''Structural Engineering is the art of assembling materials
  whose properties we do not fully understand into arrangements we
  cannot fully analyze to support loads we cannot fully predict -
  and to do so in a convincing enough fashion so that the public
  has complete confidence in the resultant structures.''

  Sounds like a tough job. (can you tell I'm reading a book by an
  Engineer philosophizing about Engineering? It was an unexpected
  find in the library; amazing how many books there are about
  science but so few about those who make the stuff we actually
  use every day)

  A cheer for the uncredited engineer, who gets all of the blame
  when things go wrong but none of the credit when it goes right.
  We just assume what they do will work.

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