America’s Greatest Projects and Their Engineers Volume II

Course Description:

This second course in the series of America's Greatest Projects reveals the intricacies involved with developing and implementing a project of national as well as worldwide importance. This project describes in detail the path that the volunteer scientists and engineers followed to achieve an outcome that thwarted insane rulers in both Germany and Japan. This course traces the events leading up to the actual dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan to finally end World War II. The efforts of the many individual scientists and engineers, who were aided and supervised by key military personnel, became a subject of controversy even to this day.

Learning Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

·         Understand the enormous pressure that confronted the military, scientists, and engineers.

·         Learn how engineers, working with physicists and other scientists, coped with an unknown technology and very few references.

·         Once again acknowledge the role that federal government officials (including the military) played in the approval and development of one of the world's most  well-known projects.

·         Discover how leadership played such a major factor in one of the most significant projects in history.

·         Follow the strategies used by the civilian and military project managers to get the results they desired.

·         Envision the techniques used by engineers and project managers despite an occasional  lack of communications and limited research experience.