Provides information on African-American engineers that have added to the worlds knowledge in making buildings comfortable and safer, led teams of engineers as they built bridges and levees, developed new ways to send information with fiber optics, and invented an award-winning toy.

Introduction -- Elijah McCoy -- David Nelson Crosthwait, Jr. -- Otis Boykin -- Hugh Robinson -- Lonnie Johnson -- Thomas Mensah -- Walt Brathwaite -- Careers in engineering -- Text-dependent questions.