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Turning Engineers Into Rock Stars!

Naomi Climer, president of the IET, outlines her campaign called - Engineer a better World - to make us realise that engineering is an exciting and creative activity, as part of her interview by Jim Al-Khalili on Radio 4's The Life Scientific.

Can she find a 'rock star' of engineering, a new Watt, Stephenson or Brunel, or are we all ensemble players in a huge engineering orchestra? Does it matter that there are no 'stars'? Does stardom come as a result of large incomes? Good Engineering is invisible, (it just works!); is it inevitable that good engineers are invisible too?

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0 Abel Nyamapfene over 8 years ago

I definitely agree. Every form of human endevour needs its own heroes in order to sustain and attract interest. Heroes embody all those aspects that we can consider as the virtues of a profession. And in so doing, heroes help to bring a sense of personality into a profession. Once people can put a face to a profession, then it becomes much easier for people to connnect with the profession.Yes, we definitely need our own engineering rock stars.
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0 Abel Nyamapfene over 8 years ago

I definitely agree. Every form of human endevour needs its own heroes in order to sustain and attract interest. Heroes embody all those aspects that we can consider as the virtues of a profession. And in so doing, heroes help to bring a sense of personality into a profession. Once people can put a face to a profession, then it becomes much easier for people to connnect with the profession.Yes, we definitely need our own engineering rock stars.
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