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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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So he tried his hand as a computer engineer, working at Copenhagen-based Aller Media and then Pistachio, a Norwegian cybersecurity firm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

It also taps into nostalgia for the toy cars, which originated after English engineer Jack Odell designed the first model to comply with a 1952 British school rule requiring toys to fit inside a matchbox.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Campaigns are won at the end by momentum," said Joseph Robinson, an engineer who attended the Avila fish-market event in Tampa.

From BBC ● 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

And I toasted Dr. Mae Jemison, a chemical engineer and medical doctor, who became the first African American woman astronaut, in 1992.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

When she started the organization, Naughton noted, there were more talk radio hosts on Capitol Hill than scientists and engineers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

"Our designers are just up the road in Leamington Spa, engineers from across the West Midlands and further afield," Davey added.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Messrs. Farrow and Marantz report “multiple engineers recalled him misusing or confusing basic technical terms.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Ten women made it past the application process—five physicians, three engineers, a scientist, and a test pilot with an engineering degree.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

Rather than treating local acidity as an unavoidable side effect, future chemical reactors could be deliberately engineered to maintain conditions that favor the desired reactions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The company describes it as the "most technically advanced, powerful and aerodynamic Jaguar ever engineered".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

It’s evidence of how successfully we have engineered large language models, but isn’t evidence that the system experiences those emotions as we do.

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

That machine, now turning out radioisotopes and bombarding tumors with neutrons in the Crocker Lab, was the most exquisitely engineered cyclotron in the world, thanks to Brobeck’s painstaking oversight.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Sawitskas has recruited a pair of co-workers, Troy Leverton and Pim Renting, who work in various aspects of ride engineering, to help in the task.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

After all, one of the biggest pet peeves of modern makers is the perception of their craft as being a frivolous hobby, rather than centuries-old skills that served as a foundation of modern engineering.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026

Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, then studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The team's famous software engineering was immortalised in a 1969 photograph of Hamilton standing beside the stack of printed code that towered beside her.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

It was difficult for the armorers who had to load these guns, too, and the women who ended up doing this work weren’t at first particularly interested in bombs or guns or even in engineering.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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