{"id":14039,"date":"2017-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/the-state-of-the-engineering-profession-2017\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T01:49:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:49:25","slug":"the-state-of-the-engineering-profession-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/the-state-of-the-engineering-profession-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Engineering Profession: 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe engineering used to look like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 564px; height: 417px; float: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/peopleconnexion\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/life-before-autocad.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, engineers are tasked with solving challenging questions we never imagined would need answering:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sehinc.com\/news\/future-what-do-driverless-cars-mean-road-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">design roads for driverless cars<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Can we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sourceable.net\/australia-must-manage-cyber-risk-to-civil-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>What is the best way to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.professionalsaustralia.org.au\/blog\/engineers-crucial-finkel-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">create sustainable energy systems<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Australia alone, engineers will design and roll out some of the nation&#8217;s largest projects.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\" data-imgsrc=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAA2ZAAAAJGNmN2VjOWY1LThmNGMtNGI4YS1hYThjLTIyYmVkZTZiZWI3NA.png\"><\/div>\n<p>(Image adapted from: http:\/\/investment.infrastructure.gov.au\/)<\/p>\n<h3>As the (financial) year wraps up, the Peopleconnexion office is shining a spotlight on the engineering profession today and how it has changed over recent years.<\/h3>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\" data-imgsrc=\"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/mpr\/mpr\/AAEAAQAAAAAAAA2DAAAAJGFjYWJmNzAyLTNlMjUtNDc2Ni04MTMzLTNiZGNkMzBmOTMyNQ.png\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe engineering used to look like this: &nbsp; Today, engineers are tasked with solving challenging questions we never imagined would need answering: How do we\u00a0design roads for driverless cars? Can we\u00a0protect critical infrastructure from cyber attacks? What is the best way to\u00a0create sustainable energy systems? In Australia alone, engineers will design and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/the-state-of-the-engineering-profession-2017\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of the Engineering Profession: 2017<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-14039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-articles","tag-aus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14039\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/14040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peopleconnexion.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}