With the help of dozens of volunteer engineers collaborating online, the group retrofitted a Prius in Mr. Gremban's garage to travel about 10 miles on nothing but battery power.

The new trainee will work alongside the railway's skilled volunteer engineers looking after the railway's locomotives and rolling stock.

The volunteer engineers would have operated boats from the RAOC wharf on East Broadway, on the outskirts of Hamilton, however the unit was never actually raised.

He eventually returned to Philadelphia and headed a group of volunteer engineers building fortifications around Philadelphia when he was elected to the Fourteenth United States Congress from that city in 1814.

Upon formation, the volunteer engineers were promised pay wages one-third greater than that of the line.

In 1733 he joined the regular army as a volunteer engineer and on May 1, 1734 was appointed a second lieutenant in the Regiment de Bearn.

Each volunteer engineer brings his own whistle to work; one day it's from a big B. & O. passenger engine, next day a Lackawanna freight hauler.

Mr. Alarcon solved that problem with the help of a volunteer engineer from California who suggested using the small surplus parachutes that the Army uses for nighttime flares.

Tetra Society of North America is a not-for-profit organization that provides volunteer engineers across Canada and the US to design and construct custom assistive devices for people with disabilities.

Tetra keeps to the formula of sending a volunteer engineer or technician to investigate low-tech but ingenious solutions to an individual's day-to-day access problems.