Engineering Perfume (ePub)

Systems engineering is a relatively new discipline in historical terms. One could say that the trajectory of systems engineering's pioneering growth is still being built. Would there be a way to discover the essence of what systems engineering is? Nobody knows about it. What can be found are the perfumes of engineering. These are the fragrances that are presented as the professional testimonies of a systems engineer. You can identify facts and experiences that are part of the history of engineering.

In Engineering Perfume it does not talk about what information systems are. There is no focus on emerging computer technologies. It is a portrait of the professional and human development process of a systems engineer. You can see some of its successes and some setbacks. Provides your main learnings. It is an accelerated photography-style tour of relevant issues of what has happened, is happening and may happen, in the world of computing at the beginning of the 21st century.

Each story includes the presentation of a specific experience that is part of a circumstantial challenge of the profession, but ultimately makes a commitment to the transcendent in life. Some existential questions appear in the face of what we do not know. The attentive reader will be able to find the professional challenge in the face of the demands of scientific thinking. You can also find answers when someone calls you a "dinosaur."

What can you expect from this reading of the essence of what the author has learned in fifty years of professional work? By going through all the stories in the book, you can reconstruct the path that the protagonist has traveled in search of the "philosopher's stone" of his profession. Precisely for this reason it is not a search, only for engineers. It is a search for those people who want to find the meaning of their own existence.