The traditional scope of engineers has been broadened. Nowadays, Engineering is no longer just means building high buildings or repairing the water pipes, but contributing in every sector of society. No one doubts that, systematical, critical and innovative thinking are the requirements to become an engineer. Thanks to the improved education of engineering comparing with before, the engineering graduates become more creative, brave for the new technologies, calm and professional when facing to the complex situations. Besides, to become more practical and keep themselves ‘fresh’, engineers are always concentrating on the latest problems rising from other area of the modern society, not only focusing on the traditional.
The abilities of thinking systematically and critical start to be trained when students study in the university. By the large number of practice in solving mathematics, physics or chemical, students are required to be more systematical, logical and comprehensive. By a plenty of software practices and scenario analysis, the theories are more visible and practical. Day by day, an engineering characteristic is formed: Calmly analyze the problem, divide the whole problem into pieces and find out the root, get solutions and integrate them, and finally implement and improve the solution.
As the definition of ‘engineering’ becomes wider, more people are working in non-traditional engineering field. Although they may doing the job unrelated with their major in the college, people still can handle it because engineering thinking are widely applied beyond engineering area. This application also brings back more creative ideas and feedback to the engineers, so that engineering thinking will be continuously implemented and expanded.
In today’s world, it is necessary to improve our view of engineering spirit. Not only thinking theoretically, systematically and logically, but also be more passive, motivated and flexible. It is another powerful hand to help engineers keep developing in future.
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Great posting. The review she wrote was very interesting and insightful. She wrote about engineers in the past and explained to us how engineers now are different.
ReplyDeleteI like the part which she wrote about the definition of 'engineers' as she gave examples of what the definition of 'engineers' meant in today's world.
ReplyDeleteI find it very interesting how you explained clearly the evolution of an engineer's job overtime, as well as the part about being flexible at the end. You might want to be a bit careful about your sentence structure like in line two,
ReplyDelete"Engineering is no longer just means building high buildings...", which I think should say "Engineering is no longer just building (or constructing) high buildings...".
The first sentence in paragraph two also says,
"The abilities of thinking systematically and critical..." should say "The abilities of thinking systematically and critically...".
These are just some of my opinions and I may not be correct. Overall, I like how you structured your essay and I really enjoyed reading it.
To add on to your 2nd paragraph, we should take note in the Singapore context that the polytechnics uses the same approach to teach their students, although the cross faculty content is not as broad as in the universities. In recent years, even junior colleges have adopted project work as a criteria for students' entry to local universities too. =)
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