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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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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

“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

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

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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