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Opportunities in Engineering By: Charles M. (Charles Marcus) Horton (1879-) |
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OPPORTUNITY BOOKS
OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERING
BY CHARLES M. HORTON OPPORTUNITIES IN AVIATION
BY LIEUT. GORDON LAMONT
And
CAPTAIN ARTHUR SWEETSER OPPORTUNITIES IN CHEMISTRY
BY ELLWOOD HENDRICK OPPORTUNITIES IN FARMING
BY EDWARD OWEN DEAN OPPORTUNITIES IN MERCHANT SHIPS
BY NELSON COLLINS OPPORTUNITIES IN NEWSPAPER BUSINESS
BY JAMES MELVIN LEE
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
ESTABLISHED 1817 OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERING by CHARLES M. HORTON Harper & Brothers
Publishers New York and London OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERING Copyright 1920, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1920
CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. ENGINEERING AND THE ENGINEER 1 II. ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITIES 9 III. THE ENGINEERING TYPE 16 IV. THE FOUR MAJOR BRANCHES 24 V. MAKING A CHOICE 31 VI. QUALIFYING FOR PROMOTION 38 VII. THE CONSULTING ENGINEER 48 VIII. THE ENGINEER IN CIVIC AFFAIRS 54 IX. CODE OF ETHICS 62 X. FUTURE OF THE ENGINEER 68 XI. WHAT CONSTITUTES ENGINEERING SUCCESS 76 XII. THE PERSONAL SIDE 85
OPPORTUNITIES IN ENGINEERING
I ENGINEERING AND THE ENGINEER
Several years ago, at the regular annual meeting of one of the major
engineering societies, the president of the society, in the formal
address with which he opened the meeting, gave expression to a thought
so startling that the few laymen who were seated in the auditorium
fairly gasped. What the president said in effect was that, since
engineers had got the world into war, it was the duty of engineers to
get the world out of war. As a thought, it probably reflected the secret
opinion of every engineer present, for, however innocent of intended
wrong doing engineers assuredly are as a group in their work of
scientific investigation and development, the statement that engineers
were responsible for the conflict then raging in Europe was absolute
truth. I mention this merely to bring to the reader's attention the tremendous
power which engineers wield in world affairs. The profession of engineering which, by the way, is merely the adapting
of discoveries in science and art to the uses of mankind is a
peculiarly isolated one. But very little is known about it among those
outside of the profession. Laymen know something about law, a little
about medicine, quite a lot nowadays about metaphysics. But laymen
know nothing about engineering. Indeed, a source of common amusement
among engineers is the peculiar fact that the average layman cannot
differentiate between the man who runs a locomotive and the man who
designs a locomotive. In ordinary parlance both are called engineers.
Yet there is a difference between them a difference as between day and
night. For one merely operates the results of the creative genius of the
other. This almost universal ignorance as to what constitutes an
engineer serves to show to what broad extent the profession of
engineering is isolated. Yet it is a wonderful profession. I say this with due regard for all
other professions. For one cannot but ponder the fact that, if
engineers started the greatest war the world has ever known and
engineers as a body freely admit that if they did not start it they at
least made it possible they also stopped it, thereby proving themselves
possessed of a power greater than that of any other class of
professional men diplomats and lawyers and divinities not excepted... Continue reading book >>
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