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YouTube series highlights engineering in everyday objects Bryan Cambra Correspondent
NC State’s College of Engineering is one of the top engineering schools in the United States. Despite its popularity, however, it’s very easy for students to forget the full applications of engineering. Luckily, Laura Bottomley, director of Women in Engineering and The Engineering Place, and Nehemiah Mabry, a civil engineering grad, plan to show how diverse its implementation can be with their new series. Engineering Everywhere is a video miniseries featured on NC State’s YouTube channel that is written and hosted by Bottomley and directed by Mabry along with his digital media company, STEMedia. The series features short videos showcasing engineering’s uses in
everyday life. The first episode was uploaded Oct. 3, 2018, with the next planned for a December release. Mabry and Bottomley, who had known each other since the former was an undergrad, had desired to work together on a project for the outreach program for some time. “She and I are people who do a lot of engineering outreach,” Mabry said, “so it was always recommended that the two of us get together and work on something. When she had the idea for this, we decided to give it a shot.” Bottomley has worked in engineering outreach programs for close to 20 years, and as the current director of The Engineering Place
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COURTESY OF LAURA BOTTOMLEY/NC STATE YOUTUBE
