Sentences with phrase «than the engineers who»

2 The Mayans built their major cities inland away from flooding, showing a better understanding of Hurakán's rages than the engineers who designed the New Orleans waterfront.

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

One man, at least, was able to impose himself on this formidable and politicized structure: Ferdinand Piëch, a brilliant engineer and a ruthless, terrifying manager who dominated VW for more than two decades.

Well operators make less than petroleum engineers and drilling supervisors, who take home around $ 100,000 a year, but more than service workers.

«As a founder, I find my evenings are different than my partner who works a regular, 9 to 6 job as a software engineer.

Take 38 - year - old software engineer and blogger, «Mrs. BITA,» who asked to remain anonymous, of «Bayalis Is The Answer»: From 2008, when she first started using Amazon, to 2016, she managed to spend $ 41,000 on more than 1,400 items.

The civil engineers and project managers who do the infrastructure building are less skeptical about the role of the public sector than privatization advocates.

«Practice builders» who are working engineers and planners — rather than sales people — lead the way.

«Markus is one of those engineers who is just more comfortable sitting in front of a computer than he is talking to someone face to face,» says Noel Biderman, the co-founder of Avid Life Media, a Toronto - based company that owns several dating sites.

GM CEO Mary Barra said more than half the 15 employees forced out were senior legal and engineering executives who failed to disclose the defect and were part of a «pattern of incompetence.»

Last spring, Andrew Eckford, an engineering professor at York University, expressed frustration at being included in Ontario's list of employees of publicly funded institutions who earned more than $ 100,000.

ModiFace now employs nearly 70 engineers, researchers and scientists, who have submitted more than 200 scientific publications and registered over thirty patents.

The driver's LinkedIn profile identifies him as a software engineer who joined Apple Inc. in November after more than a decade at Electronic Arts Inc..

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who set out to build an electric car that would be more powerful than a gas - powered automobile.

But sources said the controversial CEO has repeatedly held meetings with the company's human resources representatives, Levandowski and Eric Meyhofer, a top engineer who joined the Pittsburgh team more than two years ago, just in the first two days of the week.

There are only so many engineers who have any expertise in this area and now, more than ever, demand for these highly skilled engineers has sky - rocketed.

Some people who know more than we do about things like math and engineering science have crunched the numbers on the Tesla Semi's battery potentials.

Griffin's unexpected departure appears to have been engineered by Chicago entrepreneur and investor Michael Ferro, who less than three weeks ago became the largest shareholder and chairman of Tribune Publishing.

@Ben What is your basis for concluding that people in the fields of math, medicine, and engineering are «better educated» than those who pursue liberal arts?

I would be very skeptical of anyone, say, a medical doctor, structural engineer, bomb maker, who relied more on intuition than logical reasoning.

Sorry, if this comes off as some super-sensitive defensive reaction, it just struck me really odd as I've only ever heard one person phrase the differences between men and women quite that way before and it was a man who was also an engineer which he kept bringing up to point out that that made him more analytical than any woman was capable of (apparently they don't have women engineers where he comes from).

Yet as such, I do not think that by extension I would make a much better mechanical engineer than someone who is a YEC.

just as a comment about those who think athiests are smarter than christians... There's a guy in my church who works as a rocket engineer but also serves in our church teaching bible classes and leading a home fellowship.

Camping, who has an engineering degree, had spent more than 50 years combing through his Bible and crunching numbers embedded in scripture.

Camping, a degreed engineer (not a pastor) who claims to have made the Bible his «university» for more than 50 years, has experience with failed prophecies.

The Trinidad Scorpion, which has a pod that comes to a point like a stinger, was tested last year by Marlin Bensinger, a chemical engineer who has worked with peppers extensively for more than 40 years.

The Fightin» Engineers are coached by Brenda Gable, who is in her 19th season at the school and has won more than 200 career games.

Agreed, Le Coq is a better option than Tiote, who has been trying to engineer a move away from the Geordies since season started.

The air conditioning was a bit poor in our room — to be honest we didn't really need it for the first 4 nights as there was a real strong wind on an evening which kept things nice and cool but half way through our stay the wind suddenly dropped and the room was stifling — Reception actioned this immediately and sent an engineer to our room — who couldn't get it fixed although it did get marginally better — reception offered to change our room but again this was more hassle than it was worth by this point during our stay so they provided us a fan instead which did the job.

This guys sounds like your typical douchebag narcissistic musician who cares more about his rep than about doing the right thing for others wellbeing... Could be why I wised up and married an engineer instead;).

Cuomo, a persuasive politician who has engineered numerous legislative victories in the last 18 months, told reporters that passing the minimum wage bill through the GOP - controlled Senate would be harder than passing same - sex marriage.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

«I totally agree that John should have been invited,» said Republican Minority Leader Ken Ronk, the man who engineered Parete's election as chairman but votes with Hein more often than not.

Mr. Van Scoyoc got more than 60 percent of the vote, according to the board of elections website, and Ms. Burke - Gonzalez was the top vote - getter in the town board race, with a nearly 15 - point lead over her nearest Republican challenger, Paul Giardina, a nuclear engineer who retired last year from a post at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The young engineering graduate who is told she is better off designing derivatives than helping British firms design the aeroplanes of tomorrow.

Second of all, the recovery is terrible because obama and the extremist nut cases who back him, like yourself, passed a horrible health care law that has slowed the economy, hes raised taxes and regulations and he's more obsessed with social engineering than helping people get back to work.

Schulz, a retired engineer who is not a lawyer, is suing Silver, contending the speaker shouldn't have used taxpayer dollars to pay more than $ 103,000 to women who were allegedly harassed by former Assemblyman Vito Lopez.

«Who better than an engineer to know what to fix and a finance person to figure out how to do it economically?»

He put forward big - spending oil tycoon Ian Taylor and engineering supremo Andrew Cook — who have gifted the Conservatives more than # 2.6 m — for knighthoods.

Early research opportunities are critical, many science educators believe: A 2007 study found that undergraduates who participate in laboratory research are significantly more likely to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering than those who don't get hands - on research experience.

They're often older, more mature, and more committed to their education than students who enter the university right out of high school, says Derek Dunn - Rankin, faculty director for California's statewide CAMP program and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Irvine.

T - ray test Clough, an R.P.I. doctoral student in electrical, computer and systems engineering who hopes to complete his PhD within a year, has demonstrated a cost - effective technique for using sound waves to boost the effective distance of terahertz spectroscopy from less than a meter to several meters.

Although the judge ruled on procedural grounds rather than the merits of the law, the decision gives hope to union organizers such as Andrea Jokisaari, a Ph.D. student in materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who has been active in the years - long effort to organize the campus's research assistants, The Chronicle» s Vimal Patel notes in another article.

Almost all India's space research is headed up by the Bangalore - based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which employs more than 11,000 scientists and engineers who design, build, and launch satellites for clients from India and overseas while also preparing for India's moon mission.

For people who work alone or in small companies, it may be easier to scrap computers when they go wrong than pay for a service contract or call out an engineer.

Representative Connie Morella (R - MD), who proposed the bill, was initially struck by the scarcity of women in science and engineering — they make up less than 10 % of the profession.

Holt was among more than 50 speakers representing the full span of scientific and engineering disciplines, along with physicians, educators, academics, entrepreneurs, musicians, communicators, poets and aspiring young scientists who addressed the wet but enthusiastic thousands who poured onto the National Mall and later marched to the U.S. Capitol.

Some of the statistical gains by women are due to a shrinking male population: The number of white men who earned science, engineering, and health Ph.D. s in 2000 was 15 % lower than 20 years ago.

More than twenty years ago, AAAS created and has since administered the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, which has sponsored more than 500 scientists and engineers who have worked on the staffs of more than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and Senate.

The force coefficients generated by the wing are «about two to three times greater than a static airfoil wing used for large airplanes,» said Kamal Viswanath, a co-author who was a graduate research assistant working with Tafti when the work was performed and is now a research engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab's Laboratories for Computational Physics and Fluid Dynamics.