It is, for example, easy to distinguish between a project engineer, who downloads drawings to build the required parts, and a project administrator, who views those drawings more sporadically in order to chart progress, but does not actually download them on to his own computer.
According to an early participant in the project, an Elkay engineer said that was impossible, given the need to filter and chill the water.
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This table tennis simulation was originally meant to be a training project for a new engineer at Atari.
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The second comes from the auto industry where, my interviewee told me, the balance between software and hardware engineers on any given infotainment project is now 50 software engineers to one hardware engineer.
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Some companies, like Google, even emphasize in their promotion processes that an engineer has to demonstrate ownership in a project, which incentivizes engineers to define and prioritize individual projects so that they can be the indisputable owners of those projects and increase their chances for a promotion.
"We have designed this robot to go in ahead of its handlers, to assess the situation and potential hazards and allow operations to move more quickly, " said Jon Salton, Sandia engineer and project manager.
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Edward A. Murphy was an engineer who was involved in a 1949 Air Force project MX981 to test how much deceleration a person could withstand in a crash.
"You'd have to make a 20-point turn to get a truck in, " said Martin Dougherty, an engineer overseeing the project for the Army Corps.
"It's a really good opportunity for us as young engineers to be prepared early for such a project, " said Ahmed Madi, 26, an engineer from Abu Dhabi who is in a training program at a semiconductor manufacturing facility in Dresden.
The data was published by a Swedish software engineer Johan Gunnarsson as part of the Wikitrends project, but gave no explanation as to why Germans read about cul-de-sacs 10, 206, 548 times.
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