Engineering and Public Service—A Renaissance
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Volume 99, Issue 1
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Previously, in referring to civil engineering, I have likened it to a talented symphony orchestra comprising a broad spectrum of specialists in their chosen skills, but too often an orchestra without a conductor! What about this conductor for the engineering orchestra? He is not a generalist, but a new specialist engineer-manager to serve in the management capacities that were mentioned earlier in these remarks. This new specialist might be the engineer-planner, whose presence is so sorely needed among the cadres of experts in the many fields of civil engineering. He might also be the enterprise engineer referred to by Jay Forrester, or the social engineer contemplated by the State University of New York, in a new bachelor degree program that would train a new type of engineer, strong in the behavioral and biological sciences, statistical mathematics, systems modeling, probability theory, and computer systems. He would be the creative original thinker whose specialty would be synthesizing new approaches to society's long-range problems.
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Engineering Issues: Journal of Professional Activities
Volume 99 • Issue 1 • January 1973
Pages: 1 - 7
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© 1973 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published in print: Jan 1973
Published online: Feb 10, 2021
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Biological processes
- Business management
- Colleges and universities
- Computer models
- Education
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Government
- Mathematics
- Models (by type)
- Organizations
- Personnel management
- Practice and Profession
- Professional services
- Public services
- Social factors
- Statistics
- Waste management
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