omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Amparo Galindo. Amparo Galindo is a Spanish chemist who is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She is the co-director of the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering. Her research considers the development of statistical mechanics and simulations to understand industrial processes. She was awarded the 2023 Institution of Chemical Engineers Guggenheim Medal.

Early life and education 
Galindo studied chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid. She moved to the University of Sheffield for doctoral research, where she studied physical chemistry. Her research used the statistical associating fluid theory to understand phase equilibria in associating systems. She spent a year at BP before joining Delft University of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow. In 1999, Galindo joined the University of Patras, where she worked on liquid crystals.

Research and career 
Galindo was made an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Advanced Research Fellow at Imperial College London in 2000. She was made a lecturer in 2002 and a professor in 2011. She is interested in the development of statistical mechanics to understand industrially relevant chemistry. In particular, she looks to understand complex phase behaviour in supercritical separations, polymers and liquid crystals. She has developed the SAFT-γ Mie approach to predict the solubility of active pharmaceutical ingredients in solvents in mixed environments. This is recognised as the most accurate tool for property prediction in complex fluids as it accounts for hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. She was made the Lilly Chair in Pharmaceutical Molecular Systems in 2018. This role saw her develop complex simulations to revolutionise drug discovery.

In 2023, Galindo was awarded the Institution of Chemical Engineers Guggenheim Medal for her work in thermodynamics and complex fluids.

Selected publications

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
Academics of Imperial College London
Spanish women chemists
Spanish emigrants to the United Kingdom
20th-century Spanish women scientists
21st-century Spanish women scientists
20th-century Spanish scientists
21st-century Spanish scientists
20th-century Spanish chemists
21st-century chemists
Advanced Digital Corporation. Advanced Digital Corporation (ADC) was a privately owned American computer company based in California, active from the 1980s to the 1990s. The company was founded by 1980 by a group of engineers, in order to market their single-user and multi-user expansion cards and peripherals for S-100–based computers.

In 1983, ADC introduced a pair of their own S-100 computers, the Super Six and the Super Star. In 1984, they made the pivot to production of expansion cards for the IBM Personal Computer, with one (the PC II, co-produced by Link Technologies of Fremont) allowing the IBM PC to be used as a multi-user platform, with as many as 32 concurrent users. Toward the late 1980s, they introduced their own 386SX-based PC compatible systems under the PowerLite name, to critical acclaim in the tech press. ADC was initially based in Garden Grove, California, employing 35 by mid-1983. In late 1983, they moved to Huntington Beach. By April 1984, their employee headcount reached 75. Its president was Hossein Asadi (born 1961, also known as Hossein Asadibagheri). The company entered bankruptcy in 1990.

Their Huntington Beach headquarters were the subject of an armed robbery in September 1988, with Asadi being bound and gagged while various merchandise was stolen. Asadi sustained no physical injuries.

References

External links
 Advanced Digital Corporation history at S100Computers.com

American companies established in 1980
American companies disestablished in 1990
Computer companies established in 1980
Computer companies disestablished in 1990
Defunct companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
Universal Hydrogen. Universal Hydrogen was a company co-founded by Jason Chua, John-Paul Clarke, Paul Eremenko and Jon Gordon, who had previously worked together at Airbus and Raytheon Technologies, with the ambition of making hydrogen-powered flight a reality within a decade.  A maiden flight of a Dash 8 aircraft modified on one side with a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain (including Plug Power fuel cells and a motor from magniX), took place on March 2, 2023; the flight demonstration represented the largest aircraft ever to cruise mainly on hydrogen power.

The company was wound up in June 2024 after failing to secure further funding.

Product
The company's main product was intended to be a conversion kit to be retrofitted to existing aircraft to allow them to run on hydrogen fuel. The kits were to consist of hydrogen storage tank modules made by the company, combined with an electric motor made by magniX and fuel cells made by Plug Power.

References

 
Aviation and the environment
Companies based in California
Mech-Mind Robotics. Mech-Mind Robotics (short for Mech-Mind Robotics Technologies Ltd.), simply as Mech-Mind, is an AI+3D robotics company founded by Tianlan Shao in 2016. The company focuses on industrial 3D cameras and software suites for robotic applications. Its main products include Mech-Eye series, Mech-Vision, Mech-DLK, and Mech-Viz, which can be used in the logistics, automotive, home appliance, and steel industries.

Mech-Mind's products are designed to manage industrial automation applications, including machine tending, bin picking, depalletizing, assembly and more. After its inception, it was funded by IDG Capital and Intel Capital. In June 2021, the company was included in a Frost & Sullivan analysis on advanced manufacturing.

History
Established in 2016, Mech-Mind made its first public debut at the 2017 Hannover Messe. In 2019, it was backed by Intel Capital.

The company completed a Series C round of financing in 2021, with investors including IDG Capital, among others.

In March 2022, Mech-Mind participated in the MODEX Show in Atlanta. By the end of April of the same year, it had established operations in Germany, Japan, and the United States.

References

Industrial robotics companies
Technology companies established in 2016
Manufacturing companies established in 2016
Gigafactory Mexico. Gigafactory Mexico (also known as Gigafactory 6) is a proposed manufacturing plant for Tesla, Inc. to be constructed near Monterrey, Mexico, with new vehicle production expected as early as 2026.

Description 
The gigafactory is planned to be built near Monterrey. The factory will be an approximately  investment by Tesla and will employ thousands of workers when fully operational, as well as employ many thousands of workers during construction. Including Tesla and its suppliers, the plant represents a  investment. Production is expected to start no earlier than 2026.

History 
The facility was officially announced by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on 28 February 2023. The following day at Tesla Investor Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the facility. The factory was placed in Mexico in an effort to keep the cost of the vehicle low, and Tesla has encouraged suppliers to open facilities nearby. 

Samuel García, governor of Mexico's Nuevo León state, announced in July 2023 that the permits for the factory were nearly ready to be issued and said he expected construction would soon begin. Tesla expected then that the facility would take 12 to 15 months to construct, and had told suppliers to expect the plant to open in the first quarter of 2025. By August 2023, preparation work had only just begun at the site to build an access road onto the property from the highway. Tesla received environmental impact permits for the project in September 2023, with a requirement that construction be completed in 26 months (November 2025). By the end of October 2023, the government of Nuevo León said that Tesla had received all necessary permits to begin construction of the factory.

In September 2023, multiple Tesla suppliers indicated that production was not expected to start until 2026 or 2027, and therefore some suppliers were delaying their own plans to build new facilities in Mexico to support the supply line for Tesla in Nuevo Leon.

Tesla requested in October 2023 that the Nuevo Leon state government begin building electric, water, road and rail infrastructure to serve the Gigafactory, although Tesla stated in October that they are slowing down their plans for the factory due to global concerns about the macroeconomy.

, Tesla has placed construction of Gigafactory Mexico on hold until after the 2024 United States presidential election, because former President Trump has pledged to add tariffs on cars made in Mexico.

See also 
 List of Tesla factories

References 

Tesla factories
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Mexico
Proposed buildings and structures in Mexico
Companies based in Monterrey
David R. Shonnard. David R. Shonnard is an American engineer.  He is a Richard and Bonnie Robbins Chair in Sustainable Use of Materials and former director of the Michigan Technological University Sustainable Futures Institute.  He has expertise in systems analysis for sustainability, environmental life cycle assessments of renewable energy technologies, and chemical recycling of waste plastics for a circular economy.

Biography 
Shonnard earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis and had appointments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley prior to joining Michigan Technological University in 1993.  He has served on advisory committees for the DOE, UDSA, and the REMADE Institute in areas of biomass research and development and materials circular economy.  He is co-author of two green engineering and sustainable engineering textbooks and has published over 200 works appearing in peer-reviewed research journals, technical reports, and conference proceedings.

Research interests 
Shonnard has broad research interests that include diffusion and adsorption of pollutants in soils, atmospheric transport of hazardous compounds, environmental risk assessment, in-situ subsurface remediation, environmentally-conscious design of chemical processes, advanced biofuels reaction engineering, and applications of pyrolysis to waste plastics recycling.  Sponsors of his research program include federal (NSF, DOE, DARPA, USDA, FAA), state (MI MTRAC), and numerous industrial firms.  He holds patents in enzymatic and chemical conversion technologies and is founder of a company, SuPyRec, to commercialize chemical recycling of waste plastics.

Select publications

References 

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Chemical engineering academics
University of California, Davis alumni
University of Nevada, Reno alumni
Michigan Technological University faculty
American company founders
Cerium stearate. Cerium stearate is a metal-organic compound, a salt of cerium and stearic acid with the chemical formula . The compound is classified as a metallic soap, i.e. a metal derivative of a fatty acid.

Synthesis
Cerium stearate is synthesized from the reaction of cerium oxide with stearic acid in an inert atmosphere at temperatures between 100 and 200 °C. It can also be obtained by the reaction of cerium nitrate and potassium stearate.

Physical properties
The compound forms a white powder which is insoluble in water.

Uses
The compound is used in a variety of industrial and laboratory applications: as a lubricant, antioxidant, and antifoaming agent. Other uses include as a catalyst in the synthesis of polymers and as a stabilizer in the production of plastics.

References

Stearates
Cerium(III) compounds
Hanadi Sleiman. Hanadi Farouk Sleiman  is a Canadian chemist who is Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. Her research makes use of DNA as a template for nanomaterials. She was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Polanyi Award in 2021.

Early life and education 

Sleiman was an undergraduate and doctoral researcher at Stanford University, where she studied tungsten nitrenes. At Stanford, she attended a lecture by Jean-Marie Lehn who discussed supramolecular chemistry. After earning her doctorate, she moved to the Louis Pasteur University as a French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Fellow, where she worked alongside Jean-Marie Lehn.

Research and career 
In 1999, Sleiman joined the faculty at McGill University, where she started using DNA to assemble nanomaterials. In particular she is interested in DNA structures that can target cancer cells and make them respond to chemotherapy. She has designed tuneable DNA cages and nanotubes that can encapsulate and selectively release pharmaceuticals when they encounter a biological stimulus. These non toxic cages can facilitate personalised drug delivery, that is, healthcare that is based on a person's genetics, environment or lifestyle. They can rapidly enter mammalian cells, turning on and off gene expression and modulating their behaviour. Sleiman has proposed that nucleic acids will enable precision oncology.

Sleiman has shown that it is possible to chemically imprint polymer particles with DNA strands for soft robotics. She joined the Society for the Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World in 2011.

Awards and honours 
 2004 McGill Dawson Award 
 2009 Canadian Society for Chemistry Strem Award 
 2012 Swiss Chemical Society Lectureship
 2016 Izatt-Christensen Award in Supramolecular Chemistry
 2018 Netherlands Scholar Award in Supramolecular Chemistry
 2018 Killam Research Fellowship 
 2018 Albus Award 
 2021 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Polanyi Award
 2021 Cottrell STAR Award
 2022 Columbia University BMS Lecture
 2023 Named a Fellow of the Royal Society

Selected publications

References 

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women chemists
20th-century Canadian chemists
20th-century Canadian women scientists
21st-century Canadian chemists
21st-century Canadian women scientists
Stanford University alumni
Academic staff of McGill University
French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
Canada Research Chairs
Fellows of the Royal Society
Prakash K. Desai. Air Marshal P. K. Desai PVSM AVSM VSM (born November 12, 1944) is a retired officer of the Indian Air Force (IAF). He served in the IAF from 1966 to 2004. Desai was Air Officer Commanding of Air Force Station Chakeri in Kanpur, and additionally served as Senior Maintenance Staff Officer of Maintenance Command in Nagpur and as Assistant Chief of Air Staff Engineering at Air Headquarters in New Delhi.

Scientific contribution
Desai worked on research and development aspects of indigenisation of the IAF. He was chair of Aeronautical Society of India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar). He also served on scientific committees at National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) and Indian Society of Non-Destructive Testing (ISNDT).

Works
• Ripudaman Singh and P. K. Desai. Metallic Birds: The Life Beyond. India Defense Review. Vol 12 (1). Editor: Major General Afsir Karim AVSM (retd.). ISBN 81-7062-275-1.

• P. K. Desai and C. Mohanty. Pragmatic Approach to Indigenisation: Case Studies of Airborne Items. Aerospace Manufacturing Technology. Editors: N. K. Naik, Kanchan Biswas, G. C. Popli.

• P. K. Desai. Life Extension of Aircraft Components, An IAF Perspective.

Diplomatic service
Desai served as Deputy Air Attache at Indian Embassy in Moscow. Later, he was part of several Indian delegations to Russia and Ukraine, and completed defense contracts successfully. He was a member of Indian delegation to Russia led by the then Defense Minister George Fernandes in 2002.

Honours and decorations
The Government of India conferred on Desai Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM), Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) and Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM).

Post-retirement
Desai is the President of Air Force Association of Gujarat headquartered in Ahmedabad since retirement from the IAF. The association looks after the welfare of retired Air Force personnel and is also involved in community service. 

Desai has helped establish Navin Desai Residential School near Nagpur in Maharashtra in memory of his brother. The school provides free education to children of migrant quarry workers.

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Indian Air Force air marshals
1944 births
Defence Services Staff College alumni
Recipients of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal
Recipients of the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
Recipients of the Vishisht Seva Medal
Living people
Combined cycle powered railway locomotive. A combined cycle powered locomotive is a patented idea to use two primary movers, a gas turbine with a steam turbine to gain the efficiency of a combined cycle power plant or a combined gas and steam engine.  Steam locomotives were tested in the past but were not ideal for low speeds, and gas turbine locomotives (GTELs) were used by Union Pacific until the 1970s. Combined cycle power uses the heat from the gas turbine to make steam from the water to turn a steam turbine, instead of that heat getting exhausted out and wasted. Engine efficiency for combined cycle can achieve 60% compared to diesel motors' 45% efficiency. 

The gas and steam turbines would turn their separate generators and the steam turbine would have a clutch between it and its generator because steam power is not easily adjustable. Compressed hydrogen would be in one fuel tank, and water would be in another storage tank for the steam, and the Rankine cycle could condense most of the steam back to water to put back into the water tank to repeat the cycle for the steam turbine. Current diesel electric locomotives such as the GE Evolution Series with a cab could still be the lead cab, pusher, and distributed power; with the combined cycle powered locomotive as a slug.

See also
 Hydrogen economy
 Hydrogen fuel cell train
 Turbine-electric powertrain
 Schnabel car

References

External links
 Researching an Air-Steam Combined-cycle Locomotive

Steam locomotives
Gas turbine locomotives
Steam vehicles
Freight transport
Locomotive engines
T-Works. T-Works is India's largest prototyping center. It is an initiative of the Government of Telangana, aimed to create and celebrate a culture of hobbyists, makers, and innovators in India, who explore and experiment without the fear of failure. T-Works Phase-1 is a 78,000 sq. ft. building, situated near T-Hub in Raidurg, Hyderabad, Telanagana. It has over 200 industry grade tools worth  115 million. T-Works Phase-2 will expand T-works to 250,000 sq. ft. over a 4.89-acre campus. To encourage innovators from smaller towns and rural areas, satellite centers of T-Works will also be set up in towns such as Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam, Siddipet, Nizamabad, etc., where IT towers are being set up by the Government of Telangana.

History
On 2 March 2023, Foxconn chairman Young Liu and Telangana industries & IT minister K. T. Rama Rao inaugurated T-Works via an innovative Kabuki drop (dramatic Japanese reveal style). Foxconn chairman also announced donation of a complete surface mount technology assembly line, which is used for assembling high-end electronics circuit boards, to T-Works.

Facilities
 Metal Shop
 Advanced Rapid Prototyping
 3D Printing Lab
 Electronics Lab
 Testing Lab
 Wood Shop
 Ceramic Studio
 Laser Cutting and Engraving

See also
List of business incubators
National Institute of Design

References 

Economy of Telangana
Economy of Hyderabad, India
Organisations based in Hyderabad, India
Business incubators of India
KCR Government initiatives
LogicBlox. The LogicBlox system is a commercial, declarative, incremental logic programming language and deductive database inspired by Datalog. The LogiQL programming language extends Datalog with several features, including stratified negation, aggregation, and a module system. LogicBlox has been used to build pointer analyses for Java.

On December 3, 2014 Predictix acquired LogicBlox.
On June 28, 2016 Infor acquires Predictix.

Features 

 Stratified negation
 Aggregate functions
 Evaluation using a novel worst-case optimal join algorithm.
 Data constructors
 Static typing
 A module system
 Probabilistic programming features
 Incremental computation
 Debugging with provenance

References

Notes

Sources

Further reading

See also 

 Datalog

Logic programming languages
High-level programming languages
Mantainer Ardath. The Mantainer Ardath is a non-rigid airship designed and built in Australia during the 1970s.

Design and development
The airship was developed by Melbourne businessman Tony Norton in the mid-1970s. The project involved 10,000 person-hours; planning and design of the airship took two years, construction itself took just a year.  Flight tests commenced at Tocumwal, NSW at the end of June 1977. It is named for the W.D. & H.O. Wills-manufactured Ardath cigarettes, whose logo is on each side of the envelope.

The company Mantainer Pty Ltd was formed in connection to the airship project.  In addition to its advertising role, Mantainer also intended to deploy the airship in surveillance, and in search and rescue duties. It was given the Australian civil aircraft registration of VH-PSE.

According to Flypast : a record of aviation in Australia, by December 1978 the company had been placed in liquidation, with the airship being sold to an American buyer. This was the firm U.S. Airships Inc, based in Tyler, Texas. A hangar specifically intended for the airship was erected in Tyler, the airship rebuilt, however a lack of capital meant that the venture soon folded.

Norton Snoopy
The Snoopy was a small human-powered non-rigid airship, designed and built by Norton. It flew on 27 February 1976. The envelope was constructed using metallic 1 mil Mylar film. It was a precursor of the Ardath.

Ardath
The airship is conventional in appearance and configuration. It has a helium-filled envelope, with ballonets fore-and-aft. The ballonets can be inflated by airscoops situated in the slipstream from the propellers. The gondola is suspended underneath the envelope via catenary curtains.  The gondola is of light alloy construction, and has a single non-retractable landing wheel. There are four stabilising fins, arranged in a cruciform pattern.  The rudder is located on the lower fin, with elevators being fitted to both horizontal stabilisers.

Specifications

References

Bibliography

External links
 Teaselville Blimp (Youtube)

Aircraft first flown in 1977
Twin-engined pusher aircraft
Cruciform tail aircraft
Airships of Australia
Aircraft with fixed landing gear
Harayana Saraswati Heritage Development Board. The Haryana Sarasvati Heritage Development Board (HSHDB) is an Indian government body constituted by the Haryana Government on 12 October 2015 under the chairmanship of Manohar Lal Khattar,  then Chief Minister of Haryana.

The objective of this board includes the Rejuvenation of the Sarasvati River and the development of the Sarasvati-linked Heritage including the construction of DAM, Reservoir, and Barrage for continuation of flow of water in the paleochannel of Sarasvati, Renovation of temples, Provision of civic amenities to the visiting pilgrims and tourists.

Projects

In 2021 a budget of 14 crores was allocated by the Haryana Government to this board for the first phase beautification project. This board will also participate in construction of DAM at Adi Badri. The board has also planned on creating 5 riverfronts at Pipli and Pehowa in Kurukshetra district, Bilaspur in Yamunanagar district, and on the Panchkula-Yamunanagar highway near Dosarka village, and the Kaithal-Guhla road.

References

Government of India
Haryana