It’s National Engineers Week—here’s a look at three innovators in the field who were honored by Drexel with the Science and Engineering Award: Portia Isaacson, a female pioneer in the computer industry; Jacques Piccard, a Swiss oceanographer whose father Auguste Piccard was the inventor of the first bathyscaph FNRS-2; and Wernher von Braun, a NASA aerospace engineer who helped to land the first man on the moon with Apollo 11!
If you didn’t have the chance to read Martha Cornog’s blog posts 2 years ago, then you’ll want to check out these amazing individuals who have helped to impact our world with their revolutionary contributions.
Celebrating Engineers: Drexel’s Egg-ceptional Golden Anniversary
Portia Isaacson:
Engineers Week in history: the first personal computer store in Texas
Jacques Piccard:
Engineers Week continues: Celestial Space and Eternal Darkness
Wernher von Braun:
Engineers week concludes with a bang
"The Triangle" - December 07, 1962
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