He became chief engineer for the Prius, the world's first mass-produced petrol-electric hybrid car, in 1996.

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He loved the railroad and became a locomotive engineer.

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While working there, he went to a mining college and became an engineer.

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He became the department's Essex County resident engineer in January 2005, overseeing road and bridge projects and all DOT maintenance personnel in the county.

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He joined NASA as a research engineer 2001 and became an astronaut in 2004 after applying for 12 straight years.

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He had risen in Japanese National Railways to became a director and chief engineer, a post once held by his father.

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Ulf Rittinghaus, Sachsenring's chief executive, says that he became interested in the Trabant site after a chance meeting, and persuaded his brother Ernst, an engineer, to join him in buying it for DM10m in 1993.

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