<p>Exactly how do engineers think?</p>
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<p>They think about the way things work and they can do it, in there heads. Here’ s a good test for you. Take apart a car or tractor engine completely, or have someone else do it. Then see if you can put it back together with help or instructions. Once its built tune it without the help of instruments only use your ears. Basically the problem with many who go into engineering is they can’t think these things. They only think what they see on paper not what is practical and the way it really is.</p>
<p>How do the various types of engineers think in terms of their specific problems.</p>
<p>For chemEs it is more how to be efficient. Like I need to make 170,000 lbs of acrylic acid every hour. How can I get this accomplished while using the least amount of equipment, spending as little as possible, & recycling all of the stuff I don’t use? Will this have enough pressure to force it up here? Will this be strong enough to bind tightly here or should I loosen it up b/c it is weak? Lots of factory or plant stuff.</p>
<p>Is that what you’re asking or are you asking if there is one physics problem and how does each engineer look at it?</p>
<p>They see a lightbulb that is out. They first wonder if the socket is getting electricity, so they turn the switch up and down to see if it comes on. When it doesn’t, they then wonder if the switch is getting electricity, so they check the generator. After determining that is running, they decide that you need to spot check the lines running from the generator to the switch and the switch to the socket to assure electricity is getting through. After determining that it is, they decide to check the lightbulb to see if it might be burned out. Believing that it is, they wonder what to replace it with. The existing bulb is 75 watts but perhaps 100 would be better. Now, they must determine whether the electrical lines and the socket can support a 100 watt bulb and whether it would be cost effective to do so. They proceed to their office to do the calculations … and forget all about changing the lightbulb.</p>
<p>Right now, all I’m thinking is: “I gotta do really well on my finals!”</p>
<p>I thought I could put that in for a change. =</p>
<p>IlliniJBravoEcho: Thank you tremendously. That is the type of thing that I was looking for. Based on that, I think that I might like engineering.</p>