Some of these customers are to be found just up the road, part of the dense engineering conglomeration of this most industrious of towns, but others, such as Boeing Aerospace, for which Pietro Carnaghi has built a machine to shape the top of Delta-4 rockets, are in America.

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Tom Koglin, a senior road engineer, is responsible for plotting engineering projects.

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In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.

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Sir James wants to construct his pioneering engineering school at the site off Lower Bristol Road, now known as South Quays.

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Sir James wants to construct a pioneering engineering school at the site off Lower Bristol Road, which is now called South Quays.

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Following extensive engineering work, Dumfries and Galloway Council judged the road was in a good enough condition to reopen.

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In March Vij hired another veteran chip designer, Ravikrishna Cherukuri, to lead MIPS' engineering efforts and to build a three-year road map for new products.

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True, years of safety engineering and seat-belt-law enforcement have reduced road fatalities from 1.73 deaths per 100 million miles traveled in 1994 to 1.47 in 2005, but automakers think they can do better.

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For any entrepreneur and innovator, space travel is a taxing road to travel, fraught with pitfalls from a sudden lack of political willpower, to finding the right engineering talent, to having no market or clients to speak of.

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