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Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers: Mechanical Engineer

8 minutes 6 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Nate Ball uses science to develop mechanical devices that help improve life. Some of his designs push technology to its limits, like his portable, refrigerated vaccine backpack.

Media Details

Runtime: 8 minutes 6 seconds

Topic: Careers, Science
Subtopic: Occupations, Physics
Grade/Interest Level: 9 - 12
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Release Year: 2012
Producer/Distributor: National Science Foundation
Series: Profiles Of Scientists And Engineers
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Rear view of woman with brown hair walking with a blonde woman away from camera down a hospital hallway. Another woman with black hair wearing scrubs looks at a tall, complex shelving system with another blonde woman.

Person in a lab coat and gloves putting on protective glasses. Caption: For Rommie, being a chemist was just the beginning.

Two people walking next to rows of industrial tanks with piping and gauges. Caption: planning the scale-up of a new product.

The wing of an airplane in the clouds. Caption: (narrator) The best way to study the atmosphere is to be there.

Multiple shiny skyscrapers against a blue sky seen from below looking up.

An X-ray of human ribs and a few vertebrae.

People in scuba gear placing and carrying metal cages at different places on the ocean floor. Caption: in various locations along the reef.

Person in a lab coat and gloves pointing something out on a small white object. Caption: A lot of the science is a gradual progression,

Person wearing a hard hat kneeling next to a metal fence working on something. Caption: (male narrator) Tamar's area of specialty is water engineering,

Person looking at a slide in a microscope. Caption: And this is a biochemistry lab.