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  • Bridgeport engineer tilts at windmills (Connecticut Post)BRIDGEPORT ? Like a 21st century Don Quixote, George Berka, an aerospace engineer at Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., has a thing about windmills. But unlike the noted knight who mistook windmills for


  • Pasadena company to do engineering for Novartis plant (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Publicly traded Jacobs engineering Group said Tuesday that it will be the engineer on Novartis' manufacturing plant in Holly Springs.


  • Jay Monroe, 80, Engineer Who Invented Tensor Lamp, Dies (New York Times)Mr. Monroe invented a bright, low-voltage minilamp that would become an American staple because his wife didn?t like the strong light he used for bedtime reading.


  • Blockbuster On Demand (Forbes)Can new chief James Keyes engineer a second act for the video rental chain?


  • Montgomery Co. investigating projects by unlicensed engineer (The Washington Examiner)Montgomery County's Department of Permitting Services is re-evaluating every project involving a man who has claimed involvement in a host of regional developments yet is unlicensed as a professional engineer. Some county residents, though, are still blaming the department for its role in allowing Lee Sutherland's work to go forward.


  • NASA's Jerry Cook Named Aerospace Engineer of the Year by the AIAA (SpaceRef)Jerry R. Cook, an engineer and manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has received the 2006-2007 Aerospace Engineer of the Year Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.


  • Engineer to check safety of burned building (Palo Alto Weekly)Palo Alto officials have called in a structural engineer to determine if the support columns in the building at University Avenue and Bryant Street are strong enough for the building to remain standing and whether fire inspectors can work in the building to determine the cause of the Sunday night fire.


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