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Uganda Military Engineering College. The Uganda Military Engineering College (UMEC), also University of Military Science and Technology (UMST), is a tertiary institution of higher learning, that instructs qualified military officers and technicians in various fields of engineering and science. The university is administered by the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF), under the auspices of the Uganda Ministry of Defence.

Location
UMEC is located in the town of Lugazi, in Buikwe District, on a  campus, approximately  east of Kampala, Uganda's capital city, on the Kampala-Jinja Highway. This location lies approximately , by road, west of the central business district of Lugazi. The coordinates of the campus of University of Military Science and Technology are:0°22'12.0"N, 32°54'47.0"E (Latitude: 0.3700; Longitude: 32.9130).

History
The university was founded in 2007 and was initially housed at Bombo Military Barracks in Bombo, in Luweero District. An affiliated school of military engineering was later opened and initially housed in Magamaga in Jinja District. Both units were combined with a third unit, originally based in Nakasongola and moved  to the premises in Lugazi in January 2011. The real estate in Lugazi was acquired by the UPDF, from the former Lugazi University, which became insolvent and closed on 30 December 2010.

The university graduated its first class of graduates, numbering forty-seven (47), on Friday, 4 February 2011.

Courses
As of July 2016, the following courses were on offer at this institution:

 Diplomas
 National Diploma in Civil Engineering (NDCE)
 National Diploma in Water Engineering (NDWE)
 National Diploma in Electrical Engineering (NDEE)
 National Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (NDME)
 National Diploma in Architecture (NDAR)
 National Diploma in Information and Communications Technology (NDICT)
 National Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering (NDTE)
 National Diploma in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning(NDRAC)

 Degrees
As of September 2018, the institution offered degree courses.

See also

References

External links
New Names, Ranks In UPDF Reshuffle

Military schools in Uganda
Uganda People's Defence Force
Educational institutions established in 2007
2007 establishments in Uganda
Buikwe District
Acetylferrocene. Acetylferrocene is the organoiron compound with the formula (C5H5)Fe(C5H4COCH3).  It consists of ferrocene substituted by an acetyl group on one of the cyclopentadienyl rings.  It is an orange, air-stable solid that is soluble in organic solvents.

Preparation and reactions
Acetylferrocene is prepared by Friedel-Crafts acylation of ferrocene, usually with acetic anhydride (Ac2O):
Fe(C5H5)2  +  Ac2O   →   (C5H5)Fe(C5H4Ac)  +  HOAc

The experiment is often conducted in the instructional laboratory to illustrate acylation as well as chromatographic separations.

Acetylferrocene can be converted to many derivatives, e.g., reduction to the chiral alcohol (C5H5)Fe(C5H4CH(OH)Me) and precursor to vinylferrocene. The oxidized derivative, acetylferrocenium, is used as a 1e-oxidant in the research laboratory.

References

External links

Ferrocenes
Cyclopentadienyl complexes
Acetyl compounds
Gasket (disambiguation). A gasket (correct terminology is a "joint" made from "jointing material") is a mechanical seal that fills the space between two mating surfaces.

Gasket may also refer to:
 Flange gasket, a type of gasket made to fit between two sections of pipe
 Head gasket, a gasket used in internal combustion engines
 Gasket (sailing), a rope used to hold a stowed sail in place
 Apollonian gasket, a fractal generated from triples of circles
 Sierpinski gasket, a fractal generated from triangles
 The Gaskets, U.S. synth-pop/rock band
 Gasket Studios, a visual effects studio.
Timothy M. Manganello. Timothy M. Manganello (born 1950)  is an American automotive businessman. He was the chief executive officer and chairman of BorgWarner until 2013.

Biography

Education 
Manganello graduated from the University of Michigan in 1972, with a degree in mechanical engineering. He received a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the University in 1975. He attended Harvard Business School's six-week Advanced Management Program.

Career 
Manganello began his automotive career at Chrysler Corporation in engineering management areas. He also worked in sales for PT Components-LinkBelt. 
Manganello became chief executive officer of BorgWarner in 2003; he had held senior positions within the company since 1989.

References

External links 
BorgWarner's CEO Profile

1950 births
Living people
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni
American chief executives of manufacturing companies
Businesspeople from Michigan
China Railways HXD2B. The HXD2B is a 6 axle Co′Co′ locomotive designed for heavy freight mainline work. The design is a single body twin cab locomotive with 6 axles in Co′Co′ wheel arrangement.  The body frame, traction motor power electronics and driver facilities are of a similar design as the HXD2. The bogie design differs from the HXD2 using a straight welded steel frame rather than the 'mouth' shaped form used in the HXD2.

An order worth €1.2billion (25% Alstom, 75% Datong) for 500 units was made in 2006. The first 100 units were to be built primarily by Alstom, this number was reduced in 2007 to 10 units.  The first Chinese-built unit was produced in December 2009. The order is expected to be complete by 2012.

See also
 China Railways 8K,  twin-unit locomotives produced by Alstom for China in the 1980s. see also 8K locomotive (Chinese language)
 List of locomotives in China

References

HXD2B
CRRC Datong locomotives
Alstom Prima electric locomotives
25 kV AC locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of China
Co′Co′ locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 2009
Xeros washing machine. The Xeros Washing Machine is a clothes washing technology that cleans laundry using primary nylon polymer beads and very little water. The machine releases nylon polymer beads into a main compartment where laundry is washed. These beads are small and super absorbent which allows them to go through clothing to absorb dirt and stains. This technology is invented by University of Leeds professor Stephen Burkinshaw, who currently has partnership with Xeros Ltd. in perfecting this technology.

Technology

The Washing Machine cleans using nylon polymer beads and one-tenth of the water used by traditional washing machine. Instead of cleaning clothes with water, the machine uses reusable nylon for its cleaning process. Nylon polymer beads are more absorbent than water, which allows them to absorb stains right into their core.

The Washing Machine creates a humid condition in the clothes compartment. This process causes the polymer chains in the nylon to separate slightly, making the beads absorbent. The beads then absorb and lock the stains in their core.

Process

First, laundry is inserted into the compartment of the machine. The machine then releases nylon polymer beads and water containing detergent onto the garments. The washing cycle begins and the beads begin to absorb stains. After the cycle ends, the nylon polymer beads are then separated by a drum in drum separation process that is projected to remove 99.95% of the beads; any remaining beads can either be shaken off or removed with the use of a vacuum wand (included with the purchase of the machine).

Inventor/Developer

The washing machine’s system is based on Professor Stephen Burkinshaw’s research. Burkinshaw spent his time at the University of Leeds focusing on the structure of nylon polymer beads. He discovered that nylon is the best material for absorbing tiny particles, and together with his team of researchers came up with the concept of using nylon beads to remove stains from clothes.

Professor Stephen Burkinshaw and his team of researchers partnered with Xeros Ltd. to commercially produce the waterless washing machines.

Environmental and Energy Costs

According to Xeros Ltd., its technology uses 90% less water than the conventional washing machine. While a front-loading washer uses about 20–25 gallons of water, the Xeros Washing Machine is estimated to use as little as one gallon of water.

The machine was projected to save consumers up to 30% for operating costs in electricity and water.

Ranking

The Xeros Washing Machine was ranked one of The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 by www.time.com.

References

Laundry washing equipment
Science and technology in West Yorkshire
University of Leeds
Charles Champion. Charles Champion (born 1955 near Paris), who holds a MSc from Stanford University, has been Airbus Executive Vice President Engineering since 1 April 2010 and a member of the Airbus Executive Committee.

After a 1978 graduation from the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace in Toulouse, he obtained a MSc from Stanford University.

Champion began his aviation career in 1980 as an aerodynamics engineer with Aérospatiale, where he worked in the production department of the aircraft division before heading the single-aisle aircraft assembly team from 1988 to 1992.

In 1993 he was appointed Director of Airbus Programmes at Aérospatiale's Paris headquarters, and in 1995 became managing director of the military transport project named Future Large Aircraft or A400M.

In 1997, Champion joined Airbus as Vice President Sales for Eastern and Southern Europe and the CIS. From 1999 to 2000, he served as Product Executive for Airbus Single Aisle Programme. He also served as programme manager for the development of the Airbus A380 until he was removed in 2006 following controversy surrounding successive delays and cost overruns with the A380 program.

In 2007, he was appointed Executive Vice President in charge of Customer Services. This was a post he held until April 2010, when he became Executive Vice President Engineering in April 2010. In 2013 he was appointed Chairman, Airbus India, a subsidiary of Airbus.

External links
The Economist

References

1955 births
Living people
French aerospace engineers
French businesspeople
Supaéro alumni
Stanford University alumni
Airbus people
Knights of the Legion of Honour
Prometheus (spacecraft). Prometheus was a proposed crewed vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing (VTHL) lifting body spaceplane concept put forward by Orbital Sciences Corporation in late 2010 as part of the second phase of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program.

Design
The Prometheus design was based on an earlier NASA design, the HL-20 Personnel Launch System. 
Prometheus also included other NASA-funded design improvements to HL-20 by Orbital Sciences that were done some years ago as part of NASA's Orbital Space Plane program.
Whereas the HL-20 was a pure lifting body, 
the Prometheus design was for a Blended Lifting Body (BLB). 
This design combines volumetric efficiency with superior aerodynamic qualities. 
Prometheus could have initially carried four astronauts to the International Space Station or future commercial space stations but further development could have increased the seating capacity to six. The baselined launch vehicle was the Atlas V, but the design could have accommodated other launch vehicles. The cost of the development of the Prometheus spacecraft and of upgrading the Atlas V would be between $3.5 and $4 billion.

Commercial Crew Development program
The Vertical Takeoff, Horizontal Landing (VTHL) vehicle would be launched on a human-rated Atlas V rocket but would land on a runway.  The initial design would carry a crew of four, but it could carry up to six people or a combination of crew and cargo. In addition to Orbital Sciences, the consortium included Northrop Grumman that would have built the spaceplane and the United Launch Alliance that would have provided the launch vehicle. Virgin Galactic also confirmed it would be teaming with Orbital on the Orbital CCDev 2 project.  After failing to be selected for a CCDev phase 2 award by NASA, Orbital announced in April 2011 it would likely wind down its efforts to develop a commercial crew vehicle.

See also
 Dream Chaser (spacecraft) - another HL-20 derived proposed spacecraft put forward in 2010 by Sierra Nevada Corporation

References

External links
 A Blended Lifting Body Aerodynamic Design for the Orbital Space Plane, Henri D. Fuhrmann, AIAA-2003-3807, June 2003.

Spaceplanes
Private spaceflight
Proposed spacecraft
International Abstracts in Operations Research. International Abstracts in Operations Research is an official publication of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies.

History
The journal was established in 1961 by the Operations Research Society of America with Herbert P. Galliher as the first editor-in-chief. The first issue appeared in November 1961. In 1969 responsibility for its production was transferred to the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. The journal is now mainly used as an online database but a printed edition is still produced annually.

Journals abstracted 
IAOR Online includes abstracts from approximately 180 different journals in each volume. The journals produced by the member societies and the major commercial publications in the field, are abstracted in full. Other journals are scanned regularly and abstracts selected, while others provide occasional abstracts.

External links
 

Academic journals established in 1961
English-language journals
Business and management journals
Palgrave Macmillan academic journals
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies
8 times per year journals
Eibenstock Dam. Eibenstock Dam () near Eibenstock in the Ore Mountains, Germany, is the largest dam in the Free State of Saxony in terms of the height of the dam above the valley floor, and its reservoir is the largest in volume in Saxony. The dam impounds the waters of the Zwickauer Mulde and supplies drinking water to the region of Chemnitz and Zwickau, as well as providing flood protection, delivering extra water during times of drought and, to a lesser extent, generating electricity from hydropower. Its dimensions make it the second largest drinking water reservoir in Germany's new federal states.

In order to make way for its construction, the inhabitants of the village of Muldenhammer (also called Windischhammer or Windischthal), whose former buildings (10 homes, 1 wood pulp factory, 1 large estate for the breeding of Höhenfleckrinder cattle and a paper mill) lie today under the water surface, had to be resettled. Many of them moved to new houses that were built in Eibenstock. In addition, the Chemnitz–Aue–Adorf railway between Wolfsgrün and Schönheide Ost was interrupted. The Schönheiderhammer tunnel on that stretch of the route was flooded. At low water levels the old portals of the tunnel can still be seen. Likewise, the branch line from Eibenstock unt. Bf. to Eibenstock ob. Bf. had to be closed. This section, the only standard gauge railway in Saxony with an incline of 1:20, was once known as the Eibenstock Ramp (Steilstrecke Eibenstock).

The barrier itself is a straight gravity dam made of concrete. It was built between 1974 and 1984; it was taken into service in 1982 and completed in 1987. The first partial impoundment had already been carried out by 1980.

The dam has an upstream auxiliary dam (Schönheiderhammer Dam) and four subsidiary upstream basins (Rähmerbach, Geidenbach, Weißbach, Rohrbach).

Above the dam is an observation point offering a view across the reservoir. The dam itself is not accessible to the public. Bathing and water sports are also banned, because the dam impounds a drinking water reservoir.

See also 
List of dams in Germany

References

External links 
Eibenstock Dam at www.talsperren.net
Information on the dam by the Saxon State Reservoir Agency
 Photos of the flooded  Schönheiderhammer Tunnel

Dams completed in 1987
Energy infrastructure completed in 1987
Dams in Saxony
Ore Mountains
Hydroelectric power stations in Germany
REibenstock 
Protected landscapes in Germany
Hydromash. Hydromash Joint-stock company () is a large Russian firm involved in the design, development, manufacture and customer support of undercarriage and hydraulic units for aircraft landing gear systems.

The company is based in Nizhny Novgorod and designs hydraulic actuators for both civil and military aircraft and helicopters. It established fruitful cooperation with leading Western companies working in this field, such as Liebherr Group of Germany and Messier-Dowty of France.

Hydromash JSC then became involved in various international projects, such as Embraer regional jets, Airbus A320 family airliners, Airbus A330 and Airbus A340 long-haul airliners, as well as the Bombardier Global Express business jet and AgustaWestland AW139 helicopter.

In 2022, the company was included in the  "100 Best Enterprises of Russia" list.

See also
Nizhny Novgorod

References

External links 

Aerospace companies of Russia
Aircraft undercarriage manufacturers
Manufacturing companies based in Nizhniy Novgorod
Russian brands
Aircraft component manufacturers of the Soviet Union
CRRC Datong. CRRC Datong Co. Ltd.  () is a Chinese railway locomotive manufacturing plant based in Datong, Shanxi, China, founded in 1953. The factory was a major producer of steam locomotives for the Chinese market up to 1988 when production switched to diesel powered locomotives. By the 1990s electric locomotives had begun to be produced, and became the major product of the works.

In 2003 the factory became CNR Datong Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd. (DELC) and a subsidiary of China CNR Corporation as part of a re-organisation of the Chinese railway manufacturing industry.

History

The Datong Locomotive Factory was founded in 1954 as part of the first Chinese five-year plan for economic development. The first locomotive was produced in 1959.

By 1988 the factory had produced over 5000 steam locomotives, and was a major steam locomotive manufacturer in the People's Republic of China, by the 1980s manufacturing between 250 and 300 locomotives yearly; many of these units were QJ "march forward" 2-10-2 heavy freight locomotives. Steam locomotive production at Datong was a vertically integrated process, starting from raw steel. The last steam locomotive to be produced at the plant, was made on 21 December 1988.

In the 1980s the plant began to manufacture diesel locomotives, including types DF4B and DF4C. By 1999 over 600 diesel locomotives had been produced.

In 1990 the plant began to produce electric locomotives - the SS7 six axle Bo'Bo'Bo' and the SS7E Co'Co' mainline electrics were developed and manufactured at Datong. The company was also jointly involved with Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works in the high-speed passenger EMU development project China Star in 2002.

In 2003 the company became part of the China CNR Corporation as CNR Datong Electric Locomotive Co. Ltd..

In 2004 the company entered into a manufacturing and technology transfer agreement with Alstom, leading to the production of the HXD2 series of locomotive classes. The first HXD2 locomotive to be manufactured in China was completed in 2007. In August 2012, the first example of a localised version of the HXD2 locomotive was produced by the factory, numbered HXD2-1001.

Joint ventures
The company has entered into joint ventures with ABC Rail Products (1996, castings), Stennmann (2002, Pantographs), Alstom (2004, locomotive manufacture), ABB Group (2007, electric transformers), SEMCO (India) (2007, wheelsets) and Faiveley (2007, railway couplers).

Museum
The factory site also included a museum, which was moved to Beijing in 2004.

References

External links

 
 Social history of Datong locomotive factory (perspective)

CRRC Group
CRRC Datong
Puebla Institute of Technology. The Puebla Institute of Technology () is a public higher education institution in Puebla, México, founded in 1972.  It operates under the Secretariat of Public Education and offers nine undergraduate and three graduate programs in engineering, technology, and management. The institute is a member of the National Technological Institute of Mexico and the National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions (ANUIES).

Campus 
The Puebla Institute of Technology's main campus is located in the city of Puebla, with an enrollment of approximately 8,322 students (as of 2019). It also has a branch in Acajete, Puebla, with around 150 students.

The campus features gardens and a wide variety of trees across the institution. It includes around 60 buildings, several engineering laboratories, an Information Center (library), and a Foreign Language Center, which provides students with training in English, French, German, and Spanish for foreign students.

References

Technical universities and colleges in Mexico
Universities and colleges in Puebla
Universities and colleges established in 1972
1972 establishments in Mexico
Public universities and colleges in Mexico
Energy separating agent. In chemical separation processes, an Energy separating agent (ESA) is the heat or shaft work added to facilitate the separation of two chemical species. It is contrasted with a mass separating agent, which is any chemical species added to the reaction that facilitates the reaction. ESAs are used in many common separation procedures.

Some important examples of procedures utilizing ESAs are vaporization (heat added), distillation (heat added), crystallization (heat evolved), and stripping (heat added).

Chemical engineering
Brändli BX-2 Cherry. The Brändli BX-2 Cherry is two-seat sport homebuilt aircraft, designed by Max Brändli. More than one hundred had been constructed by 2010.

Design and development
Max Brändli designed the Cherry in 1979 when he was 55 years old and started its construction in his cellar. He carried out all the structural and aerodynamic calculations and supervised the building, which took 3½ years and 5,500 hours of work.  He also flew it on its first flight on 24 April 1982.

The Cherry is a low wing monoplane.  It has a wood-framed fuselage and wings with wooden spars, styrofoam cores and glass fibre covering. The inner sections of the wings have constant chord and carry flaps; the outer sections are straight tapered with ailerons.  The wings can be removed rapidly for transport. The tail surfaces are straight tapered and the stabilator is fitted with a full-span anti-servo tab.

The Cherry seats two, in side-by-side configuration under a large, almost fully transparent, forward sliding canopy. It has a retractable tricycle undercarriage, with simple, outward folding main gear. A non-retractable undercarriage is an option. The prototype was powered by a 65 hp (49 kW) Continental A65 flat four engine; since then, Cherrys have used flat fours with power of up to 100 hp (75 kW), including some from the Continental range, the Volkswagen-derived Limbach L.2400 and the Rotax 912. Also the flat 2-cylinder motorcycle derived BMW R1200GS has been used.

Operational history

The Cherry is kit-built from plans, with some components provided. By 2010, more than 240 sets of plans had been sold and over 100 aircraft completed.  In mid-2010, 76 were registered in Europe west of Russia, flying in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Slovenia and the UK.

The prototype Cherry, HB-YBX flew around Europe for 25 years; in 2009, it crashed after take-off from Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport in Sweden, killing both Dani Gerwer and its designer, Max Brändli.

Specifications

References

1980s Swiss civil aircraft
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Low-wing aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft