Sachpazis Costas: Geotechnical Engineering: A student's Perspective Introduction
Kinetic Art
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2. The Stereotypical Engineer
• Over-worked
• Technical
• Management
• Creativity is not the
highest priority
The reason this myth persists is because most engineers believe it is
true too! They seem to think that their jobs are, in fact, non-
creative.
6. “Exposure to the Liberal and the Fine Arts is important to the
education of engineers, but not just to make them better
members of society. Such exposure is important, because it will
make them better engineers.”
- Sue Kemnitzer, the deputy division director
for education in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division
of Engineering Education and Centers.
8. Typical Student Problems
•Putting together a thought for an argument in an essay or report
•Debugging a computer problem
•Dealing with unfriendly customers at a part-time job
•Managing one’s budget until the end of the term/semester
• ENDLESS HOMEWORK!!!
Good problem solving skills area important in showing a recruiter
that you have RESILIENCE to handle the challenges and pressure
that work and life may bring.
d/dt(Persistence ) = RESILENCE
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10. DETERMINATION = to make things happen and
constantly look for better ways of doing things
CREATIVITY
11. How do you express an idea in terms of color, shape
and texture?
How do you express the feeling of falling in
mathematical terms?
How do you express your clients design criteria in terms of
executable variables?
Sometimes you need a
PARADIGM SHIFT
12. Paradigm Shift = Revolutionary Science
“ a change in the basic
assumptions, or paradigms,
within the ruling theory of
science”
–Thomas Kuhn
14. Paradigm Shifts and Society:
Teleworking
•Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley
•Pioneered home working in the
computer industry in the early
1960s
•Exclusively employed women in a
flexible, home-based, job-sharing
approach
“It’s inconceivable now but at the time I had to get my husband’s permission before I
could open a bank account,” –Dame Shirley
19. “Art is like the skin on an animatronic dinosaur and engineering gives it life.”
Lorraine Lin, Computer Science student
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21. Alexander Calder
Eagle, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA
• maintained a sharp eye with
respect to the engineering
balance of the sculptures
•Studied and worked as a
Mechanical Engineer for many
years before moving into art
and sculpture.
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23. How we make sense of
the world is directly
shaped by the physical
nature of our bodies
EMOBODIEMENT
Andrew Werth
One of the things that I noticed is that I never defined persistence. Persistence is not giving up. I think with having everything at our finger tips nowaydays, and if we don’t get the answer the first time we sometimes tend to give up.
So can anyone do the math for me? How are persistence and determination related? Yes, determination is the second derivative of persistence. Thank you!
In order to be creative we need to change something. Sometimes that something is the very basis on which we rely. In Engineering and Science it would be fundamental theories and patterns of working.
Kuhn Made several notable claims concerning the progress of scientific revolution: that scientific fields undergo periodic “paradigm shifts” rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way
These
Stephanie displayed an aptitude for science but life was not easy for a working woman in the Fifties. She began at the Post Office, but quickly realised that the glass ceiling was far too low.
In 1962 she set up a technology company with just £6. “It’s inconceivable now but at the time I had to get my husband’s permission before I could open a bank account,” she laughs. When her company peaked in the 1980s, she was worth £150 million.
So, at a time when computers were half the size of a room, she started her own software company, later rebranded as Xansa.
She almost exclusively employed women, and her flexible, home-based, job-sharing approach was revolutionary.
Today, In the US, 24% of employed people report working from home at least some hours each week, according to the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
Yesterday I went to a really interesting talk about biomimcry and the professor giving the talk talked about the way in which you can look at a problem: biology based or problem based; well this is that idea stripped down.
So stop being deductive and start being inductive; stop using preexisting laws and theories