“The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.” ShouldKindChildrenArtDonePracticeStudyTheoryArt IsTestsJudgementBranchesEngineersWork Done Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines are constructed from entirely different materials and on quite different principles. When engineers have tried to draw inspiration from a study of the way animals work they have usually been misled; the history of early attempts to construct flying machines with flapping wings illustrates this very clearly.” WayMayDifferentProblemInspirationAnimalPrinciplesStudyDesignMaterialsApproachDrawsMachinesWingsFlyingDevicesArtificial IntelligenceArtificialEngineersConstructsAssemblyMisledFlappingFlying Machines Author:Maurice Wilkes
“When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.” StudyArchitectQuantityEngineersAestheticsCranesCivil EngineerRight RoadCivil EngineeringSurveyors Author:Ove Arup
“The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.” YearsIndividualSidesResultsNumbersLaughingStudyFieldsTheoryHugeDemandLaborTestsScientistAnalysisExpertsTrendsDeclineEngineersConsideringEquationsProjectionMarketplaceDemographicsScientists And Engineers Author:Howard Wolpe
“The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.” StudyDiscoveryRadioAstronomyCosmicRadiationEngineersCelestialWavelength Author:Honor Harger
“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.” PeopleYearsBelieveMaySaidRunningWaterLossLevelsCompanyMillionsStudyDollarsEnvironmentalPlanningLakesRegionsFourthEngineersExpandingRestrictionSuburbsShortageWithdrawalIllinoisShippingGreat LakesFourth Year Author:Timothy Egan
“Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.” KnowsShouldBelieveGivenCasesStudyToo MuchMathematicsAgreePhysicsObjectivesBranchesStatisticsChemistryEngineeringEngineersInvestigationPhysicistChemistStatistician Author:George E. P. Box
“Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.” StudyScientistEngineersPhysical Things Book:Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization Source: Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization
“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.” IfsHumansHappensChanceBrainStudyStudentsRevolutionDrivenTechniqueDataProfessorsEngineersReverseRumorMedievalStudent SuccessHuman BrainTailorsData Science Author:Sebastian Thrun