Who Engineering Includes Impacts How Engineers Work

This chapter focuses on the persistent lack of diversity in the engineering profession along intersections of race, gender, and other key demographic categories (e.g., sexual orientation, socioeconomic status). After outlining specific circumstances that have influenced the lack of diversity in engineering, the chapter outlines particular challenges related to this lack of diversity and suggests a design thinking approach to resolving those challenges. Drawing on research from engineering education, design thinking, and workplace practice, the authors provide both familiar and novel strategies for addressing diversity in engineering as well as in other professions.

Teaching Profession in Technical Education in Community Schools

Technical Education in Community School (TECS) is considered pertinent for the socio-economic transformation, particularly in a developing country like Nepal. Instructors of these schools are the key persons who transform curriculum into practice, however, their profession in their perspectives was hardly studied. With this consideration, this study was carried out to understand the experience of TECS instructors on their teaching profession. To attain this research objective, four instructors from the Diploma in Civil Engineering program of two TECSs were purposively selected, and a narrative inquiry approach was utilized to study the cases in-depth. The result showed that the instructors were interested in teaching in TECS; however, they were not ready to go to TECSs of remote villages. For them, the village settings lacked source for extra earning opportunities and career growth prospects. They were motivated to teach in Diploma in Civil Engineering as they could apply their prior knowledge and skills. At the same time, theoretical knowledge gained from their teaching in TECSs had been helpful for their engineering profession as well.

Non-Destructive Measurement and Evaluation of Surface Cracks Using Ultrasonic Rayleigh Waves – A Review

Quality control and inspection methods have become a critical challenge in everyday situations of the engineering profession. This is due to the evolution of the materials used today in industry and also increasingly complex and critical nature of many of the products and structures produced with them. Ultrasonic measurement is widely used especially in oil and gas and aerospace industries. This method is used because it is effective and not involving damaging the original parts. In ultrasonic measurement there are few types of waves emitted and where one of it is Rayleigh wave or mostly known as surface wave. Surface waves are generated when longitudinal waves intersects a surface near to the second critical angle. This review paper will describe about the types of waves emitted and produce and also some of the research that has been done related to the surface wave. This research can contribute to green environment because it reduces waste by suggesting the uses of Perspex.

The Software Industry IS STILL the Problem

The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession. Before you tell me that is impossible, please study how the very same thing happened with electricity, planes, cranes, trains, ships, automobiles, lifts, food processing, buildings, and, for that matter, driving a car.

End-to-end design training: from descriptive geometry to computer modeling of cutting tools

Modern trends in the development of technology are based mainly on successful engineering activities. The combination of the most modern computer technologies and the traditions of using a pencil, drawing, drafts, and, of course, a living fruitful thought is a guarantee of the education of a genuine Engineer. On the one hand, educational technologies in engineering universities at the initial stage should be based, in our deep conviction, on school geometry. On the other hand, descriptive geometry and engineering graphics should contain examples for immersion in the chosen specialty. By order of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, engineering classes, in which lecturers of technical universities were involved, were organized 10 years ago in Moscow schools. The creation of engineering classes is caused by the need to instill in students an interest in the engineering profession. To successfully solve this problem, it is necessary to increase the level of students» knowledge in geometry and drawing. On the basis of these subjects, one should develop design skills and skills of using computer modeling tools. The result of this cooperation should be the involvement of schoolchildren to participate in competitions and olympiads. The Department of Engineering Graphics, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, has accumulated 30 years of experience in cooperation with specialized schools in order to develop students» interest in the engineering profession. The article provides an example of the introduction of a common cutting tool, i. e. a drill, which demonstrates the depth of engineering thought formed over a thousand-year history, into the educational process when studying geometry at school and descriptive geometry at a technical university. The drill as an object comprehensible to first-year students is used to provide the basic knowledge of descriptive geometry. In addition, the problem related to the improvement of the technology of end-to-end training throughout the course of obtaining an engineering education is touched upon.