noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an engineering/building/electronics etc firm
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Fred worked for an electronics firm.
chemical engineering
civil engineering
genetic engineering
mechanical engineering
reverse engineering
social engineering
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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They were the basis of the first textbook on chemical engineering which Davis published in 1901.
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David Rumschitzki, a professor of chemical engineering , said that he virtually never saw a student who began in mid-level remediation.
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Wirral-born Mike joined the company in 1979 from Newcastle University where he gained a chemical engineering degree.
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A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip.
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Details from J. Westwood Chemical engineering .
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He undoubtedly made a major contribution, not only to the profession of chemical engineering but to technology and technological education generally.
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His work led to the formation in 1919 of the chemical engineering group of the Society of Chemical Industry.
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The research activities of the department are very wide, encompassing most areas of chemical engineering .
civil
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But his principal contribution was in the field of civil engineering , as a builder of road and railway bridges.
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He felt that civil engineering was unladylike, that she should become a solicitor or an accountant.
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Robots for civil engineering will be worth £23 million by the same year, the association calculates.
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What particularly intrigues him is the board promoting Banks, the West Cornforth based mining and civil engineering group.
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This it estimated would cost between £120 million and £225 million because it would need major civil engineering works.
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He completed two years of a civil engineering course at Nottingham University before moving to Lyon.
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Almost everywhere these edifices of civil engineering , the basis of life in urban Britain, have been taken for granted.
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Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies.
electrical
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Cambridge, besides its university, has much electrical engineering , especially for radios, television sets and computers.
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Constructed to an exceptionally high specification and standard, they have associated mechanical and electrical engineering services.
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From subsequent events, it would appear that Mr. Marriott was given an appointment in electrical engineering .
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On his return three years later he was appointed director of electrical engineering at the Admiralty, Bath.
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He mentioned oil, chemicals, engineering and electrical engineering, all of which had made solid progress.
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Iron and steel and shipbuilding are good examples of the former and motor vehicles and electrical engineering equipment of the latter.
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He graduated with a certificate of electrical engineering in 1915.
electronic
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Mr Goodson, of the university's electronic engineering department, says he has offered the equipment free of charge.
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Candidates should have a degree in electronic engineering .
genetic
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Why all the concentration on genetic engineering ?
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As yet there have been few large-scale studies of technicians involved in scaling up genetic engineering processes.
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Such fears, however, should not be dismissed lightly in so far as genetic engineering is still in its infancy.
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But could this fantasy of genetic engineering ever become reality?
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In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about.
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There is also considerable potential for the development of novel biological control agents by genetic engineering .
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There is a good chapter on biotechnology and genetic engineering , with a simple explanation of gene splicing.
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The issues surrounding genetic engineering of this sort are even more profound.
heavy
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I recently visited a factory that produces heavy engineering goods.
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This new strategy was ridiculed by the Soviet leadership and opposed by the heavy engineering sector inside Czechoslovakia.
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Yet Montupet is recruiting people from a heavy engineering background to train for their new plant.
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The traditional steel and heavy engineering sectors naturally have no sympathy.
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He also called for an early announcement of a balanced energy policy to stimulate the heavy engineering sector.
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Its parent company runs tugs, shipping and heavy engineering businesses.
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In the 1920s the basic industries of coal, textiles and heavy engineering went into long-term decline.
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Of special interest are books on papermaking, photography and heavy electrical engineering .
large
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Thus large engineering companies grew in towns such as Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.
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The Dowty group has failed to fight off a hostile bid by T-I, one of Britain's largest engineering firms.
major
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Meanwhile, construction of steelwork and major engineering items is making good progress under long lead funding arrangements.
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This it estimated would cost between £120 million and £225 million because it would need major civil engineering works.
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Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies.
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We also have the opportunity to develop our engineering and project management skills through our participation in major engineering projects worldwide.
mechanical
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They were of various sizes and worked in the vehicle, aerospace, mechanical engineering and electronics industries.
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The other significant sector is Mechanical engineering , with Grampian exports amounting to 17% of the national figure.
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Low payers were public administration, wholesale distribution, metal manufacture and mechanical engineering .
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Constructed to an exceptionally high specification and standard, they have associated mechanical and electrical engineering services.
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In the survey mentioned above, the health sector was second only to mechanical engineering in the proportion of employers experiencing difficulties.
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The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering .
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The next industry to adopt the technique widely is likely to be mechanical engineering .
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The Group invested £1.5 million in the United Arab Emirates to establish two high quality mechanical engineering workshops.
scientific
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The Soviets had demonstrated unsuspected scientific and engineering skills.
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The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business.
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We have to interest more young people in scientific and engineering education and training.
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Fujitsu's micro-vector processor effort will deliver accelerated compute power for Sparc system users performing CPU-intensive scientific , engineering and visualisation applications.
small
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There are many small engineering firms, some specialising in scientific instruments.
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It is being undertaken in 50 small engineering firms with up to 100 employees during the period 1985-1987.
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Core support services such as Analytical, Technical Information Services and a small engineering technology function will continue to be maintained.
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Interim findings indicate severe marketing weaknesses within the small engineering firm.
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Declining heavy industry has been partly replaced by small engineering firms and some light industry.
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In 1847 he was apprenticed to John Inshaw, who had a small engineering business in Birmingham.
social
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Third, New Towns constituted experiments in social engineering - well in tune with the psychological requirements for post-war reconstruction.
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But attempts at social engineering usually lead to downfall.
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This is sometimes described in terms of social engineering , and the resources that law brings as machinery are distinguished from its social goals.
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Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering .
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This brave new world of social engineering produces the opposite of community contact.
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Law, the realists argued, was not a matter of abstract logic but a practical exercise in social engineering .
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Nicholas engaged in a long-term programme of social engineering .
■ NOUN
company
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Chemical engineering companies found that their very large complex expensive process plants could be controlled better by computer than by human operators.
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The father moved in and I got a full-time job in another engineering company .
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Its strategy is to acquire engineering companies in niche markets and dispose of existing businesses to reduce borrowings.
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Thus large engineering companies grew in towns such as Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough.
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In the event the anticipated collapse of the first genetic engineering company amid a pile of bad debts did not come about.
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Opportunities exist for students in their first year to gain sponsorship for the remaining three years from major civil engineering companies .
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One scheme of which I have received some details is being developed by a well-known engineering company .
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In one case study, an engineering company decided to automate a plating line.
consultant
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Veronica uses her knowledge of structures and project control to liaise with architects and other engineering consultants .
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Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by Sparc Technology engineering consultants .
course
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The second is that teaching on the subject in engineering courses has not always prepared engineers adequately for this progression.
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He completed two years of a civil engineering course at Nottingham University before moving to Lyon.
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There were about ten girls on the engineering course but I kept entirely to myself.
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Amazingly, the material engineering course is still in progress.
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So I actually applied at the same time for some engineering courses at universities.
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An important area here might be courses in mathematics which is often a key part of the science and engineering courses.
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Figures 5.1 and 5.2 illustrate the proportions of women among full-time undergraduate students enrolled on engineering courses .
department
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He established and developed their engineering department for railway electrification in Britain and overseas.
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Mr Goodson, of the university's electronic engineering department , says he has offered the equipment free of charge.
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He went to Glasgow and began an apprenticeship in the engineering department of Randolph Elder, shipbuilders of Govan.
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He said the proposals would have to be approved by the engineering department .
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Many science and engineering departments already struggle to find enough students with good A levels.
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In 1864 he entered the engineering department of King's College, London.
design
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What if we could precipitate a revolution in engineering design generally?
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Geophysical and geological interpretation, conceptual engineering design , reservoir simulation and environmental screening studies have been completed on the field.
firm
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In 1907 he joined Straker Squires in Bristol and four years later teamed up with his father's engineering firm .
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There would also be a further 7,000 jobs in building supply, sub-contracting and engineering firms .
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The engineering firm , Meco is to close its plant at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury, making around 350 staff redundant.
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Some, including McCleod, were working at local engineering firms , and Wainwright at a nearby khaki factory.
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There are many small engineering firms , some specialising in scientific instruments.
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He was working for an engineering firm and met Herbert in the course of business.
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One engineering firm had so many applications for time off that it warned absentees they would be suspended for three weeks.
group
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David Slater, who replaces Frank Feates, was formerly director of the Technica engineering group .
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His work led to the formation in 1919 of the chemical engineering group of the Society of Chemical Industry.
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What particularly intrigues him is the board promoting Banks, the West Cornforth based mining and civil engineering group .
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Peter Warters has been recruited as contracts manager for civil engineering group Clugston Construction, at its Billingham office.
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Nordic's president, Goran Wijkmark, is to join Anglian as managing director of its new process engineering group .
industry
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An annual scheme brings together major employers in the engineering industry and students from schools, or more usually, colleges.
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For example, research in composites, polymers and other new materials could aid a range of engineering industries .
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The names of family firms like Newman Hender and Macevoy were mainstays of Stroud's crucial engineering industry .
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We have a number of enterprises which export successfully now: the engineering industry , textile machines.
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Despite high unemployment in some areas there were large openings in sectors such as the electronics and engineering industries in the south.
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Certainly few would see the engineering industry as a powerful engine of future economic growth.
problem
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The aim is to involve the students in the resolution of a genuine engineering problem , identified by the company.
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They took larger boats, had fewer engineering problems and provided good links to the northern seaports.
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Essentially, these are engineering problems .
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Thus anatomy may reflect the fact that there are only a few ways in which some engineering problem can be solved.
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They had to overcome engineering problems , a last-minute change of keel, and the withdrawal of their sponsor.
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Stage overlapping and communication patterns Development lead time is directly affected by the nature of engineering problem solving.
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Geophysical methods are widely used in searching for oil and minerals, in studying the nature of earthquakes and in engineering problems .
process
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There is also Cortex which we set up last year as a process engineering consultancy with a keen interest in environmental work.
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Nordic's president, Goran Wijkmark, is to join Anglian as managing director of its new process engineering group.
product
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It has signed on undisclosed terms to use Oracle Corp's manufacturing and financial applications, including software engineering products worldwide.
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It has factories making woollen goods, whisky and engineering products .
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Fujitsu will create software engineering products based on the SoftBench Framework for use on its own systems.
project
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Like most engineering projects , it may have looked good on paper, but in practice it was another thing entirely.
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We have to examine and discuss in great detail its proposals for an immensely complex engineering project .
sector
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This week we are starting the service with a selection of contracts in the energy and civil engineering sectors .
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This new strategy was ridiculed by the Soviet leadership and opposed by the heavy engineering sector inside Czechoslovakia.
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The traditional steel and heavy engineering sectors naturally have no sympathy.
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He also called for an early announcement of a balanced energy policy to stimulate the heavy engineering sector .
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The regional overviews will form the background for detailed case studies of the engineering sector .
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The best-received firms were in the information technology and electronics sectors; the worst in traditional engineering sectors and construction.
service
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Formation engineering services of Gloucester, which has introduced the system to Britain, was formed by 2 ex-Dowty workers.
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Constructed to an exceptionally high specification and standard, they have associated mechanical and electrical engineering services .
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The press also showed an encouraging understanding of our mission to establish ourselves as a world-class scientific and engineering services business.
skill
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The Soviets had demonstrated unsuspected scientific and engineering skills .
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So will the investment in capital goods and engineering skills needed to modernise outmoded factories.
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His engineering skills and technical ingenuity were invaluable.
software
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It will prepare students for a career in a software engineering environment in industry or research.
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It has signed on undisclosed terms to use Oracle Corp's manufacturing and financial applications, including software engineering products worldwide.
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The software engineering theme continues with a study of a modular approach to designing computer solutions.
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Next plans further international subsidiaries and is to expand its software engineering division.
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Fujitsu will create software engineering products based on the SoftBench Framework for use on its own systems.
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Software Engineering and Database Systems: Database technology and software engineering .
staff
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It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff .
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They will also provide training and consulting services via their support and application engineering staff .
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Designed by the company's engineering staff the coach has electric lifts, wheelchair locks, a non-slip floor and toilet.
student
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All except engineering students , that is.
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Or for a civil engineering student not to appreciate the environmental implications of large-scale works such as the channel tunnel.
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This teaching should be available to every engineering student , in all disciplines.
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The 1985 exercise will thus go to 71 percent of the information engineering students involved in the survey at the beginning.
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He kills fourteen engineering students , who happen to be women, and then himself.
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Fourth-year engineering student Steve, 21, is alleged to have been booted as he lay helpless on the ground.
union
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The engineering union says its members have been betrayed.
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The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction.
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Mr Nellist is being pursued by Mr Ken Cure, the former engineering union official.
work
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This engineering work was the laying in of two cross-overs, one at Wolverton and one just North of Bletchley.
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It is the home of the game and I was lucky enough to be able to mix cricket with my engineering work .
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This political dimension may make the massive civil engineering work even more hazardous.
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In the event, minor engineering work to the existing twin-catalyst 6.7-litre pushrod V8 has succeeded in achieving the desired results.
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The original coal and iron concerns of Butterley were expanded, and engineering work was undertaken for the railways.
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The book is read so easily because it is almost devoid of mathematical formulae, normally the very foundation of engineering work .
worker
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They are likely to influence, for instance, the negotiations between leaders of 2 million engineering workers and the Engineering Employers Federation.
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The company wants to buy out 300 to 500 permanent, full-time administrative, production and engineering workers at the plant.
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Roughly how many engineering workers are there in the region shown on the map?
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Grounded Graham, 33, has pledged to try again to wed the 27-year-old engineering worker .
works
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It has large brick works , engineering works and freezing factories.
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This it estimated would cost between £120 million and £225 million because it would need major civil engineering works .
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A couple of blokes from the engineering works were carrying a packing case into the building.
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The foot were also responsible for entrenchments and for engineering works associated with sieges.
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It now houses an engineering works .
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They expanded the shipyards and started engineering works .
■ VERB
develop
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He established and developed their engineering department for railway electrification in Britain and overseas.
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One scheme of which I have received some details is being developed by a well-known engineering company.
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In consequence we have developed restrictive practices and engineering , at best, are only partially aware of the business objectives.
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We also have the opportunity to develop our engineering and project management skills through our participation in major engineering projects worldwide.
involve
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Stiffness testing is relatively simple but strength testing may involve engineering which is both heavy and difficult.
provide
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His chum Charlie Price provided the engineering know-how to help get some of the battered old relics going.
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Alias will provide on-site engineering resources at Industrial Light, potentially tripling the number of Alias users via a site-wide software licence.
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Professor Hugh Simpson provided expertise in engineering and was the liveliest and most questioning of the three.
study
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I had a place to study engineering , my major in electronics.
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Chapman studied engineering at London University just after the war.
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The only female studying electrical engineering .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the engineering marvel turned out to be a slow-motion natural disaster.
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Curiously, this engineering approach had its origin in the study of plant growth.
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For them aircraft represent only a small part of their huge engineering and shipbuilding businesses.
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It is a widespread phenomenon, not restricted to nuclear power or genetic engineering .
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It is another aspect of the engineering profession that is highly influenced by gender.
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So as an aircraft came out of the engineering wing I gave it a test.
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The investigation showed that the pollution probably derived from an engineering works that closed some 15 years ago.
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You should, ideally, have a degree in engineering or science.