Critical analyses examine images of engineers serving a profession, private industry, and the nation, state, or country, as well as producing technology through design and protecting gender, racial, heterosexual, and developmental privilege.
And yet in the next paragraph he allowed that he did not "cease to value the exercises done in the schools" (6:5), for languages, fables, oratory, poetry, mathematics, morals, theology, and philosophy all had their value, as did jurisprudence, medicine, and the other sciences (including engineering), which serve as professions and which one might study after attending a school such as La Flèche.
Specifically, the very notion of professions serving the wider community has broken down, to be replaced by a growing consensus that professions are by their nature destined to serve parochial interests.
In the last 60 years, geomorphology has been recognised as an important field serving several other professions.
At Delta, Brian actively served his profession as a leader of the Air Line Pilots Association International.
Tireless in his clinical practice at Valley Hospital, he also served his profession as Instructor of Surgery at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange, N.J.
"It's about having some sensibility about the priority in your life at a certain moment, then returning to your clinical roots and coming back to serve your profession".
Those of us who follow these incentives are being entirely rational – I have followed them myself – but we do not always best serve our profession's interests, let alone those of humanity and society.
Because chemical engineering is unavoidably a part of, not apart from, the society that it serves, our profession must reinvent itself to meet society's expectations.
In addition to his busy work schedule Paton served his profession on numerous councils and committees.
Faculty can better serve their profession, school, and community when they have broader experiences.
