LESSON 2

E V E R Y D AY E N G I N E E R I N G

NGUYEN KHANH LINH -

WHAT DOES AN ENGINEER DO ON A
DAILY BASIS?
Assume you are an engineer employed by a corporation. Create a list of the chores you will
complete during a typical workday.
WHAT DOES AN ENGINEER DO ON A
DAILY BASIS?
Depends on the engineer, but here are some common daily tasks:
 Respond to e-mail related to their job function
 Attend project meetings
 Go to lunch
 Write a report, memo, or other documentation related to their work
 They actually do engineering work (design, coding, testing, research, etc.)
 Read papers, books, articles, etc., related to their work
 Browse the Internet and check personal e-mail (discreetly)
 Socialize with their co-workers (if possible/available)
LISTEN TO ENGINEER’S TALK

Open video “Electrical engineering” and do ”worksheet 1”, please!

ENGINEERING DESCRIPTION

Open and do ”worksheet 2”, please!

GRAMMAR NOTE – RELATIVE CLAUSE

• Relative clause is a sentence which gives information about the subject of a sentence and is
introduced with relative pronouns and relative adverbs.
Subject Objective Possessive
who (people) whom, who whose
which (thing) which whose
that that
(people/thing)

e.g. Resistors are made in a range of preferred values which meet all the needs of circuit designers
GRAMMAR NOTE – RELATIVE CLAUSE

 A relative clause is essential clause => do not require commas

e.g. An actuator is a device that puts something into an action or a mechanical motion.

 The relative clause becomes nonessential clauses =>  does require commas to separate it

from the rest of the sentence

e.g. Noise, which is any unwanted signals, can be a problem with amplifiers
GRAMMAR NOTE – RELATIVE CLAUSE

 Reduced Relative Clause

• Active voice => by omitting which and using an –ing clause
e.g. The thermal head is a mechanism which contains a line of dots
=> The thermal head is a mechanism containing a line of dots
• Passive voice => by omitting which + to be
e.g. The microprocessor converts the information into signals, which is called analogue tones
=> The microprocessor converts the information into signals, called analogue tones
GRAMMAR NOTE – RELATIVE CLAUSE

Open and do ”worksheet 3”, please!

ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

All engineers measure things, but try asking yourself the following questions:
• Are the measurement results accurate enough?
• Is the measurement device working correctly?
• How critical is this measurement? If it is wrong, will someone lose money? Or could someone
lose their life?
ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

The International System of Units (SI) is used worldwide to ensure measurements can be
standardized everywhere
• Base SI units
ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

• Derived SI units
ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

• Prefixes used for multiples of units

ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

• There are a small number of agreed SI exceptions which you will be familiar with and are
shown in the table below.
ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

In the example below the most important rules are broken!

ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT

A correct version would be:

The UK’s 5 020 wind turbines generate 10 069 MW of capacity delivering 24 414 274 MWh of
energy per year.

Students’ work:
A ship 200 feet long weighing two hundred thousand, two hundred and nineteen kgs. travels at
0.1Meters per sec.