What is Engineering?The Citadel Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

What is an Engineer?

Group Work

Develop a definition of engineering based on what the members of your group know about the profession.

How are scientists different from engineers?

What is an Engineer?

An engineer is someone who the tofor people.

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naturemake life better

they use the laws of math, physics, chemistry, biology, and other sciences as tools

Engineers do more than study theory,

to make new products and processes that benefit mankind.

ABET Definition of Engineering Engineering is the profession in which

a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences, gained through study, experience, and practice, is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of humankind.

Group Work

Look around the room and think about the world around

you.

Try to think of something that has NOT been engineered.

Types of Engineers

The big four Civil Engineers

Design our infrastructure – bridges, roads, wastewater treatment, traffic control, buildings

Mechanical EngineersDesign our mechanical systems – automobiles, robotics, heating and cooling, industrial machinery, buildings

Chemical EngineeringDesign our chemical processes – plastics, material science, nanotechnology, pharmaceuticals

Electrical EngineeringDesign our electrical systems – power delivery, communications, computers, robotics

Electrical Engineers

Electrical Engineers work with electrons… some work with LOTS of electrons to

distribute and convert energy between various forms,

and...

others work with fewer electrons to gather, store, process transport, and process information.

Seven main areas of EE:Communications systems, computer systems, control systems, electromagnetics, electronics, power systems, and signal processing

Engineering Quotes “Scientists investigate that which already is;

Engineers create that which never has been.” Theodore von Karman

“Engineering is the application of science to the common purpose of life”

Count Rumford

“To define it rudely but not inaptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two.“

Arthur M. Wellington