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Engineers are the superheroes of the real world. They use their problem-solving skills to face down the biggest challenges we have, from creating clean energy to designing prosthetic limbs, from eliminating food shortages to programming AI to exploring the surface of Mars. In this book you’ll meet 46 engineers, from apprentices and lab technicians to university professors and start-up CEOs and hear what problems they are solving and why they love their jobs. Engineers are changing the world. Will you be one of them?



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"This book is accessible, inspiring and inclusive, with both men and women engineers featured."

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"It can be handed to a young person to show the variety of engineering careers out there in an engaging way, to teachers and careers advisers guiding students, or to anyone who is involved in engineering outreach activities."

-- Yasmin Ali * The Chemical Engineer *

Shortlisted for the British Book Design Production Awards in the Educational Books category


Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards in the Information 3-14+ category

Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors,

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    A Hardback by Dr. Shini Somara, Manual Šumberac, Adam Allsuch Boardman

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      Publisher What on Earth Publishing Ltd
      Published 2 March 2023
      ISBN-13 9781804660270
      978-1804660270
      ISBN-10 1804660272
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Engineers are the superheroes of the real world. They use their problem-solving skills to face down the biggest challenges we have, from creating clean energy to designing prosthetic limbs, from eliminating food shortages to programming AI to exploring the surface of Mars. In this book you’ll meet 46 engineers, from apprentices and lab technicians to university professors and start-up CEOs and hear what problems they are solving and why they love their jobs. Engineers are changing the world. Will you be one of them?



      Trade Review

      "This book is accessible, inspiring and inclusive, with both men and women engineers featured."

      * BookTrust *

      "It can be handed to a young person to show the variety of engineering careers out there in an engaging way, to teachers and careers advisers guiding students, or to anyone who is involved in engineering outreach activities."

      -- Yasmin Ali * The Chemical Engineer *

      Shortlisted for the British Book Design Production Awards in the Educational Books category


      Longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards in the Information 3-14+ category

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