Amazing Feats Of Civil Engineering

Author : L. E. Carmichael
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629685274

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Amazing Feats of Civil Engineering by L. E. Carmichael Pdf

Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of civil engineering. Engaging text explores massive bridges, the world's tallest skyscraper, and the Panama Canal. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline. Relevant sidebars, stunning photos, and a glossary aid readers' understanding of the topic. A hands-on project and career-planning chart give readers a sense of what it takes to become an engineer. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus essential facts about each featured feat of engineering. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Chris Eboch
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629685304

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Amazing Feats of Mechanical Engineering by Chris Eboch Pdf

Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of mechanical engineering. Engaging text explores Mars rovers, robotic surgery systems, and advanced wind turbines. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline. Relevant sidebars, stunning photos, and a glossary aid readers' understanding of the topic. A hands-on project and career-planning chart give readers a sense of what it takes to become an engineer. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus essential facts about each featured feat of engineering. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Carol Hand
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781629685298

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Amazing Feats of Environmental Engineering by Carol Hand Pdf

Engineers design our modern world. They combine science and technology to create incredible vehicles, structures, and objects. This title examines amazing feats of environmental engineering. Engaging text explores projects that supply water to impoverished areas, structures in the Netherlands that hold back the Atlantic Ocean, and the cleanup of contaminated areas. It also examines the engineers who made these projects a reality and traces the history of the discipline. Relevant sidebars, stunning photos, and a glossary aid readers' understanding of the topic. A hands-on project and career-planning chart give readers a sense of what it takes to become an engineer. Additional features include a table of contents, a selected bibliography, source notes, and an index, plus essential facts about each featured feat of engineering. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Therese Shea
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508100256

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Solving Real World Problems with Civil Engineering by Therese Shea Pdf

This book addresses the job of civil engineers and explains how some of the world's greatest engineering marvels were built. Students will learn how tunnels such as the English Channel Tunnel are built under water; how dams like the Hoover Dam are built and the purpose they serve a community; and why the Panama Canal was an important improvement to world trade.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Essential Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1624034241

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Great Achievements in Engineering by Anonim Pdf

Readers will marvel at the incredible engineering accomplishments in each of these engaging books. Through up-close examinations of three major projects, readers learn about core science and engineering concepts and principles at work in the discipline. The books also explore the tools used by engineers in their work, as well as issues that regularly come into play in the world of engineering, such as availability of resources and environmental impacts. Each book concludes with a forward look at the future of the discipline. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : 0624072762

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Megastructures and Masterminds by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shannon Hunt
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771385602

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Engineered! by Shannon Hunt Pdf

"How do you land a car-sized rover on the surface of Mars, resolve a five-hour traffic jam or save a herd of caribou from near extinction? Ask an engineer! Engineers are problem solvers. They use their math, science and technology skills to find creative solutions to problems that need fixing. In Engineered! bestselling author Shannon Hunt explores nine feats of engineering and the step-by-step process that engineers followed to get to a winning solution. The book opens with an illustrated flow chart that explains the engineering design process in seven easy-to-follow steps (e.g., define the problem, identify requirements, build and test a prototype, etc.). Then, these steps are applied to nine real-life engineering stories - each from a different field, such as civil, mechanical or environmental engineering. By following a step-by-step process, engineers are able to come up with some ingenious (and sometimes crazy!) ideas that really work, like building a bridge taller than the Eiffel Tower to fix that five-hour long traffic jam. With direct curriculum applications, and following the guidelines in the Next Generation Science Standards, Engineered! is a must-have for schools, libraries and anywhere a maker space is found!"--

Author : Kristi Lew
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502609779

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Engineer by Kristi Lew Pdf

There are many different types of engineers, from civil engineers to mechanical to electrical and more. Discover what it takes to work in this challenging field in Engineer.

Author : Christine Garnaut
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781576075692

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Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats by Christine Garnaut Pdf

Encyclopedia of Architectural and Engineering Feats presents more than 200 achievements in architecture and structural engineering in all the inhabited continents, from prehistory to the present. An architect once described the built environment as "the manifestation of the human spirit in stone, wood, and steel." In this new volume, readers can explore the most innovative and magnificent architectural expressions of the human spirit, from pre-history to the present, from all parts of the world. Readers can visit the Acropolis and Chartres cathedral, along with less familiar places like the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, once the greatest city in sub-Saharan Africa, and China's 71 meter high, 1,200 year old Grand Buddha, carved from stone. They'll learn the secrets behind audacious engineering feats like the Panama Canal, the U.S. interstate highway system, and the Deltaworks in the Netherlands. They will discover that many of these awe-inspiring projects were not the work of trained architects and engineers, but of "underdeveloped" communities, where unified will, tight social organization, and shared commitment to a spiritual ideal were more important than the inventions of the Industrial Age.

Author : Andrew Solway
Publisher : Engineering in Action
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778775011

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Civil Engineering and the Science of Structures by Andrew Solway Pdf

Civil engineers are involved in the design and construction of various structures, including high-rise buildings, sports stadiums, canals, dams, and bridges. This book gives readers a close-up look at the technology used to build various structures around the world.

Author : Clifford Foust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253010698

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John Frank Stevens by Clifford Foust Pdf

One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.

Author : Liz Knowles,Martha Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440862519

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Boost Your STEAM Program with Great Literature and Activities by Liz Knowles,Martha Smith Pdf

You've created a STEAM program in your library, but how do you work literacy into the curriculum? With this collection of resource recommendations, direction for program development, and activities, you'll have students reading proficiently in no time. Many schools and libraries are implementing STEAM programs in the school library makerspace to promote problem solving by allowing students to create their own solutions to a problem through trial and error. In order to enhance literacy development in the STEAM program, however, they need resources for integrating literature into the curriculum. In this collection of resources for doing just that, veteran education professionals and practiced coauthors Liz Knowles and Martha Smith bring readers over eight hundred recommended and annotated books and web resources, selected based on research on successfully integrating STEAM and literacy programs and organized by the five STEAM areas. Titles are complemented by discussion questions and problem-solving activities that will aid educators in both adding and using the best literature to their STEAM programs for encouraging learning. In addition to promoting literacy, these resources will help to develop creativity, lateral thinking skills, and confidence in students.

Author : Roma Agrawal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781635570212

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Built by Roma Agrawal Pdf

Winner of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books The wonders of engineering revealed--by the inspirational female engineer behind the Shard, Western Europe's tallest building. While our cities are full of incredible engineering feats, most of us live with little idea of what goes into creating the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is constructed upon, or how it remains standing. In Built, star structural engineer Roma Agrawal explains how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach into the sky. She unearths how humans have tunneled through solid mountains; how we've walked across the widest of rivers, and tamed nature's precious water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials used to build the Pantheon and the Eiffel Tower; and explains how careful engineering can minimize tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge. Interweaving science, history, illustrations, and personal stories, Built offers a fascinating window into a subject that makes up the foundation of our everyday lives.

Author : Edward Flaxman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B113824

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Great Feats of Modern Engineering by Edward Flaxman Pdf

Author : E. A. Labrum
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
ISBN : 072771970X

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Civil Engineering Heritage by E. A. Labrum Pdf

Britain has a heritage of civil engineering works unrivalled anywhere. The skills of past engineers are in evidence throughout the land in the infrastructure. This work is suitable for the technical and non-technical reader, and the area covered in it reaches from the Humber to the Thames and from East Anglia to central England.