it is very useful for engineering students. they can get an idea and know about fundamental basics of engineering and can take it up as their career.. i have made this for kids and teenagers and also added some of the pics in it.
9. Engineers are Inventors!
Engineers use science and math to solve
real world problems!
What are some of the types of engineers
you’ve heard of?
Possibly:
Chemical, electrical, mechanical, software, civil,
biomedical, and environmental. AND MANY
MORE!
Look around you, virtually every manmade
contraption you see was conceived of and
created by an engineer!
10. Now let’s take a look at some
real life engineers and what
they’re working on right now!
11. Separating Oil from WaterSeparating Oil from Water
Di Gao, a chemical engineer at the
University of Pittsburg, invented a plastic-
coated cotton material that could clean up
the Gulf.
12. Designing Better CarsDesigning Better Cars
Marcus Ashford, a
mechanical engineer at
the University of
Alabama, has invented
a car engine with 80%
less exhaust
emissions.
13. Cleaning Up the Ocean
Alexandria Boehm is an environmental engineer
who works on ways to clean up oceans near
where people live.
14. Designing Space Colonies
Kimberly Jones is a civil engineer working on
purifying water so that we can one day go to
Mars!!!
15. Controlling Computers with
Thoughts
Daniel Moran, a biomedical engineer at
Washington University, has invented a way to
play video games using only the human mind!
16. Listening for Cancer
• John Viator, a
biological engineer,
has invented a way
to hear cancer cells.
17. The Engineering Design
Process Loop
17
Identify the
Problem
Research the
Problem
Find Possible
Solutions
Select
One Solution
Construct an
Initial Design
Test and Modify
Design
Present Your
Design
Redesign
18. You will be an Engineer!
Throughout this curriculum, you will answer:
1. What is the problem that we have?
2. What can you find out about the problem?
3. What ideas are there already out there that could
help us solve the problem?
4. How can you use those ideas to determine a
solution?
5. What would your design look like?
6. Build and test it. Does your design work?
7. Show others!
8. Make it better!
Editor's Notes
Ph.D. in chemical engineering from U of California, Berkeley. Gao “envisions large, trough-shaped filters that could be dragged through the water to capture surface oil.”
Marcus Ashford He got his bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from LSU and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas. While in school, he designed a car engine that reduced harmful emissions by 82%. For this he won several awards and a patent. He now teaches mechanical engineering at the University of Alabama and is trying to design a car engine that runs on hydrogen, not gasoline.
http://me.eng.ua.edu/people/facultydetailsmod.asp?ID=23
http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/Engineer_Spotlight/Mech_Engineer_Marcus_Ashford/default.php
Alexandria Boehm got her bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cal Tech and her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the University of California. She is working on designing ways to clean up the ocean near where people live. So many types of pollution get into the ocean near where people live around the world. Polluted ocean water affects both air quality and drinking water quality.
http://www.stanford.edu/~aboehm/
http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/Engineer_Spotlight/Enviro_Engineer_Alexandria_Boehm/default.php
Kimberly Jones earned her bachelors degree in civil engineering from Howard University. She got her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Her research is also on improving water quality here on earth and elsewhere. She is interested in finding out ways to purify water so that one day, if we can establish a living station on Mars, we will have a way to have clean water there.
http://www.howard.edu/ceacs/departments/civil/faculty/Kimberly-Jones.htm
http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/Engineer_Spotlight/Civil_Engineer_Kim_Jones/default.php
Daniel Moran has figured out a way for people to control computers with their minds. Just by thinking, a kid can play space invaders, an old computer game from when I was a kid. The kid wears a cap that senses brain waves. There are no needles, nothing hurts- you just wear a cap and think and the computer does what you want it to do. Imagine how useful this will be when it gets perfected, when people can do other things by thinking, when people with disabilities can operate computers without speaking or moving a muscle. He got his bachelors degree in biomedical engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering and his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Arizona State. He is now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/583.html
http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/Engineer_Spotlight/Biomed_Engineer_Dan_Moran/default.php
John Viator has designed a machine that can HEAR cancer. It listens for the special sounds cancer cells make and his device can detect as few as 10 cancer cells. He uses a laser to make cells vibrate, but cancer cells vibrate differently than normal cells, so they make a different noise as they vibrate. So far, his machine only detects skin cancer, but in the future it will detect cancer cells in blood.
http://web.missouri.edu/~viatorj/
http://www.engineeringk12.org/students/Engineer_Spotlight/Biomed_Engineer_John_Viator/default.php
There is no one agreed-upon process for doing engineering, but it basically goes like this. Engineers solve problems through designs. It is an iterative process where the design might go through many stages of testing and re-design. Often engineers do not identify the need, society does, but engineers tackle the problem once it is clearly defined.