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The Law of professional of engineering and architectureand
Engineer are trained to think logically and observe ethics of their profession, but they use different
method of problem solving. Their training and experience influence the way they think. Even for
science based professions, scientists, engineers and physician solve their problem differently.
Business leaders are advised to think like engineers, implying there is a value in it. How engineers
acquire the mid-set they have? How can it be nurtured and transported to other professions. It is
said that engineers are success oriented, but “success” means different thing to different people.
Success for some is an idea becoming reality, for some an idea becoming a profitable business, and
for some an idea to provide a pathway right to the bank.
There are also publication by the royal academy of engineers describing the traits of an engineer.
Few books on “think like an engineer’” were published recently. They use anecdotes to teach
businessmen to think like engineers, but author themselves don’t think like engineers, since they
use inductive logic rather than deductive logic. These authors begin with anecdotes, and then
determine what general conclusions can logically be derived from those anecdotes. In other
words, they decide what theory or theories could explain the anecdotes, then concluded that all
should think like an engineers. This is a reasonable hypothesis given the data. However, induction
does not prove that the theory is correct. There are often alternative theories that are also
supported by the data.
By:Isnaldo Piñero