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There are lots of biographies, profiles, interviews and videos about engineering professionals available on the internet. Here are some names for exploring.

• profiles include engineers in industry, colleges and government
• USA Science & Engineering Festival – This series features some of the most inspiring Role Models in Engineering
• NASA Biographies – Astronauts
• history-making engineers – Benjamin Wright , Thomas Telford , Sylvanus Thayer , Charles Stark Draper , Lillian M. Gilbreth , Mario Molina , Mildred S. Dresselhaus , Nam P. Suh, Oscar Suros, Lonnie Reid, Harold Rosen, John Pierce, Jack Kilby, Robert N. Noyce, Grace Murray Hopper, Mae C. Jemison, John B. Slaughter, Mary Ross
• profiles – video

• 10 Engineers Who Changed the Course of History

• design – products, services – Sketchpad – CAD software, Ivan Sutherland 1962

• 1843 – Ada Byron Lovelace designs the first “computer program”
• 1872 – Emily Roebling supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge

Engineering disciplines
All engineers are not the same. Even in college, they start specializing because engineering is too big to learn everything about engineering in four years of college. Chemical, Electronics, Industrial

Professional and Educational Organizations

• Engineering Societies – Electrical, Mechanical, Environmental, Materials, Mechatronics, BioMedical, Civil, Structural, Marine, Automotive
• American Chemical Society
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics– STEM K-12 Outreach
• American Society for Engineering Education
• ASEE Engineering K-12 Center
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• National Society of Black Engineers
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• Society of Women Engineers

Events

• National Engineers Week
• National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
• US FIRST

Learn more…

• Try Engineering –
• US Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics
• New York State Career Zone
• Web quest – Careers in Engineering – It is not too early to start thinking about the world of work. Over 20,000 different job titles exist in the U.S. today, and by the time you join the work force, that number will have increased exponentially. Many of the jobs you will be applying for haven’t even been created!