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The Fading Prestige of Engineering 5

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Here is a thought provoking article that I recently read:


I was wondering if other engineers shared this writer's perspective. Has engineering gone downhill in terms of the prestige or respect associated with it over the last several decades? Your thoughts?

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...and yet, despite this apparent societal "prestige", it's tough to catch a taxi in Toronto that is driven by someone who is NOT an Indian or Pakistani engineer. And the Chinese engineers fare even worse when they immigrate here due to their lack of English language skills- yet they still come en masse.

As lacajun said in another thread, prestige is all well and good, but compensation is nice too.
 
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The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Samuel C. Florman has some interesting history and explores the fall of the engineering profession, which he believes began around 1950.
 
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Without Engineering there would be nothing.
 
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Nah- without engineering, there would be less of everything.
 
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Except perhaps trees and similar.

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Nah- there'd be fewer of them too- everybody burning them in open hearths to stay warm and all...
 
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nah, cause without Engineering there's be now sewage systems so populations wouldn't' get big enough for complete deforestation without periodic outbreaks of disease to cull the population. Plus no nifty engineering to improve farming efficiency either so starvation would keep the population down as well.;-)

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OK, so we agree to a point- less of (just about) everything, including people!
 
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