The conventional mindset of the people regarding the engineer has changed, since the engineers of this day are equipped with the skills that go beyond mere technical knowledge. Tertiary education has evolved to mold an engineer to stand out in the job market in a rather versatile approach.
Nowadays, an engineer is trained with the necessary critical thinking and analytical skills that helps them to tackle a crisis and act gracefully, and smartly to solve it without a panic. University education has given the freedom and the choice for the engineers to reach out to other fields of studies to gain further more skills, specially economics, business, and marketing to be named a few.
Hence the industry will have engineers with better product knowledge in a technical perspective, offering the services of a good sales person or a marketing person. In an era where health, environmental and sociological issues are facing serious crisis, an engineer who has the expertise to plan alternative plans for a better health scanning equipment or an environmental savvy fuel will stand ahead to provide solutions to such crisis.
For an example, an engineering student who goes through certain stages of a final year project from the idea, designing to the end product will possess the necessary skills to observe, and understand the end user needs well. With a vivid idea about the end user needs, then they create a design that goes to continuous review before the end product is being made. Though this sounds rather focused on manufacturing, the real life problems will have to be solved through a same approach. Analytical skills that an engineer earns through training help them to understand the problems of the day to day life, and design a solution. Be it a product or a service, the engineers process will save the day by solving it in a logical approach, earning them a higher advantage in the job market.
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The example mentioned about the life stages of an engineering student was excellent. I agree withe the fact that the tertiary education has developed to another level where a graduating student will be equipped with much more skills rather than just the engineering skills. Furthermore as mentioned in the passage, i believe engineers will have strong roles in solving the health, environmental and sociological issues that we are facing today.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion,the focus of the post is deviated from the title. It seems to me that you are trying to convey how an engineer's education can provide them with an extra edge in job hunting. With little arguments on how their training could nurture the systematic, analytical and problem solving skills required to produce a holistic solution, your post focused too heavily on how they are able to tackle different fields.
ReplyDeleteThe sentence structure is a bit awkward. I reckon that the problem lies with excess usage of articles in certain parts and the structure of sentences.
This is just my opinion, feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Thanks.
Thanks Ethan for the points. But my approach was to emphasis on the points or skills that explains, "How the engineer accomplishes to stand out in designing solutions for the world."
ReplyDeleteI realized that I'm used to put a lot of points in one sentence. May be that could explain the awkwardness in my sentence structure.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your kind criticism. I'll try to improve on that in the upcoming articles.