No one would hire an engineer to build an airplane because he once constructed a highway.
They engineer and build plants, and make factory machinery for the automotive industry, in particular paint shops.
Now he has one major task to tackle, and it's harder than trimming any cost: to engineer and build great, profitable, desirable vehicles in every segment, for weakened brands such as Buick and Pontiac, and for strong brands such as Chevy, Cadillac and GMC.
"People are sharing things they clearly don't want to share with the entire planet, " said Will Moffat, a 32-year-old software engineer who helped build the site.
"The faculty don't necessarily understand how venture capital works, and the venture capitalists say, 'We're not ATM machines, '" says Holly, 43, an MIT-trained engineer who helped build two technology companies in the 1990s before returning to academia as a champion of commercialization.
He wanted to do things, while I was more the engineer-technologist who wanted to build things.
The work of others like the engineer Tommy Flowers, who helped build the first programmable computer at Bletchley, named Colossus, was also left unacknowledged.
It is, for example, easy to distinguish between a project engineer, who downloads drawings to build the required parts, and a project administrator, who views those drawings more sporadically in order to chart progress, but does not actually download them on to his own computer.
You cannot reverse engineer a phenomenon and create plans to build a new one.
He was a Hewlett-Packard engineer in the 1960s, eager to build a large-screen display monitor, when company founder David Packard told him it was a stupid idea.
Company President Peter Goltra, an engineer by training, began thinking about how to build a software engine to help doctors more quickly access patient information more than thirty years ago.
But anyone who thought that there was going to be a slowdown in infrastructure build-out this year, as the government tries to engineer a soft landing to its spectacular economic growth, need only stare at the Shanghai skyline for a few days, if not just a few minutes.
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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.
Though Bala is an engineer with a specialty in electric motors, neither he nor Hemalatha had tried to build or sell an electric vehicle.
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The robot, developed by German engineer Bernd Brodbeck and Kiener Maschinenbau, a manufacturer of automated industrial systems, is a tool to build solar power plants rather than operate them.
In 1993, the French department of public works staged an open competition to build a high bypass bridge between plateaus at the top of the gorge, based on an initial concept by its engineer, Michel Virlogeux, who proposed a multispan, cable-stayed bridge with a phalanx of seven masts supporting cable fans.
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