30 Mart 2008 Pazar

ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION

Engineer is someone who have taken undergraduate degree from an engineering department of a university .Engineers usually find suitable solutions to the problems by using scientific information, mathematics and technology. Engineers also desing devices and systems for usage of people.They can work in companies or universities as an academic staff. However teamwork is indispensible for engineers like ethic.This is their differences from other staff.Some attributions of engineers depend on their working area.For example computer engineers must be good at programming but mechanical engineering must be good at computer aided graphic design.As a result generally all engineers must be good at problem solving , thinking creatively and teamwork.Engineering is also a good profession to improve career.Because engineers generally promote easily because of their intellectual skill and scientific knowledge
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WHAT DO ENGINEERS DO?

Generally engineers solve problems by using mathematics, technology and scientific knowledge.However their studies differ because of their areas after this general definition.Engineers design objects or systems by using their scientific knowledge.An engineer must also use and operate his/her equipments and budget properly. Almost everything, we use in daily life, were designed by engineers. Tables, chairs, devices, computers, games, buildings…However engineers can design system ,which is intangible. For example; industrial engineers.They design system in order to solve process problems in a business.Industrial engineers also make things more quality and efficient. Different disciplines of engineering work on different types of problems. But they generally solve problems in a scientific way and they design and create devices, buldings, things using mathematics and technology.
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TYPES OF ENGINEERS

Aerospace engineers(space researchs,desing planes and space shuttles), chemical engineers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, industrial engineers, materials engineers(find and discover new, enduring materials), mechanical engineers, structural engineers, systems engineers, environmental engineers(creating systems which save water,renewable energy resources,renew air), nuclear engineers(works on nuclear energy), network engineers, biomedical engineers, bioengineers, computer engineers, phsyical engineers, ceramic engineers, genetic engineers, food engineers, hidrogeology engineers, control engineers(control systems and processes), mining engineers(find and discover new minerals and find their usage areas), mechatronic engineers, mathematics engineers, meteorology engineers(predict air conditions by using datas), forest industry engineers, telecommunication engineers(work on new telecommunication technologies and develop them), textile engineers, software engineers, agricultural engineers are some types of engineers.But , civil engineering(plan and design buildings), chemical engineering, mechanical engineering(construct and design machines), electrical engineering(works on circuits chips, microchips and devices working with electric) are main and oldest types of engineering.Industrial engineers coordinate other types of engineers in work place and use them in the right parts of the process.Industrial engineers know some other areas of engineering’s terminology.Therefore they can communicate other engineers well.That’s why, industrial engineers promote easily and can be manager or director.

References

http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BChendislik
http://www.engineeringfullyloaded.org.au/as_a_career/types_of_engineering.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_engineers#Lists_of_notable_engineers_by_discipline
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BEGINNING OF THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION

In the middle of the 18th century the first engineering schools were founded in France.Military and polytechnic schools were established in France to teach engineering and these schools produced important people like Laplace, Lagrange, and Fourier.In America the first school, which offers engineering education, was the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.It opened in 1802. the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was the first school ,which cultivates civil engineers.It awarded first engineering degree in 1835.In Ottaman Empire the first school ,which cultivates engineers with a modern way, was founded in 18 November 1776.

References

http://www.kenthaber.com/Arsiv/Haberler/2005/Aralik/09/Haber_107011.aspx
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/hsseas/history/origin.html
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ORIGINS OF ENGINEERING

The Latin word “ingenium” is the root of the word “engineer”, which means “innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention. Derivation of word engineer dates back to 1325.”First engineers are military constructors, who were employed by governments. Engineer referred to “a constructor of military engines”. Later, civilian structures like bridges, buildings, towers started to design in a technical way. Military and non-military projects were distinguished by the term of “civil engineering”. The Acropolis and the Parthenon in Greece, the Roman aquaducts, Via Appia and the Colosseum, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pharos of Alexandria, the pyramids in Egypt, Teotihuacán and the cities and pyramids of the Mayan, Inca and Aztec Empires, the Great Wall of China are some desings of ancient engineers.The first civil engineer’s name is Imhotep.As official, Pharaoh Djoser designed the Pyramid of Djoser at Sakkara in Egypt around 2630-2611 BC and since the ancient times, role of engineers have not changed,to create and to design.
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29 Mart 2008 Cumartesi

My Preference

If ı have a chance to be one of these people, ı would prefer being Frederick Taylor.Because he is the father of scientific management.Moreover, Henri Fayol,Henry Ford and other a lot of important people were affected from his ideas.He found the assembly line as an idea.After him Henry Ford applied it.He saw that workers are very important for the factory or company.According to Taylor workers must improve themselves.But, he changed things at lower parts in hierarchic system more than upper parts.After him Henri Fayol did it.I think Frederick Taylor is the most important person in these seven people and he is the creator of scientific management.Differently Frederick Taylor created a new theory.He didnt modify theories like other VIPs.That’s why if ı have a chance,ı would prefer being Frederick Taylor.
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MAX WEBER(21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920)


Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a political economist and socialist ,who is from Germany. He is one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration. He worked on rationalization in sociology of religion and government.According to Weber there are four main types of a social action.


Men may engage in purposeful or goal-oriented rational action


Men’s rational action may be value-oriented


They may act from emotional or affective motivations


They may engage in traditional action.


The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is his most famous essay. His most significant contribution to the sociology of politics and government is his Politics as a Vocation essay. According to Weber, a politician must not be the man of true christian ethic.Weber distinguished three types of political leadership.


Charismatic domination


Legal domination


Traditional domination


He simply wants to answer this question. Why did capitalism appear in West protestan countries? Because according to Protestan ethic, god likes people ,who work a lot. Moreover people are instruments of god. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, Ancient Juadism, The The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism are his other studies about religion and socialogy.


Quotations from Max Weber


No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.


The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.


One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.


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