deem是什么意思On Being Your Own Engineer翻译

2021年1月26日发(作者：饕)

On Being Your Own Engineer
Ralph B. Peck (1983)

○
The
occasion
for
this
short
talk
was
the
Civil
Engineering
students
Annual
Awards Convocation at the University of Illinois on April 24, 1976. Parents, friends,
and wives or husbands of the honor students had been invited to the Convocation. I
took the occasion to speak to the wives or husbands as well as to the students who
received the honors.

○
这篇文章是
1976
年
7
月
24
日伊利诺斯州立大学土木工程系学生每年一度
的奖励大会上的简短发言。
获奖学生的父母，
朋友，
妻子或丈夫都被邀请出席会
议。我参加了这个会议，对这些荣 誉学生以及他们的亲朋好友们进行演讲。



①
Here
at
this
University
and
in
this
Department
that
has
trained
so
many
outstanding civil engineers, you have achieved a standard of excellence that results in
recognition
at
this
Honors
Day
ceremony.
It
gives
me
the
greatest
pleasure
to
congratulate you on these achievements. Here in your undergraduate career, you have
become
leaders
in
the
pursuit
of
engineering
knowledge,
the
first
essential
step
in
becoming a civil engineer. Excellence in undergraduate studies correlates highly with
a successful engineering career in later years. I sincerely hope that the satisfaction of a
successful
career
continues
to
be
yours
and
that
these
honors
and
recognitions
that
you so rightfully receive today will be only the
first
of many satisfactions
that will
come to you in your practice of civil engineering.
①这所大学，
这个系，
培养了很多优秀的土木工程师，< br>你们达到了优秀的标
准，
从而在今天这个值得庆贺的日子，
得到认可。
这就给了我莫大的荣幸来祝贺
你们取得的成就。
在你们的本科学习，
在追求工程知识的 过程中，
你们成为了佼
佼者，
这是成为土木工程师的第一个基本步骤。
本科学 业的优秀与今后工程事业
的成功高度相关。
我衷心希望事业成功的成就感继续与你相伴
,
你今天理应得到
的这些荣誉和认可，将只是今后你获得的许多成就感之一。

②
Yet a successful undergraduate career is not always or inevitably followed by
leadership in your profession. In a changing world, in a dynamic profession such as
civil engineering, how can you to be sure today that you will be among the leaders of
your
profession
20
or
30
years
from
now?
How
can
you
even
be
sure
to
pick
the
branch of civil engineering, the particular kind of work that you will actually like the
best or have the most aptitude for? Do you dare leave these matters to chance, do you
dare let nature simply take its course? Nobody can predict the future and nobody can


guarantee success in the future. But there are, nevertheless, many positive things you
can do to shape your own career.
I should like to think about some of this with you
today.
②

然而
,
一个成功的本科学习并不总是或者必然成为职业中的佼佼 者。
在一
个变化的世界，在一个动态的职业如土木工程，今天你怎么可以确保在
20< br>到
3
年后，
你仍然是你职业中的佼佼者
?
你甚至能否确任你将从事土木工程，
这一你
最喜欢或是最有前途的职业
?
你敢让这些问题任其发展
,
你敢让它顺其自然吗
?
没有人能预测未 来
,
谁也不能保证未来的成功。尽管如此，但你仍然可以做一些
积极的事来塑造自己的 职业生涯。我今天想与你去探讨一些问题。

③
I
believe
every
engineer,
perhaps
even
while
an
undergraduate
but
certainly
upon graduation, needs to form and follow his own plan for the development of his
professional career. Perhaps it is an unpleasant thought, but I believe it is only realistic
that nobody else is quite as interested in your career as you yourself should be. If you
don
’
t plan it yourself, it is quite possible that nobody will.
On the other hand, there
are too many factors, there are too many changes in a dynamic profession to permit
laying
out
a
fixed
plan.
The
plan
that
you
follow
must
be
flexible
and
it
must
continually be evaluated.
③我相信每一位工程师，
甚至一个肯定能毕业的本科生，
需要制定和实践自
己的职业生 涯发展计划。
也许这是一个不愉快的想法，
但是我相信这是唯一现实
的，
没有 人会像你自己对你的事业那么感兴趣。
如果你自己不计划，
没有其他人
会给你做计划的 。另一方面，有太多的因素，有许多的变化，不会让你在动态的
职业中制定一个固定的计划。
你 执行的计划必须是灵活的，
它必须被不断地进行
评估。

④
To
be
sure,
every
career
depends
to
some
extent
on
chance,
on
the
breaks
,
good or bad. But if you have followed a sound plan , you will be ready for the good
breaks when they come. Those who feel they have never had favorable opportunities
usually have not
been ready and have not
even recognized opportunities when they
came.
④确信的是，
在面对转机时，
每个职业在 一定程度上都或好或坏地取决于机
会。
但是，
如果你遵循一个健全的计划，
那 么当好的转机来临时，
你将变得主动。
那些感觉他们从未有过良好机会的人通常都没有准备好，
甚至可以说，
在机会来
临时他们都不会察觉到。

⑤
Civil
engineering projects don
’
t exist in the classroom, or in the office, or
in the laboratory.
They
exist
out
in
the
field,
in
society.
They
are
the
highways,
the
transit
systems,
the
landslides
to
be
corrected,
the
waste
disposal
plants
to
be


constructed, the bridges, the airports; they have to be built by men and machines. In
my
view,
nobody
can
be
a
good
designer,
a
good
researcher,
a
leader
in
the
civil
engineering
profession
unless
he
understands
the
methods
and
the
problems
of
the
builders. This understanding ought to be firsthand, and if you are going to get it, you
have
to
plan
for
it.
Without
this
experience
in
the
field,
your
design
may
be
impractical, your research may be irrelevant, or your teaching may not prepare your
students
properly for their profession. There are several
ways in
which
you can get
construction experience. One is by being an engineer for a builder, for a contractor. Or
on the other hand, you might be an inspector for a resident engineer for the designer
or owner. It doesn
’
t matter in what capacity you work, and it doesn
’
t take a very long
time to get worthwhile experience in the field, but sometimes early in your career, you
should plan to get it. Since the real projects are out there in the field, you will have to
go where they are to get the construction experience, and you may have to put up with
a little inconvenience in order to get it.
⑤土木工程项目不存在于教 室、
办公室或实验室里。
他们存在于生活中，
社
会中。他们是公路，交通运输 系统，被防护的山体滑坡，改造的垃圾处理厂，桥
梁以及机场；
他们必须依靠人力和机器来建立 。
依我看，
如果不理解施工方法和
建设者的问题，
没人能成为土木工程中一位 优秀的设计师，
优秀的研究人员或者
领导。这种理解力应该是第一位的。而如果你想获得它，你 就必须得有计划。没
有工地的经验，
你的设计可能变得不切实际，
你的研究可能没有针 对性，
或者说
你的教学不能使你的学生最好适当的准备。有一些方法可以让你获得建造经验。< br>一个是成为建筑或承包工程师。
另一方面，
你可以成为住宅设计师或业主的房屋
检测工程师。
这与你工作的能力无关，
也并不需要太长时间，
你就会获得有价值
的工地经验，
但有时在你的职业生涯早期，
你应该为此做计划。
由于真正的项目存在于外面的工地，
你应该到那里去获取施工经验，
为了获得经验，
你应该吃些< br>苦头。

⑥
Real problems of civil engineering design include both concept and detail. In
fact, details often make or break a project. A beautifully designed cantilever bridge in
Vancouver
Harbor
collapsed
during
construction
because
a
few
stiffeners
were
omitted on the webs of some temporary supporting beams. Spectacular failures such
as this
don’t
always follows from neglected details, but poor design, poor engineering
often do. I believe every civil engineer needs a personal knowledge of the details of
his
branch
of
civil
engineering.
If
he
’
s
going
to
be
a
geotechnical
engineer,
for
example,
he
needs
to
know
among
other
things
exactly
how
borings
are
made
and
samples
taken
under
a
variety
of
circumstances.
If
he
’
s
going
to
be
a
structural