Engineering thinking and engineering perspective
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I studied chemical engineering at an ordinary normal school; my skills in this field are quite weak, and I don’t fully understand some of the basic concepts. Specifically, I’m not sure how to explain engineering thinking and engineering perspectives. I would appreciate it if everyone could discuss this with me. Thank you!
Engineering thinking: Using scientifically discovered principles to accomplish things that were previously impossible, or to do things better, by answering the questions of “how to do it” or “how to do it better”. Engineering thinking generally does not lead to major breakthroughs in science and technology; it deals with engineering problems, which are concrete entities, and the content of these problems as well as the goals to be achieved are specific and clear.
Engineering mindset: I think it’s necessary to break away from some of the existing rules and conventions. Although our predecessors have summarized many things for us, some of those are merely generalizations based on experience. Thought should have no limitations. Hehe, just saying casually!
Identify problems, analyze problems, solve problems. The first two are more closely related to engineering thinking. One characteristic of engineering thinking is that it sometimes relies on guesswork.
In my words, engineering means doing the same task, but engineers manage to accomplish it for 1 dollar, whereas it would cost an ordinary person 10 dollars to do the same thing. The engineering mindset, as I understand it, refers to clever industrial engineering techniques and sophisticated methods for dealing with engineering problems, such as dimensionality analysis, simplified models, correction factors, and empirical relationships ； The principles of economic optimality, such as balancing operational costs and equipment costs, etc.
In general, engineering thinking should have a guiding principle: economic benefit analysis; the investment must be able to be recouped within a short period of time； Research thinking, on the other hand, is different