Disciplines & fields
Engineers in this discipline plan roads, bridges and water networks, including municipal projects.
Civil engineering
The wish to learn and ask questions.
Curiosity
A new idea or method that can improve a product or process.
Innovation
Is CAD design a hard skill or a soft skill?
Hard skill.
A general direction of change.
Trend
This discipline deals with voltage, watts, circuits and power supplies.
Electrical engineering
Engineers closely examine a problem to understand its causes. What is this process called?
Analysis
Comments on someone's work that help them improve it.
Feedback
Which trait means that people can rely on you and trust you to do your work?
Dependability
An important discovery.
Breakthrough
These engineers are developing biodiesel, an alternative fuel made from plants.
Chemical engineering
DAILY DOUBLE. A procedure in which you repeat steps to improve a solution is called this.
An iterative procedure
A solution that is reasonable and possible to achieve.
Plausible
What skill helps an engineer speak and work effectively with doctors, patients, and colleagues?
Interpersonal skills.
Make passive: “Engineers design prosthetics.”
Prosthetics are designed (by engineers).
A multidisciplinary field combining engineering, biology, and medical science.
Biomedical engineering
A prototype works, but it is too expensive. What might the engineer need to do to the problem?
Redefine it.
Engineers need this kind of thinking to find new, “out-of-the-box” solutions.
Creative thinking
An engineer uses numbers and data to evaluate the performance of a medical device. What skill is this?
Quantitative thinking
Complete: “Every new biomaterial ________ (test) for biocompatibility.”
is tested
This adjective describes a field that combines two or more academic subjects, like biomedical engineering
Interdisciplinary
This is the mixing of ideas from earlier iterations to make something new.
Synthesis
A clear idea of what the future of something could look like.
Vision
A biomedical engineer notices that a device may be unsafe but is afraid to tell the manager. Which quality do they need?
Courage
Complete: “Right now, AI ________ (use) in medical imaging.”
is being used