Even if they are the brightest engineers in the world they are simply outnumbered.

Some bright engineer had figured out that 5mm.

"The Japanese auto companies have long been concerned that the industry was not as attractive to the brightest engineers as it once was," he said.

At one level the presence of bright young engineers and scientists from all over the world is good news.

"It would take four very bright first-generation engineers a full year to program this site," Guha estimated.

What bright electrical engineer in France had wired the passengers' Machmeter into the emergency power?

Some years ago," she said, "there was a downturn in the aerospace industry, and a lot of bright engineers found themselves unemployed.

As of now, even the brightest engineers cannot say which of several promising technologies will take the lead.

"Always room for a bright young engineer."

British Rail deliberately commissioned two young, bright, inventive engineers with no experience in trains or railways to head the development of the project.