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En·gi·neer, n. (en'je-nîr')
- One who designs, plans or invents: a mastermind.
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One who looks hopefully at the hitherto unattainable.
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One who asserts skilful maneuvering or direction.
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What is engineering?
- It's all about people.
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It's having a creative attitude on top of technical capabilities.
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It's about designing solutions to everyday problems.
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It's about shaping our society and making a difference.
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What is an engineer?
- An engineer is a person who takes scientific knowledge, initiative and inventiveness and applies these attributes to real-world problems. Engineers give shape to our world.
- Engineers are behind everything you can touch, see, taste or hear in your daily lives. Indeed, life would be significantly different without engineers. Everyone knows things like cars, computers, buildings, aeroplanes, roads and bridges are all products of imaginative engineering. But so are film special effects, water-saving devices and synthetic human tissue replacements.
- Without engineering we would have little progress or improvement in the quality of life. Engineers go to design ways to improve the quality of life and avoid the health problems in the first place.
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Who should consider studying engineering?
- Those who want to make a difference to society and all aspects of people's lives.
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People with an interest in science and technology.
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Anyone who likes the challenges of problem-solving, design and satisfying commercial constraints and realities.
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Those with abilities in mathematics and science.
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Engineers and the world
- As an Engineer, wherever you work, and whatever you do, you are contributing to a bigger picture. An Engineer needs to be socially aware and involved in the broader community issues of the day - the environment, sustainable energy, health or relationships with local communities.
- Engineering is a prestigious profession and is essential for our future development as it creates wealth and employment and raises living standards throughout the world.
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Where can engineering take you?
Engineering is an integral part of all the technologies that make life possible, sustainable and enjoyable, from the way that clean water supplies have increased life expectancy to the development of data networks that have changed the way nations interact. Engineering covers an enormous range of disciplines from Biomedical Engineering, through Telecommunications, Computing and Photovoltaics to Petroleum Engineering. They are similar in their innovative, but methodical approaches to problems and their use of advanced computer technology, but in their applications and working environments, they couldn't be more different.
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