Engineering (2018)

What is Engineering?
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May 17, 2018 • 9m

In our first episode of Crash Course Engineering, Shini explains what engineering is, and gives a brief overview of its four main ...Read more

Civil Engineering
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May 24, 2018 • 8m

We’re beginning our engineering journey with a tour through the major branches. Today Shini explains the facets of civil engineeri...Read more

Mechanical Engineering
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May 31, 2018 • 9m

Today we continue our tour through the major fields of engineering with a look at mechanical engineering, beginning with the steam...Read more

The History of Electrical Engineering
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June 7, 2018 • 9m

Next stop on our tour of engineering’s major fields: electrical engineering. In this episode we’ll explore the history of telecomm...Read more

The History of Chemical Engineering
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June 14, 2018 • 8m

Today we’ll cover the fourth and final of our core disciplines of engineering: chemical engineering. We’ll talk about its history ...Read more

Biomedical & Industrial Engineering
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June 21, 2018 • 10m

We’ve discussed the four main branches of engineering but there are so many other fields doing important work, so today we’re goin...Read more

The Law of Conservation
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June 28, 2018 • 10m

Today Shini explains the law of conservation, beginning with simple, steady-state systems. We’ll discuss conversion and yield, acc...Read more

Reversibility & Irreversibility
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July 5, 2018 • 11m

How do we design the most efficient machines and processes? Today we’ll try to figure that out as we discuss heat & work, reversib...Read more

The First & Zeroth Laws of Thermodynamics
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July 12, 2018 • 10m

n 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 ...Read more

Why We Can't Invent a Perfect Engine
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July 19, 2018 • 12m

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 understa...Read more

Heat Engines, Refrigerators, & Cycles
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August 2, 2018 • 10m

Cycles are a big deal in engineering. Today we’ll explain what they are and how they’re used in heat engines, refrigerators, and h...Read more

Stress, Strain & Quicksand
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August 9, 2018 • 9m

Today we’re talking all about fluid mechanics! We’ll look at different scales that we work with as engineers, mass and energy tran...Read more

Fluid Flow & Equipment
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August 16, 2018 • 9m

Today we’ll dive further into fluid flow and how we can use equipment to apply our skills. We explain Bernoulli’s Principle and th...Read more

Heat Transfe
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August 23, 2018 • 8m

Today we’re talking about heat transfer and the different mechanisms behind it. We’ll explore conduction, the thermal conductivity...Read more

How Not to Set Your Pizza on Fire
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August 30, 2018 • 10m

Today we’re going to explain how exchangers...exchange heat. We’ll look at concentric tubes, finned tubes, plate heat exchangers, ...Read more

Drugs, Dyes, & Mass Transfer
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September 6, 2018 • 8m

Today we’re talking about mass transfer. It doesn’t just apply to objects and fluids as a whole, but also to the individual molecu...Read more

Mass Separation
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September 13, 2018 • 11m

It can be really important to separate out chemicals for all kinds of reasons. Today we’re going over three different processes en...Read more

Reaching Breaking Point: Materials, Stresses, & Toughness
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September 20, 2018 • 11m

Today we’re going to start thinking about materials that are used in engineering. We’ll look at mechanical properties of materials...Read more

Metals & Ceramics
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September 27, 2018 • 10m

Today we’ll explore more about two of the three main types of materials that we use as engineers: metals and ceramics. We’ll discu...Read more

The Polymer Explosion
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October 4, 2018 • 9m

We’re continuing our look at engineering materials with third main type of material that you’ll encounter as an engineer: polymers...Read more

Electrical Power, Conductors, & Your Dream Home
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October 18, 2018 • 10m

Today, we'll explore the materials electrical engineers work with. We'll look at high-conductors, insulators, and how low-conducti...Read more

Silicon, Semiconductors, & Solar Cells
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October 25, 2018 • 10m

Today we’re looking at silicon, and how introducing small amounts of other elements allow silicon layers to conduct currents, turn...Read more

The Mighty Power of Nanomaterials
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November 1, 2018 • 8m

Just how small are nanomaterials? And what can we do with stuff that small? Today we’ll discuss some special properties of nanomat...Read more

Biomaterials
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November 8, 2018 • 11m

We’ve talked about different materials engineers use to build things in the world, but there’s a special category of materials the...Read more

Cheese, Catastrophes, & Process Control
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November 15, 2018 • 11m

Engineering, like life, could really use a lot more cheese. This week we are looking at a cheese factory in Toronto and what it ca...Read more

Skyscrapers, Statics, & Dynamics
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November 29, 2018 • 10m

What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and w...Read more

Engineering Ethics
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December 6, 2018 • 9m

We’ve talked about many important concepts for engineers, but today we’re going to discuss a hugely important one that you might n...Read more

Flirting With Disaster - The Importance of Safety
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December 13, 2018 • 11m

As engineer, sometimes lives will be in your hands, so this week we’re exploring safety and its impact on engineering. We’ll discu...Read more

Preventing Flint - Environmental Engineering
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December 20, 2018 • 10m

A lot of work goes into managing our impact on the environment and its impact on us. That work is the work of environmental engine...Read more

The Engineering Challenges of Renewable Energy
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January 3, 2019 • 11m

This week we are looking at renewable energy sources and why we need them. We’ll explore hydropower, wind, geothermal, and solar p...Read more

The Future of Clean Energy
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January 10, 2019 • 11m

This week we are exploring alternative energy sources. We'll look at how biomass can be burned as a fuel source, how hydrogen can ...Read more

Why It's So Hard To Make Better Batteries
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January 17, 2019 • 10m

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 ...Read more

How Engineering Robots Works
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January 24, 2019 • 11m

In this episode we looked at robots and the engineering principles of robots. We learned how robots use sensors to interpret their...Read more

To The Moon & Mars - Aerospace Engineering
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January 31, 2019 • 10m

This week we’re exploring aerospace engineering and its two main fields: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. W...Read more

Computer Engineering & the End of Moore's Law
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February 7, 2019 • 11m

This week we’re exploring a field of engineering that is essential to how you’re watching this video: computers and computer engin...Read more

How to Engineer Health - Drug Discovery & Delivery
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February 14, 2019 • 10m

Engineers are problem solvers, and our own health is full of problems to be engineered. In this episode we discuss drug discovery ...Read more

Smart Tattoos & Tiny Robots
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February 21, 2019 • 9m

This week we are exploring biodevices and the part they play in the healthcare world. We’ll look at the challenges of implantable ...Read more

Changing the Blueprints of Life - Genetic Engineering
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February 28, 2019 • 11m

Can we change the blueprints of life? This week we are exploring that question with genetic engineering. We’ll discuss how selecti...Read more

Mass-Producing Ice Cream with Food Engineering
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March 7, 2019 • 9m

In this episode, we looked at food engineering. We explored how food’s capacity to spoil makes it a unique challenge from an engin...Read more

How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Saved
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March 14, 2019 • 9m

This week we’re going underground to explore geotechnical and seismic engineering. We’ll look at how structures connect to the gro...Read more

Why Moving People is Complicated
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March 28, 2019 • 10m

Transportation is a big part of our world and engineers play a big role in making it happen. Today we’ll explore how transportatio...Read more

YouTube Couldn't Exist Without Communications & Signal Processing
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April 4, 2019 • 9m

Engineering helped make this video possible. This week we’ll look at how it’s possible for you to watch this video with the fundam...Read more

How Seawater Sabotages Ships
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April 11, 2019 • 9m

This week we’re headed out to sea for some marine engineering. How do we design ships to handle aquatic environments? How do we de...Read more

Building a Desalination Plant from Scratch
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April 18, 2019 • 9m

An essential part of engineering is engineering design. Today we’ll see how design synthesis helps you put together the components...Read more

How To Become An Engineer
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April 25, 2019 • 9m

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 h...Read more

The Biggest Problems We're Facing Today & The Future of Engineering
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May 2, 2019 • 10m

In our final episode of Crash Course Engineering we are going to take all the tools and ideas we’ve discussed throughout this seri...Read more