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As far as I am concerned, the increasing globalization imposes ever greater challenges to engineers in today’s world as Article 2 described. Globalization increases life complexity by binding every aspect of life together. This implies that aside from specialized in their corresponding frontier technology; engineers are required to provide a border perspective under the international background.

Globalization speeds the world’s expanding. Masses of new information and knowledge come from researches are disseminated world widely through global media every day. It is inevitable for engineers to shape their effective reading and critical thinking skills so as to take advantage of the available information around us and keep updated to the cutting edge findings. Nonetheless, ideas and information shall not be confined locally. No individual alone can possibly digest and assimilate all the information in any technology area. International conferences and seminars provide engineers wider platforms to integrate thoughts and spark new ones. Pressing issues like food and security, water shortage and global warming also call for borderless cooperation. Openness and active participation in technology sharing has become the new theme in academy.

In order to seek both efficient and economic solutions to global issues, engineers should embark on their skilled areas and make technical breakthroughs to achieve the optimal world distribution. Silicon Valley in US and bio-valley in India are two representatives of work specialization.

Besides, engineers have to adopt a more dynamic and comprehensive approach to the applications. Taking the construction of bird nest in Peking for example, whether the design can fit its location surroundings and express the green Olympics has the equal importance of its solidity.

Globalization makes the world of engineers a giant jigsaw puzzle. On one hand, engineers have to focus on their own piece. On the other hand, they cannot lose the sight of the big picture.