The Engineer is the Key Figure in the Material Progress of the World
The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.
Philip Sporn, Foundations of Engineering (1963)
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He translates scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor.
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