Importance of Engineering in the Society

Engineering is a very important discipline in the world of today. The importance of this area of
specialization by many people is felt all over the world. In the current world we exist in, no country will
succeed without the adoption of engineering practices. The importance of engineering in our world is
numerous. This piece is just an introduction to the topic under discussion because splitting the topic
in detail will occupy a large volume of text.

What is engineering? Engineering is a profession in which scientific knowledge and mathematics,

gained through study, experiment and practice are applied with intuition or judgment to develop ways
to use economically, the materials or forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. So many authors
have given their personal definitions on their understanding of the word engineering. This word has
turned the face of the earth to look more interesting and accommodating.

In the years back, there was nothing like electricity, which has made work easy and improves the
standard of living. As of then, our forefathers were timid and live in the society that was not
transformed through electricity. Because of the efforts of engineering, electricity has advanced and
man utilizes it to achieve his goals in life.

The Major Importance of Engineering

The importance of engineering to be elaborated on are related to six key areas. These six key areas
are the importance of engineering in:

Agricultural, Banking, Automobile, Educational, Marketing, Health sectors.

Agricultural Sector

Agriculture simply put is the cultivation of crops and rearing of animals. This definition is as related to
agricultural science. Due to the advancement in the agricultural practice, agriculture has developed a
strong link with the field of engineering. It is because of the magnitude of this link that leads to the
creation of agricultural engineering, which is among the branches of engineering. This engineering
branch takes care of agricultural related affairs.

In our todays world, hardly will you see a commercial agricultural farmer that does not make used of
machines to increase the rate of his or her agricultural output. This importance added by engineering
has really promoted the practice of agriculture all over the world.

There are specific kinds of fertilizers for specific kinds of crops. These fertilizers in most cases are
products of chemical engineers. They look into the chemical constituents of the manure and used the
result generated from the scientists to know which will have good effects on crops and go into their
productions.

In the dry season, there is no rainfall, yet agricultural products are being supplied to markets where
they are being sold to the consumers. The question is: how are these products made available
irrespective of the fact that is usually no rainfall in the dry section of the year? Drilling engineers are
among the people that make those products available as through the work they do generate water
from beneath the ground. It is the water that is used to keep the crops growing through the irrigation
system.
Banking Sector

Sometimes people argue on why engineers should be found in any bank. They do say that none of
them suppose to be there because there is a big difference between the two disciplines. The fact
remains that engineering is a course of men who can withstand pressure and a great test. Because of
this, bank sometimes chooses graduates from this discipline to work with. That is why some
engineers are found in the marketing department of various banks today. Banks are interested in who
will give them what they want and not just who studied their related course in the tertiary institution.

Engineering plays fundamental roles in banking institutions of various societies. In a bank, there are
many engineers that engineer the affairs of the banking activities. Without these engineers, the banks
will not function effectively. Banks are advancing on a yearly basis and they have been demanding
the services of the engineers (especially Software and Networking Engineers) to make the
advancement unique. Engineering in banks has added a lot to the quality of services that banks
render to their customers.

Let us start with the one every bank customer is aware of before going deep in the other area of the
banking activities. Gone are days when bank cashiers count money with the manual process using
their fingers. Today, the money is being counted within few seconds by money counting machines.
Who manufactured those counting machines used in the banks for counting of money? The answer is
nobody else than the engineers. That is to say that the money counting machine would not have been
in existence if not because of the engineers.

What of the computers used by bank staff during their banking activities? Are these computers thrown
from heaven for the banks to start marking use of them? No, at all because they are physically made
through computer engineering and then supplied to the banks that make use of them.

Modern day banks cannot function without the use of durable bulletproof doors, to be protected from
the hands of the armed robbers. The features of these kinds of doors are usually made of glass and
some others steel. Metallurgical and materials engineers that deal on glass and steel are the people
that test and confirm the strength of the materials used in the production of such doors so that they
can resist the effects of bullets (bullet proof doors).

Automobile

People like to have mobile houses of their own if they have the money to make a purchase.
Automobiles have helped in a great way to ease the stress being faced by the man from moving from
place to place. These automobiles are into existence because the engineers came up with the idea
and they succeeded in making it accessible to people all over the world.

What is automobile? According to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, an automobile is a car. It is

engineering that is being studied that gave birth to many designs of cars that are all over the world.
Starting from the making of the cars from the scratch, mechanical engineering makes it possible. This
is the category of the engineering field that first designs the shape of the car in question before the
final production.

When it comes to the making of the engines of the automobiles, metallurgical engineers play their
own roles as well. This is evidence on the importance of engineering in the beautiful world of the
automobile. Metallurgical engineers make proper effort to find out the proper quality of alloys to be
used in the production of the engine blocks before finally casting the engine of the vehicle. The
casting of the engines of vehicles can be carried out using any convenient casting processes,
especially investment casting process.
The author of this article who is a graduate of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is currently
developing a book which discusses the applications and importance of Materials Engineering in the
society. This is a sound book that will serve as an eye-opener to people who want to know more
about the engineering field.

The piston and the gears of cars are products of casting carried out by metallurgical engineers during
car production. When investment casting is used to make these parts, high accuracy is obtained. But
other casting processes can be used for the production.

The importance of engineering in our society made it possible for car owners to drive so many
designs of cars each year. Someone may be driving Honda 2008 model and all of a sudden hear that
the latest Honda of 2015 which has more advanced level has been produced by the company. What
he does on hearing this is to sell his old modeled Honda and go for the new design, all centering on
the importance of engineering in the society.

Educational Sector

Education is very important in the life of every intelligent individual, and it has been spiced up with the
contributions of engineering. It will be boring without the presence of engineering in it. The works of
the engineers are seen in all levels of education; primary, secondary and in the tertiary level. People
on many occasions have got involved in debates based on the positive contributions of engineering in
the education department.

Starting from the clothes that teachers and the lecturers wear to classes where they teach the
students on the knowledge they need to acquire, the clothes would not have been made if
engineering is ignored. That you as are a reader of this piece of write-up wear cloth on your body
right now is a product of textile engineering field.

In various institutions of learning, it has been made compulsory that every school will have computers
integrated as part of their academic study or curriculum. These computers being talked about are
made possible because of the efforts being put by the computer engineers. Some higher institutions
have air-conditioners installed in their lecture halls to make the students feel comfortable learning in a
good environment. This machine that maintains a certain level of temperature in lecture halls and
offices in educational institutions are all products of engineering.

Marketing

What business does engineering have with marketing? Has engineering in any way contributed to the
level of marketing activities in our society? The answer to the questions is yes. Engineering in totality
has greatly impacted much in the marketing sector. Marketing is the action or the business of
promoting and selling products or services. The promotions of services and products have been
made possible as engineering continues to advance on the daily basis.

The internet has helped many businessmen in the marketing of products and selling some useful
services to their customers. People sit with their computers and advanced mobile phones and
promote their businesses through this channel. Presently, there are many websites created where
people go and render services to get paid in turn for the work well done. An example of such website
is the one called Fiverr. This is a website that has been a source of daily bread to people from
different parts of the world.
There are dozens of services being offered by sellers in that website including web and graphics
designs, promotion of books and other tangible goods, application designs, sound cloud works,
writing businesses, and so many others.

Because of the importance of engineering in the field of marketing, people can use their mobile
phones, which are the products of engineering, to order for goods from other countries which get
supplied to them within few days. Also, some business owners have hosted many websites on the
web where they tell people all over the world of products and services they sell without the buyers
visiting the location of the business company.

Health Sector

Health and engineering; any similarity? Do you think the two have something in common or does
engineering have an influence on it? Beyond any reasonable doubt, the health department of every
country firmly depends on engineering to achieve any of their goals in the health status of the patients
being admitted to the hospitals. It is true that engineering does not have any business with the drugs
being used in hospitals as that is the business of pharmacists, but, what about the other equipment
used in the hospitals?

Let us start with the instruments which the doctors used whenever they are carrying out surgery. Do
you think the materials of that nature are being produced by the doctors? No, because starting from
the pattern making to the final finishing stages of such equipment are being carried out by the
engineers. Examples of such instruments are the scalpel, surgical lamps, stethoscope, and so many
others. All these instruments are made available to the surgeons with the help of engineering.

There are situations where the patients are not manually diagnosed by the doctors to find out the
cause of a particular illness. In such complicated cases, the doctors use computers to find out the
cause of such illness. These computers are being produced by the engineers who apply engineering
principles to automatically detect problems in the human system.

Conclusion

Engineering as a profession is a major player in the twenty-first century. Engineering is a unique

profession and it has been changing the face of the earth to good. The world is upgrading and seeing
clearly because of the importance of engineering profession in our society. In this piece of write-up or
essay, the author detailed out the importance of engineering as it relates to agricultural, banking,
automobile, educational, marketing, and health sectors.