and bus stops in Istanbul and the introduction of AKBİL. During the same period, he took part in the conversion of buses in Istanbul to natural gas to reduce air pollution and the introduction of EURO 2 buses to Istanbul. In addition to these, he also supported social projects and played a role in the introduction of buses with missing persons announcements.

He contributed to seminars on total quality management, continuous development and synergistic management. He worked in ISFALT, ISBAK, ISTON, ISMER and BELTUR, which are the organizations of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

On December 31, 2002, he assumed the duties of general manager and chairman of the board of directors of TCDD Enterprise. During this period, he contributed to the realization of more than 100 railway projects, especially the High Speed Train project. After the Pamukova train accident during his tenure as General Director of TCDD, the request of the Public Prosecutor's Office to open an investigation against him was rejected by the then Minister of Transportation Binali Yıldırım.

Footnotes

See also 

 27th Parliament of Turkey
 28th Parliament of Turkey

1956 births
Living people
People from Erzincan
Istanbul Technical University alumni
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) politicians
Members of the 27th Parliament of Turkey
Members of the 28th Parliament of Turkey
Separative work units. Separative work – the amount of separation done by a Uranium enrichment process – is a function of the concentrations of the feedstock, the enriched output, and the depleted tailings; and is expressed in units which are so calculated as to be proportional to the total input (energy / machine operation time) and to the mass processed. 

The same amount of separative work will require different amounts of energy depending on the efficiency of the separation technology. Separative work is measured in Separative work units SWU, kg SW, or kg UTA (from the German Urantrennarbeit – literally uranium separation work)
 1 SWU = 1 kg SW = 1 kg UTA
 1 kSWU = 1 tSW = 1 t UTA
 1 MSWU = 1 ktSW = 1 kt UTA

Separative work unit is not a unit of energy, but serves as a measure of the enrichment services. In the early 2020s the cost of 1 SWU was approximately $100. The unit was introduced by Paul Dirac in 1941.

Definition 

The work  necessary to separate a mass  of feed of assay  into a mass  of product assay , and tails of mass  and assay  is given by the expression:

where  is the value function, defined as:

Given the desired amount of product , the necessary feed  and resulting tails  are:

Example 

For example, beginning with  of natural uranium (NU), it takes about 62 SWU to produce  of Low-enriched uranium (LEU) in 235U content to 4.5%, at a tails assay of 0.3%.

The number of separative work units provided by an enrichment facility is directly related to the amount of energy that the facility consumes. Modern gaseous diffusion plants typically require 2,400 to 2,500 kilowatt-hours (kW·h), or 8.6–9 gigajoules, (GJ) of electricity per SWU while gas centrifuge plants require just 50 to 60 kW·h (180–220 MJ) of electricity per SWU.

Example:

A large nuclear power station with a net electrical capacity of 1300 MW requires about 25 tonnes per year (25 t/a) of LEU with a 235U concentration of 3.75%. This quantity is produced from about 210 t of NU using about 120 kSWU. An enrichment plant with a capacity of 1000 kSWU/a is, therefore, able to enrich the uranium needed to fuel about eight large nuclear power stations.

References 

Nuclear fuels
Isotope separation
Victor V. Solovyev. Victor V. Solovyev () is the chief scientific officer of Softberry Inc. He was previously a professor of computer science in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) (2013-2015) and in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway College, University of London (2003-2012). He was on the editorial board of Mathematical Biosciences and was a founder of Softberry Inc..

Research
Solovyev works with developing statistical approaches, machine learning algorithms, computational platforms and bioinformatics tools for high-throughput biological big data analysis. He is interested in genome structural and functional annotation and applying it for rational design of biological systems.

Education
Solovyev received Ph.D. in genetics from Russian Academy of Sciences in 1985 and M.S. in physics from Novosibirsk State University in 1978.

Career
Solovyev joined KAUST in 2013 as Professor in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division. He had previously been a professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway College, London University (2003-2012). He was the genome annotation group leader in the Joint Genomic Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2003) and was the director of bioinformatics at EOS Biotechnology (1999-2002). He was a leader of the computational genomics group at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, UK (1997-1999). He also held positions as assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine, computational scientist at Amgen Inc., visiting scientist at Supercomputer Center, Florida State University, visiting professor at ITBA (Milan, Italy) and a group leader at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Software developing
About 100 software applications implemented as standalone programs or combined in pipeline or packages, have been developed under his guidance. Many of these programs are available for the academic community to run on-line or for downloading. Scientific community actively uses these applications. For example, the Fgenesh eukaryotic gene identification program has been used or cited in more than 3,000 scientific publications, according to Google scholar data. The Fgenesb bacterial genome annotation pipeline based on Markov chain models was significantly superior to other approaches, in gene finding in bacterial community sequences. MolQuest is the most comprehensive, easy-to-use desktop application for sequence analysis and molecular biology data management.

Other interests
Besides bioinformatics, his interests include cryptography and information security. FendoffF an application to encrypt passwords, files or images that uses several original encryption methods, was developed for iOS and Android as well as for desktop computers. He also developed the Wild West Chess computer game.

References

External links
 
 
 

Russian bioinformaticians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Baylor College of Medicine faculty
ASCON. ASCON (also ASCON Group, ) is a Russian developer of CAD and PDM software and a systems integrator headquartered in Saint Petersburg. The name of the company originates from an abbreviation of an "Automated System for Construction ().

The company was founded in 1989 by Alexander Golikov and Tatyana Yankina who previously worked at KB Mashinostroyeniya in Kolomna. In 1993, ASCON signed its first major contract with Zheldorremmash which fueled its development. 

By 2014, the company had over 7000 industrial customers including AutoVAZ, Severstal, Kazzinc, and others. On its home market, ASCON holds a dominant position over its core competitor Autodesk.

Subsidiaries
 C3D Labs
 DEXMA Labs
 Renga Software

References

External links
  
  

Companies based in Saint Petersburg
Software companies established in 1989
Russian brands
Multinational companies headquartered in Russia
Technology companies of Russia
1989 establishments in the Soviet Union
Max Gergel. Max G. Gergel (July 24, 1921 – July 5, 2017) was an American chemist and art collector. He graduated with a BS in chemical engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1942 and founded the Columbia Organic Chemical Company in 1944; he was a cousin of the Hon. Richard Mark Gergel, a Judge of the U. S.  District Court for the District of South Carolina. He died in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 5, 2017, aged 96.

The first volume of his autobiography Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? was published in 1977. Research chemist Derek Lowe described the book as an "extraordinary memoir".

Published works
 Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?
 The Ageless Gergel

References

American chemists
University of South Carolina alumni
1921 births
2017 deaths
Belagavi railway station. Belagavi railway station, formerly Belgaum railway station (Station code: BGM) is a railway station under South Western Railways and it is the primary railway station serving Belagavi in North Western Karnataka. It is a "A" Category station.

History 
In 1881, the Bombay Eastern Deccan Railway was under construction with William Michell the Engineer-in-Charge. This line immediately upon opening became the Bijapur branch of the Southern Mahratta Railway.

The Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR) was founded in 1882 to construct a metre-gauge (MG) railway between Hotgi and Gadag (opened to traffic in 1884), one of the "famine lines" set up with a guarantee. In the same year (1882), it was contracted by the Indian state of Mysore to work the several metre-gauge lines that the Mysore State had built or was in the course of construction.

In 1888, a line was extended from Londa towards the Portuguese colony of Goa where it connected with the Marmagao line at Castle Rock. (From 1902 this line was leased as the West of India Portuguese Railway.) By 1890, this line extended from Londa eastwards via Guntakal to Bezwada, and northwards to Poona, via Belgavi & Miraj turning the SMR from an assortment of branches to a real railway network.
In 1908, the SMR merged with the Madras Railway (MR) to form the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway (M&SMR)

Development
Preliminary Engg-cum Traffic Survey for a new line between Belagavi–Sawantwadi (). Physical Survey completed and Report is under preparation PET Survey for new line between Belagavi–Hubli via Kitturu ().  Physical Survey completed and Report is under preparation

Images

References

Hubli railway division
Transport in Karnataka
South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited. South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited (SBPDCL) is a public sector undertaking (PSU) controlled by the Government of Bihar. It was formed on 1 November 2012 under section 14 of the Electricity Act of 2003, and is the successor to the erstwhile Bihar State Electricity Board.

Infrastructure
SBPDCL has an infrastructure facility in its operating area with 512 power system stabilizers, 705 power transformers, 139 33 kV feeders, 825 11 kV feeders and around 29,668 distribution transformers of various capacities.

Network
SBPDCL encompasses an area of 17 districts of southern Bihar further divided into 36 divisions viz., Ara, Aurangabad, Banka, Bankipore, Barbigha, Barh, Barahiya, Bhabua, Bihar Sharif, Bikramganj, Bakhtiyarpur, Buxar, Dakbungalow, Daudnagar, Dehri, Dumraon, Fatuha, Gaya district, Gulzarbagh, Hilsa, Jehanabad, Jamalpur, Jamui, Jhajha, Kankarbagh-II (Ram Krishna Nagar), Lakhisarai, Makhdumpur, Maner, Masaurhi, Mokama, Munger, Naugachia, Nawada, Patliputra, Patna City, Rajendra Nagar, Patna, Rajgir, Sasaram, Sheikhpura, Sherghati, Sultanganj, Warisaliganj. Catering to the power requirements of around 1.8 million consumers in 2012.

See also

 Bihar State Power Holding Company Limited
 North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited

References

Electric power distribution network operators in India
Energy in Bihar
State agencies of Bihar
State electricity agencies of India
2012 establishments in Bihar
Government agencies established in 2012