Sentences with phrase «as an engineer on»

Another strange and a little scary side note from Jim: I work as an engineer on US flagmerchant ships.

I've worked as an engineer on transmission control units.

The two of us, who worked as engineers on the internal RE < C projects, were then forced to reexamine our assumptions.

Not exact matches

The country also receives a «B» on scientific articles, measured as the number of peer - reviewed scientific articles produced in natural sciences and engineering per million population.

Scott Huffman, vice-president of engineering on Google Assistant, brings up his connected lights as an example.

People who are building careers are the ones who take the assignments that everyone else shies away from as a way to gain valuable experience and a new perspective, like the engineer who volunteers to work on a finance project to learn more about that side of the business.

In effect, the state - owned construction firms will be taking on debt and investing — while hiring Western engineering and construction giants as their subcontractors.

Students as young as 5 learn how to solve difficult math problems, collaborate on complex engineering projects and answer complicated scientific questions.

From the 1960s on, some of the most popular, esteemed auto giants have been embroiled in controversy and lawsuits as investigations — by the media and regulators — linked engineering and safety problems to injuries and deaths.

Even as Piëch maneuvered, there's a sign that VW engineers were considering the use of software that would let the company cheat on its emissions testing, according to a recent article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which attributed the information to a preliminary report from VW's internal investigation.

The Liberals have put their future bets on programs to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields for students, and a program known as CanCode aimed at teaching coding and digital skills to one million students.

Google insists it is committed to Glass, with hundreds of engineers and executives working on it, as well as new fashionista boss Ivy Ross, a former Calvin Klein executive.

That's why Matt Ronge and Giovanni Donelli, Astropad's two cofounders who previously worked as engineers at Apple, decided to make something cheaper that would work directly on your iPad.

Now a software engineer for Google, Gershtein works on projects such as Smart Reply, an email feature that uses machine learning to send automated replies; and Save to Inbox, an extension that lets users send what they're watching, reading, or listening to directly to their inbox so they can easily access it later.

«People do work really, really hard here,» Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said as an engineer glided past a row of second floor conference rooms on a skateboard.

A «community,» meanwhile, organizes engineers based on their specific programming skills — such as iOS or PHP development — giving less experienced coders a chance to lean on their more knowledgeable coworkers for technical advice.

As a freshman in Babson's entrepreneurship program, he worked on a business plan and sought out partnerships with engineers to develop the technology for wireless headphones.

Even as the big three dominate the market and other IaaS providers get snapped up, we believe there remains plenty of room in the market for independent providers, so long as those providers are well engineered and focused on the right markets.»

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

You'll also have to get licensed by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers, and you need at least 3 — 4 years of work experience as well as a pass on the professional practice exam.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

DeSimone, who is on leave as a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, felt that 3D objects should also be able to similarly grow and morph.

In the auto - parts unit, efforts have been focused on the former, mostly by engineering plastic components to serve as lightweight substitutes for components made of heavier materials.

And there is also no doubt that Apple's devices have benefited from group infatuation, a phenomenon that has often favored a product or a class of designs based on an allegiance that the devotees themselves have difficulty defining in coherent terms, as by people willing to pay high premiums for German engineering even after decades of Consumer Reports evaluations have failed to demonstrate any stunning superiority of German cars over Hondas and Toyotas.

Butterfield discounts that figure as probably inflated, but notes that even a 3 percent productivity increase for a team of, say, software engineers easily enough generates «massive return» on an $ 80,000 premium subscription or a $ 384,000 enterprise subscription.

Companies such as Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens, he says, hire engineers with postgraduate degrees to work on sales teams that go after major capital projects, such as high - speed trains or large airplane orders.

Engineer isn't so much a job as a job category — fully 14 of the jobs on our ranking of Canada's Best Jobs have the word in their title.

Trojans are typically spread by social engineering - for example, by tricking people into clicking a link, installing an app, or running some email attachment - and, as such, unlike viruses and worms, Trojans typically do not self - propagate - instead, they rely on human involvement.

She drew on that experience a few years later when, as a junior at Harvard in 2011, she was taking an engineering class for non-engineers and was tasked with inventing a product that served a social good.

She ended up working as a software engineer on the incidents response team.

Drawing on his 20 years of engineering experience, Chamtech Technologies founder Anthony Sutera began experimenting and eventually created a liquid composed of nanoparticles, that when dried, could function as a highly efficient antenna — whether painted onto a building or injected directly into the molding of a cell - phone case.

In a heated discussion on Reddit this week, social engineer Chris Hadnagy, who tests the network security of companies using tactics such as phishing and keylogging scams, shared his tips on cybersecurity from a hacker's point of view.

So how would that showmanship work when McDermott joined SAP North America as CEO in 2002, a German business focused on product engineering rather than sales?

Former Coherent CEO Paul Lego joined the tech giant in January as part of the Apple Maps team and co-founders William Bencze and Brett Ledvina came on board last month in location engineering roles.

WARREN, Mich. — General Motors said Thursday that it has forced out 15 employees for their role in the deadly ignition - switch scandal and will set up a compensation fund for crash victims, as an internal investigation blamed the debacle on engineering ignorance and bureaucratic dithering, not a deliberate coverup.

Earlier this week the Yale - educated mathematician, only one month into his new gig as a Googler, told the tale of how he snagged a coveted software engineer position at Google in a revealing blog post on The Hustle.

Where CEOs with more emotional intelligence rely on their gifts for gab, Facebook's CEO attributes his management technique to his training as an engineer.

A third Uber Help - er was reported as telling a customer that engineers were working on the company's software to improve the real - time view of available drivers.

In this process, the younger Dyson, who had been a Non-Executive Director at Dyson since 2013, now took on more responsibilities at the company by becoming its Research and Development Director, as well as its Chief Lighting Engineer.

Leslie Miley, a Silicon Valley veteran who is on a leave from his position as director of engineering at Slack, said he absolutely took what he called Uber's «a — hole culture» into account in hiring decisions.

When Bootcamp begins, each new engineer is assigned a senior engineer as a mentor and given a variety of tasks to perform, such as fixing bugs scattered across the site or on one of the company's apps.

Since his departure, at least 10 other engineers and four top managers — including Chris Lattner, who had been selected as Anderson's replacement and lasted just six months on the job — have also left.

In recent months, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have reported on a Facebook system in which its recruiters receive twice as many points for hiring a black, Hispanic, or female engineer as for whites, males, or Asians.

That father - daughter agreement helped Frank step back from the company's daily operations, and enabled Linda to move into the role of CEO in 2002 and build on the sales growth she'd already engineered during her five years as COO.

Most recent position at Google: Silverstein worked on various projects, including mentoring engineers and serving as technology director.

Braemar managing partner Dennis Costello says the firm was attracted by the fact that Nuventix already had successful products on the market and that its fans are the only ones engineered to last as long as the LED fixtures.

Instead, engineers work on both iOS and macOS, as the Mac has been generally deprioritized in the company, according to the report.

Engineer / designer is an interesting category because those are different functions, but I knew my answer as soon as I saw Jony Ive on the list.

But as software engineering manager Michael Lopp pointed out on his blog Rands in Repose recently, that doesn't mean you don't sometimes feel a bit bad when you discover a great hack.

Social media can also pose a risk, but if your business depends on using it, at the very least make sure geolocation data is turned off in the app (there are online tools that can track a user based on this data) and be careful about oversharing, as sensitive information can be used against executives and employees in social engineering attacks.