Defining Geotechnical Engineering | Careers in Engineering | Introduction to Civil and Transportation Engineer | Solar Energy Uses in Transportation | Green Energy and Transportation |
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What is engineering?
This is the professional art of applying scientific principles to every day things to help make life easier.
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What is geotechnical engineering?
This is the study of the earth to make sure it is suitable for construction.
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What is solar energy?
This is a type of energy that is derived from the suns rays, is “collected” or harnessed by panels and then converted into a more useful form of energy.
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What is a wind turbine?
This is the device that collects wind and converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy in a process known as wind power.
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What is a civil engineer?
An engineer that designs and maintains public works such as roads, bridges, water and energy systems as well as public facilities like ports, railways and airports.
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What is transportation?
This is the movement of goods, services and people from one location to another.
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What are (e.g., roads, buildings, bridges, excavation, tunnels, railroads, pipelines, etc.)?
Name 3 types of structures or infrastructure when a geotechnical engineer would be needed.
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What is carbon dioxide?
The is a type of greenhouse gas that is released from cars during the combustion process.
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What is Texas?
This state is where the largest wind farm is located.
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What is a geotechnical engineer?
An engineer who is interested in the engineering behavior of earth materials; they are concerned with construction on or in the ground.
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What is a barge?
The penny boats were modeled after this specific type or mode of transportation.
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What is the construction site?
Geotechnical engineers go here to get samples of environmental materials to test.
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What are (e.g., it is renewable, it is a free energy source, it is clean/no fossil fuels are burned)?
These are 2 environmental benefits for using solar energy.
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What is (e.g., bird migration path, where wind speed exceeds 56 mph, within 300m from the nearest home)?
This is an example of where a wind turbine cannot be built.
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What is a transportation engineer?
An engineer that plans, designs, operates and manages facilities for any mode of transportation in order to provide for the safe, efficient, economical and environmentally compatible movement of people and goods.
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What is surface area?
Shallow penny boats hold more pennies. This is because a larger, flat bottom floats better and holds more weight because it has greater...what?
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What is a laboratory?
Geotechnical engineers go here to test the samples of environmental materials.
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What are (e.g., inefficient, expensive to make the solar cells and panels, sun is not always available, current models take up a lot of space)?
These are 2 environmental consequences for using solar energy.
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What is 30 mph?
This is the ideal mph wind speed for a wind turbine to collect wind energy.
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What is a mechanical engineer?
An engineer that designs and analyzes the usage of heat and mechanical power for the operation of machines and mechanical systems.
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What are (e.g., structural, geotechnical, transportation, environmental, water resources) engineering?
These are 2 types or specializations in civil engineering (an example is construction engineering).
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What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Because of a close river causing the ground around it to get soft, this famous Italian structure rose and began to lean.
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What is the combustion engine?
"Spark → Explosion of fuel → Movement' is the process of this type of engine.
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What are the tower, the nacelle and the rotor blades?
These are the 3 main parts of a wind turbine.
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What is an environmental engineer?
An engineer that develops solutions to environmental problems; they are involved in efforts to improve recycling, waste disposal, public health and in the control of water and air pollution.
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