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engineer

[en-juh-neer] / ˌɛn dʒəˈnɪər /




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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

Wangchuk, an engineer, a respected educationist and climate activist from the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh, joined the protest on 29 June and began an indefinite hunger strike.

From BBC 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

Nuclear engineer Atsufumi Yoshizawa had been working from a disaster-response station about 3 miles from the plant.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The centre now brings together more than 200 researchers, engineers and technicians working with collaborators around the world.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Qualified engineers last year had an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, according to the FEA data, an increase of almost 50 percent compared to 2022.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 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

Professional groups representing cancer researchers, civil engineers, county governments, medical schools, housing agencies, city and municipal governments, nonprofits and others have publicly expressed concerns about potential consequences.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

So, that day, as the engineers gathered their papers and prepared to go to the meeting, I decided to ask them, “Can I go too?”

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

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

It was a formulation almost engineered to generate speculation.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates have identified the strait as a persistent vulnerability that must be engineered around.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

To investigate, Strittmatter and his team produced 4,400 groups of cells, each engineered to display a different surface protein.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Pathways range across fields including engineering, information technology, agriculture, public policy and entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The developers hired engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti to conduct an independent forensic analysis of the incident, the buildings department said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 2026

The vehicle is a hybrid engineering development version of the Mars Perseverance and Curiosity rovers.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

“I’ve noticed a steep decline in the ability of students to do work in my classes,” said Pradeep Sen, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Barbara.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

“MIT has an amazing civil and environmental engineering program. That’s what I want to do, be a civil engineer.”

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan




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