355.366 - 2016 project and engineers

every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates

engineers

damn I do! appreciate engineers!  now, I have to admit, engineers come in two classes to me:  real engineers and engineering employees.  real engineers get their licenses, and if they are successful, they become partners in an engineering firm, or they found an engineering firm.  engineering employees never take either risk, but they do good, solid engineering work for their corporate employers, and if they're successful may become an engineering executive in a corporation, but more likely top out as an engineering manager.  either way, as a real engineer or as an engineering employee, they do logical work, using the laws scientists have learned about the real world, and they design and help build the structures and devices we all use and call technology, and even some we don't recognize are technology.  I imagine but don't know that a team of engineers designed my Winchester Model 94 30-30 carbine, assembled the prototype, and tested it before it was marketed and sent into production.  the car you drive?  engineers designed and built all its pieces and components.  Engineers are responsible for bridges, dams, roads (freeways, highways, farm roads, streets - anything paved), power lines and the structures that support them, transformers, robots, helicopters, rockets, airplanes, automobiles, trucks, earth moving machines, construction machines, iPods and iPads, computers, smart phones, gosh, that's all I can think of now, but for everything I listed, there's probably at least one thing I didn't.  don't get me wrong.  other people are involved too.  there are designers and inventors, for instance.  but the solid, dependable, count-on-able technical work that imagines, draws, creates, builds, and tests the whatever, is done by engineers, and they are the ones also who examine the pieces when there is a failure, examine the pieces and determine what we needed to do differently.  damn I loved to listen to engineers, or to work with them, back in the days when I was employed.  they were so calm and orderly, systematic, thorough.  thank you, engineers, wherever you are and whatever you're doing.