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Requirements June 1972 until December 1977

1. Tell what high school preparation is needed to get in an accredited engineering college.  Read Faith of the Engineer.  Point out in what ways this is like the Scout Oath.

2. Describe the kind of work done by an engineer.  Tell how each branch of engineering helps our society.

3. Make an inspection trip to a manufacturing or processing plant or an engineering job in your town.  Talk about what is happening with an engineer.  Prepare a report telling about the trip.  Emphasize things that use engineering.

4. Make a slide rule.  Show its use in solving problems.  Explain the mathematical basis for the rule.

5.  Do THREE of the following:

(a) Design a cam, linkage, gear train, or other mechanical device for transforming motion.  Prepare a working model from wood, plastic, or metal.

(b) Build a simple electrical or electronic device (kits may be used).

(c) Show by a drawing how the forces are distributed in a king post truss bridge carrying a 200-pound person at the center, if the two members are inclined 30 degrees above the horizontal.

(d) Explain with the aid of a drawing, and figure how much it would cost to pump 100,000 gallons of water from sea level into a reservoir whose surface is at 550 feet above sea level.  Assume electric power costs 6 cents per kwhr, and the combined pump and motor efficiency is 80 percent and 5 percent of the water is lost in leaks.

(e) Write a report explaining how energy in a fuel is changed into useful work in a machine.  Use drawings to show what happens.

(f) Pick a busy street or highway in your town.  Study the traffic flow when heavy and light.  Get from the city the predicted increase in automobiles and population over the next 5 years.  Report on what you found.  Include your plan of how the traffic situation in 5 years might be helped at the place studied.

(g) Set up a distilling apparatus with and without a fractionating column.  Draw a graph of product purity versus percent distilled.  Explain why you get better results with a fractionating column.

(h) Show how to use one device for getting engineering measurements.

(i) Set up a device for measuring heat transfer.  Draw a graph showing heat transfer versus rate of flow.  Explain why you get better heat transfer with a high rate of flow.

(j) In place of one activity under this requirement, the counselor may choose a similar project that will make use of engineering activities in your town.