Trends in the Discourse Community of Mechanical Engineering: Hybrid Engine Development

   Trends play a massive role in the field of mechanical engineering from what I have gathered from all of the research I have conducted over this past semester. For example, the trend of hybrid engines has been an ongoing trend in the field of mechanical engineering for quite some time now and as many scholars of rhetoric and composition have mentioned in order to have authority and superiority in a discourse one must be on top of new trends. This is very true for the community of mechanical engineers because without keeping up to date with new trends one would be lost in the new developments and would not be able to contribute to the trend at hand.

   Mechanical engineers must always be on the prowl for new trends in order to keep themselves well versed and knowledgeable about new technologies and advances. The hybrid system has been a prime example of a trend that mechanical engineers needed to jump on right away and those that didn't have not been recognized in the recent years due to the fact that we are in an environmental crisis right now and are in dyer need of clean energy and technology. Those like Gordon Murray that I will talk about in the next post have continuously maintained themselves in the mechanical engineering field because they have kept up with this trend.

   Hybrid engines have been developing ever since Ferdinand Porsche’s System Lohner-Porsche Mixte from 1899 (Image below is this first system). 

   Now days thanks to mechanical engineers we can see the drastic change that has been made since 1899 and it comes to show that following trends in mechanical engineering is essential to the community but in addition new trends in the field open the doors to new, young engineers like ourselves giving us more job opportunities. And this is what the hybrid system has become today ( Image below).

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/bmw-hybrid-sports-car/

(Link if you want to learn more about the new BMW hybrid design)