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The Fantastical Engineer: A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering
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The Fantastical Engineer
Subtitle: A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering -Second Edition - Updated and Expanded!
Author: Celeste Baine
Pub Date: 05/2007
Trade Paperback, $19.95.
Sale Price: Only $17.95
5.5 x 8.5, Illustrated, Indexed
Subject Area: Engineering Career Reference
Book Description: At last, a book for every student that has wanted to become an imagineer. High school and college students will appreciate this book about the engineers that design today's themed entertainment. Covers not only engineering/imagineering at Disney but imagineering at 200+ companies that design themed attractions. From model-making to architecture to lighting and special effects, this book is a one-of-a-kind guide for engineering in the entertainment industry. Also includes an employment resource directory complete with up-to-date contact information for engineers.
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Inside This Book!
Roller Coaster Model Making
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Featured Are:
- How engineers make the magic that is every theme park, amusement park, roller coaster, restaurant, aquarium, zoo, museum, cinema, or sporting event.
- What the experts have to say about preparing for this fast-paced and changeable industry.
- The challenges faced by computer, software, mechanical, structural, electrical, industrial, architectural, audio, video, and/or civil engineers everyday.
- What the future holds for the next generation of themed attraction designers.
- Large appendix of themed entertainment employers with contact information.
- Appendix of roller coaster manufacturers with employment contact information.
In this new one-of-a-kind companion career guide to her great selling title, Is There an Engineer Inside You?, engineer Celeste Baine takes you through the many facets and expectations of designing theme parks from an engineering perspective. Practical and down-to-earth, Baine cuts to the key points of applying a foundation of engineering knowledge and study to get a job engineering the magic of themed attractions. Lively and informative, The Fantastical Engineer is an indispensable tool and reference for every aspiring theme park, amusement park, and roller coaster designer.
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Here Is What They Are Saying About
The Fantastical Engineer
by Celeste Baine
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Midwest Book Review
Highly recommended for theme park enthusiasts & engineers.
"The Fantastical Engineer provides an unusual focus on careers in theme park engineering, blending a comic, upbeat approach with numerous tips on how to apply engineering skills to a theme park environment. The chapters which tell how to work with software and how to produce desired results are light and intriguing."
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Conan Tigard of The Reading Review
"I enjoyed this book so much it made me wish I that I had become a mechanical engineer, like my father."
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Annette Segal
Former High School Principal and
author of The Game of Truth
"The Fantastical Engineer: A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering drives information like a bullet train, ignites the imagination like fireworks and provides resources at each turn like the best coasters! This is a "must have" book for anyone who is or knows a creative, hands on learner. Baine researched the field extensively so the reader has a "jump-in" spot on almost every page. This is career guidance as you dreamed it could be."
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Debbie Silver, Ed.D.
Science Methods Teacher
"The Fantastical Engineer takes an enticing, exciting, and exhaustive look at the variety of opportunities for engineers in the entertainment industry today. The book helps the reader examine conventional and nonconventional areas of expertise that are needed in the innovative world of entertainment. It captures the imagination of anyone who has ever thought about a career in designing just about anything for the entertainment world. For the young person who 'marches to the beat of a different drummer' this book may be just the key to merging special interests and talents with practical application in a novel and extraordinary world! I am particularly excited about giving this book to my 'outside the lines' students who will welcome the invitation to explore unique paths of development. Reading it made me want to become an engineer myself."
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Thrillride.com
The Internet's Scream Machine Magazine
"If you're a Thrillseeker that wants to build theme parks, not just visit them, then this soon-to-be-published book is exactly the resource you're looking for."
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Teen BookStore
Book Reviews By and For People Like You
"Do the sights, sounds, and atmosphere of amusements parks excite you? Do you gawk at the wonders of the designs of high, fast, and wild rides? Do you wish YOU could somehow create a thrillseekers dreamride, or even the designs of restaurants like Planet Hollywood, or zoos, casinos, and much more? Then this is the book for you.
If you have ever been interested in any glamour jobs in engineering, read on in Celeste Baine's well-organized book, which captures for the most part, the essence of theme park engineering jobs. Even if all you want to know is whether or not engineering is a possible career choice for you, The Fantastical Engineer gives a great overview that includes in its chapters short articles on specific topics."
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| The Fantastical Engineer: A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering Table of Contents
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Introduction
Thrillrides for the 21st Century by Lincoln Berry IIIChapter One -
Theme Park Design 101
Feature Article - Fabulous Film Effects by Beth Shery
Chapter Two -
Merging Art and Science
Feature Article - The Art of Accommodating All Five Senses by Nathan Naversen
More About Sound
Gaming and Theme Park Sound
Theme Park Design Software
Create A Model
Chapter Three -
Create a Compelling Story
Feature Article - Guest Experience Rules by Peter iNova
Chapter Four -
Preparing For Your Career
Choosing a Company
Feature Article - A Day in the Life of an Imagineer by Nathan Naversen
Co-ops And Internships
Essential Skills
Chapter Five -
Roller Coaster Design
Roller Coaster History
Feature Article - Roller Coaster Model Design by Chris Gray
G-Forces On The Human Body
Roller Coaster Design Software
Other Roller Coaster Design Resources
Chapter Six -
The Future of Themed Entertainment Design
Employment Outlook
Museums and Science Centers
Virtual Reality Explodes
Feature Article - Virtual Reality Bytes by Beth Sherry
Chapter Seven -
Safety Considerations for Theme Park Designers
Basic Economics
Safety Factors in Engineering Design
Conclusion
Author's Note
Chapter Seven -
What Now?
Getting Started
Appendix
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Employment Resource Directory
Themed Entertainment Design Companies
Roller Coaster Designers and Manufacturers | |
The Fantastical Engineer by Celeste BaineIntroduction by Lincoln Berry III
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Imagine yourself harnessing into an inverted steel-looping coaster. Attached to the headrest is a Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display (HMD) that lowers over your head just like the harness does. Also mounted to the seat beside you is a joystick, mocked-up to look like an F-16 flight stick. You drop the HMD over your head, and suddenly you are immersed in a "Star Wars" themed virtual universe (you can choose not to wear the HMD if you prefer the natural terrain!)
The robust theme song of Star Wars pulses in your ears with the familiar chant of royal brass. As the coaster climbs the hill, you are briefed on your mission: To attack the dreaded Death Star and disable the ominous weapon of destruction. The words scroll under you like a monolith and dissolve into the vastness of space. In your personal, virtual world, you are an X-Wing fighter pilot. You take hold of the joystick and grip firmly.
You reach the top of the hill, and then - DROP! As you make your 170-foot descent, inside your virtual world, you experience the famous "trench battle" scene all around you! You drop into the trench of the mighty death star - Tie fighter engines screaming like banshees all around you! Laser blasts pounding, lighting up the space around you like the fourth of July! Subwoofers attached to the seat pulsate with each blast, sending thunder through your bones!
You enter the second 90-foot vertical loop, and you see Darth Vader approaching you fast! Squeeze the trigger and blast his minions to smithereens. Vader is on your tail as you go into a cobra roll - his turbo lasers threatening to send you into oblivion!
Into the corkscrew and helix, you fight the joystick as your X-Wing buckles from the G-Forces. Watch it! You narrowly missed that trench wall! A half-second too late, and you would have been flatter than if Jaba the Hut had sat on you.
Coming out of the final heartline roll, you see your target - The reactor vent itself. You are moving so fast. The voice of your sensei Ben Kenobi whispers in your ear, "Use the Force!" But do you have the skill to knock the target out? Suddenly the ride is over, the coaster pulls into the loading station and the scores are tallied. Who will be king among the Jedi's today? | |
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