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Putting It
All Together
Engineering is a huge part of
everyday life, for everyone!
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The Environmental
Engineer
Thanks to this woman,
we know what's in our
food and water.
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The Chief Engineer
When her husband can't finish a building project,
this woman steps up and makes it happen.
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The Mechanical Engineer
The family business becomes a
woman's jumping off point!
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G I L B R E T H
The Industrial Engineer
When you have 11 children in your home, you
figure out how to make things run smoothly.
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The Aerospace Engineer
This woman defeated both gender
and racial discrimination.
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The world would be a better place if more
engineers, like me, hated technology. The
stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will
ever notice. Things will just work, and be
self-managing.
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Radia Pearlman ,
engineer
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S M A R T P H O N E S W E U S E T O
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It's in the bridges we cross and the cars we
drive. It's in the food we eat and the clothes we
wear. It's in medical devices, plastic packaging,
microwave ovens, sports equipment, and
satellite television. Engineering is everywhere!
Engineers have the scientific
understanding, creativity, and practical
know-how to make our world run.
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Ancient Engineers
For as long as there have been
people, there have been engineers.
In prehistoric times, before writing was
invented, engineers designed stone tools
and ceramic pottery. In ancient Mexico and
Egypt, engineers oversaw the construction of
enormous pyramids. We can still walk the roads
that were engineered by ancient Romans.
Those early engineers may not have been called engineers, but that's only
because the word engineer is a modern creation.
D I F F E R E N T T Y P E S O F E N G I N E E R S
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M I N I N G E N G I N E E R S
explore ways to find,
gather, and process
minerals, such as
copper or coal, from the
environment.
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S P O R T S E N G I N E E R S
design and develop
sporting equipment,
such as football helmets,
baseball gloves, and
goalie masks.
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T R A N S P O R T E N G I N E E R S
develop safe and efficient
ways to transport people
and goods over land and
across water.
Why is it
important to consider the
lessons of history as we look
toward the future?
How does this apply to
science and engineering?
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But in ancient civilizations, there certainly were people who fit our
modern definition of engineers. People have always used basic mechanical
knowledge to design useful tools and objects.
As time went on, engineering as a profession was confined to military
operations. The ancient Romans were especially masterful military
engineers. They built roads, bridges, and temporary encampments that
allowed large armies to travel quickly and efficiently.
Military engineers constructed enormous walls around cities to keep
out invading armies. Medieval castles, for example, were designed for
protective purposes. Tall towers, small windows, thick walls, moats, and
drawbridges were all geared toward defense.
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Branches of
Engineering
As more people crowded onto the planet
and communities became more complex,
engineering divided into two categories.
Military engineers focused on the needs of
the military population. Civilian engineers
focused on the rest. And now, the world we
live in is imagined, designed, and created by
engineers.
Look around your
house. Can you
imagine even one
room in your home
without plastic? The
refinement of petroleum to
create plastic is one example
of how engineering has
changed the lives of humans
in the past couple of
centuries.
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In 2015, the U.S. Army
allowed women to become
combat engineers for the
first time. Combat engineers
work directly in the field
of battle. They make it
easier for their own forces
to work and make it more
difficult for enemy forces to
operate. They build roads
and bridges, install power
supplies, clear minefields,
and blow up buildings.
Combat engineers also
serve as infantrymen. This
means they are trained to
engage in combat on foot.
You can listen to a news
report about one of the first
female combat engineers in
the U.S. Army.
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Engineers have discovered countless way to manipulate materials to serve
the needs of humans. This has resulted in many innovations in science,
technology, medicine, and more.
As the work engineers undertook became more complex, engineering
branched off into many new subsets.
Today, there are five main categories of non-military engineering —
chemical, electrical, mechanical, civil, and industrial.
Beneath those five major headings, the field of engineering spreads out
into ever more specialized subsets, such as acoustics engineering, robotics,
highway engineering, and electronics.
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(C. 350–415)
Hypatia of Alexandria, Egypt, is often thought
of as the first known female engineer. She was
famous throughout the ancient Roman Empire
as a philosopher, astronomer, mathematician,
and teacher. In the field of engineering, she
designed and made astrolabes and hydrometers.
An astrolabe takes astronomical measurements,
such as the height of stars and planets in the
sky. A hydrometer measures various qualities of
liquids, such as densit y.
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A World of
Opportunity
Because engineering branches
out in so many different
directions, it is one of the most
diverse professions in the
world. Whatever your interests
are, there's a good chance
they could be channeled into a
career in engineering.
Do you care about protecting the
environment? You could become
an environmental engineer.
Would you like to improve patient
outcomes after life-changing
accidents? You could become a
biomechanical engineer. Do you
marvel at skyscrapers that reach
hundreds of feet into the air? You could
become a structural engineer and
design them yourself.
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In Gutsy Girls: Engineers, you will
meet five women whose pioneering
efforts have changed the way our
world works and looks—Ellen
Swallow Richards, Emily Warren
Roebling, Catherine Gleason,
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and
Mary Jackson. Thanks to their
tireless efforts, often in the face
of discrimination and adversity,
women around the world today
are diving into engineering
careers.
There are
lots of vocabulary
words in this book!
Try to figure out the
meaning by looking at the
surrounding sentences or
find the definition in the
glossary.
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