Think Like an Engineer: Use systematic thinking to solve everyday challenges & unlock the inherent values in them

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Aggarwal and Voltage have also been working to inspire more students to study electrical engineering. In the fall of 2015 they hosted the Electrical Engineering Expo with EECS, which connected students with electrical engineering internships and research opportunities. Admittedly I have a new found respect for Engineers after reading this. I was not so aware as to the extent of their involvement in so many things around us. Computational Thinking is the thought processes involved in understanding a problem and expressing its solution in a way that a computer can effectively carry out. Computational thinking involves solving problems, designing systems, and understanding human behavior (e.g. what the user needs or wants) – thinking like an engineer. Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everyone, not just for programmers because computational thinking is what comes before any computing technology. [1] In September 2015, FormLabs launched Form 2, the printer that Aggarwal worked on. Much of her internship focused on troubleshooting. “My biggest contribution was actually that I used what I learned in a lot of my signals and systems courses at MIT to program the heater for the printer,” she says. In high school, Aggarwal enrolled in a magnet program focused on medicine because she thought she wanted to be a doctor. Through the program she did rotations at Houston’s Anderson Cancer Center, and realized that she didn’t want to be a doctor — she wanted to build devices that doctors could use.

What does “establish patterns” mean? It means don’t just fix today’s problem, fix tomorrow’s too. I briefly searched the internet and here is how Wikipedia describes it: Is it general for any input? Yes. Any two numbers work in this design and only a choice of a’m’, ‘a’, or ‘s’ will result in numeric output.She directed Oscar Wilde’s "The Importance of Being Earnest" with the Dramashop during her junior fall. A year later Aggarwal directed "Now Then Again," her first full-length production, with The Experimental Theater Company, MIT’s newest student-run theater group.

A test case is a set of inputs, conditions, and expected results developed for a particular computational problem to be solved. A test case is really just a question that you ask of the algorithm (e.g. if my list is the three numbers 2, 14, and 11 does the algorithm return the number 14?). The point of executing the test is to make sure the algorithm is correct, that it terminates and is general for any input. Voltage aims to bring students, alumni, and faculty together for interactions around research and coursework. A subcommittee of the MIT IEEE/ACM Club, Voltage started with study breaks where students could meet, find out who was in their classes, and learn about courses. Since then they have planned bigger events, including two research expos where faculty showcased their work to help students find research opportunities. Conceptualizing, not programming. Computer science is not only computer programming. Thinking like a computer scientist means more than being able to program a computer. It requires thinking at multiple levels of abstraction;

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An algorithm produces a defined set of outputs. It might output the larger of the two numbers, an all-uppercase version of a word, or a sorted version of the list of names.

output Display the results of the program on a screen or store them in a file or perhaps write them to a device like a speaker to play music or speak text.An algorithm does not solve a problem rather it gives you a series of steps that, if executed correctly, will result in a solution to a problem. An Example Algorithm Discover the secrets of the minds that built our world – and how they might teach us to think differently and innovate better.