With Albion, the 31-year-old has slowly worked his way back into the plans of manager Steve Clarke after failing with a bid to engineer himself a move to QPR on transfer deadline day.
Weinstein was working with the data analytics team, but like any good engineer, was trying to "engineer himself out of a job" by making processes like these more efficient.
In the 2008 election, he made a joke of democratic procedure and, in effect, engineered for himself an anti-constitutional third term.
By hiring Morgan Stanley to explore options on Thursday, BJ's is saying no to the kind of closed-door, sweetheart deal that J. Crew's chief, Millard Drexler, engineered for himself and his private equity backers, TPG and Leonard Green & Partners.
Perhaps the world has even bought the P.R. he engineered about himself, with the photographs in which he holds smiling children on his knee (children whose parents he later killed) — those happy photographs of him with a twinkle in his eye.
An engineer himself, he surrounded himself with other engineers who made bad managers.
He is an engineer himself, and very focused on technical issues.
For example, it has a large business in fine chemicals, used in pharmaceuticals and electronics -- one that Mr. Welch, a chemical engineer himself, has wanted G.E. to build.
Steven Kyffin, a senior researcher at Philips, a consumer-electronics giant based in Eindhoven in the Netherlands, concedes that computer programmers and engineers, himself included, are often guilty of designing complicated systems packed with too many features.
