Week 1 Prompted Post

For my first post I have ten questions about engineering that I am going to try to answer with a single book. I am going to use my engineering 100 textbook to try and answer as many of  my questions as I can.

1. What is engineering?
2. what do engineers do?
3. what are the types of engineering majors?
4. what do I need to study for this major?
5. what types of jobs do engineers have?
6. what is a professional engineer?
7. What's a typical day for an engineer?
8. what's new in engineering?
9. What kinds of project will I be apart of?
10. Who are some famous people who have engineering degrees?

1. According to my textbook, Thinking Like an Engineer an Active Learning Approach (Custom Edition for Michigan State University), "engineering is a broad field requiring knowledge of science mathematics and other fields to turn idea into reality"(Stephan et al. 3).
2.  I can also answer the second question with "engineers solve real-life problems, their ultimate motivation is to work toward making life better for everyone"( Stephan et al. 3).
3. The Thinking Like an Engineer textbook gives several engineering majors but it doesn't give all engineering majors. The majors it does list are Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Material Science Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.
9. For my ninth question the textbook writes a section internships, study abroad, and research programs that students can be a part of.

My Textbook was somewhat useful in answering my questions but I will definitely need more resources to answer my other questions the textbook didn't. I think I will use the Internet to look up and answer the unanswered questions. Another approach maybe an interview with someone who is an engineer, they could answer  questions like what a typical day for them would be like?

Work Cited

 Stephan, Elizabeth A., Bowman, David R., Park, William J., Sill, Benjamin L., Ohland W. Matthew. Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach(Custom Edition for Michigan State University). New Jersey: Pearson, 2013. Print