Going, going, gone... the engineers of tomorrow. 2. Plugging the gap (original) (raw)

2004, Engineering Management

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The Story of Gateway

National Science Foundation, 2000

The physical body of our society has been created largely through the work of engineers. It is engineers who engage the properties of matter and the sources of energy in ways that are useful to the community and that help to promote its progress. It is engineers who develop the structures that protect and support us, the machines that work for us, the roads and waterways that ease our transportation. Before the 1940's, engineers were technicians who created extraordinary structures such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Hoover Dam. During the second World War, however, they had difficulty with projects such as the development of feedback controls on antiaircraft equipment, due to an insufficient background in science. Instead,

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