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What bothers me is that the engineering message is in many elements
essentially different from the science message and is often to do with
economic activity, industrial application and incremental process
improvement. There is, of course, an engineering "science" element
covered in fundamental research activities at universities, public
institutions and elsewhere. But companies and their competitive
advantage through product and process innovation are at the heart of
what engineering is about, so the "elsewhere" is perhaps bigger than in
other science and technology areas and perhaps less inclined to yield
its secrets up to public gaze.
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The tragedy is that not enough science PESTery deals with economic
activity. Science for its own sake deserves no more attention than, say,
opera, which I prefer to read about than astronomy, for example. It is
the fact that science is *useful* that lies behind many of the attempts
to raise its profile. That is why the engineers need to be there. Then
we can get away from the notion that science is only about black holes,
subatomic particles and genes.
MK
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