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  2. Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia

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    In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 240 m (720 ft) bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Istanbul. The bridge was intended to span an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus known as the Golden Horn. Beyazid did not pursue the project, because he believed that such a construction was ...

  3. Computer engineering - Wikipedia

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    According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), "computer applications software engineers and computer systems software engineers are projected to be among the faster than average growing occupations" The expected ten-year growth as of 2014 for computer software engineering was an estimated seventeen percent and there was a total of ...

  4. Halliburton - Wikipedia

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    The company was started in 1919 [20] by Erle P. Halliburton as the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company. [ citation needed ] Halliburton Research Center in Duncan, Oklahoma , the city which was the original headquarters of Halliburton Company Halliburton (Oak Park) offices in Westchase and in Chinatown in Houston

  5. History of engineering - Wikipedia

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    The ziggurats of Mesopotamia, the pyramids and Pharos of Alexandria in ancient Egypt, cities of the Indus Valley civilization, the Acropolis and Parthenon in ancient Greece, the aqueducts, Via Appia and Colosseum in the Roman Empire, Teotihuacán, the cities and pyramids of the Mayan, Inca and Aztec Empires, and the Great Wall of China, among many others, stand as a testament to the ingenuity ...

  6. Electrical engineering - Wikipedia

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    Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

  7. Muhammad Ali Mirza - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad Ali Mirza was born on 4 October 1977 in Jhelum, Punjab. [1] His father, Mirza Arshad Mahmud, reportedly used to work in Allied Bank.Ali Mirza obtained his education as an engineer from University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila.

  8. Nina Tandon - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, she started graduate work at the Boston School, she quickly changed to follow her mentor, Professor Gordana Vunjak- Novakovice. [10] She then studied at Columbia University, graduating in 2009 with a PhD in Biomedical Engineering, with a concentration in Cardiac Tissue Engineering.

  9. Samay Raina - Wikipedia

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    Raina was born in the Jammu city of the erstwhile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir into a conservative Kashmiri Pandit family. He enrolled in a print engineering course at PVG's COET in Pune, Maharashtra which he said was a waste of time, and started doing open mic events and eventually became a regular in the local comedy scene.