ENGE 1024 Final Exam Study Guide
Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Study
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“What do Engineers do?”
Mechanical Engineering:
- concerned with the analysis, design and development of structures, machines, devices, and mechanical
systems
- perhaps broadest of engineering disciplines
- covers multiple technical fields classified in:
1. Solid mechanics
2. Fluid mechanics
3. Thermodynamics
4. Mechanical design
- solid mechanics- concerned with analyzing the behavior of solid bodies subjected to stresses and
external loads
Jobs: bioengineering, aerospace, tribology, acoustics, management, nondestructive evaluation,
and dynamic systems and control
-fluid mechanics- concerned with the behavior of liquids and gases and the design and development of
machinery
Jobs: meteorology, oceanography, acoustics, fluid power systems, aerodynamics, pressure
vessels
-thermodynamics-concerned with the conversion of one form of energy to another
Jobs: environmental control, heating, ventilation, pollution control, alternative fuel sources
-mechanical design- translates an idea, demand, or identified need into a working prototype of a
product or service
Interdisciplinary:
-mechatronics- control and automation engineering, mechatronics combines the disciplines of
mechanics, electronics, and computing to design, manufacture, and control advanced hybrid systems.
-micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)- “the technology of the very small”. The integration
of mechanical engineering with microelectronics
-nanotechnology- technology at the molecular level
Electrical Engineering:
-embodies the study of all things electrical
-five major specialties:
1. Electric power engineering- design, develop, and maintain systems and devices for the generation
2. Communications- concerned with the transmission of information using wires, coaxial cable, fiber
optics, or radio.
3. Control systems engineering- concerned with the design and development of machines or systems
that control automated processes
