Engineers vs. Inventors

Engineering

Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun This book contains research for different types of engineering as well as investigations that can be used as exploratory experiments in the design and developing of an engineering project. What’s the difference between an engineer and an inventor? Sometimes there is no [...]

Shape: Force Distribution

Using Eggs to Test the Strength of A Dome Shape

Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun This book contains research for different types of engineering as well as investigations that can be used as exploratory experiments in the design and developing of an engineering project. The Science and Engineering Fair is a contest with two specific types of [...]

Strength of Shapes

egg pressure

Testing the Strength of an Egg Shell Eggs break easily when you hit them against a hard surface. But it’s difficult to break an egg just by squeezing it length-wise in your hands. This is because of the dome shape of the eggshell. The force applied by your hand spreads over the eggshell. The diagram [...]

Engineering:Solar Power

garrett sci proj

Garrett Yazzie: A navajo indian junior high student not only entered but won first place in the 2005 annual Arizona American Indian Science And Engineering Fair. Garrett’s has been called the “junk yard genius” by some because he secured most and maybe all of the parts for his solar heating project from a junk yard. [...]

Engineering Books

Engineering

  20% Discount Code AFF20 Engineers design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely improveĀ  the lives of people. Engineering is a potpourri of all scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge. Janice VanCleave’s Engineering for Every Kid: Easy Activities That Make Learning Science Fun Janice VanCleave’s Energy for Every Kid: [...]

Testing the Strength of a Thigh Bone Model

Strength Testing of Thigh Bone Model

The long bone in your leg, called your thigh bone, is shaped much like the bone in a chicken’s leg. Both have a hollow, cylinder-like shape, which means they are shaped like a tall soup can.This shape makes the leg bone much lighter than it would be if it were solid throughout. Discover For Yourself [...]

Engineering Fair Projects vs. Science Fair Projects

Testing an Engineering Prototype

Engineering Fair Projects are developed using the Engineering Method. Science Fair Projects are developed using the Scientific Method, also called the Inquiry Cycle.