It has been said scientists investigate what which already exists; Engineers create what which has never been. I am pondering the question "What is engineering?"
It has been said that engineers are shaping the future by applying their skills to almost everything you can think of, from medicine to renewable energy, food technologies to sustainable mining. There is no limit to what engineers can do; the limit is the creativity and inventively of the engineer and the will to explore new technologies to move the current barriers. Is this true?
See also my question “How to think like an engineer?”
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_think_like_an_engineer
And my paper “Thinking like an engineer”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319644185_Thinking_like_an_engineer
An engineer does for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound. [old saying]
Engineers answer 'How to ?' question, helping to answer 'Why ?' and 'What ?' of the scientists. Without their 'How to ?' all these 'Why ?' and 'What ?' would be unsolved.
Dear Dr Lemenkova,
Thank you for your contribution to my inquiry. What you said is somthing to ponder
Dear Dr Kennedy,
Than you for your input.
I thought the old adage is the way round.
I have also heard " if a job costs one pound and engineer can spend two pound provide if he uses computer" or something along that line.
Dear Dr Martin-error
Than you for your response. Can't a scientist solve a technical problem?
I guess, engineering is the continuous efforts which is cognitively , perceptualy and multidimensionaly real in most efffective and every possible ways. These efforts are the extension of human consious thoughts which have practical implementations.
Dear Syed Zafar,
Thank you for your response. Where I wish to get to is this:
If we know what is engineering and what an engineer should know, then we can organize our educational system to achieve it.
Dear Alfonso,
Thank you for your contribution.
I invite you to answer my other question " How to think like an engineer". You can my answer to this question in my article under the same title.
Thanks
Mainly, with a vision of both an artist and a scisntist, to combine creative thoughts for ideation as well as analytic for evaluating the solutions of technical problems.
Dear Alfonso,
Thanks for your contribution. According to you an engineer must be conversant both with art and science. I can go with it.
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