Types of Engineers
This type of engineer designs bridges, roads, and buildings.
What is a civil engineer?
The step-by-step process engineers use to solve problems is called this.
What is the engineering design process?
The ability to plan steps and manage time effectively.
What is organization (or planning)?
A bridge model is built at a 1:10 scale. If the real bridge is 50 feet long, the model is this many feet long.
What is 5 feet?
This famous structure in Paris is an example of civil engineering.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This engineer designs machines with moving parts like engines, robots, and roller coasters.
What is a mechanical engineer?
The first step in the engineering design process is identifying this.
What is the problem (or need)?
Staying focused on a task even when distractions are present shows this skill.
What is sustained attention (or focus)?
A robot travels 3.5 meters per second. How far does it travel in 4 seconds?
What is 14 meters?
NASA engineers designed the rover that explored this planet.
What is Mars?
This engineer works with circuits, electricity, and power systems.
What is an electrical engineer?
A first model or test version of a product is called this.
What is a prototype?
When engineers adjust their design after a failed test, they are using this thinking skill.
What is cognitive flexibility?
If a design budget is $250 and materials cost $37.50 each, how many materials can you buy?
What is 6 materials? ($225 total)
This ancient civilization engineered aqueducts to transport water.
Who were the Romans?
This engineer designs and improves computer hardware, software, and coding systems.
What is a computer engineer (or software engineer)?
When engineers test, improve, and repeat the process, they are doing this.
What is iteration?
Breaking a large project into smaller manageable tasks demonstrates this skill.
What is task initiation and planning (or chunking)?
A rectangular solar panel is 8 ft long and 6 ft wide. What is its area?
What is 48 square feet?
The first successful powered airplane was built by these two brothers.
Who were the Wright brothers?
This engineer combines biology and engineering to design things like prosthetic limbs or artificial organs.
What is a biomedical engineer?
Engineers must consider criteria and this when designing solutions.
What are constraints?
(Extension discussion: budget, materials, time, safety, environmental impact)
The ability to control emotions and stay calm when a prototype fails.
What is emotional regulation?
A water tank holds 1.5 liters per minute. How many liters will it hold in 45 minutes?
What is 67.5 liters?
This invention by Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communication.
What is the telephone?