After seeing the market for sales jobs dry up, Rudy wants his construction management degree so he can find work as a project engineer at job sites.

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As a leading project engineer in 2002, Mark Apicella had been working on a project for the latest Vectra model, when the shock announcement came of the plant closure.

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When we met him as a First Mover Fellow, he already had a successful track record as a process and project engineer and an assistant branding manager for Vaseline products.

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Released in 2005, Google Reader was begun four years earlier as a project called JavaCollect by independent software engineer Chris Wetherell.

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The data was published by a Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson as part of the Wikitrends project, but gave no explanation as to why Germans read about cul-de-sacs 10, 206, 548 times.

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"It's a really good opportunity for us as young engineers to be prepared early for such a project, " said Ahmed Madi, 26, an engineer from Abu Dhabi who is in a training program at a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden.

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