• Question: Who is your favourite engineer and what did they create?

    Asked by Keira Williams to Vinita, Rachel, Pam, Christopher, Brian, Andrew on 7 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Rachel Hudson

      Rachel Hudson answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Maybe Margaret Hamilton, who first coined the term ‘software engineer’ and led the team of programmers who created the computer software that took the first astronauts to the moon!

    • Photo: Christopher Youens

      Christopher Youens answered on 7 Mar 2019:

      Gene Kranz, he was the spacecraft operations lead for the early NASA missions; Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Shuttle. He pretty much wrote the book on how ground operators should work

    • Photo: Pam Anderson

      Pam Anderson answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Dorothy Vaughan (you can watch her in the movie Hidden Figures). She was a mathematician at NASA in the 1940’s. She was termed a ‘human computer’ and had to overcome real adversity in her job.

    • Photo: Brian Weaver

      Brian Weaver answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      Thomas Edison. He was an inventor/engineer and his inventions helped industrialize the USA! Also, he was a smart business man, with over 1,000 US patents in his name.

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