Engineering Application of

Information Technology (IT)

Ebuka Nwankwo, MSc, PhD (London), DIC, MNSE

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 Contents
 What is Information Technology (IT)?
Advances in IT in Engineering
IT in various Engineering Disciplines
Moral Issues
Cost of not using IT
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 What was in this course?

• Parts of computer (CPU,I/O devices, etc.)

• Hardware and Software
• Networking (LAN and WAN)
• Word Processing packages
• Email ( Internet explorer etc.)
• Applications such as AutoCAD
• Brief mention of IT security
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 What is Information
Technology?
IT is storing, transmitting,
processing of data using
micro-electronic
machines
Backbone of IT?
Computers
Computer Networks
(LANs, WANs)
Servers and Operating
Systems (Unix, Mac OS,
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MS, Linux, Google, SAP)

 Basics
What are the IT policies
of your organization
Email Service providers
(Google, Yahoo,
Hotmail)
E-mail basics (Domain
name, sending and
receiving emails, etc.)
Basics about the
internet and social
media ( apps, Modem
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Routers, ISP, HTML)

 Advances of IT

 Large Scale
Networking (Cloud)
Human Computer
Interaction
High-End Computing
High Confidence
Software
High End Computing
Infrastructure
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 IT in Mechanical Engineering

CAD and CAE (FEA, CFD, Casting)

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 IT in Mechanical
Engineering (2)
Processing, Optimization and Simulation
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 IT in Mechanical
Engineering (3)
Infrastructure and Computer-Aided
Manufacturing and Design

Tanks and Drones controlled by computers are

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examples of IT in Mechanical Engineering

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 IT in Production Engineering

Computer-Aided Manufacturing
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 IT in Data Management

Many big companies are now asking for the

services of firms involved in BIG data and
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analytics
 IT in Data Management (2)
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 IT in Data Management (3)

Google, Oracle, SAP and IBM

IT companies have massive infrastructure..

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Do you where all Google’s servers are?

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 IT in Medicine (1)

Computer aided surgeries and diagnosis have

changed medical science. It has also brought
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Medicine closer to engineering.

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 IT in Medicine (2)

Using IT and engineering, prosthetic limbs

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and arms have been developed.

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 IT in Civil Engineering
Aim: Information Management and
Efficiency

Modelling, Testing, Simulation: Autodesk

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suites, etc.
 IT in Electrical Engineering

Tubes to Solid State

ICs( Device with millions of resistors,
capacitors, transistors, etc.)
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 IT in Petroleum Engineering

3-D Seismic and

Computation
Dynamic
Positioning
Technology
Remote Controlled
Vehicles (ROV)
Drilling (DD)
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 ROVs in Petroleum Industry

IT powered Remotely Operated Underwater

Vehicles (ROV) has helped the oil and pipeline
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industries
 IT in Chemical Engineering

Software (Aspen HYSYS, Batch Column,

CHEMCAD, etc.)
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 IT in Project Management
SAP Suites, Oracle
Suites, etc.
Common Data Base
Tools (Primavera, MS
Project)
All are can be linked
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 ICT

Telecommunications
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 Moral Issues in IT

Job losses (Robots)

Privacy Issues
Artificial Life
Emotions in Robots
Malware, Spyware
and IT wars

NB: Malware stands for

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Malicious and Software

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 Let’s not Forget Cost Issues
Cost savings
Indispensable to
Mega companies
Efficiency
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 Questions and Answers

Thank you for Listening

I wish you a rewarding career
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