Engineering provides the base of our civilisation.
Every moment of every day we are confronted by engineering. Roads, telephones, transport, drinking water, paints and medicine are just a few of the everyday things we take for granted that are the results of quality engineering. Herbert Hoover was an engineer for 18 years, spending sometime in Australia, before becoming 31st President of the United States of America. It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper.