omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Michael Weiss (engineer). Michael L. Weiss is an American engineer who is known for his contributions to on-orbit satellite servicing missions, particular of the Hubble Space Telescope.  Weiss most recently served as deputy program director on the Hubble Space Telescope program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Weiss received his B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1978 and 1983. He has led the systems engineering for missions including the Solar Maximum Mission, Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer as well as the first shuttle based satellite repair, the Solar Maximum Repair Mission in 1984.

Weiss was involved in all 5 Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions.  He directed systems development during  servicing mission 1 and  servicing mission 2.  He served as deputy program director through servicing mission 4.  He also led the Mishap Investigation Board investigating the failure of a balloon launch from Australia carrying a gamma-ray telescope for to the University of California at Berkeley.

Weiss is an accomplished diver having accumulated over 200 hours in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in training Shuttle flight crews on servicing techniques and procedures. Outside NASA, he an open water diver and underwater photographer.

Weiss has appeared on NOVA, the Discovery Channel, NPR, and the BBC discussing Hubble and the servicing missions.

References

NASA people
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Hydroelectricity in Italy. Italy is the world's 14th largest producer of hydroelectric power, with a total of 50,582 GWh produced in 2010. Electric energy from hydro accounted for about 18% of the national electricity production in 2010.

There were a total of 2,729 active plants in 2010, of which 302 had a capacity greater than 10 MW. Hydroelectric plants are especially widespread in the north, where there are many rivers and mountains. Lombardy, Piedmont and Trentino-Alto Adige contributed for almost 60% of the total energy production in 2010.

Hydroelectricity played a major role in the development of energy sector in Italy, since until the 1950s almost all the electric energy produced in the country came from this source. In fact, almost all the current capacity was installed in the first half of the twentieth century.

Plants in Italy are also used to store excess energy from other sources during off-peak periods.

History

Since the Italian peninsula is relatively recent geological formation, it lacks commercial coal deposits and oil, so hydroelectricity was the first source widely used in Italy to produce electric energy, and remained the main source at least until the 1960s. For example, of the total 15.5 TWh produced in 1938 hydro accounted for 14.6, or 94%. Hydroelectric energy played a main role in the Italian industrialization since late 19th century. Hydroelectricity contributed for about 87.5% of the total energy produced from 1900 to 1960.

Since the 1960s the share of hydroelectricity decreased constantly due to the increase in energy needs and almost unchanged total capacity. By 1980, share of hydro was already below 25%. The majority of energy was at that time produced by fossil fuels. For comparison, energy consumed in Italy in 2010 was about 20 times that of 1938.

Italian hydroelectric potential is estimated to be exploited at 90%. This explain the almost unchanged total capacity in last 50 years. All the favorable places have already been taken: this poses a limit on the construction of new plants of relevant capacity in terms of technical, economical and environmental problems.

Largest hydropower plants

See also

Renewable energy in Italy
Electricity sector in Italy
List of power stations in Italy
Vajont Dam
Geothermal power in Italy
Solar power in Italy
Wind power in Italy
Biofuel in Italy

References

External links
Terna - Italian electric grid operator
Henri-Émile Bazin. Henri-Émile Bazin (10 January 1829 – 7 February 1917), also known as Henry Bazin, was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering, and whose main contributions relate to the systematic study of free surface flows and the measurement of flows (gauging).

Selected publications
Henry Darcy, Henri Bazin, "Recherches hydrauliques entreprises par M. Henry Darcy continuées par M. Henri Bazin. Première partie. Recherches expérimentales sur l'écoulement de l'eau dans les canaux découverts," Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1865.
Henry Darcy, Henri Bazin, "Recherches hydrauliques entreprises par M. Henry Darcy continuées par M. Henri Bazin. Deuxième partie. Recherches expérimentales relatives au remous et à la propagation des ondes," Paris, Imprimerie impériale, 1865.

École Polytechnique alumni
École des Ponts ParisTech alumni
Corps des ponts
1829 births
1917 deaths
French fluid dynamicists
Hydraulic engineers
19th-century French engineers
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
People from Nancy, France
Engineers from Dijon
Focus Corporation. Focus Corporation was a project delivery company, providing Engineering and Geomatics solutions to the energy, infrastructure and land development sectors across Western Canada. It was a privately owned company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Focus was founded in 1977 as HDS Focus Surveys Ltd. They changed their name to The Focus Corporation Ltd. in 1999 to reflect their new geomatics, international, advanced technology and engineering divisions.

In 2009, Focus was named one of Alberta’s Top 40 Employers and in 2010 they were named one of Alberta’s Top 50 Employers. They were also named one of Alberta’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Projects Include:

3D laser scan of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, which played an important part in the development of reliable national air routes. The scan data, which included photographs, animated movies and fly-throughs, was contributed to the Aero Space Museum of Calgary. 
Kicking Horse Canyon Highway Improvement: a $1 billion upgrade to approximately 26 km of the Trans-Canada Highway from Golden, British Columbia to the western boundary of Yoho National Park. Phase II and Phase III of this project were named in ReNew Canada’s Top 100 Infrastructure Projects of 2008 and 2009, respectively. 
Calgary West C-Train Extension: an 8 km LRT extension featuring six stations, two park and ride facilities and one new road interchange. 
Pipestone Creek Bonebed Project: an environmentally sensitive access road, a 100T bridge and a pedestrian bridge crossing of Pipestone Creek, one of the world's richest sites of Late Cretaceous fossils.

Focus was also part of a team of Canadian environmental professionals that were sent to assess the cleanup of surface debris from Bellingshausen Station, a Russian Research Station located at Bellingshausen, Antarctica. The expedition was led by Robert Swan. Their findings will be presented to the United Nations at the World Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2012.

Focus had offices in Calgary, Camrose, Cranbrook, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Fort St. John, Golden, Grande Prairie, Invermere, Kamloops, Kelowna, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Peace River, Regina, Rossland, Truro, Vancouver and Victoria.

On January 1, 2015, Focus merged with WSP Canada Inc.

References

External links
 Official Website

Companies based in Edmonton
Engineering companies of Canada
Geomatics organizations
1977 establishments in Alberta
2014 disestablishments in Alberta
Geographic data and information companies
Buckeye Eclipse. The Buckeye Eclipse and Buckeye Endeavor are a family of American two-seat flying wing ultralight trikes that was designed and produced by Buckeye Industries. The aircraft were supplied fully assembled.

Design and development
Buckeye Industries was well known in the US ultralight business as one of the leading manufacturers of powered parachutes in the 1980s and 90s. The company decided to expand their line with the introduction of a line of trikes in the late 1990s. The aircraft were not strong sellers and the company went out of business in the mid-2000s.

The Eclipse features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. Factory-supplied standard equipment included dual controls and electronic flight instruments. Optional equipment included a fiberglass cockpit fairing, windshield, wheel pants and electric starter.

The aircraft carriage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, while the wing is constructed from bolted-together aluminum tubing and covered in Dacron sailcloth. The  area wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar.

Variants
Eclipse
Basic model powered by a Rotax 503 twin cylinder, air-cooled, two-stroke engine of , with a gross weight of . Price was US$14,500 in 2000.
Endeavor
Up-market model powered by a Rotax 582 twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke engine of , with a gross weight of . Price was US$16,300 in 2000.

Specifications (Endeavor)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
SpnKiX. SpnKiX is a pair of motorised shoes with wheels and wireless handheld remote control developed by a small firm, 'Action Inc' to assist pedestrians reach their destinations faster.

It's the brainchild of Peter Treadway, who is also the product designer, inventor and co-founder. In his own words, Flying cars and Jet packs inspired this concept; also, the trouble he had in finding parking in Los Angeles,  California led him to conceive the basic idea.

Each shoe consists of a frame made out of reinforced nylon. All hardware and electronics including motor, motor controller and battery pack are integrated into the frame. A wireless handheld remote control adjusts the speed to go up to 10 miles per hour. Rechargeable lithium batteries charged for 2 to 3 hours are good for 2 to 3 miles of commuting.

Works this way
SpnKiX are battery powered and electric roller skates to be strapped on to each shoe. Each pack on the foot has a built-in motor and battery pack, remote-controlled by a wireless device in the hand that controls both skates at once.

References

External links
 Roll Out With Motorized Shoes
 spnKiX - Wearable Mobility

Science fiction themes
GibboGear Butterfly. The GibboGear Butterfly is an American single-seat, flying wing ultralight trike that was designed by Mark Gibson and produced by his company, GibboGear of Winter Haven, Florida. The aircraft was supplied as a kit for amateur construction.

Design and development
The aircraft was designed for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight class, with the intention of reversing the trend of its period, which saw heavier, more expensive trikes that stall faster and were harder to fly, thus requiring more flight training. The Butterfly addresses these issues by being a simple design and by employing a single surface wing with a large  area. Similarly the carriage is simple and lacks options, to reduce cost and weight. The resulting aircraft has a low landing speed of  at the cost of a low cruise speed of .

The Butterfly features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. The aircraft's single surface wing is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing, covered in Dacron sailcloth. The wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame control bar. When the aircraft was in production the wing was also available from the factory as a kit, as well as fully assembled. The landing gear uses tubular suspension and the nose wheel is steerable. The engines that were factory-supplied included the twin-cylinder, two-stroke air-cooled  Rotax 447 and  Rotax 503.

Specifications (Butterfly)

References

1990s United States ultralight aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
High Tension Wires. High Tension Wires is the third studio album by the guitarist Steve Morse, released on May 1, 1989, by MCA Records. The album reached No. 182 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

Track listing

Personnel
Steve Morse – guitar, synthesizer, engineering, mixing, production
T Lavitz – keyboard, synthesizer, piano
Rod Morgenstein – drums
Jerry Peek – bass
Andy West – bass
Allen Sloan – violin
Rick Sandidge – engineering, mixing
Tom Wright – engineering
Glenn Meadows – mastering
Ricky Schultz – executive production

Chart performance

References

External links
In Review: Steve Morse Band "High Tension Wires" at Guitar Nine Records

Steve Morse albums
1989 albums
MCA Records albums
Jaya Engineering College. Jaya Engineering College is an educational institute located in Thiruninravur, Tamil Nadu, India. The college is  ISO 9001:2000 certified and affiliated with Anna University, Chennai.

It is situated 7 km west of Avadi, 25 km from Chennai Central station and 22 km from Tiruvallur. It is approximately 1.5 km from Nemilichery Railway Station.

History

Founded in 1995, Jaya Engineering College is a part of the Jaya Group of Colleges.

Courses offered
Under Graduate
 B.E. Aeronautical Engineering
 B.E. Civil Engineering
 B.E. Computer Science and Engineering
 B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering
 B.E. Electronics And Instrumentation Engineering
 B.E. Mechanical Engineering
 B.Tech.Information Technology
 B.Tech. Textile Technology

Post Graduate
 M.E. Applied Electronics
 M.E. Computer Science and Engineering
 M.Tech. Textile Technology
 M.C.A  Computer Application

References

External links

 Official Website
 

Engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu
Colleges affiliated to Anna University
Educational institutions established in 1995
1995 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Master the Mainframe Contest. Master the Mainframe contest was a mainframe programming challenge organized annually by IBM Academic Initiative System z.

History 

Originally catering to students attending North American institutions of higher learning (US and Canada, excluding Quebec), the contest ran in as many as 30 countries across the globe. The goal of the contest was to provide students with the opportunity to experience working with mainframes. The contest was created in part to increase the number of mainframe skilled individuals in the computing workforce.

Contest 

For North America, the contest typically started during the Fall semester and run until the end of December. It was separated into 3 parts, with each part increasing in complexity. Part 1 introduced the basic aspects necessary to get started with mainframe technologies and required minimal time to complete. Part 2 involved more steps for each task and usually took a day or so to accomplish. The first 60 winners of Part 2 received monetary prizes in recognition of their achievement. Part 3 was more in depth, involving multiple programming challenges such as COBOL, REXX, JCL, etc. (depending on the questions set for the year's challenge).

Prizes 

Past winners of Part 3 received gifts such as iPad, iPod, laptops or netbooks. Winners also received an all-expense-paid trip to the IBM mainframe facility in Poughkeepsie, New York.

References

External links 

 IBM Z Academic Initiative program
 IBM Master the Mainframe Contest and Learning System 

International competitions
Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit. AEDC Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) is a blowdown hypersonic wind tunnel driven by a combustion air heater (CAH).  The facility is owned by the United States Air Force and operated by Aerospace Testing Alliance.

History 
The AEDC Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit started out as a vitiated air heater (VAH) conducting over 275 experiments for the development of many different aerodynamic and aerothermal systems.  Upgrades to the facility started in 2002 in order to provide ground-test capability for supersonic and hypersonic systems up to flight speeds of Mach 8.

Capabilities
The facility was designed to provide ground-based simulations of supersonic and hypersonic flight conditions.  The combustion air heater can provide total pressures from 200 psia to 2,800 psia (13.6 atm to 190.5 atm) and a  total temperatures from 1,200°R to 4,700°R (667 K to 2,611 K). Five nozzles ranging from  Mach 3.2 to Mach 7.1 are currently available.

See also 
 Arnold Air Force Base
 Supersonic wind tunnel
 Scramjet

References

External links
 Arnold Engineering Development Center (official)

Wind tunnels
Cosmos Samba. The Cosmos Samba, named after the dance of the same name, is a French ultralight trike that is produced by Cosmos ULM of Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France. The aircraft is supplied as a complete aircraft and is not available as a kit.

Design and development
The Samba is a minimalist aircraft, sometimes referred to as a nanolight-trike. It was designed to comply with the US FAR 103 Ultralight Vehicles rules, including the category's maximum empty weight of . The aircraft has a standard empty weight of . It features a cable-braced hang glider-style high-wing, weight-shift controls, a single-seat, open cockpit, tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft is made from bolted-together aluminum tubing. The Tedlar-covered single surface wing is a French La Mouette Topless M design that uses an internal Kevlar cross-bar reinforcement in place of a kingpost and ground wires. The lower flying wires are retained, however, giving the aircraft a load rating of +6/-3g. Control is weight-shift via an "A" frame control bar.

The lack of the kingpost and associated cables allows the Samba a top speed of  on only  of power provided by a Zenoah G-25 single cylinder, two stroke powerplant. Because of its low drag the aircraft is suitable for power-off soaring flight and the engine can be restarted in flight.

The Samba can be disassembled for storage or car-top transport in 20 minutes.

Specifications (Samba)

References

External links

Photo of a Cosmos Samba

1990s French ultralight aircraft
Single-engined pusher aircraft
Ultralight trikes
Hitzler Werft. Hitzler Werft is a shipyard in Lauenberg, Germany, just outside Hamburg. The company was founded in 1885 by Johann Georg Hitzler as a boat repair yard, and went on to build barges, trawlers, freighters, tankers, tugs, launches, barges and icebreakers.

Icebreakers
The icebreakers Hitzler Werft has built include:

References

German companies established in 1885
Shipyards of Germany
Shipbuilding companies of Germany
Companies based in Schleswig-Holstein
Manufacturing companies established in 1885
Certificat d'aptitude à l'enseignement aéronautique. The Certificat d'aptitude à l'enseignement aéronautique (CAEA) is French for aeronautical teaching certificate. It is a French national degree created in 1999, delivered by French Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing.

Although the CAEA covers a wide field of aeronautics and space knowledge, it is not a pilot licence or certification. It is the degree which conclude aeronautical studies done by students, teachers or professors to teach aeronautic at high school or university.

The diploma is required by the National Education for all supervision of aviation activities at school or university in France. It is also a must to teach the Brevet d'Initiation Aéronautique (aeronautical initiation certificate). The CAEA corresponds to a degree of two-years studies after French Baccalaureate.

The exam to be graduate contains five subjects : principle of flight and aerodynamic, aircraft general knowledge, meteorology, navigation and safety of flights, air and space History. Its duration is three hours. Candidat should obtain a result of 10/20 and no grade below 6/20 in one of the five topic.

Flight Instructors can get the CAEA by equivalence, with only an additional training.

References 

Academic degrees of France
Aviation licenses and certifications
State Hydrological Institute. The State Hydrological Institute (SHI; , ГГИ) is a research institute of Russia in the field of developing methods for locating hydrological networks and river hydrometry, creating modern models and methods for accelerated measurements of water discharge, runoff accounting at hydroelectric power plants and other hydrology structures.
SHI is created under the initiative of the Russian Academy of Sciences in October 1919.
The institute cooperates with international organizations such as UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization.

Structure 
SHI has about 350 employees. The research staff includes about 60 doctors. The institute currently includes such departments as:
 Department of Valday for hydrometeorological experimental research
 Major experimental laboratory in a town Ilichovo
 Department of runoff calculation and water management problems
 Department of channel processes
 Department of metrology and standardization
 Department of hydrophysics
 Department of researching of hydroecology
 Department of water resources and water balance
 Department of scientific-technical information
 Department of flooding research
 Department of climate change research
 Department of remote sensing methods and geoinformation systems
 Department of river network
 Department of water cadastre

Notable staff 
 Vladimir Wiese (1886–1954), a Russian and Soviet oceanographer and explorer of the Arctic
 Mikhail Budyko (1920–2001), a Soviet and Russian climatologist
 Valeryan Uryvaev (1908–1968), a Soviet hydrologist and director of the institute from 1942 to 1968
 Igor Shiklomanov (1939–2010), a Soviet and Russian hydrologist and director of the institute from 1981 to 2010
 Oleg Anisimov (1957–), a Russian climate scientist

References

External links 
 

1919 establishments in Russia
Hydraulic engineering
Hydrology organizations
Research institutes established in 1919
Research institutes in Saint Petersburg
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Water in the Soviet Union
Meteorology in the Soviet Union
Frankfurt (icebreaker). Frankfurt is a prototype river icebreaker constructed by Hitzler Werft for icebreaking duties on the Elbe River, Oder River, and canals in Germany, operated by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt Eberswalde.
She was built in 2002.
Three further vessels, built to a similar design, were ordered by the Wasser und Schifffahrtsamt in 2009.

As the lead ship of her class, models of the Frankfurt underwent testing in a large ice-tank laboratory.
She cost 4.2 million euros.

Her design features a pair of diesel generators that power electric motors that actually drive the propeller.
The use of a diesel-electric system provides a "good torque curve", and eliminates the need for a bulky gearbox.
The electric motor can consume up to 
She has a third "harbor diesel" of .

References

Further reading 
 

Icebreakers of Germany
2002 ships