How are classified the fields of science ‘from fundamental and applied ones’. And how are classified the engineering fields. Are science and engineering two dissimilar notions?
Science and engineering compliment each other. Science studies nature and compiles data, while engineering applies these data to build products that help society.
Applied science also plans to use the facts of nature, but it is the engineers who build them and test them.
Science and engineering compliment each other. Science studies nature and compiles data, while engineering applies these data to build products that help society.
Applied science also plans to use the facts of nature, but it is the engineers who build them and test them.
STEM(science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is an educational program developed to prepare primary and secondary students for college and graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). In addition to subject-specific learning, STEM aims to foster inquiring minds, logical reasoning, and collaboration skills. Engineering is the application of mathematics and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes, solutions, and organizations. 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
Me too Hashem , I agree with Dr Rashid's explanation of Science+Math=Engineering definition .
Coming from electronics background , I look at my education as specialized physics that includes applied math from Logic (discrete math) to Maxwell's equation . Fortunately we do look at products that have these conceptual implementation and function based on analytical tools (s-tranform /z/FFT etc).
Science in general overlapping with other disciplines, not just engineering. The science as the basis the faculties of medicine, engineering, economics, agriculture.. etc.
I think that the function of science is to put the theories engineering Their function is to demonstrate the validity of the hypothesis that says the science.
Here is an interesting blog post entitled "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING?": https://helix.northwestern.edu/blog/2013/12/what-difference-between-science-and-engineering
I derive the following answer from the above blog post:
There are "a very applied scientist" and "a very fundamental engineer" standing quite close to each other on the scale line of fundamental to applied work. How can we find if a person is doing science or engineering? The answer is: If the person asks, "Why does this happen?" then the person is doing science. On the other hand, if the person asks, "How do I make this work?" then the person is doing engineering.
I think of engineering as being the same as "applied science." And involving a good dose of "applied math" too. If one is applying these tools, presumably it is to create something, so that might also entail other disciplines, such as the law.
But I would not necessarily say that pure science asks why something happens. Usually, the question is how it happens. Pure science creates a framework by which phenomena are completely predictable (meaning, quantified) and can be replicated. The "why" will most typically remain unknown. For example, classical physics doesn't ask why gravity exists, as much as it quantifies the phenomenon. And ultimately, we know that F = ma, but no one can say why it does. Possibly, in some other dimensional space, it doesn't.
Science is the study of the physical world, while Engineering applies scientific knowledge to design processes, structures or equipment. Both Engineers and Scientists will have a strong knowledge of science, mathematics and technology, but Engineering students will learn to apply these principles to designing creative solutions to Engineering challenges.
On reflection and joking aside; I would say that there is actually very little difference between science and engineering, yes the disciplines and knowledge base may be different but there are great similarities in the human natures of the people who are pursuing these disciplines.
There is however, a much more fundamental difference within both science and within engineering.
1.There are people in both engineering and science who work only with existing knowledge (often very intelligent, motivated and knowledgeable people). However, they typically have no interest in new ideas, in innovation, they are not curiosity driven. Specifically these people don't do research! (they are Knowledge Workers)
2.There are also people in both engineering and science who are curiosity driven and who are always challenging the existing knowledge and are motived by innovation and new discoveries. These people do research! (they are Innovators)
Interestingly, I know a lot of very highly intelligent Knowledge Workers and some Innovators who really struggle with the theory and mathematics.
Nevertheless, so long as people play to their strengths they can all be highly successful.
In academic sense science is a subject of laboratory but in the wider environment it is the subject of research & due to the research we have weakness the scientific development with engineering & technological .
For any industrial progress engineering & mechanical development both are must .In the industrial growth & development both are playing very important & useful part both in areas of production & planning & also for selection of right type of material for the industrial machinery .
What does science means and what does engineering stands for ?
Science is the systematic study of knowledge areas pertaining to mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology etc. in order to gain further knowledge. Whereas engineering is the body of discipline underpinning on the above scientific knowledge areas to explain, design & develop systems useful to human beings e.g. chemical, civil, electrical, mechanical, software engineering etc.
Thank you to share me this question, It seems that the way it used to be defined is that scientists did fundamental work that was fairly far removed from an application. For example, maybe they figured out a new way to make a molecule (or a new molecule to make). Yay! Unfortunately, they could only make a gram or two in the lab, which was never terribly relevant to industrial scales (often requiring millions of tons per year). Thus, a chemical engineer would come along and tell the scientists, "It's great that you did that, but we can't scale this process up. Figure out a different way to do it that we can actually use." Thus was born great animosity. So, envision a line that stretches from fundamental research to applied research. On this line, fundamental research represents really, really basic research, like CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) Higg's Boson search stuff. Applied research is somebody running a machine in a factory that makes products sold to consumers. So, in the past there was some line drawn in the sand between applications and fundamental studies, and engineers stayed on one side and scientists stayed on other. I think a lot of that has changed now, especially in the academic research world. There are many professors in science fields (e.g. chemistry) who spin off companies from their research, and engineering professors who couldn't care less about end-use applications. In light of this, I've redefined science and engineering (how nice of me). Start with the line from fundamental research to applied research that we drew earlier. But, let's erase the "line in the sand" division between scientists and engineers.