What is Engineering? (for separate devices)

You and your partner will both receive a grade for working on this together as we have practiced with one person using a computer and one person using an ipad. Students will listen together using the computer headphones. As a response to this item, type your partner's first and last name.

What do these invention and innovation ideas have in common?

• They all involve water.

• They all work to solve a problem or improve our lives somehow.

• They are all totally impossible.

What is the definition on Engineering?

• Drawing, painting and sculpting beautiful pieces of artwork to display in a museum.

• Imagining, designing, and building things that solve problem and make our lives better and more enjoyable.

• Buying and selling products and services to a community where people live.  

Is it fair to say that engineers are involved in most aspects of our everyday life?

• Yes

• No

• Engineers don't really exist.

True or False: Problem solving is only important in the field of engineering.

• True

• False

Which of the following statements is accurate?

• You have to be a boy to become an engineer.

• You have to be a girl to become an engineer.

• Engineering is a career that is available to ANYONE who desires it.

True or False: Being able to work with others is a major part of being an engineer.

• True

• False

When do you no longer need to continue gaining new knowledge as an engineer?

• When you get a job and cash your first paycheck.

• When you no longer have any college classes to take.

• When you become the boss.

• As an engineer, you should never stop seeking out new knowledge.

True or false: Without innovation it is very difficult to continuously improve the world we live in.

• True

• False

As engineers, what kinds of ideas should we pay attention to?

• Only the ideas that can lead to profit and wealth.

• Only ideas that help people in the United States.

• All ideas, big and small, should be considered.