Siemens, the German engineering giant, said today that its fourth-quarter profit would be lower than the third.

Kvaerner said its $1.36 billion takeover in April of the British engineering giant Trafalgar House P.L.C. "strongly influenced" the beginning of the year, but gave no elaboration.

They may have even played a role in the abrupt ouster Wednesday of the chief executive of Siemens, the engineering giant, which has been hit by a corruption scandal.

This clashing décor aptly sums up the last four months for Mr. Kleinfeld, the 49-year-old chief of Siemens, the German engineering giant.

Just outside the city is a factory for the French engineering giant Alstom, where the TGV, the cars for the Paris and other metros are manufactured.

Earlier this month the government terminated a contract with Bechtel, an American engineering giant, to build the road.

Bechtel Enterprises is a development financing unit of Bechtel Group Inc., the engineering giant based in San Francisco that builds power plants.

When Göran Lindahl, then chief executive of ABB, the Zurich-based engineering giant, was asked in an interview how much he earned, he declined to answer.

In the meeting, the Argentine president also announced granting the adjudication of the high speed rail to the French engineering giant, Alstom.

She has written the corporate biographies of the Times of India Group and of Larsen & Toubro, India's global engineering giant.