omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Science and Engineering Research Board. Science and Engineering Research Board is a statutory body under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, established by an Act of the Parliament of India in 2009 (SERB ACT, 2008). The Board was chaired by the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Science and Technology. The Board was set up for promoting basic research in science and engineering and to provide financial assistance to scientists, academic institutions, R&D laboratories, industrial concerns and other agencies for such research. Thereafter, it was succeeded by an act called Anusandhan National Research Foundation Act 2023 which formed Anusandhan National Research Foundation in the year 2024.

Schemes and programmes

The Board has schemes for funding extramural research, for providing grants for start-up research and for using the scientific expertise of retired scientists. The board has programmes for intensifying research in high priority areas, for supporting international travel of scientists, for giving assistance to professional bodies for conducting seminars and symposia, and for awarding fellowships. Promoting opportunities for women in exploratory research.

It is a scheme to mitigate gender disparity in science and engineering research funding in various S&T programs in Indian academic institutions and R&D laboratories.

List of members of the Board

(May 2022- 2025) the members of the Board(oversight- committee).

 Koppillil Radhakrishnan, Former Secretary, Department of Space, Chairperson
 Secretary, Department of Science and Technology 
 President, Indian National Science Academy 
 President, Indian Academy of Science 
 President, Indian National Academy of Engineering 
 Professor. Devang Vipin Khakhar, Former Director, IIT Bombay
 Dr.(Ms)Tessy Thomas, Distinguished Scientist and former Director General Aeronautical Systems(AS),DRDO
Professor.Talat Ahmad, Chairman of Governing body of Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Former Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University & Jamia Millia Islamia University
 Secretary, Science and Engineering Research Board

Research 

In an RTI reply about any study by SERB on hazards from mobile towers, it said that no independent research has been done by it till date but a joint research with DOT was done in 2013.

References

External links
 Website of SERB
 Website of Electronic Project Proposal Management System

Science and technology in India
Ministry of Science and Technology (India)
Research administration
Andreas Fredrik Falkenberg. Andreas Fredrik Falkenberg (13 March 1875 – 1957) is a Norwegian engineer, businessperson and politician for the Conservative Party.

He was born in Bergen as a son of school headmaster Andreas Fredrik Falkenberg (1842–1875) and Anne Marie Wathne (1848–1922). He attended Bergen Cathedral School. In 1893 he graduated from Bergen Technical School, and in 1895 from the electrotechnical school Montefiore Institute in Liège. In 1898 he married photographer's daughter Anna Dorothea von der Fehr.

In 1897 he was hired as a manager in Bergen's Electric Tramway. In 1914 he moved to Eastern Norway to hold the same position in Oslo Tramway, and from 1924 to 1940 he was the chief executive of Bærumsbanen.

He was an elected member of Bergen city council from 1908 to 1913, the first term in the executive committee. From 1909 to 1910 he chaired the local Conservative party branch. He chaired Norske Elektrisitetsverkers Forening from 1918 to 1921, the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1918 to 1922, Kongelig Norsk Motorbåtforbund from 1920 to 1923 and Kongelig Norsk Automobilklub from 1933 to 1940.

He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of Vasa. He died in 1957.

References

1875 births
1957 deaths
Engineers from Bergen
People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School
Businesspeople from Bergen
Norwegian expatriates in Belgium
Politicians from Bergen
Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
Knights First Class of the Order of Vasa
Bjarne Nissen. Bjarne Nissen (18 September 1869 – 1950) was a Norwegian brewer.

He was born in Kristiania. He took his education as a chemical engineer at Kristiania Technical School, in German locations Charlottenburg (Berlin) and Munich, as well as Copenhagen, Denmark. He worked for one and a half year at Vestfos Cellulosefabrik before being hired at Frydenlunds Bryggeri. In 1904, he was promoted to factory manager.

He chaired the Norwegian Polytechnic Society from 1922 to 1926. He was a board member of Elektrisk Bureau from 1926 to 1934, Greaker Cellulosefabrik from 1932 and Kongelig Norsk Automobilklub (later chairing its supervisory council). He was also a member of the Labour Court and the Oslo Stock Exchange Arbitration Tribunal.

References

1869 births
1950 deaths
Businesspeople from Oslo
Norwegian brewers
Norwegian expatriates in Germany
Edward W. Price (engineer). Edward W. Price (1920 – June 11, 2012) was an engineer who worked in the field of solid rocket propellants, primarily at the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), where he made contributions to ignition, combustion instabilities, fuel components, and the "T-burner" method of testing. After 30 years at NOTS, he moved to Georgia Tech in 1974 to continue his propellant work, being promoted to Regents' Professor in 1986, and retiring in 1991. He was recognized with the NASA Public Service Award in 1988 and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for "critical contributions to the understanding of solid propellant combustion and solid rockets developments".

References

External links
National Academy of Engineering member page
Obituary published by Georgia Institute of Technology

2012 deaths
American engineers
1920 births
Henrik Ager-Hanssen. Henrik Julius Ager-Hanssen (21 July 1930 – 19 November 2004) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist and businessperson. He spent his career in the nuclear energy sector from 1956 to 1975, then in the petroleum company Statoil from 1976 to 1998.

Career
He was born in Stavanger, and after education at the University of Oslo, University of Leuven and New York University he got the degree Master of Nuclear Engineering. He taught nuclear energy technology at the New York University from 1956 to 1957, and then spent many years as a researcher, research leader and director at the Institute for Energy Technology. He spent his four last years in nuclear energy as chief executive of Scandpower from 1971 to 1975.

In 1976 Ager-Hanssen was hired as vice chief executive of the petroleum company Statoil, based in his hometown Stavanger. He was reportedly headhunted by Finn Lied. In 1988 he briefly served as the acting chief executive, following the retirement of Arve Johnsen. From autumn 1989 he was a special adviser in the company, with special responsibility for its Brussels branch. In 1998 he founded his own consulting firm Ager Energy Management.

Internationally, Ager-Hanssen chaired the Committee for Special Studies and the Energy for Tomorrow's World Commission, both within the World Energy Council. In 1994 he was named on the European Commission's Consultative Forum on environmental policy, despite Norway not being an EU member. He has served as chair of Norsk Helikopter, Stavanger Aftenblad, ONS, EnTech Invest, Scan Geophysical, Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, the Institute for Energy Technology, the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research and Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab. He has been a board member of Det Norske Veritas, the Chr. Michelsen Institute and Siemens Norway.

He was an elected fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

Personal life
He married Bjørg Ager-Hanssen in 1958 and had two children, Marianne and Christen Ager-Hanssen. He died from cancer in November 2004.

References

1930 births
2004 deaths
People from Stavanger
University of Oslo alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Norwegian expatriates in Belgium
Norwegian expatriates in the United States
Norwegian nuclear physicists
Norwegian businesspeople in the oil industry
Equinor people
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Deaths from cancer in Norway
Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
Junkers Profly Ultima. The Junkers Profly Ultima is a German aerobatic homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Andre Konig and produced by Junkers Profly of Kodnitz, introduced in 1993. When it was available the aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

By January 2014 the aircraft was no longer offered by the company.

Design and development
The Ultima features a cantilever low-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit under a bubble canopy, fixed tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The aircraft's  span wing mounts flaps and has a wing area of . The cabin width is . The acceptable power range is  and the standard engine used is the  Rotax 912UL four stroke powerplant. For its aerobatic role the Ultima is stressed to +6 and -4 g.

The Ultima has a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passenger and baggage is just .

The manufacturer estimated the construction time from the supplied kit as 400 hours.

Specifications (Ultima)

See also
List of aerobatic aircraft

References

Ultima
1990s German sport aircraft
1990s German civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aerobatic aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1993
Aircraft with fixed tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft
Kirishi-2 Oil Refinery. The Kirishi-2 Oil Refinery is Russia's first residual oil high conversion refinery. It was opened in Kirishi, Russia in 2017. It is located on the site of the KINEF refinery.

Synopsis
The Kirishi-2 Oil Refinery produces a high yield of light oil (73.12%) and high-quality motor fuels. Its products include AI-95 motor gasoline, gas petrochemicals, diesel, kerosene, LPG, isobutene, N-butane, petroleum coke, propane and sulphur.

The Kirishi-2 Oil Refinery has an annual output of 10 million tons. As of 2024 the refinery produced approximately 11 percent of Russia's total output gasoline, 6.4 percent of its diesel fuel, 5.6 percent of fuel oil, and 7.4 percent of its aviation fuel.

The Kirishi-2 refinery is owned by Surgutneftegaz's Kirishinefteorgsintez subsidiary.

Management
The refinery project was managed by Giorgi Ramzaitsev, the chairman of the Board of Directors of ChekSU, a major manganese ore and ferroalloy mining and processing company in Russia, and Andrei Yermolaev, a former member of the Leningrad Regional Legislative Assembly.

History
On 12 March 2024 the refinery was attacked by Ukrainian drones. Reuters reported that at least half of the refinery's production was halted by the attack.

References

External links

Official site

Oil refineries in Russia
Oil companies of Russia
Petrochemical companies
Companies based in Leningrad Oblast
Global Green Growth Institute. The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an intergovernmental organization based in Seoul, South Korea. It is dedicated to promoting green growth, which integrates economic progress with environmental sustainability. It provides technical support, research opportunities, and stakeholder collaboration to develop green growth plans, focusing particularly on the needs of developing countries.

The activities are centered on four key areas: energy, water, land-use planning, and the development of sustainable urban environments, often referred to as green cities.

History 

GGGI originated as a think tank in 2010, initiated by then President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak. In 2012, GGGI was transformed into an international treaty-based organization, a change formalized at the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil.

GGGI operates under an agreement from its member countries established in 2012. The governance structure includes the Assembly, encompassing all member countries, and the Council, which is in charge of strategy, budget, and membership. An Advisory Committee of experts also contributes strategic guidance. Membership in GGGI is open to any United Nations member state aligned with its green growth objectives.

References

International organizations based in South Korea
Environmental organizations based in South Korea
Organizations based in Seoul
G. Brooks Earnest. Dr. G. Brooks Earnest (born George Brooks Earnest) (October 2, 1902 in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania – September 13, 1992 in West Bloomfield, Michigan,), was a distinguished American educator, administrator, and the fourth and last president of Fenn College.

Education
Earnest graduated from high school in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1927 from the Case Institute of Technology with a degree in civil engineering. Earnest earned his M.S. from Case Institute in 1933.

Case Institute of Technology
In 1930 he joined the faculty of the Case Institute of Technology as an instructor of engineering. He became a professor of engineering surveying and director of Camp Case in 1948.

Fenn College

Dean of the School of Engineering
Earnest, a member of the faculty at Case Institute of Technology was nominated for the position of Dean of the School of Engineering at Fenn College at a joint meeting of the board executive and personnel committees held on September 7, 1950. Earnest received official approval of this on December 4, 1950 by the Fenn College board of trustees. The appointment was effective on February 1, 1951.

President
At a board meeting on January 28, 1952 it was recommended through a report submitted that Earnest be appointed the acting president of Fenn College. The board unanimously approved it. He was named the permanent president on September 22, 1952. He served as the President of Fenn College until August 31, 1965 when Fenn College's assets were given to the State of Ohio to create Cleveland State University.

Honors
The American Society of Civil Engineers, Cleveland section established the G. Brooks Earnest Technical Lecture Award in "appreciation of the life-long services of G. Brooks Earnest."

Personal life
Earnest was born to John Harry Earnest and Mary Catharine Earnest (née Showers). He was married to Mary Alice Earnest (née McKeighan) on February 8, 1928. They had two sons, Samuel Allen of Murrysville, Pennsylvania. and David Brooks of West Bloomfield, Michigan.

References 

Presidents of Cleveland State University
1902 births
1992 deaths
People from Juniata County, Pennsylvania
People from West Bloomfield, Michigan
20th-century American academics
Quickprop. Quickprop is an iterative method for determining the minimum of the loss function of an artificial neural network, following an algorithm inspired by the Newton's method. Sometimes, the algorithm is classified to the group  of the second order learning methods. It follows a quadratic approximation of the previous gradient step and the current gradient, which is expected to be close to the minimum of the loss function, under the assumption that the loss function is locally approximately square, trying to describe it by means of an upwardly open parabola. The minimum is sought in the vertex of the parabola. The procedure requires only local information of the artificial neuron to which it is applied.
The -th approximation step is given by:

Where  is the weight of input  of neuron , and  is the loss function.

The Quickprop algorithm is an implementation of the error backpropagation algorithm, but the network  can behave chaotically during the learning phase due to large step sizes.

References

Bibliography 

Scott E. Fahlman: An Empirical Study of Learning Speed in Back-Propagation Networks, September 1988

Machine learning algorithms
Artificial neural networks
Computational neuroscience
China Dalian International Economic and Technical Cooperation Group. China Dalian International Economic & Technical Cooperation Group (abbreviated as CDIG) is a Chinese enterprise involved in construction and engineering, real estate development, shipping, import and export trading, fishing, aquaculture and aquatic products processing.

The construction division is heavily focused on international markets, earning $529.1 million in revenue in 2012, of which $469.8 million came from overseas projects. It operates in markets from Syria to Suriname. In Syria, it signed a deal in 2008 to expand the number of spherical tanks storing liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the coastal city of Banias. The company went on to construct 4 spheres in 2009 and then 3 more in 2010. A New York Times article in 2011 cited the construction work carried out by the company in performing road maintenance work in Suriname as an example of the growth of the Chinese community in the country.

The company plans to develop a wind power project in Tanzania in 2014. The $136 million project is planned to generate electricity in the Sinigida region by 2015. Construction will take place in two phases, a 50 MW first phase and then a 150 MW second phase, and by the company's account create jobs for 1,000 Tanzanians and require construction of 17 km of roads.

The company was privatized on January 8, 2010.

References

Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Wind power companies of China
Companies based in Dalian
Ateliers d'Automobiles et d'Aviation. Ateliers d'Automobiles et d'Aviation was a Paris based automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer between 1919 and 1920. The French manufacturer was noted for electric cars.

History of the business
Production of cars and light trucks began at the company's Paris workshops in the rue de Berri, in 1919. The name  Ateliers d'Automobiles et d'Aviation was generally reduced to AAA'.

With the First World War having ended only months earlier, there was at the time little contact between auto producers in France and those in Germany. There is no connection between Paris-based Ateliers d'Automobiles et d'Aviation (AAA) and the Berlin company AG für Akkumulatoren- und Automobilbau which between 1919 and 1922 was also producing cars under the name "AAA".

The cars
The cars were powered by electric motors. The AAA was a large four door saloon. The cars advertised featured closed bodies with the simple square shape characteristic of 1920s car designs.
At the 1919 Paris Motor Show the manufacturer offered two different chassis lengths of  and , the two models being designated the "AAA 6A Serie" and the "AAA 10A Luxe".  The price of 55,000 francs for the larger car even in bare chassis form was considered very high.   However, the price included a ten-year "Mechanical guarantee", which was at the time exceptional.    The top speed quoted was 45 km/h (28 mph) and the range between charges was given as 120 km (75 miles).   Power storage involved accumulator batteries with 42 cells.

Reference, sources and notes

Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, .
George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 1: A–F. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, . (englisch)

Electric vehicles introduced in the 20th century
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of France
Car manufacturers of France
Electric vehicle manufacturers of France
Manufacturing companies based in Paris
French companies established in 1919
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1919
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1920
1920s disestablishments in France
Macchi M.C.99. The Macchi M.C.99 was a prototype 1930s Italian twin-engined torpedo-bomber flying boat designed and built by Macchi.

Development
The M.C.99 was designed by Mario Castoldi as a military flying boat, resembling the earlier commercial M.C.94 and was a wooden twin-engined shoulder-wing cantilever monoplane. Constructed mainly of wood, it was a high-wing cantilever monoplane flying boat. With a crew of five, it had an enclosed cabin and had defensive gun positions in the bow, amidships and in the tail. The prototype and only M.C.99 was powered by two  Isotta Fraschini Asso XI R.2C.15 engines, strut-mounted above the wings. Briefly flown in 1937 it did not enter production.

Specifications

See also

References
Notes

Bibliography
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External links

Photo of a Macchi M.C.99

M.C.094=9
1930s Italian bomber aircraft
Flying boats
Shoulder-wing aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1937
Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft
Lancair Tigress. The Lancair Tigress was an American homebuilt aircraft that was designed by Lance Neibauer and intended for production by Lancair of Redmond, Oregon. Introduced in mid-late 1990s, it was essentially a Lancair IV with a much more powerful engine. When the engine was canceled just as it was entering production, the Tigress project ended with it. Only prototypes were produced.

The concept of a higher-powered Lancair IV derivative was finally filled by the Lancair Propjet.

Design and Development
The Tigress was intended to be a development of the Lancair IV adapted to employ the  Orenda OE600 V-8 engine, giving it a cruise speed of . To accept the higher power and the increased speeds the airframe was structurally strengthened. The engine was later cancelled by its manufacturer, Orenda Aerospace, and the Tigress kit was not produced as a result.

The aircraft featured a cantilever low-wing, a four-seat pressurized cabin, retractable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.

The Tigress was made from composites, including graphite fiber. Its  span was  shorter than that used on the Lancair IV, mounted flaps and had a wing area of . The Tigress's wing used a McWilliams RXM5-217 airfoil at the wing root, transitioning to a NACA 64-212 at the wing tip, the same as employed on the Lancair IV.

The aircraft had a typical empty weight of  and a gross weight of , giving a useful load of . With full fuel of  the payload for pilot, passengers and baggage was .

Operational History
The sole prototype was deregistered on 27 June 2013 and sold, with the tail number (N750L) reserved through 2018. It is preserved on a concrete pad in front of the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute building at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Specifications (Tigress)

References

Further reading
 Power Struggle. Why car engines won't fly. Don Sherman; Smithsonian Air & Space magazine; Dec 1996–Jan 1997 issue, pag 71–81. (Detailed discussion on the development history and fate of the V-8 engine in the Lancair Tigress).

Tigress
1990s United States sport aircraft
1990s United States civil utility aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Aircraft with retractable tricycle landing gear
Single-engined piston aircraft