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This book, subtitled "On Becoming a Rocket Scientist", is a fun introduction to aerospace engineering that encourages and enables the next generation of people interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It describes the challenges and rewards of becoming an aerospace engineer, including the importance of grit and perseverance in overcoming hurdles.
You know, it's a title that I really like because you're thinking, am I going to learn how to become a pilot with this? No, but you're really going to learn how...
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This book, subtitled "On Becoming a Rocket Scientist", is a fun introduction to aerospace engineering that encourages and enables the next generation of people interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It describes the challenges and rewards of becoming an aerospace engineer, including the importance of grit and perseverance in overcoming hurdles.
You know, it's a title that I really like because you're thinking, am I going to learn how to become a pilot with this? No, but you're really going to learn how...
It's clear up front. Very clear up front. But it's a fun introduction to aerospace engineering. And in some places I go into exactly how a plane flies and actually kind of draw, lift and drag and thrust and...
It really covers where I felt like the rubber met the road in becoming an aerospace engineer. And a lot of that was in college where you think, okay, this is fun. This is really cool. This is fascinating. I want to do this.
So it's really to encourage and to enable not just even a current generation or a new generation of people interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but to equip them in these fields.
Exactly. Exactly. How to get through mentally and really even just even like how to even optimize your time when you're swamped, right? With certain things. And how do you make time? I mean, I get the questions like, oh, can I have a life if I do aerospace engineering? Yes.