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Comprensión de Lectura en Inglés para I.M.E.
Prof. Mao Wilfrido Miguel Urrutia del Villar
Engineering - what's it all about?
Engineering - what's it all about?
Text taken from: Turning ideas into action, Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
and Engineering a Career, Institution of Electronics and Electrical incorporated Engineers
Engineering is a largely practical activity. It is about putting ideas into action. Mechanical
engineering deals with the design and manufacture of tools and machines. Electrical engineering is
about the generation and distribution of electricity and its many applications. Electronic
engineering is concerned with developing components and equipment for communications,
computing, and so on.
Mechanical engineering includes marine automobile, aeronautical, heating and ventilating, and
others. Electrical engineering includes electricity generating, electrical installation, lightning, etc.
Mining and medical engineering belong partly to mechanical and partly to electrical.
Transport: Cars, trains, ships, and planes are all products of mechanical engineering. Mechanical
engineers are also involved in support services such as roads, rail track, harbours, and bridges.
Food processing: Mechanical engineers design, develop, and make the machines and the
processing equipment for harvesting, preparing and preserving the foods and drinks that fill the
supermarkets.
Medical engineering: Body scanners, X-ray machines, life-support systems, and other high tech
equipment result from mechanical and electrical engineers combining with medical experts to
convert ideas o into life-saving and life-preserving products.
Building services: Electrical engineers provide all the services we need in our homes and places of
work, including lighting, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and lifts.
Energy and power: Electrical engineers are concerned with the production and distribution of
electricity to homes, offices, industry, hospitals, colleges and schools, and the installation and
maintenance of the equipment involved in these processes.
