| 单词 | engineer |
| 例句 | The job was handed to Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, the nation's top aircraft designer and engineer. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he phoned the state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and a half-hour later the agent, Bookman, and Bookman’s mouthpiece, Rudy Noyes, met in the state engineer’s office. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure it was perfectly clear to the engineers who designed it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Its rulers rebuilt Monks Mound, but the poorly engineered patch promptly sagged. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The engineer in the pit kept the wheel running until the failing light made continued operation a danger, but even then thrill-seekers clamored for a chance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She’d liked that he was neither a doctor nor an engineer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z James C. Evans, an MIT engineering graduate, ran the school’s trade and mechanical studies program before accepting a position as a Civilian Aide in the War Department in 1942. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The walls were perpendicular and engineers had calculated that there was no way a giant could escape once he was put in. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, I was in Chicago, reporting a story about the history of segregation in the urban North and how it was engineered by government policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He pulled himself to the bow and backed down to the bottom like a veteran engineer. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “An engineer has to study the rock above these pillars! If weight becomes concentrated on one of them, it’ll explode! The last time that happened, it tore one of our shuttles to pieces!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I have a degree, Freida, but some would question if I am an engineer,” he replied oh so smoothly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He told her that, depending on what the engineer found, it could be worth suing the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Nice bit of engineering, that bridge was,” Tam’s going on, like he didn’t hear me and maybe he didn’t, what with how loud he’s talking. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Leo, the Romans were top-notch engineers,” Hazel reminded him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are rumors it is hidden in an ancient engineering work. We believe it could be sealed within one of the gates of the Panama Canal.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He realized asking Rishi to commit to an engineering program was like asking him to live in a nicely decorated cage for the rest of his life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As a supervisor she came into contact with engineers from a variety of groups, some of whom came to the office insisting that she personally handle their jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Once an hour, an escorted group stood before it and asked questions of the robot engineer in charge in careful whispers. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Some engineers told him the house had been built by one of the old surveyors, like Lewis and Clark, who had explored and mapped the American wilderness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “The very same engineers who dealt with the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... which was where?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If you studied physics at Harvard, then you know how to talk to an army general who did engineering just down the road at MIT. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Many of the engineers knew it, and her bosses eventually came to the same conclusion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After Parker finished his military service, he used the GI Bill to earn a degree in civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines—as far from the South as he could get. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Life is like a mountain railroad With an engineer that’s brave We must make the run successful From the cradle to the grave. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Coworkers got used to finding Mary standing quietly at their desks, enlisting them in her latest attempt to apply the engineer’s values of discipline, order, and progress to the social sphere. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But Jim, who had studied mechanical engineering with an aerospace emphasis, wasn’t a computer geek. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In all the commotion, no one wondered about the engineering involved. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Padva’s costumes and Mr. Barris’s feats of engineering are obvious, the mark of the Burgess sisters is more subtle, though it permeates almost every aspect of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Without Lawrence, there would be no Rad Lab—none of the teamwork that combined the disparate knowledge and skills of physicists, chemists, biologists, physicians, and engineers into a new paradigm of science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A month later both Thomas’s dad and my dad were laid off, along with a whole bunch of other engineers at Harris. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Some of the engineers took offense; others acknowledged that Burnham had a point. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The engineer called up, Lord Asriel replied, and the men withdrew to the doorway. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A cargo ship is a huge and stable structure, a feat of engineering. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The robot engineer had also dashed in, tearing his hair, and demanding who of the gathering crowd had tampered with the machine. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even a woman who had worked closely with an engineer on the content of a research report was rarely rewarded by seeing her name alongside his on the final publication. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the engineers on the base kept bringing Vietnamese children into triage who needed treatment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A young mule skinner named Milton Humason helped to transport mechanical and optical equipment, scientists, engineers and dignitaries up the mountain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The black men, like Thomas Byrdsong and Jim Williams and Larry Brown, certainly had to spar with racial prejudice, but they started their Langley careers with all the privileges of being a male engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I then had the privilege of being taken to a small room with a few computers that engineers used to map out the location of the rover, using information that the rover sent back! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “He's in his first year at university. He wants to study engineering.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “We’re not saying there’s anything here, but we think there’s something there” is how Boeing’s chief engineer for airplane safety put it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He sat up in the cab with the engineer, and he was in Salinas the first thing in the morning. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Orion seems entirely practical from an engineering point of view. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first of a batch of two hundred and fifty embryonic rocket-plane engineers was just passing the eleven hundred metre mark on Rack 3. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Using these images, engineers at the "Farm," a secret 9,000-acre CIA training facility in Virginia, were able to construct a mock-up of the manhole. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They have no manipulative organs, they make no engineering constructs, but they are social creatures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like this one never would, but brakes were screeching and the clickety-clacks on the rails were slowing, so I knew the engineer was trying to stop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As it gets darker and darker outside, I ignore the TV and read about bridges, famous builders, and the engineers who imagined the mathematical symbols and signs that people can’t see. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z “This sounds like a job for an engineer. Let me see what I can cook up.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “It was as simple as that. If this chota came around to see me, I’d tell him to go share a piece of hell with the state engineer’s idiots.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s perfect: attractive, smart, and he has a good job as an audio engineer for television shows. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Soviet aircraft began to be fitted with radar equipment in 1942, but pilots and radio engineers weren’t fully capable of using it until 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After that, we stayed in London while Baba traveled to Singapore, Malaysia, Cameroon, and the Philippines on short-term engineering contracts. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hall thought it was ‘not quite’ but very nearly true to say that ‘engineering owed nothing to science’ until very late in the eighteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Young Indian engineers, men and women, walk briskly from building to building, dangling ID badges. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Sonny’s thinking about becoming a mining engineer,” Dad snapped. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The printing-press and the windmill, the lever, the pump, and the pulley, the clock and the wheel-barrow, and a host of machines in use among miners and engineers were established features of daily life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’ve heard my dad’s a sonuvabitch when it comes to you Ohio junior engineers,” I finished for him, as dryly as my age and the hour allowed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had be come frustrated watching his boyhood chum collect accolades and public acclaim for his marvelous engineering while complacently performing atrocious physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For the rest of that year and into the next, the sixty-inch, despite its painstaking engineering and construction, exasperated its handlers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a result, their attainments in astronomical theory seem to have paled in comparison to their achievements in engineering, medicine, and statecraft. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The engineer on the observation train laid a hand on the throttle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z With his engineer’s soul, Brobeck could not help but be offended by the Rad Lab’s slapdash operation and maintenance standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Rifkin and many others believed that any manipulation of DNA, even in a controlled laboratory setting, was dangerous because it might lead to genetic mutations and make it possible to engineer “designer babies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It pleased him to see America’s civil engineers at last expressing passion for the fair, although in fact the directors had promised nothing to Eiffel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And the claypan, as it’s called, has to be carefully engineered so that it will drain properly and also keep the plants submerged at the optimum level. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What is necessary is a program of artificial selection and genetic engineering of dark plants—perhaps lichens—that could survive the much more severe Martian environment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At first she asked it only of herself, but eventually she came to the engineers with the question. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When we're too dumb for medicine or engineering, they marry us off. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The game’s requirement of both analytical and people- reading skills made it a favorite of the engineers, and they spent many a lunch hour in fierce competition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Though Ammu did as much work in the factory as Chacko, whenever he was dealing with food inspectors or sanitary engineers, he always referred to it as my Factory, my pineapples, my pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I would learn in subsequent years that he had been trained as an industrial engineer, and had actually completed a master’s degree. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a girl finished a particular job, the calculations were whisked away into the shadowy kingdom of the engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked sporadically, mostly chatting awkwardly about their engineering classes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “What I’m asking you is do you want to be a mining engineer?” he demanded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of prodigious output that even aspiring male engineers could only hope to replicate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z For the occasion of the 1935 European Rowing Championships, engineers had recently completed a large covered grandstand with a seating capacity of seventy-five hundred. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A part of her, the engineer side, was still looking for some explanation; was there anything Jim could’ve done to avoid the wreck? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He did everything possible to probe and expose the hypocritical rhetoric surrounding the Indian Creek Dam—the state engineer’s pronouncement, for example, that it was “the only way to save a dying culture.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After I completed my engineering drawing of the nozzle, there was nothing to do but to go up to the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot more to engineering than rockets,” he said gruffly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Was he not an engineer with a diploma from Shanghai to prove it? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The canal was an engineering feat, carving out a fifty-mile-long passage across the Isthmus of Panama that connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z But instead he asked, “Are you on so-called engineering track?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Most notable was an exchange between Clark and John Dougall, a Republican and electrical engineer and businessman who would later become Utah’s state auditor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At the top, two engineers helped ease it down onto a wooden platform and secured it in place. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all flight engineers, who had been number three, after the captain and first officer, in the strict hierarchy of the original Korean Air. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Flight Research Division was a den of high-energy, free- thinking, aggressive, and very smart engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At Bell Labs in nearby Murray Hill, New Jersey, two engineers had been testing out sensitive microwave-detecting equipment. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But he had also told me that they were carefully engineered to hold the weight, and something had to be done wrong to make them explode. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Those who dreamed and speculated about the laws of Nature talked with the technologists and the engineers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, GE over the years has frequently transferred Indian engineers who worked for it in the United States back to India to integrate its whole global research effort. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In my era at Truman, many graduates did go on to achieve high levels of success—they became doctors, lawyers, college professors, engineers, business owners, high-ranking military officers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The project took about fifteen years to complete, a testament to the civil engineering of the day and an indication of the extraordinary practical capability of the Ionians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered, Did schools pay for engineers to go to conferences the way hospitals sometimes paid for doctors? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z If someone is an engineer and is going to contribute to innovation in the United States, then shouldn’t they have priority over someone who simply has a family member who lives in the country? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When the engineers analyzed Katherines reduced data, they were fascinated, realizing they were uncovering something they had not quite seen before. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The corps was to be led into position by Lee’s engineer, Captain Johnston, who had scouted the area this morning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the Langley Technical Library, which was arguably the worlds best collection of information on powered flight, engineers were hard-pressed to find books on spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I was chief engineer on the paper airplane project.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Five women were accepted for cosmonaut training—two from flying clubs, two parachutists, and a rocket propulsion engineer. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z It was the kind of thing Mary would shake her head about, laughing to keep from crying, with Thomas Byrdsong, a black engineer who had come to Langley in 1952. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Twice honored with the Hero of the Soviet Union award, Svetlana worked as a flight engineer. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Bruce Ng sat in the JPL cafeteria along with hundreds of engineers who had given everything they had to Iris. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But family comes first for me. This war isn’t in my heart and blood. I want to be a pharmacist, not a soldier. And Bushra wants to be an engineer.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Questions to shout at a certain engineer and a certain gardener. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This happened just in time, for frustration over the lab’s focus on engineering was again on the rise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As much as any other profession, aeronautical engineering embodied the restlessness and technological progress that characterized what was already being dubbed the American Century. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the isolation of the desert, in close working conditions at a bare-bones facility with ramshackle dormitories, the Muroc computers stepped easily into the role of junior engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Kaz’s endorsement put Mary on the engineering track, essentially promising a promotion when she successfully completed a few core courses. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Zach just got accepted to University of Washington on a full scholarship to study financial engineering. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Professors, doctors, and engineers had all been seized and disappeared for months and years in the interest of national security. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They lurk around a corner as he rushes through the engineering department at MIT, checks his campus mail. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The sixty-foot main cylinder would contain the largest vacuum ever produced thus far, an enormous engineering challenge in itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One night, Mr. Russell Allen, a young engineer, was a guest for supper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z At 01:42 and 22 seconds, the flight engineer said again, “Go around.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I am my own engineer, and my own carpenter, and my own plumber, and my own gardener, and my own Jack of all Trades,” said Wemmick, in acknowledging my compliments. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Some people argued that fossils existed because God, displeased with his creations, had engineered a few worldwide catastrophes that had destroyed all the existent species and then had started creation all over again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The possibility wasn’t so far-fetched, him being the supervising engineer of the project—the top guy in charge. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bissell and his engineers had taken care to leave no trace of the CIA's involvement in the flight. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He imagines himself as a tall white- coated engineer striding into a laboratory: cauldrons steam, machinery rumbles, complex charts paper the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I needed a biologist to explain how both of those things could work, but instead I saw Mr. Patterson, a retired engineer. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z At NASA’s High-Speed Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base—the place where pilot Chuck Yeager first cracked through the sound barrier in 1947— engineer John Perry manned an X-15 simulator. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineers from the hydro-anbaric station were struggling over the edge of the gorge to bring a power cable to the bomb. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z It engineered a successful campaign to force an adult bookstore out of the downtown. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers for designing any structures that might be needed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He didn’t talk anymore of becoming an engineer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The engineer is a taciturn, pungent man named Walter Bernd whose pupils are misaligned. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After asserting that “the architects of America had covered themselves with glory” through their exposition designs, Burnham rebuked the nation’s civil engineers for failing to rise to the same level of brilliance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One of the men asked my father if he was a tax accountant, and he answered, "No, an engineer." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It churned past, its engineer giving me a wave. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer bowed, and his brown monkey dæmon retreated behind his legs at the sight of the golden monkey with the chained hands. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The bar had been set the year before by an engineer in the Aerospace Mechanics Division—Katherine Johnsons group—but Mary and her young collaborator were more than up to the challenge. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The four years she had spent doing monotonous calculations on gust alleviation had only intensified the desire to drain every drop of knowledge she could from the engineers she worked with. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “We’re happy here. Oscar got a good job in engineering, which he loves, and he’s earning more than he did in Cuba,” Gladys replies, stroking the gleaming diamond ring on her finger. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Katherine sat down with the engineers to review the requirements for the space technology lectures and the research reports that were starting to come out of the process. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I took my test in Paris, in the basement of an engineering school not far from my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Bill was an engineer, and Daisy a stay-at-home mom who would later enter the workforce and earn master’s degrees in education and psychology. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I should have majored in engineering or something,” she told Curt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A precisely engineered drainage system added to the similarity by channeling water from a cistern-like well at the summit down and along the sides, a stylized version of rainwater plashing down the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The engineer liked to believe that his work at Magnetic Propulsion Laboratories was useful, even though it had always appeared pointless. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Ashoke has been hired as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Within two weeks, the original intent of the engineer who walked away from her, whatever it might have been, was moot. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z His father presses him to pursue engineering, perhaps at MIT. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Interestingly, Carpenter had not received his aeronautical engineering degree until after he returned from being the second American in space two months earlier. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Mary’s promotion to engineer gave her an unusual vantage point. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was responsible for the way architects and engineers draw buildings and machines: they project the design onto a vertical plane and a horizontal plane, preserving all the information needed to reconstruct the object. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They pushed into the cab and he blew away the ash from the engineer’s seat and put the boy at the controls. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z For the Mercury 7 project, men had to be military test pilots, each with at least 1,500 hours flight experience and a bachelor's degree in engineering. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She will miss the opportunity to drive, as she sometimes does on her way home from the library, to the university, past the engineering building where her husband once worked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The colored engineer waved back at them from his cabin, grinning toothlessly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I handed him the pistol and he walked down to where the sergeant of engineers lay face down across the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The Forest Service has the second highest number of road engineers of any government institution on the planet. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Like for our huts, we used engineering and physics. And interior decorating.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In late November the young Pittsburgh engineer once again put his proposal for out-Eiffeling Eiffel before the Ways and Means Committee. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Six of them were engineering students, so they took an engineer’s approach to the problem. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The other engineer was Virginia native Clarence Douglas, who would operate one of the two side-directed waist guns, behind the wings. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Dad found out that the Republic engineers the annual plagues. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When it came opposite, working and puffing even on the level, and I saw the engineer pass, I stood up and stepped up close to the passing cars. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The engineer urged that as a precaution the ground “be covered with eight feet of feather bedding.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She made a beeline for an empty cube, sitting down next to an engineer, resting her belongings on the desk and offering the man her winning smile. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There was no way to signal the engineer below to stop the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Between this level and the surface was a mixture of sand and clay so saturated with water that engineers called it gumbo. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lazlo doubted that the engineers needed much more than that, but Ebliz Tod seemed to view it as a matter of distinction—that the more “important” guests should ask for, and receive, the most. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z King Ogunwe hurried forward, as did the other commanders and the engineers, who had thrown open the doors and let the light flood out over the proving ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Most of the classes covered math, science, and engineering. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I dreamed of being an engineer,” she says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z And when he returned home to Louisiana, he applied his knowledge of engineering to refining sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Most white engineers were cordial with the black men, even anxious to protect them against racist incidents, as Rainey had Byrdsong. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I like to study. I play all games. I read books. I hate the piano. My father’s an engineer. My mother’s a landlady. I have eight cousins, and we all are Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I was supposed to be an engineer, myself.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Or he’d point out a stone wall and say it was a perfect example of engineering. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been employed at the beginning, before any records were kept, and actually functioned as an engineer though he drew a janitor's pay. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Like sexual confusion and atom bombs, self-taught civil engineers are causally associated with extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The designs, however, were brilliant and encouraged the engineers of future times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those the engineer decided were suitable for the robot’s circuits were transmitted to the Talking Robot. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Why can’t I go to the editorial meetings?” she asked the engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Deckard works as a “blade runner,” a special type of cop who hunts down and kills replicants—genetically engineered beings that are almost indistinguishable from real humans. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “This is real engineering work, Sonny!” he yelled, sweeping his hand around the busy workplace. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But Levanthal and Wunderman’s examples suggest that there may be simple ways to enhance stickiness and systematically engineer stickiness into a message. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That kind of technology was still in its infancy, but Riverbank was known for its acoustic engineers and inventions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bonello had two sergeants of engineers on the seat of his car with him. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Renowned educator Horace Mann saw phrenology as “the guide to philosophy and the handmaiden of Christianity,” and Horace Greeley of “Go West, young man” fame advocated phrenology tests for all railroad engineers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Asriel and the angel were close in discussion with the engineers, and men were clambering down from the craft itself, one carrying a clipboard, another a length of cable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But the engineers in the group now assigned her the job of preparing the charts and equations for the well-received space technology lectures. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A marvel of miniature engineering, the T-50 had a lens only four millimeters wide. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Killed a brakeman on the freight train and both engineers. Oh, you never saw such a mess.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “The engineers were smart. They built the walls on old foundations that go down to bedrock. And don’t ask how I know. I just do.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I was there with an Italian engineer whom I had met by chance a few hours before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His father was an engineer with claims to numerous patents, and he refused to let Dave be interviewed without lawyers present. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The engineer scrunched up his face with incredulity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Or what if it was that train engineer’s time to die? What would of happened to Will?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Which is why, the engineer suspected, the Thunderhead moved forward on these projects so carefully and so slowly as not to draw the public’s attention. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It sounded like bells I’d heard in St. Anna Bay and in the Schottegat Small boats and tugs use them to tell the engineer to go slow or fast or put the engines in reverse. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Haitian American engineering feat at Cange was not a case of simple technology; the pipe bringing up the clean, sparkling water from the underground river could not have happened without sophisticated engineering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Books of drawings produced in the early modern period are mainly intended to advertise an engineer’s skills, not to provide you with the information you would need to do the job yourself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The lab really had an engineering staff of one: Don Cooksey, who was unquestionably skilled but who found it a challenge to maintain the technical standards of cyclotron design all by himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You want to be an engineer, a computer programmer, a secretary, a doctor, a lawyer, a caterer, a gardener, a construction worker, or whatever. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Among Leonardo’s many interests and accomplishments—in painting, sculpture, anatomy, geology, natural history, military and civil engineering—he had a great passion: to devise and fabricate a machine that could fly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Born and raised in Knoxville, Iowa, Cherrie started out as a mechanical engineer. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Now he’s talking about dropping out of engineering. Says it’s too boring.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The money flowed from private donors and from government grants, the latter partially the result of contributions by Berkeley chemists and engineers to the American war effort. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In an impressive display of engineering savvy, the Cahokians encapsulated the slab, sealing it off from the air by wrapping it in thin, alternating layers of sand and clay. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On Wednesday a group of engineers, agronomists, hydrologists, topographers, and surveyors arrived who for several weeks explored the places where Mr. Herbert had hunted his butterflies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As she worked with the engineers to build a course from the warmth and safety of their home to the cold void beyond, Katherine Gobles talents would truly take flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer was more reckless than his predecessor, going faster, goading the machine into velocity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He’s spent four years on an experiment looking at whether a particular kind of scientifically engineered video game could improve the attention span and memory of people over the age of sixty. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A similar case occurred in 1939 when a group of engineers calling themselves the British Interplanetary Society designed a ship to take people to the Moon—using 1939 technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo rolled down the window and drove with his head outside, the way train engineers did, the air rushing at his face as he watched the white lines of the highway fall past the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Only other engineers understood what her father drew on blue paper. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z As soon as the last passenger had entered, Rice casually nodded to the engineer, and the wheel began to move. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He’s thinking about being a mining engineer,” Dad said doggedly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "We lost contact with Pathfinder in 1997. If he can get it online again, we can communicate. It might just need the solar cells cleaned. Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Future engineers, physicists, doctors, all sat around me while we waited for the beginning of the annual “Beat Clinton” rally. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z His engineer’s mind went on thinking while he prayed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m a food synthesis engineer,” said her mother. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They had engineered the Holocaust, he said, because they would benefit financially from worldwide disorder. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Getting one’s name on a research report was a necessary first step in the career of an engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z After the doctor took care of the abscess, Adams asked the engineer, “Where are you getting these babies from?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With no way to service a utility stretching across the heart of darkness, the engineers watched the monster’s tail crumble as fast as the front was erected. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The first thing Dad did with a junior engineer, as they were called, was to take him inside the mine and tramp him around for miles. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We were so prepared, we even had detailed engineering diagrams—in crayon—of what the rescue would look like. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “There are engineers and there are engineers. I wouldn’t presume to predict. But I should tell you. A favor, believe me. Nothing you don’t realize yourself.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z As the computers’ work grew in scope and importance, however, a girl who impressed engineers with her mathematical prowess might be invited to join them working full-time for their tunnel or group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was still trying to decide which college to go to, but I thought maybe the engineering program at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In this sense, statistics is to probability as engineering is to physics—an applied science based on a more intellectually stimulating foundational discipline. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Newcomb worked alongside Director of the Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell, who had engineering training, to find a solution that improved on Jennings’s basic design. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What made the show unusual, in fact, was the extent to which it was exactly the opposite of that — the extent to which the final product was deliberately and painstakingly engineered. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers estimated that the upcoming orbital flight, including the fully manned global tracking network, required a team of eighteen thousand people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Once in possession of this information, American engineers were able to anticipate the Soviets' capabilities and to design planes and missiles that could outmaneuver and outmatch them. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The only groups that didn’t run numbers based on testing worked in the small Theoretical and Physical Research Division and the Stability Research Division—the “no-air” engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In rivers, a really incredible variety of pollutants combine to produce deposits that the sanitary engineers can only despairingly refer to as “gunk.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Like most other major universities, Berkeley tended to think of chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers all as inhabitants of discrete sandboxes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was time for me to put on my mechanical engineer hat. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In Pittsburgh the young steel engineer became more convinced than ever that his challenge to the Eiffel Tower could succeed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Permanent, year-round populations could be established only in the presence of an anticipatory engineering of water supplies.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His mother, a hippie by orientation, worked as a legal secretary; his stepfather was a physicist and engineer who designed machines that made silicon wafers, which computer microprocessors are built on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fair’s engineers conducted the first test twelve feet from the lagoon on ground intended to support the northeast corner of the Electricity Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She also recommended a haircut, but I would only go so far as a French roll, engineered with the help of some big rollers and hair-setting gel and a lot of bobby pins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Somebody in Illinois must have studied engineering at a regular school. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “It should be perfectly obvious. I engineered a way to reverse senescence through cellular regeneration.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the remove from the brawnier aspects of engineering that made the theoretical group such a productive environment for women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The journey is supposed to take fifty-four minutes, but it rarely does: this section of the track is ancient, decrepit, beset with signalling problems and never-ending engineering works. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z From an engineering standpoint, clay should never be selected as the bearing material for a big earthen monument. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were mock lectures and sermons, and then Kerr, the second engineer, made an entrance dressed as a tramp and began singing a ridiculous rendition of “Spagoni the Toreador.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On his frequent visits, he could be spotted chatting amiably with workers or engineers, sometimes in the company of less patient companions, such as Groves. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Ten women made it past the application process—five physicians, three engineers, a scientist, and a test pilot with an engineering degree. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The flight engineer said, “Eh?” in an astonished tone of voice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In the technosphere of the Andes, Lechtman explained, “people solved basic engineering problems through the manipulation of fibers,” not by creating and joining hard wooden or metal objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The captain was tired, and the engineer’s true meaning sailed over the captain’s head. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z January 19 An Engineer, a Chef, a Vet, and Not a Lawyer Brother Quang has started night school to restudy engineering to become what he was meant to be. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The main building of the middle school and all the buildings of the high school have been certified as “structurally safe” by a team of engineers hastily assembled by Old Charley Burns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dorothy’s role as a shift supervisor raised her profile with engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The main body consisted of a large black box topped by the engineer’s cabin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “About three hundred years ago, some Rusty figured a way to engineer the species to adapt to wider conditions. She messed with the genes to make them propagate more easily.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The “agricultural engineers” speak blithely of “chemical plowing” in a world that is urged to beat its plowshares into spray guns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The engineers provided Hoover with long equations defining the relationships between wing shape and aerodynamic performance and instructed her to substitute into them other equations, formulas, and variables. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer in the pit started the engines and rotated the wheel to bring the test car to one of the platforms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A career software engineer, mornings were never her forte. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The suit saw this problem and moved into an emergency mode the engineers call "bloodletting." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As my father had feared, Chapter Eleven had scuttled his plans to become an engineer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I needed money for rent, so I got a job as a janitor for the engineering building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His conclusion was that life on Mars—by this he meant civil engineers with an interest in hydraulics—was impossible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was difficult for the armorers who had to load these guns, too, and the women who ended up doing this work weren’t at first particularly interested in bombs or guns or even in engineering. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z One of Dad's degrees is in electrical engineering. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A long letter of protest arrived at Burnham’s office, signed by some of the nation’s leading engineers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Initially the bearing capacity of its ground was “practically an unknown quality,” as one engineer put it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At 1:41:48, the captain says, “Wiper on,” and the flight engineer turns the wipers on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I wasn’t the type of person to engineer fights between seventh-grade bullies and my brother after school, but I was still mad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But Keith’s work area stood out, for two reasons: He had a bigger cubicle, reflecting his status as a senior analyst and lead engineer, and his space appeared to be a mess. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Polycrates was a generous patron of the arts, sciences and engineering. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One second later, the flight engineer said, “Not in sight.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z An engineer from the Ettumanoor municipality was supervising the disposal of the carcass. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the steady pounding of rain on the roof is gratifying, sounding as if old Huracan were beating on the building for all the crimes engineered inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad starts with the concentration of an engineer laying the foundation of a bridge. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Cora suspected a kind of tunnel madness afflicted railroad engineers, to a man. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “And after you pull off that miracle, you can genetically engineer a bunch of Smurfs and unicorns to frolic around this new perfect world you’ve created.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Let’s run it again!” engineers would say to the machine’s operators, just like John Becker had said to Mary Jackson. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most recently he had turned down another outlandish idea, this from an earnest young Pittsburgh engineer who had attended his lecture to the Saturday Afternoon Club. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z His father was a wealthy white planter and engineer who recognized that the boy whom he had fathered with a free woman of color was unusually smart. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I'm not a materials engineer; my design for the bedroom isn't elegant. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Some became engineers or business owners or artists. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers from the generating station had brought their cable right down to it, and the technicians were busy securing the clamps and making ready the terminals. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Most of the country’s top engineering schools didn’t accept women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Some in her group—she remembered a boy named Marcus, who excelled in school and was assigned a future as an engineer—would continue on and learn various sciences. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All five women moved to a secret location 40 miles northeast of Moscow, a walled compound filled with people working on the Soviet space program—scientists, engineers, and cosmonauts. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The flight engineer points to the empty fuel gauge, and makes a throat-cutting gesture with his finger. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Katherine Goble’s confidence in her own mathematical abilities, and her innate curiosity, pushed her to pepper the engineers with questions, just as she had as a child with her parents and teachers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The project brought in Purdue engineers, crews of Texas roughnecks, and their families, who lived outside Léopoldville in a strange city called Little America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The mechanical engineering might save my life if something breaks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As for black female engineers, there weren’t enough of them in the country to constitute a rounding error. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology and engineering. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if in New Orleans this machinery was sometimes slow, or poorly engineered, generally it functioned. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The engineer sounds the horn five times, warning the twenty-odd people who have come out with food, drink, and clothing to be very careful. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z First of all, he was not interested in engineering. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Bernd the engineer squirms in pain, grinding his face into the back of the golden armchair. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He needed an engineer willing to go to Chicago and supervise the construction effort and thought he knew just the man: Luther V. Rice, assistant engineer of the Union Depot & Tunnel Company, St. Louis. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When the three pilots all met that evening at Kimpo for their preflight preparation, the first officer and the engineer would have bowed to the captain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Now fatigued, the astronaut stood with arms akimbo, looking up at the sleek lines of the engineering marvel before him. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Renowned aerodynamicists Eastman Jacobs, John Stack, and John Becker had come to the laboratory as freshly minted junior engineers and were quickly allowed to design and conduct their own experiments. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Beneath Powers's seat, engineers had also installed an explosive charge. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Butler had been an engineer with the company and then quit to open up a realty business in Myrtle Beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An engineer’s wife gave Miriam Mann’s daughter a shiny new penny to put in her shoe on her wedding day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Never making money enough for passage to Australia; slowly giving up the plan of returning to school to resume his third-grade education—to become an engineer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew and Carleton would go on to become a train conductor and an engineer, respectively. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "No, not just yet. I promise I'll study harder. I want to become an engineer, like you, Baba." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the city was built, the brilliant early engineers had adapted these to a system of natural plumbing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “It took my best engineers a week to do what you just did.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z To Western ears, it seems strange that the flight engineer would bring up this subject just once. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Tuve moved on to an electrostatic generator invented by a Princeton University engineer named Robert Van de GraafF. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Unless an engineer was given a compelling reason to evaluate a woman as a peer, she remained in his blind spot, her usefulness measured against the limited task at hand, any additional talents undiscovered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Taking full advantage of all the archived information that was never more than a few mouse clicks away, Jesse had strong ideas and theories about everything—the size of government, genetic engineering, gun control. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a choice: either she could decide it was her presence that provoked the engineer to leave, or she could assume that the fellow had simply finished his work and moved on. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then the engineers set up an experiment re-creating the circumstances of the accident, flying a test plane into the trailing wake of a larger plane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z By the end of the war, Groves calculated, its construction, engineering, and electricity would cost more than a half billion dollars, making it the single most expensive component of the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z With Mach 1 achieved, engineering imaginations broke free of all previous speed limits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Katherine, oh the other hand, like the engineers around her, got into the habit of reading newspapers and magazines for the first few minutes of the day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In some respects we are like the physical sciences of the early twentieth century, booming along into new territory, but without an equivalent for the engineering of that time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineer corps was working on a new arch that would commemorate the victory over Polybotes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The engineers of the concerned municipality sawed off the tusks and shared them unofficially. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, it was easy to count the number of words the Negro engineer on Mission Impossible spoke as well as the black POW on Hogan’s Heroes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My father was an engineer with a job in London. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But there would be one more harsh lesson to show how inattention could trump even the most inspired engineering. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z James was going to be an engineer, and build things. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Her showdown with John Becker was the kind of gambit that the laboratory expected, encouraged, and valued in its promising male engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the reporters—he’d lived in Japan just after the war, training automotive engineers to write manuals—was reminded of the calm of a geisha he’d witnessed performing the tea ceremony at Nara. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The engineer looked forward to that day, and fully expected he’d live to see it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The engineers were rigging a series of lights to help them bring the cable to the bomb: she could hear their voices not far away, shouting commands, and see the lights wavering through the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Our battalion is made up of field engineers and we use only the mighty ogbunigwe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Every afternoon he hurried from his engineering classes to crew practice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It could have been left behind by the engineers who work this part of the track, they’re here often enough. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The remaining problems in calutron design were merely engineering, he declared, a cat he had skinned dozens of times. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I need somebody who on the one hand can work with the mechanics, who talks their language, and, on the other hand, won’t be run over by the physicists and the engineers,” he explained. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I guess I don’t know what an engineer does,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That machine, now turning out radioisotopes and bombarding tumors with neutrons in the Crocker Lab, was the most exquisitely engineered cyclotron in the world, thanks to Brobeck’s painstaking oversight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A chorus of engineers chanted that the thing could not be built, at least not with any margin of safety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the Field of Mars, engineers were hard at work, pulling down the remains of last night’s fort and setting up barricades for a game of deathball. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We also talked to the engineers who had designed the spacecraft, and exchanged ideas with them for improvements. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With disaster staring them in the face, both the first officer and the engineer have finally spoken up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ivanov went to see George Eltenton, a chemical engineer known to be sympathetic to the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineer was a jolly character with a booming voice, opening the door to the passenger car with no little ceremony. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had great expectations then of becoming an engineer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Katherine listened carefully to everything the engineers said, strained for snippets of conversation, and devoured Aviation Week like a kid reading the funny papers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So many of the engineers were Northerners, relatively agnostic on the racial issue but devout when it came to mathematical talent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Secretly, he was disappointed that the engineers of America had not yet stepped forward with some novel but feasible scheme to eclipse Eiffel’s achievement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Seeing me, the engineer put an arm big as a leg of mutton out the window and waved. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I think people in the canyon pretty much gave up on the idea of civil engineering. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The boomer ethos in which I’d raised my own daughter was obsessively protective, perpetually on guard against everything from lead paint and genetically engineered food to helmetless bike-riding, drinking, smoking, sex, and possible learning disabilities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The two young men were taking the same engineering class and had a common and audacious objective that radiant afternoon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mathematician said that it was senseless to try because in theory you would never reach her, but the engineer smiled and said, “You can get close enough.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the junior engineers down from Ohio were on the Club House roof with girlfriends and Jake’s telescope. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maya, Kareem is a sophomore at Princeton,” my mother says, “studying engineering.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In 1421 the great engineer and architect Brunelleschi was given a three-year patent by the city of Florence on a new design for a barge for carrying marble. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The engineers approached Project Mercury the way engineers tackled any problem: they broke Project Mercury down into its constituent parts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Katherine Goble had stood behind the engineers’ numbers for the past three years, and as humans bounded beyond the sky she would continue to do so. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The flight engineer knows this, because it is his responsibility to track the weather, so now he decides to speak up. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Williams wasn’t the first black engineer hired by Langley, but the couple of black men who preceded him had come and gone so quickly that not even their names remained in the institutional memory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He wore the typical junior engineer’s uniform: a canvas shirt with baggy khaki pants tucked into brown leather miner’s boots. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Brobeck kept up with the engineering profession through frequent visits to the Berkeley campus library. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They said he had married and when the children came, had decided that there was more money in being a school engineer than in being a schoolteacher. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I was caught up in the arms of a huge man wearing overalls and a train cap—the engineer who’d waved at me in Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had spent hours poring over those sleek predatory lines, studying the sails and hydrofoils, the smooth engineered surfaces so different from the rusting wrecks he worked every day. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z One of the most brilliant engineers on the laboratory’s staff took an active interest in standing up to the prejudice he saw around town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Looks like a lot of dirt. And a lot of fun. And, hey, a lesson in engineering! How will you boys top that? What’s your next project?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z But though this explanation makes sense on engineering grounds, he said, it doesn’t make the long-ago actions of the moundbuilders any less mysterious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All the best scientists and engineers have been pulled in to work on it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In the engineer’s mind, he has said a lot. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Like the rest of their Bengali friends, his parents expect him to be, if not an engineer, then a doctor, a lawyer, an economist at the very least. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mother has always wanted an engineer, a real doctor, a poet, and a lawyer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “An excellent carpenter with an engineer’s mind. If it wasn’t for—” “Not worker, comrade,” Comrade Pillai said. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She drank from the dipper for a long time as the engineer watched her, fidgeting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Believe me! I’m engineer. All you need is one big beam. Those steel beams are something, mister!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen my ship, after all, the little lander that had brought me down on planet; he had free access along with anyone else to the engineers’ reports on the ship and the ansible. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Over the next week and a half telegrams shot from city to city, engineer to engineer, until the story became somewhat distorted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The engineers condemned everything “within a hundred-yard radius of the focal point of the sinkhole,” which was right under Portable 19. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The following year, with the aid of a cane, he returned to college and graduated, and without telling his parents he applied to continue his engineering studies abroad. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Consequently, we frequently find senior mathematical, engineering, and scientific people ardently wooed by industry and then subordinated to newly minted M.B.A.s and accountants. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It stood in the center of the room, a minor feat of engineering of which Kote was rather proud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “How goes it back there?” the engineer asked when they stopped. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As any engineer knew, soil under pressure tended to shift to fill adjacent excavations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He told them he wanted to marry technology and brain sciences to create a scientifically engineered therapy for waning attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But it was full of surprises: Andrew, TaShon and Spot, and Miss Johnson saying I could be an engineer. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The engineers subjected the airplanes to tests, capturing and analyzing the numbers, recommending improvements, some slight, others significant. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The FBI tracked down former Langley engineer Eastman Jacobs, known for his left- leaning sympathies, and interrogated him at his new home in California. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At seven p.m., the captain, his first officer, and the flight engineer met and collected the trip’s paperwork. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On some, intelligent life may have evolved, reworking the planetary surface in some massive engineering enterprise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These three million people included teachers, engineers, doctors, scientists, and intellectuals. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The producers hope to abridge Philip’s nine-hour opera about an engineer who tries to bridge the Grand Canyon. accept/except. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The cyclotron’s celebrity as a technological phenomenon fed on itself, fueling its inventor’s preference for engineering and salesmanship over the tedious drudgery of hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Emma Jean Landrum, another member of Langleys tiny engineering sisterhood, sat a couple of desks away from Mary in the Four- foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Covered with the same wishy-washy flowered material as the spread, the pillows evoke an Arab engineer more than a lord and master of the harem. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The engineers just got tired of saying no. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The children watch engineers use pulleys to lift a fossilized dinosaur femur. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The engineer’s crooning drifted back, songs she did not recognize, debris from the north kicked up by the gale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Why had he engineered that contorted journey from city to city? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All night long, the chief engineer, Klavdiya Ilushina, and the other technicians checked every single aircraft as it came and went. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z What do you really need to know in order to get by as a computer engineer, an insurance agent, a history teacher or a factory worker? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Like everybody else, he was watching Mr. Tuttle signal the engineer. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Masters of power politics, engineers of genius, the Mexica were also upstarts and pretenders, arrivistes who falsely claimed a brilliant line of descent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I hear from your mother that you’re thinking about being an engineer,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Only the state engineer was smoking and the smoke from his cigarette curled quietly in the still air. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At this point, the other children, who were seated as if they were the engineers in Dad’s audience, nudged each other, arose, and tiptoed out of the room. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Before commending himself to his destiny, however, the astronaut implored the engineers to execute one more check: a review of the orbital trajectory that had been generated by the IBM 7090 computer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The canal was a flop: some parts ran uphill, apparently because of incompetent engineering, and the rest lost nine-tenths of its water to evaporation and seepage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Men were engineers and women were computers; men did the analytical thinking and women did the calculations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Managers upbraided a group of messenger boys overheard dishing office dirt at a local diner, and engineers caught having a loud, detailed work conversation at the Industrial USO were called on the carpet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the engineer, one bulging arm still around my shoulders, suddenly yanked me towards the train. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Not a reluctant farmer, not an electrical engineer, not a long-haul trucker. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She calls out to her husband, Ashoke, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at MIT, who is studying in the bedroom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By 1951, the Propeller Research Tunnel was declared obsolete and demolished, and the engineers that had staffed it were left to find a new specialty or retire. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And as I approached him I saw his drawn face and the cottony white hair showing beneath his tight, striped engineer's cap. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The flight engineer called some figures to the pilot, who confirmed them, and Lord Roke sank back into the shadows, holding tight to the struts and beams as the airship plunged and tilted. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Or maybe the moment was an interaction between a professional and a subprofessional, an engineer and a girl. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The magnets kept shorting out for reasons the engineers were able to diagnose only after opening one up, when they discovered its cooling oil had been thoroughly contaminated by rust, metal shavings, and sediment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mary made every effort to bring students from Hamptons public schools and from Hampton Institute into the Langley facilities for tours, to get an up-close and personal look at engineers at work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The letter-writer, apparently an engineer, estimated the wind deflected the wheel to one side by only an inch and a half. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps there was an engineering failure just at the moment of touchdown. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So the next day Mr. Popper called an engineer and had a large freezing plant installed in the cellar, and took Captain Cook and Greta down there to live. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z The refrigerating engineer was worried, too, when he found that Mr. Popper had practically no money. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything was custom engineered—“no hand-me-down magnets, no industrial discards . . . ‘no patch work,’ ” as the Joliots’ emissary Maurice Nahmias had derided the old standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It had probably been designed by a self-taught civil engineer, which may have accounted for the absence of all those expected molecules of water. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I’m Neumann. They call me Two. There’s another Neumann, the driver. He’s One. Then there’s the engineer and the sergeant and you, so for whatever it’s worth, that’s five again.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1952, Howard University had had only two female engineering graduates in its history. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The talks were about the latest advances in electronics and Jobs, exercising a style that was a trademark of his personality, collared Hewlett-Packard engineers and drew additional information from them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The press had more than the usual fun with such an esoteric engineering concept, calling the new planes “wasp-waisted” and “Coke-bottle shaped” and talking about the “Marilyn Monroe effect.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At 01:41 and 48 seconds, the captain said, “Wiper on,” and the flight engineer turned them on. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Fearful that someone would be hurt or killed, the engineer had stopped the wheel and allowed the passengers to board. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I fell in love with his books, filled as they were with not only great adventures but scientists and engineers who considered the acquisition of knowledge to be the greatest pursuit of mankind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer in the pit released the brake and engaged the drive gears. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Burnham replaced him with Edward Shankland, an engineer from his own firm who possessed a national reputation as a designer of bridges. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, nobody had spotted the time bomb lurking in the code, a zero that engineers were supposed to remove while installing the software. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’ve known Richie for a long time. He’s a graduate of Howard University, and a working engineer. He’s also with the Guardians. “ Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z So the engineers, who knew more about flying vehicles than any others, began scaling the next learning curve. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Pascal has gone farthest—for two years he’s been in Luanda, where he studies petroleum engineering and, I sincerely believe, chases girls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were shelves of paperbacks; there were encyclopedias, histories, novels, philosophies, and textbooks of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and others, more than I can name. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Even among those powerful engineering minds, he stood out. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Nailer knew that depending on how aggressive the engineer was, the train could go much faster than was actually jumpable. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “MIT has an amazing civil and environmental engineering program. That’s what I want to do, be a civil engineer.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z His neighborhood was filled with engineers from Hewlett-Packard, then as now one of the most important electronics firms in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Leandro, the engineer, joked that he and Manolo could have mashed at least a ton of sugarcane by now if they’d been rigged up with a harness like a team of oxen. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It must have been one of the places where the engineered flowers had first taken root. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z This aspect of a sound — how often a peak of a wave goes by, is called frequency by scientists and engineers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Nor I,” Violet said, “on mechanical engineering. I think I’d like to read about inheritance law.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Dad would get a job as an electrician or engineer in a gypsum or copper mine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That it would turn without crushing its bearings and rotate smoothly and true were engineering hopes supported only by calculations that reflected known qualities of iron and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He informed her that her husband, Ernest, had confessed that he knew something about these murder cases and that Hale had apparently engineered them, including the bombing of her sister Rita’s house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A small elite, like Dorothy Hoover, were endowed with an aptitude for complex math so strong that it exceeded the ability of many of the engineers at the lab. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My dad had a degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, but since he was undocumented, it was impossible for him to get hired for jobs that fit his qualifications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Adding to his misery was his feeling of impotence; for perhaps the first time in his career, he was confronted with an engineering crisis he could not fix himself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But the comfort-loving Descartes wasn’t a fighting soldier; he found his military niche as an engineer, using his mathematical skills rather than his less-developed physical abilities. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Almost two-thirds of the students at Kabul University were women now, Babi said, women who were studying law, medicine, engineering. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We drove past the sturdy trees around the faculty of engineering, past the vast mango-filled fields around the female hostels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When scientists and engineers talk about how high or low a sound is, they talk about its frequency2 . Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z In 1952, Dorothy Hoover decided to take a leave of absence from the world of engineering and give herself over to the theoretical pursuits that were closest to her heart. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Thirty-six years old, an aerospace engineer by training, he was a quiet, thoughtful, extremely conscientious guide who was well liked by most members of his team and Hall’s. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Part consultants and part teachers, computing supervisors had to be top-notch computers themselves, capable of grasping the needs of the engineer and clearly explaining the requirements to her subordinates. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Once the boilers reached suitable pressure, Rice nodded to an engineer in the pit under the wheel, and steam whooshed into the pistons of its twin thousand-horsepower engines. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every engineer and mathematician had a story of double-checking the machines’ data only to find errors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Whereas the black women enjoyed the support that came from being part of a group, starting in a pool was not an option for a male engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Well... they develop it. They plan communities with nice houses, and schools, and industrial parks. They create jobs— construction jobs, teaching jobs, civil engineering jobs—like your father’s.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The language of our rocket engineers became part of our everyday speech. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We went to Jarabacoa,” Minerva reminded Manolo in a tight voice that suggested she disapproved of the reconciliation he was engineering. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Jackson, on the other hand, leaned in to the the engineer’s paradise that was the NACA. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer stuck his head out of the locomotive and scared down the track with widening eyes. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z After leaving the military, he went into the engineering and construction business in Colorado before branching into other industries, and eventually became a multimillionaire. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It wasn’t long before Mary’s new boss suggested that she enroll in the laboratory’s engineer training program; her ability and her passion for the work were abundantly clear. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was studying mechanical engineering, set to graduate near the top of his class, and soon after would start a PhD at Purdue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z At Garfield High the priority was calculus, where a student’s mastery could potentially lead to an academic scholarship and a career in computer science or engineering. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Production engineering, Gow reflected, “is a very expensive game and none of us, including Ernest, had the faintest notion what it meant.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Hydraulic engineering was a major concern for the first engineers, such as Leonardo, and consequently an immediate one for Galileo and his disciples. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Butler, perhaps trying to circumvent complaints that might short-circuit his offer, did not disclose ahead of time to Langley’s engineering staff that the newest recruit was black. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z R. T. Jones, the engineer who had intervened on behalf of the black man with the Hampton police, had beguiled Langley managers immediately with his facile mind. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Girls now reported directly to their engineers or to the computer supervisors attached to the group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Aeronautics’ evolution from a wobbly infancy to a strapping adolescence gave rise to the professions of aeronautical engineer and test pilot. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When they needed more computing power, engineers trusted Dorothy to staff the right person for the job, often hoping that she was at the top of her own list. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her mother is a petroleum engineer, and she got transferred to Canada. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I watched him remove a heavy engineer's watch from his breast pocket and squint at the dial importantly, then turn to check it with an electric clock that glowed from the wall. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But we couldn’t be lawyers or engineers, fashion designers or artists—or anything else we dreamed of. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “We swam in the Roman swimming pool, we bicycled over country roads, we drove occasionally in the Stutz Bearcat belonging to a young bachelor engineer,” she remembered. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “There are no theories how to engineer the device,” he says sadly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There simply did not seem to be aeronautical engineers and experienced test pilots who were black or women. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of their lives, the former West Computers reminisced with one another and with the East Computers and the engineers they worked with. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The engineer would not judge her; their secret enterprise was a fraternity of odd souls. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes, an oncoming train forces the engineer to pull off onto a siding. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It held one engineering course on-site, which some of the black employees attended. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Not even Pearl Young, the NACA’s first female engineer and the founder of the agency’s rigorous editorial review process, left behind research with her name on it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As a final step, Katherine plotted the data in order to give engineers a visual snapshot of the planes disrupted flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They would entice her to see the engineer as an arrogant chauvinist and racist if she let them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The NACAites ran their giant turbines into the wee hours if necessary, engineers pressing the machines for answers to their research questions like night owls on the hunt for mice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine myself moving lightning fast on the strip with this new weapon that seemed engineered for speed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z This is engineering on a scale so far unprecedented on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s how they made them years ago, before metal strings, before they knew how to brace a long neck. It’s incredible. There’s more careful engineering in that swan neck than in any three cathedrals.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Growing up in this environment, the young Christiaan Huygens became simultaneously adept in languages, drawing, law, science, engineering, mathematics and music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That he’d been engineered so he couldn’t feel pain or fear. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Then he moved to Denver to work for the city engineering department. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a theorist, and this was a job that called for experimenters and engineers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Imre’s population griped about unnatural arts being practiced two miles away, but when an aqueduct collapsed or someone fell suddenly sick, they were quick to call on engineers and doctors trained at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He introduced me to a dozen men, one of them a retired teacher, another an engineer, a former architect, a surgeon who was now running a hot dog stand in Hayward. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A Langley engineer in the old style, Pearson had graduated from Worcester Polytechnic in Massachusetts and started work at the lab in 1930. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He taught surveying, navigation, cartography and military engineering. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The discussion soon yielded a formal offer from Conant of a $12,000 salary to cover a full professorship, along with the deanship of a new graduate school of engineering and applied science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This was enough to get him an appointment with Ernest Lawrence, who, he recalled, “was very pleased to have another person with engineering interests, because there were lots of engineering problems.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She and some of the engineers turned out for the parade, enjoying the celebration, allowing themselves, perhaps, just a sliver of pride in having been a part of such an achievement. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To help me learn more about being an engineer, Sara drove me to the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They are employees of multinational industry: pharmaceutical salespeople, electronic engineers, information technology managers, accountants, data analysts, plant managers, regional vice presidents, biotechnologists, bankers, manufacturers’ representatives, and franchise chain managers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “People in Oaxaca and Veracruz are more likely to help,” says a train engineer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Rahim Khan told me Baba had personally funded the entire project, paying for the engineers, electricians, plumbers, and laborers, not to mention the city officials whose “mustaches needed oiling.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Down below, in the engineering rooms, where mechanical systems controlled the ship, they found more bodies. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He certainly didn't sound like an engineer; yet he alone was on duty. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps holding up one finger before picking Brother Quang, whose studies in engineering impress him. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Fascinated by science, he dreamed of being an electrical engineer, but he couldn’t see how he could pay for the training. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What the engineer means is just what the first officer meant. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z To the engineers of America, however, this embrace of Eiffel was a slap in the face. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The state engineer’s office sent a couple of their jerks to me and I told them to go to hell,” Joe said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you dropped out of your engineering studies. So what are you doing now? Your mother and I don’t have a very clear idea of your life up there in Marquette.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The electron that scientists see in the laboratory—the electron that physicists, chemists, and engineers have known and loved for decades—is an impostor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Over the next four days it settled thirty inches more, and would have continued sinking if the engineers had not simply called off the test. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now there was so much more to ask, so much more to understand, and because it was all new, she felt like she was right there on the learning curve with the engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And the two sister-grandmothers, who had engineered the match between their closely related children and had then suffered agonies of doubt and guilt, drew breath again. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Nobody grows up hoping to become a maintenance engineer. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Just as Olmsted sought to conjure an aura of mystery in his landscape, so here he urged the engineering of seemingly accidental moments of charm. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sitting at the control board was my dad the engineer, years younger, examining a printout no larger than a grocery receipt. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z After his sojourn among the scientists and engineers of Aberdeen, Loomis returned home to find the practice of law at the Stimson firm unutterably dull. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z All that fall, the Welch Daily News and the Bluefield Daily Telegraph were filled with stories of our American scientists and engineers at Cape Canaveral in Florida, desperately working to catch up with the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Soviet persistence and engineering skills have eventually paid off handsomely. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An engineer named Richard Whitcomb noticed that in the transonic speed range, the greatest turbulence occurred at the point where the wings of a model plane connected to its fuselage. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The flight engineer latched the door and handed out wads of cotton to stuff in our ears, and the behemoth chopper lumbered into the air with a head-splitting roar. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Degree should be in engineering, biological science, physical science, or math. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z He considered going back to school, with the company’s support, to study engineering. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To make sure these properties were constant throughout the park, Burnham had his chief engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, test locations earmarked for other buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He now was fashioning a device by himself, without an army of technicians and engineers, working on a laboratory bench at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A thirty-year-old engineer with a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Semyonov worked for a Soviet trading company based in New York. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It is, in intention, a public mockery of our credulity, our gullibility, our stupidity—engineered, with incredible impudence, by this person who stands here before us today. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He dedicated the wheel to the engineers of America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then when the engineers heard of the Princeton group’s work, they realized that they had found the cosmic background radiation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Yes,” Violet said, “and then, if you don’t mind, I should love to look at any of your books concerning mechanical engineering. Inventing things is a great interest of mine.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z About the time of the Pascals' conversion, a friend of Étienne’s—a military engineer—came to visit and repeated Torricelli’s experiment for the Pascals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The only light came from the engineer’s cabin, through the slats in the front of the rickety car. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But, taken detail by verbal detail, what a superb piece of emotional engineering! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Luther Rice joined them, as did two draftsmen and the city of Chicago’s former bridge engineer, W. C. Hughes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That gave Joe a few weeks in which to settle into his engineering classes and spend more time with Joyce when she could get a day or a half day off. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There’s radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries out, “Flameout on engine number four!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What they settled on was a specially engineered thin elastic mesh stretched tight over the plastic frame. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Believe me, even back on Earth a botanist/mechanical engineer doesn't exactly have ladies lined up at the door. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul Stewart took charge of the rehearsal that day, working with the sound engineer to incorporate sound effects and music with the actors’ voices. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It felt like my body was a machine, engineered to do nothing but shoot free throws. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “My field is engineering. Like Old Chao, except my specialty is so-called mechanics.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Goebbels—a particularly vicious anti-Semite who had engineered much of Hitler’s political rise—was now systematically dismantling what remained of a free press in Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But what Kaz Czarnecki intuited, and what the years would bear out, was this: Mary Jackson had the soul of an engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He had always understood the world to be only part engineering; he’d always understood there to be another, murkier sphere. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, engineers might bring their computing directly to the section head, or even to a particular girl whose work they liked. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Pericles seems to have engineered Anaxagoras’ release from prison, but it was too late. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his brigade of architects, draftsmen, engineers, and contractors had accomplished so much in an impossibly short time, but apparently not enough to overcome the damping effect of the fast-degrading economy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The state engineer, Nelson Bookman, and his personal special assistant, Rudy Noyes, knew more water law than the rest of the state put together. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A real engineer builds things to make money for his company.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But is it possible, in terms of practical engineering, to travel close to the speed of light? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hate being on the road, but I don’t want to grow up here. I still want to be a pharmacist. You still want to be an engineer. We’ll never reach our dreams here.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Sanjeev was organizing his engineering texts from MIT in alphabetical order on a bookshelf, though it had been several years since he had needed to consult any of them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Why would the computers have the same desire for recognition that they did? many engineers figured. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Going through the bins, I look at his women, their engineered hosiery, their uneven smiles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There was some speculation that the avalanche that finally took Titus out was specifically engineered to ensure the victor was not a lunatic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Leo was no architect like Annabeth, but he could appreciate the engineering. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Every now and then the engineer would play on his whistle for the people in the towns he passed by. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z But the “girls” had been good, very good—better at computing, in fact, than many of the engineers, the men themselves grudgingly admitted. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the first techniques was engineered by Kathy and Mac, who had noticed that on our walks to the quarry, the warders often tossed away empty matchboxes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gone out on a blind date that’s been engineered by my mom.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But he is creative in his own scientific way—a technician, an engineer, an analyst. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He looked positively offended at the Olmec failure to see the world in the same way as a contemporary European engineer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I have a proposition," I tell him as he engages in another miracle of engineering—that of fastening his seat belt. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z "He's our botanist and engineer. And don't talk about him in the past tense." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few pulls from his flask the engineer regained his composure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On one side of a room was a beautiful woman, on the other side the engineer and the mathematician. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The soils beneath Berlin were sandy and unstable; engineers quickly determined that the entire length of the 1,800-foot tunnel had to be sheathed in steel, to prevent the structure from collapsing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z An engineer, she passed every test given and knew what to do in space. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Any tank built to safely contain that load would have needed to be an engineering marvel of its time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I could almost see myself working with the engineers on the Pathfinder Rover Mission. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Regardless of this gain, nearly all the women still worked at the behest of an engineer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Experts in explosives and engineering would determine that the tons of molasses in the tank had fermented and produced a gas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Then, too, did I wonder whether he’d assumed he could be an American engineer who spoke little English, but of course he didn’t. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Somehow he needed to rouse the engineers of America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The engineers are figuring out how to arrange the cardboard dividers inside our tomb to make chambers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He was a commonplace, mean-looking man who might have been an engineer or technician of some kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was practically matter-of-fact about it—a reflection of disbelief or, perhaps, the communication style of the engineering culture. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Yes, but if we can synthesize anything,” he offered, “why do we still need food synthesis engineers?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He said he hated being a doorman, because he had been an engineer in Russia, and now his brain was dying. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That didn’t stop Langley engineers from imagining how the missile bodies and rocket engines and reentry problems involved in high-speed flight research might also apply to space vehicles. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Dad wanted, more than anything else, to be a construction engineer, and his mother planned to have him enter Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “But, Rishi, there are many different types of engineering degrees,” he said finally, a little wondrously. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z People would hold up a lantern to signal the engineer. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mechanical engineering depends on two main forces: compression and tension. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As he retracted the wrench, the engineers broke into applause. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They were the true success stories, the stars — the lawyers and physicians and engineers and academics. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Well before me, the engineer figured out the significance of the tubes between the figurines’ feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Baty had tried to force the fusion experience into existence for itself—and then, when that fell through, it had engineered the killing of a variety of human beings...followed by the flight to Earth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Trust me, my mother’s a food synthesis engineer. That stuff’s not actual chicken—they grow it in a petri dish.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It is not merely an engineering problem like the one the supersonic airplane solves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He became an engineer, married, and had four children. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The analysts knew that Soviet engineers had placed sensors and alarms around the whole apparatus. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She chose to speak to everyone around her in the same serious and direct fashion, whether they were adolescents in her Girl Scout troop or engineers in the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In engineering parlance, it embodied little “dead load,” the static weight of immobile masses of brick and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These were important engineering milestones, but what visitors adored was the sheer beauty of seeing so many lights ignited in one place, at one time. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Without Ernest’s energy, his serene self-confidence, and his charismatic command over the scientists and engineers inventing the separation process, there would be no Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps he is the engineer, I thought, watching him inspect the gauges and go to another part of the room to adjust a series of valves. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “If you’re thinking about being an engineer, you need to see what one does for a living.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “By the way, there is somebody who wants to meet you. You know Igwe Onochie’s family? Their son is an engineer. I think he has seen you somewhere, and he is very interested.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I'm a botanist and mechanical engineer; basically, the mission's fix-it man who played with plants. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The counselor had recently tried to redirect him from his focus on English to more of a science and math orientation so he could take something practical, like engineering, in college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z My dad was a twenty-eight-year-old mechanical engineering student at Louisiana State University. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That certainly wasn’t left behind by the engineers. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I have a collection of math and engineering textbooks on the top shelf of my desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Lawyers occasionally tried to fix an election by engineering the appointment of inspectors who were beholden to them; inspectors commonly smoked cigars provided by each side. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I want to be an engineer like my mother,” Levi said. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She earned her engineering title through hard work, talent, and drive, but the opportunity to fight for it was made possible by the work of the people who had come before her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Since there were no laws limiting genetic engineering, Rifkin regularly sued to stop it using any existing laws that might apply. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I spent sixteen months on Okinawa, where I served with a unit of army engineers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Something novel, original, daring and unique must be designed and built if American engineers are to retain their prestige and standing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z More clutter on the third floor: boxes of jars, metal disks, and rusty jigsaws; buckets of what might be electrical components; engineering manuals in piles around a toilet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z His father had sent him a clipping about the grant printed in the campus newspaper, with a photograph of his father standing outside the engineering building: “Prestigious grant for Professor Ganguli,” the caption read. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not supposed to be here,” he said, repeating the engineer’s assessment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The West Virginia engineer she had met on day one played oboe in a local symphony. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The instant the needle hit that record, he'd loosen his tie and become something other than the conservative engineer with a pocketful of IBM pencils embossed with the command think. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He then immigrated to Syracuse, where he solved engineering problems for the king. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All of us lined both sides of the track and got ready to cheer the engineer and passengers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Langley put a former East Computer named Sara Bullock in charge of a group dedicated to using the squat, gunmetal-gray block to solve engineers’ equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A natural-born engineer, Rob loved infrastructure, electronics, and gadgets of all kinds; he spent his spare time endlessly tinkering with the solar electrical system or reading back issues of Popular Science. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Instead he read his engineering books, trying his best to keep up with his courses, solving equations by flashlight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Incredibly, the same engineers and chemists who explained the inner workings of the Alcoa plant to the saboteurs had supervised the construction of them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He had a few friends at the beginning of his engineering career, but the more successful he became, the more fearful he grew of someone discovering his true identity and exposing him. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She answered the phones and distributed the mail in addition to her regular duties, which at the time involved solving a triple integral for an engineer in the division. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the drafting boards of America’s engineers remained dishearteningly barren. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was impatient with his lessons, mouthed off at teachers, got poor grades, spent his hours coining witticisms and engineering elaborate practical jokes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They wouldn’t get rich, but an engineer’s salary was more than enough to crack into the ranks of the comfortable middle class. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The student was starting a doctorate in electrical engineering. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He delivered the report to Roosevelt on November 27, with a covering letter stating that he was forming an engineering team and accelerating all other necessary research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was two stories tall and painted an industrial green, and was so close to the railroad tracks that you could wave to the engineer from the front window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You could be an engineer,” Miss Johnson says. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The flight engineer says, “Eh?” in an astonished tone of voice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The engineer set them loose from the boxcar. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was to give a presentation on ventilation, a great honor for a man without an engineering degree. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Being an engineer, Mary Jackson would eventually learn, meant being the only black person, or the only woman, or both, at industry conferences for years. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The close relationship with the army flyers served as a constant reminder to the engineers that every experiment they conducted had real-world implications. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I want to be an environmental engineer. Or else a climatologist.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Who had ever thought the rice barrel could become an engineer? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineers, Burnham charged, “had contributed little or nothing either in the way of originating novel features or of showing the possibilities of modern engineering practice in America.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Both. I mean, I’m starting at MIT in the fall for computer science and engineering, so this is a good thing to have on my CV.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The engineers helped too, bringing needed supplies and food with them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The sound engineer was there, too, taking notes about when and how to adjust the sound. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes! So many boys go there for engineering. You’ll have the pick of the litter.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it mind-blowing, the engineering behind something as grand as this entryway? It never ceases to amaze me, but particularly on beautiful days like this,” Mr. Keller says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z He admired the statue in front of the engineering building, though it was not of an engineer, but only a miner, with something that looked like a washcloth on his head. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing up in a family of engineers, Valentina was comfortable in the sciences and performed well in all testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Every year, the Ohio mill chose some of its young engineers and sent them down to Coalwood to a kind of coal-mining boot camp my father ran. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One hundred thousand pounds worth of German engineering. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He worked as a crewman, an engineer, a fisherman—he’d been everywhere from Japan to Cape Town. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “At last, you announce your purpose! Then you have my permission to go, though you do not need it. And how will you sail without your engineer, without your engines fixed?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was searching for software, brainpower, complex algorithms, knowledge workers, call centers, transmission protocols, breakthroughs in optical engineering—the sources of wealth in our day. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z His father was the chief building engineer at the Institute, the man who repaired and operated the hot zones. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yelena is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 41/42. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Its construction had been overseen by an accountant, not an engineer, who did not know how to read a blueprint. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The engineer from Pittsburgh felt himself “cut to the quick by the truth of these remarks.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The NACA—civilian and innocuous, abundant in engineering talent—was the perfect container. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Of course it's Eden—still acting like a little engineer even with the plague. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Paul had told the engineer that he would miss a few trips on the shuttle and was waiting for the Bellinis. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t say. But there’s no use in trying to pin disease names on this. Human disorders apply to robots only as romantic analogies. They’re no help to robotic engineering.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z That fault could properly be laid to Ernest Lawrence, who was still learning how to balance engineering and hard science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “So how long do you think you’re going to be able to hang on?” one new office mate teased, referring to the black engineers who had washed out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z His youth and slight frame reminded Cora of the engineer of her last train trip, inducted by circumstance into the work of men. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t come in here in two weeks asking for a transfer” to an engineering group, the human resources director said to Katherine Goble on her first day of work, a comment she didn’t appreciate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Accruing half a million dollars in high-interest loan debt for an engineering degree I can steal online? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It was named after Robert Metcalfe, an electrical engineer and innovator who helped develop the Ethernet computing standard used to connect computers over short distances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z "You an engineer?" he said, looking quickly at me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did pretty well, but it never interested me much. Remember Marcus? He got such high marks in math! He’s in engineering studies now.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I thought genetically engineered monkeys were illegal,” he said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z To ensure that the Pennsylvania Railroad’s bridges could support the gun’s 250,000-pound weight, two Krupp engineers had traveled to America the previous July to inspect the entire route. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That did make her special, she understood, and it bonded her to the engineers at work as strongly as social and charity activities bonded her to the women in her sorority. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “I’m the supervising engineer on this project, Miss Dixon, and I just want you to know that I seen all your movies.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineer had hit the brakes that hard. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "So did countless other researchers, scientists, and engineers. Everyone poured their souls into construction while I waged a constant political battle to maintain funding. "In the end, we built a beautiful probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dark street, they met Kjell Nielsen, an engineer at the plant, and a man they knew could be trusted. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They looked a long time in Lee’s window coveting the pliers, the hack saws, the engineers’ caps and the bananas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The lineup included courses like Differential Equations, a core part of the engineering curriculum, and higher-level math, such as Theory of Equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He could fix anything that had moving parts—in fact, Father often said Bucky'd make a brilliant engineer if he’d settle down long enough to finish school. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He stood stiffly, like one of Dad’s junior engineers after their first day in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Building a soap box derby car was an apprenticeship in engineering, and the earlier a kid got started, she knew, the more likely they were to fall under its spell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Williams applied for engineering positions through the Civil Service but had been wary of moving to a state south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She and Katherine Johnson and many others were core members of the National Technical Association, the professional organization for black engineers and scientists. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Sonny, you have to have a diploma from a college to be an engineer. I don’t have one. That means I can never be an engineer.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I still haven’t given up on you being a mining engineer. We could work together.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Matthews is an engineer, and he showed us places that aren’t usually seen on the tour. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In August, Burnham’s chief structural engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, made a startling disclosure: He had failed to calculate wind loads for the fair’s main buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Owen had held his hand up and told him a joke about an engineer and a pure mathematician. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The engineer readied himself for a third try. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She turned to her husband, and, despite her disheveled and undignified appearance, managed to look quite formidable, “You engineered this, didn't you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z She has hopes for him: graduation from high school, a white-collar job, maybe as an engineer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Recently he had a chance meeting with a first-generation Vietnamese American engineer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The engineer lit one of the torches on the wall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The engineers could be a quirky lot, often brusque, temperamental, or authoritarian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There was the teleprograms section with its engineers, its producers, and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were lectured in military engineering and taught to read maps. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The British had sent Cockcroft to the United States to solicit engineering help to turn the magnetron into a serviceable radar apparatus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They believed that in doing so Orgoreyn would gain a large and lasting prestige-victory over Karhide, and that the Commensals who engineered this victory would gain according prestige and power in their government. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He would never be a chemical engineer, and he would not be able to marry his high school sweetheart, who had followed him to Seattle so they could begin to build a life together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m going to show you firsthand what an engineer does,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing the Mission Control engineers could do, other than offer silent prayers, until the capsule came back into contact. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z My mother told me once that, a long time ago, there were people who wouldn’t buy genetically engineered produce because they viewed it as unnatural. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "It's the Taiyang Sheris booster, sir. Our engineers have run the numbers, and it has enough fuel for a Mars injection orbit. It could get there in four hundred and nineteen days." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The repairs were dependent on the manufacturer’s engineers pulling the magnets apart, flushing the oil lines, and putting them back together properly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps—the thought crawled over me like a cold sweat—perhaps even my preliminary, accidental discovery had been engineered. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The astronauts weren’t hundreds of thousands of miles away when the accident happened; they were on the ground, within feet of the ground crew and the engineers, and yet they still died. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Her curly gold-brown hair and golden eyes matched her helmet and sword so well she might’ve been engineered from Imperial gold. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z With round- the-clock pressure to test the airplanes queued up in the hangar, engineers would welcome the additional hands. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was the one who’d explained what an engineer was and how they built things—like spaceships and satellites. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s pretty shoddy engineering. We put more thought into Tin Man’s stress points.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z |
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