Engineering Quotes

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. - Gordon Moore

Whoever put this together has to have an engineering degree from Stanford or somewhere. - Tom Carvey

While we see the attractiveness of this solution to engineering firms which already contribute to employee pensions, most smaller firms simply could not afford to take such an approach. - Susan Anderson

While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engineering fields, we still see fewer women at the full professor and academic leadership levels than we would expect given the pool of women with doctorates. After investing in creating this pool of highly trained talent, we should see a high rate of return -- productive, creative and respected teachers and researchers attracting more students into fields that might have seemed closed to them given the traditional profile of science and engineering faculty. - Alice Hogan

While they are playing, I get to introduce them to engineering concepts. - Desh Bagley

When you're looking for innovative and creative solutions to problems, the more diverse perspective you can bring, the more likely you can come up with a good solution. We've got to do a better job of describing what engineering is and stimulating the imagination of young people to understand there is some really challenging and interesting work in this field. - John Wall

When you're an engineering student, you have a lot of stress in your life. For someone to live this way, with a condition that affects their life, for them to be committed to something and want to live life to the fullest, it really puts things in perspective. - Roberto Hernandez

When your design stinks, Engineering 101 says admit your mistakes and go back to the drawing board. - Homer

When you look at the science and engineering career fields, African American representation is only about 3.6 percent. When you come to the environmental sciences, African American representation is only 0.5 percent. That's one person in every 200. - Subramania Sritharan