Word: professionalized
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Professor D. C. Jackson, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave an interesting and instructive lecture on "Engineering as a Profession", the second of the series on professions, in the Union yesterday evening.
The remarkable progress of the last century has established a new profession, based on laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the...
Having defined the purpose of engineering, let us proceed to a closer examination of its scope. Perhaps the elements of the new profession are the two laws of the conservation of energy and the indestructibility of matter. But the extent to which these laws and their derivatives can be applied...
The engineer, then, has no limit to the possibilities of his profession. There are many positions to be filled, many directions to which inventive genius may be directed. The successful aspirant must possess certain rare qualities. He must have perfect industrial training, must be competent to conceive and plan, organize...
8.15.--Lecture. "Engineering as a Profession," by Professor D. C. Jackson, in Living Room of Union.