The son of a military engineer, he was oddly shy about mechanical specifics.

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Ren, a former military engineer, said the industry must rapidly develop reliable cyberspace technology to support development of education and social skills.

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According to Iran's Irna news agency, Gen Shateri was a military engineer during the 1980-88 war with Iraq and later worked in Afghanistan.

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Hamilton was a military engineer who spent four years from 1928 to 1932 building this road through the mountains connecting Erbil to the Iranian border to open up a route through to Tehran.

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Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.

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Dana Marshall, a mechanical engineer, was working at McDonnell Douglas on solid-state lasers for the military--mainly for targeting laser-guided weapons.

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