Mechanical engineers work on teams responsible for developing a wide range of products and systems including, for example, space shuttle vehicles, aircraft of all sizes and shapes, automobiles, turbines, pumps, power plants, and factories.
Associated Press. TORONTO â Actor and comedian Rick Ducommun, known for his role in the 1989 film The 'Burbs, has died at age 62, his family said Thursday. Peter Ducommun said his brother died on June 12 at a Vancouver, British Columbia, hospital after suffering from complications due to diabetes.
He returned to Washington D.C and became the head of Howard Universityâs Department of Surgery and later Chief Surgeon at the University's Freedmanâs Hospital. On April 1, 1950, while en route to a Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) medical conference, Drew fell asleep at the wheel and became trapped in the overturned car. Other doctors in the car attended him until he was taken to nearby Alamance Hospital, where he died within half an hour.