1. Is Engineering for Me?

2. What is an Engineer?
PROBLEM SOLVER

3. Engineers are problem solvers.
Use available technology to solve problems
Rely on creativity and academic skills
Use math, science, and computers
It is very important to note that even though the
tasks are very different, many of the methods
used are common to all engineers.
You don’t have to be a genius to be an engineer, but people who become engineers like math, science, and problem solving.

4. THE ENGINEERING PROCESS:
IDENTIFY and
define a problem
Implement
Solution
ANALYZE
the problem
In general this is a flow chart of the steps engineers follow in solving problems.
First, you identify and define your problem
Second, you analyze the problem
Third you design and propose solutions
Forth you refine your proposal
5) And after going through this process you have hopefully found a solution to your initial problem.
Propose solutions
Select and Design
preferred solution

5. The First Engineers
Egyptians

6. ENGINEERS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
GREEKS
ROMANS
MAYANS
AZTECS
English

7. TYPES OF ENGINEERS CIVIL CHEMICAL ELECTRICAL COMPUTER INDUSTRIAL
MECHANICAL
AERONAUTICAL
Material
Agricultural
Bio-Systems
Architectural
Mining
Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

8. TYPES OF CIVIL ENGINEERS
STRUCTURAL
TRANSPORTATION
GEOTECHNICAL
ENVIRONMENTAL
WATER RESOURCES
CONSTRUCTION
Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

9. Structural Engineer Design and build structures.
Mainly designs bridges, buildings, and tunnels

10. Transportation Engineer
Vertical Curve
Horizontal Curve
Designs transportation highway systems
Models traffic flow, delay, etc.
Develops timing system for traffic signals.

11. Geotechnical Engineer
Perform site investigations
Foundation Design
Tunnel Design
Embankment Design
Retaining Wall Design

12. Environmental Engineer
Designs and plans prevention, control and remediation of environmental health hazards.
Environmental engineers will frequently specialize in one area, like air pollution, water pollution, landfill design, etc.

13. Water Resource Engineer
Duties
Data collection
Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
Perform watershed assessments
Preparation of drainage and water quality technical reports
Conduct stormwater utilities feasibility studies and implementation
Perform drainage calculations for design discharges, open channels, weirs and collection systems
perform storm water quality related design (BMPS)

14. Construction Engineer
Develop Pert/CPM diagrams
Performance Calculations
Analyze Maps, Drawings, Blueprints, Aerial Photographry, and topographic maps.

15. Who does this? STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

16. Who does this? TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERS Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

17. Who does this? ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

18. Who does this? GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

19. Who does this? WATER RESOURCE ENGINEERS Types of engineers include:
Civil (bridges, buildings, airports)
Environmental
Chemical
Electrical (design, develop, test, and supervise the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment)
Industrial (Robots, conveyors, facility planning)
Mechanical (designing and producing products cars ect.)

20. How to Become an Engineer!
Tips:
Take as much math and science as possible
Take ACT and SAT in your junior year
Consider College Connection
Look for scholarships
On a typical day, I spend the majority of my time working with computer aided design (Autocad and Microstation)
I also spend time traing younger employees, attending team meetings, and sometimes public meetings.
The next few slides are from some of the many projects that I have been involved with since working with Presnell.