[ An engineer? ]

Those of us in the engineering field often face the question ‘what does an engineer do exactly’?  The answer is “it depends”.  And anyway, engineering is undergoing a great morphing right now; the traditional disciplines like civil and mechanical are ever-blurring.

An interesting truth is that the general public rarely ‘hires an engineer’.  In comparison, the general public hires accountants, lawyers, dentists, surgeons.  So, we kind of know what those professions do, because we deal with them in our own lives.  Not so much with engineers, individuals don’t hire engineers. And yet, what engineers do affects everything in our lives.