Engineering is FUN

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Engineering is FUN!

• Dawn Wendell
• Lucy Wu

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Outline

• What is engineering?
• Who are engineers?
• What kinds of engineering are there?
• What kinds of engineers are Dawn and Lucy?
• Why is engineering cool?
• Engineering activity!

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Introduction

• What is engineering?

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What is engineering?

• ENGINEERING

The art or science of making practical
application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as
physics or chemistry
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What is engineering?

• Solve Problems
• Turn ideas into reality
• Create useful things
• Help Society

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• Who are engineers?

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Who are engineers?
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• There are MANY kinds of engineering!

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Types of Engineering
Environmental
Mechanical
Aeronautics Astronautics
Ocean
Biomedical
Materials
Electrical
Chemical
Nuclear
Civil
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Aeronautics Astronautics
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BioMedical Engineering
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Chemical Engineering
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Civil Engineering
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Electrical Engineering
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Environmental Engineering
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Mechanical Engineering
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Material Engineering
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Nuclear Engineering
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Ocean Engineering
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Lucys Interests
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Meet Dawn!
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Dawns Research Medical Devices

• Needle-Free Injection

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Time for an engineering activity!
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Activity What floats your boat?

• Can you make a boat out of clay?
• How does a boat work?
• What makes it float?

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Part 1 floating clay
Can you make the clay float?
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Part 2 Adding weight
How much weight can your boat hold?
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Engineering Principles

• Flatten out the clay to INCREASE the amount of
  water it could displace

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Real-World Engineering
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Real-World Engineering

• Ships take in ballast water for
• balance
• stability

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Would you like engineering?

• Do you like
• Solving problems
• Thinking creatively
• Having fun?

Become an Engineer!
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To get involved NOW

• Take science math classes
• Clubs
• FIRST
• BotsIQ
• ESP

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THANKS to our Sponsors!
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Civil Environmental Engineering Department of
Material Science and Engineering
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