<p>No need to answer this but
what two or more representations of a career in engineering offer significantly contracting perspectives, in a way?</p>
<p>I am thinking about becoming an engineer, and I am doing some research for my sociology class, so I am just interested in what you guys have to say.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>I’m going to attempt to rephrase your question using conversational English:</p>
<p>What two examples of engineering fields provide significantly contrasting perspectives?</p>
<p>And my answer is that I don’t think any of them provide significantly contrasting perspectives, and my philosophy is that when you get right down to it, engineering is all pretty much the same, but that it just deals with different problems.</p>
<p>Though this may not be your question at all. If you want us to answer your real question, you’re probably going to need to rephrase.</p>
<p>very weird</p>
<p>yes I know it is a weird question =p, and yes you rephrased it in a correct manner.</p>
<p>The various fields of engineering are like the various fields of art. It’s basically all the same, but you just work with various mediums. In art, you have sculptures, paintings, computer graphics, etc. In engineering, you have buildings, electricity, computers, chemicals, machines, etc.</p>
<p>Regardless of discipline you still have multiple perspective. Within a single engineering discipline you will have those who design/conceptualize, those who build/improvise, and those who do/optimize. Rarely will you find someone who does all three. Most likely you’ll find engineers who specialize in one of the three and in consulting you’ll find those who understand 2 or all of the three and will have a background in one or even 2. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>Design Engineers/Design Consultants - conceptual applications
Construction/Development Engineers - building applications
Process/Manufacturing Engineers - optimization applications</p>
<p>I was a process engineer in the pharmaceutical industry for near a decade and I always found myself wondering how design engineers could undersize pumps or get the pipe sizes wrong. I always figure if it was for their inadequacies than I would be out a job. Now I am in consulting/design and I am beginning to understand how this happens. It’s not because of the inadequacies of the designer, but the due to the haziness of the scope.</p>
<p>wow, i never thought of it that way, thanks a lot for your time guys</p>