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Introduction To Engineering - 5

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1. Give a conflict of interest scenario
what Chris did - privately rebuke Ah Chee - tell him to further punish/threaten Dave
Ephesians 5 - shouldn't be any sexual immorality among Christians - Genesis 1 - men and women created in God's image - Matthew 5 - lust is adultery
engineer working for design firm approving drawings for steel beams - also works for the steel company - he would essentially be approving his own work
AB - or inv(A)*B

2. What commands halt a program before plotting a graph
plot(theta - sin(theta))
V=IR
hold on - hold off
mean and Standard Deviation

3. What are the steps for getting a Professional Engineering License?
V=IR
Fundamentals in Engineering Exam - 4 years work experience - PE exam - oral exam concerning ethical/legal obligations - renew license annually - continue education
vector involves direction
name(2 -3)=7

4. How do you plot a function - sin(theta) - with theta as 0:pi/2:pi
mean and Standard Deviation
what Chris did - privately rebuke Ah Chee - tell him to further punish/threaten Dave
plot(theta - sin(theta))
y = 2:2:20

5. What is the difference between scalar and vector?
vector involves direction
George Boole
A'
Neil Armstrong- astronaut - Jimmy Carter- Nuclear Engineer - Alfred Hitchcock- Movie Director - Tom Scholtz- leader of Boston

6. Explain how to define 'safe' in engineering design.
.* - ./ - .^
Nothing perfectly safe - design safe if risks judged acceptable - or if design comparatively safe
Fundamentals in Engineering Exam - 4 years work experience - PE exam - oral exam concerning ethical/legal obligations - renew license annually - continue education
a = [2 - 4 - 6 - 8]

7. What MIT grad student wrote a Senior Thesis - relating boolean algebra to electrical circuits - where 0 represents circuit off - and 1 represents circuit on
vector involves direction
Claude Shannon
mean and Standard Deviation
what Chris did - privately rebuke Ah Chee - tell him to further punish/threaten Dave

8. Write a MATLAB plot - with x as a series - height as a y- vector - and the graph dotted ( : ) - red ( r ) - and with diamonds at the points ( d )

9. Name four people who were engineers - but are famous for a non - engineering task/accomplishment. Also list what they did.
y = 2:2:20
size(name)
mean and Standard Deviation
Neil Armstrong- astronaut - Jimmy Carter- Nuclear Engineer - Alfred Hitchcock- Movie Director - Tom Scholtz- leader of Boston

10. What are the 2 main statistics used in engineering?
force in an opposite direction of what is predetermined as a positive direction
legend('text1' - 'text2')
plot(theta - sin(theta))
mean and Standard Deviation

11. Write a matrix named name - from 1 to 9 - with 3 rows - 3 columns
V=IR
how much spread is in the data
name = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
they are good problem solvers - engineers do better on the GMAT business exam

12. Write a MATLAB legend

13. List the cons of having a PE license.
job recommendations - get connections - good way of getting advice - and getting to know who can do what
greater responsibility - potential to lose license - renew annually
mean and Standard Deviation
V=IR

14. How do you find the size of matrix 'name?'
size(name)
name = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
Ephesians 5 - shouldn't be any sexual immorality among Christians - Genesis 1 - men and women created in God's image - Matthew 5 - lust is adultery
how much spread is in the data

15. What is Standard Deviation?
Ephesians 5 - shouldn't be any sexual immorality among Christians - Genesis 1 - men and women created in God's image - Matthew 5 - lust is adultery
tension or compression
how much spread is in the data
vector involves direction

16. What is Ohm's Law?
AB - or inv(A)*B
hold on - hold off
V=IR
how much spread is in the data

17. Write a MATLAB series - y - that starts at 2 - ends at 20 - and is incremented by 2
y = 2:2:20
xlabel('text') - ylabel('text') - title('text')
name = [1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9]
Nothing perfectly safe - design safe if risks judged acceptable - or if design comparatively safe

18. List the pros of having a PE license.
y = 2:2:20
considered expert - work as consultant - higher salary - promotions - teach - testify in court as expert witness
tension or compression
greater responsibility - potential to lose license - renew annually

19. What does negative force mean?
.* - ./ - .^
AB - or inv(A)*B
force in an opposite direction of what is predetermined as a positive direction
y(3)=15

20. Why do engineers often also succeed in Liberal arts? Give an example?
considered expert - work as consultant - higher salary - promotions - teach - testify in court as expert witness
they are good problem solvers - engineers do better on the GMAT business exam
plot(theta - sin(theta))
vector involves direction

21. Who is responsible for logic based algebra - which is used as arithmetic in computers?
Fundamentals in Engineering Exam - 4 years work experience - PE exam - oral exam concerning ethical/legal obligations - renew license annually - continue education
vector involves direction
George Boole
AB - or inv(A)*B

22. Write a MATLAB vector - a - including 2 - 4 - 6 - 8
Fundamentals in Engineering Exam - 4 years work experience - PE exam - oral exam concerning ethical/legal obligations - renew license annually - continue education
hold on - hold off
12
a = [2 - 4 - 6 - 8]

23. Solve for X...AX=B - give
name(2 -3)=7
Claude Shannon
plot(y)
AB - or inv(A)*B

24. Bar or Members are always either in _____ or _____
tension or compression
hold on - hold off
plot(x -y)
V=IR

25. In MATLAB - change the 3rd element of the y series to the value - 15
plot(x -y)
y(3)=15
y = 2:2:20
tension or compression

26. If there are 6 pins in a joint/pin analysis - there will be how many equations?
they are good problem solvers - engineers do better on the GMAT business exam
12
.* - ./ - .^
engineer working for design firm approving drawings for steel beams - also works for the steel company - he would essentially be approving his own work

27. How would you transpose Matrix A?

28. What is the simple plot for y - which is a vector - with x increments of 1
mean and Standard Deviation
plot(y)
job recommendations - get connections - good way of getting advice - and getting to know who can do what
legend('text1' - 'text2')

29. Write a plot with an already determined x- series - and y- vector
xlabel('text') - ylabel('text') - title('text')
plot(x -y)
they are good problem solvers - engineers do better on the GMAT business exam
how much spread is in the data

30. List some biblical principles against sexual harassment?

31. What are the benefits of networking?
plot(x - height -':rd')
job recommendations - get connections - good way of getting advice - and getting to know who can do what
A'
plot(y)

32. Write how to add labels for the x- axis - y- axis - and title of a plot in MATLAB

33. What would you have done if you were in Chris' shoes - concerning the sexual harassment situation?
.* - ./ - .^
vector involves direction
Ephesians 5 - shouldn't be any sexual immorality among Christians - Genesis 1 - men and women created in God's image - Matthew 5 - lust is adultery
what Chris did - privately rebuke Ah Chee - tell him to further punish/threaten Dave

34. When operating on vectors - write the 3 unique operators
.* - ./ - .^
a = [2 - 4 - 6 - 8]
12
tension or compression

35. Change the value in the matrix 'name' in the 2nd row - 3rd column - to the value 7
name(2 -3)=7
plot(theta - sin(theta))
Claude Shannon
plot(x -y)