Come with Ken on a winter bike ride and discover some Engineering.
Tag: Civil Engineering
Engineering Riddle – No. 4 (Materials) “A Point of No Returning”
Your welcome to disfigure, transform or twist with vigor,
But let me be your warning, to save you dreadful mourning.
When released from deformation, whether tension or compression,
From my left get restoration, from my right, life-long mutation.
I’m a bridge best not for burning, a point of no returning,
Where rifts occur much faster, and cycling meets disaster.
What material property am I?
My Engineering Stories, and others recommended by Henry Petroski
I’m grateful to Henry Petroski, a well known engineering author for his ongoing recommendations for my Engineering Stories. In addition to providing an endorsement on the back of my book, Dr. Petroski, the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University included Engineering Stories within a list of several other fiction and non-fiction stories about engineers in an article in Prism, a magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education. Click on the following and read his recommendations. I plan to read some of the other stories he recommends. Perhaps you will too.
http://www.asee-prism.org/refractions-jan/