Engineering (nonfiction)

The International Space Station represents a modern engineering challenge from many disciplines.

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.

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.

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

In the News

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  Cobbler gentle but realistic about mean time before failure.

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  Advertisement for School of Engineering (1851) looks to the future, sees nothing but Opportunity.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Machine (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Ellis Cartouchian - the world's greatest Sigil Engineer (until his unexplained disappearance).
• Gnomon algorithm
• Railroad to Mars - engineering challenge
• Scrying engine