Showing posts with label Famous Engineering Majors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Famous Engineering Majors. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian writer, essayist, philosopher - and engineer. The author of Crime and Punishment (1866) - is a masterpiece of Russian and world fiction, as captivating as it is, in the end, mysterious. The Brothers Karamazov (1880) is the compelling story of what happens to a family when their morally corrupting father is murdered by one of his four sons. Dostoevsky is a graduate of the Military Engineering Academy at St. Petersburg. He was commissioned in 1841.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
El Ingeniero
Carlos Slim is the third wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of around $35 billion. His holdings include telecommunications, real estate, media, and infrastructure development. Mr. Slim studied engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. His primary focus was in operations research within the context of civil engineering.
Slim is known affectionately in Mexico as "El Ingeniero" - The Engineer. It is interesting and not surprising how the developing world places engineering and engineers at the sharp end of the societal pyramid. Engineers are seen as elite members of society, highly educated individuals that are visionary builders and developers - thinking about and creating the elements of a modern society. Roads, telecommunication systems, water plants - the infrastructure improvements that are needed in developing countries. El Ingeniero is a badge of honor - especially in Latin America. This badge of honor shows up all over the developing world, even in the context of revolutionaries and terrorists. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, former Mujaheddin leader and current terrorist outlaw, is known as "Engineer Hekmatyar" even though he was unable to complete his engineering degree. The developing world recognizes and appreciates the importance of engineering and engineers - the understanding that "Accountant Hekmatyar" or El Dentista doesn't move the imagination nor spirit of the developing world.
Slim is known affectionately in Mexico as "El Ingeniero" - The Engineer. It is interesting and not surprising how the developing world places engineering and engineers at the sharp end of the societal pyramid. Engineers are seen as elite members of society, highly educated individuals that are visionary builders and developers - thinking about and creating the elements of a modern society. Roads, telecommunication systems, water plants - the infrastructure improvements that are needed in developing countries. El Ingeniero is a badge of honor - especially in Latin America. This badge of honor shows up all over the developing world, even in the context of revolutionaries and terrorists. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, former Mujaheddin leader and current terrorist outlaw, is known as "Engineer Hekmatyar" even though he was unable to complete his engineering degree. The developing world recognizes and appreciates the importance of engineering and engineers - the understanding that "Accountant Hekmatyar" or El Dentista doesn't move the imagination nor spirit of the developing world.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Engineering and the New York Yankees
An occasional entry to my blog will be "I didn't know they were an engineer." Joe Giradi, former major league baseball player and current New York Yankees Manager, is a 1986 graduate of Northwestern University. Giradi was an industrial engineering major while being named three times to the Academic All-America team.
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