He worked three decades for Volkswagen and spent the last 10 years as an independent engineering consultant for big automakers.

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Drew, an environmental engineering consultant, and Frances, who works for New York City's Office of Child Support Enforcement, completed a domestic adoption while waiting for a resolution in Kyrgyzstan.

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Extending yellow times could also backfire by causing longer queues at lights and more rear-end crashes as motorists are surprised by the stopped traffic, said Ms. Eccles, the transportation-engineering consultant.

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"A capital-intensive infrastructure project aimed at cars when the focus should be on more sustainable modes of transportation, is not doing a favor to Mumbai, " said Bina Balakrishnan, a transportation and engineering consultant.

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Bernard Green, who devised the system for the Library of Congress that was built a few years earlier than the New York Public Library, was hired as the engineering consultant for the New York stacks.

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Teams are to include an urban designer, architect, structural, civil and services engineering, landscape architect and a cost consultant.

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"You have to get the recirculation system up and functioning so they can cool that water in the normal way, " said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan and a CNN consultant.

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After obtaining an engineering degree, several patents and some seed money, LeMieux has put his career as a business consultant behind him and started his own company , Tremont Electric.

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