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Requirements December 1977 until September 1993

1. Visit a construction site or manufacturing or processing plant.  Discuss engineering design and construction with the engineer in charge.  Ask to see engineering drawings and have them explained.  Tell what you learned about engineering and the day-to-day work of an engineer from this visit.

2. Visit another engineer (other than your counselor or the person in requirement 1) in his office.  Tell how the work done there relates to the work done in the field.

3. Explain the work of six of the following types of engineers:  civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical, industrial, agricultural, aeronautical, mining, astronautical, metallurgical, nuclear, biomedical, ceramic, petroleum.

4. With your counselor's advice, select a subject for research in engineering.  Do research in publications and interview experts.  Tell what you learned and how you got the facts. (Notes may be used.)

5. Tell why measurements and calculations are important in an engineer's work.  Explain the difference between accurate and precise measurements and calculations.  Explain the values of the metric system.

6. Using an engineering college or university catalog, learn what high school courses you should take to be admitted to an accredited engineering college.  Report to your counselor.  Tell what an "accredited" college means.

7. Do ONE of the following:

(a) Show how the "engineering approach" to problems works by laying out plans, step by step, for your next camp-out.  List alternative ideas on such items as costs, campsites, and transportation.  Tell why you decided as you did.
(b) Make an original design for a piece of patrol equipment.  Draw plans for it.  Show the plans to your counselor.

8. Do TWO of the following:

(a) Transforming Motion. Show how a bicycle transforms motion, or tell how a car or truck transmission transforms motion.
(b) Harnessing Electricity. Make a model of an electrical device.  A kit may be used.  Or, make a list of all electrical appliances in your home and find out approximately how much electricity each uses in 1 month.  Tell five ways to conserve electricity.
(c) Materials Science. Do experiments to show the differences in strength and heat conductivity among wood, plastic, and metal.  Discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
(d) Energy Conservation. Tell how a car or flashlight battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy.  Do an experiment to show the value and potential of solar energy.  Explain your results.  Tell about one way to convert mechanical to electrical energy. 
(e) Traffic Study. With the advice of your counselor, select a busy street or highway intersection in your community.  Make a study of the traffic flow there in both heavy and light traffic periods.  Find out your community's predicted population 5 years from now.  Using all the data, tell your counselor what could be done to improve traffic flow 5 years hence.
(f) Build an engineering project for entry into a science-engineering fair.  Show it to your counselor.

9. Study "Faith of the Engineer".  Tell how this is like the Scout Oath.

Requirements September 1993 to September 1995

1. Visit a construction site or manufacturing or processing plant. Discuss engineering design and construction with the engineer in charge. Ask to see engineering drawings and have them explained.  Tell what you learned about engineering and the day-to-day work of an engineer from this visit.

2. Visit another engineer (other than your counselor or the person in requirement 1) in his office. Tell how the work done there relates to the work done in the field.

3. Explain the work of six of the following types of engineers: civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical, industrial, agricultural, aeronautical, mining, astronautical, metallurgical, nuclear, biomedical, ceramic, petroleum.

4. With your counselor's advice, select a subject for research in engineering. Do research in publications and interview experts. Tell what you learned and how you got the facts. (Notes may be used.)

5. Tell why measurements and calculations are important in an engineer's work. Explain the difference between accurate and precise measurements and calculations. Explain the values of the metric system.

6. Using an engineering college or university catalog, learn what high school courses you should take to be admitted to an accredited engineering college. Report to your counselor. Tell what an "accredited" college means.

7. Do ONE of the following:

(a) Show how the "engineering approach" to problems works by laying out plans, step by step, for your next camp-out.  List alternative ideas on such items as costs, campsites, and transportation.  Tell why you decided as you did.

(b) Make an original design for a piece of patrol equipment.  Draw plans for it.  Show the plans to your counselor.

8. Do TWO of the following:

(a) Transforming Motion. Show how a bicycle transforms motion, or tell how a car or truck transmission transforms motion.

(b) Harnessing Electricity. Make a model of an electrical device.  A kit may be used.  Or, make a list of all electrical appliances in your home and find out approximately how much electricity each uses in 1 month.  Tell five ways to conserve electricity.

(c) Materials Science. Do experiments to show the differences in strength and heat conductivity among wood, plastic, and metal.  Discuss with your counselor what you have learned.

(d) Energy Conservation. Tell how a car or flashlight battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy.  Do an experiment to show the value and potential of solar energy.  Explain your results.  Tell about one way to convert mechanical to electrical energy. 

(e) Traffic Study. With the advice of your counselor, select a busy street or highway intersection in your community.  Make a study of the traffic flow there in both heavy and light traffic periods.  Find out your community's predicted population 5 years from now.  Using all the data, tell your counselor what could be done to improve traffic flow 5 years hence.

(f) Build an engineering project for entry into a science-engineering fair.  Show it to your counselor.

9. Study "Faith of the Engineer". Tell how this is like the Scout Oath.

Requirements September 1995 until January 2001

1. Visit a construction site, a public works project, or a manufacturing or processing plant. Discuss engineering design and construction with the engineer in charge. Ask to see engineering drawings and have them explained.  Tell what you learned about engineering and the day-to-day work of an engineer from this visit.

2. Visit another engineer (other than your counselor or the person in requirement 1) in his office. Tell how the work done there relates to the work done in the field.

3. Explain the work of six of the following types of engineers: civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical, industrial, agricultural, aeronautical, mining, astronautical, metallurgical, nuclear, biomedical, ceramic, petroleum.

4. With your counselor's advice, select a subject for research in engineering. Do research in publications and interview experts. Tell what you learned and how you got the facts. (Notes may be used.)

5. Tell why measurements and calculations are important in an engineer's work. Explain the difference between accurate and precise measurements and calculations. Explain the values of the metric system.

6. Using an engineering college or university catalog, learn what high school courses you should take to be admitted to an accredited engineering college. Report to your counselor. Tell what an "accredited" college means.

7. Do ONE of the following:

(a) Show how the "engineering approach" to problems works by laying out plans, step by step, for your next camp-out.  List alternative ideas on such items as costs, campsites, and transportation.  Tell why you decided as you did.
(b) Make an original design for a piece of patrol equipment.  Draw plans for it.  Show the plans to your counselor.

8. Do TWO of the following:

(a) Transforming Motion. Show how a bicycle transforms motion, or tell how a car or truck transmission transforms motion.
(b) Harnessing Electricity. Make a model of an electrical device.  A kit may be used.  Or, make a list of all electrical appliances in your home and find out approximately how much electricity each uses in 1 month.  Tell five ways to conserve electricity.
(c) Materials Science. Do experiments to show the differences in strength and heat conductivity among wood, plastic, and metal.  Discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
(d) Energy Conservation. Tell how a car or flashlight battery converts chemical energy into electrical energy.  Do an experiment to show the value and potential of solar energy.  Explain your results.  Tell about one way to convert mechanical to electrical energy. 
(e) Traffic Study. With the advice of your counselor, select a busy street or highway intersection in your community.  Make a study of the traffic flow there in both heavy and light traffic periods.  Find out your community's predicted population 5 years from now.  Using all the data, tell your counselor what could be done to improve traffic flow 5 years hence.
(f) Build an engineering project for entry into a science-engineering fair.  Show it to your counselor.

9. Study "Faith of the Engineer".  Tell how this is like the Scout Oath.

Requirements January 2001  until January 2009

1. Select some manufacture item in your home (such as a toy or an appliance) and, under adult supervision and with the approval of your counselor, investigate how and why it works as it does. Find out what sort of engineering activities were needed to create it. Discuss with your counselor what you learned and how you got the information.

2. Select an engineering achievement that has had a major impact on society. Use the resources available to you to research it. Tell your counselor about the engineer(s) who made it possible, the special obstacles they had to overcome, and how this achievement has influenced the world today.

2. Explain the work of six types of engineers. Pick two of the six and explain how their work is related.

3. Visit with an engineer (who may be your counselor or parent) and do the following:

1. Discuss the work this engineer does and the tools the engineer uses.
2. Discuss with the engineer a current project and the engineer’s particular role in it.
3. Find out how the engineer’s work is done and how results are achieved.
4. Ask to see the reports that the engineer writes concerning the project.
5. Discuss with your counselor what you learned about engineering from this visit.

4. Do ONE of the following:

1. Use the systems engineering approach to make step-by-step plans for your next campout. List alternative ideas for such items as program schedule, campsites, transportation, and costs. Tell why you made the choices you did and what improvements were made.
2. Make an original design for a piece of patrol equipment. Use the systems engineering approach to help you decide how it should work and look. Draw plans for it. Show the plans to your counselor, explain why you designed it the way you did, and explain how you would make it.

5. Do TWO of the following:

1. Transforming motion. Using common materials or a construction set, make a simple model that will demonstrate motion. How does the model uses basic mechanical elements like levers and inclined planes?. Describe an example where this mechanism is used in a real product.
2. Using electricity. Make a list of 10 electrical appliances in your home. Find out approximately how much electricity each uses in one month. Learn how to find out the amount and cost of electricity used in your home during periods of light and heavy use. List five ways to conserve electricity.
3. Using Materials. Do experiments to show the differences in strength and heat conductivity in wood, metal, and plastic. Discuss with your counselor what you have learned.
4. Converting energy. Do an experiment to show how mechanical, heat, chemical, solar, and/or electrical energy may be converted from one or more types of energy to another. Explain your results. Describe to your counselor what energy is and how energy is converted and used in your surroundings.
5. Moving people. Find out the different ways people in your community get to work. Make a study of traffic flow (number of vehicles and relative speed) in both heavy and light traffic periods. Discuss with your counselor what might be improved to make it easier for people in your community to get where they need to go.
6. Science fair. Build an engineering project for a science or engineering fair or similar competition and enter it. (This requirement may be met by participation on an engineering project team.) Discuss with your counselor what your project demonstrates and what kind of questions visitors to the fair asked you about it. How well you were able to answer their questions?

6. Find out what high school courses you need to take to be admitted to an engineering college. Find out what other subjects would be helpful in preparing for an engineering career.

7. Explain what it means for an engineer to be a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.). What types of engineering work is registration most important?

8. Study the Engineer’s Code of Ethics. Explain how it is like the Scout Oath and Scout Law.