1) If you could design any machine to make your life easier, what would it do?  2) Imagine a world where all machines suddenly disappear. What’s the first thing you would struggle with? 3) If your car engine could talk, what would it say about your driving habits?  4) You are stuck in the desert with only a toolbox. What three tools do you take and why?  5) Would you rather work on a giant industrial robot or a tiny medical device? Why?  6) Which machine from a movie or book would you love to build in real life?  7) If you could replace one part of your body with a mechanical upgrade, what would it be?  8) What’s the most useless machine you can think of? (Example: a machine that only turns itself off!)  9) You wake up and discover that you are a CNC machine. What’s the first thing you carve?  10) If you could invent a new material for engineering, what special properties would it have?  11) Would you rather work with an old-school manual lathe or a state-of-the-art 3D printer? Why?  12) If a robot was your personal assistant, what would you make it do?  13) If machines could have personalities, which one would be the funniest? (e.g., a grumpy elevator, a lazy washing machine)  14) You have to sell a new type of engine… using only five words. What do you say?  15) If aliens came to Earth and needed one machine to understand humans, which one would you show them?  16) Which machine do you think has the hardest job in the world?  17) You are given an unlimited budget to design a futuristic vehicle. What features does it have?  18) If you had to name your own engineering company, what would it be called?  19) Would you rather be an engineer in 1920 or in 2120? Why?  20) If mechanical engineering had a mascot, what would it be? Describe it!

WARM-UP for ENGINEERS

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