to pick up the baton - Faraday would have expected future engineers __________ later down the line., dogged perseverance - Instead, a gut feeling was followed by years of stubborn, hard graft, thousands of prototypes and __________., incremental - Developing new technology is _________; little by little, you inch closer to the right answer., dwindling - _________ energy supplies, booming populations and mass urbanisation keep clever young engineers awake at night., in the making - Stainless steel was almost 100 years ________., to boot - As we lurch between fads, let's not forget that software can only exist with the hardware ________., tangible - [The next Frank Whittle] will be found tucked away in a research lab actually developing something ______., bogged down - But, ________ in debate about curriculum reform, I worry that we neglect our current crop of university students., ditch - We need to offer postgraduate scientists and engineers competitive wages so that they don't _______ their ideas and head into finance or banking., tweaking - We have run out of the big, life-changing ideas needed to spur rapid economic growth and engineers are now just ________ at the edges.,

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