Engineering Through Time
An example of a device made during the information revolution.
Cellphone, Computers, Microelectronics
Embodies the study of electrical devices, electrical systems, and electrical energy.
Electrical Engineering
These three résumé sections allow employers to evaluate a student's academic background, engineering abilities, and hands-on project experience.
Education, Technical Skills, and Projects
The most important step in the Engineering Design Process.
Identify the Needs (Define Phase, Step 1)
Clearly describes the problem, who is affected, and why a solution is needed.
This term refers to an individual's personal beliefs about what is right and wrong.
Morality, Ethics
All formulas and functions in an Excel spreadsheet must start with this specific character.
What is an equals sign (=)?
This terminal degree in engineering typically requires original research and a dissertation defense, earning you the right to be called "Doctor."
Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)
If a plane crashes exactly on the border of the United States and Canada, this is where the law states you must bury the survivors.
What is nowhere? (You don't bury survivors!)
Which Era saw the shift from engineers being artisans and craftsmen to engineering using math and science.
Industrial Revolution
Emphasis on chemistry and the chemical nature of products and processes.
Chemical Engineering
This written document is a compilation of your education, work experience, credentials and accomplishments which explains how you will fit in with the organization and how YOU can help THEM.
Cover Letter
Presents multiple possible design solutions with descriptions, sketches, or drawings.
Develop Possible Solutions (Design Phase, Step 4)
This professional licensing examination is required for engineers seeking to become licensed Professional Engineers.
PE Exam
This basic function is used to add up all the numeric values in a selected range of cells.
What is SUM?
This advanced degree focuses more on practical application and coursework rather than a research thesis.
Master's in Engineering
Because it expands when it freezes, this is the only common liquid on Earth that is less dense as a solid than as a liquid.
What is water?
Invented the first steam engine in 1698. The first Mechanical Engineer.
Thomas Savery
Emphasizes structural, environmental, transportation, water resources, surveying, geotechnical, planning, and construction.
Civil Engineering
According to the lecture, a strong résumé bullet point should contain these three components to demonstrate an accomplishment.
An action verb, a task, and a method or result
Identifies limitations or problems and proposes specific, reasonable improvements based on testing or evaluation.
Redesign and Improve (Do Phase, Step 8)
According to engineering codes of ethics, engineers must place these three aspects of the public above all other professional considerations.
Safety, health, and welfare
This function calculates the arithmetic mean of a range of numbers.
What is AVERAGE?
Usually obtain after working in industry for a few years. Helpful if you want to move up the MANAGEMENT TRACK.
Master’s of Business Administration (MBA)
If you drop a bowling ball and a feather at the exact same moment inside a giant vacuum chamber, this object will hit the ground first.
What is neither? (They hit at the exact same time due to no air resistance).
Earliest form of Engineering found in the Ancient era due to the use of simple tools made of wood, rock and bone by the nomads.
Material Engineering
Described as the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, material and energy.
Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering
Engineering interviews generally include these two categories of questions: one evaluates technical knowledge and problem-solving, while the other examines past experiences and interpersonal skills.
Technical and Behavioral questions
In this step you apply the engineering and scientific principles to evaluate the design.
Testing and Analysis (Do Phase, Step 7)
An engineer accepts expensive gifts from a contractor in exchange for awarding them a project. This unethical practice is known as what?
Bribery or a kickback
To lock a cell reference, so it does not change when copied.
making it absolute like $A$1
Required if you would like to litigate engineering patents.
Juris Doctor (J.D.) Patent Attorney
If a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer get into a massive argument, this is the force keeping them together.
What is friction?
Which Development marked the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution, which allowed for the creating of stronger structures and skyscrapers.
Bessemer's Steel Process
Involved in the design, development, production, control, operation and service of mechanical devices. Concerned with the principles of Force, Energy, and Motion.
Mechanical Engineering
A student modifies their résumé to emphasize CAD, prototyping, and testing experience when applying for a manufacturing internship. This strategy is known as what
Tailoring a résumé to a specific opportunity
Identifies clear design requirements, constraints, and criteria for success.
Determine Specifications (Define Phase, Step 2)
According to the lecture, what are the characteristics that distinguish a profession from other occupations?
Based on a large knowledge base and lots of training
Important to well being of society
Self regulating, in that they control training and evaluation in the field
Can be autonomous in workplace by using their independent judgement in carrying out professional responsibilities.
This logical function returns one value if a condition is true, and another value if it is false.
What is IF?
Mention two ways you can get an advanced degree paid for/funded.
Can get sponsored by a company. (Tuition assistance programs)
Apply to scholarships, Fellowships
This is why the thermometer was feeling incredibly insulted by the smart thermostat.
What is because it didn't have a degree?
During the Middle Ages, this inventor designed over 50 mechanical devices, including water-pumping machines, and is credited in the lecture with inventing the crankshaft.
Ismail al-Jazari
A professional who combines engineering principles and design concepts with the biological and medical sciences to develop equipment, devices, computer systems, and software that improve healthcare
Biomedical Engineer
These two structured interview response methods help candidates explain past experiences. One uses four components and is more detailed, while the other uses three and is more concise. Name both methods and what their letters stand for.
STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result.
CAR: Challenge, Action, Result.
According to the lecture, identify at least four engineering Job Functions. (i.e. what can you work in after getting an engineering degree)
Design
Research
An engineer is hired by two competing companies to work on similar projects without informing either employer. This situation creates a potential ethical violation known as what?
Conflict of Interest
This is how many total grade points you earn if you get an 'A' (4.0), a 'B' (3.0), and an 'A' (4.0) in three 3-credit classes.
What is 33? (3x4.0 = 12, 3x3.0 = 9, 3x4.0 = 12; 12 + 9 + 12 = 33)
This is the common academic term for the faculty member who guides a graduate student's research, funds their stipend, and oversees their thesis.
Research Advisor, Professor
This is the favorite heavy metal band of mechanical engineers who specialize in manufacturing and automated cutting tools.
What is Nine Inch Nails?