omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Geoffrey Allen (chemist). Sir Geoffrey Allen  (29 October 1928 – 15 March 2023) was a British chemist who also served as a Vice-President of the Royal Society. He was primarily known for his work on the physics and chemistry of polymers. Allen was especially well known for his work on the thermodynamics of rubber elasticity. He inspired a generation of physical chemists as a result of his research interests, and he had a passion for fostering links between academia and industry.

Career
Born in Clay Cross, Derbyshire on 29 October 1928, Allen was educated at Tupton Hall Grammar School and the University of Leeds. He was Lecturer (1955–65) and Professor of Chemical Physics (1965–75) at the University of Manchester. Moving to London, he became Professor of Polymer Science (1975–76), Professor of Chemical Technology (1976–81) at Imperial College London. He chaired the Science Research Council from 1977–81.

Allen was Head of Research at Unilever from 1981–90, and a Director of Unilever from 1982–90. Since 1990 he has been an Adviser to Kobe Steel Ltd. He was Vice-President of the Royal Society from 1991–93, and Chancellor of the University of East Anglia from 1993–2003. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Protection from 1994–2000, and President of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, (formerly the Institute of Materials) from 1994–95. He is an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. In 1985 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath. 

Allen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 1986, and an honorary doctorate from Loughborough University in July 1985, when he was pleased to share the stage with his godson who received his bachelor's degree at the same time.

Allen was President (1989–1991) of the Society of Chemical Industry, gave the Leverhulme lecture in 1990 (Our Chemical Industry 2001), and was awarded the society's Lampitt medal in 2017.

Sir Geoffrey Allen died at his home on 15 March 2023, at the age of 94.

References

1928 births
2023 deaths
Academics of Imperial College London
Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Chancellors of the University of East Anglia
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge
Knights Bachelor
People from Clay Cross
Unilever people
BC Electric Building. The BC Electric Building is a 22-storey office tower in Vancouver, British Columbia. The building was constructed as the headquarters of the BC Electric Company and was designed by Thompson Berwick & Pratt. The project's design architect was Charles Edward Pratt, who based the lozenge-shaped tower off the unbuilt Back Bay Center in Boston. In 1995 the building was converted from offices to residences and renamed the Electra.

History
The structure was built by John Laing & Sons in 1957 as the new headquarters for the BC Electric Company, under its president Dal Grauer. A few days after Grauer's death in 1961, it became part of a new provincial crown corporation named BC Hydro. The 22 story, 89 m (293 ft), building was designed by Charles Edward "Ned" Pratt.

At the time it was claimed to be the tallest office building in the Commonwealth, although this was not true. After BC Hydro moved to new offices in Vancouver and Burnaby in the late 1990s, the building was sold, and in 1998, was renovated and converted primarily into residential condo space, although BC Hydro continues to operate the Dal Grauer Substation, whose space is integral with Electra.

While BC Electric's offices were in the building ten large air horns on top of the structure played the first four notes of O Canada at noon every day.  The horns have since been moved to the Pan Pacific Vancouver roof. They are owned and managed by Canada Place.

Gallery

See also
List of tallest buildings in Vancouver

References

Sources

External links
 
 City of Vancouver Press Release concerning Chemical Spill
 Article on the Electra spill in The Province, September 21, 2010

Buildings and structures in Vancouver
Heritage buildings in Vancouver
Residential condominiums in Canada
Modernist architecture in Canada
BC Hydro
Matbro. Matbro was a brand of lifting equipment, popular with farmers. Matbro produced a wide range of all terrain forklifts and telescopic handlers in their distinctive yellow livery, using engines derived from Ford and Perkins. Matbro began operating at a loss in the late 1990s and in the end went under in 2003 after accounting issues in their parent company Powerscreen. The old designs were then sold to the tractor company John Deere, which sub-licensed them to heavy lifting company Terex, who continued to evolve the designs, with new ideas such as side-mounted engines instead of rear ones and hydrostatic drive.

Origin
The company, named after its founders the Mathew brothers, produced forklift trucks in Horley in Surrey, England. Between 1964 and 1971 a range of forklifts carrying loads of 8000 lb to 17,765 lb, named the Yard Model and the Compact Model were produced. These used axles made by GKN Centrax at Newton Abbot in Devon, under licence from the Rockwell-Standard. The frequent failure of axles supplied by Centrax for loads heavier than recommended by Rockwell led to a legal case which eventually went before Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. This model with pivot steering and equal sized wheels was the basis of the first radial arm machines, the RAM40 with 40 cwt (2 imperial tons) lift capacity, produced c.1980. This was soon improved with a telescopic boom, producing the Teleram 40. These compact machines with the operator sitting above the automatic gearbox and just in front of the engine proved popular with farmers for their ability to go almost anywhere and do a wide range of jobs, while being able to manoeuvre in confined spaces.

References

External links

Agricultural machinery manufacturers of the United Kingdom
John Deere
Samson AG. SAMSON AG, founded in 1907 is a German control valve manufacturing company headquartered in Frankfurt. It develops systems and products that can control all types of fluid. Its product line includes valves, self-operating regulators, automation systems, sensors, thermostats, and digital devices, among others.

History 
Samson AG initially gained recognition for inventing a self-operated thermostat valve that regulated temperature in grain silos without external power in 1907. By 1916, Samson AG had relocated its main manufacturing facility and headquarters to Frankfurt’s River Main. Over the years, the company expanded its product line to include control valves, self-operated regulators, actuators, and automation systems. Significant milestones include the introduction of the first pneumatic control valves in the 1950s, expansion into digital control systems in the 1980s, and the formation of a joint venture with Krohne Messtechnik in 2019. The company has received numerous innovation awards, industry certifications like ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, and recognition for sustainability initiatives.

Today, SAMSON operates in over 40 countries with more than 4,500 employees and more than 50 subsidiaries, more than 200 engineering and service centers worldwide.

Products 
Samson AG specializes in the manufacturing and supply of a wide range of products for process control. Their primary offerings include control valves, self-operated regulators, actuators, and various accessories. They also provide signal converters, automation systems, sensors, and thermostats. Samson AG’s products are designed to control all kinds of media and are used across multiple industries, including chemical, petrochemical, food, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, industrial gases, metallurgy, marine equipment, water and wastewater, and pulp and paper. Additionally, SAMSON AG's associated companies AIR TORQUE S.p.A., CERA SYSTEM Verschleißschutz GmbH, KT-Elektronik GmbH, LEUSCH GmbH Industriearmaturen, Pfeiffer Chemie-Armaturenbau GmbH, RINGO VÁLVULAS S.L., SED FLow Control GmbH, STARLINE S.p.A., and VETEC Ventiltechnik GmbH offer technologies for severe requirements: e.g. abrasive and contaminated fluids, high shutdown pressures, lowest interior and exterior leak rates, quick-action, on-off, and control functions, as well as alloys like Monel, Hastelloy, titanium, zirconium, duplex, etc.

Board of directors
The board of directors at Samson AG is composed of key executives who oversee various aspects of the company’s operations. Dr. Andreas Widl serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairman of the executive board. Dr. Dominic Deller holds the position of chief financial officer (CFO), responsible for finance and human resources.

References 

Manufacturing companies based in Frankfurt
Australian Centre for Field Robotics. The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) is dedicated to the research and teaching of concepts relating to intelligent autonomous systems, at The University of Sydney in NSW, Australia. Originally established as an ARC Key Centre of Teaching and Research in 1999, it now forms part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, along with groups at the University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales.

Research direction

The Centre undertakes research in a broad range of areas related to the perception, control and learning capabilities of land, air and sea-based autonomous systems. Work at the ACFR is directed to the perception and systems aspects of this larger research area, specifically:

Perception
Sensor Construction and Deployment
Sensor Representation
Measurement in the presence of uncertainty
Decentralised fusion (DDF) of data from disparate and/or dislocated sensors
Systems
Modelling of large-scale systems
Design

See also 

 University of Sydney
 University of New South Wales
 University of Technology, Sydney
 Australian Research Council

References

External links 

 The Australian Centre for Field Robotics (outdated)
 Centre for Autonomous Systems
 Centre Publications

Robotics organizations
Robotics in Australia
Software management review. A Software management review is a management study into a project's status and allocation of resources. It is different from both a software engineering peer review, which evaluates the technical quality of software products, and a software audit, which is an externally conducted audit into a project's compliance to specifications, contractual agreements, and other criteria.

Process 
A management review can be an informal process, but generally requires a formal structure and rules of conduct, such as those advocated in the IEEE 1028 standard, which are:

 Evaluate entry?
 Management preparation?
 Plan the structure of the review
 Overview of review procedures?
 [Individual] Preparation?
 [Group] Examination?
 Rework/follow-up?
 [Exit evaluation]?

Definition 
In software engineering, a management review is defined by the IEEE as:

A systematic evaluation of a software acquisition, supply, development, operation, or maintenance process performed by or on behalf of management ... [and conducted] to monitor progress, determine the status of plans and schedules, confirm requirements and their system allocation, or evaluate the effectiveness of management approaches used to achieve fitness for purpose. Management reviews support decisions about corrective actions, changes in the allocation of resources, or changes to the scope of the project. 

Management reviews are carried out by, or on behalf of, the management personnel having direct responsibility for the system. Management reviews identify consistency with and deviations from plans, or adequacies and inadequacies of management procedures. This examination may require more than one meeting. The examination need not address all aspects of the product."

References

Software review
Técnicas Reunidas. Técnicas Reunidas, S.A. (, meaning "Gathered Techniques"), or TRSA, is a Spanish-based general contractor which provides engineering, procurement and construction of industrial and power generation plants, particularly in the oil and gas sector.

TRSA is the primary holding company for a group of companies capable of providing several different integrated services for turnkey projects worldwide. Since 1959, the TRSA group of companies has designed and built over 1000 industrial plants worldwide. International projects account for 70% of the company's annual turnover, mainly in Latin America and China. The firm has also moved increasingly into the Middle East, and in January 2009 was awarded a $1.2 billion contract to develop two onshore fields in the UAE for a subsidiary of ADNOC.

Organization
The business divisions of TRSA are oil and gas, power generation and infrastructures.

The areas of activity covered by TRSA's companies are: the petrochemical industry, heat transfer, cogeneration and renewable energies, fertilisers and inorganic chemistry, environmental engineering, iron and steel plants, metallurgy, mining and hydrometallurgy.

Research and development

Since 1971, the company has its own research and development division. The company's R&D Centre, located in Madrid, Spain, is equipped with laboratory facilities and pilot and demonstration plants designed to be adapted to different process configurations. The R&D division develops new processes and the technological and economical improvement of existing ones, applying techniques and procedures of disciplines such as hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry. A fundamental objective is the upscaling from laboratory testing to industrial scale operations.

See also

List of oilfield service companies

References

External links
 

Engineering companies of Spain
Multinational companies headquartered in Spain
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1959
1959 establishments in Spain
Manufacturing companies based in Madrid
Companies listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange
Software peer review. In software development, peer review is a type of software review in which a work product (document, code, or other) is examined by the author's colleagues, in order to evaluate the work product's technical content and quality.

Purpose 
The purpose of a peer review is to provide "a disciplined engineering practice for detecting and correcting defects in software artifacts, and preventing their leakage into field operations" according to the Capability Maturity Model.

When performed as part of each Software development process activity, peer reviews identify problems that can be fixed early in the lifecycle.  That is to say, a peer review that identifies a requirements problem during the Requirements analysis activity is cheaper and easier to fix than during the Software architecture or Software testing activities.

The National Software Quality Experiment, evaluating the effectiveness of peer reviews, finds, "a favorable return on investment for software inspections; savings exceeds costs by 4 to 1".  To state it another way, it is four times more costly, on average, to identify and fix a software problem later.

Distinction from other types of software review 
Peer reviews are distinct from management reviews, which are conducted by management representatives rather than by colleagues, and for management and control purposes rather than for technical evaluation. They are also distinct from software audit reviews, which are conducted by personnel external to the project, to evaluate compliance with specifications, standards, contractual agreements, or other criteria.

Review processes 

Peer review processes exist across a spectrum of formality, with relatively unstructured activities such as "buddy checking" towards one end of the spectrum, and more Informal approaches such as walkthroughs, technical peer reviews, and software inspections, at the other. The IEEE defines formal structures, roles, and processes for each of the last three.

Management representatives are typically not involved in the conduct of a peer review except when included because of specific technical expertise or when the work product under review is a management-level document. This is especially true of line managers of other participants in the review.

Processes for formal peer reviews, such as software inspections, define specific roles for each participant, quantify stages with entry/exit criteria, capture software metrics on the peer review process.

"Open source" reviews 
In the free / open source community, something like peer review has taken place in the engineering and evaluation of computer software. In this context, the rationale for peer review has its equivalent in Linus's law, often phrased: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", meaning "If there are enough reviewers, all problems are easy to solve." Eric S. Raymond has written influentially about peer review in software development.

References 

Software review
Peer review
TMM. TMM may refer to:

Science 
 Transfer-matrix method, a statistical mechanics method
 Transfer-matrix method (optics), a method to describe wave propagation through stratified media
 Trimethylenemethane, a reactive organic compound and a ligand in organometallic chemistry

Software and business 
 Tell Me More (software), French language-learning software from Auralog
 Testing Maturity Model, a software process improvement model
 Too Much Media, an American software company based in New Jersey 
 Traffic Management Microkernel, a product of F5 Networks
 Translation memory manager, a software program to aid human translators

Other uses 
 The Maybe Man, a 2023 studio album by American pop band AJR
 Tell Me More, an American radio show on National Public Radio hosted by Michel Martin
 Texas Memorial Museum, a museum at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States
 Textbook of Military Medicine, a U.S. Army publication
 Theresa May, a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from her full name Theresa Mary May
 TMM, the former ISO 4217 code of the Turkmenistani manat, the currency of Turkmenistan
 TMM-1 mine, an anti-tank landmine
Bad Sector. Bad Sector is an ambient/noise project formed in 1992 in Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Magrini.  While working at the Computer Art Lab of ISTI in Pisa (one of the CNR institutes), he developed original gesture interfaces that he uses in live performances: 'Aerial Painting Hand' (a device that tracks the position of the musician's hands in gloves of two different colors),  'UV-Stick' (an ultraviolet-illuminated stick that the musician moves in front of the camera—a computer reads its position and angle and makes changes to music generation algorithms accordingly), and others.

Bad Sector's music is considered a mixture of ambient, noise, industrial music, minimal and experimental music.
Magrini himself describes it as "deeply emotional dark ambient noise".  Common themes (as reflected in album and track titles) include microbiology, algorithms, physics, and space exploration.

See also 
List of ambient music artists

References

External links
 Bad Sector official website
 Facebook Page
 Bad Sector at Musicbrainz
 Bad Sector at discogs.com

Noise musicians
Ambient musicians
Masayoshi Esashi. is an engineer. He is a global authority of Microelectromechanical systems and serves as the professor of the Tohoku University graduate school engineering graduate course.

Born in Sendai, Japan, in 1949, Masayoshi Esashi received his B.E. degree in electronic engineering in 1971 and a Doctor of Engineering degree in 1976 at Tohoku University.

Esashi served as a research associate from 1976 and an associate professor from 1981 at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University. Since 1990 he has been a professor. Currently, he is the director of micro/nanomachining research and education center in Tohoku University. He is an associate director of the Semiconductor Research Institute.

He was a director of the Venture Business Laboratory in Tohoku University (1995–1998), and was a President of Sensor-Micromachine Society in Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan (2002–2003). He has been a collaboration coordinator for Sendai city since 2004.

He served as a general co-chairman of the 4th IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Workshop in 1991 held in Nara, Japan, as a general chairman of the 10th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers 99) in 1999 held in Sendai, Japan and Technical Program Chairman of IEEE Sensors 2006 being held in Daegu, Korea. He has also been studying microsensors and micromachined integrated systems (MEMS).

He was awarded the 2016 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal.

Main works

References

Japanese electronics engineers
1949 births
Living people
People from Sendai
Tohoku University alumni
Academic staff of Tohoku University
Class 25. Class 25 may refer to:

 AB-25-class patrol craft
 Belgian Railways Class 25, electric locomotive
 Belgian Railways Class 25.5
 British Rail Class 25, diesel-electric locomotive
 EAR 25 class, steam locomotive
 L&YR Class 25, 0-6-0 steam locomotive
 DRG Class 25 (disambiguation)
 DRG Class ET 25, German electric multiples built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the 1930s.
 East German express locomotives operated by the DR after World War II:   
 DR Class 25.0, a Neubaulokomotive
 DR Class 25.10, a trials locomotive 
 New South Wales Z25 class locomotive, steam locomotive
 PKP class SM25, diesel shunter
 South African Railways Class 25 and Class 25NC 4-8-4 steam locomotives.
 V25-class torpedo boat