engineer
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“Aircraft should ‘refuse to be destroyed,’” Don Bateman, the late Honeywell engineer, once told an industry magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
US chemical engineer Robert Langer, known for work in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering, also often features in Nobel speculation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
They brought in experts Tim Pennells and Michael Parker — the latter is currently Harry Styles’ sound engineer — to run the electronic engineering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Federal Reserve officials showed no desire to engineer a series of interest-rate hikes at their policy meeting in September, according to minutes of the gathering that were released Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
“There are no theories how to engineer the device,” he says sadly.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
By collecting information about impacts, seismic activity, and the surrounding environment, LEMS-SP could help engineers develop safer and more reliable infrastructure for a permanent Moon base.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
But he hoped to meet with Anthropic engineers to discuss, among other things, how to bring down the cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
At its headquarters in the West Midlands of the U.K., designers were tasked with conjuring up a sleek silhouette that engineers had to transform into a viable machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Glasgow's concentration of universities, engineers and specialist suppliers, built up over two decades, would be difficult to replicate elsewhere.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He stood stiffly, like one of Dad’s junior engineers after their first day in the mine.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
A draft of the study didn’t propose only one solution but advocated for 23 different strategies, including bluff stabilization, catchment walls, sand placement, engineered revetments or seawalls and rail-foundation improvements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That we engineered dogs to communicate successfully with us doesn’t mean the machinery inside their heads works like ours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Stafford engineered a nine-play, 98-yard drive that Williams finished with a one-yard touchdown run to cut the deficit to 20-17 with less than four minutes left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Rather than serving only as an empty backdrop, the quantum vacuum can potentially be engineered to influence the behavior of matter itself.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
It engineered a successful campaign to force an adult bookstore out of the downtown.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
But Hamilton and her team had planned for such an error by engineering "priority-driven software" to shut down any background tasks and favour the most important - the Moon landing - according to MIT.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
They brought in experts Tim Pennells and Michael Parker — the latter is currently Harry Styles’ sound engineer — to run the electronic engineering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Instead of requiring patients to wait while their cells are collected, modified, expanded, and returned, the necessary genetic engineering could potentially happen inside the patient.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
US chemical engineer Robert Langer, known for work in drug delivery systems and tissue engineering, also often features in Nobel speculation.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“There are rumors it is hidden in an ancient engineering work. We believe it could be sealed within one of the gates of the Panama Canal.”
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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