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Sanjai Bhagat. Sanjai Bhagat is the Professor of Finance at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He serves as an independent director on corporate boards, and advises various government agencies on corporate finance and corporate governance.

Career 

Bhagat graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology -Delhi, before attending the University of Rochester for an MBA then earning a PhD in Finance at the University of Washington.

He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah; he then joined the University of Washington's Foster School of Business faculty as a visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance. After teaching at the University of Chicago (Chicago Booth) as a visiting Associate Professor of Finance, he joined the Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado. He has also worked at the Economics department at Princeton University as a Visiting Professor, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

At the Leeds School of Business, he was the founding Director of the Burridge Center for Securities Analysis & Valuation.

Research work

Bhagat's research focuses on corporate governance, value-creating acquisitions, IPO valuation, new venture finance, executive compensation, ESG, capitalism and rule of law. His paper, "Corporate Governance and Corporate Performance" was awarded the Paper of the Decade Award for being the most impactful paper in the Journal of Corporate Finance during 2008–2018. Bhagat has written extensively on executive pay and board of directors compensation and equity.

His paper "The Promise and Perils of Corporate Governance Indices",  was selected as one of the "Best Corporate and Securities Articles" by the Vanderbilt Law School publication Corporate Practice Commentator. The European Corporate Governance Institute also awarded the article the De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Prize for best paper. He is the author of Financial Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Bank Capital, which argues that future financial crises can be averted by changing incentive contracts for top executives and by requiring banks to hold larger cash reserves.

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Living people
University of Washington alumni
American financial economists
University of Utah faculty
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Olwen Wooster. Olwen Abigail Wooster BEM (22 December 1917 – 11 October 1981) was an Australian air force officer and pioneering telecommunications engineer expert.

Early life 
Wooster, was born on 22 December 1917, in Charters Towers in Queensland to Vivian Henry Wooster, a telephone mechanic, and his wife Ethel Abigail Wooster (née Albrecht). Wooster attended Blackheath College in Charters Towers, Australia.

Career 
Working as a switchboard operator in the Postmaster-General's Department beginning in 1934, she was stationed in Ayr in 1936, and then in Townsville in 1941.

In World War II, she was a wireless telegraphy operator in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1942. She served at the Royal Australian Air Force's Melbourne Wireless Transmitting Station as a cypher officer and signals traffic officer. In January 1945, she received an award for 'good service' and was promoted to temporary flight officer.

After the war, Wooster worked at Trans Australia Airlines in Melbourne, specialising in  ground communications. Her work grew to cover the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in addition to Australia. By 1954, her team had grown to a total of 120 people. For this work, she received a British Empire Medal in 1961. In 1964, Wooster then joined the Victorian Totalisator Agency Board, which operated gambling and betting shops. Here she worked on communications and computing systems which connected around three hundred town and country agencies and district centres with racecourses. Then in 1967 she began work for Honeywell. In 1978, she launched her own consultancy, O. A. Wooster & Associates Pty Ltd, specialising in computing and communications.

Memberships 
Wooster was an associate of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Australian Section), the Australian Institute of Management, and a member of the Society of Women Engineers (U.S.), the Victorian Computer Society and the Telecommunications Society of Australia. She spoke on Communication at the first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists in New York in 1964 and was the Australian representative for the organisation of the Second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists held in Cambridge, England in 1967. She was president of the Melbourne Soroptimists from 1972 to 1973 and a member of the Lyceum Club.

Wooster died of a heart attack on 11 October 1981 in Melbourne.

Her archives are held at University of Melbourne.

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1917 births
1981 deaths
Australian women in World War II
Australian recipients of the British Empire Medal
Australian women engineers
20th-century women engineers
People from Charters Towers
Members of the Society of Women Engineers
20th-century Australian women engineers
Kennie Tsui. Kennie Tsui  is a New Zealand chemical and environmental engineer. In July 2021, she was appointed chief executive of the New Zealand Geothermal Association. In December 2024, she was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment and governance.

Biography 
Tsui is the chair of the Wellington branch of Engineering New Zealand. Since 2016, she has been chair of the International Partnership of Geothermal Technologies. In 2019, she was appointed principal analyst for the New Zealand Climate Change Commission. In 2020, she received the Fulton-Downer Gold Medal for her leadership in the engineering industry.

In the 2025 New Year Honours, Tsui was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the environment and governance.

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Living people
21st-century New Zealand engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Zealand chemical engineers
21st-century New Zealand women
Environmental engineers
Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit
New Zealand women engineers
Alvin Nienow. Alvin William Nienow was a British chemical engineer. He was emeritus professor of biochemical engineering at the  University of Birmingham, where he was also director of the School of Chemical Engineering between 1989 and 1999. He was a fellow of both the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an honorary professor of Loughborough University. He was a visiting professor there and at Aston University. According to Scopus he has an h-index of 64.

Books 
 as editor, with Norman Harnby and Michael Frederick Edwards (1985). Mixing in the process industries. London: Butterworths. .

References

British chemical engineers
Carlia S. Westcott. Carlia S. Westcott was an American engineer. She was the first woman to receive a license in Marine Engineering in the United States, in December 1921. She was highlighted on the cover of The Woman Engineer after the New York Times covered her. She was from Seattle, Washington.

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Marine engineers

20th-century American women engineers
20th-century American engineers
Engineers from Seattle
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Rezerva generală a aviației. Rezerva generală a aviației (RGA) or the General Aviation Reserve in English was a Romanian aircraft factory founded during the First World War. It operated between 1916 and 1919 in Iași. After the war it was transferred to Bucharest and renamed to Arsenalul Aeronautic. The maintenance, repair, and assembly of the aircraft and aircraft engines received by Romania during the war took place here.

History
On 27 September 1916, the workshops of the Flight School from Băneasa and Cotroceni were moved to Iași. The RGA was established in the former slaughterhouse with the material base formed by the materials evacuated from Cotroceni and Băneasa, and with requisitioned tools and machine tools. In the spring of 1917, the organization of the Romanian military aviation also included the RGA, as being subordinated to the Aeronautical Directorate of the Romanian Army's .

During its activity, the RGA assembled and repaired a number of 242 - 292 aircraft and 545 engines. The planes sent by France with General Berthelot's military mission were also assembled in the RGA workshops. 

The aircraft received by Romania arrived at the ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk, and were then transported by train to Odessa before reaching Romania. Due to the long journey through Russia, a lot of airplanes arrived with severely damaged parts, thus leaving it up to the engineers and designers from RGA to manufacture new ones. Engineer Constantin Silișteanu and Lieutenant Petre Macavei took part in the management of the RGA.

The activity of the RGA ended in November 1919 when the material and the majority of the personnel were transferred to Bucharest on the field of Cotroceni. On 1 July 1920, it was renamed to Arsenalul Aeronautic.

List of assembled aircraft

The workshops of RGA assembled the following airplanes:

See also
Arsenalul Aeronautic
Romanian Air Corps
List of aircraft of the Romanian Air Force

References

Notes

Bibliography

Aviation in Romania
Zella McBerty. Zella McBerty (née Helwick; 1879  24 May 1937), was an American businesswoman and engineer, a “better mechanic than any of the other men that she worked with” at Packard Electric.

Early life

Born Zella Helwick in 1879 to a couple from Mineral Ridge, Ohio who died shortly after her birth, she later moved to Warren, Ohio where she married Fred McBerty. They met while working for Packard Electric.

Career 
Together the couple bought 'The Federal Machine and Welder Company'. McBerty held the position of chief financial officer of the company and represented it internationally at conferences. In 1923 article the New Castle (Pa.) Herald, commented that “when you hear Mrs. McBerty talk ohms and amperes as well as any electrical engineer, there’s hardly a business realm that a capable woman cannot invade.”

She was the first woman to attend the International Association of Electric Welders conference, which she did when it was held in London in 1924. McBerty was the president of the local Business and Professional Women's Club and an international member of the Women's Engineering Society. 

McBerty was also one of very few women to be members of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. 

She died of a heart attack on 24 May 1937 at the age of 58.

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1879 births

1937 deaths
People from Warren County, Ohio
American women engineers
American women business executives
Women's Engineering Society
Electrical engineers
American electrical engineers
Hardware for artificial intelligence. Specialized computer hardware is often used to execute artificial intelligence (AI) programs faster, and with less energy, such as Lisp machines, neuromorphic engineering, event cameras, and physical neural networks. Since 2017, several consumer grade CPUs and SoCs have on-die NPUs. As of 2023, the market for AI hardware is dominated by GPUs.

Lisp machines 

Lisp machines were developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s to make Artificial intelligence programs written in the programming language Lisp run faster.

Dataflow architecture

Dataflow architecture processors used for AI serve various purposes, with varied implementations like the polymorphic dataflow Convolution Engine by Kinara (formerly Deep Vision), structure-driven dataflow by Hailo, and dataflow scheduling by Cerebras.

Component hardware

AI accelerators

Since the 2010s, advances in computer hardware have led to more efficient methods for training deep neural networks that contain many layers of non-linear hidden units and a very large output layer. By 2019, graphics processing units (GPUs), often with AI-specific enhancements, had displaced central processing units (CPUs) as the dominant means to train large-scale commercial cloud AI. OpenAI estimated the hardware compute used in the largest deep learning projects from Alex Net (2012) to Alpha Zero (2017), and found a 300,000-fold increase in the amount of compute needed, with a doubling-time trend of 3.4 months.

Sources 

Computer hardware
Artificial intelligence
Lesley Souter. Lesley Scott Souter (23 October 1917 – 21 April 1981) was the first female electrical engineering student at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1940.

Biography
Souter was born in Elgin, Moray, Scotland to James Stephen Souter and his wife on 25 October 1917. Her father was an electrical Engineer. Souter went to the University of Glasgow in 1936 and on graduation she returned to Elgin where she worked as an engineer. A summer job at the General Electrical Company in Wembley led further employment opportunities and Souter spent time working for GEC research labs and on GEC's solid state physics research. While there she had a patent from her work on resistors registered. In 1946, Souter was chosen to demonstrate technical equipment to Queen Mary and Princess Elizabeth when they visited the GEC research facility.

Souter also worked for both Mullard and Siemens Research Laboratories. After retirement Souter was elected to Rugby Borough Council in 1976 as their Conservative councillor. She is remembered by Lesley Souter House.

Memberships 
Souter was a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Souter was an active member of the Women's Engineering Society (WES), becoming a full member in 1940, joined the Council in 1943 and was elected vice president in 1959. In December 1948, Souter took part in a Woman's Hour radio programme about women in industry and spoke about her work designing and making X-ray equipment for medical use, alongside WES colleagues Madeleine Nobbs, Cicely Thompson and Veronica Drake. In 1958, she co-wrote Training and Opportunities for Women in Engineering with Verena Holmes for The Woman Engineer, the Journal of the Women's Engineering Society.  She travelled to the USSR with Rose Winslade in 1960 (funded by the Caroline Haslett Memorial Trust founded by the British Electricity Authority). They went to investigate the role of female engineers in the USSR.

Lesley Souter died on 21 April 1981 in Rugby, Warwickshire. Her WES obituary was written by Marjorie Bell.

Commemoration 
Lesley Souter House, a retirement housing complex in Rugby, Warwickshire is named in her honour.

Sources

1917 births
1981 deaths
People from Elgin, Moray
20th-century Scottish women engineers
Women's Engineering Society
British women engineers
20th-century Scottish engineers
Foitite. Foitite is a mineral in the tourmaline group, it is a vacancy-dominant member of the group. Foitite is in the 'vacancy' group, due to the absence of atoms in the X site.

According to the Czech Geological Society, foitite is rare. However foitite is quite common among low-temperature tourmalines and it might be more common than previously thought.

The color of the mineral is dark indigo with purple tints to bluish-black.

Name 
The mineral was named in 1993 by D. J. MacDonald, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Joel D.Grice after Franklin F. Foit, Jr.

Chemistry 

It lacks alkalis like sodium.

Foitite is a member of the tourmaline mineral group, which is a complex aluminum borosilicate. The chemical formula of foitite is (NaFe3+Al6)(Al6Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)4.

In this formula, sodium (Na) acts as the dominant cation, iron (Fe3+) replaces some of the aluminum (Al) in the crystal structure, and boron (B) replaces some of the silicon (Si) atoms. The BO3 groups are trigonal planar borate ions, and the OH groups represent hydroxyl ions.

The crystal structure of foitite consists of continuous chains of silicon-oxygen tetrahedra, with aluminum and boron ions substituting within these chains. The aluminum and boron substitutions create charge imbalances, which are compensated by the presence of sodium and iron ions.

Foitite typically forms in granitic rocks enriched in boron, such as pegmatites. It is commonly associated with other minerals such as quartz, feldspar, and muscovite. The presence of iron in foitite gives it a characteristic black color.

Occurrence 
It occurs in quartz veins and possibly occurs in granite pegmatites.

Its type locality is California. Foitite has also been reported in Marquette County, Michigan. It has been reported in Wales and it is predicted that a more widespread distribution of the mineral in Wales will be shown.

References 

Tourmalines
Joseph T. C. Liu. Joseph Tsu Chieh Liu (born 1934) is an engineer.

Liu completed a bachelor's degree, followed by a Master of Science in Engineering, at the University of Michigan in 1958. He worked for a Convair for a year and was based in Fort Worth, Texas, before pursuing a doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1964. Liu subsequently worked for the Gas Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University's Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences. He joined the Brown University faculty in 1966, and upon his retirement, was granted emeritus status. Liu was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1984, "[f]or original and significant theoretical contributions in integrating and concepts of large scale turbulent structure into quantitative calculations of developing shear flows and their noise production."

References

1934 births
Living people
Brown University faculty
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Nancy G. Love. Nancy Gail Love is an American engineer who is the JoAnn Silverstein Distinguished University Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. She is the former President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors and a Fellow of the International Water Association and the Water Environment Federation. In 2021 she was awarded the AEESP Frederick George Pohland Medal.

Early life and education 
Love was an undergraduate student in civil engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in Chicago before moving to Clemson University as a doctoral researcher in environmental engineering.

Research and career 
Love is an environmental engineer who makes use of chemistry and biology to identify and eliminate contaminants in water. She was the first to study microbial stress in biological treatment systems. She joined the University of Michigan in 2008, where she founded the Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory.

During the Flint water crisis, Love set up Train-the-Trainers, a curriculum which trained residents of Flint to fit faucet-mounted water filters. She has worked with the Flint Technical Advisory Committee on Water. She has worked on the development of decentralized water systems for low income countries. As part of this effort, Love trained students in Addis Ababa in how to design effective decentralized infrastructure.

Love is a past president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

Awards and honors 
 Fellow of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, International Water Association and the Water Environment Federation.
 1993 AAUW Fellow
 1995 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
 2001 Water Research Foundation Paul L. Busch Award
 2008 Water Environment Federation Rudolfs Industrial Waste Management Medal
 2011 Water Environment Federation Gordon Maskew Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator
 2015 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Distinguished Lecturer
 2019 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Kappe Lecturer
 2020 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Science Award
 2020 CEEAA Distinguished Alumni Award
 2021 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors Frederick George Pohland Medal

Selected publications

Journal articles

References 

Living people
University of Michigan faculty
Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Clemson University alumni
Environmental engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gruye-Vogt Organization. The Gruye-Vogt Organization (originally Gruyé-Vogt-Opperman Inc., and throughout its history most often known as GVO) was a design consultancy founded in 1966 by industrial designers Dale W. Gruyé and Noland E. Vogt together with graphic designer George Opperman, in Palo Alto, California, the heart of Silicon Valley.

Gruyé had been an industrial design engineer at General Electric and Hewlett-Packard, and Vogt had worked at General Electric and then Ampex; they were joined by Opperman in founding a firm that combined graphic design, marketing, advertising, and industrial design services, an unusual combination at the time. GVO was one of the first firms to integrate design with research based on human factors and ethnographic methods for technology companies in Silicon Valley.

GVO conducted projects for clients including Syntex, Johnson Controls, GRiD Systems Corporation, Huggies, and Canon.

Opperman left GVO in 1971 to found his own firm, Opperman-Harrington Inc. (this prompted GVO to restyle itself as the Gruyé-Vogt Organization, in order to keep the same abbreviation), and would go on to design the iconic logo for Atari; Gruyé left the firm in 1984 to found his own, Gruyé Associates. 

GVO eventually went bankrupt in the midst of the dotcom crash, and closed in September 2001.

References 

Industrial design firms
Design companies of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Design companies established in 1966
Ana Paiva. Ana Maria Severino de Almeida e Paiva is Secretary of State for Science in Portugal since April 5th, 2024. She was a full professor at the University of Lisbon. Her work is around artificial intelligence and robotics. She is an elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Education and career 
Paiva earned her PhD from Lancaster University. In 2013 she became a full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico within the University of Lisbon. She is also the coordinator of the human-robot interaction focused research group Group on Artificial Intelligence for People and Society (GAIPS).

From 2020 to 2021, Paiva was the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Selected publications

Awards and honors 
In 2018, Paiva received first place in the Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Paiva was named a fellow for the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2019 and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2023.

References

External links 

, April 9, 2018

Living people
Portuguese women computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Lisbon
Alumni of Lancaster University
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Year of birth missing (living people)