Masterpiece Essay #1

Today Americans live in a world where nearly everything is man-made, engineered. The things we use nearly every day were at some point made somehow, someway, by somebody. We don’t notice how ordinary thing in everyday life took years and years to finally allow them for public use. Everything possible that we use today was made through engineers, whether it was from the simple wheel to the space satellites that allow us to connect to the rest of the world. We have been very successful as a world and we should be grateful of the things we have because it took hard work and engineering.

Starting from ancient times, man has always seemed to have the brilliance to make things happen. We have succeeded far more than any other being on Earth, we create things help us live a better an easier life but some of us don’t see it. Bridges for example, first made with tree logs by man was one of the beginning foundations of civil engineering as we know it today. Buildings, houses, cities, states, nations, all built by some type of engineer. Civil engineering today built some of the major building we need to functions as a society. For example, me personally, I have two major buildings, my house and school. My house is the foundation of the type of person I become when I leave of to the real world. School is what gives what I say and the things I do quality, quality that is put on paper for the rest of the world to see. We don’t notice how these engineered structures contribute so much as tools that help us.

There are many types of engineering, all which help us become a better more advance world. Aerospace engineering, I believe is the most important technological type of engineer. Starting from when man-made machines were thought to be able to fly, aerospace engineering began. The Wright brothers are probably the most famous for attempting this vision in the early 1900’s. That type of determination that the Wright brothers showed led us to the rapid growth of technological advances. Only a few decades later we, as a world, sent for the first time a satellite into space, we sent men for the first time into outer space, for the first time international communication was possible, all from possible because of engineering. We don’t notice that every time we use a cell phone to call anyone, anywhere, we are sending signals to satellites in space and returning them back to Earth to complete that call. Little things like that are all made possible from engineered machines. 

We don’t see all the work done behind the scenes, all the math and science needed, all the people, engineers, behind it; we only see an easier life. An easy life doesn’t mean a lazy life, but a life where we don’t have to start off from the beginning every time, but continue where other people left off.