Even though challenges, engineers strive for solutions and progress

In my opinion, the idea in “Introduction to the Grand Challenges for Engineers” that, in the modern world, despite the fact that engineers are faced with grand challenges, they pursuit in finding the appreciate solutions to the problems, is the most important to the profession.

First of all, the idea states what challenges awaiting engineering are in recent years. With the development of the human civilization, engineers are involved in dealing with global issues. For instance, climate changes, nitrogen cycle problem and concern related to human health draw much attention from society. Furthermore, engineers do matter the inner world of the mind via improved methods of instruction and learning, not only the external one; they need overcome economic, political, personal and social barriers. Those challenges in the article illustrate the fact of society and complicated tasks to the engineers. These make engineers recognize the situations and prepare them for striving against difficulties.

Then the idea shows that they are handling these challenges. In the reality, it is the awareness to current issues and attempt to solve them that do matter.. To some extent, after one realizes problems and then applies oneself to solving them, he could contribute to improvement, progress and evolution.

Compared with the main idea in “The expanding world of engineers” which focuses on the improvement and foregrounds of engineering development, demonstration of challenges and solutions to present issues in the first article is more practical and encourages engineers to suit the remedy to the case and to meet the requirements from the world.

To sum up, personally thinking, if challenges are axes, engineers could find their coordinates according to those challenges and then perform their obligations in the reference frame of profession. So the idea that engineers are confronted with great challenges and contributing to solving them is most important to the professional area.