Sample Essay: Behind the Engineer
This is a sample essay on Engineering:
Whenever I sit to ponder how the engineer’s thought pattern proceeds before he makes the things he gives us, I begin to wonder if the world would ever pay him enough for how much easier he has made life for us. I can remember when I graduated from secondary school and how much I struggled with choosing between becoming a medical doctor and an engineer. I love medicine but have always loved engineering so much that my passion for it finally won over medicine. May more youths around the globe today are in such dilemma and may need the guidance of parents, teachers and counselors to make the right choice after the assessment of their talents, personalities. With my insatiable hunger to know the way things work, why they work and my longing to make them myself, I immediately knew I was cut for engineering.
More than anything else, engineering is more than just a profession; it is a life time calling to take human civilization to another plane of existence. It is an action word and concerns itself basically with problem solving. Having its own methodology and philosophy, it goes beyond premises, arguments and ideals and deals with the practical application of ideas, analysis and designs to real life problems. Armed with his mathematical skills and an average to highly peaked creativity quotient, he is a formidable match for modern life challenges. The engineer is happy when his friends in the sciences make discoveries but however not contented and rushes in to apply them to his products. To solve a problem according to Einstein, one must rise above the consciousness that created the problem. Being a problem solver, he rises in consciousness above the agent that created the problem. Read more…
