System thinking
Life is full of problems and challenges. It is important for us to develop a habit of system thinking so that we can overcome these difficulties. System thinking is valuable since it can help me to design smart, enduring solution to problems. I would say system thinking is a useful tool which can be used to address problems in our everyday life. It can also encourage us to see problems and solutions with an eye toward the long view.
Besides, I believe that system thinking is a special language that its unique qualities help us to communicate with others about the system around or within us. What is a system and why we need to have better understanding about it? Some may ask. To my understanding, a system is complex body formed by interaction between groups of components. Systems are everywhere. The ecological system, the social system and blood circulatory system are one of them. With system thinking, complex systems can be recognized by seeing the relationship between the components. In a consequence, we can have the ability to manage some complex work in our job.
However, developing thinking pattern in a systematic way is not an easy task. What we should do is to apply the principle of system thinking in our daily life and try to make use of it whenever there is a problem!
Can engineering learning enhance our system intelligence?
Although we are all studying engineering in the University, some of my friends still do not know what engineering learning is. As the professor has emphasized, what we are receiving is engineering education. Engineering education aims to prepare students to practice engineering as a profession through science and math education. Engineering is the art of applying scientific and mathematical principles, experience, judgment, and common sense to produce technical products to meet the need of society. Engineering learning is the study of qualities required to be a successful engineer. Through the learning in the engineering education, we are trained to be highly analytical and detail oriented. Not only we are strong in mathematics or science, we also have good communication skill. These are all enhancing our system intelligence. System intelligence is the application f system thinking. People with the intelligence have a good problem solving skills and they can understand the behavior of a component in a complex system. It is similar to what the faculty has taught us. In conclude, engineer is a profession with system intelligence.
Why learn programming?
Some people in the society misunderstand that engineers are only good in physics and mathematics. Actually, engineers learn programming well. Not only computer engineers learn programming, other engineer professions like electrical and systemic engineers learn too. But why we need to learn it remains a question in many people’s mind. Learning programming is not just a hobby, we learn a lot from doing programming assignment. I have finished three programming assignment after entering the University. What have found is that programming is a progress of problem solving. Programming is challenge to me because there are always errors existing. Whenever I want to apply new idea to the program, I need to test and debug several times so that the output of the program is what I desire to be. Finding out these errors involve logical and systematic thinking. We also need to have a full understanding of the program before errors are identified. Apart from improving the problem solving skills through programming, the progress of writing source code also provide opportunities for us to apply mathematical knowledge learnt in the lesson.
In today’s society, computer technology is becoming more and more important. It is better for engineer professions to be familiar with both the hardware and software. Programming is the basic foundation of writing software. That why it is worth learning.
2008年10月20日 星期一
2008年10月5日 星期日
Innovation!
1. You can write a summary of this week's lecture. What is innovation and how one can innovate.
In recent years, people from all over the world ask for innovation. Differnt fields such as economic, business and engineering put a lot of emphasis on the topic of innovation. However, many people still do not know what innovation really is and why it is necessiary for us to be innovative. After having lecture based on innovations and doing a lot of reading talking about it, i have a further understanding about the topic. Here in my blog, i would like to share what i have learnt to my blog readers.
First of all, we need find out the difference between innovation and invention. Well, in my view,innovantion is the transformation of invention. Any products, technologies or services new can be invention. However, when people improve these things for the public, it becomes innovation. Innovation is a process which introduce some new ideas, methods and devices which leads to improved engineering, technologies, state of mind and organization.
I believed that the future of the businesses depends a lot on their ability to innovate. the reasons why innovation is so important is not difficult to fidure out. For one thing, innovation is essential for business survival. There is intensive competition between companies in today's society and companies struggle to be competitive in the market. Those with much innovation will know more about what the customer's needs are ,which helps them to stand out above the rest. As an consequence, they make more profits and survive. For another, innovation is also the route to economic growth. Industries can be improvered after appying innovative ideas. So the products are becoming more mature. Innovation creates different new businesses and new businesses create new jobs. That's why people always said that innovation is the foundamental source of growth in business and industry.
How one can be innovated? There are several ways to achieve this. First and foremost, we should not be satisfied with the old system. The old culture are often the barriers to innovation. What we need to do is to think more about their room for improvement but not only focusing on the advantages of practicing old system. Second, develop a habit to think creatively is an essential for one to be innovated. Association is a good way to stimulate creative thinking. Third, action is needed when we want to put our innovative ideas into practice. Don't be afraid of being failure and find ways to do it better. "Rome was not built in one day." If we put a lot effort and time on something, there must be a day that we can sussess. Be an innovator!
In recent years, people from all over the world ask for innovation. Differnt fields such as economic, business and engineering put a lot of emphasis on the topic of innovation. However, many people still do not know what innovation really is and why it is necessiary for us to be innovative. After having lecture based on innovations and doing a lot of reading talking about it, i have a further understanding about the topic. Here in my blog, i would like to share what i have learnt to my blog readers.
First of all, we need find out the difference between innovation and invention. Well, in my view,innovantion is the transformation of invention. Any products, technologies or services new can be invention. However, when people improve these things for the public, it becomes innovation. Innovation is a process which introduce some new ideas, methods and devices which leads to improved engineering, technologies, state of mind and organization.
I believed that the future of the businesses depends a lot on their ability to innovate. the reasons why innovation is so important is not difficult to fidure out. For one thing, innovation is essential for business survival. There is intensive competition between companies in today's society and companies struggle to be competitive in the market. Those with much innovation will know more about what the customer's needs are ,which helps them to stand out above the rest. As an consequence, they make more profits and survive. For another, innovation is also the route to economic growth. Industries can be improvered after appying innovative ideas. So the products are becoming more mature. Innovation creates different new businesses and new businesses create new jobs. That's why people always said that innovation is the foundamental source of growth in business and industry.
How one can be innovated? There are several ways to achieve this. First and foremost, we should not be satisfied with the old system. The old culture are often the barriers to innovation. What we need to do is to think more about their room for improvement but not only focusing on the advantages of practicing old system. Second, develop a habit to think creatively is an essential for one to be innovated. Association is a good way to stimulate creative thinking. Third, action is needed when we want to put our innovative ideas into practice. Don't be afraid of being failure and find ways to do it better. "Rome was not built in one day." If we put a lot effort and time on something, there must be a day that we can sussess. Be an innovator!
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