Some views and experience on the mind of an engineer

Abstract

I remembered the long-delayed promise made by me to reflect on my career as an engineer, which could be of some value to the readers, particularly young and the future generation. Being an INAE Fellow for over two decades and an INAE Lifetime Achievement Awardee (2007), I owe it to our young engineers. The question which came to my mind is "Who is an engineer?' A person with a diploma/degree in engineering? or one who practices the profession of an engineer with or without diploma/degree? The dictionary definition of an engineer is "one who designs/builds/maintains tools, instruments, equipments, systems, machines, vehicles and the like; buildings, roads, railways, bridges and the like'.