The Engineering Place (K-20 Outreach)
Bringing engineering to life across North Carolina through outreach, mentoring and education
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Engineers work in many different areas and industries to solve problems, create new products and processes and develop the technologies of tomorrow. But across the board, engineers will develop or enhance many of the following aptitudes and skills in their education and experience:
Aptitudes
- Structural visualization (spatial aptitude) – Can you rotate an object in your head? Or imagine what it looks like from another side? In some disciplines of engineering, particularly related to design, this skill is very useful.
- Analytical reasoning
- Mathematical ability
- Memory for design
- Observation
Skills
- Representing a design problem
- Making assumptions
- Generating possible ideas for designs
- Planning and scheduling activities
- Making efficient use of resources
- Organizing the components and activities of a team design project
(n) Engineering involves the application of creativity in partnership with math, science, social studies, language arts and fine arts to search for quicker, better and less expensive ways to use the forces and materials of nature to meet today's challenges. Engineers are problem solvers who use every resource possible to bring into existence things and ideas that they imagine.
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