There a few greatest challenges that engineer is currently facing in today society. I am going to look at the formidable political obstacles. Some engineers do have great idea, but due to not enough funding from government sector, engineer is unable to fabricate their project.
For example, back then when i was in republic polytechnic, I had to design a bessel filter for my final year project. Because the design involve high frequency therefore the filter was design using lumped component. Lumped components consist of many brands from different companies. During the project we discovered that the component from coilcraft is able to meet the specification for our final year project.
Coilcraft components not only have the best specification compare with the other brand components , but also is the most expensive as compare with other brand of components. But by using other brand components we not only unable to meet the specification and the Q - factor is not as good as coilcraft.
During the project this was one of main problem. As each of the final year project we were given certain amount of money, but the amount of money is unable to buy the components from coilcraft. There is also quiet a number of coilcraft components needed for our project. We need to prepare extra component, so that during the process of soldering the components onto the PCB when we accidentally damage the component we can replace with a new ones.
Due to the funding problem that we have faced we were unable to proceed with the design. In order to solve the problem that we were facing our group decided to look for companies to help us to provide with the components for our design. We need to look for companies that are currently interested in our design. After a long search we finally found a company which is willing to provide us the components. We are are able to proceed with our design as well as hand up our final year project product.
Above are one of the example that I was facing back then when i doing my final year project on the third year of my polytechinc. As compare to the society engineer need more fund as compare with mine. In conculsion engineer not only have to solve the funding problem as well as they also need to tell people that their design can be used in many area so that the government will provide fund for their design.
