Engineering Essentials Unit 1.1.1-1.1.4

Match the following:

• Improving an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something. 

• Design Process

• Making the best or most effective use of resources to get the best possible solution.

• Consensus

• General Agreement

• Engineering Mindset

• A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible

• Innovate

• A way of thinking that affects how someone interacts with a challenge, comes up with a solution to a

• Optimize

Match the following common characteristics of an engineering mindset:

• Tries to do what is right, especially doing one's work or duty well and thoroughly

• Creative

• Successfully thinks and interacts with other people to accomplish a common goal

• Curious

• Uses the imagination to develop original and innovative ideas

• Ethical

• Considers ideas of honesty, fairness, accountability, and concern about others and the environment

• Collaborative

• Eager to know or learn something

• Conscientious

Match the following common characteristics of an engineering mindset:

• Tolerates a level of uncertainty and a potential for loss when making decisions

• Persistent

• Hopeful and confident about the future

• Willing to take risks

• Continues to follow a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition

• Efficient

• Uses one's time effectively and productively, especially at work and school

• Systems Thinker

• Understands how systems work within larger and smaller system

• Optimistic

Engineers must follow a set of guidelines to ensure the following:

1. Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.

2. Perform services only in areas of competence.

3. Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.

4. Act for each employer or client as a faithful agent or trustee.

5. Avoid deceptive acts.

6. Conduct yourself honorable, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession.

7. Continue professional development.

8. Treat all persons fairly.

What is this called?

• Engineering rules

• Code of Ethics

• Systems Thinking

• Engineering Design Process

What are two of the Grand Challenges of Engineering as identified by the National Academy of Engineering?

Answer explanation

Advance personalized learning

Make solar energy economical

Enhance virtual reality

Reverse-engineer the brain

Engineer better medicines

Advance health informatics

Restore and improve urban infrastructure

Secure cyberspace

Provide access to clean water

Provide energy from fusion

Prevent nuclear terror

Manage the nitrogen cycle

Develop carbon sequestration methods

Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

When we think about how we learn, the task at hand, and the strategies we use to complete the task, we are becoming what kind of learner?

• Smart Learner

• Curious Learner

• Planning Learner

• Metacognitive Learner

Match the following disciplines of engineering to the type of work they primarily work on:

• Equipment that uses or produce electricity, from microchips to computers and satellites

• Electrical

• Work on devices in motion including wheels, springs, screws, and axles.

• Chemical

• Work with microorganisms, food, pharmaceuticals, fuels.

• Civil

• Design facilities, information systems, ensure workplace safety

• Industrial

• Construct, design, and maintain physical structures used by public - dams, bridges, tunnels, roads.

• Mechanical

What is the oldest field of engineering?

• Civil

• Electrical

• Mechanical

• Industrial