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.

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

Advertisement for School of Engineering (1851).

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

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Machine (nonfiction)
• Mathematics (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Scrying engine