This book is a wonderful simplified explanation of engineering triumphs. I bought this book when I saw it at the bookstore because I knew that my children and students would enjoy it, and they do!

This informative wonderfully illustrated, and detailed book is perfect for any in home library. The illustrations feature a diverse cast (yay) with illustrations similar to the popular "Wheres Waldo". The photos are busy with a lot going on in each one. They are definitely worth more indepth examinations.

You learn about aerospace engineering, biomedical, geomatic and more. Each chapter emphasizes a different branch of engineering. We start with a stated problem that requires an engineering solution. We define and investigate the problem, develop some possible solutions, build your prototype, and then test, modify and optimize. This highly engaging, fact filled book is perfect for teachers looking to supplement a lesson or for families that love collection information.

As a side: this also makes the perfect coffee table book.

While each section of this book is brief, its packed with information. We're given a brief overview of each type of engineering and examples of how they are used in our daily lives. It's a great choice for young readers with any interest in math and science.

Engineered! by Shannon Hunt is a great children’s non-fiction book. The book is clear, informative, nicely illustrated, detailed, and logically structured. From the Mars Rover to 3D printing to helping a herd of caribou and more, Engineered! dives into nine stories of modern engineering. Kids will learn about the engineering design process from defining the problem to sharing your solution with the world.
Each story highlights the key components of the design process, taking kids on the journey through different types of engineering (aerospace, biomedical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, civil, geomatics, computer, and environmental) from seeing a problem to creating effective solutions to implementing their ideas. Coupled with great illustrations, Engineered! is sure to be a favorite of any budding engineer!

There is a lot of information crammed onto each page (some pages easier to read than others, due to text size, background colour, and minimal spacing between lines of text). However, this is also works to an advantage, as there's a lot to take in on each page, with full pages of busy geometric-style illustrations. Each time you look at the images you'll be sure to find something different!

There is a helpful glossary at the end, which is useful to look back on if necessary, as there certainly is a lot of information to take in.

I received this ARC from Kids Can Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

'Engineered!: Engineering Design at Work' by Shannon Hunt with illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock may be the best book I've read for young people interested in an engineering career.

In a couple introductory chapters, the reader learns about the minds of engineers, and seven basic steps of engineering design. These steps are pointed out as the book visits 9 unique engineering challenges from different fields of engineering like aerospace, civil, geomatics and others. The problems include landing a spacecraft safely on Mars, building a bridge that seems to float in the clouds, and repairing a sewer system. The challenges are explained and the main person behind the solution is given a brief biography to show their background.

I've read a few S.T.E.M. books and they all seem to fail to provide what this book does, which is the curiosity, creativity and drive to solve unique problems. Those innate abilities should be the spark of any young persons interest in these fields. The illustrations and pictures help to keep the text lively.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Kids Can Press and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

Kids loved it. I might use it in with my Girl Scout troop.

This book covers the process of engineering, and then gives detailed real-world examples in different engineering disciplines - such as potential printing of replacement organs in biomedical engineering, and advances in computer processing speed for electrical engineering. The problems and solutions are crazy and fun, perfect for getting attention from wiggly students.

There are lots of colorful images as well as easy to understand text in this guide. We'll use it to cover the disciplines in engineering with my homeschooled children this year.

Engineered by Shannon Hunt is an excellent children’s non-fiction book — clear, informative, nicely illustrated, detailed, and logically structured, it would make an excellent addition to any child’s shelf.

The book opens with a brief description of hundreds of people gathering in Times Square to watch the touchdown of Curiosity on Mars. In a single page, Hunt offers up the potential excitement of engineering via the cheering crowd, its can-do potential to solve mind-bogglingly difficult issues (“after an eight-month voyage through space”), its place in history (“the historic landing”), the amount of work required (“the technology that made it possible had originated years before”), and, via the rover’s name, the sense of curiosity that drives engineers —and children. It’s a great opening.

From there Hunt steps back from the specific to a more generalized definition of who engineers are and what they do, then presents the steps in engineering design: Define, investigate, develop, create, test, optimize, share. Each of these steps is concisely but effectively defined. Once the foundation is set, Hunt moves delves into the details of several engineering fields, describing a specific real-world engineering problem and then explaining how the engineers solved it. The fields are: aerospace, biomedical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, civil, geomatic, computer, and environmental. Each problem gets a few pages, with several sidebars that offer up related information. A regular sidebar throughout is a brief bio of an engineer who worked on the particular project, along with a quote or two from the engineer. It’s a nice touch in that it offers up a bit of personal humanity amid all these large-scale projects. The projects themselves, which include a traffic jam, sewage pollution, and the loss of habitat for an endangered species, are sharply if briefly described and bring the abstract idea of “engineering” down to a more pragmatic, real world concept, showing how engineering solves issues that affect the lives of real people (or, in one case, real caribou).

The language is clear and clean and does not speak down to its audience. Rather than rely on a dull, simplistic vocabulary Hunt employs lively and evocative verbs and nouns. Odors “waft” across a city, the dust of Mars “billows,” bike engineers are not “daunted” by a particularly stick issue. The language is a nice match for the excellent illustrations, which are similarly clean and clear, but offer up lovely little details. The illustrations as well as the text also present a diverse cast, beginning with the title page which shows a table surrounded by five people who are a nice mix of age, race, and gender.

Engineered is a book I definitely would have picked up for my child once he got past second grade, and I highly recommend it as a gift or for any elementary school library.

The format of this book breaks engineering down not only into steps of creation, but also into bite-sized samples of a variety of engineering, making it accessible to kids. The illustrations make it attractive to kids, including those who may be reluctant readers.

Who are the engineers? And what kind of innovation did they bring to humanity? The book covers the main fields of engineering and some examples of innovations and idea developed in these fields.

Useful the introductory part, where the author proposes a methodology to evaluate an idea, including data gathering and testing.

This book is for older children: the text constitutes the main source of information and it contains also technical terminology. The illustration helps in making the book appealing to the eye.

Thanks to the publisher for providing me the copy necessary to write this review.

Nine engineering specialties -Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Geomatics Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Environmental Engineering - in this look at engineering design, which introduces readers to the step-by-step process by using eye-catching icons and nine case studies, one for each field. Team member bios that introduce kids to new scientists and what they do; new fields of engineering, like geomatics, are explained and illustrated, as are new technologies, like the incorporation of 3-D printing into biomedical engineering. Cartoony illustrations make the science more appealing to anyone who may think they can't *do* science. Kids will learn that engineering can be found everywhere, from sending the rover to Mars, to saving animals from extinction, to replacing a sewer system to clear pollution from a lake. A glossary helps with new engineering terms readers come across.

Engineered! is a fun introduction to the basics of engineering and can be used equally in a science class, makerspace, or on career day.

Must have purchase for my elementary school library.
This books explains, with a school aged reader in mind, all the different types of engineers you will find in the workplace. This is a list of all the engineers found in this book: Aerospace, Biomedical, Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Geomatics, Computer and Environmental, If you don't know what anyone of these jobs entail--read this book and you will find all about each and every one of these engineers.

From the Mars Rover to 3D printing to helping a herd of caribou and more, Engineered! dives into nine stories of modern engineering. Kids will learn about the engineering design process from defining the problem to sharing your solution with the world.

Each story highlights the key components of the design process, taking kids on the journey through different types of engineering (aerospace, biomedical, chemical, mechanical, electrical, civil, geomatics, computer, and environmental) from seeing a problem to creating effective solutions to implementing their ideas. Coupled with great illustrations, Engineered! is sure to be a favorite of any budding engineer!

A tour of various fields of engineering both traditional and emerging, with examples of real engineers in these fields and projects they have worked on. Each field of engineering gets 4-6 pages of information.

This is attractively designed and intriguingly informative. I kept spontaneously sharing tidbits from this book with whoever I happened to be near at the moment. There were so many fascinating little things. That said, there’s a lot of information packed in here so I can’t see many middle graders sitting down to read this straight through, but it is good in little chunks over a few days. Highly recommended for any kids who like fun facts or problem solving. Science or math teachers, snag this and read it aloud in filler time to your students! This would also be a good resource for those studying newly emerging career fields. Engineering is a popular career choice for students who graduate from our school so I may add this for the middle schoolers thinking ahead and get them thinking about newer engineering fields.

(Will be posted at the link below Aug 22, 2017.)

Engineered is a guide to the young age kids and their parents (!) who are interested how and who invented something, for example AA batteries or discovering there are skin printers used in medicine! The book provides detailed drawings by James Gulliver, that are interesting and gives the picture of what each of the topic is about.

I would say this is easy version of Project Management explained for kids aka how from simple idea definition we reach the product. Starting with idea definition, planning , development, including prototypes, testing and improvement phase and finally closing the project. I enjoyed that the book gave practical definitions of how each of the engineering stages work, how much of it can be seen as a team work and how much can be done if one applies 7 easy steps to any problem they face and which may seem giant. At the end of the book there's glossary which I would have preferred to find at each of the topic thus motivating to learn the term and remember it more easier.

I think the book can be read for both genders and is not specifically oriented for boys who would be interested into mechanical engineering. The book covers various topics including space, medicine, science, inventions and more.

'Engineered' is chock full of information about different fields of engineering. It is fun to read and very timely. There is a recent push for STEM education in many schools--mine included-- and this is just the sort of book to appeal to young would-be engineers. It is exactly the sort of book that I want to get on the shelves of my library and into the hands of kids. I look forward to ordering it for my library.

Engineered! by Shannon Hunt is a very interesting book for children about engineering. Even I learned some things in this book, the illustrations are clear and helpful! Highly recommend.

I received this arc from Netgalley for an honest review.

I loved this book and could immediately think of many uses in elementary and middle school classrooms. Engineered had a great layout that was easy to follow and presented information in a very organized and clean fashion. The different sections within each type of engineering made it easy to find exactly what you might be looking for. While I appreciated a few women being included in the spotlights, I would have liked to see more. I can't wait to share this book with my class!

An awesome resource for the age group on introducing the career field to children. The illustrations are age appropriate, not too juvenile but presents a nice balance with the text that opens this up to a wide age range.

This is a great book for a child that has a specific interest in engineering, or the way things work, but I think this would not interest anyone without that interest, as it is very clearly targeting quite a specific niche.

There is a lot of information crammed onto each page (some pages easier to read than others, due to text size, background colour, and minimal spacing between lines of text). However, this is also works to an advantage, as there's a lot to take in on each page, with full pages of busy geometric-style illustrations. Each time you look at the images you'll be sure to find something different!

There is a helpful glossary at the end, which is useful to look back on if necessary, as there certainly is a lot of information to take in.

To summarise, if this book was given to someone with this interest in mind, it would be a 4*. The pages are so busy that this may be off-putting to some. To others without the engineering interest, I don't think it would hold a child's attention for very long. Therefore, overall I'd give this 3*.