STEM Education Notes - Engineering Overview

These flashcards provide key concepts from the STEM Education notes on Engineering for Grades 11, covering essential definitions and principles.

What is Engineering?

The use of scientific principles to design and build machines and infrastructures, including bridges, tunnels, roads, and buildings.

What do Engineers do?

Engineers make products and provide services to improve lives by applying physical and chemical laws, principles, and mathematics.

Why is studying Engineering important?

It provides exposure to technical subjects and develops transferable skills important for various industries.

Name a common trait of good Engineers.

Good engineers are problem solvers with a firm grasp of fundamental principles.

What is the Engineering Design Process?

A series of steps followed by engineers to come up with a solution to a problem.

List two factors influencing the Engineering Design Process.

Engineering economics and material selection.

What is Civil Engineering?

A discipline focusing on the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment.

What is Electrical Engineering?

A discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity.

What is Mechanical Engineering?

An engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science to design, analyze, and maintain mechanical systems.

What are the steps in the Engineering Design Process?

1. Recognizing the need, 2. Problem definition, 3. Research and preparation, 4. Conceptualization, 5. Synthesis, 6. Evaluation, 7. Optimization, 8. Presentation.

What does CAD stand for?

Computer-Aided Design.

What is the purpose of CAD software?

To assist in creating two-dimensional drawings or three-dimensional models and to optimize the design workflow.

What is a key ethical responsibility of engineers?

To hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.

What is a conflict of interest in engineering?

A situation where an engineer's personal interest may interfere with their professional responsibilities.

What does agricultural engineering focus on?

The design, construction, and improvement of farming equipment and machinery.