In the early 2000s, Robert Harris, now the base's chief of engineering, organized a department outing on the property, including golf on six holes mowed for the occasion.
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"It takes discipline not to hire some of these people, they are so smart, " says engineering chief Alan Eustace.
Team engineering chief Paddy Lowe says it is unusual for them to run a split strategy on the cars but that it comes down to driver preference.
"Most people in the nuclear industry are in the autumn of their careers, " observes Kevin Thomas, chief executive of engineering firm Babcock's support services, which will be working with Hitachi.
If all goes as planned, GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) hopes the coordinated global strategy will shave 30% to 50% off its engineering costs, which account for up to half of the costs of developing a new vehicle, according to James Queen , GM's engineering chief.
Walter Baumy, the agency's engineering division chief, said the Corps is trying to line up rock, sandbags, barges, helicopters and cranes to patch the damaged levees.
Ford's chief of environmental and safety engineering, Sue Cischke, is similarly cautious.
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Climbing to 17, 000 feet was bumpy, and I turned the controls over to Terry Tomeny, a former F-16 jock and now chief of flight-test engineering for Eclipse.
As Ford's investment in electrified vehicles such as Fusion Hybrid increased, so did the size of the Sustainable Mobility Technologies team behind it, said Chuck Gray, Ford chief engineer, Global Core Engineering Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.
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The attendees have included chief legal officer David Drummond, senior vice president of engineering Jeff Huber, senior vice president of product management Jonathan Rosenberg, and YouTube chief Salar Kamangar, said people familiar with the matter.
Chief executive Craig Gallagher, who led the original management buyout of the company from engineering group Motherwell Bridge in 2007, will be chief executive of the enlarged business.
On June 1 he takes over as chief executive of Foster Wheeler , the engineering company that recently moved its headquarters to Geneva from New Jersey.
Alexander Zaitsev, chief scientist at the Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, disagrees.
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Mr Mehdorn's adventures with Deutsche Bahn began when he joined as chief executive in 1999, after a career at engineering firms.
Chief Engineer Anthony Gervasio and Qualified Member of the Engineering Department (QMED) Louis Longlois, crewmembers of the offshore supply vessel Damon B.
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"We are pleased to be working with Evatran's highly experienced engineering team, " said Jorg Lorscheider, chief marketing officer of Syncroness.
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"Being able to provide our customers with the best overall efficiency of any retail EV has always been a key target for the Spark EV engineering team, " said Pam Fletcher, GM executive chief engineer for electrified vehicles.
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The company's chief executive, Bill Alexander, said the business did have a future in engineering but it was unlikely to involve building ships.
Scottish Engineering has announced who will take over as the company's new chief executive.
He also identifies with NYSE Chief Executive John Thain, who, like Cummings, is a Midwesterner with an engineering background.
Vala Afshar, CMO and Chief Customer Officer of Enterasys Networks and Brad Martin, Enterasys VP of quality and engineering operations have written The Pursuit of Social Business Excellence.
Three weeks ago Wojcicki was promoted to senior vice president in charge of product management and engineering, one of seven generals reporting to newly installed commander-in-chief Larry Page.
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Stephen Ball, chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin UK, owner of UK Seabed Resources, says the engineering experience of offshore oil and gas operations and the trend to rising mineral prices have now combined to make seabed mining feasible.
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Non-automotive judges were Michael Zimbalist, vice president of research and development operations for The New York Times Company who is a co-founder and former president of the Online Publishers Association (OPA), and Joseph Essas, chief technology officer of the online restaurant reservation service, OpenTable, and formerly vice president of engineering for Yahoo!
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Their chief engineer was William Douglass, part of the Douglass family who were legends in the lighthouse-engineering business.
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In April, the previous Nasa chief, Dr Michael Griffin, joined the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering.
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