1016 Balmoral Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8T 1A8
1016 Balmoral Road, Victoria, BC, Canada V8T 1A8
Community is essential for humans. But living together comes with challenges—challenges often solved by engineers!
Access to clean drinking water? Engineers did that. Managing garbage? Engineers too. Safe and comfortable places to live with electricity and running water? You got it, engineers. Engineers are also behind the communication and transportation networks that keep our communities operating smoothly. Oh, and advances in healthcare? You can thank engineers for that too.
Engineers have been shaping our world by designing and building amazing structures and machines for thousands of years. From ancient civilizations to modern metropolises, engineering inventions have been essential to human survival and prosperity. In Why Communities Need Engineers, young readers will discover how engineers have shaped life as we know it and how they could save our planet in the future.
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Helen Liang earned her bachelor of applied science in civil engineering from the University of British Columbia and an associate certificate in technical writing with distinction from the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She enjoys volunteering in her community and church, hiking, writing and learning.
Arden Taylor is a Toronto-based freelance illustrator. A graduate of Sheridan College with an honors bachelor of illustration, she enjoys digitally creating colorful illustrations of architecture and people and designs for wallpaper and other projects. Her clients include Hazlitt Magazine and California Institute of Technology, and her work has been featured in various magazines, newspapers, advertising campaigns and websites.
