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TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., April 15, 2014 - Senior Airman Axel Fiksman, from the 116th Civil Engineering Squadron (CES), Georgia Air National Guard, takes a measurement during the construction of a wall during Silver Flag training
During the weeklong course, Guardsmen from the 116th CES and more than 30 other U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard units trained on building and maintaining bare-base operations at a forward-deployed location. In addition, they honed their combat and survival skills, repaired simulated bomb-damaged runways, set up base facilities and established various critical base operating support capabilities.
(Georgia Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Roger Parsons/Released)
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In its 22nd year, the Engineering Expo is the college’s premier community outreach event. On average, the college welcomes more than 1,500 K-12 students from Miami-Dade and Broward County schools (elementary, middle, and high school) to the FIU Engineering Center to engage with FIU student organizations, researchers and staff, and to discover the endless possibilities of pursuing a degree in engineering or computing.
Vintage postcard. Brigitte Bardot in La vérité / The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960).
French actress Brigitte Bardot (1934) died on 28 December 2025, at the age of 91. In the 1950s, she was the sex kitten of the European film industry. BB starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. After her retirement in 1973, she became an animal rights activist. In the coming weeks, we will continue to post a BB postcard every day to remember her as she once was.
Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris in 1934. Her father, Louis Bardot, had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Her mother, Ann-Marie Mucel, was 14 years younger than Brigitte's father, and they married in 1933. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance. At the age of 13, she entered the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse to study ballet. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying to launch a modelling career and found herself on the cover of the French magazine Elle in May 1949. Her incredible beauty was readily apparent, and Brigitte was noticed by Roger Vadim, then an assistant to the film director Marc Allegrét. Vadim was infatuated with Bardot and encouraged her to start working as a film actress. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand / Crazy for Love (Jean Boyer, 1952). In the same year, she married Vadim. Brigitte wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. In April 1953, she attended the Cannes Film Festival, where she received massive media attention. She soon was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. From 1952 to 1956, she appeared in seventeen films. Her films were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as an ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. In 1953, she made her first US production, Un acte d'amour / Act of Love (Anatole Litvak, 1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France.
Roger Vadim was not content with the light fare his wife was offered. He felt Brigitte Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a smash success on both sides of the Atlantic. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "It's easy enough to say that ...And God Created Woman is much more important for its historical significance than for its actual quality as a film, and that's true to an extent. The immense popularity, due to its willingness to directly embrace an exploration of sex as well as its willingness to show a degree of nudity that was remarkably daring for its day, demonstrated that audiences were willing to view subject matter that was considered too racy for the average moviegoer. This had both positive (freedom to explore, especially for the French filmmakers of the time) and negative (freedom to exploit) consequences, but its impact is undeniable. It's also true that Woman is not a great work of art, not with a story that is ultimately rather thin, some painful dialogue, and an attitude toward its characters and their sexuality that is unclear and inconsistent. Yet Woman is still fascinating, due in no small part to the presence of Brigitte Bardot in the role that made her an international star and sex symbol. She's not demonstrating great acting here, although her performance is actually good and much better than necessary, and her legendary mambo scene at the climax is nothing short of sensational." During the filming of Et Dieu créa la femme / And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956), directed by her husband, Brigitte Bardot had an affair with her co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, who at the time was married to French actress Stéphane Audran. Her divorce from Vadim followed, but they remained friends and collaborated in later work.
Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956) helped Brigitte Bardot's international status. The film took the USA by storm, her explosive sexuality being unlike anything seen in the States since the days of the 'flapper' in the 1920s. It gave rise to the phrase 'sex kitten', and fascination with her in America consisted of magazine photographs and dubbed over French films - good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences - mainly men - into theatres like lemmings. BB appeared in light comedies like Doctor at Large (Ralph Thomas, 1957) - the third of the British 'Doctor' series starring Dirk Bogarde - and Une Parisienne / La Parisienne (Michel Boisrond, 1957), which suited her acting skills best. However, she was a sensation in the crime drama En cas de malheur / Love is My Profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1958). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "This Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief named Yvette, who becomes the mistress of influential defence attorney Andre (Jean Gabin). Though Andre can shower Yvette with jewels and furs, he cannot "buy" her heart, and thus it is that it belongs to handsome young student Mazzetti (Franco Interlenghi). Alas, Yvette is no judge of human nature: attractive though Mazzetti can be, he has a dangerous and deadly side. En Cas de Malheur contains a nude scene that has since been reprinted in freeze-frame form innumerable times by both film-history books and girlie magazines." Photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed considerably to her image of sensuality and slight immorality. One of Lévin's pictures shows Brigitte, dressed in a white corset. It is said that around 1960, postcards with this photograph outsold in Paris those of the Eiffel Tower.
Brigitte Bardot divorced Vadim in 1957, and in 1959 she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre / Babette Goes to War (Christian-Jaque, 1959). The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career
Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world. Vie privée / Private Life (1962), directed by Louis Malle, has more than an element of autobiography in it. James Travers at French Films: "Brigitte Bardot hadn’t quite reached the high point of her career when she agreed to make this film with high-profile New Wave film director Louis Malle. Even so, the pressure of being a living icon was obviously beginning to get to France’s sex goddess, and Vie privée is as much an attempt by Bardot to come to terms with her celebrity as anything else. Malle is clearly fascinated by Bardot, and the documentary approach he adopts for this film reinforces the impression that it is more a biography of the actress than a work of fiction. Of course, it’s not entirely biographical, but the story is remarkably close to Bardot’s own life and comes pretty close to predicting how her career would end." The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century. Soon afterwards, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France.
Brigitte Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire Playboy Gunter Sachs and right-wing politician Bernard d'Ormale. She is reputed to have had relationships with many other men, including Samy Frey, her co-star in La Vérité / The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960), and musicians Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In 1963, Brigitte Bardot starred in Jean-Luc Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris / Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) opposite Michel Piccoli. She was also featured along with such notable actors as Alain Delon in Amours célèbres / Famous Love Affairs (Michel Boisrond, 1961) and Histoires extraordinaires /Tales of Mystery (Louis Malle, 1968), Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria! (Louis Malle, 1965), Sean Connery in Shalako (Edward Dmytryk, 1968), and Claudia Cardinale in Les Pétroleuses / Petroleum Girls (Christian-Jaque, 1971). She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including 'Harley Davidson', 'Le Soleil De Ma Vie' (the cover of Stevie Wonder's 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life') and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'.
Brigitte Bardot’s film career showed a steady decline in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1973, just before her fortieth birthday, she announced her retirement. She chose to use her fame to promote animal rights. In 1976, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings. For this work, she was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1984. During the 1990s, she was also outspoken in her criticism of immigration, interracial relationships, Islam in France and homosexuality. Her husband Bernard d'Ormal was a former adviser of the far-right Front National party. Bardot has been convicted five times for 'inciting racial hatred'. More fun is that Bardot is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear, in such early films as Manina / Woman without a Veil (Willy Rozier, 1952), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. Bardot also brought into fashion the 'choucroute' ('Sauerkraut') hairstyle (a sort of beehive hairstyle) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her. Time Magazine: "She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films."
Sources: Denny Jackson (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Craig Butler (AllMovie), James Travers (French Films), French Films, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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REC IV Week 7 Followup A Solution (second attempt) by Bill Ward
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This was based on a design I submitted, but the contest organizer changed it just enough that I had no idea how to solve it for a while, but I eventually figured it out (see previous photo). After posting that I figured out a somewhat better design.
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2022-23 - Soccer (Boys) - B Championship - Leon M. Goldstein HS for Science (0) v. HS For Math, Science and Engineering @ CCNY (3)
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Future engineers receive their education in international degree programmes at Valkeakoski Campus.
Valkeakoski Campus offers two degree programmes in the field of engineering:
- Degree Programme in Industrial Management and Engineering
- Degree Programme Automation Engineering
Astronaut Rex Walheim spoke at the USA Science and Engineering Festival on April 25, 2014 at the NASA Stage. The festival was open to the public on April 26 and 27, 2014 and was held at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
Professor Adam Anderson.Biomedical Engineering Professors interacting with students in their labs. (Daniel Dubois / Vanderbilt University).
A mercury capture system, developed by Argonne National Laboratory and the EPA, significantly reduces the amount of vaporized mercury produced by gold shops. Read more »
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"Engineering Concepts" by Melissa Cody, Transparency--Graphic Art based on the works of Brian D. Prater of www.Cavetronics.com
Cadets enrolled in the Mechanical Engineering 450 created a low cost, reusable, waterand air powered bottle rocket capable of lifting a reconnaissance payload of 4-AA batteries for over-the horizon observation during their lab Oct 19, in front of Washington Hall. The class took advantage of the beautiful fall weather at West Point. The mission profile is to design adevice for maximum possible altitude to reach a target landing area 150-feet from the launch platform. ME 450 is Mechanical Engineering Design of Army Systems and is the third course in the ME 3-course engineering sequence. Photo by Tommy Gilligan/PV
Ant engineering inside the AntWorks habitat. Instead of building their tunnels in the sand the AntWorks habitat uses some sort of gel that is not only their home but also their source of food.
Major engineering work to renew Stoats Nest Junction (Coulsdon) has led to main London-Gatwick-Brighton line being blocked from Christmas to New Year.
Alternative routes advertised include trains running to Gatwick via Sutton, Dorking and Horsham ; to Brighton via Dorking, Horsham and Littlehampton ; fast trains to East Grinstead for bus connections to Gatwick and Three Bridges ; and buses linking Coulsdon Town (on the Tattenham Corner branch) with Redhill, Gatwick and Three Bridges.
The Coulsdon Town service has provided a use for the crossovers and signals installed to facilitate terminating trains that were installed when Coulsdon North was closed. However, the facility has not been regularly used for many years.
Buses from Coulsdon Town were operated by Go-Ahead London General with a mixture of vehicles, many running non-stop via the M23 motorway to Gatwick or Three Bridges. The stopping services to Redhill I saw were being operated by Metrobus who are of course also a Go-Ahead company.
Plenty of rail and Go-ahead staff were on site to assist passengers with luggage of which there seemed to be a great deal.
It was probably as well that there werew no school services required as this meant spare buses and crews were available ; including work for the Tridents with LED destination displays which cannot, of course, operate TfL services.
Engineering Senior Design Day participants present their projects for faculty and judges at Featheringill Hall. (John Russell/Vanderbilt University)
Lecturer IV Mark Brehob, center, helps with Tejal Mahajan, left, and Guthrie Tabios, both computer engineering undergraduate students, as they work together in the in the EECS building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, September 28, 2022.
The 373/473 lab, was led by both Matthew Smith, an adjunct assistant professor, and Mark Brehob, a lecturer IV, both from Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The two were on hand to answer questions and offer advice as students utilized the lab for projects that ranged from motion and robotics, to personally selected design/build endeavors.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Kendall Baker taking part in Building and Racing a Sailboat workshop on the second day of Xplore Engineering on North Campus on Friday, July 1, 2022, in Ann Arbor.
In the workshop students constructed their own small wooden sailboat which they then got to race in the Lurie Reflecting Pool. They were given time to determine if their models would sink or float and how to make adjustments to utilize the wind for maximum speed.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Last time I was here with engineering around Hessle Road Junction itself, right outside the box, I was one of those in orange on track back in 2009 when I worked for VolkerRail and thirteen years later I'm back but inside the signal box looking out as the signaller.
Funny how things turn out.