A competent engineer should be able to do better than that.

Modern man, I'm convinced, is vulnerable to any competent engineer.

At least, to the point where he could turn it over to a competent developing engineer and miners.

If engineering needs followed true free market principles, during a shortage a competent engineer would be able to name his price and get it.

Then again, maybe that's one of the qualities that makes him such a competent engineer.

"He is a loyal party member of long standing and a very competent engineer whom you will not threaten in my presence!"

Three thousand people did know the truth, though, and any competent engineer or physical scientist would suspect it.

But if it had required a competent engineer to spot the problem, they would have won the suit.

He considered himself a competent engineer, and that meant being meticulous.

The plan was his own, but he sent down to the States for competent engineers to carry it out.