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Joan Hodges Queneau Medal. The Joan Hodges Queneau Medal is an American engineering award for the field of environmental conservation.

It has been given annually since 1976 for an "outstanding contribution by an engineer in behalf of environmental conservation". The award is administered by the National Audubon Society, and made jointly with the American Association of Engineering Societies.  The award includes a citation, the "Palladium Medal", and a bronze statue.

Award recipients
 1977 - H. Beecher Charmbury
 1983 - Roy W. Hann, Jr.
 1984 - Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis
 1985 - William A. Jester
 1986 - Kenneth R. Daniel
 1987 - Thomas K. MacVicar
 1988 - Barney L. Capehart
 1989 - James L. Baker
 1990 - Joseph T. Ling
 1991 - M. Kent Loftin
 1992 - Hsieh Wen Shen
 1994 - Luna Leopold
 1995 - Robert Williams
 1996 - Jared Leigh Cohon
 2002 - William Carrol
 2003 - James W. Poirot
 2004 - Donald Van Norman Roberts
 2005 - George G. Wicks
 2008 - Albert A. Grant
 2010 - Clifford W. Randall
 2011 - Raymond A. Ferrara
 2012 - Rao Y. Surampalli
 2013 - Perry L. McCarty
 2014 - Bruce E. Rittmann
 2015 - Diran Apelian
 2016 - Wendi Goldsmith
 2017 - Jessica E. Kogel
 2018 - D. Yogi Goswami

See also

 List of engineering awards
 List of environmental awards

References
 AAES Queneau Medal past recipients 

Engineering awards
Environmental awards
Awards established in 1976
Percy Nicholls Award. The Percy Nicholls Award is an American engineering prize.

It has been given annually since 1942 for "notable scientific or industrial achievement in the field of solid fuels". The prize is given jointly by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Recipients of this Prize

2023 - David G. Osborne
2022 - Michael A. Karmis
2021 - Not given
2019 - Not given
2018 - Not given
2017 - Not given
2016 - Not given
2015 - Yoginder Paul Chugh
2014 - Yiannis Levendis
2013 - Barbara J. Arnold
2012 - Not given
2011 - Sukumar Bandopadhyay
2010 - Ashwani K. Gupta
2009 - William Beck
2008 - George A. Richards
2007 - Peter J. Bethell
2006 - John L. Marion
2005 - Gerald H. Luttrell
2004 - Dr. Hisashi (Sho) Kobayashi
2003 - J. Brett Harvey
2002 - L. Douglas Smoot
2001 - Robert E. Murray
2000 - Klaus R. G. Hein
1999 - Peter T. Luckie
1998 - Not given
1997 - Frank F. Aplan
1996 - Adel F. Sarofim
1995 - Joseph W. Leonard, III
1994 - Robert H. Essenhigh
1993 - Robert L. Frantz
1992 - Richard W. Borio
1991 - Raja V. Ramani
1990 - Richard W. Bryers
1989 - Albert W. Duerbrouck
1988 - János M. Beér
1987 - Leonard G. Austin
1986 - Gordon H. Gronhovd
1985 - David A. Zegeer
1984 - George K. Lee
1983 - E. Minor Pace
1982 - James R. Jones
1981 - Jack A. Simon
1980 - George W. Land
1979 - William N. Poundstone
1978 - Albert F. Duzy
1977 - H. Beecher Charmbury
1976 - Richard B. Engdahl
1975 - Not given
1974 - George P. Cooper
1973 - Samuel M. Cassidy
1972 - Charles H. Sawyer
1971 - George E. Keller
1970 - Richard C. Corey
1969 - David R. Mitchell
1968 - W. T. Reid
1967 - Martin A. Elliott
1966 - C. T. Holland
1965 - L. F. Deming
1964 - Carroll F. Hardy
1963 - James R. Garvey
1962 - Charles E. Lawall
1961 - Otto de Lorenzi
1960 - Carl E. Lesher
1959 - Homer H. Lowry
1958 - Willibald Trinks
1957 - John Blizzard
1956 - Chester A. Reed
1955 - Ralph Hardgrove
1954 - John F. Barkley
1953 - Henry F. Hebley
1952 - Harry F. Yancey
1951 - Albert R. Humford
1950 - Julian E. Tobey
1949 - Lawrence A. Shipman
1948 - Ralph A. Sherman
1947 - Howard N. Eavenson
1946 - Arno C. Fieldner
1945 - Thomas A. Marsh
1944 - James B. Morrow
1943 - Henry Kreisinger
1942 - Ervin G. Bailey

See also

 List of engineering awards
 List of mechanical engineering awards

References 
 Percy Nicholls Award

Notes 

Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Awards of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Combustion engineering awards
Awards established in 1942
1942 establishments in the United States
Hoover Medal. The Hoover Medal is an American engineering prize.

It has been given since 1930 for "outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity". The prize is given jointly by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), which administers it. It is named for Herbert Hoover, the first recipient, who was an engineer by profession.

Past recipients 
Source:ASME

See also

 List of engineering awards
 List of mechanical engineering awards
 List of awards for contributions to society
 List of awards named after people

References 

Awards established in 1930
Awards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Awards of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers
Awards of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers
IEEE awards
Awards for contributions to society
Kelvin Gold Medal. The Kelvin Gold Medal is a British engineering prize.

In the annual report for 1914, it was reported that the Lord Kelvin Memorial Executive Committee decided that the balance of funds left over from providing a memorial window at Westminster Abbey should be devoted to providing a Kelvin Gold Medal to mark "a distinction in engineering work or investigation" by the Presidents of eight leading British Engineering Institutions. There was a delay in awarding the first medal due to the World War.

The medal has been given triennially since 1920 for "distinguished service in the application of science to engineering". The Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) administered the prize. The Committee of Presidents considers recommendations received from similar bodies from all parts of the world. The first recipient was William Unwin.

Recipients

See also

 List of engineering awards

References 

Awards established in 1920
Awards of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Katana (photocopier). Katana is the name given to a Ricoh photocopier. It is a high volume machine that is able to copy at speeds of up to 135 pages per minute, while the slowest Katana copier can copy at 90 copies per minute.  It is a black and white machine but has a color scanner fitted to it. It can be used as both a photocopier and printer at the same time.

See also
Ricoh
Photocopier
Printing
Multifunction printer

References

Photocopiers
Ricoh products
Thomas Kilgore Sherwood. Thomas Kilgore Sherwood (July 25, 1903 – January 14, 1976) was a noted American chemical engineer and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Biography
Sherwood was born in Columbus, Ohio, and spent much of his youth in Montreal. In 1923 he received his B.S. from McGill University, and entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for his Ph.D. His dissertation, "The Mechanism of the Drying of Solids," was completed in 1929, a year after he had become assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 1930 he returned to MIT as assistant professor where he remained until his retirement, serving as associate professor (1933), professor (1941), and dean of engineering (1946–1952). In 1969 he retired from MIT to become professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sherwood's primary research area was mass transfer, and in 1937 he published the first major textbook in the field, Absorption and Extraction (republished 1974 as Mass Transfer). The Sherwood number is named in his honor:

where
  = overall mass transfer coefficient;
  = characteristic length;
  = component diffusion coefficient

His activities in World War II included organizing chemical engineers for the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) in 1940; consulting to the Baruch Committee on synthetic rubber development (1942); serving as NDRC Section Chief for Miscellaneous Chemical Engineering Problems (1942), where he oversaw creation of new hydraulic fluids, antifouling coatings for ship bottoms, large smoke screen generators, etc.; and member of the Whitman Committee on jet propulsion (1944). In autumn 1944 he followed American troops into Europe to gather scientific intelligence. His industrial consulting work included efforts in seawater desalination, removal of sulfur dioxide from emissions, freeze-drying blood, and the manufacture of penicillin and vinyl acetate.

Sherwood received the U.S. Medal for Merit (1948), won major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Chemical Society, and was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1948), National Academy of Sciences (1958), and National Academy of Engineering.

Works

References 

 National Academy of Engineering memorial tribute

1903 births
1976 deaths
People from Columbus, Ohio
McGill University alumni
American fluid dynamicists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Founding members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American chemical engineers
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
MIT School of Engineering faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Engineers from Ohio
20th-century American engineers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American expatriates in Canada
20th-century American chemists
List of pre-Columbian engineering projects in the Americas. Engineering in the Americas before the arrival of Christopher Columbus was advanced in agriculture, hydrology, irrigation systems, transportation, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and astronomy. In addition Native Americans made extensive use of fire to change the landscape and to create open areas for farming and hunting. Examples of pre-Columbian engineering from different indigenous civilizations can be found across North and South America.

North America 

Pueblo Structures
Hohokam Canals
Chaco Canyon
Tenochitlan Flood Gates
Teotihuacan
Serpent Mound
Cahokia Mounds

South America 

Inca road system
Nazca Lines
Machu Picchu
Sacsayhuaman
Chavin/Inca canals
Tiwanaku
Chan Chan
Anden
Zenu canals and drains

See also

Inca Empire
Incan agriculture
Kuelap
Paracas culture
Nazca culture
Caral

References
 

Americas-related lists
History of engineering
Pre-Columbian cultures
Angle Ring. The Angle Ring Company Limited is an engineering firm based in Tipton, West Midlands, England. It was founded in 1951 at a site in Bloomfield Road, and has since expanded to become one of the most prominent steel benders / curvers of metal and alloys in its market. By 1980, it was Britain's largest steel bending firm and ten years later was exporting its goods to foreign markets.

External links

An Angle ring is a companion flange which is made out of angle iron.  Angle Iron is rolled into a complete ring and the joint on the ring is welded to make the ring one solid piece.  Usually angle rings have holes punched in the outer leg so they can bolt up to another ring or a fitting such as an elbow, an expansion joint or a fan or blower.  These rings go on to round heavy duty duct work, typically made out of spiral pipe or single longitudinal pipe also known as blow pipe.  Angle rings are components in air systems where movement of air or movement of material by air is done.  They are used in pollution control systems, agricultural equipment such as grain handling and a multitude of other applications.  The largest manufacturer and leader of stock and special angle rings in the United States is Midwest Metal Products located in Michigan City Indiana.

Engineering companies of England
Companies based in the West Midlands (county)
Tipton
Manufacturing companies established in 1951
1951 establishments in England
Automatic volume limiter system. An automatic volume limiter system (AVLS) is an option that limits the maximum volume level and is enabled through software or hardware in stationary or portable media player devices used with headphones such as the Walkman or Sony PSP. The aim of this feature is to stop the headphones drowning out all other noise, and to limit the noise from the headphones being heard by other people. It can also prevent listeners from damaging their hearing. This volume limit can be set by the manufacturer or customized by the user.

References 

Digital audio
Crash and Burn (1990 film). Crash and Burn is a 1990 American science fiction film directed by Charles Band. It was originally titled Robot Jox 2: Crash and Burn in most European markets, despite not being related to Band's 1990 film Robot Jox.

Plot
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability." When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man, must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm."

Cast
Paul Ganus as Tyson Keen
Megan Ward as Arren
Jack McGee as Winston Wickett
Eva LaRue as Parice
Bill Moseley as Quinn

Reception
The Evansville Courier & Press said it is "saddled with inane dialogue, wooden acting and a plot that is a textbook cliche."

Release
Crash and Burn was officially titled Robot Jox 2 in most European markets at the time of release, but renamed when re-released on DVD. Despite the title, same opening theme, and involvement of Charles Band, and reused cover art, the plots of Robot Jox 2: Crash and Burn and Robot Jox are completely unrelated.

The film was released on DVD by Full Moon in 2000, but was discontinued for copyright reasons. The DVD contained a widescreen print of the film. The film was later released onto DVD again through the Charles Band DVD Collection, released in 2006. The boxset also contains Meridian: Kiss of the Beast, Doctor Mordrid, and Head of the Family. The film was again released on DVD by Shout! Factory on June 14, 2011, as a double feature DVD with Robot Wars.

See also
Robot Wars - a 1993 film also marketed as a sequel to Robot Jox

References

External links

Crash and Burn at Rotten Tomatoes

1990 animated films
1990 films
1990 science fiction films
American robot films
American science fiction action films
American dystopian films
Films directed by Charles Band
Films set in the 2030s
Films shot in California
Full Moon Features films
American independent films
American post-apocalyptic films
Films using stop-motion animation
Films scored by Richard Band
Films with screenplays by J. S. Cardone
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
English-language science fiction films
CIMM (disambiguation). CIMM is an acronym that can stand for:
 Capability Immaturity Model (CIMM), which contrast to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
 Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
 The Coalition for Innovative Media Measurement
 Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, a Canadian review panel dealing with immigration
 Mining and Metallurgy Research Center (Centro de Investigación Minera y Metalúrgica), a Chilean research intuition.
Nyloc nut. A nyloc nut, also referred to as a nylon-insert lock nut, polymer-insert lock nut, or elastic stop nut, is a kind of locknut with a nylon collar that increases friction on the screw thread.

The nylon collar insert is placed at the end of the nut, with an inner diameter (ID) slightly smaller than the major diameter of the screw. The screw thread does not cut into the nylon insert, however, the insert deforms elastically over the threads as tightening pressure is applied. The insert locks the nut against the screw as a result of friction, caused by the radial compressive force resulting from the deformation of the nylon. Nyloc nuts retain their locking ability up to .

Trademark
There are no registered trademarks filed in the United States for "Nyloc" or "Nylock" that are currently active in regards to fasteners. In Australia, "nyloc" is a registered trademark.

Related fasteners
A nylon pellet nut is very similar to a nyloc nut except that it uses one or more smaller nylon inserts instead of a ring of nylon. They do not lock as strongly as nyloc nuts.

Reuse
Authorities disagree on whether nyloc nuts should be reused. For example, Carroll Smith (Carroll Smith's Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners, and Plumbing Handbook) notes that the nylon insert is not damaged by installation and therefore they can be reused many times, and a Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular allows nuts to be reused if the prevailing torque is within specification. However, a United States Air Force Technical Order requires replacement of self-locking nuts in critical areas. Various specifications for aerospace-grade self-locking nuts require that the running torque be maintained after a number of cycles of assembly, but without preloading the fastener.

See also 
 Mechanical joint

References

External links 

 Esna nuts

Nuts (hardware)
Network Computing Devices. Network Computing Devices (NCD) was a company founded in 1987 to produce a new class of products now known as a thin client. It was founded in Mountain View, CA, and when it closed it was headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

The corporate founders were Mike Harrigan, Doug Klein, Dave Cornelius, Ed Basart, Martin Eberhard, and Kevin Martin.

At that time these devices were known as network terminals or X Terminals. Judith Estrin and William Carrico joined the company about 6 months after its founding as its new CEO and executive vice president, and led the company through its IPO in 1992. The products were some of the earliest examples of a thin client and providing remote access to data in something other than ASCII as was common with traditional terminals of the time.

The X Protocol provided a way to show high-resolution images of data and graphics over a network connection. NCD supported a range of network protocols including TCP/IP, Token Ring, DECnet and others.
NCD also developed network-transparent audio system called the Network Audio System (nas) to play, record and manipulate audio over a network.

Acquisitions 
NCD purchased PCXware, which made an X Window System for Microsoft Windows.

NCD purchased Z-Code Software in 1994. Z-Code made Z-Mail, a cross platform open standards email client. Z-Mail was later sold by NCD to Netmanage.

NCD purchased TekXPress X-terminals line from Tektronix.

NCD ceased operations in 2004. However, a few of the company's employees have set up a new company, ThinPATH Systems, to provide former NCD customers and others with service, support and products.

See also
DESQview/X, a similar product

References

External links 
Welcome to NCD – The Thin Client Experts!
NCD X-Terminal HOWTO
National Semiconductor & NCD to Jointly Develop Information Appliances Business Wire, Nov 14, 2000
Network Computing Devices – NCD – Acknowledged by Australian Government Technology Productivity Award Business Wire, March 28, 2001
Network Computing Devices, Inc. Introduces NCD ThinPATH PC; New Software Manages PCs as Thin Clients, Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership of the Desktop Business Wire, March 27, 2002
NCD is Finalist in The Computing Industry Awards 2002; Newly Launched ThinPATH PC is Selected as a Finalist in the Computing Industry Awards Business Wire, August 13, 2002

1987 establishments in California
2004 disestablishments in Oregon
American companies established in 1987
American companies disestablished in 2004
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Companies based in Portland, Oregon
Computer companies established in 1987
Computer companies disestablished in 2004
Defunct companies based in Oregon
Defunct companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct computer systems companies
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Technology companies established in 1987
Technology companies disestablished in 2004
Thin clients
X Window System
Gold–aluminium intermetallic. Gold–aluminium intermetallic is a type of intermetallic compound of gold and aluminium that usually forms at contacts between the two metals. Gold–aluminium intermetallic have different properties from the individual metals, such as low conductivity and high melting point depending on their composition. Due to the difference of density between the metals and intermetallics, the growth of the intermetallic layers causes reduction in volume, and therefore creates gaps in the metal near the interface between gold and aluminium.

The production of gaps lowers the strength of the metal compound, which can cause mechanical failure at the joint, fostering the problems that the intermetallics causes in metal compounds. In microelectronics, these properties can cause problems in wire bonding.

The main compounds formed are usually Au5Al2 (white plague) and AuAl2 (purple plague), both of which form at high temperatures, then Au5Al2 and AuAl2 can further react with Au to form more stable compound, Au2Al.

Properties 
Au5Al2 has low electrical conductivity and relatively low melting point. Au5Al2's formation at the joint causes increase of electrical resistance, which can lead to electrical failure. Au5Al2 typically forms at 95% of Au and 5% of Al by mass, its melting point is about 575 °C, which is the lowest among the major gold-aluminum intermetallic compounds. AuAl2 is a brittle bright-purple compound, with a composition of about 78.5% Au and 21.5% Al by mass.

AuAl2 is the most thermally stable species of the Au–Al intermetallic compounds, with a melting point of 1060 °C (see phase diagram), which is similar to the melting point of pure gold. AuAl2 can react with Au, therefore is often replaced by Au2Al, a tan-colored substance, which forms at composition of 93% of Au and 7% of Al by mass. It is also a poor conductor and can cause electrical failure of the joint, which can further lead to mechanical failure.

Voiding 
At lower temperatures, about 400–450 °C, an interdiffusion process takes place at the junction, leading to formation of layers of different gold-aluminum intermetallic compounds with different growth rates. Gaps are formed as the denser and faster-growing layers consume the slower-growing layers. This process is known as the Kirkendall voiding, which leads to both increased electrical resistance and mechanical weakening of the wire bond. When the voids forms along the diffusion front, this process is aided by contaminants present in the lattice, and is known as the Horsting voiding, which is a similar process to the Kirkendall voiding.

See also
 Colored gold
 Tin whiskers

References

External links 
 Harvard: Gold Aluminium Intermetallics
 Aluminium aurate – purple gold

Corrosion
Gold
Aluminides
Integrated circuits
Intermetallics
NATO CRONOS. Crisis Response Operations in NATO Operating Systems (CRONOS) is a system of interconnected computer networks used by NATO to transmit classified information. It provides NATO Secret level operations, with access to NATO intelligence applications and databases. As of 1999, a wide area network of NT computers used in NATO in Europe. 
CRONOS provides e-mail, the Microsoft Office Suite, etc. 
It provides informal messaging (e-mail) and information sharing within the NATO community. 
There is no connectivity between CRONOS and any US network or with the coalition wide area network.

See also
 SIPRNet – U.S. Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
 RIPR – U.S. / Korea Coalition Network
 UK Networks
 Joint Operational Command System (JOCS)
 Defence Information Infrastructure
 Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) FIRECREST

References

External links 
  Newsletter for Information Assurance Technology Professionals, Spring 1999

NATO
Wide area networks
Military communications