engineer

Primary Meanings of engineer

1.	n v	a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems design as an engineer
2.	n	the operator of a railway locomotive

Full Definitions of engineer

n a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Synonyms:: applied scientist, technologist

Examples:: show 32 examples...; hide 32 examples...; Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900); Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913); Bryan Donkin
English engineer who developed a method of preserving food by sterilizing it with heat and sealing it inside a steel container--the first tin can (1768-1855); Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923); Richard Buckminster Fuller
United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983); George Washington Goethals
United States army officer and engineer who supervised the construction of the Panama Canal (1858-1928); Hugo Junkers
German aircraft engineer who designed the first all-metal airplane (1859-1935); Charles Franklin Kettering
United States electrical engineer who made numerous automotive improvements (including the electric starter) (1876-1958); Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519); John Augustus Roebling
United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869); Claude Elwood Shannon
United States electrical engineer who pioneered mathematical communication theory (1916-2001); Sir Charles William Siemens
engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883); Elmer Ambrose Sperry
United States engineer and inventor of the gyrocompass (1860-1930); Richard Trevithick
English engineer who built the first railway locomotive (1771-1833); Thomas Augustus Watson
United States telephone engineer who assisted Alexander Graham Bell in his experiments (1854-1934); James Watt
Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements in the steam engine led to its wide use in industry (1736-1819); Sir Henry Bessemer
British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898); Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977); Vannevar Bush
United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974); Father of Radio
United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961); Ray M. Dolby
United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording; Oliver Heaviside
English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925); Arthur Edwin Kennelly
United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939); Guglielmo Marconi
Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937); Reginald Joseph Mitchell
English aeronautical engineer (1895-1937); Ernst Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer (1816-1892); Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940); David Barnard Steinman
United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960); Charles Proteus Steinmetz
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923); Nikola Tesla
United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943); Elihu Thomson
United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937); Sir Frank Whittle
English aeronautical engineer who invented the jet aircraft engine (1907-1996)

Types:: show 22 types...; hide 22 types...; aeronautical engineer
an engineer concerned with the design and construction of aircraft; aerospace engineer
an engineer of aircraft and space vehicles; army engineer, military engineer
a member of the military who is trained in engineering and construction work; automotive engineer
an engineer concerned with the design and construction of automobiles; civil engineer
an engineer trained to design and construct and maintain public works (roads or bridges or harbors etc.); electrical engineer
a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity; marine engineer, naval engineer
a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines; mechanical engineer
a person trained to design and construct machines; metallurgical engineer, metallurgist
an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals; mining engineer
an engineer concerned with the construction and operation of mines; coder, computer programmer, programmer, software engineer
a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs; rocket engineer, rocket scientist
an engineer who builds and tests rockets; surveyor
an engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures; cracker
a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things; hacker
a programmer for whom computing is its own reward; may enjoy the challenge of breaking into other computers but does no harm; cyber-terrorist, cyberpunk, hacker
a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism; highway engineer
a civil engineer who specializes in the design and construction of roads and highways; lineman
the surveyor who marks positions with a range pole; locater, locator
a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims; sapper
a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications); sapper
a military engineer who lays or detects and disarms mines; tribologist
a specialist in tribology

Type of:: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being

v design as an engineer

“He engineered the water supply project”

Type of:: design, plan
make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

v plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

Synonyms:: direct, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize

Types:: choreograph
plan and oversee the development and details of

Type of:: plan
make plans for something

n the operator of a railway locomotive

Synonyms:: engine driver, locomotive engineer, railroad engineer

Examples:: John Luther Jones
United States railroad engineer who died trying to stop his train from crashing into another train; a friend wrote a famous ballad describing the incident (1864-1900)

Type of:: manipulator, operator
an agent that operates some apparatus or machine

Primary Meanings of engineer

n a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

v design as an engineer

v plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

n the operator of a railway locomotive

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