1.  He went to Glasgow and began an apprenticeship in the engineering department of Randolph Elder, shipbuilders of Govan.

2.  This is usually the province of the production engineering department but all engineers should be aware of the systems and conventions used in their own companies.

3.  He said the proposals would have to be approved by the engineering department.

4.  An analogy could be made to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, said Craig Van Kirk, head of the petroleum engineering department at the Colorado School of Mines.

5.  Andrews recalls the engineering department misreading blueprints and having workers build a switching system backward, losing two weeks of work.

6.  Another is Michael J. Cima, a microelectronics fabrication expert and professor in the material science and engineering department.

7.  Before your engineering department commits to a product change, you need to ask your suppliers whether they can handle it.

8.  A local government office -- often the planning, public works or engineering department -- keeps a flood-insurance rating map for the community.