WA1

It is true that we need to be more creative especially in today's modern context where we face complex issues like climate change. Usually such problems require great ingenuity and often need the integration of different disciplines. For example, tackling the problem of climate change requires engineers to design new technology to deal with greenhouse gases, environmentalists and politicians to campaign for clean technology, cooperation of venture capitalist and business counterpart to capitalize on green technology and the general public to be more efficient in the usage energy. This underlines the fact that problems cannot be viewed from one perceptive alone.

Hence engineers need to inculcate the virtue of anticipating possible problems before embarking on a project. In fact being ignorant of other problems may actually spell disaster for an engineering project. For instance, one of the main reasons why the causalities of Titanic is high was due to the fact that there were insufficient life boats around. Without sufficient preparation, any project is likely to fail. After all, people who fail to plan, plan to fail.