Sentence examples for penchant for engineering from inspiring English sources

Early on, he showed a penchant for engineering.

Mr. Lee, a former chief executive of the Hyundai construction company who is nicknamed the Bulldozer for his penchant for colossal engineering schemes, aims at nothing less than rethinking the ecology and economy of the rivers, some of which were heavily polluted during the country's rapid industrialization.

The IN Cell Analyzer was developed by Timothy Harris, a chemist with a penchant for mechanical engineering.

Thevoz took his penchant for microsystemic engineering (in biotechnology and space industries) into the consulting world.

The kind of thinking behind the report, a mix of plain old-fashioned racism with a penchant for social engineering, pops up all too often in Canada.

Kids with a penchant for science, technology, engineering or math were pejoratively called nerds or geeks.

QUESTION FROM GUEST: With what I (inaccurately?) see as the Japanese penchant for safety and engineering redundancy, I'm still surprised that the backup diesel generators for the nuke plants were apt to be flooded, as they were below ground level.

Von Braun may have been a visionary with a penchant for the gigantic, but his engineering style tended toward the cautious, even during the deadline-driven days of the V-2 and Project Apollo.

Scherrer plans to pursue a research career in biophysics and explore biological systems by harnessing his academic backgrounds in physics and engineering, and his penchant for developing technological instruments.

He pursued a course in engineering and developed a penchant for mathematics.

Caltech's Zewail attributed Townes' penchant for reinventing himself to his knowledge of engineering and other fields — well beyond the breadth many other physicists in this era of extreme specialization.