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'I feel violated': Engineer who pointed out traffic signals flaw fined for 'unlicensed engineering'

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Re: Casey Jones (1863–1900)

@ Charles 9

To be more precise.

The word engineer (from the Latin ingeniator[3]) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").

It then entered English through the French word "ingénieur".

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