Obligations of the engineer

THE ENGINEER, using the discoveries of pure science, has during the past 50 years revolutionized the home, commerce, communications, manufacturing, farming, and, unfortunately, war also. The engineer is a “doer.” That is, he likes to do things to make the world a better place to live in; to lighten our daily tasks. Why is it then that a profession which has created this new world and given us leisure is so little understood by the public in general? Because all of us, the student, the engineering school, industry, the technical society, and the engineer himself, have failed to meet our full obligations. We have made a dismal failure in dealing with things of the spirit.