So often people call engineers as the ones who construct buildings or mend machines. Some say they are close to nature and other says they stick to robotic machines only. Many vague introductions of engineers and engineering have prevailed in society. It’s evident that a common man do not understand the role of this profession completely, at least not in a country like Pakistan. Even if someone asks an amateur engineer what his profession is, he/she might not be able to summarize the broad meaning of engineering in simplest words.
It’s an ultimate truth that the modern world is an astounding achievement of engineering. But was it possible to be where we stand today with the help of builders or mechanics only? Engineering is far ahead than these small things. Yes ENGINEERS do much more than that!
Engineers define engineering as a combination of knowledge and art of various sciences to solve a real time problem. Engineering is aimed to minimize the problems that humanity is facing presently or it might face in future. It creates means to make world a better and safer place to live in. Formally speaking, Engineering is an innovative application of the principles of Mathematics and natural sciences so as to design structures or apparatus, or to develop methods to achieve desired results with the best use of available resources while fulfilling the requirements of safety for humans and environment. Hence an engineer is the one who keeps an eye on all the mentioned things to crack the problems he or his customer is confronted to.
So where engineers actually work? Well, from skyscrapers to space crafts, speedy Ferrari to jet planes and submarines, great barrages to strong bridges, UPS at your home/office to huge power plants, electronic appliances in your kitchen to X-Ray machines to the prosthetic organs, Super computers to mini gadgets in your hands, Google to Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp; all the non-natural things around have been passed through the hands of various engineers before they come to you. They have worked out the theory to implement these great inventions.
Engineers have been an inspiration for themselves and for the rest of the world. They create things that scientists dream about. They study what has never come into existence yet. Be it be NASA Engineers or the one working in a small consultancy firm, an engineer creates solutions in its own capacity. Albert Einstein, the famous scientist, says: “Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.”
Couldn’t understand engineering yet? There you go! Engineering is the art of making a yummilicious milkshake with the ingredients of knowledge of Sciences and available technology, sweetened by Economics and garnished with the love of Nature. Of course the recipe remains incomplete without adding chunks of Mathematics. And the people who possess this art actually, are called ENGINEERS.
P.S:If you are not a great engineer, you might say it exaggeration but that’s a reality. Don’t underestimate the power of an engineer! :p
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