Utilising the latest research, such as the Royal Academy of Engineering and Centre for Real World Learning's work on thinking like an engineer, the museum has worked with engineering companies across the UK to create an experience that will really challenge young people to think about their future.
This rare opportunity to work directly with the statues resulted in a valuable dataset summarizing their dynamic characteristics for museum engineers and curators.
That, he said, goes far to explain why so many people, including engineers, teachers, bankers, museum workers and public relations aides, are concluding that they need to return to school, often years after receiving their bachelor's degrees.
The Internet is a vast, interactive museum engineered by curators and augmented by other visitors' preferences.
Now Dilworth is assembling parts for Troody's successor, which will be a "production prototype" better engineered for a museum environment.
For example, Keith Perez, the lead restoration engineer for the museum, acknowledged that the beautiful display panel of flashing lights for a vintage IBM 360 now blinked with the aid of a number of LED lights.
But it is also a story of how Mr. Clough, a civil engineer with no museum experience, came to Washington with a record of seeking common ground in political disputes and wound up alienating a constituency less powerful than Congress but equally critical for the Smithsonian's survival: artists, curators and museum directors.
With the help of Delwyn Holroyd, a project engineer at the museum who played a key role restoring the machine, he demonstrated that it is still in working order.
This was certainly a feeling that my father, a teacher in biology, engineer, and museologue (museum curator), and my mother, herself a teacher in mathematics, have greatly contributed to.
His souvenir slot-headed screw is on view at the museum: Japanese engineers eventually incorporated versions of that ingenious American product into warships.
