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In high school, I didn't realize that science or engineering were male-dominated fields. When I got to college, and I was one of two girls in a 50-person class, that's when I realized that this was a unique decision I had made as a girl to go into engineering.

~Emily Calandrelli

Topics: Class College Decision Engineering Fields Girl Go Got Had High High School Made Realize Realized School Science Two Unique Were

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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

~Eric Allin Cornell

Topics: Civil Engineering English Father High High School Mit Mother Professor School Taught

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The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.

~Eric Maskin

Topics: Design Economic Engineering Mechanism Side Theory Thought

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The future of Africa is in innovative engineering.

~Erik Hersman

Topics: Africa Engineering Future Innovative

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Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

~Ernest Lawrence

Topics: Atomic Attack Attic Bits Construction Development Ends Engineering Few Great Instead Instruments Odds Required Scale Test Tubes Wire

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Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

~Ethan Zuckerman

Topics: Across Based Better Come Connections Engineering Help Help People Helpful Idea Lucky Notion People Random Rate Serendipity Smart Some Than Think Trying Unexpected Ways

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Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Bind Bridges Britain Civil Deadly Engineering Example Exciting Infrastructure Makes Networks Power Prime Rather Stuff Think Tick Together Us Water Which Word I Think

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Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

~Evan Davis

Topics: Always Been British Budget Delivered Engineering Given Grand Historically Late Many Over Perhaps Projects Rather Them Wary

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I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.'

~Evan Glodell

Topics: About Class Cool Engineering Going Guy Had He Life Like Met My Life Orientation School Stuff Thought Two Two Weeks Wanted Way Weeks Where Which Worked

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Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Because Chairman Communist Communist Party Country Cult Decades Engineering Extremism Leaders Led Mao Nation Next Party Personality Political Politicians Possible Rare Spent Three Through Top

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