Freighters—A General Survey

1959 ◽  
Vol 63 (579) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. D. Keen
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Chief Designer ◽  
Motor Industry ◽  
Classical Paper ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Strong Representation ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
The University

The 32nd Main Lecture of the Society to be given at a Branch Centre, “ Freighters—A General Survey “ by Mr. E. D. Keen, B.Sc., A.F.I.A.S., F.R.Ae.S., was held under the auspices of the Birmingham Branch on 4th December 1958.MR. F. F. CROCOMBE, F.R.Ae.S., President of the Birmingham Branch, opened the meeting by reminding those present that this was the second Main lecture to be held at the Birmingham Branch since its formation in 1944. The Branch had never been a large one and now numbered about 100 members drawn from local aviation enthusiasts and representatives of aircraft equipment and motor industry firms in the area. There was some longer-range support from Coventry and Wolverhampton but little from their own Birmingham University. Mr. Crocombe then welcomed the visitors, particularly the strong representation from Armstrong Whitworth and Blackburn and General Aircraft Ltd. He welcomed especially the President of the Society, Sir Arnold Hall, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.Ae.S. who would preside over the rest of the proceedings.After thanking the Birmingham Branch for their hospitality, SIR ARNOLD HALL, said that the holding of Main lectures at Branches had proved to be extremely popular and the practice should certainly be continued with enthusiasm. Introducing the lecturer, the President said that Mr. Keen had been a leading member of the Branch for a long time and was at present its Vice-President. Educated at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where he took a degree of the University of London, Mr. Keen had joined Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft Ltd. in 1928 and had been with the Company ever since. He became Assistant Chief Designer in 1949 and since 1955 he had been Chief Designer. In 1955 the Society had awarded him the Simms Gold Medal for a classical paper on “ Integral Construction.” His subject now was “ Freighters,” which was a part of aeronautical engineering that he had made particularly his own, first by study and later by putting his ideas into practice.

STOL—Some Possibilities and Limitations

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (669) ◽  
pp. 825-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Mair
Keyword(s):  
Fluid Motion ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Wind Tunnels ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Subsonic Speed ◽  
Lecture Theatre ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
Chief Interest ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

The Ninth Lanchester Memorial Lecture was given by Professor W. A. Mair, MA, FRAeS, on “STOL—Some Possibilities and Limitations” in the Society's Lecture Theatre on 12th May 1966. The Chair was taken by the President, Mr. A. D. Baxter, MEng, CEng, FRAeS. Before the lecture he presented the Society's Gold Medal for 1965 to Professor M. J. Lighthill, DSc, FRS, FRAeS, for “his outstanding original work in many fields of Aeronautics”, explaining that Professor Lighthill had been unable to be present at the Wilbur and Orville Wright Memorial Lecture in December 1965 when the Society's main awards for the year were presented.The President then said that this was the first meeting of the Society since his installation as President and it was a very pleasant way to start his year in office with first, the presentation of the Gold Medal to one distinguished scientist and second, the introduction of another as the Lanchester Memorial Lecturer.There would be many members of the Society who would remember Dr. Lanchester, his attendance at lectures and his contributions to the discussions. It was true, however, that the real stature of such men was rarely recognised at close quarters and often only in the light of later developments was the importance of their work realised. It was 20 years since Dr. Lanchester's death and their Memorial Lecture was in its ninth year. Each year, each President had added a tribute to this great man. He was a man of many parts—a scientist, musician, poet and engineer and aeronautics owed much to him. It was fitting that the Lecture had established a tradition of surveying some field of research associated with aerodynamics, in which Lanchester was so eminent. He thought that Lanchester would approve of both the subjects discussed and the distinguished men who had honoured his memory by presenting them. Before introducing Professor Mair he wished to welcome Mrs. Lanchester and Mr. George Lanchester and his wife, and Mrs. Mair.Professor Mair must be well known to most of them. After graduating in Mechanical Sciences at Cambridge in 1939 he had joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where he scent some six years in the Aerodynamics Department doing research on high subsonic speed, both in the wind tunnels and in full-scale flight. In 1946 he had gone to the University of Manchester as Director of the Fluid Motion Laboratory and since 1952 he had held the Francis Mond Chair of Aeronautical Engineering at Cambridge. His chief interest there had been mainly in low speed aerodynamics and his authority in that field was widely recognised. In 1963 he had been appointed Chairman of the Powered Lift Committee of the Aeronautical Research Council.

EARLY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CPAs AND THE SEC*

1979 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Carey
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Certified Public Accountants ◽  
American Institute ◽  
Public Accountants

The recollections of John L. Carey about the policies and politics in professional circles during the very important period when the Securities Exchange Commission first came into being. Mr. Carey served the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants in various capacities from 1925 to 1969, including editor of The Journal of Accountancy and Administrative Vice-president, and received the Institute's gold medal for distinguished service to the profession.

The Pransky interview: Dr Yoky Matsuoka, Vice President Technology, Nest Labs

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 481-486
Author(s):  
Joanne Pransky
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Smoke Detector ◽  
Foundation Engineering ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University

Purpose – This article is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution, commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. Design/methodology/approach – The interviewee is Dr Yoky Matsuoka, the Vice President of Nest Labs. Matsuoka describes her career journey that led her from a semi-professional tennis player who wanted to build a robot tennis buddy, to a pioneer of neurobotics who then applied her multidisciplinary research in academia to the development of a mass-produced intelligent home automation device. Findings – Dr Matsuoka received a BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and in Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. Dr Matsuoka was formerly the Torode Family Endowed Career Development Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and Ana Loomis McCandless Professor of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2010, she joined Google X as one of its three founding members. She then joined Nest as VP of Technology. Originality/value – Dr Matsuoka built advanced robotic prosthetic devices and designed complementary rehabilitation strategies that enhanced the mobility of people with manipulation disabilities. Her novel work has made significant scientific and engineering contributions in the combined fields of mechanical engineering, neuroscience, bioengineering, robotics and computer science. Dr Matsuoka was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in which she used the Genius Award money to establish a nonprofit corporation, YokyWorks, to continue developing engineering solutions for humans with physical disabilities. Other awards include the Emerging Inventor of the Year, UW Medicine; IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Academic Career Award; Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; and numerous others. She leads the development of the learning and control technology for the Nest smoke detector and Thermostat, which has saved the USA hundreds of billions of dollars in energy expenses. Nest was sold to Google in 2013 for a record $3.2 billion dollars in cash.

If We Do Not Cut the Parables out of Their Frames

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birger Gerhardsson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The University

The New Testament discipline is a rather odd bird within the university. The object of our research is small, a book we can have in our pocket. And the learned work with this book has been carried out for a long time: acute theologians have studied it for almost two millennia and critical scholars for two centuries; there is hardly any counterpart. The secondary literature is as the grains of sand on the sea-shore.

The Pransky interview: Dr Jun Ho Oh, Professor and Director of Humanoid Robot Research Center, KAIST; Cofounder, Rainbow Robotics Co.

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 695-699
Author(s):  
Joanne Pransky
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Humanoid Robot ◽  
Industrial Robot ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Real Time Control ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The University

Purpose The following paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a prominent, robotic industry PhD-turned-entrepreneur regarding the commercialization and challenges of bringing a technological invention to market. This paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The interviewee is Dr Jun Ho Oh, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Director of KAIST’s Hubolab. Determined to build a humanoid robot in the early 2000s to compete with Japan’s humanoids, Dr Oh and KAIST created the KHR1. This research led to seven more advanced versions of a biped humanoid robot and the founding of the Robot for Artificial Intelligence and Boundless Walking (Rainbow) Co., a professional technological mechatronics company. In this interview, Dr Oh shares the history and success of Korea’s humanoid robot research. Findings Dr Oh received his BSc in 1977 and MSc in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 from Yonsei University. Oh worked as a Researcher for the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute before receiving his PhD from the University of California (UC) Berkeley in mechanical engineering in 1985. After his PhD, Oh remained at UC Berkeley to do Postdoctoral research. Since 1985, Oh has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at KAIST. He was a Visiting Professor from 1996 to 1997 at the University of Texas Austin. Oh served as the Vice President of KAIST from 2013-2014. In addition to teaching, Oh applied his expertise in robotics, mechatronics, automatic and real-time control to the commercial development of a series of humanoid robots. Originality/value Highly self-motivated and always determined, Dr Oh’s initial dream of building the first Korean humanoid bipedal robot has led him to become one of the world leaders of humanoid robots. He has contributed widely to the field over the nearly past two decades with the development of five versions of the HUBO robot. Oh led Team KAIST to win the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) and a grand prize of US$2m with its humanoid robot DRC-HUBO+, beating 23 teams from six countries. Oh serves as a robotics policy consultant for the Korean Ministry of Commerce Industry and Energy. He was awarded the 2016 Changjo Medal for Science and Technology, the 2016 Ho-Am Prize for engineering, and the 2010 KAIST Distinguished Professor award. He is a member of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology.

scholarly journals Obituary notices of fellows deceased

1873 ◽  
Vol 21 (139-147) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Physical Investigation ◽  
The North ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

William John Macquorn Rankine was bom at Edinburgh on the 5th July, 1820. He was the son of David Rankine (a lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade, and a younger son of Macquorn Rankine, of Drumdow, of a well-known family in the county of Ayr), and of Barbara Grahame, one of the daughters of Archibald Grahame, of Dalmarnock, a banker in Glasgow. He was educated partly at Ayr Academy, partly at the High School of Glasgow, from which he went to the University of Edinburgh; but he derived much of his instruction from his father, and, like most men who have made any real mark in science, he owed the greater part of his knowledge to his own energy and industry. In 1836 he received a gold medal for an essay on the Undulatory Theory of Light, and in 1838 he gained an extra prize for his essay on Methods of Physical Investigation. Shortly after this date he entered upon the profession of Civil Engineering, as a pupil of Sir John McNeill, under whose direction he was employed from 1839 to 1841 in various schemes for waterworks and harbour-works in the north of Ireland, and on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway.

The Crocodile and the Elephant

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-316
Author(s):  
A. R. Mackintosh
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Gold Medal ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Peter Kapitza ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

In 1907 Ernest Rutherford (later named ‘The Crocodile’ by Peter Kapitza), 36 years old and already a world–famous physicist, moved from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, to the University of Manchester, England. In the same year Niels Bohr (later known by some as ‘The Elephant’––he was one of the very few non–royal recipients of the Order of the Elephant), a 22–year–old student at the University of Copenhagen, received the gold medal of the Royal Danish Academy for his first research project, an experimental and theoretical study of water jets. During the next 30 years, until Rutherford's death in 1937, these two great scientists dominated quantum physics. Rutherford was the father of nuclear physics; together they founded atomic physics; and, with their students and colleagues, they were responsible for the great majority of the decisive advances made in the inter–war years. This lecture tells the story of the development in quantum physics, and makes some comparisons between Bohr and Rutherford–as men and scientists–drawing especially on their extensive correspondence between 1912 and 1937, the material that Bohr gathered in connection with the publication in 1961 of his Rutherford Memorial Lecture, the interviews that he gave just before his death in 1962, and other published and unpublished material from the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.

scholarly journals Interview with Mr. Jeffrey Alderman, CEO, ACBSP

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Alderman Dr.
Keyword(s):  
Kansas City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
General Motors ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Team Student ◽  
The University

SDMIMD is proud in receving the accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programm (ACBSP), US, for our flagship management program PGDM. Mr. Jeffrey Alderman, President/ CEO, ACBSP, recently, has visited India. Prior to joining ACBSP, Mr. Alderman served as Vice President of the Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce overseeing business development for the Chamber by working with small to large scale businesses on consulting, branding, and marketing initiatives. A sampling of member companies includes General Motors, Kansas Speedway, Sporting Kansas City, and The University of Kansas Medical Center. SDMIMD had the honor to have Mr. Alderman in the campus, where he addressed the students and interacted with the faculty members. The Dimension Team (Student Magazine) from SDMIMD has an opportunity to interview Mr. Alderman on various aspects. The discussion has been summarized below.

scholarly journals Capturing Student Achievement and Learning Pathways at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2022 ◽  
pp. 396-417
Author(s):  
Sherri Nicole Braxton ◽  
Collin Sullivan ◽  
Laura A. Wyatt ◽  
Jalisa Monroe
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Chief Information Officer ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Baltimore County ◽  
University Of Maryland ◽  
Maryland Baltimore County ◽  
Learning Pathways ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Achievement And Learning ◽  
Digital Badging

In 2015, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) recognized the need to capture knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired by students in both co-curricular and curricular endeavors not being captured in any identifiable way. The Vice President of Information Technology and Chief Information Officer desired to document competencies gained by students in the variety of contexts on campus and to track student, faculty, and staff achievements in a way that would both benefit each individual while also supporting the mission of the institution. This vision led to the adoption of a digital badging initiative resulting in a scalable process for implementing new badges throughout the university community. UMBC's digital badging program became the springboard for the institution's entrance into the Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) realm whose objective is to capture all credentials earned by students, whether they be awarded before, during, or following their tenure at the institution.

Gilchrist-James, Gayle

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Kreitzer ◽  
Richard Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
International Federation ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Systems View

Gayle Gilchrist-James (1940–2008) was a leader in social work in Canada and around the world. Through her social work practice, academia, and leadership at the national and international levels, she exemplified what a social worker could do through hard work, vision, and passion. Her wholistic systems view gave her the sense of “no limits” about her life and work. Her leadership was rooted in compassion and a humanitarian perspective. She was a role model to students and faculty at the University of Calgary in her teaching style and how she cared deeply for the students she taught. Her crowning accomplishments were her work with the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) as vice-president (North America) and president and the creation of the IFSW’s Commission on Human Rights.

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