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Amrose didn’t become an engineer
right away. In fact, she started working
on her PhD in astrophysics. After taking
many physics classes, she took her first
engineering class. It changed her career,
and she ended up looking at water
treatment.
Amrose has a strong connection to this
project. “I’ve visited families in Bangladesh
who only have arsenic-contaminated
water sources for drinking. A father once
asked me to please hurry up my research
if I could, because he wanted his young
daughter to grow up and thrive. He said it
was too late for him (because he had been
drinking arsenic-contaminated water his
whole life and had many health problems),
but he wanted his children to survive and
have a happy life.”
Engineers
The engineers featured in this article are doing amazing things to
make the world a better place to live. And they’re all engineering with
water. Maybe you will decide to be an engineer. What problems will
you help solve?
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