What is Engineering?

1
What is Engineering?
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

• The Citadel Department of Electrical and Computer
  Engineering

2
What is an Engineer?
3
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?

4
What is an Engineer?

• An engineer is someone who the tofor people.

applies
laws of nature
make life better
Engineers do more than study theory,
they use the laws of math, physics, chemistry,
biology, and other sciences as tools
to make new products and processes that benefit
mankind.
5
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.

6
Group Work

• Look around the room and think about the world
  around you.
• Try to think of something that has NOT been
  engineered.

7
Types of Engineers

• The big four
• Civil EngineersDesign 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

8
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

9
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