But a survey of 1, 500 engineering firms revealed a slump in orders, output, investment and jobs.
Electrical engineering firms have suffered particularly badly in recent months as demand from technology firms has slumped.
Strategic partnerships can be made with raw material suppliers, research firms, engineering firms, distributors, marketers or installers.
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Engineering firms in Scotland have reported a fall in orders and output but they remain optimistic about their fortunes.
Kurita Water Industries, one of Japan's leading environmental-engineering firms, started building its soil remediation skills over a decade ago.
Mr Mehdorn's adventures with Deutsche Bahn began when he joined as chief executive in 1999, after a career at engineering firms.
The group then approached a dozen engineering firms to kick in proposals.
That could include consultancies, engineering firms, financial institutions and higher education institutions.
Since September 11, a number of design and engineering firms have contacted their professional organizations about recent or past "unusual" requests for blueprints.
For example, NYU and the University of Pennsylvania could rate financial institutions while MIT and Stanford could rate engineering firms, for example.
Scottish engineering firms expect export orders to pick up in the next three months despite a recent dip, according to an industry survey.
Clyde Blowers said the move was part of continuing investment in "mission-critical" engineering firms serving the oil and gas, power and mining sectors.
Ideally, Fuji Xerox wants customers such as stockbrokers, engineering firms and government agencies, which order dozens or even hundreds of copies of a single report or catalogue.
The old Loral acquired Ford's satellite unit in 1990, and Globalstar emerged in its present form through an alliance that Schwartz struck with a few engineering firms and, most importantly, several large wireless providers.
One of the world's leading engineering firms, they have already been responsible the City of Manchester Stadium, the Allianz Arena in Munich as well as the main Olympic venues in both Sydney and Beijing.
These include carmakers, technology companies and engineering firms.
The biggest computer-aided engineering software firms, Ansys, Dassault Systemes and LMS International, a Siemens subsidiary, have enjoyed double-digit revenue growth in recent years as large customers snap up their pricey suites of simulation and material analysis software.
Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.
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Cycle delivers high-bandwidth supercomputer capabilities to scientific, engineering and technical firms many of which are startups.
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This time, say reactor vendors and big engineering and construction firms hoping to do the building, things will be different.
Some of these developers are established engineering and construction firms in the power plant business, or they are owners of fossil fuel power plants.
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He then cleared out the executive ranks, fixed the company's balance sheet and turned the company into one of the most profitable big engineering and construction firms in the world.
So when the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), one of the largest engineering and construction firms in the Middle East, told EFE that it had too few accountants, the foundation, with funding from the CCC, decided to create a new programme to train Gazans for the jobs.
PC-based programming, instead of the specialised code that only the engineering departments of big firms could understand.
Engineering services and accounting firms are among the disciplines expressing the most interest in this year's batch of graduates, according to NACE.
To further its mission, Linaro aims to unite the open source engineering resources within its member firms with the broad open source community.
Even the process of copying must have imparted to the private firms some useful engineering skills that the SOEs have yet really to develop.
International firms including Bosch Engineering, Lockheed Martin, Ashok Leyland, Norgren and Triumph Motorcycles are to be based at the control centre on the site, a spokesman said.
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