What’s an Engineer Doing

To the office you keep going
For the task that keeps on growing.
What are you doing every day
At the office … you don’t play.

So an engineer’s required,
Mostly to do Design.
Buildings, bridges, client brings,
You will detail all those things.

What about Managing
To make things happening?
And the things the others do,
You’re responsible for them too.

Final task is Marketing,
Engineers do targeting.
You’ll oversee that too,
But …you will let the others do.

Engineering is hard task,
It requires lots of math.
But important very much
Is the talking to the mass.

So important understand
Public Safety is the brand,
Public Safety is Number One,
For the task that you just planned.

Otherwise, you will be thinking,
What’s this engineer bringing ?
Market, Manage and Design
This is what he is assigned.
Whatever task may be required,
At the office you’re admired,
You are so much in the know,
Others …aspire for the show.

And remember Number One!
For the job that just begun,
Never deviate from zee,
At the office… let it be!

About the author  ⁄ Neil Wexler, Ph.D., P.E.

Neil Wexler is the founder of Wexler Associates, a 39-year-old, New York City-based firm specializing in the design of high-rise concrete buildings. He received his BS from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; his MS from City University of New York, NY; and his PhD from New York University, New York, NY, all in civil engineering.

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