• A desire for interesting and challenging work and the pleasure in the act of changing the world.
• The joy of creative efforts. Where a scientist’s interest is in discovering new technology, engineers interest is derived from creatively solving practical problems.
• The engineer shares the scientist’s job in understanding the laws and riddles of the universe.
• The sheer magnitude of the nature – oceans, rivers, mountains and prairies – leads engineers to build engineering marvels like ships, bridges, tunnels, etc., which appeal to human passion.
• The pleasure of being in the presence of machines generating a comforting and absorbing sense of a manageable, controlled and ordered world.
• Strong sense of helping, of directing efforts towards easing the lot of one’s fellows.
The main pleasure of the engineer will always be to contribute to the well-being of his fellow-men.