Difference between revisions of "Engineering"

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Engineering is the application of mathematics, empirical evidence and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, and processes.

Description

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.

Etymology

The term "engineering" is derived from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise".

See also

• Analytic geometry
• Audio engineer
• Control theory
• Descriptive geometry
• Dimensionless quantity
• Electrical engineering
• Failure
• Hardware
• Machine
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Problem solving
• Quality control
• Software engineering
• Structure
• System
• Technology

External links

• Engineering @ Wikipedia