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What is an Engineer
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Engine The word "engine" derives from Old French engin, from the Latin ingenium–the root of the word ingenious. “endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius” from in (“in”) + gignere (“to produce”) Pre-industrial weapons of war, such as catapults, trebuchets and battering rams, were called "siege engines“ The word "gin", as in "cotton gin", is short for "engine".
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Definition: Engineer noun: engineer; plural noun: engineers
a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works. synonyms: originator, deviser, designer, architect, inventor, developer, creator; mastermind a person qualified in a branch of engineering, especially as a professional. the operator of an engine: railroad locomotive or the engine on an aircraft or ship. verb: engineer design and build (a machine or structure). "the designers who engineered the tunnel"
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Engineers Created EVERYTHING around you!
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Types of Engineers Acoustic Engineering MBA Aerospace Computer
Aeronautical Technology Management Agricultural Manufacturing Architectural Materials Biomedical Mechanical Biomechanical Mechatronics Civil Mineral Construction Mining Communications Nuclear Chemical Oil Electrical Optical Electronics Photonics Environmental Petroleum Food Project Mgmt Forensics Reverse Genetic Robotics Heating and AC Software Industrial Structural
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Stupid Hollywood Stereotype
Who are Engineers? Stupid Hollywood Stereotype Engineers are: Normal people (moms, dads, sons, daughters…) Smart People Interesting people Creative People Business people Fun People Men/Women, Young/Old People that understand how the world works
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Engineering Wages
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Why is it called a CELL PHONE?
Onion Cells Cellular Network
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What are a Cell Phone’s Parts
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Network Switching
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World wide Internet usage
How can the Internet track everyone?
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Internet Protocol (IP) Addressing
Current system capacity: 3,494,883,554 New system capacity: 3.4×1038 (340 trillion trillion trillion)
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Convert your name to ones and zeros (binary)
My name is = = = = What is your name in binary? __=_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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How does sound become a number?
Decimal System: 1000s 100s 10s 1s = 11579 =2693 Binary System: =1 =2 =3 =4 =5 =6 =7 Voice recording =8 8 bits is called a byte =255
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What is an Image? See each Pixel?
A digital photo is composed of Pixels See each Pixel? Pixels are defined by the amount of Red, Green and Blue as numbers. Pictures are just arrays of numbers This picture has pixels, or 9,077,016 ones and zeros
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Images also have Metadata?
Joint Photographic Experts Group Your standard photo has METADATA FileName Compression Time created Description Resolution Camera type Date Taken Photo info
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