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IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	Jos Cocquyt: Flying High How the world's leading maker of small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) came into his career.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	Manni Wong: Serious Fun How this amusement ride electronics and control systems designer at Disney parks worldwide started her career.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	Wade Bortz: Sound and Surf How this 32-year old engineer became a designer, installer and troubleshooter of infrasonic arrays used to monitor the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Samuel K. Moore	Ajay Royyuru: Genographer In our genes: How this computational biologist traces the history of human migration through DNA data.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Elizabeth Svoboda	Grant Imahara: Debunker in The Box Although the camera's ever-present eye may be jarring, every other aspect of this engineer's life as a cast member on the Discovery Channel's "MythBusters" is a tinkerer's dream.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Karlin & Perry	Martin Cooper: Makeovers for Masterpieces How this former physics major now uses lasers and computer modeling to restore, replicate, and catalog public monuments, museum art, and private collections.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Harry Goldstein	Jim Benya: The Illuminator How this an electrical engineer, lighting designer, consultant and principal of Benya Lighting parlayed his belief in the ethic that you should leave the environment better than you found it into a career.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Louis Liebenberg: Call of the Wild The former physics and applied math major has been charged by a rhinoceros. He's been stalked by a lion. He even survived the dot-com implosion with his software company intact.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Justin Mullins	Rick Townend: Driven Designing and building cars that can handle rallysport terrain is the dream of many an aspiring engineer. For the Subaru World Rally Team's chief engineer, it's both his day job and his life.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Steven Cherry	Anthony Eckersall: Aquatechnician How this electrical engineer came to design control systems for the largest and most complex fountains ever made.
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