1. 1 SPIRIT Silicon Prairie Initiative on Robotics in Information Technology An Introduction to Engineering

2. 2 SPIRIT Reflection engineering  What is engineering?  How did you learn about engineering?  What are your impressions of engineering?

3. 3 SPIRIT Reflection  Can you name one thing in this room (excluding yourself) that was not developed, produced, or delivered by an engineer?

4. 4 SPIRITReflection incisively  Can you name a profession that is affecting your daily life more incisively than engineering?

5. 5 SPIRITReflection  Can you define the engineering method for solving a problem?

6. 6 SPIRIT Design in a major sense is the essence of engineering. Design, above all else, distinguishes engineering from science. Hancock, 1986

7. 7 SPIRIT Reflection  Is Engineering Design an “Art” or a “Science”?

8. 8 SPIRIT "Design is an art practiced within the constraints of science ." C. Sedlacek9/24/01

9. 9 SPIRIT What is Engineering? Engineering is the profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize, economically, the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, (ABET)

10. 10 SPIRIT Who Cares?  Engineers  Engineers care!  the public does not understand the contributions of engineers and engineering to their quality of life  government leaders are no more conversant with technology issues than the public  the lack of public interest may undermine the attraction of the engineering profession to young people

11. 11 SPIRIT engineer ingeniator ingenuity The word engineer has its roots in the Latin word ingeniator, which means to make from the mind; to devise in the sense of construct, or craftsmanship. Several other words are related to ingeniator, including ingenuity.