engineer
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Peter Rawlinson, the chief engineer on Tesla’s Model S who led Lucid after it went public, left the company in February 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“You can expect to pay considerably more for a good long cable than a good short cable,” says Ken Shirriff, a former Google software engineer who blogs about computer history and electronics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"For 10 years, we have been producing a constant 300,000 cubic metres per year" of drinking water, said Fabio Pupillo, an engineer for Sopes, the company that manages the desalination plant in Vulcano.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
After a stint at his own animation studio, Ub returned to Disney as a special effects engineer, pioneering techniques like the 360-degree motion-picture camera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Tom Musick, another junior engineer, was with him.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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The centre now brings together more than 200 researchers, engineers and technicians working with collaborators around the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But years of stagnant growth in Europe's biggest economy and increasingly fierce Chinese competition are now taking their toll on young engineers like Peil.
From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026
Under white tents on a baseball field, more than 80 American doctors, technicians and water sanitation engineers are treating patients at a modern field hospital in response to the recent earthquakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
When SpaceX's Starship lifted off from the Texas coast in the summer of 2023, it marked a milestone that aerospace engineers had discussed for decades but few expected to witness so soon.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Once in possession of this information, American engineers were able to anticipate the Soviets' capabilities and to design planes and missiles that could outmaneuver and outmatch them.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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It was a formulation almost engineered to generate speculation.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
The universal popularity of USB-C means the market is now flooded with cheaply made, poorly engineered charging accessories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Our approach relies on engineered metamaterials that are designed to control how waves propagate."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
"They keep adding. Now you put more weight, and when you put more weight, that's what's going to happen when it's not engineered correctly or installed incorrectly," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
In January 1939, the cyclotron’s six-ton vacuum tank, engineered by Bill Brobeck, was slid in between the magnet poles.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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In response, the U.S. is mobilizing private capital, engineering talent, entrepreneurial risk-taking and strategic government support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Pathways range across fields including engineering, information technology, agriculture, public policy and entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The vehicle is a hybrid engineering development version of the Mars Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The achievement reflects a broader transformation in neuroscience, where progress increasingly depends as much on engineering and computation as on biology.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
One hundred thousand pounds worth of German engineering.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
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