I've been building scratch cars my whole life - my passion is taking something that doesn't exist, creating a concept on a blank piece of paper and making that concept real.
We have a massive shortage of engineers and one of the big glaring holes is that we have so few women doing engineering - it's less than 10 percent of the workforce.
On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.
I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This flying machine should have no moving parts. This idea came from the huge power of cyclones.
Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.
During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
It's pretty clear that machine learning is going to be a big part of science and engineering.
As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.
I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
The Apollo programme of the 1960s had some weight problems, too; in particular, the lunar lander needed some fairly drastic weight-reduction work.
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
I still believe that Mercedes and Ferrari are the two strongest power units but then Honda is a lot stronger than they get credit for I think.
We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.
Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.
As a former competitor, robot combat is near and dear to my heart. I enjoy the mix of creativity and mayhem that are essential to this sport.
Thirty percent of Americans have German blood in their family. I don't see any major difference in the engineering abilities of Americans and Germans.
You can take weight out of a car and truck and still make it very strong.
I mean, we're - if I may say so - we're experts at using materials and processes in ways for which they were never intended.
The ingenuity of fashion designers, the craft, is truly incredible - they're engineers.
I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.
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