0 a person whose job is to design or build machines, engines, or electrical equipment, or things such as roads, railways, or bridges, using scientific principles: --
The engineer is coming to repair our phone tomorrow morning.
a computer engineer
a software engineer
a mechanical/structural engineer
a civil engineer
1 to arrange cleverly and often secretly for something to happen, especially something that is to your advantage: --
2 to design and build something using scientific principles --
3 a person specially trained to design and build machines, structures, and other things, including bridges, roads, vehicles, and buildings: --
He is an engineer at a large electronics company.
4 to plan, design, or build according to scientific principles: --
The bridge is engineered to withstand an earthquake.
5 to plan or do something in a skillful way: --
The administration engineered a compromise.
Admittedly, the task for the knowledge engineer does get harder, because the elicitation sessions require much more preparation.
The understanding of a domain is very difficult to explicate and requires the highest skill from the knowledge engineer in elicitation.
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.
A design standards review forum was set up consisting of four senior engineers.
Any introduced population of this species could thus potentially transmit several human diseases unless specifically engineered to be refractory to all of them.
Identification of nematode secretions suitable for the plantibody approach to engineered resistance in plants.
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.
The engineer decides how to use the input as admission, omission, or rejection.
