Engineering

These are the ones who influence us most to change our world, our lives. They erect bulwarks against an environment we often perceive as hostile. They create elegant gateways or secure our, at times, seemingly limitless power and energy requirements. They invent communication equipment and means of transportation. They supply devices to make the invisible visible or they provide many of us with hidden natural resources. And they’re also at work making what we all too often heedlessly discard, useable again. Virtually immeasurable is the domain of their activity.

Here’s to both research and practical engineers.

Engineering

Master of Science

Drill Rig, M.S.

The earth is fine is round and deep

not without measure it is royal

the human wobbling up there on top – the crown

Consider the trade of the inventor + explorer

The engineers of a deep drilling project

they know that here at the seam of

Moldanumbicum and Saxothurigicum

long long ago there was a collision

There were no engineers in those days

The engineers are proud of their research project

one of the engineers is, however, not an engineer at all

he’s an admirer of science and practice

he dreams penetratingly of voyaging into the depths of the earth

thus the poetgineer cries out upon awakening

Long live the high-temperature borehole geophone

It’s a good thing engineers were invented.

Consider the poetry in the work of the engineer

it’s timeless and patient

not without anxiety is it indispensable

and every discovery a sparkle in the crown