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Movie Fall 2010 (11MB) What is engineering? The word itself
comes from the Latin ingenerare, to create. According to
Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary, engineering is
"the application of mathematical and scientific principles to
practical ends, as in the design construction, and operation of
economical and efficient structures, equipment, and systems."
This definition is not wrong, but it doesn't begin to describe
the many components of engineering. So what, really, is
engineering? It's art and communication, politics and finance,
modeling and simulation, invention, approximation, measurement
and estimation, and more. It's a way to think about problems.
This course (500.101) introduces the student to the engineering
way of thinking. A unique element is its Virtual Laboratory - a
set of simulated laboratory experiments that you can perform
over the WWW. What else does the