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Author
Waterson, Duncan B.
Title
The transformation of Engineering Entrepreneur to Multi-faceted Specialist: From Nation-building as depicted by the career of the Scots-Queensland Sir Thomas McIlwraith (1835-1900) to Global technical participant
In
Third Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Dunedin 2009
Imprint
Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, pp. 337-342
Url
https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1274/Proceedings_of_the_Third_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Dunedin_2009.pdf
Abstract

This paper examines the role of the "engineer triumphant" in the Nineteenth Century Imperial context to the professions' explosion in the Twentieth Century. The emergence of the consumer society, nuclear engineering, the military/industrial complexes and the challenges to the monumental "Big Projects" such as the T.U.A., The Three Gorges Dam, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, Aswan High Dam, and the Russian river/steppe experiences will be briefly considered. Finally, the role of the finance-based corporate state, the rise of the Green Movement in the West, together with the challenge of climate change, population growth and short-term political programmes will be mentioned within the context of an expanding but often frustrated profession.

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