"These companies absolutely do not want to go dark, and so they rely on cautious engineers," he said.
The studies said engineering had become overspecialized even as demands on engineers were becoming increasingly broad.
They spent $625,000 on consultants, engineers and contractors to widen the road, from two to three lanes.
I've picked on physicists and engineers here, but perhaps I'm simply the victim of confirmation bias.
What's striking is the number of us who have gone on to become foreman or engineers.
We cannot solve this problem simply by weaning ourselves from dependence on foreign scientists and engineers.
But it has had a liberating influence, he said, on scientists and engineers throughout the agency.
This collection of interviews puts the spotlight on Argonne scientists and engineers.
"Let's not put it on the scientists and engineers."
But this area, too, was wholly dependent on engineers for its existence.