Encouraging young people to become engineers – answers to exercise B

1 Transport, aerosol cans and mobile phones.
2 (They) look at signalling and traffic lights, and / or build rockets / All sorts of things – from looking at signalling and traffic lights to building rockets.
3 Either The application of science to the solving of problems or Ingenious solutions to real world issues.
4 Because 1) they are transforming the world or 2) making the world a better place (they are taking advantage of advances in materials and inventions from physicists’ new discoveries to produce new solutions
5 That they are useful.
6 Student volunteers / science and engineering undergraduates.
7 Either As being ambassadors for science and engineering or rôle models.
8 The Cambridge Science Festival.
9 Fly, swim or hover.
10 The importance of engineering in our society
11 New opportunities for inventive design.
12 Nanotechnogy and bio-engineering.

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