It’s time for Feedback

My objective in writing Engineering Stories is to encourage students to consider or continue careers in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM), show what it may be like, dispel a myth or two, and encourage creativity, problem solving, and the confidence to make the world a better place. It is also my hope that teachers will take an interest in using these stories to increase their own understanding of engineering and thus be better able to convey it to students.

As an engineer, I use feedback in determining if a mechanical system is on course; I need the same kind of feedback here. Please reply and let me know the following:

  1. What Engineering Stories did you read?
  2. What did you experience while your read them?
  3. Did the story make you more interested in engineering?
  4. How could the stories be improved to achieve the goal?

Thanks for enjoying Engineering Stories.

Respectfully,

Ken Hardman

A Life, or a Galaxy; Either way, you’ll make a difference

Engineering projects are not all rocket science, but a few are; Engineering designs are not all mathematical, but some are; Engineering teams are not all experts, but many are.

As an engineer, you might create a satellite to measure solar flare radiation headed to earth, or a deep space probe to listen to the stars; or, you might conceive how to help the blind see a sunset, or the deaf hear a symphony.

It may be someone else that develops the optimal trajectory for mankind’s first human trip across the solar system, but it could be you that develops the optimal orthopedic artificial hand making it possible for an amputee to control the trajectory of her own food from hand to mouth across the table.

Either way, you’ll change a life, or the world, or the solar system, or the galaxy, or…

Either way, you’ll make the world a better place.