Engineered! : engineering design at work
Hunt, Shannon (Shannon Chantal)2017
Book
How do you land a car-sized rover on the surface of Mars, resolve a five-hour traffic jam or save a herd of caribou from near extinction? Ask an engineer! Engineers are problem solvers. They use their math, science and technology skills to find creative solutions to problems that need fixing. In Engineered! bestselling author Shannon Hunt explores nine feats of engineering and the step-by-step process that engineers followed to get to a winning solution. The book opens with an illustrated flow chart that explains the engineering design process in seven easy-to-follow steps (e.g., define the problem, identify requirements, build and test a prototype, etc.). Then, these steps are applied to nine real-life engineering stories each from a different field, such as civil, mechanical, biomedical, or environmental engineering.
Main title:
Engineered! : engineering design at work / Shannon Hunt, James Gulliver Hancock.
Author:
Hunt, Shannon (Shannon Chantal), authorHancock, James Gulliver, illustrator
Imprint:
Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2017]©2017.
Collation:
48 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.
Notes:
"A fun exploration of nine amazing facts" -- Cover.Includes index.
Audience:
Interest age level: Ages 10+.
Contents:
In the Minds of Engineers -- Engineering Design: Step-by-Step -- Aerospace Engineering -- Seven Minutes of Terror -- Biomedical Engineering -- The Ultimate Print Job -- Chemical Engineering -- Double-A Idea -- Mechanical Engineering -- A Need for Speed -- Electrical Engineering -- The Tyranny of Numbers -- Civil Engineering -- Engineering above the Clouds -- Geomatics Engineering -- Not-So-At-Home on the Range -- Computer Engineering -- The Wonderful Wizard of Woz -- Environmental Engineering -- When Good Sewers Go Bad.
ISBN:
9781771385602
Dewey class:
620
Language:
English
BRN:
330955