About nine months ago, Brown said, he got an additional first engineer, yet the crew was still overloaded with work.
Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, is the first engineer to head the institution.
While a computer science student at the University of Louisville, he was the first engineer at Netzee, a payments company, that went public and was later acquired by Fidelity.
Mayer, 36, joined Google in 1999 as its first female engineer and 20th employee and quickly ascended the executive ranks, first as VP of search and now as VP of local and maps.
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For early employees with equity stakes in the company like Owen Byrne, the site's first lead engineer, the failure to sell the company was a huge disappointment.
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Sanghvi, who will report to Dropbox CEO Houston in her new role, was the first female engineer at Facebook and worked on products including News Feed and led product management for products including Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
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Leena Gade is the first woman race engineer to win the 24 Hours of Lemans.
Like many leading management thinkers, Porter trained first as an engineer.
The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten Erector Tips subscriptions and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.
The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten subscriptions to Erector Tips and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.
At a Stockholm hospital in 1958, a 43-year-old engineer became the first person to receive an implanted pacemaker.
Should I first work as a mechanical engineer or in a start-up?
The engineer and tinkerer first went about designing an accurate, miniature 3D representation of his summer house in a CAD program, with the help of his wife.
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On his hippy quest in the mid 1970s, Jobs backpacked around India with a college friend -- and, later, the first Apple employee -- engineer Daniel Kottke, in search of philosophical enlightenment.
For the next 45 minutes, Haynes, First Officer Bill Records, engineer Dudley Dvorak and instructor Dennis Fitch would need all their strength and good ideas to re-invent how to fly the DC-10.
Green Throttle Games was co-founded by Charles Huang, co-creator of the legendary Guitar Hero video game franchise, and mobile industry veterans Matt Crowley, former Palm and Nokia product lead, and Karl Townsend, lead engineer for the first two generations of the Palm Pilot.
Knoblauch, who spent 20 years at Honeywell and is the first outsider and non-engineer to run UL, turned over 34% of the 6, 000-strong work force (with more cuts coming as this issue went to press), spent tens of millions on new computer systems and expanded overseas.
His grandfather Auguste, also an engineer, was the first man to take a balloon into the stratosphere.
Chief engineer Chris Dyer said first and third on the grid was a "fantastic result" for the two drivers and for Ferrari's chances of winning the constructors' title.
Yahoo researcher Bradley Horowitz first heard of Flickr from a Yahoo engineer in Bangalore, then urged his bosses to buy it.
Before leaving the Bell Rocket Belt, it's worth noting that Mr. Li's essential innovation powering a jetpack by way of a pressurized umbilicus is exactly how Bell engineer Wendell Moore tested his first prototype in the late 1950s, except Mr. Moore used nitrogen gas instead of water.
Jane: Which is precisely what the Transco engineer failed to do on the first visit.
In 1845, the first pneumatic tires were patented by British civil engineer Robert Thompson.
In 1770, Edward Naime , an English engineer, created and began selling the first rubber erasers.
As an engineer and explorer, one of his first challenges was to design and build cost-effective submarines that were lighter and easier to maneuver.
Brocious was hired to reverse engineer hotel locks, and Onity was his first target.
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The bulls will counter that, at the first sign of serious weakness, the Federal Reserve would engineer a collapse in mortgage-borrowing costs.
Rolls was also a trained engineer who was a promising pilot, the first to complete a double crossing of the English Channel.
The work of others like the engineer Tommy Flowers, who helped build the first programmable computer at Bletchley, named Colossus, was also left unacknowledged.
During the Skoll Forum, I will have the pleasure of introducing three of these First Mover Fellows: a financial expert, an engineer and a corporate strategist.
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