Jeremias Andrade Carrera
19 Sept 2007

 

 

Engineering learned only by traveling and copying is dangerous. An engineer is not a traveling photographer.

A professional engineer uses his or her mind to “travel” through the application of scientific principles from books, technical and professional journals, and codes and standards, laws and regulations.

Engineering is not “pa-kopia kopia” as some may suggest and always involves “economic feasibility” aside from the technical, environmental and cultural feasibility. It is not a matter of what is and is not doable or else the idea becomes a dream that can never be realized just like the proposed Atlantis Project in Alaminos City.

Is the idea to put up levees for a 10,000 year flood design for Dagupan feasible? What is a 10,000-year flood design period anyway? How do you plan and design even a 100-year flood protection structures for Dagupan only? By flooding the adjacent towns and cities?

I must be not up to date in my profession. I need to attend seminars from great dreamers and travelers.

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