Recommended reading for students and for engineers - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Great story of engineering being applied by a young man in Africa to solve a problem, how to get power to his family home.

I recommend Changing the Conversation through good Engineering Stories. As a professional and career engineer, I am taking the initiative to share free Engineering Stories, shorter than a novel, longer than a comic strip, to encourage youth toward engineering. Here is the suggested pitch and link.

What do engineers do? How do they think? What do they create? Engineering Stories are free Realistic Fiction, short story dramatizations allowing the reader, through narration, description, dialogue, and thought to experience the challenges and satisfaction of being an engineer, inventor, or scientist.  Stories are very plausible, being a composition of author experience and the experiences of his peers. Herein, the reader is able to listen into the mind of an engineer, see how they think, observe how they might behave, understand what makes them tick. The objective is to encourage students to consider careers in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM), show what it may be like, dispel a myth or two, and encourage creativity, problem solving, and the confidence to make the world a better place. Share this link; ‘follow’ the blog.
http://stemstories.wordpress.com/