Founded by NSPE in 1951, EWeek is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.
Engineers Week is one of the largest STEM events of the year in the United States. It is the time to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of engineers, technicians, and technologists and to introduce K-12 students to engineering and technology.
Film
A Woman's Place is in the Lab
Produced by:Christine Dennis
A historical look at the long road for women in science. Following the outstanding career of Dr. Gail Brown, PhD. Renowned Scientist.
Breaking Boundaries in Science VR
Produced by:FILAMENT GAMES
Breaking Boundaries is an interactive celebration of history’s most influential women scientists.
Walk Again Project
Produced by:AASDAP and Lente Viva Filmes
Dr. Nicolelis is also founder of the Walk Again Project, an international consortium of scientists and engineers, dedicated to the development of an exoskeleton device to assist severely paralyzed patients in regaining full body mobility.
New Faces of Engineering: Jacquelin Reed
Produced by:Juli Reed
Jacquelin Reed is a young civil engineer from Laguna Beach, and she is driven to make clean water accessible to all communities.
Stay Curious: Technology In the Classroom
Produced by:By Kayla Briet
Technology is advancing faster than we can comprehend.
British mathematician-Alan Turing
Produced by:Nina Turcanu
Alan Turing is considered the father of modern computer and digital computer, the invention of Turing Machine
Art
Science is Universal - Celeste Byers for Amplifier
By: Celeste Byers
As part of the Amplifier Foundation's support of the March on Science, Byers designed this poster
Defenders of Truth -Deepika Kurup by Kate Deciccio
By: Kate Deciccio
Inventor, scientist and student Deepika Kurup is a science hero for the March on Science Amplifier Foundation campaign
Defenders of Truth-Joni Wallis by Kate DeCiccio
By: Kate Deciccio
For the March For Science, Amplifier commissioned artist and educator Kate DeCiccio to create artwork highlighting three scientific leaders who have positively changed their fields and shown the importance of evidence and fact-based research. Dr. Joni Wallis is a cognitive neurophysiologist and professor at the University of California Berkeley. In 2016, she came out as a trans woman.
Stories
Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias
By: Naomi Gledhill
Regina G. Barber, Ph.D., ‘Chin@-Chicana’ Scientist Hero
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Louis Pasteur - The Father of Microbiology
By: Dominic Phung
Louis Pasteur
advanced the practice of medicine with his discoveries.
Dr. France Córdova
By: Barbara Field
Dr. France Cordova is a renowned astrophysicist who has broken gender and cultural barriers.
R. Buckminster Fuller
By: Nancy Nickerson
R. Buckminster Fuller was an American architect known for designing the geodesic dome.
Dr. John F. Murray
By: Shannon Luders-Manuel
Dr. John F. Murray, a pioneer in pulmonary medicine, passed away from respiratory failure caused by the coronavirus in March 2020.
Jonas Salk
By: Geeta Malik
Learn about hero Jonas Salk, who discovered and shared the polio vaccine.
Related Content
Learn about Science through Short Films
By: Wendy Milette
Featured Science Related Films from the MY HERO Library
Katherine Johnson Multimedia Resources and Lesson Plan for Teachers
By: Laura Nietzer
Katherine Johnson, born August 26, 1918, is an African American mathematician who worked as an aerospace technologist for NASA and was the first woman in her division to have her name on a report. In 1962, astronaut John Glenn wouldn't begin his orbit around the moon without Johnson first checking all computer calculations by hand: "If she says they're good, then I'm ready to go."
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