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Judge grants motion in favor of Collier in ex-engineer case (Bonita Daily News)Former Collier County engineer Mohan Thampi will not be getting his day in court. Thampi had filed a lawsuit against the Collier County government, Collier County Manager Jim Mudd and Public Utilities Director James DeLony over his firing as a county engineer.

John Murdock, 87, Engineer Developed Endless Pool (The New York Sun)John Murdock, who died February 16 at 87 at his home in Swarthmore, Pa., was a mechanical engineer who developed the countercurrent swimming machine and patented the CarTurn, a kind of lazy susan for automobiles. Originally developed as a safety device to prevent drivers from needing to back out of driveways into busy streets, the CarTurn has become popular among people with small driveways and ...

Street Closing Around High School Is Doable, Engineer Says (The Morning News)SPRINGDALE -- Closing a short section of Emma Avenue in front of Springdale High School won't have a significant impact on traffic around the school, a traffic engineer told the Springdale School Board on Tuesday.

Iowa Firm Named as Owner's Engineer for IP&L Generating Station Project (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Alliant Energy - Interstate Power and Light Co. , an Alliant Energy Company , and Stanley Consultants of Muscatine, Iowa announced that Stanley Consultants has been selected as the pre-construction owner's engineer for IP&L's proposed new 600 megawatt coal-fired generation facility.

Engineer for GBE takes stand (The Marshfield Mail)Testimony before Judge Frank Conley in the most recent round of a court battle over the fate of an ethanol plant proposed to be built in southern Webster County concluded Wednesday, March 7, with a groundwater expert from the University of Missouri-Rolla and an environmental engineer retained by Gulfstream Bioflex Energy to design a wastewater treatment facility for the plant.