omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Solomon Quainoo. Solomon Quainoo is a Ghanaian pilot. On 2 October 2018, he was the first Ghanaian to fly the world's biggest passenger aircraft, Emirates' Airbus A380 from Dubai to Accra.

Education 
Quainoo was born in Ghana but later moved to the UK to live with his family. He had his secondary school education at Koforidua Senior High Technical School in the Eastern Region and furthered at the University of Ghana where he earned a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics, Physics and Geology. He obtained a master's degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Kingston University in London and trained as a pilot at the Oxford Aviation Training school, United Kingdom, which was where he obtained his license.

Career 
After obtaining his master's degree, he worked with  British Midland International for six years. During which he flew the Boeing 737 and 300 400 and 500 series, among others. From there, he landed a job with British Airways as a Material Agent/Design Engineer. Quainoo  moved to Emirates and there he has worked for seven years. For the first five years at Emirates, he served as an officer and was promoted to captain.

Awards and recognition 
He was awarded Aviation man of the Year in West Africa during the 2019 edition of the Balafon Awards.

References

Living people
Ghanaian aviators
University of Ghana alumni
Alumni of Kingston University
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Jakita O. Thomas. Jakita O. Thomas is a Philpott Westpoint Stevens Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. Thomas is one of the co-founders of Pharaoh's Conclave, an organisation helping engage and prepare youth for careers and opportunities related to eSports. Thomas is also a founder of Black ComputeHer which is an organisation dedicated to supporting computing tech education and workforce development for Black women and girls.

Thomas graduated  from Spelman College in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer and information science, with a minor in mathematics.  In 2006, she was granted a Ph.D. in computer science and focusing on the learning sciences and technology by the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, where she was a Presidential Fellow, National Physical Science Consortium Fellow, tutor, mentor, and research assistant.

Awards 
Thomas received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Award (2012 – 2019). She also received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2016).

Thomas was named one of 1,000 inspiring black scientists in America by Cell Mentor.

Publications

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Living people
American computer scientists
Spelman College alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Auburn University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
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American women computer scientists
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
REIT India. REIT or REIT India, is a wholly owned subsidiary  of Indian Telephone Industries Limited (ITI Limited), India's first public sector unit under the Ministry of Communications.

Products and services

Cameras 
REIT provides surveillance cameras in both wired and wireless configurations. Surveillance cameras can be accessed remotely on computers, smartphones, and tablets.

GPS tracking 

REIT created a web-enabled "GPS tracking system" to monitor devices, vehicles, cargo containers, and children.ref>https://article.wn.com/view/2017/07/27/REIT_India_is_Launched_by_ITI_Limited_Under_the_Digital_Indi/ </ref>

Information technology 

REIT has deployed the Internet of things (IoT) to create safe cities, homes, and businesses by remotely monitoring private and public places using smart surveillance devices.

Other services provided by REIT for corporate and government organizations are cloud computing, customized software, database security, IT maintenance and technical assistance.

Other programs

Jammu Suraksha Yojana 

Jammu Municipal Corporation is the first government body in the world concerning personal security of citizens. Jammu Suraksha Yojana is a collaborative initiative by REIT under ITI Limited and Jammu Municipal Corporation. It is intended to provide digital security and surveillance products to the citizen of Jammu at subsidized prices. The citizens can also avail life insurance in case of death.

Smart School 
REIT's Smart School program helps schools in India to upgrade their technology, including smart classrooms, broadcast systems for every class, digital entry at reception, integrated control rooms in campus, Wi-Fi campus, and school management Software.

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 Indian Telephone Industries Limited

Companies based in Bengaluru
Government-owned companies of India
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (India)
2017 establishments in India
Lake Giba. Lake Giba is a reservoir under construction at the border of the Inderta; Kilte Awula'ilo and Dogu’a Tembien woredas of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia.  the earthen dam that holds the reservoir is under construction. It will collect the water from the catchments of Sulluh (969 km2), Genfel (733 km2), and Agula'i (692 km2) rivers.

Dam characteristics 
The dam is aimed to provide drinking water to Mekelle and to regulate the river flow.
 Dam height: 80 metres
 Dam crest length: 1000 metres

Capacity 
 Original capacity: 350 million m³
 Reservoir area: 9 km3
Average annual sediment input to the reservoir by the main rivers was calculated as 3.8 million tonnes:
 Sulluh: 862,410 t
 Genfel: 364,301 t
 Agula'i River: 2,618,528 t

Flooding 
The dam will occupy the wide valley bottom at the river confluences, which is currently occupied by farmlands and bushlands. The reservoir will extend into the lower Genfel and Suluh gorges, in a place called Shugu’a Shugu’i. No people are permanently living in the area that will be flooded. Current dryland villages Ch’in Feres (in Inderta), Addi Atereman and Worgesha (in Dogu’a Tembien) will become lakeshore villages, and Genfel church in the homonymous gorge will be on the edge of Lake Giba.

Anticipated seepage 
The lithology of the dam building site is Antalo Limestone. Part of its water is anticipated to be lost through seepage; the positive side-effect is that this will contribute to groundwater recharge in the downstream areas.

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Tigray Region
Dogu'a Tembien
Honda EV-N concept. The Honda EV-N concept vehicle was a concept electric car created by the automobile division of Honda, designed as an homage to the N360 kei car. The vehicle made its world premiere at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2009, and had its European debut at Geneva the following March.

The styling of the EV-N concept would influence the later Honda N-One (2012) and Urban EV Concept (2017). The Urban EV concept also derived its styling from the first generation Civic hatchback and later reached production as the Honda e in 2019.

Design

The concept was styled to deliberately evoke the N360, first sold in 1967. The EV-N project was led by Kanna Sumiyoshi, who also collaborated with Yuuki Nagasawa on the interior design, and Sayuri Hanzawa was responsible for color and trim. The exterior was designed by Naoya Ishikura.

The design embodied the Honda philosophy of "man maximum, machine minimum" to emphasize operating and space efficiency; the interior is sufficiently large to accommodate four adults. In addition, the exterior and interior styling were made as simple as possible to "reduce superfluous flesh"; Honda's head of design, Nobuki Ebisawa, believed that younger drivers would "see [the N360-like] style — as translated into the EV-N — as very new" and would appreciate the simple styling rather than the retro elements.

Solar cells embedded in the roof panel allow recharging of the vehicle while it is parked. Interior seats use a frame to support stretched fabric panels, which can be swapped. The seat structure was chosen to reduce weight and increase passenger space. The space under the bonnet is used as the car's trunk, although the rear seats can also be folded down to accommodate cargo.

The car is equipped with the Honda LOOP vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. The driver may also communicate with the car via a handheld LOOP device, which includes a liquid-crystal display to provide basic information, such as how long the car has been parked and its state of charge; the front fascia of the EV-N lights up as the driver (with the LOOP) approaches or departs. One Honda U3-X personal mobility device is attached to the interior panel of the passenger-side door. The EV-N, U3-X, and other vehicles were shown at Tokyo as part of Honda's HELLO! (Honda ELectric mobility LOop) display.

Although Honda had declared the EV-N was a styling exercise only, Honda CEO Takanobu Ito was surprised by the strong interest in the car from foreign press. In 2010, the EV-N concept was shortlisted for the Brit Insurance Design Awards in the Transport category.

Production

The styling of the 5-door Honda N-One kei car, as an homage to the N360, is also inspired by the EV-N concept. The N-One was launched in fall 2012 with conventional (gasoline engine) power.

See also
 Ford 021C, a similar high-style retro concept

References

External links

 Honda Concept Models archive
 Annotated gallery from Road/Show by CNET

EV-N concept
Electric concept cars
Retro-style automobiles
Gustav Kortüm. Gustav Ferdinand Albert Kortüm (14 June 1904 to 1 December 1990) was a German physical chemist and electrochemist.

Kortüm was the son of a pastor and studied chemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology from 1922. In 1928 he received his doctorate under Georg Bredig with a thesis on the synthesis of hydrocyanic acid from carbon monoxide and ammonia. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Berlin and from 1929 was assistant to Johannes Ludwig Ebert in Würzburg. From 1931 he was an assistant to Hans von Halban at the University of Zürich. From 1937 he taught at the University of Tübingen, where he became full professor in 1942 and director of the newly created institute for physical chemistry. He became an emeritus professor in 1971.

He focused on spectrophotometry, electrochemistry, and electrolyte solutions (reviewing the Debye-Hückel theory and Onsager's theory of solvent mixtures), vapor pressure measurements on binary systems, and reflection spectroscopy. In 1959 he was elected as a member of the Leopoldina.

Books 

 
 
 Kolorimetrie - Photometrie und Spektrometrie. Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung von Absorptions-, Emissions-, Fluoreszenz-, Streuungs-, Trübungs- und Reflexionsmessungen, Springer, 1955.
 Elektrolytlösungen, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. H., Leipzig 1941
 with Heinrich Lachmann: Einführung in die chemische Thermodynamik. Wiley-VCH, 1981.

References

 Gustav Kortüm. In: Winfried Pötsch, Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker. Harri Deutsch, 1989.

1990 deaths
1904 births
Academic staff of the University of Tübingen
20th-century German chemists
John Weakley. John Weakley (20 March 1940 – 23 January 1995) was a British trade unionist, who became acting president of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union.

Born in Swansea, Weakley completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker with British Aerospace in Bristol, and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU).  He became a shop steward at Westland Helicopters, and slowly came to prominence in the union, associated with its right wing.  In the mid-1970s, he took the union's president, Hugh Scanlon, to the High Court, successfully arguing that Scanlon should not use his casting vote in favour of the left-wing of the union's executive.

Following his success in court, the right gained control of leading positions in the AEU, starting with John Boyd's 1975 election as general secretary.  Weakley stood to become the national organiser, but was defeated by Laurie Smith.  Only in 1977 did he begin working full-time for the union, as its Wales and South West England District Secretary, then in 1979 he was elected to the union's executive committee.  He was also made the union's chief negotiator with British Aerospace, British Steel and GEC.

In 1985, Weakley was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).  The following year, he hoped to become the president of the AEU, but the union's right-wing instead backed the more junior Bill Jordan.  He thereafter focused on the TUC, becoming a founder member of its executive committee in 1994, and on the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, serving as president in 1990/91.

Jordan stood down as president of the AEU's successor, the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, late in 1994, and as the longest-serving member of the union's executive, Weakley was appointed as acting president.  He announced his intention to run for the post, but died before the election took place.

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1940 births
1995 deaths
Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Trade unionists from Swansea
Presidents of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union
Welsh trade unionists
Delair. Delair, formerly known as Delair-Tech, is a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and an asset-management company based in Toulouse, France. It has offices in Singapore, Beijing, Los Angeles, Toulouse, Paris and Ghent.

Delair manufactures fixed-wing UAVs or drones and software analytics programs. They are used in the utilities, transportation, oil and gas, mining, agriculture, and emergency services industries. Delair was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in June 2018.

History 
Delair was founded by Michaël de Lagarde, Benjamin Benharrosh, Benjamin Michel, and Bastien Mancini in 2011. One year later in 2012, the company's DT18 drone was certified as the first UAV for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) communications in France.

In 2018, Delair purchased the assets of former competitor Airware. In acquiring Airware, Delair also acquired Redbird, a French data mining company. The company purchased rival Gatewing from Trimble in 2016.

In 2018, Intel Corporation partnered with Delair to implement its technology into Intel's Insights drone platform. Intel also invested in the company as part of the agreement. On 6 December, 2019, it was announced that Stampede would distribute the Delair UX11 drone. Stampede will serve as the U.S. distribution partner for the company.

In 2023 Delair supplied 150 UAV drones to Kyiv.  Later, in 2024 France announced an order of 2000 UX11 "Colibri" suicide drones of which 100 will be sent to the front in Ukraine.  These drones offer the advantage of a 5 minute deployment time and a payload of up to 500g.

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French companies established in 2011
Unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturers
French brands
2011 establishments in France
Manufacturing companies based in Toulouse
Jack Whyman. Jack Whyman (1924 or 1925 – 2011) was a British trade union leader.

Whyman joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), and from the mid-1960s worked full-time for the union, focusing on negotiations in the aerospace, motor and engineering industries.  In the late 1970s, he was elected to the union's executive, representing London and the South East, on which he was associated with the right-wing of the union.

In 1983, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress was reorganised, with the AEU guaranteed four seats, and Whyman was given one of them.  Although he was dropped the following year, he was reappointed in 1985.  He was also prominent in the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, serving as its president in 1989/90.  He retired from all his trade union posts in 1990, being replaced on the AEU's executive by the more radical Roger Butler.

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2011 deaths
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Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
Ray Grainger. Raymond "Ray" Grainger is the co-founder and CEO of the tech startup Mavenlink.

Early life and education 
Grainger was born and raised in California. After graduating high school he worked as a field assistant for the National Science Foundation, and took part in two expeditions to the South Pole in 1979. He received an engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College in 1988. During college he worked for a health care company. After graduating college he worked as an information technology consultant at Accenture, where he remained for 17 years, eventually becoming Global Managing Partner. During these years he invested in several companies, among others in InQuira, which was acquired by Oracle in 2012. In 2005 Grainger left Accenture and became an executive at InQuira, a startup that develops call-center management software. He was an Executive Vice President of the company. After three years he left InQuira to start Mavenlink.

In 2008 Grainger founded Mavenlink together with Roger Neel as CTO and Sean Crafts as CGO.

Personal life 
Grainger was a 2017 finalist for Orange County's Entrepreneur of the Year. He is an emeritus member of the Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees.

Grainger was married for 34 years. He has two grown children, a son and daughter.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American chief executives
Harvey Mudd College alumni
Accenture people
Businesspeople from Orange County, California

External links 

 Mavenlink
Elizabeth Donnelly (engineer). Elizabeth Donnelly is a British engineer and executive. She is currently the chief executive officer of Women's Engineering Society United Kingdom. Donnelly was appointed CEO on 23 August 2018.

A systems engineer by education, Donnelly worked with companies such as Rolls-Royce. She was a founding member of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s (RAeS) Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee.

Career 
Donnelly began her career in Systems Engineering studying Databases and Systems Thinking: Managing Complexity at Open University before she specialized in Systems Thinking and graduated with a Masters in Systems Thinking in Practice. In 2005, she started work with Rolls-Royce as an adviser on lobbying governments to support trade unions. In 2008 Donnelly became a Non-Executive Director of the East Midlands Developments Agency. She worked as Head of Skills to lead skills policy in ADS Group Ltd, the trade organization for aerospace, defence and security in the United Kingdom.

In 2013, Donnelly set up her own company, Pereloquens Ltd. In August 2018, Elizabeth was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) to replace Kirsten Bodley.

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1968 births
Living people
Systems engineers
Women systems engineers
British chief executives
British women chief executives
British company founders
British women company founders
Presidents of the Women's Engineering Society
Rolls-Royce people
Alumni of the Open University
Xia Zhou. Xia Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Her current research centers on light. She co-directs the DartNets (Dartmouth Networking and Ubiquitous Systems) Lab and the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab (RLab). She was a visiting faculty in National Taiwan University from December 2016 to February 2017, and in University of Cambridge from April 2017 to June 2017.

Early life and education

Xia Zhou received her PhD in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara in June 2013, working under the supervision of Haitao Zheng.

Honors and awards

During her career she received several honors and awards:
 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) Lab (2019)
 ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award (2019)
 Susan and Gib Myers 1964 Faculty Fellowship (2018)
 Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative and Scholarly Achievement (2018)
 N2Women: Rising Stars in Networking and Communication (2017)
 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2017)
 NSF CAREER Award (2016)

References

External links
Home page of Xia Zhou

Living people
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Chinese computer scientists
Chinese women computer scientists
Dartmouth College faculty
American computer science educators
1984 births
Peking University alumni
Wuhan University alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Institution of Textile Engineers and Technologists. The Institution of Textile Engineers and Technologists, simply known as ITET, is a Bangladeshi professional organisation of technical personnels with institutional qualifications in textiles education. It is the oldest and most influential of its kind in the country. It works as an umbrella for all textile engineers and technicians actively working in the textile industry of Bangladesh.

The organisation has its headquarters at Uttara sector in Dhaka City. It holds strong affiliation with the Textile Engineering Division of IEB. Department of Textiles of the government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh frequently takes advice and suggestions of this professionals' association to its consideration for the continuous growth of the industry.  ITET, Bangladesh-14th Central Council was declared dissolved with resignation. An interim convening committee has been formed to restore the tradition of ITET and conduct a constructive election with the participation of all, determine the course of action according to the needs of the members and reform it. Engineer Ehsanul Karim Kaiser became the convener. Moreover, Engineer Md. Shamsuzzaman CIP and Engineer ATM Shamsu Uddin Khan became the co-conveners and Engineer Md. Enayet Hossain became the member secretary.

In order to restore the active participation and enthusiasm for opinions of all in all the activities of ITET as before, tested and qualified organizers have been coordinated.In order to continue the previous achievements and take quick steps to solve urgent problems in a timely manner, seven more standing committees have been formed for Finance, Membership, Seminar, Innovation and Skill Development Committee, Social Welfare and Event Management Committee, Press and Publications Committee, Sports & Cultural Committee and Office Management Committee with the aim of reforming ITET.

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Bangladeshi research organisations
Organisations based in Bangladesh
1983 establishments in Bangladesh
Organizations established in 1983
Textile industry of Bangladesh
Marcel Lesieur. Marcel Lesieur (12 July 1945 - 22 March 2022) was a French scientist.

He was a student of the École polytechnique and held a doctorate in science. A researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, he then became a professor of fluid mechanics at the Institut polytechnique de Grenoble. He led a research team at the Geophysical and Industrial Flow Laboratory.

Marcel Lesieur's work focused on turbulence modeling and simulation. He performed direct numerical simulations of large scales. His work has been applied to industrial sectors, particularly in subsonic and supersonic aerodynamics, nuclear engineering and meteorology.

He received various prizes including the CNRS bronze medal, the Seymour Cray-France prize and the Marcel Dassault Grand Prize from the Académie des sciences. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2003.

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1945 births
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
École Polytechnique alumni
Academic staff of École Polytechnique
French geophysicists
Living people