Building a Solid Foundation for Your Engineering Career

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Building a Solid Foundation for Your
Engineering Career

• Dr Sam Man Keong (???)
• CEng, FIET, FSIET(F)
• Honorary Secretary
• Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists
• Email sammk1951_at_gmail.com

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Engineering The Career Field That Improves
Our Quality of Life.
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Highlights

• About the Speaker Dr Sam Man Keong
• Prepare for Engineering Mathematics.
• Engineering Aptitudes.
• Beyond Math and Science.
• Engineering Technology An Alternate Choice.
• Resources for Building Skills.
• Q A

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About the Speaker Sam Man Keong (???)

• A Self-directed Lifelong Learner for more than 40
  years.
• Have gone through both non-traditional
  traditional education routes.
• Chartered Engineer (UK/Ireland/Australia)
• Chartered Builder(UK)
• Chartered Environmentalist (UK)
• Chartered Mathematician(UK)
• Chartered Scientist(UK).

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Prepare for Engineering Mathematics

• Most Math is cumulative.
• ? additional work to strengthen areas of weakness
  before moving on to more advanced classes in a
  college engineering programs.
• Algebra Algebra for Dummies
• Calculus

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Some Mathematicians of Interest - Algebra

• Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi (780 850) was a
  Persian mathematician, astronomer and geographer.
  
• His Algebra, written around 820, was the first
  book on the systematic solution of linear and
  quadratic equations.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest - Algebra

• Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) was a French
  mathematician, physicist, and religious
  philosopher.
• Pascal's triangle.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Geometry
(Euclidean)

• Euclid (fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of
  Alexandria), was a Greek mathematician and is
  often referred to as the Father of Geometry. He
  was active in Alexandria during the reign of
  Ptolemy I (323 BC 283 BC). His work Elements is
  the most successful textbook in the history of
  mathematics.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Geometry
(Analytical)

• René Descartes (1596 1650), was a French
  philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer
  who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch
  Republic.
• Descartes' influence in mathematics is also
  apparent, the Cartesian coordinate system
  allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in
  algebraic equations being named for him. He is
  accredited as the father of analytical geometry.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Trigonometry

• Aryabha?a (CE 476550) is the first in the line
  of great mathematician-astronomers from the
  classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian
  astronomy.
• His definitions of sine, as well as cosine
  (kojya), versine (ukramajya), and inverse sine
  (otkram jya), influenced the birth of
  trigonometry. He was also the first to specify
  sine and versine (1 - cosx) tables, in 3.75
  intervals from 0 to 90, to an accuracy of 4
  decimal places.

Statue of Aryabhata on the grounds of IUCAA,
Pune, India.
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Some Mathematicians of Interest Calculus

• Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (1643   1727 ) was an
  English physicist, mathematician, astronomer,
  natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian
  and one of the most influential men in human
  history.
• His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
  published in 1687, is considered to be among the
  most influential books in the history of science,
  laying the groundwork for most of classical
  mechanics.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Calculus

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a
  German philosopher and mathematician.
• He invented infinitesimal calculus independently
  of Newton, and his notation is the one in general
  use since then. He also invented the binary
  system, foundation of virtually all modern
  computer architectures.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Laplace
Transform

• Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 
  5 March 1827) was a French mathematician and astro
  nomer whose work was pivotal to the development
  of mathematicalastronomy and statistics.
• Laplace formulated Laplace's equation, and
  pioneered the Laplace transform which appears in
  many branches of mathematical physics, a field
  that he took a leading role in forming.

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Some Mathematicians of Interest Fourier Series

• Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (21 March 1768 16
  May 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist
  best known for initiating the investigation
  of Fourier series and their applications to
  problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
• The Fourier transform and Fourier's Law are also
  named in his honour.
• Fourier is also generally credited with the
  discovery of the greenhouse effect.

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Engineering Aptitudes

• All people have aptitudes.
• Natural talents, special abilities, and the
  capacity of learning to do certain things.
• Engineers
• Spatial visualization 3D
• Analytical reasoning CDIO
• Memory for design engines, machinery, and
  equipment.
• Mathematical ability Computers

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Beyond Math and Science

• Curiosity
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with teamwork and leadership
• Travel experience
• Knowledge of arts and literature
• Interests and hobbies
• ? help provide the necessary background from
  which to draw the insight and creativity needed
  to solve engineering challenges.

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Engineering Technology An Alternate Choice

• Engineering Technologists/Technicians
• The applications people on a team who work with
  engineers in the design process and often are
  heavily involved in implementation or ongoing
  maintenance of a project.
• Explore online
• www.abet.org
• www.engc.org.uk
• www.engineersaustralia.org.au
• www.afeo.org

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Resources for Building Skills

• Websites of Professional Bodies Overseas (UK)
• www.ice.org.uk
• www.theiet.org
• www.imeche.org.uk
• Websites of Professional Bodies Overseas (USA)
  
• www.asce.org
• www.asee.org
• www.nspe.org

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Resources for Building Skills

• Websites of Professional Bodies Singapore
• www.ies.org.sg
• www.siet.org.sg
• Websites of Professional Bodies Malaysia
• www.iem.org.my
• www.tam.com.my

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Questions Answers
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