He also identifies with NYSE Chief Executive John Thain, who, like Cummings, is a Midwesterner with an engineering background.
As an entrepreneur with an engineering background, I have certain biases and strengths.
My initial interest was due to my electrical engineering background, I always thought that millimeter wave band was not suitable for long distance transmissions.
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"The experiential learning is more valuable than the money at this point, " says Nicole Quesada, a McCombs student with a chemical-engineering background who is working on Yoo-hoo.
Austerity reflects Bukaka's nuts-and-bolts engineering background.
For all its cosmopolitan ambitions, the governing elite of German business is still made up almost entirely of men in their 50s or 60s, mainly with an engineering background, whose formative experience was growing up in the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder, where production was king and shareholders were all but invisible.
Executives with a background in engineering, accounting, or finance were plain clumsy at it.
In fact, the only member of the commission with any background in engineering specializes in physics and optics.
Other students, like 2008 Stern alum Mark and his teammate, Langone MBA1 Yao Pang, hold background degrees in Engineering.
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Barra, 49, is by all accounts an impressive leader with a valuable background in manufacturing engineering, great people skills and a tremendous work ethic.
But how can an entrepreneur, without a background in computer programming or engineering develop an application?
Few have the background in oil and gas engineering to help Petrobras expand its operations in deep sea drilling off the Atlantic.
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Hennessy, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science with 23 years at Stanford, has the right background to figure out the university's new role.
Steven Hillion is vice president of analytics at EMC Greenplum, and has led engineering at firms such as Siebel, KANA and QRS. His educational background includes a major in number theory at the University of California, Berkeley, which got him thinking about moving software engineering closer toward mathematical applications.
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And the important thing is that you have a good, solid background in the technical fields -- the science, the technology, the engineering and the math -- to build on that, because once everyone comes and is selected as an astronaut, we all train generically for space flight, and then we train specifically for our mission.
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