Hunt, Shannon

Engineered! : engineering design at work / Shannon Hunt ; [illustrated by] James Gulliver Hancock. - 48 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes index. "A fun exploration of nine amazing feats"--Cover.

"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 or environmental engineering. By following a step-by-step process, engineers are able to come up with some ingenious (and sometimes crazy!) ideas that really work, like building a bridge taller than the Eiffel Tower to fix that fiv

ISBN: 9781771385602 (hardback)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 20169064255

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Engineering
Engineers
Ingénierie
Ingénieurs

Dewey Class. No.: j620