Engineering Professor

From Create Your Own Story

The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development (ECPD, the predecessor of ABET) has defined engineering as follows:

“The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.”

In other words, you teach an important subject that many find incredibly boring.

And female students engineering students are exceedingly rare.

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