Meeting 1

Introduction to Engineering

Bahasa Inggris I
Maria Asumpta Deny K., S.Pd., M.Hum.
What is an engineering?
According to Wikipedia, engineering can be defined as:
The application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in
order to design, build, and maintain structures, machines, devices, systems,
materials, and processes. It may encompass using insights to conceive, model,
and scale an appropriate solution to a problem or objective. The discipline of
engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized
fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas
of technology and types of application.
Engineering
engineering might be briefly summarized with the following six statements:
•to adapt scientific discovery for useful purposes
•to create useful devices for the service of society
•to invent solutions to meet society’s needs
•to come up with solutions to technical problems
•to utilize forces of nature for society’s purposes
•to convert energetic resources into useful work
What is an aerospace engineering?
According to Wikipedia, aerospace engineering can be defined as a primary
branch of engineering concerned with the research, design, development,
construction, testing, and science and technology of aircraft and spacecraft.
It is divided into two major and overlapping branches:
a.Aeronautical engineering (deals with aircraft that operate in Earth’s
atmosphere)
b. Astronautical engineering (deals with spacecraft that operate outside it)
Aerospace engineering
According to Newman (2002), an aerospace engineering education attempts to
introduce the following capabilities:
•Engineering fundamentals (maths and physics), innovative ideas conception
and problem solving skills, the vision of high-technology approaches to
engineering complex systems, the idea of technical system integration and
operation.
According to Newman (2002), an aerospace engineering education attempts to introduce the following
capabilities: (cont.)

• knowledge in the technical areas of aerospace engineering including mechanics

and physics of fluids, aerodynamics, structures and materials, instrumentation,
control and estimation, humans and automation, propulsion and energy
conversion, aeronautical and astronautical systems, infrastructures on earth, the air
navigation system, legislation, air transportation, etc.
• The methodology and experience of analysis, modeling, and synthesis.
• Finally, an engineering goal of addressing socio-humanistic problems.
According to Newman (2002) an aerospace engineering education should
produce engineers capable of:
•Conceive: conceptualize technical problems and solutions.
•Design: study and comprehend processes that lead to solutions to a particular
problem including verbal, written, and visual communications.
•Development: extend the outputs of research.
•Testing: determine performance of the output of research, development, or
design.
• Research: solve new problems and gain new knowledge.
According to Newman (2002) an aerospace engineering education should produce engineers capable of:
(cont.)

• Manufacturing: produce a safe, effective, economic final product.

• Operation and maintenance: keep the products working effectively.
• Marketing and sales: look for good ideas for new products or improving
current products in order to sell.
Aerospace Activity
According to Franchini et al. the aerospace activities can be divided into seven
groups:
•the industry, manufacturer of products;
•the airlines, transporters of goods and people;
•the military air forces, demanders of high-level technologies;
•the space agencies, explorers of the space;
•the infrastructures on earth, supporter of air operations;
•the research institutions, guarantors of technological progress
TASK:
1. Please record yourself to answer these questions:
a. Introduce yourself

b. Your job dream

c. What do you know about engineering?

d. What do you know about aerospace engineering?

e. Why do you study in Aerospace Engineering?

f. Your planning after graduating from STTA

Task (cont.)

2. Upload your video into your youtube account OR upload your video into your google drive.

3. Copy and paste the link (from youtube or google drive), after that submit through the Edmodo.

Note:

• Do not make and read the script, make and read the points only (do it spontaneously)
References
[1] Franchini, S., Lopez, O., Antoin, J., Bezdenejnykh, N., and Cuerva,
A. (2011). Apuntes de Tecnologia Aeroespacial. Escuela de Ingenieria
Aeronautica y del Espacio. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
[2] Newman, D. (2002). Interactive aerospace engineering and design.
McGraw-Hill.
[3] Wikipedia. Aerospace Engineering. http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_engineering. Last accessed 30 sept.
2020.
[4] Wikipedia. Engineering. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering.
Last accessed 30 sept. 2020.