“The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering – that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man’s good.” – Lyon Sprague DeCamp
“Engineering or technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.” – David Billington
“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” – Joanna Ciulla (Author and Educator)
“The ideal engineer is a composite…He is not, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist or a writer, but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any in all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems.” – Nathan W. Dougherty