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Books by Celeste Baine
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Engineers Make a Difference: Motivating Students to Pursue an Engineering Education
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Sustainable Energy Engineering Teacher's Guide
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Aerospace Engineering Teacher's Guide
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Mechanical Engineering Teacher's Guide
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Engineering Principles Teacher's Guide
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Engineering Graphics Teacher's Guide
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Aeronautical Engineering Teacher's Guide
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Civil Engineering Teacher's Guide
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Teaching Engineering Made Easy: A Friendly Introduction to Engineering Activities for Middle School Teachers
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The Musical Engineer: A Music Enthusiast's Guide to Engineering and Technology Careers
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The Fantastical Engineer: A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering - Second Edition
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High Tech Hot Shots: Careers in Sports Engineering
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Is There an Engineer Inside You?: A Comprehensive Guide to Career Decisions in Engineering |
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Book Review: Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
 
| I love reading books about engineers or engineering but it’s rare that I find stories I simply can’t put down. Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck by Gary Kinder is a brilliantly written story about a ship carrying almost 600 people and their enormous wealth attained from the California Gold Rush in 1857. The book is written with so much detail that when the ship sank in a hurricane, you felt that you knew the people on board.
The story became completely engrossing when Kinder introduced the young engineer Tommy Thompson that eventually went to The Ohio State University and became their first student in ocean engineering. Thompson leads the 10-year salvage that not only includes finding the wreak 8,000 feet under the surface but also juggling the investors, lawyers, competitors, crew members, part suppliers and publicity. It’s a very intelligent story that is full of entrepreneurship, technology, adventure and history. It’s engineering at it’s finest and made me want to drop everything to hunt for other ships of gold.
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Posted by Celeste Baine on December 7, 2009
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From Patty O'Brien Novak - Sounds like a very interesting book! Adding it to my book list on LinkedIn.
Posted on December 7, 2009 at 5:03 pm PST
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