Sentence examples for federal engineering from inspiring English sources

It was a man-made disaster, a federal engineering failure with multibillion-dollar consequences.

The privately owned dam, which held back a reservoir that had become swollen by heavy rains, was built more than a century ago, long before federal engineering standards were instituted.

It includes the motel and restaurant owners, the gasoline retailers, the oil corporations, the road-building contractors, the heavy equipment manufacturers, the state and federal engineering agencies and the sovereign, all-powerful automotive industry.

Over time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the federal engineering and construction agency, has spent more than $123 billion on flood control infrastructure that hasn't always adequately protected us.

A federal engineering review team found in late July that Bechtel's safety evaluation of key equipment at the plant at the Hanford site in Washington state was incomplete and that "the risks are more serious" than Bechtel acknowledged when it sought approval to continue with construction, the documents say.

Talke shares his findings with other scientists and with officials at agencies such as the Army Corps of Engineers, which is in charge of federal coastal engineering.

He is an all but forgotten president — pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Hackers who have claimed responsibility for a spate of recent break-ins said on Friday that they had infiltrated the networkof IRC Federal, an engineering contractor that works for federal agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and stole internal documents from its database and e-mail system.

Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education: 5-Year Strategic Plan National Science and Technology Councill, 2013).

A proposed reshuffling of federal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs in the United States would move the Department of Education (ED) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the head of the class.

OSE and the SEPA program were on a White House hit list in April when President Barack Obama included the closures in a plan to consolidate federal STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education programs as part of his 2014 budget request to Congress.