What is it like to be an aerospace engineer? In this Career Q&A video interview, David Walton talks about his career path, what he does on the job, and the keys to success in the aerospace industry. He also offers candid advice on breaking into the profession as well as insight into the industry's biggest challenges and how the field may change in the next ten years.

Engineers at work in a tunnel under the Post Office Tower in London.

This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series presents the first detailed release of a previously highly classified military project: Operation Blue Jay, in which the Army Corps of Engineers were faced with an almost impossible task of building a huge airbase in the frozen Arctic. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration captures on film one of the most spectacular engineering feats in recorded history:...

This episode of the U.S. Army covers three separate stories that are interrelated in a pictorial report format. The first deals with medicine, the second with experimentation, and the third with construction. But all are concerned with some of the Army's peacetime roles. With footage provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, this fascinating documentary introduces viewers to the role of Army medicine in relation to civilian disaster;...

Whether it's an out-of-control robo-vacuum, a band of fugitive monkeys, or a runaway hot air balloon, Rusty will find the fix! Rusty's got the ingenuity, creativity, and a recycling yard full of the coolest parts and pieces to 'Combine and Design' any gadget, vehicle, or robot that his wild imagination can think up.

People are the life-blood of cities. Its transport links are its veins and arteries. If they're cut-off the city will die. Thousands of people work every day at making it possible for city dwellers to be where they need to be, when they need to be there. It's an endless task demanding brain and brawn. Without the army of drivers, diggers, planners, thinkers, our great cities would come to a halt.

This classic episode of The Big Picture series produced by the U.S. Army follows army engineers across dangerous wastes of ice and snow as they construct roads stretching deeper and deeper into the Arctic. New problems and new dangers constantly present themselves as snow and ice cover the land and prevent engineers from reaching the dirt, or fill, needed for road building and dangerous, man-killing crevasses are formed. With captivating footage from...

The story of a research and development project in Greenland, which was undertaken by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is the focus of this film from the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series. Referred to as Camp Century, this city under the ice cap is a new concept of polar construction. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows viewers how snowy wastelands have been turned into a city equipped with...

Tesla, a contemporary of Thomas Edison and Guglielmo Marconi, is seldom credited with inventions which impact technology the world benefits from today.

It is the story of Sami Malik, a young Indian who travels to 1970s America to become an engineer in order to impress his childhood crush and live up to the legacy of his father, a legendary tiger hunter back home. When Sami's job falls through, he takes a low-end job and joins with a gang of oddball friends in hopes of convincing his childhood sweetheart that he's far more successful than he truly is, or perhaps ever could be.