Engineering (Black Achievement in Science Series)

Engineers impact just about every part of our lives. The people highlighted in this book, for example, have made buildings comfortable and safer, led teams of engineers as they built bridges and levees, developed new ways to send information with fiber optics, and even invented an award-winning toy. They were united not only by their creative and ingenious work, but also by their African heritage. Inside, read about engineers who overcame barriers as they worked to use their talents to help the world. Great scientific achievements, innovations, and inventions often have been recorded by men and women of color, and this series celebrates their work and lives, specialty by specialty. Their stories can inspire students of today to pursue their own dreams of science success. In a perfect world, we, like science, would not see color. Until then, we celebrate and inspire with stones of Buck Achievement in Science.