What's an Engineer? Crash Course Kids #12.1 - By Crash Course Kids
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| 00:09 | how do we get around from place to place without | |
| 00:12 | having to walk everywhere ? How can we communicate with | |
| 00:14 | people who live far away ? These were problems that | |
| 00:16 | people struggled with for a long time until recently before | |
| 00:20 | there were things like cars and phones and computers and | |
| 00:23 | you know , who solved those problems , engineers ? | |
| 00:26 | But do you know what an engineer is ? The | |
| 00:32 | short answer is that an engineer is someone who wants | |
| 00:34 | to know how and why things work . Now ? | |
| 00:37 | I want to know how and why things work . | |
| 00:39 | But does that make me an engineer ? Not quite | |
| 00:41 | besides being naturally curious . And engineer is a person | |
| 00:44 | who designs and builds things like machines or systems or | |
| 00:47 | structures that help solve a specific problem . There's more | |
| 00:51 | than just one type of engineer too . But no | |
| 00:53 | matter what type of engineer someone is , they have | |
| 00:55 | to ask themselves three very important questions when they're working | |
| 00:58 | , Number one , what is the problem that needs | |
| 01:00 | to be solved ? And number two , who has | |
| 01:03 | the problem that needs to be solved ? And most | |
| 01:05 | importantly , number three , why is this problem important | |
| 01:08 | to solve ? Let's take a look at some examples | |
| 01:12 | . A really famous example of engineering is the Golden | |
| 01:17 | gate bridge in san Francisco California . I mentioned that | |
| 01:20 | there are different kinds of engineers and a civil engineer | |
| 01:23 | is someone who designs and constructs buildings , roads and | |
| 01:26 | yep bridges . For the person who designed the Golden | |
| 01:28 | Gate bridge , what was the problem that they needed | |
| 01:30 | to solve ? People couldn't travel in or out of | |
| 01:32 | SAn Francisco which is surrounded on both sides by water | |
| 01:35 | without a boat who had the problem . Residents of | |
| 01:38 | SAN Francisco mostly , but really anybody traveling in the | |
| 01:41 | area and why was the problem important to solve ? | |
| 01:43 | Well , you didn't want a whole bunch of SAn | |
| 01:45 | Francisco residents trapped in san Francisco forever , even if | |
| 01:48 | it is super cool city . Plus you wanted people | |
| 01:51 | outside of SAn Francisco to be able to travel to | |
| 01:53 | the city easily if they needed to . So the | |
| 01:55 | golden gate bridge was engineered as a solution to this | |
| 01:58 | problem . In addition to civil engineers , they're also | |
| 02:00 | mechanical , electrical , chemical , computer , nuclear and | |
| 02:03 | software engineers . And the list goes on , let's | |
| 02:06 | talk about what some of the other types of engineers | |
| 02:08 | do . First up electrical engineers , electrical engineers study | |
| 02:12 | electricity , they design electrical systems like circuits and computer | |
| 02:16 | chips . Think of an electrical object that you used | |
| 02:18 | pretty regularly . How about your microwave ? What problem | |
| 02:21 | was the microwave ? A solution to cold food ? | |
| 02:23 | Right . You have an electrical engineer to thank for | |
| 02:26 | the ability to reheat that leftover pizza you just had | |
| 02:29 | for lunch . But while you might not have heard | |
| 02:30 | of joseph Strauss , Sir Percy spencer . The engineers | |
| 02:33 | responsible for the Golden gate bridge and the microwave , | |
| 02:35 | respectively . You've probably heard of Henry Ford as in | |
| 02:38 | ford cars . Henry Ford was a mechanical engineer or | |
| 02:41 | someone working in the manufacturing industry making mechanical things like | |
| 02:45 | tools , engines and machines , machines like cars , | |
| 02:48 | Ford didn't invent the automobile , but his ford motor | |
| 02:51 | company made a lot of them . His model T | |
| 02:54 | car was famous for being affordable for plenty of americans | |
| 02:57 | , ford saw that lots of people who wanted to | |
| 02:59 | drive cars just couldn't because they couldn't afford the pricey | |
| 03:02 | vehicles that were for sale . So he engineered a | |
| 03:05 | cheaper model as a solution to this problem , his | |
| 03:07 | fellow engineers started to do the same and now well | |
| 03:10 | cars are everywhere . Henry Ford is not the only | |
| 03:13 | big name engineer , a famous engineer around today is | |
| 03:16 | Marissa Mayer . Mayor is the president of the internet | |
| 03:19 | company Yahoo and is also a software engineers . Software | |
| 03:22 | engineers work on computers and other products that use software | |
| 03:25 | to write programs to make them faster and able to | |
| 03:27 | do more things . Mhm No matter what kind of | |
| 03:34 | engineer someone is . Their job at its most basic | |
| 03:37 | level is problem solving . Each engineer just specializes in | |
| 03:40 | solving certain kinds of problems . While it might seem | |
| 03:43 | like there are too many types of engineers to keep | |
| 03:45 | track of just wait 15 years or 50 or 100 | |
| 03:49 | because we'll probably have a ton of different types to | |
| 03:52 | add to the list by then . Think about it | |
| 03:54 | . Over 100 years ago , we didn't have jobs | |
| 03:56 | in fields like aerospace engineering where people design and construct | |
| 03:59 | planes and spacecraft . We didn't have planes like we | |
| 04:02 | do today or need spaceships . So we didn't need | |
| 04:04 | people to engineer them . Who knows what machines or | |
| 04:07 | tools or everyday objects we'll have in the year 30 | |
| 04:09 | 15 personally , I'm hoping for underwater cities . But | |
| 04:13 | whatever these things are , we'll need engineers to make | |
| 04:15 | them . So what do you say ? Who wants | |
| 04:17 | to be an engineer ? |
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