Professional Documents
Culture Documents
by Jeff West
Table of Contents
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Introduction
Attached are two documents that may help you in life. The first is "How to 4R". It is a method on how to study the
Bible to find God's purpose in a particular subject. The second is my Bible study on the field of Engineering.
The result of my Bible study is this summary of God's purpose and goals in Engineering:
An engineer uses skills such as mathematics and mechanics to create drawings and form
plans of a work or project. Oftentimes, an engineer will oversee the construction of such a
project.
The Bible tells us that God imparted special knowledge to "cunning men" (engineers) for
the building of the ark (Gen. 6:15), the wilderness tabernacle (Exo. 25:40), and
Solomon's Temple (1Ch. 28:21). This places God as the first engineer and the source of
engineering.
The primary purpose of teaching engineering is that God commanded us to take
dominion over His creation (Psa. 8:6). This gives rise to many specialized areas of
engineering: agricultural (God created plants); electrical, nuclear, and chemical (God
created atoms); metallurgy and environmental (God created the earth); etc.
I challenge you to study the Bible for your particular career to see how it lines up with the Word of God.
reasoning from Biblical principles so as to identify them for the student in each subject of the curriculum.
3) Relate:
expounding to the student the Biblical truths in the subjects of the curriculum.
4) Record:
the use of writing by the teacher and the student to account for and elucidate (to make clear) the way in
which the principles are applied to life and living as well as the subject.
PLAN, n.
1. draught or representation of any projected
work
REPRESENTA'TION, n.
3. Any exhibition of the form or operations of
a thing by something resembling it.
plan
draught
representation
works
produced
mental
labor
delineating
drawing
superintending
construction
building
cunning (men)
Some goals when teaching engineering are listed in the following outline:
I. Definitions
A. 1828 Noah Webster
B. Vocabulary words
C. "Cunning men"
II. Biblical examples:
A. Creation
Pro. 26:10
B. Noah's Ark
Gen. 6:15
C. WildernessTabernacle
Exo. 25:40, Exo. 31:3, Exo. 35:35,
Exo. 36:1, Heb. 8:5
D. Solomon's Temple
1Ch. 28:21
E. Jerusalem engines (weapons)
2Ch. 26:15
III. Purpose - overview of areas of specialization:
A. Dominion mandate (Psa. 8:6)
1. Farming
a. Agricultural Engineering
2. Hunting
a. Mechanical Engineering (guns, etc.)
3. Atoms
a. Electrical Engineering
b. Nuclear (Atomic) Engineering
c. Chemical Engineering
4. Earth
a. Metallurgy
b. Environmental Engineering
IV. Skills
A. Mathematics
1. Basics
a. Algebra
b. Geometry
c. Trigonometry
d. Calculus
2. Estimating
3. Budgeting
B. Mechanics
1. Chemistry
2. Thermodynamics
3. Statics/Dynamics
4. Mechanical Drawing
V. Planning
A. Purpose - statement of scope
B. Plans - drawings, description, details, etc.
VI . Construction
A. Project Management - methods
1. Estimating
2. Tracking