Wanted: Ideas to engineer a female MacGyver TV series

Hollywood and top engineers are crowdsourcing ideas for a TV series with a female MacGyver, the brainy 1980s small-screen secret agent who used little more than a paper clip to solve tricky problems. The University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering is launching the competition for series ideas with Washington’s National Academy of Engineering and the MacGyver Foundation, officials said on Thursday. Organizers are hoping that a show featuring a dashing female engineer will do for the field what the “CSI” series has done for forensic sciences. They also want to get more girls and young women interested in engineering.

Who among us wants to live in a world designed primarily by males?

Ruth David, former deputy director of science and technology for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

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