April
11, 2003 --Jessica McGowan likes being outdoors. She runs, climbs rocks, kayaks,
and most of the year she would, as the bumper sticker says, rather be sailing.
When she graduated from the engineering school in 2001, she naturally looked for
a job that would take her out of the office. She's now doing bridge design, roadwork,
and stream reclamation work for Nolan Associates, a small consulting firm in Ellicott
City, Maryland.
Not surprisingly, McGowan was one of the original leaders
of the Solar House Project, becoming the team expert on passive solar and mechanical
systems for heating and cooling. In the process, she learned as much about the
practice of engineering as the laws of thermodynamics. [
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