Albert is a development mechanical engineer working on what his company hopes will be Croatia's first electric car.

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The university's mechanical engineering department was given the bus by the federal government early this year for research and development, said mechanical engineering professor Vernon Roan.

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Its introduction led to the development of mechanical calculators across Europe.

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She joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineer summer intern and later assumed roles in product development and planning.

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Aside from mechanical challenges, what was missing that may have spurred personal robotics development was a dedicated programming language specifically for robot control and communication.

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Those stemmed from flaws in the software that operates the systems of mechanical docks and payment kiosks, according to city officials and people familiar with the system's development.

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