Lucy's Engineering Adventure

by American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Gabriella Vagnoli (Illustrator)

Join Lucy on an Engineering Adventure! “How do they work? Why don’t they fall? What lights them up? Do they need to be tall?” Lucy goes to work with her father to explore how buildings work. Help her find unique solutions to STEM problems and see if you’d like to be an engineer too! This rhyming picture book introduces children to building and HVAC engineering through a young girl's visit to an unfinished building, where her father uses a metaphor of the human body to explain the building's beams and columns, electrical system, and HVAC ducts. Lucy's curiosity is encouraged by her father throughout. This is ASHRAE's first picture book and was developed by ASHRAE’s Student Activities Committee as part of their goal to promote and encourage engineering and HVAC&R careers.

24 pages, Paperback

Published April 13, 2021

About the author

Known today as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), it went through mergers and name changes to become what it is today.

In 1894, it the organization was found by a group of engineering during a meeting in New York, USA and was known as the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers (ASHVE).

In 1954, the name was changed to American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHAE).

In 1959, ASHAE merged with American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE) to become ASHRAE.

Reference:
https://www.ashrae.org/about/mission-and-vision/ashrae-industry-history

Reviews

[Mrs. Ruigrok · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute book about a young girl who goes to work with her dad, an engineer. She learns about how a building is like a human body.