The engineer in a changing world

What can and should engineers do about the social and economic problems that beset the modern world? In answering this question, Doctor Flanders says: “We must exercise our responsibility more for the sake of society as a whole than for the sake of ourselves as individual engineers or for the private interests of the businesses with which we may be connected.” He states further that: “It is an inescapable duty that we each make of ourselves centers of education and influence, to the end that our useful offices may continue, and our civilization fulfill its destiny of an ever-growing service to the needs of mankind.”