That is in line with the Scottish Engineering survey, out last Monday, which seemed also to be going against the grain of poor expectations further afield.

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Recently, I conducted an informal survey of graduate engineering students at UCLA, where I teach, to assess intellectual property (IP) awareness.

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By contrast an Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) survey showed healthy growth in the manufacturing sector.

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In the Millennial Branding survey, employers reported engineering and computer information systems majors as their top recruits.

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But a survey of 1, 500 engineering firms revealed a slump in orders, output, investment and jobs.

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But a recently published survey of the various conflicting engineering studies comes up with a plausible compromise estimate: Every unit of energy that goes into making ethanol from corn produces ethanol that yields 1.27 units of energy.

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