"Engineers are the ones who build high-rise buildings,make aeroplanes and manufacture electronic goods". This statement may be true in the past but it cannot be applied into today's fast-changing world. Nowadays, engineers can do much more than all those. Simply speaking, they can be found in every field of professions-from managing health-care system to running transportation system to banking!
Engineers are highly sought after in helping to systematically analyze complex information and apply a holistic approach in designing solutions. The reasons of this scenario are mainly contributed by the facts that engineers are critical-thinker, able to take up challenges and always on par with the technology.
Being a critical thinker, they are able to look at a problem from a very different prospective and aspect. Given a task, they will not accept it wholly or blindly without careful judgement. Rather, they will systematically analyze the task and tackling with it creatively and innovatively. In their tertiary studies in varsity, they are given broad view of the course of being an engineer which definitely broaden their minds in every aspect of life. Thus, generally speaking, engineers know more things and understand more in depth than others do.
After going through the engineering tertiary education in university, engineers are able to take up challenges. They are trained to solve the problems in life-from human needs to food, water, shelter, health, defence, communication, energy to the provision of entertainment and information. In short, they have high problem-solving skills and this make them a good reliable decision maker. Being able to make good decisions within a short time-frame is very important, especially in the management of a company where very often a wrong decision can cause fatal consequences.
As both the manufacturing and service sectors become more and more technology- and knowledge-intensive, to be on par with the technology is another trump card for engineers. Companies, organisations and even nations need a workforce that does not fear technology but embraces and thrives on it. Engineers often update themselves with the advancement of new technology. As a result, they can simplify a complex problem and provide a systematic solution with the help of technology.
In a nutshell, there are no doubts that engineers are indeed ones who are notable and respectable. I myself are proud to be an engineering student and hopefully I can be one of the successful engineers who will bring benefits to the society and even the whole world.
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2 comments:
You should not conclude your essay with "in a nutshell". Instead, you can use "in conclusion".
I am not sure what exactly the question is asking of us. Are we supposed to do write an essay based on the ideas from the article by Prof. Ramakrishna, or develop our own ideas to explain how an engineer's training helps to systematically analyze complex information and apply a holistic approach in designing solutions? Your approach is the former while mine is the latter. There is probably no right or wrong, but the question could have been clearer.
You challenged the conventional way of looking at engineers and thus pointed out engineers have been into every corner of the society, which gives a clear main idea. Through the article you discussed other different qualities that engineers carry besides their professional knowledge, which strengthens your point that engineers are versatile. However, your article doesn't focus enough on how an engineer's training helps them systematically analyze situation and give holistic solution.
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