Encouraging young people to become engineers – exercise B
1 What 3 items are mentioned as being typical results of someone’s bright idea?
2 What else do engineers do, apart from fix cars?
3 What is engineering about?
4 Why do professional engineers have very exciting jobs?
5 What is the significant adjective used about devices that science helps to create?
6 Who helps with the engineering outreach programmes for schoolchildren?
7 How is the rôle of these people described?
8 What other event provides an opportunity to draw young people’s attention to engineering?
9 What 3 different actions do the various devices put together achieve, according to Geoff Parks?
10 What are children realising, it is hoped?
11 What will the development of new technologies create?
12 What 2 scientific areas will inevitably require an increase in the need for engineers?