Rachel Lowe from Network Rail said it had been a big engineering challenge.
This time, say reactor vendors and big engineering and construction firms hoping to do the building, things will be different.
CKD, a big engineering concern, and with the Rez nuclear-research institute.
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.
It's a big ship to right, but such a turnabout will depend not on engineering prowess or big investment.
Colleges that are big on research and engineering will be the stars of tomorrow.
These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.
The longtime technology investor points to startup consumer electronics company, Sling Media, as an example of a firm that has California headquarters but relies on overseas operations for a big chunk of its engineering work.
PC-based programming, instead of the specialised code that only the engineering departments of big firms could understand.
He worked three decades for Volkswagen and spent the last 10 years as an independent engineering consultant for big automakers.
Big motor homes require more engineering-intense parts like wrap-around windshields and driver cockpits that can't be bought off the shelf.
Fred Koch studied chemical engineering at MIT and worked for the Soviet Union after big oil companies drove his U.S. refinery-engineering firm to the brink of bankruptcy with patent litigation in the early 1930s.
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That should get around the oddity of trying to rank, say, a small mainly postgraduate outfit concentrating on economics against a big university that does brilliantly at teaching engineering to undergraduates.
Although the process is being tested on a small-scale right now, project lead and University of Warwick engineering professor Jan Baeyens is thinking big.
For example, a firm may move from steel into engineering products because they require steel, then into engineering services, and then become big in elevators causing them to set up a separate division for that too.
Dr. LEE RYBECK LYND (Professor of Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Biology, Dartmouth College): In my lab, one of the big ideas we're working on, is to try to develop microorganisms using genetic engineering, that let us do, in one step, what we're now only able to do in more than one step.
If you're looking for a big paycheck straight out of school, think about an engineering degree.
But in New York, engineering talent is scarce, and salaries are inflated by the big financial firms.
But especially with hybrids such as the C-Max, he says, variables such as temperature, a driver's behavior and the engineering choices Ford makes to balance mileage and performance can make a big difference.
He - if there was a crisis, like the Big Dig tunnel collapse, he took charge and understood all the intricacies of engineering and - better than probably a lot of engineering experts on it.
"We have a real revenue model, a traditionally based one with real margins, not just page views, " says Clayton, who has recruited some big brains from Yahoo, including the creator of Yahoo IM, as well as engineering talent from Facebook and Skype.
" Kindler also said that although Pfizer would consider doing a big acquisition, he was not interested in doing deals "for the purpose of financial engineering.
Still, when the Big Dig is done, perhaps in 2005, it will be a tour de force of civil engineering.
That's pretty ambitious, but Tesla's brought in some big guns to help make it happen -- the company just hired Mike Donoughe as EVP of Vehicle Engineering and Manufacturing.
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"We are betting big on the cloud with our most successful product, and we are investing heavily both in the product engineering side and the physical infrastructure side, " Tim O'Brien, Microsoft's senior director of platform strategy, said last year when the company first unveiled a Web-based version of its Office software.
Mitre, an engineering company, operates in a tight market for talent, with low unemployment for software engineers and big-name competitors such as Lockheed Martin.
At first Kosan set out to be a pure technology outfit, engineering bacteria to randomly produce "libraries" of thousands of new polyketides that could then be sold to big drug firms.
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