Crash Course Engineering

  • Premiered: May 2018
  • Episodes: 46
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
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Season 1
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What is Engineering?
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May 17, 2018
In our first episode of Crash Course Engineering, Shini explains what engineering is, and gives a brief overview of its four main branches (civil, mechanical, electrical, and chemical) as well as a look at some of the other fields of engineering.
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Civil Engineering
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May 24, 2018
We’re beginning our engineering journey with a tour through the major branches. Today Shini explains the facets of civil engineering, including structural and construction engineering, city planning, transportation, and sanitation.
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Mechanical Engineering
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May 31, 2018
Today we continue our tour through the major fields of engineering with a look at mechanical engineering, beginning with the steam engine. We’ll discuss aircraft, the development of .. show full overview
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The History of Electrical Engineering
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Jun 07, 2018
Next stop on our tour of engineering’s major fields: electrical engineering. In this episode we’ll explore the history of telecommunications, electric power and lighting, and computers. .. show full overview
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The History of Chemical Engineering
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Jun 14, 2018
Today we’ll cover the fourth and final of our core disciplines of engineering: chemical engineering. We’ll talk about its history and evolution going from soda ash competitions to oil .. show full overview
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Biomedical & Industrial Engineering
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Jun 21, 2018
We’ve discussed the four main branches of engineering but there are so many other fields doing important work, so today we’re going to explore a few of them. In this episode we’ll .. show full overview
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The Law of Conservation
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Jun 28, 2018
Today Shini explains the law of conservation, beginning with simple, steady-state systems. We’ll discuss conversion and yield, accumulation, and how generation and consumption can affect how much accumulation there is in a system.
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Reversibility & Irreversibility
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Jul 05, 2018
How do we design the most efficient machines and processes? Today we’ll try to figure that out as we discuss heat & work, reversibility & irreversibility, and how to use efficiency to measure a system.
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The First & Zeroth Laws of Thermodynamics
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Jul 12, 2018
In today’s episode we’ll explore thermodynamics and some of the ways it shows up in our daily lives. We’ll learn the zeroth law of thermodynamics, what it means to reach a thermal .. show full overview
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Why We Can't Invent a Perfect Engine
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Jul 19, 2018
We’ve introduced the 0th and 1st laws of thermodynamics, so now it’s time to move on to the second law and how we came to understand it. We’ll explain the differences between the first .. show full overview
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Heat Engines, Refrigerators, and Cycles
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Aug 02, 2018
Cycles are a big deal in engineering. Today we’ll explain what they are and how they’re used in heat engines, refrigerators, and heat pumps. We’ll also discuss phase diagrams and the power of using renewable energy resources
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Stress, Strain & Quicksand
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Aug 09, 2018
Today we’re talking all about fluid mechanics! We’ll look at different scales that we work with as engineers, mass and energy transfers, the no-slip condition, stress and strain, Newton’s law of viscosity, Reynold’s number, and more!
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Fluid Flow & Equipment
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Aug 16, 2018
Today we’ll dive further into fluid flow and how we can use equipment to apply our skills. We explain Bernoulli’s Principle and the relationship between speed and pressure in certain .. show full overview
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Heat Transfer
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Aug 23, 2018
Today we’re talking about heat transfer and the different mechanisms behind it. We’ll explore conduction, the thermal conductivity of materials, convection, boundary layers, and radiation.
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How Not to Set Your Pizza on Fire
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Aug 30, 2018
Today we’re going to explain how exchangers...exchange heat. We’ll look at concentric tubes, finned tubes, plate heat exchangers, and shell-and-tube heat exchangers. And we’ll look at .. show full overview
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Drugs, Dyes, and Mass Transfer
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Sep 06, 2018
Today we’re talking about mass transfer. It doesn’t just apply to objects and fluids as a whole, but also to the individual molecules and components that make them up. We’ll see that .. show full overview
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Mass Separation
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Sep 13, 2018
It can be really important to separate out chemicals for all kinds of reasons. Today we’re going over three different processes engineers use to achieve that separation: distillation, .. show full overview
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Reaching breaking point: Materials, Stresses, and Toughness
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Sep 20, 2018
Today we’re going to start thinking about materials that are used in engineering. We’ll look at mechanical properties of materials, stress-strain diagrams, elasticity and toughness, and .. show full overview
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Metals & Ceramics
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Sep 27, 2018
Today we’ll explore more about two of the three main types of materials that we use as engineers: metals and ceramics. We’ll discuss properties of metals, alloys, ceramics, clay, cement, .. show full overview
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The Polymer Explosion
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Oct 04, 2018
We’re continuing our look at engineering materials with third main type of material that you’ll encounter as an engineer: polymers. They’re made of long, repeating chains of smaller .. show full overview
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Electrical Power, Conductors, and Your Dream Home
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Oct 18, 2018
Today, we'll explore the materials electrical engineers work with. We'll look at high-conductors, insulators, and how low-conductivity conductors can be used to generate light and heat.
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Silicon, Semiconductors, & Solar Cells
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Oct 25, 2018
Today we’re looking at silicon, and how introducing small amounts of other elements allow silicon layers to conduct currents, turning them into semiconductors. We’ll explore how putting .. show full overview
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The Mighty Power of Nanomaterials
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Nov 01, 2018
Just how small are nanomaterials? And what can we do with stuff that small? Today we’ll discuss some special properties of nanomaterials, how some can change at different sizes, and the .. show full overview
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Biomaterials
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Nov 08, 2018
We’ve talked about different materials engineers use to build things in the world, but there’s a special category of materials they turn to when building things to go inside our bodies. .. show full overview
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Cheese, Catastrophes, and Process Control
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Nov 15, 2018
Engineering, like life, could really use a lot more cheese. This week we are looking at a cheese factory in Toronto and what it can teach us about process control systems. We’ll explore .. show full overview
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Skyscrapers, Statics, and Dynamics
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Nov 29, 2018
What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at .. show full overview
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Engineering Ethics
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Dec 06, 2018
We’ve talked about many important concepts for engineers, but today we’re going to discuss a hugely important one that you might not even realize is an engineering concept: ethics. We’ll .. show full overview
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Flirting With Disaster - The Importance of Safety
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Dec 13, 2018
As engineer, sometimes lives will be in your hands, so this week we’re exploring safety and its impact on engineering. We’ll discuss the difference between occupational safety and public .. show full overview
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Preventing Flint - Environmental Engineering
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Dec 20, 2018
A lot of work goes into managing our impact on the environment and its impact on us. That work is the work of environmental engineers. In this episode we’ll explore water quality, air quality, noise pollution, waste management, and more.
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The Engineering Challenges of Renewable Energy
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Jan 03, 2019
This week we are looking at renewable energy sources and why we need them. We’ll explore hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar power, as well as some of the challenges, and how engineers are working to make their use more widespread.
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The Future of Clean Energy
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Jan 10, 2019
This week we are exploring alternative energy sources. We'll look at how biomass can be burned as a fuel source, how hydrogen can be used in a fuel cell to generate electrical power, and .. show full overview
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Why It's So Hard To Make Better Batteries
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Jan 17, 2019
There are batteries powering so many parts of our everyday lives, so today we’re going to talk about how they work and how we can make them better. We’ll explain how they provide power .. show full overview
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How Engineering Robots Works
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Jan 24, 2019
In this episode we looked at robots and the engineering principles of robots. We learned how robots use sensors to interpret their environment, how actuators and effectors allow a robot .. show full overview
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To The Moon & Mars - Aerospace Engineering
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Jan 31, 2019
This week we’re exploring aerospace engineering and its two main fields: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. We’ll explore life & buoyancy, propulsion systems, and the challenges of managing the human body in space.
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Computer Engineering and the End of Moore's Law
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Feb 07, 2019
This week we’re exploring a field of engineering that is essential to how you’re watching this video: computers and computer engineering. We’ll explain differences between hardware and .. show full overview
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How to Engineer Health - Drug Discovery & Delivery
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Feb 14, 2019
Engineers are problem solvers, and our own health is full of problems to be engineered. In this episode we discuss drug discovery and drug delivery. We’ll explore everything from .. show full overview
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Smart Tattoos & Tiny Robots
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Feb 21, 2019
This week we are exploring biodevices and the part they play in the healthcare world. We’ll look at the challenges of implantable biodevices, like biocompatibility, power and .. show full overview
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Changing the Blueprints of Life
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Feb 28, 2019
Can we change the blueprints of life? This week we are exploring that question with genetic engineering. We’ll discuss how selective breeding can improve agricultural practices, and the .. show full overview
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Mass-Producing Ice Cream with Food Engineering
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Mar 07, 2019
In this episode, we looked at food engineering. We explored how food’s capacity to spoil makes it a unique challenge from an engineering viewpoint. We saw how many branches of .. show full overview
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How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Saved
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Mar 14, 2019
This week we’re going underground to explore geotechnical and seismic engineering. We’ll look at how structures connect to the ground and transmit loads through their foundations, and .. show full overview
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Why Moving People is Complicated
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Mar 28, 2019
Transportation is a big part of our world and engineers play a big role in making it happen. Today we’ll explore how transportation systems are designed and some things transportation .. show full overview
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YouTube Couldn't Exist Without Communications and Signal Processing
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Apr 04, 2019
Engineering helped make this video possible. This week we’ll look at how it’s possible for you to watch this video with the fundamentals of signal processing. We’ll explore things from .. show full overview
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How Seawater Sabotages Ships
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Apr 11, 2019
This week we’re headed out to sea for some marine engineering. How do we design ships to handle aquatic environments? How do we deal with marine life and corrosion and all of the other .. show full overview
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Building a Desalination Plant from Scratch
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Apr 18, 2019
An essential part of engineering is engineering design. Today we’ll see how design synthesis helps you put together the components of a process and decide what techniques are needed to .. show full overview
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How To Become An Engineer
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Apr 25, 2019
Hopefully this course has gotten you excited about all the things we can do with engineering. If so, today we’re going to try to help you answer a very important question: how do you .. show full overview
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The Biggest Problems We're Facing Today & The Future of Engineering
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May 02, 2019
In our final episode of Crash Course Engineering we are going to take all the tools and ideas we’ve discussed throughout this series and try to imagine where we’re headed. We’re going to .. show full overview

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