Typical Gifts

 

  • Waltzing Matilda Test for Aussie migrants (Sunday Observer)A friend of mine, a quick-witted mechanical engineer, is ahead of his times. He began saving his head long before this became the vogue among yuppies here. A few years ago he had to travel on assignment to Australia.


  • Warren R. Burns, 95, retired engineer (Old Colony Memorial) PLYMOUTH - Warren R. Burns, 95, of St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., and Plymouth, died Thursday, May 31, at Cape Heritage in Sandwich. He was the husband of the late Avis (Graves) Burns.


  • 'What price loyalty?' (The New Zealand Herald)Ken Wilkins isn't happy. The 53-year-old refrigeration and air-conditioning engineer has been with his employer, Christchurch company Piersons, for 22 years, and his loyalty's been rewarded, in part, with an extra week's holiday.


  • Engineer's ideas draw concern, support (Casper Star-Tribune)Industry officials are skeptical of recommendations by the Wyoming state engineer to manage volumes of coal-bed methane water, while environmental and agriculture groups regarded them as a "step in the right direction."


  • Engineer offers CBM water ideas (Casper Star-Tribune)Coal-bed methane companies may be asked to prove that the production of groundwater is reasonable to achieve gas production in certain areas.


  • Ford engineer says plug-in hybrid fuel-cell cars may reach market first (CP via Yahoo! Canada News)BURNABY, B.C. (CP) - With the Hydrogen Highway still largely a dream outside California, Ford Motor Co. sees plug-in hybrid fuel-cell cars as a transitional step, says one of the automaker's top engineers in the field.


  • Q&A with Antonio Cuquerella, Antohny Davidson's engineer (Pitpass)Q&A with Antonio Cuquerella, Antohny Davidson's engineer