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What is Required of You as an Engineer?
In an engineering education, the fundamental purpose of the college years is
to enable you in a short period of time, to learn of, and to profit by, the
experiences, discoveries, and interpretations of the thousands who have gone
before you in the application of nature's laws and material for the use of
mankind. For you, an engineering graduate at the threshold of a professional
career, your total education has only begun.
So, what is required of you as an engineer? You must consciously develop
some very specific and basic qualities. Professor William Wickenden, in his
booklet *A Professional Guide for Young Engineers*, presents them as
follows:
1. *Courage and integrity* are prime requisites for a successful
engineer. Do not continue in engineering if you are afraid to take
calculated risks and to make decisions on the basis of available
information; very seldom will you know in advance the certain answer to any
major engineering problem. You must be willing to live up to an inflexible
code of integrity and honesty. The habit of straight thinking and honest
action is just as important to an engineer as is the habit of cleanliness to
a surgeon.
2. *A thirst for knowledge* is an attribute you must possess if you
hope to succeed in professional life. The engineer must have the native
inclination to delve into the fundamental truths of mathematics, physics,
and chemistry.
3. *Imagination* is a factor vital to successful engineering. Every
engineering product, be it great or small is someone's mental picture that
has become a reality. If you find it difficult to see things in your mind's
eye as they would be in actuality, you should re-examine your motives for
entering engineering.
4. *Sound judgment* is a requisite for the successful engineer. You
must be able to see all aspects of a question or problem and place a proper
value on each phase of a situation and to foresee and estimate the
consequences likely to result from each step taken in the solution of the
problem or project.
5. *Accuracy* in thought and action is essential if you are to be a
successful engineer. It must be cultivated if you hope to succeed in
technical pursuits.
6. *An instinct for economy*, the economical use of manpower, energy,
and materials in producing the most effective results is most important.
7. *An aptitude for leadership* is very important to the individual
engineer's professional advancement in this modern civilization. You have a
challenging opportunity to constructively lead as an engineer and as a
private citizen in the field of civic and social problems. If humanity is to
receive the maximum benefit of the engineer's work, then you, as an
engineer, must assume interest and responsibility for applying your
accomplishments most effectively for the welfare of humanity.
8. *Ingenuity*, the ability to be creative, is another essential
ingredient for a successful engineer. The engineer who can take commonplace
situations and apply imagination of conception and creativity to produce and
improve results will contribute the greatest benefit to mankind.
9. *Hard work* is essential to give strength and vigor to the
intellect and to give it the dimension of depth. Intelligence is necessary
to give effectiveness, honor, and dignity to labor.
10. *The ability to communicate effectively* can enhance every other
quality which the engineer possesses. And without it, all other qualities
are shadowed. Especially as a young engineer, you will do well to emphasize
this phase of your education.
*Four things you, as an engineer, must have:*
- a mastery of applied science
- the power to visualize your ideas by imagination
- the power to express you ideas clearly to others in speech or
writing or drawings
- an instinct for economy of effort and of cost
As engineers mature, three-quarters of them take on executive
responsibilities and many become executives. Only rarely does an engineer
get far without a good understanding of human nature and the art of managing
people.
regards,
weby