%0 Journal Article %T Fluid Mechanics with Historical Perspective %A Gary Lock %J Engineering Education %D 2007 %I %X In 2005 the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre granted a Teaching Award for a 24-lecture course (taught to classes of approximately 200 second-year students), Fluid Mechanics with Historical Perspective. This paper describes how the great and colourful history of engineering has been used to help stimulate extra interest in a mathematically-based subject within the restrictions of the traditional undergraduate lecture. %K fluid mechanics %K engineering history %K lectures %U http://www.engsc.ac.uk/downloads/scholarart/eejournal/2007/2-1/LOCK_GD.pdf