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Over the years, countless websites and forums have highlighted new technologies and designs that engineers have created. Many would explain how these new technologies and designs worked, but fewer contained thorough explanations of which engineering processes were used. Moreover, some of these spaces didn’t even attempt to thoroughly study the engineering principles used in these new creations. Even though the articles themselves were neat and helped to inspire and captivate many readers along the way, the articles didn’t seem to fully captivate the engineering principles which were used in these new creations that allowed them to work so well.

Many people outside of engineering seem to think the world of engineering as this mystical dimension that only few people can understand. For example, when asking someone how an internal combustion engine works or how fuel cells in an electric vehicle work, a common response someone might get would be “magic”, a cute and sarcastic way of saying “I don’t know”. While there are many esoteric concepts in higher levels of engineering that usually occur in a Ph.D./Post-Doc environment, many of the engineering principles utilized by everyday products can be understood by most people. For many people, math isn’t their thing and is easy to understand why, but it’s a travesty that this deters so many people from understanding the basic engineering principles that are used by everyday devices which we rely upon for our livelihoods.

The various engineering principles these devices utilize, ranging from Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Materials Science, and so on, can be more effectively studied and analyzed in these everyday devices. Everyone knows the intended function and most know the limits of these devices, what they can and can’t do, and how their environment impacts their performance. All of these observations point to certain engineering principles that these devices were designed within. You may never see a Partial Differential Equation or see a Triple Integral as a proof to describe a Thermodynamic Process or the total work performed by a design or the stresses and strains exerted on a structural component such as a rod, column or beam, but that’s really not the point of this website.

I Truss the Process is designed to not only help educate those outside of engineering to basic engineering concepts and principles, but also to refine and enhance the skills of the most talented and sophisticated engineers the world has to offer. There is wisdom in the idea of being able to explain a complex topic in simple terms to someone who doesn’t know the topic at all. If the person explaining the complex topic at hand is successful and the listener who doesn’t have a background in the subject matter whatsoever is able to understand what the person who explained the complex material said, it seems that person who explained the material knows the topic so well and has been exposed to the material long enough to have mastered it.

Continuing in the same vein as learning from masters of complex engineering topics, there is  value in learning from those who know more about a field of study we’re interested in. Whether it be for designing a more efficient cooling process for your home, engineering a device that can more efficiently cultivate hundreds of millions of Killer T-Cells that are needed to help a patient fight a life-threatening disease, or creating a waterway that can not only help prevent flooding but can also minimize environmental damage due to flooding or water run-off, we all have something to learn from each other. Moreover, those at the very top of their fields are not only learning of new discoveries, but are also still constantly learning of new methods and programs as well such as ChatGPT and Python.

I Truss the Process is committed to creating an environment where all can grow by learning from beneficial and accessible information. Providing a space where others can exchange ideas and question one another also helps sharpen our minds to create the best engineering solutions to complex, real-world problems. Uniting these forces into one place which will allow us to create an online home and community for all to discuss the current status of engineering and the engineering solutions of the future will make each person truly believe and genuinely say “I Truss the Process!”

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