Visitor put up by Dr. Marcus O. Durham & Rosemary Durham
[Looking at history and science influence on political and religious attitudes.]
Engineer. The phrase carries robust impressions. What phrases are you able to consider to affiliate or describe ‘engineer?’ I’ll throw out some. Sensible, precocious, clever, socially awkward, nerd, math and science, educated, maker, prosperous to rich, analyst, problem-solver. In my early profession, it was intriguing to search out that engineers made up a major proportion of CEOs, executives, and prime enterprise leaders.
CEO Journal titled a latest article “Why are most CEOs Engineers?” Statistics could be skewed and interpreted some ways, however the gist is engineers perceive methods and might really make wonderful executives, due to their background, mind-set, and dedication.
I had lunch with a pal this week and he made a standard remark about going to school and turning into an engineer. I submit a distinct situation. By the age of 16, most who pursue the trail are already an engineer. It’s a mind-set, a mind-set, a approach of understanding how the world works. Then they go to school to get credentialed, to hone expertise, and broaden their curiosity space. Some don’t even end and will have a associated diploma.
As a professor {of electrical} engineering, we had an commentary. The decrease group gained’t allow you to assist them, the center group are those to which you’ll contribute probably the most, the higher group you can not and check out to not screw-up. By the point we noticed the scholars, that they had already decided and demonstrated the place they have been going. Due to the acceptance standards of the College, we principally had top-notch college students, however the distribution nonetheless held.
It was superior to observe the abilities and skills of those below twenty-two yr previous budding wunderkinds. They have no idea what they can’t do. A lot of the best way out creativity of the sector is from the below forty set. As everybody matures, we lapse into expertise. That may be a fantastic factor, however doesn’t push the bounds of the data base.
The co-author asserts engineers are totally different. We really burnish that picture.
DOGE (Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity) has modified the world and authorities largely by the six younger engineers and their understanding of methods. In a matter of hours they’ll ferret corruption from authorities methods. How? Comply with the cash. Cash is simply numbers to a pc. Over the previous few months they’ve developed algorithms to trace cash stream, to see patterns, and to get inside methods that no mortal might ever perceive with out laptop mapping. However to a whiz engineer it’s simply one other vitality stream drawback.
As ‘contractors’ to the federal government, with the authorization of the highest govt famous within the Structure, they’re unconstrained by custom, relationships, or getting their piece of the pie. As I’ve seen so many occasions, their satisfaction comes from fixing an issue that nobody else has solved earlier than. They’re on the entrance finish of a notable profession, with their status already etched within the annals of historical past.
Their boss, Elon, is one in every of them. He was born an engineer. His dad was an engineer. His schooling is physics and economics. Sure, economics. Curiously, he graduated from the College of Pennsylvania, the identical Alma Materas the President. The College was based by Dr. Benjamin Franklin. His revolutionary legacy continues.
Musk has confirmed his skill to resolve enormous issues nobody has solved. His singular skill with Area X supersedes all of NASA and Boeing. Then he made a viable electrical car. He largely owns the satellite tv for pc communications.
What else was left to do? Repair the federal government. That’s his reward. However doing nice issues for many individuals brings nice rewards and I do know of no engineer who rejects the financial return of his efforts.
Why has the President, a builder, and Elon the engineer been in a position to type such a symbiotic crew? The showman and people-person meets the problem-solver with much less curiosity within the individuals enterprise. It’s a classical relationship.
Engineer needs to make things better whereas the people-pleaser, on a mission from God, is the entrance man.
I recall having lunch with a shopper who was the chief of an oil and fuel firm and had been a pacesetter within the state senate. He made a telling commentary. “You’ll have problem in politics. Why? You wish to make things better.”
Translate his commentary. Politics is just not about fixing issues, however is for everybody to get a bit of of what they
promote. Primarily it’s to go away with a sack full of cash from a job that doesn’t pay that approach. Again to DOGE
investigations, observe the cash.
When drawback solvers, with the authorization to ‘fix-it’ meet embedded politics, there’s essentially a cataclysm. I’ve an engraved wood plaque on my bookshelf. “Engineers don’t run the world – however they make it run.”
Thanks, Mr. President, for having a plan to ‘fix-it.’ Thanks, Elon, for having the abilities to do it and assembling a crew that may and can do it. Engineers repair stuff that others concern to tread.
Give it some thought. One chief with a mission. One chief with the abilities. Six wunderkind engineers disrupt the wobbling political eco-system and upright the gyroscope of society. The story reminds one of many Founding Fathers. George Washington was an engineer. Dr. Ben Franklin was arguably one of many fathers {of electrical} engineering, and Thomas
Jefferson was an architectural engineer. Appears as DOGE is in good firm.
