engineering

Open Engineering

Open Engineering is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Open Engineering rather than just read about it. In short: Open Engineering is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, covering all aspects of engineering, from electrical and computer engineering, civil and environmental, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, to materials science. The editor-in-chief is William F.

Key takeaways

Open Engineering belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Open Engineering to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Open Engineering from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Open Engineering is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, covering all aspects of engineering, from electrical and computer engineering, civil and environmental, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, to materials science. The editor-in-chief is William F. Ritter (University of Delaware). The journal was established in 2011 as the Central European Journal of Engineering. It was co-published by Springer Science+Business Media and Versita (since 2012 part of Walter de Gruyter). By the end of 2014 the journal was moved completely to the De Gruyter imprint, obtaining its current title and switching to full open access.

Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Astrophysics Data System, Chemical Abstracts Service, and Scopus.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Open Engineering

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Open Engineering claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Open Engineering before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Open Engineering ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Open Engineering

In research: Open Engineering appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Open Engineering in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Open Engineering is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic journals established in 2011, Continuous journals, Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Open Engineering outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Open Engineering in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Open Engineering means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Open Engineering out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Open Engineering in simple terms?

Why does Open Engineering matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Open Engineering?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Open Engineering.