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Saman Ediriweera. Saman Ediriweera (also known as S. Saman Ediriweera) is the current Chairman of Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited (AASL).

Early life and education
After receiving his education from Nalanda College, Colombo, Ediriweera entered University of Sri Lanka in 1972 and graduated with a B.Sc in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering. He is also one of the first batch of engineering students at Moratuwa University.

Professional career
Ediriweera has served Sri Lanka in the capacity of Secretary Ministry of Telecommunications, Chairman of Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC), Secretary Ministry of Tertiary Education and Training, Director Policy Planning at Sri Lanka Telecom and Director of Telecommunications at the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and the Media., Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Director General of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, Director of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation,

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 Emirate Group Careers
 Diploma Awards 2015
 Sinhala and Hindu New Year Celebrations at BIA-2016

Sri Lankan Buddhists
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan engineers
Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
William Shaw (yacht designer). William Shaw (June 9, 1926 – August 20, 2006) was an American-born yacht designer known for his long tenure at Pearson Yachts as their Chief Naval Architect.

Biography
Shaw was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1926 and graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy of Kings Point, NY in 1947. He went on to serve in the US Navy during the Korean War.

After completing his tenure in the Navy, Bill was able to pursue his dream of yacht design.  He joined the renowned firm of Sparkman & Stephens Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (S&S) in October 1952 as a designer. In 1961, he became a manager of Products of Asia, and was the chief designer of the America's Cup defender Columbia.

Shaw joined Pearson Yachts in 1964 as Chief Architect, eventually running the entire Pearson Yachts Division of Grumman. During his tenure, he and his team designed over 50 different sailboats and power boats. He spoke in 1999 with Steve Mitchell for Good Old Boat regarding his time at Pearson:

Tom Hazelhurst remarked, "Under Bill's tutelage, they built damn good boats. I'm not saying that because I was their advertising man, but because I bought two of their boats. The boats just don't break."

Shaw died of complications of Alzheimer's disease on August 20, 2006. Shaw has had a lasting impact on the sailing community. The thousands of boats still sailing, some over 50 years old, are a testament to his design expertise.  During his tenure at Pearson Yachts he received numerous awards, and Pearson became a world-renowned leader in the boatbuilding industry for quality fiberglass cruising and racing sailboats.

Sailboat designs

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American yacht designers
2006 deaths
1926 births
United States Merchant Marine Academy alumni
Hala Mohammad al-Nasser. Hala Mohammad al-Nasser (; born 1964) is the former Minister of Housing and Construction of Syria, served between 2011 and 2012.

Early life, education and career
Al-Nasser was born in the Raqqa Governorate in 1964. She earned a degree in civil engineering from the University of Aleppo in 1991. 
She became assistant director of technical services in Raqqa in 1992. On 26 December 2009 she was appointed Chief Engineer of Syria.

She is a member of the Branch Association of Engineers, a member of the General Federation of Women's Council, and a member of the General Conference of the Association of Engineers. She became a member of the Raqqa Branch leadership of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in 2002, and a member of the Committee Central to the Ba'ath Party in 2005.

Personal life
Al-Nasser is married and has three children.

See also
Cabinet of Syria

References

Minister of Housing and Construction Hala Mohammad al-Nasser, SANA
Biography of the new Syrian government 2011 - the names and lives of government ministers, Syria FM, 17 April 2011

External links
Ministry of Housing and Construction official government website

1964 births
Living people
University of Aleppo alumni
Ministers of public works of Syria
Women government ministers of Syria
Kanagaratnam Sriskandan. Kanagaratnam Sriskandan (12 August 1930 – 21 April 2010) was a Sri Lankan born British engineer and civil servant. He was the former Chief Highway Engineer, of Under Secretary Grade at the British Department for Transport

Sriskandan received his primary education at Jaffna Central College, and went on S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia briefly and completed his secondary education at Royal College Colombo. His father was Dr Kanagaratnam. He joined the Ceylon Technical College to study civil engineering, when the engineering of the Technical College was transferred to the newly established University of Ceylon.

Joining Public Works Department as an Assistant Engineer, he left Ceylon in 1956 and migrated to Britain to specialize in bridge engineering. He was a member of the team that assessed proposals for the channel tunnel, Anglo-French Safety Authority, Council member of the British Standards Institute, Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers. After his retirement in 1988, he served as a director of the Mott Macdonald Group for five years.

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1930 births
2010 deaths
British civil servants
British civil engineers
Sri Lankan Tamil people
Sri Lankan civil engineers
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Alumni of the University of Ceylon
English people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent
Alumni of Jaffna Central College
Alumni of S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
Alumni of the Maradana College of Technology
Prashantha De Silva. Air Vice Marshal Prishantha De Silva, USP, psc, SLAF is the former Director Inspection and Safety, and also former director of Aeronautical Engineering Sri Lanka Air Force.

He was educated at Nalanda College Colombo and joined the Sri Lanka Air Force an officer cadet.

He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka and is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

References

 SL in major arms deal with China
 MiG deal crash lands on Defence Ministry
 Heavy casualties as war intensifies

Living people
Sri Lanka Air Force air vice-marshals
Sinhalese military personnel
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan engineers
Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo
Year of birth missing (living people)
USA-227. USA-227, known before launch as NRO Launch 27 (NROL-27), is an American communications satellite which was launched in 2011. It is operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office.

Launch 
United Launch Alliance (ULA) performed the launch of USA-227, using a Delta IV-M+(4,2) launch vehicle flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). The launch occurred at 23:38:00 UTC on 11 March 2011. Following liftoff the rocket flew east, placing the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. By 23:43 UTC, official updates on the status of the launch had been discontinued.

Mission 
Whilst details of its mission are officially classified, amateur observers have identified USA-227 as being a third-generation Satellite Data System satellite in geosynchronous orbit. The first amateur observation of the satellite was made on 6 April 2011, when the spacecraft was located at a longitude of 30.4° west. SDS satellites are used to relay data from American reconnaissance satellites to ground stations.

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Spacecraft launched in 2011
Spacecraft launched by Delta IV rockets
USA satellites
Suran Goonatilake. Suran Goonatilake, OBE is an academic, entrepreneur and producer. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL).

Background
He did his undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex in Computing and Artificial Intelligence, followed by a PhD at University College London (UCL) in Machine Learning.

As a student at UCL, Goonatilake, co-founded with three fellow students, a Machine Learning company called Searchspace. In May 2005 Searchspace was acquired by Warburg Pincus.

He is the co-founder of several Deep Tech companies, many of which are the result of commercialising research from British Universities

Entrepreneurship 
In 2005, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list, for his services to Entrepreneurship.

Fashion 
He founded the Centre for Fashion Enterprise in London a non-profit initiative that finances and nurtures high-growth fashion designers in London. This initiative pioneered a new model of building luxury fashion companies and drew upon practises from technology start-ups, film and music industries. Famous alumni include Erdem Moralıoğlu, Marios Schwab, Mary Katrantzou, Manish Arora, and JW Anderson.

Film and TV 
In 2006, Goonatilake was an executive producer on the romantic comedy, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, directed by Ed Blum and starring Ewan McGregor and Tom Hardy. The film was distributed independently via The Really Honest Little Distribution Company  and premiered as the closing film to the 2006 London Raindance Film Festival.

In 2007 he was the executive producer for Luxury Unveiled, a documentary TV series on the world's top fashion and luxury brands including Chanel, Tiffany, Dunhill and Cartier.

Publications 
Goonatilake is a co-editor of two books,
 Intelligent Systems for Finance and Business John Wiley & Sons 1995 
 co-edited with Philip Treleaven Intelligent Hybrid Systems John Wiley & Sons 1995

References

Sri Lankan chief executives
Alumni of the University of Sussex
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Rohan Pathirage. Air Vice Marshal Rohan J Pathirage, USP, ndc, psc, CEng, MIE, SLAF was a Director  Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering of the Sri Lanka Air Force.

Educated at the prestiges Royal College Colombo, he gained his BSc and MSc in Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. Thereafter he joined the Sri Lanka Air Force as a direct entry officer in the Engineering Branch. After successful completion of basic training he was commissioned as a Flight Lieutenant through the direct entry stream. He is a Chartered engineer and corporate member of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.
 
Air Vice Marshal Pathirage has been awarded the service medals Uttama Seva Padakkama and Sri Lanka Armed Services Long Service Medal. He is a vice president of the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation.

References

External links
Official Website of Sri Lanka Air Force

Sri Lanka Air Force air vice-marshals
Sinhalese military personnel
Sri Lankan military engineers
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Aereon Dynairship. The Aereon Dynairship is a conceptual large hybrid airship developed by the Aereon Corporation for civilian and military cargo transport.

It is one of Aereon's lifting body airship concepts, where a craft without a conventional "wing" generates lift by itself. It would have also have been filled with buoyant gas such as preferably helium or hydrogen, but possibly heated gases, making it a truly hybrid craft. This kind of configuration was researched by Aereon beginning in the 1960s and continuing until the 1980s. Several patent applications were filed, including a patent application filed in 1969. The early development of the deltoid pumpkinseed aerobody was described in a John McPhee 1973 book.

Design and development
The Dynairship was to be a very large ship, the conceptual designs showing it to form a large triangle, with small finlets at the back of either end.

The proof-of-concept aircraft for the Dynairship was the Aereon 26. Following the apparent success of this project, Aereon's board voted unanimously to proceed with the Dynairship for civilian and commercial purposes.

Three proposed versions of the Dynairship were put forward:

 A "small patrol aircraft"  long, with a gross weight of 
 A "medium-size cargo aircraft"  long, with a gross weight of 
 A "logistic carrier"  long, with a gross weight of .

Original propulsion was stated in the patent to be four externally mounted propellers on the top of the body, with engine nacelles. In the 1991 patent, a glass cockpit can be seen at the front. However, the Aereon corporation state that the design can be either crewed or uncrewed.

A lack of funding ended the project. According to Aereon, the Department of Defense told Miller in 2003, "You were 30 years ahead of your time"!

Navy and Air Force research

When it turned out that building the Dynairship under Aereon at that time was financially impossible, Miller went on to design very similar craft for research in the military field. The job of building a prototype craft was given to Lockheed's L-TAV division, and the resulting craft was named the STOL-340.

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Lifting bodies
1970s United States experimental aircraft
Pusher aircraft

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Joseph Schlenoff. Dr. Joseph B. Schlenoff is a distinguished research professor and Leo Mandelkern Professor of Polymer Science of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Florida State University. He graduated with his doctorate in chemistry from UMass-Amherst in 1987 and became a professor at Florida State University in 1988. A leading scientist in the field of water-soluble polymers and biocompatible polymer composites and blends, Dr. Schlenoff has discovered a process for creating biomaterials that can be used in surgical implants designed for the extended release of certain medications and holds 30 issued and many pending patents. This number of issued patents places him second among faculty at Florida State University behind only Robert A. Holton. He is the founder of the start-up, nanoStrata, a company that manufactures novel robots to create biofilms. Dr. Schlenoff was one of three researchers from around the world awarded a Gutenberg Chair for 2011 at the Université de Strasbourg in France. In 2013, Dr. Schlenoff was awarded the Florida Award from the American Chemical Society.

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American physical chemists
American materials scientists
Living people
Florida State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jim Zheng. Jim Jian-Ping Zheng is an electrical engineer and professor with expertise in energy systems. 

Zheng is a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University at Buffalo,  Before moving to SUNY-Buffalo, he was the Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Florida State University. and a researcher at the Army Research Laboratory.

A researcher on the design, manufacture and uses nanomaterials in the energy area, Zheng holds the patent on a buckypaper polymer fuel cell production technique that is licensed to Bing Energy. 

Zheng was elected to the National Academy of Inventors in 2015. In 2024 he was named as a Fellow of the IEEE "for his contributions to energy storage technologies".

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Florida State University faculty
University at Buffalo faculty
American electrical engineers
Living people
Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Fellows of the IEEE
Mark Chang Mun Kee. Mark Chang Mun Kee (; born 1965) is a Malaysian businessman and the founder of MOL AccessPortal and JobStreet.com. He is the chief executive officer of JobStreet.com, a position he has retained since the company was formed. He also serves on the boards of Vitrox Technologies, Innity Corporation Berhad and 104 Corporation, Taiwan.

Early life and career
In 1988, Chang acquired a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas in 1988 and later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was awarded a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1990.

He once worked with Kendall International as a process engineer(1990), manufacturing manager (1992) and finally the regional director of sales and marketing for Malaysia (1994). After years of deep immersion in the world of the Internet, he began his dot.com journey with the establishment of MOL Online Sdn Bhd (currently MOL AccessPortal) in 1995, which was Malaysia's first commercial website, offering portal services. Its most profitable section, online job listings, was then spun off into JobStreet.com today.

Chang also serves as the Penang State Advisor for Persatuan Usahawan Muda Malaysia (PUMM), as well as an advisor in the AllStars program. Additionally, he is also known to be a mentor to Khai Yin, the founder of GoodPlace.my.

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1965 births
Living people
Malaysian people of Chinese descent
Malaysian businesspeople
People from Kampar, Perak
Cockrell School of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Texas alumni
Dry basis. Dry basis is an expression of a calculation in chemistry, chemical engineering and related subjects, in which the presence of water (H2O) (and/or other solvents) is neglected for the purposes of the calculation. Water (and/or other solvents) is neglected because addition and removal of water (and/or other solvents) are common processing steps, and also happen naturally through evaporation and condensation; it is frequently useful to express compositions on a dry basis to remove these effects.

In food science and pharmacy, dry basis also refers to a ratio of the weight of water to the weight of a completely dry material, as opposed to the wet basis ratio of water to a material under normal conditions that contains a measurable amount of moisture.

Example
An aqueous solution containing 2 g of glucose and 2 g of fructose per 100 g of solution contains 2/100=2% glucose on a wet basis, but 2/4=50% glucose on a dry basis.  If the solution had contained 2 g of glucose and 3 g of fructose, it would still have contained 2% glucose on a wet basis, but only 2/5=40% glucose on a dry basis.

Frequently concentrations are calculated to a dry basis using the moisture (water) content :

In the example above, the glucose concentration is 2% as is and the moisture content is 96%.

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Analytical chemistry

Food science
Aaron Dollar. Aaron Dollar is a professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Computer Science at Yale University, where he serves as the lead investigator of the GRAB Lab. His research focuses on analysis, design, and control of compliant mechanisms. In 2010, he was recognized as an innovator by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list.

Education
Ph.D., Harvard University Engineering Science
M.S., Harvard University
B.S., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Mechanical Engineering

References

External links 
 TR35 profile
 Aaron Dollar lab page at Yale

Living people
Yale University faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Engineering alumni
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Acid red 88. Acid red 88 is an azo dye. Due to its intense colour, solid samples appear almost black. It is used to dye cotton textiles red.  A closely related acid dye is Acid Red 13.

Preparation and use
It can be obtained by azo coupling of naphthionic acid and 2-naphthol. Instead of crystallising, it vitrifies when cooled or salted out of the solution. 
 

This compound is used in the textile industry as a dye. It can also be used for research in photocatalysis (as degradation object).

References

External links 

 echo Chemical Database: 1-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 4-((2-hydroxy-1-naphthalenyl)azo)-, monosodium salt (EnvironmentalChemistry.com)- This page contains information on the chemical 1-Naphthalenesulfonic acid, 4-((2-hydroxy-1-naphthalenyl)azo)-, monosodium salt including: 72 synonyms/identifiers.

Azo dyes
2-Naphthols
Stephan H. Haeckel. Stephan H. (Steve) Haeckel (born May 22, 1936) is an American management theorist and former director of Strategic Studies at IBM’s Advanced Business Institute, who developed the idea of the sense-and-respond organization as an adaptive enterprise.

Life and work 
Haeckel received a BS in engineering and an MBA from the Washington University in St. Louis. At IBM he has been a marketing executive in Europe, and on the corporate staff. In 2002 Haeckel retired as the Director of Strategic Studies of the Advanced Business Institute at IBM Palisades.

Haeckel has been a faculty member at the IBM Advanced Business Institute, and was one of the founding members of the Homeland Security Council of the American Management Association. He also served as the chairman of the Marketing Science Institute.

The idea of the sense and respond organization was first introduced in a 1993 article by Haeckel and Richard L. Nolan in Harvard Business Review, "Managing by Wire".

The online repository of intellectual capital on the Sense & Respond Post-industrial managerial paradigm provides access to articles, essays, perspectives and updates on the origin, development, theory, principles, competences and application case studies of Sense & Respond as a business concept.

Selected publications
 Haeckel, Stephan H. Adaptive enterprise: Creating and leading sense-and-respond organizations. Harvard business press, 1999; 2013.

Articles, a selection
 Haeckel, Stephan H., and Richard L. Nolan. "Managing by wire." Harvard Business Review 71.5 (1993): 122-132.
 Carbone, Lewis P., and Stephan H. Haeckel. "Engineering customer experiences." Marketing Management 3.3 (1994): 8-19.
 Haeckel, Stephan H. "About the nature and future of interactive marketing." Journal of Interactive marketing 12.1 (1998): 63-71.
 Berry, Leonard L., Lewis P. Carbone, and Stephan H. Haeckel. "Managing the total customer experience." MIT Sloan Management Review, (2002).
 Haeckel, Stephan H. "Leading on demand businesses—Executives as architects". In: IBM Systems Journal 42 (3). 2003. pp. 405–413.
 Haeckel, Stephan H. "Peripheral vision: Sensing and acting on weak signals: Making meaning out of apparent noise: The need for a new managerial framework." Long Range Planning 37.2 (2004): 181-189.

References

External links
Sense and Respond Managerial framework for adaptive enterprises at senseandrespond.com

Living people
American business theorists
McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
IBM employees
American systems scientists
1936 births
Olin Business School (Washington University) alumni