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    The engineer of the future will need to be creative, to think differently, and to push the limits.

    Electricity Makes Everyone’s Lives Better

    Electricity transcends; it makes it easier for us to learn, share ideas, evolve, protect, and develop. The more people with access to reliable electric power, the more diverse our ideas become. We’ll have better solutions, solve more problems, and add an unimaginable quality to everyone’s life.
    “It’s amazing what electricity does beyond just lighting lightbulbs.”
    —Duane Highley, President and CEO
    Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp.

    The Legacy We’ll Leave Behind

    The electric power grid is an amazing feat of engineering; people have come to depend on it like nothing else in their lives. We often look back to the founders of our industry as the ones who started it all. But now, it’s our turn. What are we going to do today, what decisions are we going to make, and what are we going to invent that people 50 or 100 years in the future will look back on and reference with admiration?
    We want to be revolutionary rather than evolutionary.
    —Tim Yardley, Associate Director of Technology
    Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    He joined our business because he wants to make a difference.
    —Michael Beehler, P.E., Vice President, Transmission & Distribution
    Burns & McDonnell
    “We’re going to take this industry into the future.”
    —Jonathan Sykes, P.E., Senior Manager of System Protection
    Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
    “It wouldn’t take all of us to make a difference; just some of us.”
    —Chris Inglis, Former Deputy Director
    National Security Agency (2006–2014)

    “You all talked about creativity and innovation. But you showed me people that didn’t look like me: Tesla, Edison, Einstein. What if not everybody has that level of creativity and innovation?”

    “It’s in every one of us.”
    —Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, President and Founder
    Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

    Engineers today will never be quite the same as those of the past, nor will we be the same as those in the future. We all have different motivations for joining the industry, and every generation will have a new set of challenges that defines them.

    But where it really matters, we’re all the same. It’s about the physics, the math, and our duty to provide the best service at the lowest price. In a rapidly changing industry and ever-evolving world, these are the things that don’t change—our First Principles.