Engineers making a difference : inventors, technicians, scientist and tech entrepreneurs changing the world, and how you can join them / By Dr. Shini Somara

By:

Somara, Shini [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: United States : What on Earth Books, c2023Description: 222 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9781804660270

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LOC classification:

TA 157 .S66 2023

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Human needs -- 2. Climate and environment -- 3. Powering our future -- 4. Infrastructure and construction -- 5. Healthcare -- 6. Advanced materials -- 7. Communication -- 8. Smart manufacture -- 9. Transportation -- 10. Entertainment -- 11. Robotics and artificial intelligence -- 12. Exploring beyond our planet -- Timeline of engineers -- A final note

Summary: "Engineers are the superheroes of the real world. They use their problem-solving skills to face down the biggest challenges we have, from creating clean energy to designing prosthetic limbs, from eliminating food shortages to programming AI to exploring the surface of Mars. In this book you’ll meet 46 engineers, from apprentices and lab technicians to university professors and start-up CEOs and hear what problems they are solving and why they love their jobs. Engineers are changing the world."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	NU Clark Circulation	Non-fiction	GC TA 157 .S66 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		NUCLA000005028

Includes index.

"Engineers are the superheroes of the real world. They use their problem-solving skills to face down the biggest challenges we have, from creating clean energy to designing prosthetic limbs, from eliminating food shortages to programming AI to exploring the surface of Mars. In this book you’ll meet 46 engineers, from apprentices and lab technicians to university professors and start-up CEOs and hear what problems they are solving and why they love their jobs. Engineers are changing the world."

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