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  • Mining engineer Trutnev ? richest man in Russian Cabinet (Mineweb)MOSCOW (Mineweb.com) --Yury Trutnev, the Russian minister in charge of Russia's oil and mineral licences, is the top-earning member of President Vladimir Putin's cabinet, according to official income data just released by the Russian Gazette, a government publication.


  • NASA MSFC Neutral Buoyancy Facility Reunion (SpaceRef)Editor's note: Author and former NASA engineer Homer Hickam ( website ) has provided these photos from the NBS (Neutral Buoyancy Facility) Reunion at MSFC this past Sunday.


  • Oak Brook-based Iraqi engineer waits for U.S. help (Chicago Suburban News)Two years ago Aiham Alsammarae said in a Newshour interview with Chicagos Elizabeth Brackett that he was working in the hell but he wasnt referring to his consulting business in Downers Grove or his home in Oak Brook.At that time Alsammarae was the electricity minister under the interim Iraqi government after the fall of Saddam Hussein shuttling back and forth between Iraq and his comfortable


  • 54th Engineer Battalion returns from Iraq (Stars and Stripes)BAMBERG, Germany ? The 54th Engineer Battalion has come home. While most units spend their time in Iraq staying as far as possible from roadside bombs, the 54th spent a year actively seeking them out.


  • Ramstein firefighters earn top Air Force awards (Stars and Stripes)RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany ? The 435th Civil Engineer Squadron has the Air Force?s biggest fire department. It also can boast that it has some of the military?s best firefighters.


  • Electronics engineer Pichamuthu gets Vilho Vaisla award (New Kerala)New Delhi, Oct 30: Electronics engineer Joseph Pichamuthu, who invented a device to accurately measure the distance between an aircraft and the runway in adverse weather conditions, was today honoured with the prestigious Vilho Vaisla award.


  • Mechanical Engineer Licensure Examination (Philstar.com)The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 1,015 out of 2,058 passed the Mechanical Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Mechanical Engineering in Manila, Cebu and Davao this October 2006.


  • Software engineer will be next high-paying space tourist (Los Angeles Daily News)SEATTLE - The billionaire software engineer set to become the next space tourist said he's been interested in space since his boyhood behind the Iron Curtain.