Engineering, in my view, is not simply about building a solution. It is about finding the best path to accomplish a task while thinking about what that solution will cause in the long term.
A good product should be highly reliable without unnecessarily consuming the customer's resources. If two solutions achieve the same purpose, I would choose the one that saves resources rather than choosing something simply because it uses more sophisticated technology.
But reliability alone cannot define a good product. A combustion engine might run throughout its entire life, but if it continuously produces harmful emissions, what meaning does reliability have? Engineering should always uphold sustainable development and give importance to the environment.
I also believe an engineer's vision should extend beyond a small request from a user. The responsibility begins when the product is created, while different engineering fields and services take responsibility for other parts of its life.
Engineering is also not a journey without failure. Failure can be part of the engineering journey, because it can expand what we discover. Even solving a problem that wasn't originally intended can open a completely different direction.
Ultimately, engineering is not about asking "Can we build this?"
It is about asking:
"What will happen because we built it?"
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