Classroom
discussion: What are some stereotypes around engineers?
What causes society to have stereotypes?
Working as teams, generate
definitions
of what Engineers, Scientists, Entrepreneur,
Artist and Mathematicians do.
Interview an engineer. What do you want to know about what
an engineer does? Are they curious? How do they problem
solve?
Invite
an engineer to the classroom to discuss their design projects.
What
engineers in the past and present time can we learn about what
they did and their approach? How would we find them?
Could we look up patents to find them?
Design
activity: Have your students design their room at home( or
the classroom). They need to think about the need to do it
and what the requirements should be. have them create
specifications and then draw out the design based on the
specifications. They can do the math and some science items such
as air quality, habitat issues, etc. Have them create a
set of goals and how they would judge success at the end of the
project. Teams can be formed and presentations made.
What do Engineers do?
•Work
around the design process of creating, maintaining products (&
systems) and process development.
•They
specialize in various science disciplines like civil,
electrical, mechanical, aerospace, bio, material.
•They
specialize in purchasing, project materials, process, quality,
production
Teaching that Engineering Design is all
around us.