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• Electrical Engineering
• Vorwort
• Electrical Engineering Terms & Idioms
• Verbs (statistically) most frequently used in describing electronic circuits
• Verbs most frequently used in describing electric circuits
• Nouns frequently used in describing electronic circuits
• Words used for voltage fluctuation
• Nouns in connection with voltage
• Locating a fault in a controller
• Replacing bearing bushes
• Starting an emergency generator set for a trial run
• Meeting the customer at the office
• Rating of electrical equipment
• Measuring and applying voltage
• Establishing an electrical engineering specification
• At a meeting with the electronics section
• Help required to perform a task
• Attending works tests
• Preliminary work on obtaining a major order
• Discussing results of a load analysis
• Comments on drawings submitted for approval
• Failure and remedy of switchgear
• Additional data on drawing required
• Size, weight and dimensions of equipment
• Mechanical treatment of a control console
• Verbs used for mounting and inserting equipment
• Verbs used for stripping and removing of equipment
• Frequency of verbs used in a specification
• Measures and dimensions as used in day-to-day work
• ''Speaking about'' and ''writing on'' an engineering scheme
• On the telephone
• Translation exercises
• Key to translations
• Articles
• Diesel-electric propulsion system for cruise vessel
• End of the line
• Such is accuracy
• Keep an eye on the voltage level
• Fuel-cell engine ready for the industry
• IEEE recommendations for engineers
• Examination for electrical engineers
• Spelling it out
• William Shockley, famous inventor
• Silent witness
• Silicon Valley unveil Tech museum
• The electronic weatherman at home
• History for yoo-hoo
• A major engineering achievement: Pioneer 10
• Such is psychology
• Crank and go
• Such is tradition
• Great claim
• Teaching English in Japan
• Putting engineers in the picture
• Increasing demand for electrical engineers
• Solar power – competitive when far from electric grids
• Just for kicks
• Recharging dry battery cells
• Report on U.S. burghers
• Cyberspace will never be Nirwana
• Lecturers take note
• World of electronics
• Moderate southerly winds
• Mobile telephone, mainstay of the telecommunications revolution
• Energy and Empire
• English & Internet
• Dressing down at U.S. companies
• Introducing alternating current 1899
• Wanted: Electrical Engineer
• Pilot on the Outer Hebrides
• Fantasia Mathematica
• Surveillance systems at airports
• Novel water-temperature control system
• An exhibition called Enigma
• Alexander Graham Bell
• The world's most advanced solar-powered plane
• Dumbstruck
• High-quality sound from a small radio
• Fraunhofer Institute creates white LED light
• Striking up a conversation
• Producer power
• Mobile telephone – as predicted 1969
• Electrical Review 1889
• Mistaken target
• History on the waves of air
• Captive train to Gatwick Airport
• The secrets of Mars
• Probability calculus
• Services ahead of manufacturing
• Demand for engineers will be continuing
• Crank up the volume
• World languages
• A word to the wise
• Writing the operator's guide
• Cranking up the engine
• U.S. exports to Japan
• 20th-century futurology that flopped
• Machine minds your language
• Solar engergy – great business of the next century
• A high-volume world takes a toll
• Two Concorde Pilots
• Fun at the cinema
• Different types of schools
• The Early British Radio Industry
• Convention of the Titanic Historical Society
• Mathematicians and the ''public''
• From Morse Code to the Internet
• Electricity industry on the track of lightning
• The invention of the transistor and following digital revolution
• Producing the licence
• Hollywood's DVD movies
• Alan Jones – an electrical engineer
• An ambitious engineering objective
• Episode 1 - Looking for a new job
• Episode 2 - Introducing the new section leader
• Episode 3 - One-line diagrams and basic information
• Episode 4 - Meeting specification requirements
• Episode 5 - Good prospects for a new product
• Episode 6 - Overdue equipment delivery
• Episode 7 - A big new order at last
• Episode 8 - Employing alternative equipment
• Technical developments and comments
• Power plant of a special kind
• Maintenance electricians in demand
• Incentives for mathematicians
• Taking a foreign flyer
• Ford's uphill road
• "Digital Commons"
• Hosting the 2008 Olympics
• Travelling by plane
• Travelling by train in France
• Alitalia flight to Dublin
• Pleasurable pastime
• Puritans and convicts
• There are choices
• The engineers' common language
• American Wire Gage (AWG)
• Phonetic alphabet – Buchstabiertabelle – Tableau d'épellation
• Formulae – how to express in words
• How to pronounce these tricky words