Is Engineering overrated or an essential profession ?

ANUSHKA UPADHYAY
2 min readJun 29, 2021

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The basic requirement of all the professions are somewhere linked and entirely based on engineering. From a mechanical pencil to the equipment used in medical field, military machinery, chemical plants, communication channels and all sort of different fields are elicited from engineering. In short engineering has brought development in every field and gave access to all sort of improved version of technology to the society. The creative mind of engineers, brought a positive change and development in the society for a modern living.

One of the onerous degrees of graduation with versatile career options has attracted students in a big way. A graduation degree offering lucrative career opportunities is definitely not that easy to access how much it sounds and looks like. “The more it gives, the harder it gets”. Survival through the competitive environment of engineering is definitely not that easy because of the large number of aspirants. Despite of that, most of the students choose engineering as graduation for a wider career option. Trends come and go but the basics remain constant and an evergreen option to go for. The most demanding field of engineering are civil, electrical, mechanical and computer science.

Everything seems fascinating from far but the reality of engineering is something that can only be understood by experiencing it. Engineering still comes under the social symbol and most the time students are forced to opt for the same which has a significant impact on one’s life and can result in wrong way. Every field has its own pros and cons and one’s success rate doesn’t depend upon the fruitful career options of the degree or on the market’s trend, it mainly depends upon individual’s interest. Nothing seems hard when its chosen by interest.

Getting tons of opportunities is alluring but confusing at the same time. Most of the time students are not clear about the perfect field of their choice to go for after graduation and this leads to difficulty in choosing the desired path. One gets four years to explore his field of interest and those who have fully utilized those years have increased their success rate in comparison to the others. It becomes even more challenging with every passing year because of the huge number of students leading to fierce competition.

Changing ideas into reality is what engineers have always done and brought development into the society. And our reliance on the technology will keep increasing allowing engineers to bring more creative changes. Irrespective of all the pros and cons, engineering is always going to be the most important field across the world which implies that the responsibility on the shoulders of engineers will keep on increasing with the improvement in technology for bringing ease in every field of work.

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ANUSHKA UPADHYAY
ANUSHKA UPADHYAY

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