Gauge Newsletter January 2019 | Page 6

in technology by engineers. Those are the people who saw engineering as something more than a subject or a profession. Source: http://www.ebaumsworld.com All those above are based on constructions and civil engineering. Not only that even in software and computer engineering fields creativity is highly required. An engineer is required to solve a problem in the most efficient way. Almost everything in the present technological products software and programming are involved. So, for that, the creativity; the ability to think out of the box should be the potential of an engineer. Gustave Eiffel, Elon Musk are world renowned examples for engineers who explored the art of engineering from a different angle. It was not their profession. It was their passion. That’s why they became that much success in their career. So as shown above engineering is not just a dry systematic subject that is extremely complex, it is an art. It’s a passion and also an engineer should be able to think differently and out of the box. Last but not least what I need to emphasize is that the art of engineering is not yet fully explored and yet there is much more to be discovered. D. Kushala Yagoda, First year undergraduate, Faculty of engineering, University of Peradeniya. PAGE| 4 University of Peradeniya GAUGE Magazine