Overview
This essay is to be based on a book selected by the student from the book list:
Engineering Legends: Great American Civil Engineers (Weingardt) 2005, 165pp
Circles in the Sky: The Life and Times of George Ferris (Weingardt) 2009, 162pp
Women in Engineering: Pioneers and Trailblazers (Layne) 2009, 247pp
America Transformed: Engineering and Technology in the Nineteenth Century (Herrin) 2002, 185pp
Designed for Dry Feet: Flood Protection and Land Reclamation in the Netherlands (Hoeksema) 2006, 148pp
The Salton Sea: An Account of Harriman's fight with the Colorado River (Kennan) 1917, 148pp
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Reisner) 1984, 674pp Silent Spring: The birth of pesticide awareness (Carson) 1962, 400pp
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Gore) 1991, 407pp
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming (Gore) 2004, 192pp