Nossos Mestres

Nesta sessão iniciamos uma série de artigos sobres engenheiros de fato e de direito notáveis.

Iniciaremos pelo notável engenheiro Karl Terzaghi, mas passaremos pelo grande pensador, filósofo e matemático Renee Descartes, pelo monstruoso engenheiro de estruturas Steven Timoshenko, ou alguém que mudou o mundo da engenharia.

Aceitamos cartas e artigos de nossos colegas sobre esses outros colegas aqui, que tanto influenciam o nosso dia-a-dia

Abraços,

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Abaixo algumas palavras de Terzaghi dirigida aos seus alunos em Harvard. Ele as chamou de "The Game of Engineering":

Engineering is a noble sport which calls for good sportsmanship. Occasional blundering is part of the game. Let it be your ambition to be the first one to discover and announce your blunders. If somebody else gets ahead of you, take it with a smile and thank him for his interest. Once you begin to feel tempted to deny your blunders in the face of reasonable evidence, you have ceased to be a good sport. You are already a crank or a grouch.
The worst habit you can possibly acquire is to become uncritical towards your own concepts and at the same time skeptical towards those of others. Once you arrive at that state, you are in the grip of senility, regardless of your age.
When you commit one of your ideas to print, emphasize every controversial aspect of your thesis which you can perceive. Thus, you win the respect of your readers and are kept aware of the possibilities for further improvement. A departure from this rule is the safest way to wreck your reputation and to paralyze your mental activities.
Very few people are either so dumb or so dishonest that you could not learn anything from them.
Engineering is indeed a noble sport, and the legacy of good engineers is a better physical world for those who follow them. You are well started on a career that can leave such a legacy and, as you pursue that career, I give you my very best wishes.

KARL VON TERZAGUI

Não há a menor dúvida de que quem nos deu a Mecânica de Solos foi o engenheiro Terzagui. Até esse nome, Mecânica de Solos, foi ele quem batizou.

Mais um pouco de Terzagui nos próximos dias.

Nossos Mestres

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