It also lists a brief description of the engineering disciplines and answers some frequently-asked questions. It features a dozen of the more noteworthy women, Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, and children whose prominent inventions are used in industry and home. Features women engineers on the job and engineering students who discuss the challenges and rewards that the field of engineering has to offer. Mentoring programs, study groups, and other special programs encouraging women to pursue careers in engineering are also highlighted. Explores engineering careers of the future and explains why a background in science and mathematics is becoming more important than ever in our increasingly technical world.
Viewers see the fascinating world of aqua culture, robotics, hydroponics and bioengineering.
Included are mechanical, electrical, structural, chemical, and instrumental and control engineers. From early forging to 20th century space technology, significant engineering landmarks are covered, telling the story of America's growth from colonial times to the present. A glimpse into the world of art reveals a longtime fascination with power and products of technical genius. Through paintings, sculpture, poetry, carousels, brass pumps, piping and Gothic engines, the close interface between the distinctly different worlds of art and engineering is explored. Music and engineering, each a mix of old and new, of established principles and experimentation, each works to communicate something to the world.