Everyday STEM Engineering - Civil Engineering

Description

Discover how engineering is part of our daily lives with Everyday STEM Engineering: Civil Engineering. Engineering is all around us, from the roads on which we travel to buildings and structures. It's even in space! Discover how civil and mechanical engineering helps us interact with society, witness how engineering is helping save the environment, and meet the engineers whose designs continue to make our lives easier. A "try this at home" section shows readers how to create a building made out of spaghetti, plus much more. With easy-to-understand text written by Jenny Jacoby, fun callouts and lots of colourful artworks, photos and diagrams, readers can best explore where we encounter engineering and why it's even important at all.

Jenny Jacoby writes and edits books and magazines for children. From writing science activity books to inspiring profiles, puzzles and quizzes, she is passionate about making information fun. She lives in London. Luna Valentine is a Polish children's book illustrator, living in the UK. She works digitally, finding inspiration in folk tales, video games, cute Japanese food, under her bed and other places nobody thinks to look. At Nottingham Trent University she studied Graphic Design and gone on to do her Masters in Illustration. She has gone onto work with a variety of clients.