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PDA Engineering, a Costa Mesa maker of software for engineers, has begun shipping a new generation of engineering-analysis software.

May 26, 1992

As a structural engineering student at the University of Michigan in the early 1930s, George Housner never gave a thought to earthquakes.

Oct. 15, 1999

The disclosure of a political fund-raising letter for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley that wished potential contributors “success” in their bids on a major city public works contract has sent Bradley aides scurrying to return nearly $12,000 in donations, The Times has learned.

July 26, 1986

Great works in California often have been attributed to great men--visionaries and pioneers who dreamed of doing the impossible.

March 29, 1987

The most important technological innovation of the 1980s wasn’t in recombinant DNA or software or silicon chips or superconductivity.

Jan. 7, 1990

Boeing’s 737 Max design was supposed to save money and help compete with Airbus. Instead, it created a crisis that killed hundreds of people, ate up billions of dollars and led to CEO Dennis Muilenburg’s ouster.

Dec. 23, 2019

Kirstin Harper-Smith, a project executive at Shawmut Design and Construction, leads projects like the UCLA Nimoy Theater renovation and LA Live!

Dec. 17, 2023

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Jan. 5, 2012

The Air Force is planning to transfer its headquarters for designing secret spy satellites--along with at least 800 high-level scientific and engineering jobs--from El Segundo to Washington as part of a major realignment of the nation’s vast intelligence-gathering spacecraft program, The Times has learned.

Oct. 16, 1992

Bishop Inc., a Westlake Village supplier of engineering-design products and systems, said it lost $875,000 in the 1991 fiscal year compared to a net loss of $1.02 million in 1990.

Jan. 7, 1992