engineer
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Born in 1954 in Masjed Soleyman in southwestern Iran and trained as a mechanical engineer, Rezaei joined al-Mansouroun, a guerrilla group fighting the Shah’s regime that became a proving ground for Iran’s future security establishment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Just ask Temitayo Ogunduyilemi, a Baltimore-based industrial engineer working with bio-medical supply chains.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Instead of searching nature for a substance with the needed properties, the LSU team chose to engineer one from the ground up.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Rail engineer and writer Gareth Dennis also drew a link between the incident and the funding pressures and job cuts Network Rail has faced.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
So the engineer will open something they call a “blow-off valve” to release some of the steam and ease the pressure on the engine.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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“Samsung chip engineers haven’t traditionally had to think about this type of stuff,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
In an update at 05:40 BST on Saturday, the airport warned passengers the problems were ongoing, but that engineers were on site working as quickly as possible to resolve it.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Materials such as boron arsenide may allow engineers to direct heat along planned routes with nanoscale accuracy instead of waiting for it to spread and then trying to remove it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Now, programmers, telecoms specialists and engineers are fully integrated into the army.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
I spent sixteen months on Okinawa, where I served with a unit of army engineers.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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When light reaches the chip, it moves across the gold surface and interacts with the engineered meta-atoms.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Streets were engineered to move vehicles as quickly as possible, while the one road user every citizen inevitably becomes - the pedestrian - largely disappeared from planners' imagination.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
RP1 is engineered to kill tumor cells directly and then trigger a broader immune response.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It has presumably been engineered by a team, calibrated for refrigeration and focus-grouped into broad acceptability, yet it feels made by no one.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
I also told them how you were engineered to be really smart and that you are learning new things every day.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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Back in Gaza, the computer engineering student expressed the frustration felt by many.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Earlier this year, and just one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He says he’s spent $350,000 of his own funds in engineering studies and advocacy to advance the path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Duke wrote that “we face a persistent challenge: a shortage of skilled workers. The demand for craft labor, engineering talent and project management experience exceeds supply.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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