WHY CIVIL ENGINEERING?

I choose civil engineering because I am an individual who loves hands-on

activities and on site work. I love doing activities which challenges not just my
Critical Thinking ability but also my Physical Strength and for me,” If you love what
you are doing, you’ll never work a day in your life” and I found it in the profession of
Civil Engineering.

Field Work
Office time is spent on planning, making appointment and meetings. Most of the time, civil Engineers are outdoors
at work sites monitoring buildings, running projects and tackling project issues. They are always on the move and
what’s exciting is the fact that each project has its own distinct design challenges and operational issues. This
makes Civil engineering an exciting profession as projects vary significantly from one another.
Team Work
Engineers work closely with contractors, architects and construction workers on various projects. This interaction
brings forth a platform to share knowledge and ideas. Civil Engineers are team players and this paves the way to
becoming great leaders within the community.
Creativity
Civil Engineers combine strong technical competence with creative designing. They take pleasure in establishing
creative structures coupled with state of the art technology and architectural flair. Their line of work requires the
knowledge of the construction industry, including electrical, plumbing systems and functional workings.
Importance
Engineers use their skills to optimize performance and efficiency of community systems.They also develop water
and sewer systems that balance safety standards with delivery of water and sewer processing, which are key
functions in city operation and residents’ health and comfort. This makes them central figures in community
development. Without their unique talents, communities would not grow and prosper.
WHAT IS CONSTRUCTION?

Construction for me is a place where dreams become reality. In other words, it

is the execution of plans or paper turned structure. Construction is composed of
Different kinds of process like PLANNING, DESIGNING, FINANCING until IT IS READY
FOR INTENDED USE. Construction is composed also of people with different kind of
specialities working as one which contributes to betterment and High quality result of
work.

WHO IS BETTER?
"I believe that we came from an equal ground, same school and same review center,
but I am confident in my skills in (enumerate skills) and my ability to adapt and
improve. I believe that I have an edge over others because (more skills)" and that is
what sets me apart from others.
WHAT IS INNOVATION?

Innovation for me is introduction of something new idea, method,

process, inventions , etc. For me, “Those who innovate are at an advantage over
the others.”

“fresh thinking that creates value” Richard Lyons via Economist article cited below

“new products, business processes and organic changes that create wealth or social welfare” OECD think
tank via Economist article cited below

The Economist. Something new under the sun: A Special report on innovation, Vaitheeswaran, Vijay.
October 13th, 2007, pg. 4

“Technically, “innovation” is defined merely as “introducing something new;” there are no qualifiers of
how ground-breaking or world-shattering that something needs to be—only that it needs to be better
than what was there before. And that’s where the trouble starts when an organization requests
“innovation services” from a consulting firm. Exactly what are they really requesting? The fact is,
innovation means different things to different people.”

Business Week.

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with
a new capacity to create wealth.”

Peter Drucker at Quotations Page

Innovation is defined “aschange that creates a new dimension of performance“

Peter Drucker at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

“Innovation: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation; the
creation of something in the mind; the act of starting something for the first time; introducing
something new“

Wordnet
“Innovation: First of all, here is my own definition of innovation: ‘invention refers to new concepts or
products that derive from individual’s ideas or from scientific research. Innovation, on the other hand, is
the commercialization of the invention itself”

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

“The term innovation may refer to both radical and incremental changes to products, processes or
services. The often unspoken goal of innovation is to solve a problem. Innovation is an important topic
in the study of economics, business, technology, sociology, and engineering. Since innovation is also
considered a major driver of the economy, the factors that lead to innovation are also considered to be
critical to policy makers.”

Wikipedia

“Something new or different introduced”

Dictionary.com

“Innovation is converting ideas to numbers”

Information Week

“Innovation is a process, involving multiple activities, performed by multiple actors from one or several
organizations, during which new combinations of means and/or ends, which are new for a creating
and/or adopting unit, are developed and/or produced and/or implemented and/or transferred to old
and/or new

Joerg Gemuenden at Innovation.cc

“Innovation is then simply new technology, i.e. the systematic application of (new) knowledge to (new)
resources to produce (new) goods or (new) services”

Maciej Soltynski at Innovation.cc

“Any creative idea, getting implemented or realized successfully, is Innovation.”

Hexaware Blog

“The creation of new products and/or services”

Investor Words

“Innovation is imaginative activity fashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of
commercial value“

Innovation Productivity Blog

“Something newly introduced”

The Free Dictionary

“PEOPLE using new knowledge and understanding to experiment with new possibilities in order to
implement new concepts that create new value“

Think Smart Blog

Innovation: “The practical translation of ideas into new or improved products, services, processes,
systems or social interactions”

The University of Mebourne

“Innovation. Something new or improved, having marketable potential, including (1) development
of new applications for existing technologies, (2) refinement of existing technologies, or (3)
development of new applications for existing technologies.”

Zyn

“Innovation lowers the costs and/or increases the benefits of a task”

Yost

“Innovation means venturing away from familiar ground into uncharted territory“

SCS

“Innovation needs structure. We need to originally explore the regions of creativity so we can bring
method to the madness of originality. We need to expand that special resource known as innovativeness
so that we are not dealing with a finite resource but with a renewable one. We need to give everyone in
an organization the chance to develop innovative competencies. We need to make the systematic
application of innovation real. “

Real Innovation

“Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way”

Michael Vance at Famous Quote

“To innovate is not to reform”

Innovation Zen

Innovation: “the introduction of something new“

Edmund Burke at Famous Quote

“Innovation is really about responding to change in a creative way; it’s about generating new ideas,
conducting R&D, improving processes or revamping products and services. At another level, it’s also a
mindset in your business; your employees are always focused on continuous improvement and
constantly thinking outside of the box”

BDC

“The successful exploitation of new ideas”

Ber

“Innovation is a process of taking new ideas through to satisfied customers. It is the conversion
of new knowledge into products and services”

Vadim Kotelnikov at 1000 advice

“Innovation: The process of creating a product or service solution that delivers

significant new customer value. The process begins with the selection of the customer and market,
includes the identification and prioritization of opportunities, and ends with the creation of an
innovative product or service.”

Ulwick, Anthony W., What customers want. New York: McGraw-Hill 2005, Glossary,180.

“Innovation is not the result of thinking differently. It is the result of thinking deliberately (in specific
ways) about existing problems and unmet needs.”

Razeghi, Andrew. The Riddle. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008,1, 24.

“Innovation is the embodiment, combination, and/or synthesis of knowledge in novel,

relevant, valued new products, processes, or services.”

Leonard, Dorothy, and Swap Walter. 1999. When Sparks Fly. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 7.

“Innovation is the creation of something that improves the way we live our lives”

Barack Obama quoted in Business Week’s “In” sub section, p. 6, November 2007