Engineering Disciplines
An engineer who uses knowledge of chemistry to create solutions in industries such as pharmaceuticals, food and personal products, petroleum, paper, and fibers.
What is a chemical engineer?
An engineer whose work is focused on improving or protecting the natural environment.
What is an environmental engineer?
A system of manufacturing where goods are made by machines rather than by hand.
What is the factory system?
A period of time between 3000 B.C. and 1200 B.C. when humans knew how to make tools from bronze and other alloys.
What is the Bronze Age?
A profession that uses math and science knowledge to create ways to benefit humanity using available resources.
What is engineering?
An engineer who creates solutions in the medical field. They may design artificial limbs and organs, blood chemistry sensors, and other medical solutions.
What is a biomedical engineer?
An engineer who works in the fields of hardware or software design.
What is a computer engineer?
An invention that uses the energy of flowing water to spin a mill that grinds grain.
What is a water wheel?
A period of time defined by the use of integrated circuits and computing technology.
What is the Information Age?
The specifications given by a client, or how an engineer will know if a solution effectively solves the problem.
What are criteria?
An engineer who creates solutions that provide and utilize electricity, including power generation, electrical grids, and consumer electronic products.
What is an electrical engineer?
An engineer who uses knowledge of the properties of metal, ceramics, polymers, and other materials to design solutions.
What is a materials engineer?
A mixture of different metals that together create a new material, such as bronze.
What is an alloy?
A period of time before humans knew how to make tools out of metal.
What is the Stone Age?
The limitations on what is possible when creating a design, including ethical, legal, scientific, and financial limitations.
What are constraints?
An engineer who creates solutions in infrastructure such as buildings, roads and transportation systems, water systems, and disaster planning.
What is a civil engineer?
An engineer who uses knowledge of biological processes and systems to design solutions across a wide range of industries.
What is a biosystems engineer?
A channel built to carry water. First used by Ancient Romans.
What is an aqueduct?
A period of time when humans made better and stronger metal tools through the process of smelting.
What is the Iron Age?
What is the design process?
An engineer who deals with the design and improvement of whole systems rather than individual objects. They analyze interactions between many different parts, such as people, machines, and their surroundings.
What is an industrial engineer?
An engineer who deals with the design of machines and their parts across various industries.
What is a mechanical engineer?
A process used to purify iron ore by melting out impurities.
What is smelting?
A period of time during which human and animal muscle power was replaced by machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Another word for evaluating engineering education programs, performed by ABET.
What is accrediting?