Sentences with phrase «by an engineering company»

Problems with engine turbine blades wearing out sooner than expected have hampered a restructuring programme prompted by the engineering company's declining older engine programmes and plunging demand for oil equipment.

The new plant utilizes the latest in bulk material handling technology designed, supplied and installed by engineering company Johann Daxner GmbH who specializes in providing integrated plant and machinery projects particularly for bulk material processes.

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What part was played in Volkswagen's wrongdoing by the fact that the companies engineers were apparently technically incapable of making good on the promises their marketing department was apparently intent on making?

By combining a passion for science with precision engineering, the company is creating smart, sustainable solutions the world needs.

Commentary by Bill Hafker, a former Exxon Mobil executive who started at the company in 1980 and retired in 2016 as a senior engineering advisor and environmental global technology sponsor.

From there he accepted a lead engineering position at another early - stage tech firm — PayPal co-founder Max Levchin's social media company Slide, acquired by Google in 2010 for $ 228 million.

That stemmed from a detailed essay published by a former female Uber engineer, who charged that her prospects at the company evaporated after she complained about sexual advances from her boss.

In March, Sacca spoke at SXSW and said he wasn't surprised by what former Uber engineer Susan Fowler wrote in her blog post highlighting issues of alleged sexism at the company.

The insurance company arranged for a structural engineer to fly up from Edmonton and, accompanied by an adjuster, check the place out.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

One of my favorite examples of this is Vital Vio, a company founded by biomedical engineer Colleen Costell after her grandmother fell sick while in the hospital — the one place Colleen's family thought she'd recover.

At our app development company, we've turned to self - organization: a new way of doing things that empowers our engineers to make their own decisions and move at speeds they would quite frankly never reach were they being restrained by a top - down corporate hierarchy.

The investigation was spurred by a blog post by a former engineer who described a culture of sexism at the company.

Emerging evidence makes it clear that the installation of software to defeat emissions controls was not the result of some rogue operation — it was driven by decisions made by the company's top engineers and approved at the highest levels.

We employ only engineers and we teach design within the company by osmosis.

By investing in the education of women in tech, the company is not only creating a more diverse applicant pool but also attracting female engineers through its exemplary commitment to education and inclusion.

GoldieBox, a toy company on a mission to get girls excited about engineering, won a national competition sponsored by Intuit and will be featured in a 30 - second commercial during the Super Bowl.

In mid-2008, eOne made a blockbuster four - part deal largely engineered by Lantos: it bought three TV companies, two in Canada and one in the U.S., plus Lantos's boutique film distributor Maximum Films.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

Those battles are still being fought by three - dimensional women in the engineering departments of tech companies, in political campaigns, and in the plush offices of VCs and studio executives.

Waymo sued Uber nearly a year ago, sparking a showdown between the two technology companies over allegations by Waymo that one of its former engineers took trade secrets just before quitting and going to work at Uber.

A recent study by the Kauffman Foundation found that, in 2005 alone, immigrant - founded U.S. engineering and technology companies produced $ 52 billion in sales and employed 450,000 workers.

Lawless represented AJ Vandermeyden, a woman and engineer who sued Tesla alleging sexual harassment and gender discrimination, who was soon thereafter fired by the company.

It's finding good companies to invest in,» says Vivek Wadhwa, a former tech entrepreneur and Duke University engineering professor who helped create Chile's program after being tapped as an adviser by people he knew in the government.

«For example, high - quality engineers or scientists may be more interested in joining a company started by an entrepreneur who previously started a company in a good industry and year if they believe (justifiably given the evidence) that this track record increases the likelihood of success,» they write.

Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world's most talented engineers.

Founded in the 1960s by Florida scientists to help college football players restore electrolytes during games, Gatorade is, according to a company spokesperson, «the most thoroughly researched beverage in the world and is scientifically engineered to help athletes maintain their best performance.»

«Our sole objective was to hire the most talented scientists and engineers to help lead the company and our cities to a driverless future,» he said in a statement (as reported by the Times.)

There will be 40 million mega cities (cities with 10 million or more people) in the world by 2030, up from 28 million cities in 2015, according to engineering consulting company CH2M.

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler opened up earlier this year in a blog post about the toxic culture of workplace harassment at the company, alleging that she was sexually harassed by a male manager at Uber whose actions were knowingly brought to the attention of HR.

Technology by Cellectis allows cellular engineering, and a human trial of the company's work in editing blood cells will be presented at the upcoming American Society of Hematology.

In a letter published on the eve of Google's IPO, the company explained the phrase to mean its search results were «unbiased and objective,» not subject to influence by advertisers or the whims of Google's own engineers.

On Sunday, engineer Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing what she diplomatically dubbed her «strange» year working at Uber — a tenure that she says included, among other things, a) her manager propositioning her on her first day at work; and b) her repeated complaints about the incident ignored and dismissed by the company's human resources department, under the aegis of not sullying the guy's career for an «innocent mistake.»

The basics: The car, designed by Italian engineering and design company ED, does not require a driver, but the company does not delve into how it would drive autonomously.

Although there are already over 300 undersea cables worldwide that are owned by various companies, they can't provide the networking power that Google requires — especially to grow its cloud business overseas, Google's principal engineer of networking architecture Vijay Vusirikala explained.

A few of the companies targeted by Cobalt Gypsy have begun to expand social engineering training to include employees» personal networks.

That's the finding of a survey released last week by the trade group Associated General Contractors of America and Autodesk, a design, engineering and construction software company.

The investigation, led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, began in February after an ex-Uber engineer published a blog post in which she said she had repeatedly complained about sexual harassment and discrimination at the ride - hailing company.

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.

So he began franchising in 2008, under the name Pro Energy Consultants, and by mid-2009, the company had 29 units and franchisees «from engineers to real estate agents to golf pros.»

Sure, the CEO of a nascent tech firm is, by definition, an entrepreneur, but that same company's engineer or salesperson has exactly the same opportunity to operate as an entrepreneur.

By madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeBy madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeby the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more womeby fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more women.

Sears Holdings has lost some $ 10 billion since 2010 and the company, created by a Sears - Kmart merger engineered by Lampert in 2005, has yet to report a year of comparable sales growth, despite hundreds of store closings.

Dialogue is so critical to the architectural engineering design firm's DNA that once a year, the company hosts a national initiative called Aspire Dialog, where the company's best projects are put on display to be critiqued by outside experts.

The report, which didn't identify SDM as the sponsor, pulled together survey responses given by 700 designers, engineers, and business executives, nearly half of whom work for manufacturing companies that pull in more than $ 50 million in revenue a year.

• Congruex, a company backed by Crestview Partners, acquired CHC Consulting, an Orange, Calif. - based full - service engineering consulting firm serving blue chip clients across the telecommunications industry.

Besides SolarCity, another cornerstone is Buffalo Manufacturing Works, which is operated by EWI, a nonprofit engineering services R&D company based in Columbus, Ohio.

At Facebook, osquery is written and provided by the security team, but it's used by engineers all over the company to troubleshoot issues.

But distinguished software engineer Sebastian Thrun said that the company's goal is to «help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time, and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use.»

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.