By 20, he had an engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University, by 22 a master's degree in business from the University of Chicago.
Robert, whose own youth was scarred by poverty and war, has an engineering degree but lacks the connections that would help land him a job working for the government or a private company.
The agency is being run by an acting commissioner, Robert LiMandri, who has an engineering degree but is not licensed.
Institutionally, it has an engineering culture mobilised by tightly defined requirements derived from those mission goals.
"Only by having diverse engineering, diverse product, and diverse management can we build a product that is fully embraced by more people.
According to documents obtained by the Guardian, Apple has appointed an engineering program manager (EPM) to Project Titan.
If the import of Google's decision, in 2012, to hire the futurist Ray Kurzweil hasn't sunk in, pause to consider the fact that the second-largest company in the world (by market capitalization) has a director of engineering who believes that humanity will conquer death.
The AngelPad-backed startup was founded earlier this summer by Kevin Rohling, who has a background in engineering and most recently worked at Card.io, the credit-card scanning technology acquired by PayPal.
The Associated Press reports that an independent firm hired by BP had found that the oil giant was violating its own policies by not having completed engineering documents aboard the Atlantis when it began operations in 2007.
The building, he said, would be "a straightforward accumulation of rooms," with none of the architectural and engineering problems posed by having large public spaces on low floors.
