Thank you, my professors.


Just received this photograph from my dad. He is teaching civil engineering courses at the Technical University of Iasi, my alma mater. Himself and many other professors, from Romania and the U.S., changed my life forever. Be it in the classroom, or during one to one discussions, or in the lab, professors guide us and help us take the next step in understanding our profession and the world. Thank you, my professors. Respectfully, thank you. And yes, thank you dad - I can still remember learning about transition curves 20 years ago. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Civil Engineers are Ingenious Again ...

This summer, several of us faculty met and discussed about the Vision, Mission and Educational Objectives of our Civil Engineering Department. It is always exciting to look back at the origins, to look for a future direction, to assess where we are and to envision where we would like to be: 10, 15, 20 years from now. And yes, we even went back to the meaning of the word ENGINEER ... which has its origins in the Latin word INGENIUM, meaning “innate quality, especially mental power, hence a clever invention.” This is why in many foreign languages "engineer" starts with an "i", e.g.: ingeniero (Spanish), ingénieur (French), ingenieur (German) and the list goes on. So in our process of searching for a vision, we first rediscovered the meaning of the word engineer: INGENIOUS. How would you like to study Civil Ingenuity instead of Civil Engineering? The next step was to formulate a mission and educational objectives - the things that we would like you, our students,
Read more