The phrase "a corps of engineers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a group or organization of engineers, often in a military or specialized context.
Example: "The government has deployed a corps of engineers to assist with the disaster recovery efforts."
Alternatives: "a team of engineers" or "a group of engineers".
But it takes either a corps of engineer-saboteurs or an epic dose of incompetence to design a system so obviously harmful as the one I saw that frigid day on the Ganges, especially in a country where as many as half-a-million children die each year from water-borne diseases.
A corps of army engineers has also been sent lower in the valley to work on restoring communications, building temporary bridges and reopening roads.
It means a smaller corps of engineers to maintain levees, a smaller national guard to respond to crises in our communities.
Many are hired close to production, refining or marketing sites, but there is a corps of managers and engineers who move around.
This paper presents lessons learned about the function of a national review Committee (National Technical Review Committee NTRC) for a major U.S. Corps of Engineers water resources study, the Louisiana Coastal Area Study (the restoration of the Mississippi Delta).
That pressure includes a possible lawsuit against the corps of engineers — a new tactic for Mr. D'Arminio in a continuing campaign for dredging by many of the state's flood-plagued municipalities that keep running into hurdles with federal agencies.
A member of the corps of engineers, Malus accompanied Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 and remained in the Near East until 1801.
Mr. Davis helped design the original plan and had been a progressive voice inside the corps of engineers, where he worked before coming to Interior.
A 2005 Government Accountability Office report titled Wetlands Protection: Corps of Engineers Does Not Have an Effective Oversight Approach to Ensure That Compensatory Mitigation Is Occurring took the Corps' mitigation efforts to task when it comes to restoring wetlands as part of mitigation efforts, labeling USACE guidelines as "vague and internally inconsistent".
Poncelet, who was an officer in the French corps of engineers, learned scraps of Desargues's work from his teacher Gaspard Monge (1746 1818), who developed his own method of projection for drawings of buildings and machines.
