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Meeting #18 Engineer |
The G.E.N.T.S. Club was graced with the presence of another remarkable speaker on the 16th of April 2009. Mr. Kenneth Gold is a Project Engineer. Mr. Gold addressed the G.E.N.T.S. about various topics such as; |
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1. Engineers are problem solvers.
2. Engineers rely strongly on their creativity and academic skills.
3. Engineers use mathematics, science, and computers to model real life problems.
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4. Engineers may design cardiac pacemakers while others may design sky scrapers or
computer programs.
5. Engineers have so many different branches of engineering that is an engineering
connected to almost anything you see around you.
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6. Some engineers work is obvious: roads, bridges, big buildings, cars, planes, power
lines, televisions, and computers.
7. Engineers work in teams.
8. Engineers must be capable of creating and designing a sewer system, reorganize a large company.
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9. Engineers are given the responsibility of testing everything extremely carefully
before it is used.
10. Some engineers move into law or medicine, a business career or postgraduate studies in their own fields.
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11. Most highly paid engineering consultants and all senior engineering researchers
and professors have advanced degrees in engineering.
12. Engineering may develop fuels, clean up pollution or invent tools to fight illness.
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13. Engineering work in industry and government
14. A beginning engineer may expect to make an estimated $65,000 a year.
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