omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Networked Robotics Corporation. Networked Robotics Corporation is an American scientific automation company that designs and manufactures electronic devices that monitor scientific instruments, scientific processes, and environmental conditions via the internet.

Networked Robotics technology is used in the biotechnologies industry—including stem cell automation, medical industry, academia, food industry in efforts to enhance U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory compliance, quality, and loss prevention for their operations.

History
Networked Robotics was founded in 2004 at the Northwestern University Technology Innovation Center by ex-Pfizer informatics researchers. The company's founders worked for almost 20 years in the automation of scientific processes for G.D. Searle & Company, Monsanto, Pharmacia, and Pfizer where they were responsible for the automation of experiments in inflammation. Businessman Charles W. Woodford was a founding board member.

In 2006, Networked Robotics announced the introduction of Tempurity™, a network-based, real-time temperature monitoring system, designed to collect temperatures over a wide area network. Tempurity includes an alarm system in which a user is notified by phone, text messaging, or e-mail when the area or device to be monitored falls outside of a set environmental range. The software was developed to meet FDA standards and works with rooms, ovens, incubators, refrigerators, freezers and commercial ultra low temperature freezers.

Information
In 2005, as the company was developing their automation technology, Networked Robotics hosted an international game server for an online competition of the video game Medal of Honor (video game series). More than 280 daily contests were held, with winners from 25 different nations. Contests for 2004 ended on February 8, 2005, the end of the lunar (Chinese) New Year. The countries with the most winners on each continent were declared Networked Robotics continental champions. Over 250,000 players from 66 countries and all US states have participated in Networked Robotics competition.

References

Computer networking
Type U 93 submarine. Type 93 was a class of U-boats built during World War I by the Kaiserliche Marine.

Design
Type 93 U-boats carried 16 torpedoes and had various arrangements of deck guns. As with the type 81 and 87, some had only one  SK L/30 deck gun while others had a single  SK L/45 gun and some were initially equipped with both. In 1917 some of the boats were refitted with a single 10.5 cm gun and 220 rounds.

These boats carried a crew of 39 and had excellent seagoing abilities with a cruising range of around . Many arrangements from the Type 81, 87 and 93 were also seen on World War II Type IX U-boats when their design work took place 20 years later.

Compared to the previous type 87, the 93s were  longer, while the pressure hull was  longer. They were  faster on the surface, and unchanged at  submerged. Range decreased  at , to 9,020 nautical miles. They still carried 16 torpedoes with four bow and two stern tubes. Crew size was increased by 3 to 39.

Compared to the following type Large MS, the 93s were shorter, and  lighter. Their range was 980 nmi shorter, and speed was  slower on the surface but  faster submerged.  The Large MS was intended for the deepest waters and the increased size made it more comfortable and very seaworthy.

Service history
Type 93 boats were responsible for sinking 3.201% of all allied shipping sunk during the war, taking a total of 412,419 combined tons. They also damaged 71,202 combined tons.

List of Type 93 submarines 
There were 24 Type 93 submarines commissioned into the Kaiserliche Marine.

By the end of World War I, 375 U-boats of 33 separate classes belonging to 7 general types had been commissioned. More boats were finished after the war and either destroyed or awarded to victorious nations.

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links 

Submarine classes
World War I submarines of Germany
German Type U 93 submarines
Annis Water Resources Institute. The Robert B. Annis Water Resources Institute (AWRI), is located in Muskegon, Michigan at the Lake Michigan Center on Muskegon Lake. The mission of the Institute is to integrate research, education, and outreach to enhance and preserve freshwater resources. AWRI is a multidisciplinary research organization within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Grand Valley State University. The Institute conducts research on water resources, including: ecosystem structure and function, contaminants and toxicology, hydrology, land use, watershed, stream, and wetland ecology, water quality, and basic and applied limnology.

Facilities and equipment
Facilities within the Lake Michigan Center include classrooms, conference areas, analytical labs, research labs, mesocosms, dockage, and ship support and storage. The institute also owns and operates its own research vessels, the D.J. Angus and the W.G. Jackson. The D.J. Angus is a 45-foot vessel and weighs 22.5 tons; she is kept at Harbor Island in Grand Haven, Michigan. The W.G. Jackson is 64 feet and 10 inches long and weighs 68.5 tons; she is kept at the Lake Michigan Center in Muskegon.

AWRI received $500,000 in federal money to support a continuing $2 million expansion.

References

External links
AWRI website

Grand Valley State University
Muskegon, Michigan
Research institutes in Michigan
Water
School of Business and Engineering Vaud. The School of Engineering and Management Vaud (abbrev. HEIG-VD, in the official French form Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud) is a public university in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. It was created by the merger of the EIVD (School of Engineering of the State of Vaud) and the HEG-VD (School of Business of the State of Vaud) on August 1, 2004. With its 2000 students, the HEIG-VD is the largest branch of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO). It participates actively in regional, national, and international research and industry development in all areas covered by its teaching.

As of fall 2006, HEIG-VD is based at a larger urban campus of three adjacent sites at Yverdon-les-Bains: Route de Cheseaux, Centre St-Roch, and Centre Y-Parc.

Bachelor programs
 Geomatics
 Electrical Engineering
 Systems Engineering
 Microengineering
 Telecommunications
 Computer Science
 Media Engineering
 Business Administration
 Engineering and Management

Master programs
Master programs are offered in partnership with other HES-SO members. A portion of the instruction will take place at HEIG-VD and another will take place at other HES-SO universities.

Master of Science in Engineering
Started in September 2009, this Master program offer two different majors :
 Industrial Technologies (TIN)
 Information and Communication Technologies (TIC)

Master of Science in Business Administration
Launched at the start of the 2008/2009 academic year, this master offer five different majors :
 Entrepreneurship (syllabus in English/French or English/German)
 Integrated Management of Information and Communication Systems
 Service Management and Service Engineering
 Public and Quasi-public Management
 Hospitality & Tourism (syllabus in English and French)

See also
List of largest universities by enrollment in Switzerland

References

External links
 Official website - Home page (french)
 Official website - International section (english)

Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland
Pragoti. Pragoti Industries Limited (PIL) is a Bangladeshi car assembling and car parts manufacturing company headquartered in Chittagong with a manufacturing plant in Barabkunda. Founded in 1966, it is the country's largest car assembling plant and it has assembled and marketed more than 50,000 vehicles such as cars, SUVs, buses, trucks, pickups, ambulances, tractors of multiple models by importing CKD (Complete Knocked Down) kits from overseas.

History

1960s
Present Pragoti Industries was established in 1966 as Ghandhara Industries by Habibullah Khan Khattak, a pasthun and a retired army Lieutenant General from Pakistan Army. He established Pragati (then Ghandhara Industries) with joint venture with General Motors. In late 60's Pragati rolled out Vauxhall Viva cars and Bedford trucks. Habibullah also set up a factory at Karachi, but Pragati or Ghandhara Industries was more advanced and larger. 
Gen Habibullah's son, Maj Ali Quli Khan flew out of Dhaka during end of independence of Bangladesh. 
Upon independence of Bangladesh, the government nationalised the company and renamed it Pragoti Industries.

1970s
Progoti Industries continued assembling Vauxhall Viva cars, a luxurious sedan car of that time and showed in Asia 1972 Trade fair in with caption " Bangladesh produce quality".<ref></http://iqbalahsan.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/%e0%a6%aa%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%97%e0%a6%a4%e0%a7%80%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%aa%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%a5%e0%a6%ae-%e0%a6%b8%e0%a7%87%e0%a6%a1%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%a8-%e0%a6%95%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%b0/></ref>

1980s
Things decline since 1980s and no more assembling were taking part only joining CKD for large vehicles.

1990s

2000

2010s
However, in 2010, Japanese car giant Mitsubishi Corporation led by Asia Regional Manager Kazuhide Ogata made a formal proposal to Bangladesh government to manufacture Mitsubishi Lancer Sedan and Mitsubishi Pajero Sport in Pragoti, which already has been assembling Mitsubishi Pajero Sport since last few years. Along with Pajero Sport, it also assembles Tata Motors buses and mini trucks, Ashok Leyland minibuses. Due to cheap labour cost, the company officials hoping to reduce the price of cars that will be built here are heavily comparing the same cars manufactured elsewhere.

On 12 May 2016 Pragoti industries Ltd (PIL) & Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M) India, carried out factory roll-out of Mahindra Scorpio S10 SUV & Scorpio Double Cab pick-up CKD vehicles in Bangladesh was done in presence of Mr. Imtiaz Chaudhary, Chairman, BSEC, MD & Country Manager M&M Mr. Pankaj Singh . These vehicles will be marketed in Bangladesh through PIL.

See also
 Mahindra & Mahindra
 Rangs Group
 Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory
 List of companies of Bangladesh

References 

Car manufacturers of Bangladesh
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1966
Manufacturing companies based in Chittagong
Government-owned companies of Bangladesh
Automotive industry in Bangladesh
New London Ship and Engine Company. The New London Ship and Engine Company (NELSECO) was established in Groton, Connecticut as a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Company to manufacture diesel engines.

History
Electric Boat acquired a license to manufacture MAN diesels, approximately in the year 1909. These were initially manufactured by the Fore River Shipyard of Quincy, Massachusetts, where most of Electric Boat's early submarines were built under subcontract.  NELSECO was established in Groton to take over diesel manufacturing from Fore River when difficulties were encountered, finishing the work on engines begun by Fore River. It was a subsidiary of the Electric Boat Company for its entire existence. The E- and F-class submarines, launched 1911–12, were initially equipped with these diesels; they were replaced in 1915 as NELSECO's initial efforts were unsatisfactory. The company was incorporated on 11 October 1910, with production starting in July 1911.

The company built the engines for first diesel powered yacht in America, Idealia, launched by the Electric Launch Company (Elco) in 1912. Idealia was owned by ELCO into 1916 and used for demonstrating the application of diesel engines in yachts. The original Idealia installation was a reversible, air started, two cycle engine with six working cylinders and a two-stage air compression cylinder that was rated at 150 horsepower at 550 revolutions per minute. The original two stroke engine was replaced by a NELSECO 120 horsepower four cycle engine by February 1915.

The company was probably disestablished around 1925, as the last United States S-class submarine was completed in that year, and no subsequent US submarines were equipped with NELSECO engines. Electric Boat had a drought in submarine contracts 1918–1931, which probably caused NELSECO's demise.

Founders
 President: Lawrence York Spear
 Vice-president and General Manager: Frank Cable
 Vice-president: Gregory C. Davison
 Secretary and Treasurer: Henry R. Bond
 Directors: Isaac Rice, Elihu B. Frost, Stacey C. Richmond, William H. Reeves and T.A. Scott.

Legacy
Nelseco Navigation Company (a.k.a. Interstate Navigation Co.) operates ferry service to Block Island in Rhode Island.  At least two ferries have been named NELSECO.  One was launched in 1917 and scrapped circa 1972 and the other was launched in 1981 and scrapped circa 2010.

See also
 Electro-Dynamic Company sister company 
 Submarine Boat Company sister company
Electric Launch Company (Elco) sister company

References
Citations

Bibliography

External links
 Office of New London Ship and Engine Co., Groton, CT (postcard)

Groton, Connecticut
Manufacturing companies established in 1910
American companies established in 1910
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Connecticut
Cognitive engineering. Cognitive engineering is a method of study using cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience to design and develop engineering systems to support or improve the cognitive processes of users.

History
It was an engineering method used in the 1970s at Bell Labs, focused on how people form a cognitive model of a system based upon common metaphors. As explained, by Joseph Henry Condon:

According to Condon, the ideas of cognitive engineering were developed later than, and independent from, the early work on the Unix operating system.

Don Norman cited principles of cognitive engineering in his 1981 article, "The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid." Norman criticized the user interface of Unix as being "a disaster for the casual user." However the "casual user" is not the target audience for UNIX and as the Condon quote above indicates, a high level of user interface abstraction leads to cognitive models that may be "totally erroneous."

See also
 Cognitive systems engineering
 History of Unix
 Outline of human–computer interaction

References

Bell Labs
Human–computer interaction
Brutus cluster. Brutus is the central high-performance cluster of ETH Zurich. It was introduced to the public in May 2008. A new computing cluster called EULER has been announced and opened to the public in May 2014.

Processors 

Brutus is a heterogeneous system containing 11 different kinds of compute nodes:

Standard nodes
 120 nodes with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6174 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM (5760 cores)
 24 nodes with two 12-core AMD Opteron 6174 CPUs and 32 GB of RAM (576 cores)
 410 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8380 CPUs and 32 GB of RAM (6560 cores)
 80 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8384 CPUs and 32 GB of RAM (1280 cores)

Large-memory (fat) nodes
 6 nodes with four 8-core Intel Xeon E7-8837 CPUs and 1024 GB of RAM (192 cores) — NEW!
 80 nodes with four 12-core AMD Opteron 6174 CPUs and 256 GB of RAM (3840 cores)
 10 nodes with four quad-core AMD Opteron 8380 CPUs and 128 GB of RAM (160 cores)

GPU nodes
 18 nodes with two 12-core AMD Opteron 6174 CPUs, 32 GB of RAM and 2 Nvidia Fermi C2050 GPUs (432 cores + 36 GPUs)
 2 nodes with two 6-core AMD Opteron 2435 CPUs, 32 GB of RAM and 6 Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPUs (24 cores + 12 GPUs)
 2 nodes with two 6-core AMD Opteron 2435 CPUs, 32 GB of RAM and various Nvidia and AMD GPUs (24 cores + 2 GPUs)

Legacy nodes
 256 nodes with two dual-core AMD Opteron 2220 CPUs and 16 GB of RAM (1024 cores)

In total Brutus contains 19,872 cores, plus a few hundreds in the cluster's file servers, login nodes and management nodes.

The peak performance of Brutus is slightly over 200 teraflops (200 × 1012 floating-point operations per second).

Networking 

 All nodes are connected to the cluster's Gigabit Ethernet backbone
 All nodes (except those with Opteron 2220 CPUs) are connected to a high-speed InfiniBand QDR network

Applications 

Thanks to its heterogeneous nature, Brutus can tackle a wide range of applications:
 Serial and embarrassingly parallel computations
 Distributed-memory computations  (MPI using MVAPICH2)
 Shared-memory, multithreaded applications (OpenMP) up to 1024 GB of memory and/or 48 threads
 Third-party (commercial) applications

Trivia 

 Brutus was ranked the 88th fastest computer in the world in November 2009 (top500.org). Since then, its peak performance has increased three-fold (from 65 to 200 TF).
 It was then the most energy efficient general purpose supercomputer in the world (Heise.de)
 It successor, EULER, was ranked the 255th fastest computer in the world in June 2014

External links 

 Official Brutus page at ETH Zurich: http://www.cluster.ethz.ch/index_EN
 Picture gallery: 
 Article in ETH Life, the on-line journal of ETH Zurich
 Brutus wiki: http://brutuswiki.ethz.ch (access restricted to members of ETH)

References 

Cluster computing
GPGPU supercomputers
Utah Water Research Laboratory. The Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) is a research institution at Utah State University. It is the oldest and one of the largest water research facilities in the United States, and is considered one of the most well-respected such facilities in the world. The UWRL has completed more than 100 major projects around the world and operates with more than $400 million in international funding.

The UWRL was established in 1959 with funding from the Utah State Legislature, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, and major construction began in 1963. The building at the present location on the Logan River was completed in 1980. On September 24, 2009, the UWRL dedicated a new 11,000-square-foot hydraulics laboratory, adding exciting new possibilities to the existing 102,000-square-foot UWRL facility. The new building increased the number and scope of open channel hydraulics modeling projects possible at the UWRL. 
The facility holds office and laboratory space, which it dedicates mostly to research and experimentation in irrigation and water engineering. The center also provides support for numerous undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the following subject areas: water resources engineering, irrigation and drainage engineering, environmental engineering, agricultural and water resources economics, sociology and political science, watershed management, and arid land agriculture.

The Water Lab, as it is known locally, also works with the International Irrigation Center, housed in USU's College of Engineering, and has close ties with many major Middle Eastern institutions. Many high-ranking government officials and academicians in arid Middle Eastern nations received their start at the UWRL. Research performed there often applies directly to vital needs in arid nations, as a recent report listed Utah as America's second-driest state.

Notable employees 

 Mary L. Cleave (1947–2023) engineer and astronaut.

References

External links 
 UWRL official site
 Utah State University

Utah State University
Buildings and structures in Logan, Utah
1959 establishments in Utah
Hydraulic laboratories
Zyvex Technologies. Zyvex Technologies (formerly Zyvex Performance Materials, ZPM) is a molecular engineering company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Zyvex Technologies focuses on developing advanced materials, including prepreg, epoxy resins, and adhesives.

History

Zyvex Technologies is a privately held company and does not publicly report its revenue or all of its customers. It has supply chain and operational partners in Ohio, Texas, South Dakota, and Washington. They are a 2007 spin-off from Zyvex, the world's first molecular nano-technology company. In 2009, Zyvex Technologies shared a $4.9 million grant from the Ohio Third Frontier program. This funding goes toward developing advanced 'nano-enhanced' plastics with Polyone Corporation, as well as advanced resin systems with Hexion Specialty Chemicals.

In October 2010, Zyvex Performance Materials changed its name to Zyvex Technologies.

Divisions and Developments
Their Engineered Solutions team develops special applications of nano-materials in composites. Historically, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene were inherently strong but considered difficult to use in materials because of molecular bonding challenges. Zyvex Technologies is notable for having developed molecules that solve these dispersion problems with its Kentera technology.

Zyvex's Advanced Composites Solutions team helps develop products built from proprietary technology. One more notable project is the Piranha Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). This 54-foot boat weights 8,000 lbs and has three times the payload and ten times the range compared to other USVs built from traditional materials, such as aluminum.

Zyvex formally launched its marine division, Zyvex Marine, on November 4, 2011, to handle all boat creation activities.

Customers
Zyvex Technologies supplies materials and provides new product development support to customers in many markets, including defense, marine, automotive, coatings, energy, aerospace, sporting goods, medical, and ballistics.

References

External links
 Zyvex Technologies
 Piranha USV

Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area
Chemical companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Ohio
Nanotechnology companies
Autonov 1. Autonov 1 is the name given to the automobile novelty that was created sometime in the 1970s, by making a once regular motor vehicle engine able to run in both the forward and backward directions, utilizing all four pre-existing gears in whichever direction.
A second steering wheel was introduced at the back, with a central revolving chair to effect the driver's switch-over position.

Purpose of design 
Its inventor, the late engineering professor Ayodele Awojobi, imagined the advantage of the invention in such a situation as when a motor vehicle drives forward into a cul-de-sac and needs to make a fast, backward retreat. Emergency evacuation procedures or war-time situations exemplify this.

Patent and specification 
A patent for the invention was never obtained before the untimely death of the inventor. The innovation utilized an abandoned Layland  jeep as its base, which remains on display at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Lagos during the annual "Engineering Week." Essentially, the modification involves integrating a second steering wheel at the rear end of the jeep, connected to the axle. Additionally, a gear-shift mechanism was installed, linking to the existing four gears, enabling the vehicle to be driven in both forward and reverse directions. The central compartment of the jeep underwent redesigning, incorporating a rotating floor mechanism allowing occupants to swivel between the rear and front seats seamlessly.

Short of dismantling it piece-meal, the detailed knowledge of the designed mechanism is unknown as no drawings or design sketches are known to exist.

References 

Automobile transmissions
Cars of Nigeria
Nigerian inventions