Engineering in the Asian century

摘要

In this Year of the Snake, Asian economies are expected to continue to grow and develop rapidly. As the first Asian born national president of Engineers Australia, I have experienced this transformation personally. My engineer father brought electricity to the west coast of India in the 1970s. In the same period, my engineer father-in-law developed four new cities, including New Bombay (Navi Mumbai) which now has a population greater than that of Sydney. I struggle to find my way around Mumbai, a city I once knew well, because of the phenomenal changes that are apparent each time I visit.