Engineering 101

What is engineering? What are the important aspects of engineering that anybody should know? Can we talk about all this without getting too deep into math? Engineer and researcher Sadhan Sathyaseelan joins the podcast to kick off a series of episodes meant to introduce engineering concepts to anyone, not just the people studying it in college. Related to this episode: • Article on Elon Musk on sending people to Mars: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/11/elon-musk-says-mars-spaceship-will-be-ready-for-short-trips-by-first-half-of-2019.html • University of Texas at Austin Department of Mechanical Engineering: http://www.me.utexas.edu/ • Engineer Your World: http://engineeryourworld.org/ • Fourier transforms, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform • The cover photo in this episode shows pyramids, which Sadhan mentions in the middle of the podcast as an example of possible engineering thinking in ancient times. You can support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You can also send one-time contributions by buying us coffee: https://ko-fi.com/pioslabs. Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. Also check out the guidebook “Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html. Our opening music is called “Soar,” and our closing music is called “Polar,” both by artist Chris Pop. You can find more music by Chris Pop on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/chrispop99. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Support Pios Labs at: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs