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title: What Philosophy Brings to the Engineering Profession
description: What’s at the heart of the engineering profession? What unique powers does the profession have and how can they be harnessed? How do the role, purpose and identity of engineers evolve through millennia? And, most importantly, how does philosophy help us address these questions? 
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## What Philosophy Brings to the Engineering Profession

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##### What’s at the heart of the engineering profession? What unique powers does the profession have and how can they be harnessed? How do the role, purpose and identity of engineers evolve through millennia? And, most importantly, how does philosophy help us address these questions?

Join us for a conversation with [Dr Guru Madhavan](https://www.nae.edu/203993/Guru-Madhavan) about the nature of the engineering profession and the value of philosophy for advancing it. In this interview we discuss, among other topics, the historical evolution of engineers’ identity and the relationship between engineering, economics, and philosophy.

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