omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir. Abdullahi Ibrahim Gobir (born 1 January 1958) is a Nigerian politician who was Senator for Sokoto East from 2011 to 2023. He was the Senate Majority Leader from July 2022 to July 2023.

Gobir holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit in the United States, and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering and energy from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi, Nigeria.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK) and of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.

Gobir began his career with the Ministry of Communication, and then joined the Nigerian Television Authority in Sokoto. 
He became the Director of Union Bank of Nigeria in 2002.
He also became the Managing Director of Taifo Multi Services Limited, Abuja.
Before entering politics, he was the Chairman of the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, based in the state.

At the PDP primaries, Gobir defeated the incumbent Senator Abubakar Umar Gada by 1,547 against 60 votes.
He went on to be elected to the Senate.

In July 2022, Gobir was selected as APC senate majority leader.
In August 2023, Gobir was appointed as the northwest representative in the NDDC by president bola Ahmed tinubu.

References

Living people
Sokoto
Peoples Democratic Party members of the Senate (Nigeria)
Senators of the 9th National Assembly (Nigeria)
Senators of the 8th National Assembly (Nigeria)
Senators of the 7th National Assembly (Nigeria)
1953 births
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Sokoto State
People from Sokoto State
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University alumni
Sufian Allaw. Sufian Allaw (; born 1944) is a Syrian former politician who served as the oil minister of Syria from 2006 to 2013.

Early life and education
Allaw was born in Abu Kamal in Deir ez-Zor Governorate in 1944. He earned a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from University of Aleppo in 1966.

Career
Allaw worked as an engineer at the Syrian telecommunications establishment from 1966 to 1967. Then he was named as the investment director of the facility at the general establishment of the Euphrates dam from 1967 to 1980. He served as an engineer at the ministry of irrigation from 1980 to 1983 and at the prime ministry for energy affairs from 1983 to 1984. He became deputy electricity minister in 1984 and was in office until 2004. He served as an expert at the state planning commission from 2004 to 2005 and at the energy department at the United Nations' economic and social commission for Western Asia in 2004.

He later was appointed oil minister to the cabinet headed by Mohammad Naji Otari on 11 February 2006. In the April 2011 after the cabinet was reshuffled he retained his post and also served in the cabinet of Adel Safar. His term as oil minister ended on 9 February 2013, being replaced by Suleiman Al Abbas.

Personal life
Allaw is married to Basmaa Allaw with five children.

References

1944 births
Living people
University of Aleppo alumni
Oil and mineral reserves ministers of Syria
Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region politicians
Syrian engineers
21st-century Syrian engineers
21st-century Syrian politicians
20th-century Syrian engineers
20th-century Syrian politicians
Imad Khamis. Imad Muhammad Dib Khamis (; born 1 August 1961) is a Syrian politician who served as the 67th prime minister of Syria from 2016 to 2020 under president Bashar al-Assad. Previously, he was minister of electricity from 2011 to 2016.

Early life and education
Khamis was born in Saqba near Damascus on 1 August 1961. He earned a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Damascus in 1981.

Premiership
Khamis was assigned to the management of a number of departments in the General Organization for the distribution and investment power from 1987 to 2005. He was Director General of the General Company for Electricity for the Damascus Governorate from 2005 to 2008. He was appointed Director-General of the Public Corporation for the distribution and investment power in 2008.

On 3 July 2016, Khamis was appointed Prime Minister of Syria, following the 2016 parliamentary election.

Sanctions
The European Union sanctioned Khamis due to his alleged role in using electric cuts as a way of repressing Syrian people on 24 March 2012.

Dismissal
He was dismissed on 11 June 2020 by President Bashar al-Assad amid a worsening economic crisis and subsequent regional protests. According to Al Akhbar, Khamis was detained after he was dismissed from premiership, and has been interrogated due to corruption charges. However, Khamis was seen shortly after, when he was voting during the 2020 Syrian parliamentary election.

Personal life
Khamis is married and has three children.

See also
Cabinet of Syria

References

1961 births
Damascus University alumni
Living people
Members of the Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region
Ministers of electricity of Syria
Prime ministers of Syria
People from Rif Dimashq Governorate
21st-century Syrian politicians
Syrian individuals subject to the European Union sanctions]
Symposium on Geometry Processing. Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP) is an annual symposium hosted by the European Association For Computer Graphics (Eurographics). The goal of the symposium is to present and discuss new research ideas and results in geometry processing. The conference is geared toward the discussion of mathematical foundations and practical algorithms for the processing of complex geometric data sets, ranging from acquisition and editing all the way to animation, transmission and display. As such, it draws on many disciplines spanning pure and applied mathematics, computer science, and engineering. The proceedings of SGP appear as a special issue of the Computer Graphics Forum, the International Journal of the Eurographics Association. Since 2011, SGP has held a two-day "graduate school" preceding the conference, typically composed of workshop-style courses from subfield experts.

Venues

Best Paper Awards 
Each year up to three papers are recognized with a Best Paper Award.

SGP Software Award 
Each year, since 2011, SGP also awards a prize for the best freely available software related to or useful for geometry processing.

SGP Test of Time Award 
Each year, since 2021, SGP has given a Test of Time award to a paper published at least ten years prior that continues to be impactful for both research and practice in geometry processing.

SGP Dataset Award 
Each year, since 2016, SGP also awards a prize for the best freely available dataset related to or useful for geometry processing. The last such award was given in 2021.

References 

 geometry processing course webpage, Alla Sheffer
 EG digital library for SGP 2012

Computer graphics organizations
Ranjith Premalal De Silva. Ranjith Premalal De Silva is a Sri Lankan professor of Agricultural engineering and former Vice Chancellor of the Uva Wellassa University. He is the founder President of Geo-Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. He is the current Vice-Chancellor of University of Vocational Technology. He is the Acting Director and CEO of National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Hantana, Kandy.

Background
De Silva was educated at  Nalanda College, Colombo before he proceeded to the University of Peradeniya where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Agricultural science. He later obtained a master's degree in Agricultural engineering from Asian Institute of Technology,  Thailand before he received a postgraduate certificate in Water resources from the University for Foreigners Perugia.
He received a doctorate degree in Agricultural Engineering from Cranfield University, United Kingdom.

In 2011 De Silva was appointed as the second Vice-Chancellor of Uva Wellassa University, replacing the inaugural Vice-Chancellor Prof. Chandra Embuldeniya. Prior to his appointment at Uva Wellassa University, de Silva was a professor of Geo-informatics in the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Peradeniya.  He was replaced as Vice-Chancellor by Dr G. Chandrasena in September 2014.

References

Further reading 
 
 
 
 
 

Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sri Lankan academic administrators
Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo
Asian Institute of Technology alumni
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan engineers
1963 births
Living people
Crankshaft (disambiguation). A crankshaft is the part of an engine which translates reciprocating linear piston motion into rotation.

Crankshaft can also mean:

 Crankshaft (comic strip), a comic strip by Tom Batiuk
 Crankshaft (JavaScript), name for compilation technology in the V8 JavaScript engine by Google
 Douglas Murray (ice hockey), an ice hockey player nicknamed "Crankshaft"

See also
YouthSat. YouthSat is a Russian-Indian scientific-educational artificial satellite developed on the basis of an agreement between the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). It is built using ISRO's Indian Mini Satellite-1 bus. YouthSat and Resourcesat-2 were launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle on 20 April 2011 from Sriharikota, India.

Launch
The satellite was launched on April 20, 2011, by PSLV-C16. It was injected in its target orbit along with X-Sat  (Singapore), 40 seconds after injecting Resourcesat-2.

Mission
 Investigation of the composition of the upper surface of the Earth.
 Experimentation regarding the energy of the Earth's crust.
 To understand the dynamics of the Earth surface.

According to ISRO, "the Youthsat mission intends to investigate the relationship between solar variability and Thermosphere-Ionosphere changes". The mission provided scientific data for two years. Even though the satellite was still operational, YouthSat completed its planned mission on April 25, 2013.

References

External links

  
 NSSDC ID: 2011-015B

Satellites of Russia
Mini satellites of India
2011 in Russia
2011 in India
Spacecraft launched in 2011
Student satellites
Rahula Anura Attalage. Rahula Anura Attalage a professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Post Graduate Institute of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.

Education
After completing college at Nalanda College Colombo, Rahula went on to earn a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Moratuwa. He obtained his master's degree in energy technology from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. He also holds a PhD in energy engineering from Ecole des Mines de Paris, France. Attalage has received the University of Moratuwa's award for Outstanding Research Performances on five consecutive occasions.

References

External links
 
 
 

Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan academics
Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo
Asian Institute of Technology alumni
Sri Lankan mechanical engineers
1957 births
Living people
Bredig's arc method. Bredig's arc method or electrical disintegration is a method of preparation of colloidal solution, of metals such as gold, silver or platinum.

This method consists of both dispersion and condensation.  An arc is struck between electrodes of the desired metal, under the surface of water containing some stabilizing agent such as traces of potassium hydroxide. The intense heat of the arc vaporizes some of the metal which then condenses under cold water. The water is kept cold with an ice bath.

This method is not suitable when the dispersion medium is an organic liquid as considerable charring occurs.

References 
 

Colloids
Californium(III) oxychloride. Californium oxychloride (CfOCl) is a radioactive salt first discovered in measurable quantities in 1960. It is composed of a single californium cation and oxychloride consisting of one chloride and one oxide anion. It was the first californium compound ever isolated.

Synthesis
Treatment of  with moist hydrogen chloride or  with water vapor.

Physical properties
The compound form pale green crystals.

See also
 Californium compounds
 Californium

References

External links
 Web Elements page: Californium

Californium compounds
Oxychlorides
Fayssal Abbas. Dr. Faisal Abbas () was a former Minister of Transport of Syria, serving from 2011 to 2012. He died on 30 November 2022 in Hama.

Early life, education and career
Abbas was born in Hama Governorate in 1955. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Damascus in 1977, a master's degree in electrical engineering from Ohio State University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the same university in 1986.

Abbas was a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Automation at the Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at the University of Damascus until 2001. From 2000 to 2007 he was the Dean of the electrical engineering faculty (department) of the University of Damascus. In 2007 he was appointed Rector (President) of the International University for Science and Technology.

National Director of the project to establish a network of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 1998 to 2000
Visiting professor and researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Detroit in Michigan in 1999
Member of the Board of Directors of Syrian Computer Society - Secretary 2000-2005
Member of the National Centre for Energy Research from 2004 to 2009
Member of the Committee on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in 2008
Member of the Board of Higher Education 2008-2009
Director of the Directorate of Computer and Information Technology in the Ministry of Higher Education

Personal life
Abbas was married and has two sons.

See also
Cabinet of Syria

References

Minister of Transport Dr. Fayssal Abbas, SANA
Biography of the new Syrian government 2011 - the names and lives of government ministers , Syria FM, 17 April 2011

External links
Ministry of Transport official government website

1955 births
Living people
Damascus University alumni
Ohio State University College of Engineering alumni
Academic staff of Damascus University
Presidents of universities in Syria
Transport ministers of Syria
People from Hama Governorate
Lawrence Stark. Lawrence W. Stark (February 21, 1926 – October 22, 2004) was an American neurologist and a recognized authority in the use of engineering analysis to characterize neurological systems.  He was a longtime professor of physiological optics and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.  
Stark was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York.  His father Edward Stark was a chemical engineer trained at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lawrence credited his early interest in engineering to him.

Career
Stark graduated from Columbia University in 1945 with majors in English, biology, and zoology.  He received his M.D. in 1948 from Albany Medical College.  He worked at Oxford and Yale and as a doctor in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War.  From 1960 to 1965, he was head of the neurology section in the Center for Communication Sciences at MIT.  In 1965, he became chairman of the biomedical engineering department at the University of Illinois-Chicago.  In 1968, he went to UC-Berkeley, where he remained until his retirement in 1994.  
An occasional conference on Vision and Movement in Man and Machine is held, and they are nicknamed Starkfest, according to conference organizer John Semmlow of Rutgers University, who was one of Stark's students at both UIC and Berkeley.  Stark was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1968.

Scientific contributions
Dr. Stark was best known for his research on the control of eye movements.  He pioneered the application of Control Theory to neurological systems with his study in the 1950s and 1960s of the pupillary light reflex.  He later studied the saccade (fast discrete changes of gaze) and the accommodation of the eye's focus.

He trained many Ph.D. students, primarily in the fields of bioengineering and physiological optics (better known as visual neuroscience).

Personal life
Stark was the brother of civil rights activist Matthew Stark.  Stark was married and divorced twice and had three daughters. He died in Berkeley in 2004 and is buried in Dutch Flat, California.

External links
Lawrence Stark, Lawrence Stark, professor emeritus of physiological optics and engineering, dies at 78 (UC Berkelej News)
Video and transcripts of an interview with Stark
Tribute in the University of California Senate
"The Arts and Sciences of Lawrence Stark," Computers in Biology and Medicine 37: 898–902 (2002).

1926 births
2004 deaths
American neurologists
Jewish American scientists
University of Illinois Chicago faculty
University of California, Berkeley faculty
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
Michael McAlpine. Michael McAlpine is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he researches 3D printing functional materials. He was formerly an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University, where he conducted research on materials capable of generating power from human motion. He has a BS from Brown University, an MA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in chemistry. In 2010 he was included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.

References

External links 
  TR35 profile at MIT Technology Review
 Faculty profile page at Princeton University

Living people
21st-century American chemists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni
Harvard University alumni
Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Hany Eitouni. Hany Eitouni is an American innovator and entrepreneur, and a cofounder of Berkeley, CA based Seeo, a company commercializing a novel battery technology utilizing solid polymers. In 2010 he was recognized by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.

References

External links 
 TR35 Profile
 Seeo website

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Frederick Eberhardt (philanthropist). Frederick L. Eberhardt (February 27, 1868 – 1946) was an American engineer, philanthropist, university administrator, and president of Gould & Eberhardt, a major Newark-based manufacturer of gear cutters and shapers, and other machine tools. Under his leadership the firm became a major supplier to the US auto industry, as well as to the military during World War II.

Eberhardt was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss-born Ulrich Eberhardt and his American wife, Emeline T Eberhardt. Eberhardt graduated from the inaugural class of 1885 at Newark Technical School, which eventually became New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).

Eberhardt married Martha Lou Boals, and they had three children: Ruth Boals Eberhardt, Frederick Gordon Eberhardt and Eleanor H Eberhardt. They lived in Newark, but by 1930 had moved to Maplewood, New Jersey.

Eberhardt Hall, New Jersey Institute of Technology is named in his honor.

Gould and Eberhardt Gear Machinery are still in the machine tool business, and are today based in Webster, Massachusetts.

References

1868 births
1946 deaths
American philanthropists
American chief executives of manufacturing companies
New Jersey Institute of Technology alumni
People from Maplewood, New Jersey
Engineers from Newark, New Jersey
Maupin Woodstock One. The Maupin Woodstock One is an American high-wing, single-seat glider designed by Jim Maupin and made available as plans for amateur construction.

Design and development
The Woodstock was designed in the late 1970s by Maupin, with assistance from Irv Culver, who designed the airfoil for the wing. Culver's airfoil is of 18% thickness at the root, thinning to 13% thickness at the wing tip and incorporates no washout.

The aircraft's design goals were low cost and simplicity of construction. Four design principles were employed: using the least expensive materials, using as little material as possible, keeping the design simple and utilizing as many common parts as possible. The resulting airframe is all-wood, with the major structural parts fabricated from Douglas fir. The tail and wing covering are birch. The wing and tailplane ribs are made in pairs from marine-grade fir plywood using a bandsaw. The wing spar is a hollow box for the first  from the root and then changes to a "C-section" outboard. Top surface spoilers are provided.

The main landing gear is an  go-cart wheel mounted as a fixed monowheel, with a brake fashioned from aluminium sheet and employed as a band brake, actuated by a bicycle brake lever mounted on the control stick.

Operational history
The Woodstock won first place in the 1984 Sailplane Homebuilders Association design contest.

In 1998 Gary Osoba won the US Region 9 Sports Class contest in his Woodstock. In April 1998, Osoba earned US National and World Records in the Ultralight Category for Straight Distance, Distance to a Goal, and Distance up to Three Turnpoints for a flight of 340 miles in his Woodstock. In August 2000 Osoba set the US National and World Record for the Ultralight Category for speed around a  triangle of  in his Woodstock. Also in August 2000, Osoba flew his Woodstock to a US National and World Record for Out and Return Distance of . In July 2008 Osoba flew his Woodstock on a flight of over  from Zapata, Texas to northeast of Lubbock, Texas, likely the longest distance flight ever achieved in a Woodstock.  The flight was not documented to World Record standards but beat the standing Ultralight Free Distance World Record by nearly .

In May 2002 Matt Michael established 7 Iowa State Records for Distance to a Declared goal for a flight of  in his Woodstock. In May 2003 Michael established 10 Iowa State Records for Triangle Distance and Distance up to 3 Turnpoints for a flight of  in his Woodstock.  In that same flight, he set the Iowa State Altitude and Altitude Gain records at  and , respectively.

Variants
Woodstock One
Original prototype with  wingspan.
Woodstock (12.5m)
Version with  wingspan.
Woodstock (13m)
Version with  wingspan.

Specifications (prototype)

See also

References

1970s United States sailplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1978
Hermes (satellite). Hermes was an American satellite which was to have been operated by the Colorado Space Grant Consortium. Intended to perform technology demonstration experiments in low Earth orbit, it was lost during launch in March 2011 when the rocket that was carrying it failed to achieve orbit.

Hermes was a single-unit CubeSat picosatellite which was primarily designed to test communications systems for future satellites. It was intended to test a new system which would allow data to be transferred at a higher rate than on previous satellites, thereby enabling future missions to return more data from scientific experiments or images. A secondary objective was to have seen tests performed upon the satellite bus, which was to have served as the basis for future COSGC missions. The satellite would also have returned data on the temperature and magnetic field of its surroundings.

Hermes was launched by Orbital Sciences Corporation using a Taurus-XL 3110 carrier rocket flying from Launch Complex 576E at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was a secondary payload on the launch, with the primary payload being the NASA Glory spacecraft. The KySat-1 and Explorer-1 [Prime]  satellites were launched aboard the same rocket. The launch took place at 10:09:43 UTC on 4 March 2011, and ended in failure after the payload fairing failed to separate from around the spacecraft just under three minutes after launch. With the fairing still attached the rocket had too much mass to achieve orbit, and reentered over the southern Pacific Ocean or the Antarctic. It was the second consecutive failure of a Taurus rocket, following the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory in 2009.

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Spacecraft launched in 2011
CubeSats
Satellite launch failures
Student satellites
Picosatellites