Engineers day

 Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied mathematics, applied science, and types of application. The term engineering is derived from the Latin Ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise". The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behaviour under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya KCIE FASc, more commonly known as Sir MV (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962), was an Indian civil engineer and statesman and the 19th Diwan of Mysore, serving from 1912 to 1919. He received India's highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the British Indian Empire (KCIE) by King George V for his contributions to the public good. His birthday, 15 September, is celebrated as Engineer's Day in India, Sri Lanka and Tanzania in his memory. He was the Chief Engineer of Krishna Raja Sagara dam in the north-west suburb of Mysuru city, and also served as one of the Chief Engineers of the flood protection system for the city of Hyderabad.

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfil functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost. The foundational qualifications of an engineer typically include a four-year bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, or in some jurisdictions, a master's degree in an engineering discipline plus four to six years of peer-reviewed professional practice and passage of engineering board examinations. There are now six major branches of engineering: Mechanical, Chemical, Civil, Electrical, Management, and Geotechnical, and hundreds of different subcategories of engineering under each branch.

Here's what engineers spoke about their choice of profession.

Growing up as a child I was inspired to be an Engineer by my Maternal Uncles, one was an Aeronautical Engineer in the Air force and other was a Mechanical Engineer.

Coming from a family of Sailors, it was very easy for me to take up Marine Engineering and be the third Generation Sailor of the family.

Today after almost 30 years of Sailing as a Marine Engineer, I am happy and Contended that I pursued my dream to be a Marine Engineer and follow my passion of Sailing and seeing places around the world. I am very passionate about my Work and love the Challenges and rewards that come my way.

Nixon F.P. Gomes

Chief Engineer

Anglo-Eastern Ship Management HKG

As a school boy at Loyola's I never knew what engineering meant nor who an engineer is. But I always wondered who is behind the scenes from concept designing and manufacturing of beautiful machines right from a door hinge to a beautiful Cielo car. From a syringe needle to a sophisticated OT table. How do doors operate automatically in Shaktimaan series? This led me in search of a person within me to become one of the kind and this thought made me think backwards from the end product (which I realised much later was Reverse Engineering). The "ASK TRIANGLE" motivated me and kept me focussed to become the joker amongst the pack of cards.

Unlike another profession, an engineer will never think about his profits to do any innovation, but rather will think what profits will my innovation give to society.

Today with pride I salute my decision for choosing to be a Mechanical Engineer.

-Engr. Fabian Savio Rodrigues

Sr Manager , Goa Shipyard Ltd.

Gadgets and technology always fascinated me as a child. All the latest phones games, applications would amuse me as to how it works. I would never get bored to work with the computer no matter what the task was given.

Any new application would keep me engrossed in it so much that I would sit and learn by myself the features

of it. I wanted to learn how to design web applications, build Software, Graphics Design. This is what attracted me to pursue Computer Engineering as my career.My passion for creativity and innovative designs made me opt to be a freelancer over a 9-5 cubicle job. Being a freelancer I can choose what projects I would like to work on. Now I design Web pages, mobile application user Interfaces for companies. Design banners, fliers, logos for many firms.

Myrell Viegas

Freelancer

(B.E. COMPUTER)

"Science is about knowing;

Engineering is about doing."

A very simple and straightforward qoute by Henry Petrosky. The scientists help us identify the problems, and engineers simply solve it. They look out for solutions.

There is a new world beyond our earth which has questions still unanswered by humanity. The problem is, how do we unrelish it?

The universe, it's never-ending and constantly expanding. Engineering as quoted above is about doing. Thus, I chose computer engineering to be able to study how AI can help to make advanced bots which can reach the boundaries, which might be a limitation for humans, yet explore the unknown. There might come powerful rockets and spaceships; but through computer engineering, that I chose, I will be able to make the bots and rovers which will be better at analysing the conditions of the environment they will be in. Now it's not about reaching a place in space, its about reaching the knowledge about the environment in the space. There must be thousands of aspiring students who would be wanting to get into space exploration. Some may definitely get into it, they may make many attempts, the starting may go futile, but remember, engineering is about constantly trying. If the problem remains when you choose path A, then try path B. This is best inspired by one of the most important engineers of the late 19th century, Sir Thomas Alva Edison. If he wouldn't have gone for his 1001st try, we might not have been able to sit under the light of the bulb or tube light in the dark. Through away or two, I want to be able to contribute to this exciting exploration, and thus, this is why I took Engineering.

-Krupashri Koli

(Third yr Student, BE in Computers)

Don Bosco College of Engineering

Choosing a career has to do with one's aptitude. As long as I remember, I was always curious about the mechanics of things. How certain components moved and what made them move always piqued my curiosity. Problem-solving is ingrained in humans, it's how you apply it that makes the difference, and engineering fine-tunes this ability. Basically, that's what engineering is, being creative to solve true worlds problems with the available resources.

Haston Fernandes

Engineer with MMSI

Nothing makes an engineer more productive than ‘last-minute’. A similar thing happened to me. I always dreamt of doing something in the field of biology. And medical was never something that made me excited. And my dad always said that Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

So having no clue on what to do next after my 12th, someone suggested me to do biotech engineering in which I got selected too. But failing to take that opportunity because of some reasons, I made ‘last-minute’ plans to study computer engineering in Goa itself. And there started a rollercoaster journey of what people call as “everything will be fine after you opt for engineering”.

Well, keeping tonnes of submissions, assignments, term works, journals, projects and million other things aside, engineering taught me to view things differently. Computers and mobile functions made more sense now. Not just that then, so many switchboards and electrical wirings appeared so much understandable. They say when you start getting the essence of a subject, you start appreciating every bit of it. I began valuing the innovations and marvels of engineering.

Its same as when you start cooking, you truly start appreciating the flavours of your food. Similarly, engineering makes me cherish the working behind a computer! And that surely means that some ‘last-minute decisions’ indeed turn out to be the best decisions with time.

Shikha Dessai

3rd yr computer engineering, PCCE