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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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He grew up in Iran, came to Oklahoma to get a degree in petroleum engineering and joined Chevron just after finishing graduate school in 1978.

From The Wall Street Journal

If not, her back-up plan is a career in the corporate world, having gained a civil engineering degree and a masters in business management.

From BBC

An engineer by training, Wangchuk is best known for pioneering water conservation projects in the Himalayas.

From Barron's

Emil Michael, undersecretary at the Pentagon for research and engineering, has been quick to note that tech companies are the ones scraping the internet for user data.

From The Wall Street Journal

As Lippman puts it, "It's a new window into the evolution of life across eons and a new opportunity to more efficiently engineer or fine-tune crop traits."

From Science Daily