OnBeingYourOwnEngineer探析.doc

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。 ①Here 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，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。 ②Yet 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 chan