Engineering 2

[SECTION:why]The prospect of creating the world as it never was and solving cutting-edge problems in the prime of technology has attracted me to engineering. Successful inventions have been products of mathematical rigour, scientific principle and sheer innovation, such as the pioneering work of Jak

A little girl on a construction site, the child in the hardhat, the one nobody acknowledges. Six years later, this little girl still loves to visit construction sites, having observed the impact Kenya's civil engineers have had through the Standard Gauge Railway, the Thika Superhighway and Africa's

Civil engineering is the key to the infrastructure that is the foundation to our civilisation and without this discipline, our society would fail to function. The Shanghai Tower first drew my attention to the field. Its’ 120-degree twisting structure with a glass skin facade, not only reduces the ef