Bruce Mayer, PE Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer BMayer@ChabotCollege

1. Chabot Engineering IntroductiontoEngineering Bruce Mayer, PE Licensed Electrical & Mechanical EngineerBMayer@ChabotCollege.edu

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3. What is Engineering? • Two Types of Definitions • Career Based • Functional • Career Description • Engineering is a CAREER and a PROFESSION • Requires Special Education, Training, and Experience For a Working Lifetime of Practice • Not Quite Analogous to Physicians & Attorneys • License NOT required to Practice in Most Cases • Except for CIVIL Engineers

4. What is Engineering?Cont.1 • Best “Professional” Analogy → Certified Public Accountant (CPA) • Licenses Granted by States • Must Meet Strict Educational, Practice, and Testing Criteria to Earn the Professional Engineer (P.E.) Title • Currently 1.6M Engineers in the USA • About 20% Hold Professional Licenses • http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm#training

5. P.E. Exclusives • Some Engineering Functions can NOT be done by UNlicensed Engineers • ALL Civil Engineering Designs MUST be “Signed Off” or “Stamped” by a Registered, Professional Engineer

6. What is Engineering? • Short Answer → Student Suggestions first •  Technical Product Creation  • The Output of ALL Engineering is • The Solution to a Practical Problem • Fulfillment of a Practical Need • Long Answer → Technology Creation Through the Application of the Quantitative (Number-Based) Disciplines • Mathematics • Sciences; e.g., Physics, Chemistry, Biology • Empiricism (Experiments and Tests)

7. Engineering Fields • Let’s Make a WhiteBoardList of the Types of Engineers

8. What do Engineers Do? • Dozens of Branches of Engineering; The Major Disciplines include: • Civil Engineering (CE) • Archetypical Products = Bridges, Buildings, Roadways, Water Systems • Chemical Engineering (ChemE) • Archetypical Products = Oil & Gas Refineries,Plastic-Making Machinery

9. What Do Engineers Do?Cont.1 • Electrical/Electronic Engineering (EE) • Archetypical Products = • Integrated Circuits (“computer chips”) • WireLessComm (WiFi IEEE 802.11an) • Industrial/Manufact. Engineering (IE) • Archetypical Products = Efficient Factories • Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) • Archetypical Products = High Performance Metals, Ceramics, Composites (graphite)

10. What Do Engineers Do?Cont.2 • Computer Engineering (CompE) • Combines EE-Hardware with ComputerSci • Bio(Medical) Engineering • Archetypical Products = • Biomaterials/Tissue, BiomedicalElectronics & Imaging, Biomechanical Devices • Mechanical Engineering (ME) • Archetypical Products = • Heat & Fluid-Flow Distribution • Machinery (automobiles, pumps, mach-tools)

11. Engineering vs. Science • Let’s Make a WhiteBoardList of the Differences

12. Engineering vs. Science • Engineering is Closely Related to Science & Math, but it is NOT the SAME Scientists seek to UNDERSTAND WHAT IS, while Engineers seek to CREATE THAT WHICH NEVER WAS- Theodore von Kármán, CalTech Professor, and the Father of Modern AeroSpace Engineering

13. Engineer  Applied Scientist Engineers take BASIC Scientific Discoveries and turn them into things that are USEFUL to people. In that role, Engineers are the agents of PROGRESS for Human Society Prof. Jim Plummer, Dean of the Stanford School of Engineering

14. The First Laser Engineer  Applied Scientist • Laser Sheet-Metal Cutting Machine Engineering Theodore Harold Maiman was born in 1927 in Los Angeles, son of an electrical engineer. He studied engineering physics at Colorado University, while repairing electrical appliances to pay for college, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Physic s from Stanford in 1955. Theodore Maiman constructed this first laser in 1960 while working at Hughes Research Laboratories (T.H. Maiman, "Stimulated optical radiation in ruby lasers", Nature, 187, 493, 1960). There is a vertical chromium ion doped ruby rod in the center of a helical xenon flash tube. The ruby rod has mirrored ends. The xenon flash provides optical pumping of the chromium ions in the ruby rod. The output is a pulse of red laser light.

15. What is COOL about Engineering? • Solving Challenging Problems • Opportunity to DESIGN, BUILD, and TEST Products that People ReallyUse • Engineering is a CREATIVE endeavor • The Root of the Word “Engineer” is Ingenium(Think “Ingenious”) ; Not Engine • Chance to Learn New Things • Engineering is about Progress; an Engineer’s Knowledge & Skills progress as well

16. Concept Drawing forIC Manuf. Machine Tool

17. What is COOL about Engineering?Cont.1 • Working with People • That’s Right; Not all Engineers are “Nerds” • Complex Technology Must Be Made Useful to the Non-Technical Person • Engineers, aside from applied Math/Sci, manage Projects and Organizations • Some of the BEST Managers in Recent Times have Been Engineers by Training • Andrew Grove of INTEL → Ph.D. Chem Eng • Jack Welch of GE → Ph.D. Chem Eng • James Morgan of Applied Matls → BS Mech Eng

18. What is COOL about Engineering?Cont.1 • Publishing Technical Papers • Thousands of Engineering/Technical Journals Publish The Results of Engineer’s Analyses, Designs, Experiments

19. What is COOL about Engineering?Cont.2 • Earning Patents • Earning A Patent Requires the Advancement of a Practical Art; This is what Engineers do USA Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 (Powers Granted to Congress): Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Rightto their respective Writings and Discoveries

20. What is COOL about Engineering?Cont.2 • Engage in Professional Activities • Attend/Present-At Technical Conferences • Attend Trade-Shows • Society Membership (ASCE, IEEE, ASME) • See the World – Engineers often Travel • Special Knowledge/Skills Can often ONLY be Transmitted In-Person • Promote/Explain Product to Customers • Install Product, Train Users • β-Site Product-Testing

21. Emperor’s Palace - Tokyo

22. Arc de Triomphe – Paris

23. Arc de Triomphe From Eiffel Tower Paris At Sunset In The SpringTime

24. Camera & Inspection-Tool Factory – Tatsuno, Nagano, Jp

25. The Bottom Line • There are VERY FEW Academic Disciplines Where One Can Move into the PRIVATE Business Sector with only a Baccalaureate (4yr) Degree • TWO Primary Categories • Engineering • Business • Difficult for Most Liberal Arts Disciplines • Somewhat Easier for the Sciences

26. EngineeringNoted in GREENColor

28. ¿¿Class Question?? • Which of the Following Professions do you think has the MOST Practitioners? • Accountant • Architect • Chemist • Dentist • Engineer • Lawyer • Medical Doctor

30. WorkLoad • When I was an Engineering Mgr I expected Those Engineers Who Reported to Me to Work an AVERAGE of 45 hrs/wk • 2004 National Survey of Mechanical Design Engrs

31. Satisfaction Factors Challenging work assignments Work environment and colleagues Constantly changing technology Good compensation Good job security DISsatifaction Factors Too much NonEngineering work Lack of support from management Uncertainty in job market Poor compensation No potential for advancement Job (dis)Satisfaction • 2004 National Survey of Mechanical Design Engrs

32. Engineering is Fun (Really...☺) • An overwhelming majority of survey takers, 91%, feel that engineering is FUN. Their reasons include the chance to tackle challenging problems and doing something different every day. • "I like solving problems, being the hero." • "I get paid to break things." • "So many challenges! New stuff to play with around every corner." • "I love proving others wrong." • "I'm like a kid in a candy shop.“ • “Engineering Rocks”

33. Job Offers Circa Jan 1979 Thank You UC Berkeley Placement Center ~$66k in 2014-$

34. Resume Used to Obtain 12 Job OffersCirca Nov78

35. Chabot Engineering Transfer Universities Within Driving Distance  • CA-TaxPayer-Supported Universities with which Chabot has formal course transferability (articulation) agreements • CSU – East Bay (4.5 miles) • UCBerkeley (21.6 miles) • San Jose State University (31.2 miles) • San Francisco State University (31.4 miles)

36. Chabot Engineering Transfer Universities Within Driving Distance  • Private Universities with which Chabot does NOT have formal course transferability (articulation) agreements → Students Much CHECK with the University about Course Transferability • Stanford University (21.9 miles) • Santa Clara University (SCU) (28.9 miles)

37. UC Berkeley Transfer “TAP” http://cep.berkeley.edu/TAP

44. Chabot Engineering Chabot Connection to Mars Rover Bruce Mayer, PE Licensed Electrical & Mechanical EngineerBMayer@ChabotCollege.edu

45. Chabot Engineering at SJSU • Measuring the TCRof Copper Metal • Chabot Students in the San Jose State University Materials Engineering Lab

46. Chabot Engineering Transfer Student and UCBerkeley Mechanical Engineering Student, Mr. Robert Irwin, Poses before “CalSol[1]”, the UCBerkeley Solar Electric Vehicle at Soquel High School on 25Apr09. Mr. Irwin Leads the Steering & Suspension Design Team [1] http://calsol.berkeley.edu/blog/index.php

47. Chabot Engineering Transfer Student and UCBerkeley Mechanical Engineering Student, Mr. Robert Irwin, Poses before the UCBerkeley College of Engineering Graduation Ceremony 16May10. FIVE Chabot students received Engineering Degrees this day Mr. Irwin accepted a Mechanical Engineering Position with CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Lab

48. NASA’s Mars “Curiosity” Rover

49. Mr. Irwin → Engineering at JPL CuriosityRover RobertIrwin

50. R. Irwin with the HEAD of NASA Robert IrwinMechanicalEngineer Charles F. Bolden, Jr. NASA ADMINISTRATOR