Quoth wikipedia:
“Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning “cleverness” and ingeniare, meaning “to contrive, devise”) is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.
The discipline of engineering is extremely broad, and encompasses a range of more specialized fields of engineering, each with a more specific emphasis on particular areas of applied science, technology and types of application.”
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Check out our breakdowns of the Fields of Engineering.
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Aerospace engineers research, design, develop, maintain and test different types of airplanes, satellites and... -
Biomedical engineers use their knowledge of engineering, medicine and biology to develop solutions to... -
Chemical Engineers apply their knowledge of chemistry to make designs and invent processes. -
Civil engineers design, construct and maintain structures that make up our world. -
Computer engineering combines electrical engineering with computer science. -
Electrical engineers work with electricity in many different ways to create some of the... -
Environmental Engineering is the integration of engineering and problem solving to improve the natural... -
Industrial engineers, sometimes known as the efficiency people, work to make sure industries and... -
Material engineers work with the properties of matter to create solutions to real world... -
Mechanical Engineers apply physics and mathematics to design, develop, build, and test mechanical systems. -
A nuclear engineer researches and develops new applications for nuclear energy and radiation. -
Software Engineers are the brains behind the computer screen. -
Mechatronics Engineering is a multidisciplinary field of study, which integrates Mechanical, Electrical, Computer or... -
Have you ever wondered what Aerospace Engineering was all about? Some universities have a total... -
Civil engineers are changing and molding the world around us, so it’s no wonder...
