structural engineer
engineer
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌendʒɪˈnɪər/us
PRODUCTION
to design and build something using scientific principles:
If you tell us the size of the part that you need, we will engineer it to fit.
to try to arrange for something to happen, usually something complicated or difficult:
The more restrictive economic environment comes as part of China's effort to engineer a gradual slowdown of its economic boom.

Examples of engineer

engineer
During its life cycle, engineers and designers make many representations of a product.
That is, to elaborate on how to engineer artificial systems with desirable emergent properties.
The design process was performed by a team made up of a structural engineer, a construction planner, and a project manager.
This level of description is sufficient for an engineer to consider initial design feasibility.
He further repeats the tired official lie that war veterans engineered the subsequent farm invasions.
Trustworthiness of the engineers was also paramount in attempts to establish railway locomotives as a safe, reliable, and cheap form of transportation.
The engineer decides how to use the input as admission, omission, or rejection.
Experienced engineers have rapidly become engrossed with the possibilities of the approach and intrigued by some of the results when given access to hands-on experimentation.
Identification of nematode secretions suitable for the plantibody approach to engineered resistance in plants.
Any introduced population of this species could thus potentially transmit several human diseases unless specifically engineered to be refractory to all of them.
A design standards review forum was set up consisting of four senior engineers.
The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance and herbicide tolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.
The understanding of a domain is very difficult to explicate and requires the highest skill from the knowledge engineer in elicitation.
Admittedly, the task for the knowledge engineer does get harder, because the elicitation sessions require much more preparation.
Can we exploit understanding of the molecular organisation of elastic fibres to engineer robust replacement elastic tissues such as small-diameter arteries and ligaments?
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Collocations withengineer

engineer

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aeronautical engineer
I am an aeronauticalengineer by profession.
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