Why become an Engineer?

Creating is one of the fundamental acts of our existence that gives us great pleasure. An engineering education encourages and allows you to be creative in designing a new product, be it a building, a machine, an electric circuit, or computer software. With the techniques and knowledge gained in your course of engineering study and with your innate creative ability, some thing that never existed before can be designed - created. Thus, the general purpose of your engineering education will be to provide you with technical tools and to encourage the use of your own creativity, culminating in a new design that will solve a given problem.

Building the Future

Since 1900, the number of engineers and of engineering specialties has expanded dramatically. Artificial hearts, airplanes, computers, lasers, nuclear energy, plastics, space travel, and television are only a few of the scientific and technological breakthroughs that engineers have helped bring about in this century. Because science and technology are progressing and changing so rapidly, today's engineers must study throughout their careers to make sure that their knowledge and expertise does not become obsolete. They face the challenging task of keeping pace with the latest advances while working to shape the technology of the future.